Grant Awards

A*STAR Career Development Fund (CDF) 2024 - Poster Award

The A*STAR Career Development Fund (CDF) aims to support promising early-career researchers in developing their careers in A*STAR by providing project management experience and seed funding.

Congratulations to Dr Guo Qing in receiving the A*STAR Career Development Fund (CDF) Day Poster Award:

Visual Continuous Representation for Robust Vision Perception

Vision perception models have become integral to various downstream tasks, including object detection, segmentation, and tracking, with critical applications in security-sensitive domains like autonomous driving. However, research has demonstrated that even advanced vision perception models powered by deep learning remain vulnerable to both common and adversarial perturbations. In the CDF project, Dr Guo introduce a novel approach using continuous representation to achieve robust vision perception.

The method leverages few-shot observations of a scene to render new observations with arbitrary spatial or temporal coordinates. This continuous representation enables us to resample new observations, providing subsequent perception models with enhanced opportunities for reliable predictions. We have developed several groundbreaking works in this direction:


  1. We pioneered the first semantic-aware continuous representation capable of reconstructing pixel colours at arbitrary coordinates while incorporating comprehensive semantic information. This work has been published in ECCV 2024.
  2. We developed continuous representation-driven image resampling, which effectively neutralises adversarial perturbations to achieve robust image recognition. This research has been published in ICLR 2024.
  3. We introduced spatial-temporal continuous representation and video resampling methods to achieve robust visual object tracking, with this work also published in ICLR 2024.

"Looking ahead, we plan to extend this framework to encompass a broader range of perception tasks and applications", said Dr Guo.

ASTAR CDF Day 2024 Award Recipients
Congratulations to all award recipients (Dr Guo Qing - standing on most right at the front row).