Changan Chen

Changan Chen 陈昌安

I am a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at UT Austin advised by Prof. Kristen Grauman. I am also a visiting researcher at Facebook AI Research. My broad interests are computer vision, machine learning and robotics. Currently, I'm working on embodied learning and audio-visual learning.

Previously, I spent a wonderful year working with Prof. Greg Mori on sports video analysis and efficient deep learning, eight months working with Prof. Alexandre Alahi on social navigation in crowds, and eight months working with Prof. Manolis Savva on relational graph reasoning for navigation.

My first name is pronounced as /tʃæn'æn/ with the g being silent.

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News

Feb 2021	Organizing the first SoundSpaces Challenge at the Embodied AI Workshop, CVPR 2021!
Jan 2021	One paper accepted to ICLR 2021
July 2020	Released a curated reading list for embodied vision: awesome-embodied-vision
July 2020	One paper accepted to IROS 2020 and two papers accepted to ECCV 2020
May 2020	Joining Facebook AI Research as a visiting researcher

Publications

Learning Audio-Visual Dereverberation
Changan Chen, Wei Sun, David Harwath, Kristen Grauman
arXiv 2021
paper | project

Semantic Audio-Visual Navigation Star
Changan Chen, Ziad Al-Halah, Kristen Grauman
CVPR 2021
paper | project | code

	Learning to Set Waypoints for Audio-Visual Navigation Star Changan Chen, Sagnik Majumder, Ziad Al-Halah, Ruohan Gao, Santhosh K. Ramakrishnan, Kristen Grauman ICLR 2021 paper \| project \| code
	VisualEchoes: Spatial Image Representation Learning through Echolocation Star Ruohan Gao, Changan Chen, Carl Schissler, Ziad Al-Halah, Kristen Grauman ECCV 2020 paper \| project \| code
	SoundSpaces: Audio-Visual Navigation in 3D Environments Star Changan Chen, Unnat Jain, Carl Schissler, Sebastia Vicenc Amengual Gari, Ziad Al-Halah, Vamsi Krishna Ithapu, Philip Robinson, Kristen Grauman ECCV 2020 (spotlight) paper \| project \| code \| website
	Relational Graph Learning for Crowd Navigation Star Changan Chen, Sha Hu, Payam Nikdel, Greg Mori, Manolis Savva IROS 2020 paper \| code
	Crowd-Robot Interaction: Crowd-aware Robot Navigation with Attention-based Deep Reinforcement Learning Star Changan Chen, Yuejinag Liu, Sven Kreiss, Alexandre Alahi ICRA 2019 paper \| code
	Constraint-Aware Deep Neural Network Compression Star Changan Chen, Frederick Tung, Naveen Vedula, and Greg Mori ECCV 2018 paper \| code

Presentations & Talks

June 2021	Invited talk at Facebook Reality Labs, "Learning Audio-Visual Dereverberation" (PPT)
June 2021	Invited talk at EPIC Workshop, CVPR 2021, "Semantic Audio-Visual Navigation" (PPT)
Sept. 2020	Invited talk at CS391R: Robot Learning at UT Austin, ""Audio-Visual Navigation" (PPT)
Dec. 2018	Invited talk at SwissAI Meetup, "Navigation in Crowds: From 2D Navigation to Visual Navigation"
Nov. 2018	Invited talk at Swiss Machine Learning Day, "Crowd-aware Robot Navigation with Attention-based DRL"
May 2018	Poster presentation at SFU-ZJU Joint Symposium, "Constraint-aware Deep Neural Network Compression"

Media Coverage

Facebook AI Blog	2021 Habitat Challenge launches to advance embodied AI research
Facebook AI Blog	New milestones in embodied AI
VentureBeat	Facebook releases tools to help AI navigate complex environments
ZDNet	Facebook is building home robots to help you find your ringing phone
MIT Technology Review	Facebook is training robot assistants to hear as well as see

Affiliations


ZJU 2014-2016	SFU 2016-2019	EPFL 2018	UT AUSTIN 2019 - present	FAIR 2020 - present

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