Kevin Qinghong Lin

Ph.D. Student

Show Lab
National University of Singapore

Email: kevin.qh.lin [at] gmail.com

Photo taken on Rottnest Island.

Biography

Hi there! I am a second-year Ph.D. student in Show Lab @ NUS, working with Prof. Mike Shou.

My research interests lie in Vision and Language, especially Video Understanding and Large Language Models.

News

2023 Sept: One paper got accepted by NeurIPS 2023.
2023 Aug: Received PREMIA Best Student Paper Award.
2023 Aug: Joined Meta Reality Labs as a Research Intern in Redmond, WA.
2023 July: Three papers got accepted by ICCV 2023.
2023 Mar: Two papers got accepted by CVPR 2023.
2022 Sept: One paper got accepted by NeurIPS 2022 as Spotlight.
2022 Aug: Joined Show Lab @ NUS to start my Ph.D. journey!
2022 Jun: Led the team to win Double Champions of Joint 1st Ego4D and 10th EPIC Workshop, CVPR 2022. [News]

Publications

	VisorGPT: Learning Visual Prior via Generative Pre-Training Jinheng Xie, Kai Ye, Yudong Li, Yuexiang Li, Kevin QH. Lin, Yefeng Zheng, Linlin Shen, Mike Z. Shou. Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2023. [project] [paper] [code]
	UniVTG: Towards Unified Video-Language Temporal Grounding Kevin QH. Lin, Pengchuan Zhang, Joya Chen, Shraman Pramanick, Difei Gao, Alex JP. Wang, Rui Yan, Mike Z. Shou. International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2023. [demo] [paper] [code] The first video temporal grounding pretraining model, unifying diverse temporal annotations to power moment retrieval, highlight detection and video summarization.
	EgoVLPv2: Egocentric Video-Language Pre-training with Fusion in the Backbone Shraman Pramanick, Yale Song, Sayan Nag, Kevin QH. Lin, Hardik Shah, Mike Z. Shou, Rama Chellappa, Pengchuan Zhang. International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2023. [project] [paper] [code] The second generation of egocentric video-language pre-training.
	Too Large; Data Reduction for Vision-Language Pre-Training Alex JP. Wang, Kevin QH. Lin, David JH. Zhang, Stan WX. Lei, Mike Z. Shou. International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2023. [paper] [code]
	Affordance Grounding from Demonstration Video to Target Image Joya Chen, Difei Gao, Kevin QH. Lin, Mike Z. Shou. Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2023. [paper] [code]
	All in one: Exploring unified video-language pre-training Alex JP. Wang, Yixiao Ge, Rui Yan, Yuying Ge, Kevin QH. Lin, Satoshi Tsutsui, Xudong Lin, Guanyu Cai, Jianping Wu, Ying Shan, Xiaohu Qie, Mike Z. Shou. Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2023. [paper] [code]
	Egocentric Video-Language Pretraining Kevin QH. Lin, Alex JP. Wang, M. Soldan, M. Wray, R. Yan, Eric ZC. Xu, D. Gao, R. Tu, W. Zhao, W. Kong, C. Cai, H. Wang, D. Damen, B. Ghanem, W. Liu, Mike Z. Shou. Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2022. Spotlight (1.7%) [project] [paper] [code] [poster] The first egocentric vision-language pretrained model. Double champions in Ego4D 2022 & Epic-Kitchens CVPR 2022 challenges. [News]

Projects

VLog: Video as a Long Document

[demo] [code] [twitter]
Given a long video, we turn it into a doc containing visual + audio info. By sending this doc to ChatGPT, we can chat over the video!

Honors

PREMIA Best Student Paper Awards, Gold Award

2023
Show Lab Annual Award

2022
NeurIPS Scholar Award

2022
Tencent Rhino-Bird Research Scholarship [News]

2022
1st Place on Ego4D - Object State Change Classiﬁcation Challenge, CVPR

2022
1st Place on EPIC-Kitchens - Multi-Instance Retrieval Challenge, CVPR
2022
China National Scholarship

2018, 2021

Service

Conference Reviewer: CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, ICML, KDD, EMNLP, AAAI, ICME, ICASSP, ACM MM, SDM.
Journal Reviewer: TPAMI, IJCV, TNNLS, TMM, Neurocomputing, Pattern Recognition, etc.
Organizer of The AI Talks.