📖 About Me

Hengcan Shi (石恒璨) is a Professor at the School of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, Hunan University. Before that, he was a Research Fellow at the Department of Data Science & AI, Monash University, and a Senior Researcher at Tencent. He received his Ph.D. degree in computer vision from University of Electronic Science and Technology of China in 2019. He has served as reviewer for IEEE TPAMI, IJCV, IEEE TIP, TMM, TCSVT, TIE, PR and ISPRS. He was the Web Chair, Area Chair and PC member of ACMMM, CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, AAAI, IJCAI, ICML, ICLR and NeurIPS.

His research interests include Large Model, Image Segmentation/Detection, Vision+Language, and Affective Computing.

💻 Email: shihengcan AT gmail DOT com

🔥 News

  • 2025.12:  🎉🎉 One paper has accepted by IEEE TCSVT.
  • 2025.11:  🎉🎉 Best paper award in IEEE AIHCIR 2025.

📝 Selected Publications

Datasets and Benchmarks


ACMMM 2025
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NaME: A Natural Micro-expression Dataset for Micro-expression Recognition in the Wild

Jiateng Liu, Hengcan Shi, Haiwen Liang, Xiaolin Xu, Yuan Zong, Yaonan Wang, Wenming Zheng

ACMMM 2025, Project

CVPR 2024
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JRDB-PanoTrack: An Open-world Panoptic Segmentation and Tracking Robotic Dataset in Crowded Human Environments

Duy-Tho Le, Chenhui Gou, Stavya Datta, Hengcan Shi, Ian Reid, Jianfei Cai, Hamid Rezatofighi

CVPR 2024, Project

Algorithms


PR 2026
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FPS: Frequency Prompt Synchronization for Micro-expression Recognition

Jiateng Liu, Hengcan Shi, Yaonan Wang, Wenming Zheng

PR 2025

IJCV 2025
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LLMFormer: Large LanguageModel for Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation

Hengcan Shi, Son Duy Dao, Jianfei Cai

IJCV 2025, Highly Cited

CVPR 2025
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Drvideo: Document retrieval based long video understandings

Ziyu Ma, Chenhui Gou, Hengcan Shi, Bin Sun, Shutao Li, Hamid Rezatofighi, Jianfei Cai

CVPR 2025

MICCAI 2025
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New Multiple Sclerosis Lesion Segmentation via Calibrated Inter-patch Blending

Jin Ye, Son Duy Dao, Yicheng Wu, Yasmeen George, Thanh Nguyen-Duc, Daniel F Schmidt, Hengcan Shi, Winston Chong, Jianfei Cai

MICCAI 2025

ECCV 2024
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Diffusion Model for Robust Multi-Sensor Fusion in 3D Object Detection and BEV Segmentation

Duy-Tho Le, Hengcan Shi, Jianfei Cai, Hamid Rezatofighi

ECCV 2024

TMM 2024
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Unified open-vocabulary dense visual prediction

Hengcan Shi, Munawar Hayat, Jianfei Cai

IEEE TMM 2024, Highly Cited

ACM TOMM 2024
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Learning offset probability distribution for accurate object detection

Heqian Qiu, Hongliang Li, Qingbo Wu, Hengcan Shi, Lanxiao Wang, Fanman Meng, Linfeng Xu

ACM TOMM 2024

CVPR 2023
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Transformer scale gate for semantic segmentation

Hengcan Shi, Munawar Hayat, Jianfei Cai

CVPR 2023

ACMMM 2023
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Open-vocabulary object detection via scene graph discovery

Hengcan Shi, Munawar Hayat, Jianfei Cai

ACMMM 2023

TMM 2023
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Class Enhancement Losses with Pseudo Labels for Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation

Son D Dao, Hengcan Shi, Dinh Phung, Jianfei Cai

IEEE TMM 2023

Neurocomputing 2023
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Unpaired referring expression grounding via bidirectional cross-modal matching

Hengcan Shi, Munawar Hayat, Jianfei Cai

Neurocomputing 2023

MICCAI 2023
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Coactseg: Learning from heterogeneous data for new multiple sclerosis lesion segmentation

Yicheng Wu, Zhonghua Wu, Hengcan Shi, Bjoern Picker, Winston Chong, Jianfei Cai

MICCAI 2023

CVPR 2022
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Proposalclip: Unsupervised open-category object proposal generation via exploiting clip cues

Hengcan Shi, Munawar Hayat, Yicheng Wu, Jianfei Cai

CVPR 2022, Highly Cited

RA-L 2022
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Accurate and real-time 3D pedestrian detection using an efficient attentive pillar network

Duy Tho Le, Hengcan Shi, Hamid Rezatofighi, Jianfei Cai

IEEE RA-L 2022

SIGIR 2021
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Deep music retrieval for fine-grained videos by exploiting cross-modal-encoded voice-overs

Tingtian Li, Zixun Sun, Haoruo Zhang, Jin Li, Ziming Wu, Hui Zhan, Yipeng Yu, Hengcan Shi

SIGIR 2021

CVPR 2020
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Offset bin classification network for accurate object detection

Heqian Qiu, Hongliang Li, Qingbo Wu, Hengcan Shi

CVPR 2020

ACMMM 2020
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Language-aware fine-grained object representation for referring expression comprehension

Heqian Qiu, Hongliang Li, Qingbo Wu, Fanman Meng, Hengcan Shi, Taijin Zhao, King Ngi Ngan

ACMMM 2020

TMM 2020
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Query reconstruction network for referring expression image segmentation

Hengcan Shi, Hongliang Li, Qingbo Wu, King Ngi Ngan

IEEE TMM 2020

TMM 2020
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Hierarchical context features embedding for object detection

Heqian Qiu, Hongliang Li, Qingbo Wu, Fanman Meng, Linfeng Xu, King Ngi Ngan, Hengcan Shi

IEEE TMM 2020

CVPR 2019
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Scene Parsing via Integrated Classification Model and Variance-Based Regularization

Hengcan Shi, Hongliang Li, Qingbo Wu, Zichen Song

CVPR 2019

Remote Sensing 2019
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A2RMNet: Adaptively Aspect Ratio Multi-Scale Network for Object Detection in Remote Sensing Images

Heqian Qiu, Hongliang Li, Qingbo Wu, Fanman Meng, King Ngi Ngan, Hengcan Shi

Remote Sensing 2019, Highly Cited

TMM 2018
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Hierarchical Parsing Net: Semantic Scene Parsing From Global Scene to Objects

Hengcan Shi, Hongliang Li, Fanman Meng, Qingbo Wu

IEEE TMM 2018

ACMMM 2018
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Boosting Scene Parsing Performance via Reliable Scale Prediction

Hengcan Shi, Hongliang Li, Qingbo Wu, Fanman Meng, King N Ngan

ACMMM 2020, Oral

ECCV 2018
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Key-word-aware network for referring expression image segmentation

Hengcan Shi, Hongliang Li, Fanman Meng, Qingbo Wu

ECCV 2018, Highly Cited

📖 Academic Services

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🎖 Selected Honors and Awards

  • 2025: Distinguished Breakthrough Award in ACMMM 2025 AVI Challenge
  • 2025: Best paper Award in IEEE AIHCIR 2025
  • 2021: Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Award in CSIG
  • 2019: The First Price in NSFC Remote Sensing Image Segmentation Challenge

💬 Invited Talks

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