Dr. -Ing. Kunyu Peng

Visiting Postdoctoral Researcher

Email: [email protected]

About Myself:

I am a visiting researcher at the Institute for Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence and Technology (INSAIT), where I am working on multimodal action understanding and video analysis and hosted by Prof. Luc Van Gool and Prof. Danda Paudel.

I lead the action recognition research group in Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, CVHCI Lab, and work there as postdoctoral researcher. I earned my Ph.D. in Informatics Institute of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, where I was fortunate to be advised by Prof. Dr. -Ing. Rainer Stiefelhagen. Prior to that, I received my M. Sc. degree from ETIT of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and B. Sc. degree from Beijing Institute of Technology. I finished three research internships at the Chinese Academy of Science (Beijing), ESME Sudria (Paris), and Bosch (Stuttgart). My research interests lie in video understanding, human action understanding, vision language model, and trustworthy challenges.

Honors and Awards:

ICLR2025 Notable Reviewer Award

CVPR2025 Outstanding Reviewer Award

NeurIPS2024 Top Reviewer Award

ICRA2024 Best Paper Finalist

Science, Technology, and Innovation Scholarship

Academic Services

2023-2024 Associated Editor, IV workshop.

2025 Associated Editor, IV main conference.

2023-2025 Reviewer for CVPR, ECCV, ICCV, IROS, ICRA, ICML, NeurIPS, AAAI, AISTATS, ACMMM, IJCNN, ICLR, TITS, TCSVT, TIP, TIV, Nature Artificial Intelligence Review, Nature Scientific Report, Pattern Recognition, RAL, Neurocomputing, Information Fusion.

Research Projects

2021-now SmartAGE, aiming at deep learning-based activity analysis for elderly people, founded by Carl-Zeiss-Foundation, collaborated with Heidelberg university, Frankfurt university, and Mannheim university.

2024-now SFB 1574 Circular Factory, aiming at deep learning based human action segmentation in a circular factory environment, founded by the German Research Foundation, collaborated with Stuttgart university. I take care of PI work tasks in this project.

2025-now HeiKA-Star PACo, aiming at deep learning-based human cognitive status estimation using video data, founded by German Research Foundation, collaborated with Heidelberg university.

Teaching Experiences

WS24/25 Seminar Computer Vision for Human-Computer Interaction,

WS23/24 Seminar Computer Vision for Human-Computer Interaction,

WS22/23 Seminar Computer Vision for Human-Computer Interaction,

SS25 Lecture Deep Learning for Computer Vision I: Basics,

WS24/25 Lecture Deep Learning for Computer Vision II: Advanced Topics,

WS23/24 Lecture Deep Learning for Computer Vision II: Advanced Topics,

Publications: See google scholar https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=pA9c0YsAAAAJ