SDformer-Flow: Spiking Neural Network Transformer for Event-based optical flow estimation
Y. Tian and J. Andrade-Cetto. SDformer-Flow: Spiking Neural Network Transformer for Event-based optical flow estimation, 2024, arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.04082.
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Education
- Ph.D in Automatic Control, Robotics and Computer Vision, Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña, 2025 (expected)
- M.S. in Applications and Technologies for Unmanned Aircraft Systems (Drones), Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña, 2019
- B.S. in Aircraft design and engineering, Beihang University, 2013
Work experience
- March.2020 - 2025: Predoctoral researcher
- Institut de Robòtica i Informàtica Industrial (IRI)
- Duties includes: Work on spiking neural network for event-camera motion estimation.
- Supervisor: Juan Andrade Cetto
- Oct.2018 - July.2019: Research Intern
- Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC)
- Duties included: Assist in drone photogrammetry research work. Develop independently a project for my master thesis. The project aims to develop a prototype of UAV payload for Indoor localization and mapping for civil protection uses. The system is based on visual SLAM and sensor data fusion.
- Sep.2013 - Sep.2017: Aeronautical engineer
- Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China Ltd. (COMAC)
- Duties included: Writing structure and equipment chapters in AIPC (Aircraft Illustrated Parts Catalog) and AMM (Aircraft Maintenance Manual) for C919, based on S1000D specification; Verification work for Maintenance Task Analysis (MTA); Evaluation work of AMM for ARJ-21 following the continuous airworthiness after delivery
Skills
- Deep learning
- Computer vision
- Robotics
- Neuromorphic engineering
Publications
Egomotion from event-based SNN optical flow
Y. Tian and J. Andrade-Cetto. Egomotion from event-based SNN optical flow, 2023 ACM International Conference on Neuromorphic Systems, 2023, Santa Fe, NM, USA, pp. 8:1-8.
Event transformer FlowNet for optical flow estimation
Y. Tian and J. Andrade-Cetto. Event transformer FlowNet for optical flow estimation, 2022 British Machine Vision Conference, 2022, London.
Talks
Event-based robot vision
Talk at Robotics, Control Systems and Artificial Intelligence Summer School 2024 , IRI, Barcelona, Spain
Spiking neural network for event camera ego-motion estimation
Talk at 2022 nanoGe MAT-SUS Symposium on Neuromorphic Sensory-Processing-Learning Systems inspired in Computational Neuroscience, Barcelona, Spain
Service
- Reviewer for conferences: ICRA2023, IROS2023, IROS2024,
- Reviewer for jourals: RAL, Frontiers in Neurorobotics