Rui Dai

Rui Dai　戴瑞

I am currently an applied scientist at Amazon working on computer vision related projects. Prior to joining Amazon, I obtained my doctoral degree in Computer Science from Inria and Université Côte d'Azur under the supervision of Prof. François Brémond (Inria) and Dr. Gianpiero Francesca (Toyota Motor Europe).

My Inria email address is deactivated. Please contact me via dairui01@hotmail.com

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Research

My main research interests are in video understanding, action recognition and multi-modal representation learning.

Publications

	Toyota Smarthome Untrimmed: Real-World Untrimmed Videos for Activity Detection Rui Dai, Srijan Das, Saurav Sharma, Luca Minciullo, Lorenzo Garattoni, François Brémond, Gianpiero Francesca. T-PAMI Project Link / Code
	MS-TCT: Multi-Scale Temporal ConvTransformer for Action Detection Rui Dai, Srijan Das, Kumara Kahatapitiya, Michael S. Ryoo, François Brémond. CVPR 2022 Poster / Code
	VPN++: Rethinking Video-Pose embeddings for understanding Activities of Daily Living Srijan Das, Rui Dai, Di Yang, François Brémond. T-PAMI An extension of Video Pose Network (ECCV'20) by using our cross-modal knowledge distillation mechanism proposed in ICCV'21. Code
	THORN: Temporal Human Object Relation Network for Action Recognition Mohammed Guermal, Rui Dai, François Brémond. ICPR 2022 A continuation of CTRN, Code
	CTRN: Class Temporal Relational Network for Action Detection Rui Dai, Srijan Das, François Brémond. BMVC 2021, Oral
	Learning an Augmented RGB Representation with Cross-Modal Knowledge Distillation for Action Detection Rui Dai, Srijan Das, François Brémond. ICCV 2021
	PDAN: Pyramid Dilated Attention Network for Action Detection. Rui Dai, Srijan Das, Luca Minciullo, Lorenzo Garattoni, Gianpiero Francesca and François Brémond. WACV 2021 Code / Video / Poster
	Selective Spatio-Temporal Aggregation Based Pose Refinement System: Towards Understanding Human Activities in Real-World Videos. Di Yang, Rui Dai, Yaohui Wang, Rupayan Mallick, Luca Minciullo, Gianpiero Francesca, François Brémond. WACV 2021 Code / Video
	VPN: Learning Video-Pose Embedding for Activities of Daily Living Srijan Das, Saurav Sharma, Rui Dai, François Brémond, Monique Thonnat. ECCV 2020 Code / Video
	Toyota Smarthome: Real World Activities of Daily Living. Srijan Das, Rui Dai, Michal Koperski, Luca Minciullo, Lorenzo Garattoni, François Brémond and Gianpiero Francesca. ICCV 2019 Project Link / Code

PhD Thesis

On 13 September, 2022, I defended my PhD in Computer Science from the Spatio-Temporal Activity Recognition Systems (STARS) team of Inria, France. The topic of my Ph.D. was “Action Detection for Untrimmed Videos ” [link]. All the research involved in my thesis was conducted at Inria under the supervision of François Brémond.

The jury of my Ph.D. defense was:

President: Ivan Laptev , Professor, Inria Paris / L'École Normale Supérieure
Reviewer : Dima Damen, Professor, University of Bristol
Reviewer : Karteek Alahari, Research Scientist, Inria Grenoble Rhône-Alpes
Examiner : Ming-Hsuan Yang, Professor, Google / University of California Merced
Examiner : François Brémond, Research Director, Inria Sophia Antipolis