Research Projects
1. Distribution of longitudinal and transverse projects in the college in 2022
2. Two achievements from the School of Information and Control Engineering won the 2021 Shaanxi Province Science and Technology Award
3. One achievement from the School of Information and Control Engineering won the 2022 Shaanxi Higher Education Science and Technology Research Outstanding Achievement Award
4. The academic paper of Associate Professor Wang Binglu was included in the top international conference CVPR in the field of computer science.
Recently, the research of Associate Professor Wang Binglu from the School of Information and Control Engineering of our university, titled “GaTector: A Unified Framework for Gaze Object Prediction,” has been accepted by the international top conference CVPR (CCFA class). Professor Wang Binglu is the first author and corresponding author of the paper, and Xi’an University of Architecture and Technology is the only completing unit of the paper. This achievement is also the first article published by our university at CVPR, marking a breakthrough in the publication of academic achievements in the field of information disciplines at international top conferences. Gaze behavior is an important aspect of human social behavior and has strong research significance, but there is a lack of a unified solution framework for this task. An intuitive solution is to add an object detection branch to the existing gaze estimation methods. However, existing gaze estimation usually use two different networks to extract features from the scene and head images, which will result in overly complex network structures and prevent joint optimization of each branch. Therefore, the paper proposes a new framework called GaTector to address the problem of gaze object prediction in a unified manner. First, this paper proposes a Specific-General-Specific (SGS) feature extractor, which uses a shared backbone to extract general features from scene and head images. Considering the specificity of different sub-networks, SGS introduces two specific input processing layers before the shared backbone and three different output processing layers after the shared backbone. Then, this paper designs a novel defocus structure to generate specific object features for the object detection task without losing information and additional computational cost. In addition, the framework introduces energy aggregation loss to achieve joint optimization of different sub-networks. Finally, this paper proposes a new mDAP metric, which can reveal the differences between different bounding boxes even if there is no overlapping area between them. The superiorities of the proposed method in the tasks of object detection, gaze estimation, and gaze object prediction are verified through extensive experiments on the GOO dataset. CVPR stands for the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. The conference, which began in 1983, is a top conference in the fields of artificial intelligence, computer vision, and pattern recognition. In recent years, the average acceptance rate of the conference is about 25%. According to the latest academic journal and conference impact rankings published by Google Scholar in 2021, CVPR ranks fourth among all academic publications, surpassing The Lancet and second only to Nature, NEJM, and Science.
5. School of Information and Control Engineering held an academic seminar on “Embracing the Era of Intelligent Innovation” on intelligent technology and innovative applications.
To broaden the research horizon and improve research capabilities, on 7th, the School of Information and Control Engineering invited Professor Zeng Dajun, a researcher at the Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Professor Wang Lei, a postdoctoral fellow at the National Information Center and a researcher at the Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, to conduct research exchanges and academic reports. Wu Hao, the secretary of the school party committee, and some teacher representatives participated in the research exchange meeting, and Professor Song Lijun presided over the meeting.
At the exchange meeting, Professor Zeng Dajun combined the national development plan from the 12th Five-Year Plan to the 14th Five-Year Plan to introduce the future development of research directions. He mentioned three points: First, researchers should establish research goals and clarify research directions based on the national strategic department, the key work of the Ministry of Science and Technology, the top research projects, and the research system. Second, researchers should return to the original intention of research and take solving major national needs as the guide in research work, using scientific methods to fully reflect new research discoveries. Third, researchers should face challenges bravely, open up innovative ideas, strengthen cooperation with enterprises, and improve the integrity and feasibility of research projects.
Teacher representatives made reports and exchanges based on their own research directions, and discussed and learned from Professor Zeng Dajun about the bottleneck problems encountered in the research process. The teacher representatives stated that in the future research process, they will actively explore solutions to the bottleneck problems in national development, actively explore, and make contributions to the development of the school with the spirit of being determined to complete a task.
In the afternoon of the same day, the School of Information and Control Engineering held an academic seminar on “Intelligent Technology and Innovation Application in the Era of Intelligent Innovation” in Room 606 of the Information and Control Building. Professor Zeng Dajun made a report titled “Policy Intelligence - Key Scientific Issues and Technological Research.” Teacher representatives from the school and more than 70 graduate students attended the seminar.
Professor Zeng Dajun fully explained policy intelligence from the perspectives of his own research direction and research achievements, focusing on policy intelligence, social computing, multi-agent systems, and adversarial games. He shared the methods and applications of related issues and technologies, enriching the research knowledge of the faculty and students and broadening new research ideas.
