Hi there 👋 I am a second-year CS Ph.D. student in Computer Science at the University of Southern Califonia, advised by Prof. Laurent Itti. Previously, I have the privilege of working with Prof. Ram Nevatia.
My research interests lie in computer vision and deep learning, especially in Data-centric and Human-centric AI. In the long term, I aim to to build a data-driven AI system that:
- recognizes and represents scenes effectively,
- is adaptive to multi-modalities (vision, language, spatial information, etc.),
- can be reconstructed, understood, and corrected by humans.
Publications
A Graphical Framework for Knowledge Exchange between Humans and Neural Networks
Wanrong Zheng*, Yunhao Ge*, Xingrui Wang, Di Wu, Yao Xiao, Xu Zhi, Linwei Li, Ziyan Wu, Laurent Itti
Under Review [Paper]
Three-Step Nav: A Hierarchical Global–Local Planner for Zero-Shot Vision-and-Language Navigation
Wanrong Zheng, Yunhao Ge, Laurent Itti
AISTATS 2026 [Paper][Supp]
GaitSTR: Gait Recognition with Sequential Two-stream Refinement
Wanrong Zheng*, Haidong Zhu*, Zhaoheng Zheng, Ram Nevatia
TBIOM 2024 [Paper][Code]
ShARc: Shape and Appearance Recognition for Person Identification In-the-wild
Haidong Zhu, Wanrong Zheng, Zhaoheng Zheng, Ram Nevatia
WACV 2024 [Paper][Slides]
GaitRef: Gait Recognition with Refined Sequential Skeletons
Haidong Zhu*, Wanrong Zheng*, Zhaoheng Zheng, Ram Nevatia
IJCB 2023 Oral [Paper][Code][Slides]
CAT-NeRF: Constancy-Aware Tx2Former for Dynamic Body Modeling
Haidong Zhu, Zhaoheng Zheng, Wanrong Zheng, Ram Nevatia
CVPR Workshop 2023 [Paper][Code][Supp]
SSN3D: Self-Separated Network to Align Parts for 3D Convolution in Video Person Re-Identification
Xiaoke Jiang, Yu Qiao, Junjie Yan, Qichen Li, Wanrong Zheng, Dapeng Chen
AAAI 2021 [Paper][Supp][Slides]
Awards
1st on MS1M dataset in ICCV 2021 Masked Face Recognition Challenge out of 136 teams.
2nd on Glint360k dataset in ICCV 2021 Masked Face Recognition Challenge out of 86 teams.
Research Experience
iLab, USC, Los Angeles, CA
Research Assistant. May. 2024 – Present
Advisor: Prof. Laurent Itti
IRIS Computer Vision Lab, USC, Los Angeles, CA
Research Assistant. Jan. 2022 – May. 2024
Advisor: Prof. Ram Nevatia
SenseTime, China
Research Engineer. Sep. 2019 – Aug. 2021
Advisor: Dr. Xiaoke Jiang and Dr. Yichao Wu
Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Research Assistant. Jul. 2018 – Jun. 2019
Advisor: Dr. Qiong Wang
Shenzhen Research Institute, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
Research Intern. Dec. 2017 – Jun. 2018
Academic Service
Reviewer: CVPR, ECCV, AISTATS, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems, International Journal of Computer Vision