Cheng Luo

Taken at the G.E.M. concert

Hi,

I am currently a PhD student at IVUL lab at KAUST, supervised by Prof. Bernard Ghanem.

Previously, I earned my Master’s degree from the College of Computer Science and Software Engineering at Shenzhen University (SZU), under the co-supervision of A/Prof. Weicheng Xie and Prof. Linlin Shen.

My research focuses on affective artificial intelligence with three main goals:

Accurately comprehending human emotions (ME-GraphAU, SynFer)
Creating AI that interacts naturally with humans (ReactFace, React2023, React2024, and React2025)
Addressing mental health challenges through human-AI interaction

news

Mar 12, 2025	Launched the grand challenge REACT2025 as an organizer on ACM MM conference.
Oct 21, 2024	One paper was accepted to TVCG (iEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphic)
Dec 09, 2023	One paper was accepted to AAAI 2024.
Jun 11, 2023	Launched the grand challenge REACT2023 as an organizer on ACM MM conference.
Apr 21, 2022	One paper was accepted to IJCAI 2022.
Mar 02, 2022	One paper was accepted to CVPR 2022.
Jul 23, 2021	One paper was accepted to ICCV 2021.
Sep 10, 2020	I started on my academic journey at Computer Vision Institue led by Prof. Linlin Shen

selected publications

TVCG

ReactFace: Online Multiple Appropriate Facial Reaction Generation in Dyadic Interactions

Cheng Luo, Siyang Song, Weicheng Xie, and 4 more authors

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2024
IJCAI

Learning Multi-dimensional Edge Feature-based AU Relation Graph for Facial Action Unit Recognition

Cheng Luo, Siyang Song, Weicheng Xie, and 2 more authors

In Proceedings of the Thirty-First International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI-22, 2022
CVPR

Frequency-driven imperceptible adversarial attack on semantic similarity

Cheng Luo, Qinliang Lin, Weicheng Xie, and 3 more authors

In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF conference on computer vision and pattern recognition, 2022