Wang Lei gave a presentation titled “Discussion on Data Intelligence Technology and Product Innovation and Entrepreneurship,” focusing on the development of big data and artificial intelligence technology. He shared the application of data intelligence technology and products in the industry based on the entrepreneurial experience of ZhongkeWenge, and discussed the next steps for innovation and development, providing valuable opinions for students’ entrepreneurship, career choices, and personal development.
6. Distribution of longitudinal and transverse projects in the School of Information and Control Engineering from 2016 to 2021
7. The unveiling ceremony of the XAUAT Intelligent Traffic Control Center was successfully held.
On the afternoon of May 13th, the General Manager of the Asset Management Company, Gang Jiabin, the Chairman of the Static Traffic Research Institute, Shi Xiaohui, the Special Expert Li Longji, the General Manager Jia Chaofeng, and the Executive Director Wu Xiaoyi, visited the Caotang Campus and held the unveiling ceremony of the Static Traffic Control Intelligent Center with the School of Information and Control Engineering. Wu Hao, the Party Secretary of the School of Information and Control Engineering, Ma Zongfang, the Dean, teacher representatives, and student representatives attended the ceremony. The meeting was chaired by Zhang Bo, the Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee and Vice Dean of the School of Information and Control Engineering.
Ma Zongfang congratulated the establishment of the Static Traffic Control Intelligent Center and mentioned that the establishment of this center fully utilizes the research results and advantages of the Static Institute and information-related disciplines, and promotes innovative cooperation mechanisms for research and development projects such as artificial intelligence and license plate recognition algorithms, and urban parking robots. In the future, it will continuously promote deep cooperation between the two parties, enhance the application ability of teachers’ scientific research, enhance the transformation and application of scientific research achievements of the university, and improve the operational capabilities of the industry, achieving complementary win-win situations in technology, industry, and operation.
Gang Jiabin first congratulated the establishment of the Static Traffic Control Intelligent Center and mentioned that the center is a typical representative of the deep integration of production, education, and research. The establishment of this intelligent center means that Xi’an University of Architecture and Technology has solved the bottlenecks and pain points between production, education, and research. It shoulders the responsibility of giving new impetus to the traditional characteristic disciplines of Xi’an University of Architecture and Technology and serving the development of new machinery, artificial intelligence, and other national strategies. In the future, it will play a role in talent cultivation, academic achievements, and industrialization transformation, making due contributions to the construction of a first-class research university at Xi’an University of Architecture and Technology.
Jia Chaofeng congratulated the establishment of the Static Traffic Control Intelligent Center and mentioned that the Static Traffic Research Institute will take this unveiling as a new starting point, rely on rich industry resources and the advanced core technologies of the School of Information and Control Engineering, and carry out comprehensive cooperation in various aspects, providing strong support for multiple R&D projects. Both parties will conduct multidimensional and in-depth exchanges and cooperation in technology support and resource sharing, focusing on artificial intelligence technology research, application innovation, and talent cultivation, achieving a win-win situation for discipline innovation and enterprise development.
Shi Xiaohui, Chairman of the Static Traffic Research Institute at Xi’an University of Architecture and Technology, and Wu Hao, the Party Secretary of the School of Information and Control Engineering, jointly unveiled the “Xi’an University of Architecture and Technology Static Traffic Control Intelligent Center”. Shi Xiaohui gave an academic report titled “Urban Static Traffic Application Technology and Its Industrialization” to the participants. He introduced urban static traffic application technology from five aspects: industry background, solutions, technology applications, social benefits, and landing cases. He explained in a multidimensional, multi-dimensional, and in-depth manner the comprehensive application technologies, such as urban-level static traffic Internet Of Things(IoT), urban-level intelligent parking IoT platform, and technological operation and whole industry chain development.
The establishment of the Static Traffic Control Intelligent Center is of great significance to the School of Information and Control Engineering and the Static Traffic Research Institute. Both parties will deepen the complementary advantages and resource sharing in their respective fields, focus on serving scientific research at the university, support graduate education, promote the improvement of teachers’ scientific research capabilities, continuously promote the integration of production, education, and research, and open a new chapter of cooperation.
8. Partial research projects in the years 2015-2016
9. Notice on applying for the 2016 Shaanxi Provincial Department of Education Scientific Research Program
10. Notice on matters related to the completion of the school’s science and technology fund projects
Patents and Software Copyrights
3.2.1 List of patent achievements from 2020 to 2022
3.2.2 List of patent achievements from 2016 to 2019
3.3 Published Papers
3.3.1 Publication status of papers in 2021
3.3.2 Publication status of papers in 2020
3.3.3 Publication status of papers in 2019
