Junhao CAI

HKUST
Clear Water Bay, Kowloon
Hong Kong

About Me

I am a Ph.D. student at the Robotics Institute, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, where I work on robotic manipulation and computer vision under the supervision of Prof. Qifeng Chen and Prof. Michael Yu Wang. Here is my CV.

My research lies in perception for grasping and manipulation, object extrinsic (pose) and intrinsic (physical property) parameter estimation, etc. I'm currently on job market. If you are interested to chat with me, feel free to drop me an email.

Education

M.Eng. Student | Sun Yat-sen University
Time: Sep 2017 - July 2019. Supervisor: Prof. Hui Cheng

Undergraduate Student | South China Normal University
Time: Sep 2013 - July 2017. Supervisor: Prof. Yun Xue

Experience

Reseach Intern | Applied Computer Vision Lab, Institute for Intelligent Computing, Alibaba
Time: Jun 2023 - Jun 2024. Mentor: Yisheng He, Weihao Yuan, and Zilong Dong.

Research Assistant | RAPID Lab, Sun Yat-sen University
Time: Jul 2019 - Aug 2020. Supervisor: Prof. Hui Cheng

Selected Publications [Google Scholar]

Gaussian-Informed Continuum for Physical Property Identification and Simulation
Junhao Cai*, Yuji Yang*, Weihao Yuan, Yisheng He, Zilong Dong, Liefeng Bo, Hui Cheng, and Qifeng Chen
[NeurIPS 2024] Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, 2024 (Oral | Percentage: 0.46%)
[Paper] [Project Page]

Open-Vocabulary Category-Level Object Pose and Size Estimation
Junhao Cai*, Yisheng He*, Weihao Yuan, Siyu Zhu, Zilong Dong, Liefeng Bo, and Qifeng Chen
[RA-L 2024] IEEE Robotic and Automation Letter, 2024
[Paper] [Project Page]

Volumetric-based Contact Point Detection for 7-DoF Grasping
Junhao Cai, Jingcheng Su, Zida Zhou, Hui Cheng, Qifeng Chen, Michael Yu Wang
[CoRL 2022] Conference on Robot Learning, 2022
[Paper] [Code]

Real-Time Collision-Free Grasp Pose Detection With Geometry-Aware Refinement Using High-Resolution Volume
Junhao Cai, Jun Cen, Haokun Wang, Michael Yu Wang
[RA-L with ICRA 2022] IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2022
[Paper] [Project Page]

CCAN: Constraint Co-Attention Network for Instance Grasping
Junhao Cai, Xuefeng Tao, Hui Cheng, and Zhanpeng Zhang
[ICRA 2020] IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2020
[Paper]

MetaGrasp: Data Efficient Grasping by Affordance Interpreter Network
Junhao Cai, Hui Cheng, Zhanpeng Zhang, and Jingcheng Su
[ICRA 2019] IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2019
[Paper] [Code]

Grasping Novel Objects by Semi-supervised Domain Adaptation
Junhao Cai, Zhanpeng Zhang, and Hui Cheng
[RCAR 2019] IEEE International Conference on Real-time Computing and Robotics, 2019
[Paper]

Fusing Object Context to Detect Functional Area for Cognitive Robots
Hui Cheng (Supervisor), Junhao Cai, Quande Liu, Zhanpeng Zhang, Kai Yang, Chen Change Loy, and Liang Lin
[ICRA 2018] IEEE International Conference on Real-time Computing and Robotics, 2018
[Paper]

Teaching

  • COMP 5214
  • COMP 4471
  • EESM 5900V

Services

  • Conference and Journal Reviewer:
     IEEE Robotics and Automation Letter (RA-L)
     IEEE/CVF Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR)
     Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)
     International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)
     IEEE/RAS International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
     IEEE/RAS International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)

Awards

  • Research Travel Grant, HKUST, 2022.
  • Postgraduate Studentship, 2020-2024, HKUST.
  • Second Prize Scholarship, 2017-2018, SYSU. (Top 10%)
  • First Prize Scholarship, 2015-2016, SCNU. (Top 2%)
  • National Scholarship, 2015-2016, Ministry of Education. (Top 0.5%)