Tang Xiao’ou | |
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汤晓鸥 | |
Born | Anshan, Liaoning, China | 24 January 1968
Died | 15 December 2023 | (aged 54–55)
Other names | (also spelled as) Xiaoou Tang |
Citizenship | People's Republic of China |
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Scientific career | |
Fields | Artificial intelligence Business |
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Thesis | Transform Texture Classification (1996) |
Doctoral advisor | William Kenneth Stewart |
Doctoral students | Kaiming He |
Website | CUHK Faculty Page |
Tang Xiao’ou (汤晓鸥; 24 January 1968[1] – 15 December 2023) was a Chinese businessman and computer scientist. He was the founder and chairman of SenseTime, an AI company. He also served as professor of information engineering, associate dean of engineering, and outstanding fellow of engineering at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.[2][3]
Tang's research primarily focused on areas such as computer vision, pattern recognition, and video processing.[3] Tang was honored with the Best Paper Award at the 2009 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition.[4] He served as the programme chair in 2009 and the general chair in 2019 for the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision.[5] His editorial contributions include roles as an Associate Editor for both the IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence and the International Journal of Computer Vision.[3] Additionally, Tang has been recognised as a Fellow of the IEEE.[6]