Bowen Li

Undergraduate, Mechanical Engnieering

Tongji University
Shanghai, China

About me

I am pursuing my bachelor degree in mechanical engineering from Tongji University (TJU) as a senior undergraduate with top-ranking GPA 4.86/5.0 (2/130), National Scholarship, and Shanghai Scholarship, where I work in Vision4robotics Group. Currently, I'm interning in the AirLab of the Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, as a Robotics Institute Summer Scholar (RISS 2021).

My research interest lies in the visual perception for robots, whose goal is to design visual perception algorithms for robots' specific tasks. My research directions include: 1) Dark environment visual object tracking for unmanned aerial vehicles, 2) Directly applied few-shot detection for autonomous exploration, 3) Transformers for high-speed aerial tracking.

Education

B.Eng. of Mechanical Engnieering
Sept. 2018 -- present

Tongji University, Shanghai
High School Student
Sept. 2015 -- Jun. 2018

No.1 Middle School Attached to Central China Normal University

News

01/2022: One paper is accepted by IEEE RA-L!
11/2021:Being awarded the Academic Star Model of Tongji University (Ranking 1st among all undergraduate students of Tongji)!
11/2021: One paper is submitted to CVPR2022! Fingers crossed!
10/2021: Being awarded National Scholarship (top 1%)!
09/2021: Achieve 332 (V158/Q170/W4) in GRE test.
07/2021: One paper is accepted at ICCV 2021!
07/2021: Two papers are accepted at IROS 2021.
06/2021: Attend ICRA 2021 at Xi'an, China!
05/2021: Achieve 111 (R30/L30/S24/W27) in TOEFL test.
04/2021: One paper is published in IEEE GRSM (IF=13).
02/2021: One paper is accepted at ICRA 2021.
10/2020: Being awarded National Scholarship (top 1%)!

Publications

ADTrack: Target-Aware Dual Filter Learning for Real-Time Anti-Dark UAV Tracking
Bowen Li, Changhong Fu*, Fangqiang Ding, Junjie Ye, Fuling Lin
ICRA 2021 (Published) [Paper] [Code] [Video]
"Explore image illuminance to learn dual filter regression for robust high-speed anti-dark aerial tracking."

HiFT: Hierarchical Feature Transformer for Aerial Tracking
Ziang Cao, Changhong Fu*, Junjie Ye, Bowen Li, Yiming Li
ICCV 2021 (Published) [Paper] [Code]
"Use a lightweight transformer model to learn a discriminative feature space."

All-Day Object Tracking for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
Bowen Li, Changhong Fu*, Fangqiang Ding, Junjie Ye, Fuling Lin
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (Under revision) [Paper] [Code] [Video]
"Adapt to distinct light conditions for robust all-day UAV tracking."

Correlation Filters for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle-Based Aerial Tracking: A Review and Experimental Evaluation
Changhong Fu*, Bowen Li, Fangqiang Ding, Fuling Lin, Geng Lu
IEEE GRS Magazine (2018 IF=13, Published) [Paper] [Code] [Video]
"Exaustive review and experiments on correlation filter-based trackers for unmanned aerial vehicle object tracking."

SiamAPN++: Siamese Attentional Anchor Proposal Network for Real-Time UAV Tracking
Ziang Cao, Changhong Fu*, Junjie Ye, Bowen Li, Yiming Li
IROS 2021 (Accepted) [Paper] [Code] [Video]
"Learn adaptive anchors with attention in siamese tracking to replace pre-defined ones"

Awards

National Scholarship (top 1%, twice) for Undergraduates
Shanghai Scholarship (top 2%) for Undergraduates
Robotics Institute Summer Scholar (RISS2021), Carnegie Mellon University
Excellent Student (top 1%), Tongji University
Academic Star Model of Tongji University (Ranking 1st)
First prize of the Shanghai College Students' Mechanical Innovation Design Competition
First prize of the Shanghai Mechanics Competition
First prize in Shanghai University Students Advanced Drawing Technology Competition
Second prize of Shanghai Physics Competition
First prize of Tongji University Physics Competition
ACE Mentor of Academic Development Guidance Center

Service

Reviewer
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
Reviewer
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
Reviewer
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)