何晓艺/Shawn He

Shanghai, China

xiaoyi.he@outlook.com

Education

Master of Engineering in Electronics Engineering (EE)

2017 - 2020
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Shanghai, China

Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics Engineering (EE)

2013 - 2017
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Shanghai, China

Work Experience

Senior Video Architect

May 2021 - Present
Nvidia
Shanghai, China
  • DLSS frame generation research. Core contributor of Nvidia Smooth Motion
  • Video frame generation research
  • Efficient frame generation for autonomous driving with Nvidia OFA hardware
  • Optical flow acceletor algorithm research and improvement

Algorithm Engineer

Apr 2020 - May 2021
Bilibili Group
Shanghai, China
  • Design, implementation and optimization of video compression adaptive preprocessing engine (FFmpeg+TensorRT)
    • involving technologies such as quality assessment, denoising, enhancement, etc
    • For UGC videos, it saves approximately 10% bitrate at the same quality level
  • Familiar with C/C++ implementation of various denoising and enhancement algorithms, and their integration with FFmpeg.
  • Participated in assembly optimization of video encoders
  • Built a video subjective quality blind testing platform to accelerate video algorithm development and verification.
  • Built a video encoder testing visualization platform to accelerate encoder development and algorithm verification.

Research Assistant

2015 - 2019
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Shanghai, China
  • Advisor: Prof. Weiyao Lin. Focused on Action Recognition, DL-based Video Compression, and Features Compression
  • Developed algorithms for lossless skeleton data compression
  • Developed algorithms for compressed video enhancement using deep learning
  • Participated in intelligent surveillance systems and developed human activity recognition algorithms

Algorithm Engineer Intern

Jul 2019 - Sep 2019
Alibaba Cloud
Shanghai, China
  • Research and development of super-resolution algorithms
  • Applied deep learning techniques to enhance low-resolution images and videos

Intern

Mar 2017 - Sep 2017
Intel Asia-Pacific R&D Ltd
Shanghai, China
  • Implemented a cross-framework test tool for deep learning frameworks (TensorFlow & Chainer)
  • Developed applications for layer accuracy, convergence, and performance testing
  • Enabled daily testing based on Jenkins and cluster infrastructure

Research Projects

End-to-end Deep Learning Based Image/Video Compression

2019 - 2020

Surveyed on end-to-end deep learning based image/video compression. Implemented novel ideas and experimental verifications.

Lossless Compression for Skeletons Data in Surveillance Videos

2018 - 2019

Implemented a lossless compression method for skeletons data in videos based on spatial and temporal correlation. Achieved about 84% compression ratio on test surveillance sequences. Published two papers and had one proposal accepted.

Deep Learning Based Video Compression

2017 - 2018

Proposed a novel CNN utilizing partition information in video encoder to enhance compressed videos (deblocking). Achieved about 10% bitrate saving on benchmark sequences. Paper accepted by ICIP 2019 (oral), IEEE Transactions on Multimedia 2020 and won 2nd prize in ChinaMM 2018 challenge.

Intelligent Surveillance

2016 - 2017

Established a dataset for human fall detection. Developed a real-time deep learning based fall detection algorithm with over 80% accuracy. Won "Best Demo of the Year" award at Microsoft Research Asia Symposium in 2017.

Publications

Enhancing HEVC Compressed Videos with a Partition-Masked Convolutional Neural Network

He, Xiaoyi, et al.

International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 2018 (Oral presentation)98 citations

Partition-aware Adaptive Switching Networks for Post-processing in HEVC

Lin, Weiyao, He, Xiaoyi, et al.

IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 2020 61 citations

Key-point Sequence Lossless Compression for Intelligent Video Analysis

Lin, Weiyao, He, Xiaoyi, et al.

IEEE MultiMedia, 2020 23 citations

A Multimodal Lossless Coding Method for Skeletons in Videos

He, Xiaoyi, et al.

IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo Workshop (ICME), 2019 2 citations

Adaptive Lossless Compression of Skeleton Sequences

Lin, Weiyao, Shinde, TS, Dai, Wenrui, Liu, Ming, He, Xiaoyi, et al.

Signal Processing: Image Communication, 2020 2 citations

Patents

Image Illumination Compensation Method and System Based on Tone Shift Estimation and Point-by-Point Tone Mapping

He, Xiaoyi; et al.

CN106504200BGranted
2022

Convolutional Neural Network-based In-Loop Filtering Method and System for Video Coding and Decoding

Lin, Weiyao; He, Xiaoyi

CN108134932BGranted
2021

Generative Adversarial Network-based In-Loop Filtering Method and System for Video Coding and Decoding

Lin, Weiyao; He, Xiaoyi

CN108174225BGranted
2021

In-Loop Filtering Implementation Method Based on Joint Construction and Adaptive Selection of Multiple Networks

Lin, Weiyao; He, Xiaoyi; et al.

CN108520505BGranted
2021

Skills & Achievements

Technical Skills

  • Programming Languages: Python, C++, Matlab
  • Deep Learning Frameworks: TensorFlow, PyTorch, Caffe
  • Simulation: Labview
  • Research Areas: Computer Vision, Video Compression, Deep Learning

Achievements

  • One paper about frame generation is accepted by NVIDIA internal conference (NTech 2024, 200/900+ submissions)
  • Second prize in "Deep-learning based Post Processing for Compressed Images" challenge (ChinaMM 2018)
  • Best Demo of The Year Award at Microsoft Research Asia Symposium
  • Merit Student of Shanghai Jiao Tong University
  • National Encouragement Scholarship