Education

2008.8 -- 2012.7: B.S. in Computer Science and Technology, School of Computer Science And Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology

2012.8 -- 2014.7: M.S. in Computer Science and Technology, School of Computer Science And Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology. Supervisor: Sheng Li

2014.8 -- 2018.9: Ph.D. in Joint Education Program of Microsoft Research Asia and Harbin Institute of Technology. My Ph.D. supervisor is Wei-Ying Ma and Tiejun Zhao. Thesis: Research and Applications of Image-Text Multimodal Correlation Learning

Selected Honors

First Place in AliProducts Challenge: Large-scale Product Recognition at CVPR 2020

Second Place in iMet: Fine-grained Attributes Recognition Challenge at CVPR 2020

First Place in iMaterialist Challenge on Product Recognition at CVPR 2019

First Place in Fieldguide Challenge: Moths and Butterflies at CVPR 2019

Second Place in iFood Challenge at FGVC workshop, CVPR 2019

Rank 1st in the track of without using extra data and 2nd in all teams at MSR Image Recognition Challenge at IEEE ICME 2016

ACM Multimedia 2015 Student Travel Grant

First Place in MSR-Bing Image Retreival Challenge at ACM MM 2014

News

2020.8.20: Products-10K: Large Scale Product Recognition Challenge @ ICPR2020 is Launched at Kaggle.

2020.6.9: We got first place in CVPR 2020 AliProducts Challenge: Large-scale Product Recognition. Technical report will be presented at Retail Vision workshop, CVPR2020.

2020.3.1: We will host a Large-scale Product Recognition Challenge at ICPR2020, Milan, Italy.

2020.2.24: One generic object recogniton paper is accpeted by CVPR2020. Source code will be released soon.

Work Experience

JD AI Research, CV Lab (2018.02 -- Now)

Researcher in Image Group, working on snapshop, VQA, fine-grained recognition, relationships modeling in images.

Microsoft Research Asia, Web Search and Mining Group (2013.06 -- 2018.02)

Research intern working on deep learning for image representation and computer vision.

Microsoft Research Asia, Web Search and Data Mining Group (2012.01-2012-07)

Research intern working on document retrieval results re-ranking.

Important Preprints

Jie Ma, Yalong Bai, Bineng Zhong, Wei Zhang, Ting Yao, Tao Mei. Visualizing and Understanding Patch Interactions in Vision Transformer. Arxiv, 2022 [pdf]

Mohan Zhou, Yalong Bai, Wei Zhang, Ting Yao, Tiejun Zhao, Tao Mei. Responsive Listening Head Generation: A Benchmark Dataset and Baseline. Arxiv, 2021 [pdf | Project]

Yalong Bai, Mohan Zhou, Yuxiang Chen, Wei Zhang, Bowen Zhou, Tao Mei. Augmentation Pathways Network for Visual Recognition. Arxiv, 2021 [pdf]

Yalong Bai, Yuxiang Chen, Wei Yu, Linfang Wang, Wei Zhang. Products-10K: A Large-scale Product Recognition Dataset. Arxiv, 2020 [pdf]

Publications

Google Scholar Profile

Yalong Bai, Yifan Yang, Wei Zhang, Tao Mei. Directional Self-supervised Learning for Heavy Image Augmentations. CVPR, 2022 [pdf]

Tianyu Hua*, Hongdong Zheng*, Yalong Bai, Wei Zhang, Xiao-Ping Zhang, Tao Mei. Exploiting Relationship for Complex-scene Image Generation. AAAI, 2021[pdf]

Mohan Zhou*, Yalong Bai, Wei Zhang, Tiejun Zhao, Tao Mei. Look-into-Object: Self-supervised Structure Modeling for Object Recognition. CVPR, 2020 [Source Code | pdf]

Yuanzhi Liang*, Yalong Bai, Wei Zhang, Xueming Qian, Li Zhu, Tao Mei. VrR-VG: Refocusing Visually-Relevant Relationships. ICCV, 2019 [VrR-VG Dataset | pdf]

Yue Chen*, Yalong Bai, Wei Zhang, Tao Mei. Destruction and Construction Learning for Fine-grained Image Recognition. CVPR, 2019 [Source Code | pdf]

Yalong Bai, Jianlong Fu, Tiejun Zhao, Tao Mei. Deep Attention Neural Tensor Network for Visual Question Answering. ECCV, 2018 [pdf]

Yalong Bai, Kuiyuan Yang, Tao Mei, Wei-Ying Ma, Tiejun Zhao. Automatic Data Augmentation from Massive Web Images for Deep Visual Recognition. ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications, 2018. [Dataset and Models Download | pdf]

Chang Xu, Tao Qin, Yalong Bai, Gang Wang, Tie-Yan Liu. Convolutional Neural Networks For Posed and Spontaneous Expression Recognition. IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, 2017

Guotian Xie, Kuiyuan Yang, Yalong Bai, Min Shang, Yong Rui, Jianhuang Lai. Improve Dog Recognition By Mining More Information From Both Click-through Logs and Pre-trained Models. IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo Workshops, 2016 [pdf]

Yalong Bai, Kuiyuan Yang, Wei Yu, Chang Xu, Wei-Ying Ma, Tiejun Zhao. Automatic Image Dataset Construction from Click-through Logs Using Deep Neural Network. Full Paper, ACM MultiMedia, 2015 [Dataset Download | pdf]

Wei Yu, Kuiyuan Yang, Yalong Bai, Hongxun Yao, Yong Rui. Learning Cross Space Mapping via DNN using Large Scale Click-through Logs. IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 2015.

Wei Yu, Kuiyuan Yang, Yalong Bai, Hongxun Yao, Yong Rui. Visualizing and Comparing Convolutional Neural Networks.

Chang Xu, Yalong Bai, Jiang Bian, Bin Gao, Gang Wang, Xiaoguang Liu, Tie-Yan Liu. RC-NET: A General Framework for Incorporating Knowledge into Word Representations. CIKM, 2014 [pdf]

Yalong Bai, Wei Yu, Tianjun Xiao, Chang Xu, Kuiyuan Yang, Wei-Ying Ma, Tiejun Zhao. Bag-of-Words Based Deep Neural Network for Image Retrieval. Short Paper. ACM MultiMedia, 2014 [pdf]

Wei Yu, Kuiyuan Yang, Yalong Bai, Hongxun Yao, Yong Rui. DNN Flow: DNN feature pyramid based image matching. BMVC, 2014.

Yalong Bai, Kuiyuan Yang, Wei Yu, Wei-Ying Ma, Tiejun Zhao. Learning High-level Image Representation for Image Retrieval via Multi-Task DNN using Clickthrough Data. ICLR, 2014.

Mo Yu, Tiejun Zhao and Yalong Bai, Hao Tian, Dianhai Yu. Cross-lingual Projections between Languages from different Families. ACL2013 short paper.

Mo Yu, Tiejun Zhao, Yalong Bai. Learning Domain Differences Automatically for Dependency Parsing Adaptation. IJCAI 2013 poster.

Note *: interns that I mentored at JD AI Research.

Professional Activities

Journal Reviewer

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

IEEE Transactions on Multimedia

IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology

ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology

Transactions on Multimedia Computing Communications and Applications

Conference Reviewer / Program Committee Member

CVPR 2019, 2020, 2021

ICCV 2019, 2021

ECCV 2020

ACM MM 2021

AAAI 2019

IJCAI 2021 (SPC)

Other

Executive Area Chairs Committee, VALSE 2020, 2021