I am a Ph.D student in the computer vision lab at Indiana University, led by Prof. David Crandall. My research focus is egocentric vision and explainable AI.
I am currently looking for internship opportunities, please contact me if interested.
Ph.D. in Computer Science
Indiana University Bloomington, Ph.D advisor: Prof. David Crandall (~Present)
M.S. in Electrical Engineering
Washington University in St. Louis (2017)
B.S. in Astrophysics
University of Science and Technology of China (2015)
Designed and tested a new framework for identifying first-person camera wearers in third-person views. CVPR2024
Leading data collection for Ego-exo4D dataset at Indiana University, baseline author for the Ego-exo4D translation challenge. CVPR2024 Oral
Participated in data collection for Ego4D dataset at Indiana University. CVPR2022 Oral
Designed multiple prototype models for combining deep learning and case-based reasoning to enhance system accuracy and explainability. Publications are listed below.
Fusing Personal and Environmental Cues for Identification and Segmentation of First-Person Camera Wearers in Third-Person Views
Ziwei Zhao, Yuchen Wang, Chuhua Wang, David Crandall
CVPR2024 [Code]
Ego-Exo4D: Understanding Skilled Human Activity from First- and Third-Person Perspectives
Kristen Grauman, Andrew Westbury, Lorenzo Torresani, Kris Kitani, … ,
Ziwei Zhao, … , Michael Wray
CVPR2024 Oral [Project Website]
Case-Enhanced Vision Transformer: Improving Explanations of Image Similarity with a ViT-based Similarity Metric
Ziwei Zhao, David Leake, Xiaomeng Ye, David Crandall
IJCAI2024 Explainable AI workshop
Learning Analogies between Classes to Create Counterfactual Explanations
Xiaomeng Ye, David Leake, Yu Wang, Ziwei Zhao, David Crandall
IJCAI2024 Workshop on the Interactions between Analogical Reasoning and Machine Learning
Towards Network Implementation of CBR: Case Study of a Neural Network K-NN Algorithm
Xiaomeng Ye, David Leake, Yu Wang, Ziwei Zhao, David Crandall
ICCBR2024 (International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning)
Selecting Feature Changes for Counterfactual Explanation: A Class-to-Class Approach
Xiaomeng Ye, David Leake, Yu Wang, Ziwei Zhao, David Crandall
IJCAI2023 Explainable AI workshop
Ego4d: Around the world in 3,000 hours of egocentric video
Kristen Grauman, Andrew Westbury, Eugene Byrne, …, Ziwei Zhao, …, Jitendra Malik
CVPR2022 Oral [Project Website]
Generating Counterfactual Images: Towards a C2C-VAE Approach
Ziwei Zhao, David Leake, Xiaomeng Ye, David Crandall
ICCBR2022 Explainable CBR workshop
Generation and Evaluation of Creative Images from Limited Data: A Class-to-Class VAE Approach
Xiaomeng Ye, Ziwei Zhao, David Leake, David Crandall
ICCC2022 (International Conference on Computational Creativity)
Applying the case difference heuristic to learn adaptations from deep network features
Xiaomeng Ye, Ziwei Zhao, David Leake, Xizi Wang, David Crandall
IJCAI2021 DeepCBR workshop
Intern @ Horizon Robotics (2018)
Algorithm Engineer @ Beijing IDriverPlus (2017-2018)
Conference Reviewer: CVPR2023, CVPR2024, ECCV2024
Other Reviewer: T4V workshop@CVPR2024
I love traveling and doing photography, here is my work
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