The 20-year-old student who published SCI, dreams of changing the world with algorithms

In February 2021, the "New Content and New Interaction" Global Video Cloud Innovation Challenge kicked off. The competition is hosted by Intel and Alibaba Cloud, in cooperation with Youku's strategic technology, and jointly hosted by the Tianchi platform and the Alibaba Cloud Video Cloud team. Since the start of the competition, more than 4,600 contestants from all over the world have signed up for the competition. We have selected outstanding cases and moving stories from the contestants to enter the world of video cloud challengers.

"Piaoxiang Pork Chop Rice"-an appetizing name, and this team is also composed of three out-of-pocket "little fresh meat", they are all from Hangzhou Dianzi University, each is the team leader Ye Qinghao , Two team members Shen Xile and Wang Zirui. In the algorithm competition of the Video Cloud Global Innovation Challenge, "Piaoxiang Pork Chop Rice" has been through all the troubles and successfully advanced to the semi-finals. When asked about their cheats for participating, both team members said it was due to the captain and soul man. — Ye Qinghao.

On the road of scientific research, I feel loneliness and happiness

Ye Qinghao is an out-and-out academic tyrant. During his undergraduate studies in Hangzhou Dian, he has won Zhejiang Provincial Government Scholarship 3 times and won the first-class scholarship 5 times. He also published SCI journal paper "Exploring global" as the first author. "Diverse attention via pairwise temporal relation for video summarization", in the United States, Harvard University, University of California, Riverside and other exchange programs and courses, obtained all A + results.

After graduating from undergraduate, he even held offers from many prestigious universities such as the University of California, San Diego, University of California, Irvine, Washington University in St. Louis, and finally chose to study at the University of California, San Diego (USCD) majoring in computer science as a graduate student.

However, just such a "child of someone else's family", few people know that he is actually a "half-way renunciation" computer major. In his freshman year, his major was not computer, but out of his love for computers, he transferred to the School of Computer Science through hard work and self-study, and he started his road of opening up since then.

Being good at thinking and asking questions, and having a strong curiosity about unknown things, this is what Ye Qinghao believes is the motivation to continue to support himself. In the four years of university, Ye Qinghao has maintained an excellent grade of 1% for the whole year, and explored various possibilities on the road of scientific research, participated in many projects and competitions to accumulate experience and broaden his horizons. In 2019, Ye Qinghao, a junior under the leadership of his mentor, participated in the first major project in his life-the "Open Project of Zhejiang Cognitive Medical Engineering Technology Research Center". During the entire project period, Ye Qinghao devoted himself to research, and finally published relevant papers in SCI journals as the first author when he participated in a major project for the first time.

Regarding his own scientific research road, Qinghao said: “Speaking of scientific research, some people may find it very boring and difficult. Of course, these are no different to me, but I feel that I feel lonely on this road of scientific research. I will try my best to feel its happiness."

"Xueba" is not the only label

Ye Qinghao (second from right) and American classmates

Apart from studying, photography is Ye Qinghao's biggest hobby. He believes that information is based on pictures, and videos are based on pictures. Videos contain more information than pictures, and give people a more comprehensive audio-visual experience. The future of video development is the video cloud, so Ye Qinghao hopes to take daily photography In the hobby, from the most basic information carrier-image to experience the future of the development of video technology. In addition to photography, Ye Qinghao also likes to participate in various types of competitions, and has gained a lot-the second prize of the 2017 Zhejiang College Students Physics Innovation Competition, the 2018 Provincial College Students Internet "+" Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition Bronze Award, etc. . He also has a strong relationship with Ali. In the 2020 MEDIA AI Alibaba Entertainment Algorithm Challenge, he won the third place.

Ye Qinghao said that the algorithmic questions of the Alibaba Cloud Video Cloud Global Innovation Challenge are very challenging. "The video segmentation questions for this semi-final are officially selected by the third-generation Intel Xeon processor (Cooper lake). We found that CPUs can also be used for the deployment of neural networks, and the cost has dropped a lot compared with GPUs, which provided me with some new ideas for research in this area."

Regarding the future, Ye Qinghao said that he will also work in the direction of computer vision and video technology, and dreams of using algorithms to change the world. I hope that in the next competition, Ye Qinghao and his team "Piaoxiang Pork Chop Rice" can go further and continue to explore the road of video cloud technology.

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