Hui Qiao                                                 Curriculum Vitae

Ph.D. Candidate (Since 2013)


BBNC (Broadband Network & Digital Media Lab)
Department of Automation, Tsinghua University
Beijing 100084, China


mailto: qiaoh13@mails.tsinghua.edu.cn


About Me

I am now a 5th year Ph.D. candidate in BBNC Lab of Department of Automation at Tsinghua University, under the supervision of Prof. Qionghai Dai. I started my research work in computational imaging and computational optics when I was a senior in Tsinghua University.

I have visited the Computational Fabrication Group at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) from Nov. 2015 to Nov. 2016 during my third year of Ph.D., under the supervision of Prof. Wojciech Matusik.

I am now leading a group of 15 Ph.D. candidates for a part of the National Major Project of Scientific Instrument, called Multi-dimensional and Multi-scale High-resolution Computational Photography Instrument. Our current work is to build a wide-field high-resolution microscope for more detailed in-vivo observation of neural activity.

My current research interests centers on Three-dimensional Microscopy and Deep Neural Networks.


Education
Ph.D.  Sep. 2013 - Jul. 2018 (expected), Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
Visiting Student.  Nov. 2015 - Nov. 2016, Computational Fabrication Group, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.
B.Eng.  Sep. 2009 - Jul. 2013, Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China (GPA 94, Rank 1/141).

Research Interests
Computational Imaging
Computational Optics
Deep Neural Networks
Time-of-flight (ToF) Imaging
Tomographic Phase Microscopy
Light field Microscopy

Research Projects
ToF
Resolving transient time profile in ToF imaging via log-sum sparse regularization.

OSA Optics Letters (OL) 2015 [Project Page] pdf

Multi-frequency time-of-flight (ToF) cameras have been used to recover the transient time profiles of optical responses such that multipath interference can be separated. The resolution of the recovered time profiles is limited by the highest modulation frequency. Here, we demonstrate a method based on log-sum sparsity regularization to recover transient time profiles of specular reflections. We show that it improves the ability of separating pulses better than the state-of-the-art regularization methods. As an application, we demonstrate the encoding and decoding of hidden images using mirror reflections.
TPM
GPU-based deep convolutional neural network for tomographic phase microscopy with l1 fitting and regularization.

SPIE Journal of Biomedical Optics (JBO) 2018 [Project Page] pdf

Tomographic phase microscopy (TPM) is a unique imaging modality to measure the three-dimensional refractive index distribution of transparent and semitransparent samples. However, the requirement of the dense sampling in a large range of incident angles restricts its temporal resolution and prevents its application in dynamic scenes. Here, we propose a graphics processing unit-based implementation of a deep convolutional neural network to improve the performance of phase tomography, especially with much fewer incident angles. As a loss function for the regularized TPM, the l1-norm sparsity constraint is introduced for both data-fidelity term and gradient-domain regularizer in the multislice beam propagation model. We compare our method with several state-of-the-art algorithms and obtain at least 14 dB improvement in signal-to-noise ratio. Experimental results on HeLa cells are also shown with different levels of data reduction.

Publications

Hui Qiao, Jingyu Lin, Yebin Liu, Matthias B. Hullin, and Qionghai Dai, Resolving transient time profile in ToF imaging via log-sum sparse regularization, Optics Letters (OL), 2015, 40(6): 918-921.
Hui Qiao, Jiamin Wu, Xiaoxu Li, Morteza H. Shoreh, Jingtao Fan, and Qionghai Dai, GPU-based deep convolutional neural network for tomographic phase microscopy with l1 fitting and regularization, J. Biomed. Opt. (JBO), 2018, 23(6): 066003.


Patents

Qionghai Dai, Hui Qiao, Xiaoxu Li and Jinli Suo. A Generative Neural Network Based Method for Tomographic Phase Microscopy. China Patent, pending.


Other Research Experience

SPIE/COS Photonics Asia

The Photonics Asia conference, 2014.

Attend the Photonics Asia Sponsored by SPIE, the International Society for Optics and Photonics and the Chinese Optical Society (COS), October 9-11, 2014 at Beijing, China.

SCF

Symposium on Computational Fabrication, 2016 link

Held at CSAIL MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA. April 19-20, 2016.

The Symposium on Computational Fabrication is an interdisciplinary venue that brings together leading experts from academia and industry in the area of computer graphics, geometry processing, mechanical engineering, materials science, architecture, human-computer interaction, robotics, and applied math. The goal is to learn about fundamental questions and issues related to computational aspects of fabrication, provide a platform for discussing ideas and initiating collaborations that will pioneer new approaches in this area, and provide a venue for disseminating research results.


Academic Services

I have served as a reviewer for those journals:
IEEE: Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing
OSA: Optics Express


Honors and Awards

National Scholarship, 2016
Freshman Scholarship for Doctoral candidate of Tsinghua University, 2013 (Rank 1 in Department of Automation, Tsinghua University)
Outstanding Graduate Student of Beijing, China, 2013
Outstanding Graduate Student of Tsinghua University, 2013
Friend of Tsinghua-Chang Dong Scholarship (1/141), 2012
Friend of Tsinghua-Fang Chongzhi Scholarship (1/141), 2011
"12.9 Scholarship" of Tsinghua University (1/141), 2010


Social Activities

Chairman of Zijing Volunteer Organization, Youth League Committee of Tsinghua University (Sep. 2014 - Jul. 2015)
President of Student Union, Department of Automation, Tsinghua University (Sep. 2012 - Jul. 2013)


Links
Supervisor: Affiliation:
Qionghai Dai       Broadband Network and Digital Media Lab
  Tsinghua University

 Last updated: Mon, 06/18/2018