Lei Kang

Dr., Beatriu de Pinós PostDoc Researcher Computer Vision Center Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona lkang[at]cvc[dot]uab[dot]cat Edifici O, Campus UAB, 08193 Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain Google Scholar   Twitter   GitHub

Biography

Lei Kang received a PhD in Computer Science from Pattern Recognition and Document Analysis Group (DAG) at Computer Vision Center (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) and research group at omni:us in Dec. 2020, which was awarded with an Excellent Cum Laude (highest grade) qualification with Industrial mention.

From May 2021 to June 2023, he was a lecturer at Computer Science Dept. of Shantou University, Shantou, China, and a PI of 3 competitive research projects (National Natural Science Foundation of China, STU Incubation Project for the Research of Digital Humanities and New Liberal Arts, and STU grant).

Currently, he is a PostDoc researcher in the Vision, Language and Reading (VLR) Research Group of Computer Vision Center (CVC), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Barcelona, Spain.

His research interests are document analysis, human-document interaction, document visual question answering and multi-modal multimedia analysis.

Education

• PhD, Computer Vision Center, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Dec. 2020.

• MSc, Laboratory of Future Networks, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), July 2015.

• BSc, Automation, Jilin University (JLU), July 2012.

Working Experience

• PostDoc researcher at Computer Vision Center. (June 2023 to present)

• Lecturer at Shantou University. (May 2021 to June 2023)

• PhD researcher at omni:us. (April 2017 to June 2020)

Selected First Author Publications

Journals:

• Pay Attention To What You Read: Non-recurrent Handwritten Text-line Recognition
  Lei Kang, Pau Riba, Marçal Rusiñol, Alicia Fornés, Mauricio Villegas
  Pattern Recognition (PR), 2022
  DOI: 10.1016/j.patcog.2022.108766

• Content and Style Aware Generation of Text-line Images for Handwriting Recognition
  Lei Kang, Pau Riba, Marçal Rusiñol, Alicia Fornés, Mauricio Villegas
  IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), 2022
  DOI: 10.1109/TPAMI.2021.3122572

• Candidate Fusion: Integrating Language Modelling Into A Sequence-to-sequence Handwritten Word Recognition Architecture
  Lei Kang, Pau Riba, Mauricio Villegas, Alicia Fornés, Marçal Rusiñol
  Pattern Recognition (PR), 2021
  DOI: 10.1016/j.patcog.2020.107790

Conferences:

• GRIF-DM: Generation of Rich Impression Fonts using Diffusion Models
  Lei Kang, Fei Yang, Kai Wang, Mohamed Ali Souibgui, Lluis Gomez, Alicia Fornés, Ernest Valveny, Dimosthenis Karatzas.
  European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI), 2024
  DOI:

• Machine Unlearning for Document Classification
  Lei Kang, Mohamed Ali Souibgui, Fei Yang, Lluis Gomez, Ernest Valveny, Dimosthenis Karatzas
  International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR), 2024
  DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-70546-5_6

• Multi-Page Document Visual Question Answering using Self-Attention Scoring Mechanism
  Lei Kang, Rubèn Tito, Ernest Valveny, Dimosthenis Karatzas
  International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR), 2024
  DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-70552-6_13

• Learning Robust Self-attention Features for Speech Emotion Recognition with Label-adaptive Mixup
  Lei Kang, Lichao Zhang, Dazhi Jiang
  IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2023
  DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP49357.2023.10095611

• Distilling Content From Style For Handwritten Word Recognition  (Best Paper Award)
  Lei Kang, Pau Riba, Marçal Rusiñol, Alicia Fornés, Mauricio Villegas
  International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition (ICFHR), 2020
  DOI: 10.1109/ICFHR2020.2020.00035

• GANwriting: Content-Conditioned Generation of Styled Handwritten Word Images
  Lei Kang, Pau Riba, Yaxing Wang, Marçal Rusiñol, Alicia Fornés, Mauricio Villegas
  European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2020
  DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-58592-1_17

• Unsupervised Adaptation For Synthetic-to-real Handwritten Word Recognition
  Lei Kang, Marçal Rusiñol, Alicia Fornés, Pau Riba, Mauricio Villegas
  IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), 2020

• Convolve, Attend and Spell: An Attention-based Sequence-to-sequence Model For Handwritten Word Recognition
  Lei Kang, J.Ignacio Toledo, Pau Riba, Mauricio Villegas, Alicia Fornés, Marçal Rusiñol
  German Conference on Pattern Recognition (GCPR), 2018
  DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-12939-2 _32

Academic Services

Reviewer for the listed journals and conferences:

• TPAMI, PR, IJDAR, MVAP, etc.

• CVPR, ACMMM, ICDAR, etc.

PC member for the listed conferences:

• ICDAR2024.

Teaching

Bachelor courses at Shantou University (May 2021 to June 2023):

• [CST3402A] Computer Networking

• [JOU2155A] Python for Text Mining

• [CST2253A] Programming for the Raspberry Pi

Bachelor courses at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Sep. 2023 to present):

• [MO61134] Vision and Learning. With Lluis Gomez.

• [MO66759] Fundamentals of Natural Language. With Alicia Fornés and Pau Torras.

Master course at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Mar. 2024 to present):

• Master in Computer Vision (C5 Visual Recognition). With Ernest Valveny and Rubèn Pérez.