I am a Ph.D. student in Robot Vision & Learning (RVL) Lab at University of Toronto, advised by Prof. Florian Shkurti. Prior to this, I obtained a M.S. in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon University, where I had fortunate to work with Prof. David Held and Prof. Martial Hebert. I received my Bachelor’s degree from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, where I have been lucky to work with Prof. Chi-Keung Tang and Prof. Yu-Wing Tai. I also had an internship in Tencent Youtu Lab.

My research interest lies in computer vision and robotics. I am especially excited by perception algorithms that can generalize and adapt, and their applications in the robotic domain.

Selected Publications

* indicates equal contribution.

	OSSID: Onilne Self-supervised Instance Detection by (and for) Pose Estimation Qiao Gu, Brian Okorn, David Held, Robotics and Automation Letter (RA-L), 2022 [paper] [video] [code] [project page]
	ZePHyR: Zero-shot Pose Hypothesis Rating Brian Okorn*, Qiao Gu*, Martial Hebert, David Held, International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2021 [paper] [video] [code] [project page]
	Deep Video Matting via Spatio-Temporal Alignment and Aggregation Yanan Sun, Guanzhi Wang, Qiao Gu, Chi-Keung Tang, Yu-Wing Tai, Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2021 [paper] [dataset]
	LADN: Local Adversarial Disentangling Network for Facial Makeup and De-Makeup Qiao Gu*, Guanzhi Wang*, Mang Tik Chiu, Yu-Wing Tai, Chi-Keung Tang, International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2019 [paper] [project page] [code] [dataset]

Teaching

• Teaching Assistant for CSC384 - Intro to Artificial Intelligence, Winter 2022 at UofT
• Teaching Assistant for CSC110 - Foundations of Computer Science I, Fall 2021 at UofT

Reviewer

• RA-L, CVPR 2022, ICLR 2022, WACV 2022, ICCV 2021, ICRA 2021, ECCV 2020

Awards

• Ontario Graduate Scholarship (2022-2023)
• HKUST Academic Achievement Medal (2019)
• HKSAR Government Scholarships (2017-2019)
• High Fashion Charitable Foundation Exchange Scholarships (2018)
• Mr. Armin and Mrs. Lillian Kitchell Undergraduate Research Award (2018)
• HKSAR Government Scholarship Fund - Reaching Out Award (2017)
• HKSAR Government Scholarship Fund - Talent Development Scholarship (2017)
• Dean’s List (2015-2019)