Tianheng Cheng is a Senior Researcher in Beijing with a decade of experience advancing machine learning, deep learning, and visual perception, currently researching large multimodal models at ByteDance Seed. He holds a PhD in Artificial Intelligence from Huazhong University of Science and Technology and has a strong industry research background with internships at Tencent, Horizon Robotics, Microsoft Research Asia, and Face++. Tianheng has hands-on expertise in high-resolution visual recognition—contributing core implementations and refinements to the well-known HRNet facial landmark detection repository—demonstrating skill across model architecture, training, and inference pipelines. Known for bridging rigorous academic research with production-aware engineering, he navigates both foundational research and applied vision systems.
10 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Artificial Intelligence, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Artificial Intelligence at Huazhong University of Science and Technology
This is an official implementation of facial landmark detection for our TPAMI paper "Deep High-Resolution Representation Learning for Visual Recognition". https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.07919
Role in this project:
ML Engineer
Contributions:11 commits, 11 pushes, 25 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Tianheng primarily contributed to the implementation and refinement of the facial landmark detection model. Their commits include the initial setup of the HRNet model architecture, alongside subsequent modifications addressing issues with image flipping and transformations. They also made changes to core functions, demonstrating a focus on model training, validation, and inference pipelines within the repository.
Contributions:58 commits, 19 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
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