Blark Runfa Lee 李润发

UCSD ECE PhD student in Computer Vision & Graphics
Qualcomm R&D Deep Learning Researcher
Percussionist in UCSD Symphonic Orchestra, Drummer, Singer
Entrepreneur

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University of California, San Diego
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Yooo!!! My name is Blark, I’m a professional drummer pursuing a PhD in high-tech for fun! Just kidding :smile: :smile: :smile:! Anyway, I’m a PhD student from UCSD, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering. I got my master’s degree from UCSD ECE department in March. 2021, with a specialization in Signal & Image Processing, and continued to my PhD in UCSD Video Processing Lab under the supervision of Prof. Truong Nguyen. I started a long-term cooperation with the Qualcomm R&D XR/CV team from 2021 summer as a Deep Learning Researcher intern.

My research focuses on Computer Vision & Graphics, specifically on very important areas including the cross-cutting area of 2D/3D vision, understanding, and learning strategies, where my research benefits a wide range of industrial applications such as Robotics, Autonomous Driving, XR/VR. In Qualcomm, I work on many state-of-the-art problems including 3D body/hand modeling & tracking, 3D scene reconstruction, understanding & reasoning.

Music is my life!!! I started professional percussion training at 4 years old in “Central Conservation of Music”(CCOM) - No.1 musical institute in China. I passed the highest professional certificate in CCOM for “snare drum” when I was 9 and spent 5 years in the No.1 youth symphonic orchestra in Beijing, from 7-12 years old. I will be serving in percussion part in UCSD Symphonic Orchestra from Jan. 2023. I am also actively seeking partners to form a band, and I am into metal/hard rock, blues, jazz! Pin me if you want a band! Let’s Rock California!!!

news

Jan 4, 2023 Join UCSD Symphonic Orchestra as a percussionist :drum: :drum: :drum: :smile: !!!
Jul 3, 2022 Paper got accepted by ECCV 2022!!!
Jun 21, 2021 Join Qualcomm R&D Computer Vision team as a Deep Learning Researcher !!!
Jun 12, 2021 Got my Master’s Degree from UCSD ECE !!!
May 20, 2021 Paper got accepted by ICIP !!!

selected publications

  1. MonoPLFlowNet: Permutohedral Lattice FlowNet for Real-Scale 3D Scene Flow Estimation with Monocular Images
    Runfa Li, and Truong Nguyen
    In Proceedings of the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) 2022
  2. SM3D: Simultaneous Monocular Mapping and 3D Detection
    Runfa Li, and Truong Nguyen
    In IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP) 2021