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About

I am a second-year CS Ph.D. student at Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen). My research interests focus on lifelong learning for embodied intelligence.

Timeline

2024 — Present

Ph.D. Student

Computer Science

Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen)
2020 — 2024

Undergraduate Student

Computer Science and Technology

Harbin Institute of Technology

Research

I pursue a single thread of lifelong and incremental learning across multimodal perception and affective computing. My recent work spans open-vocabulary multimodal emotion recognition (Agent-MER), incremental protocols for micro-expression recognition, robust multimodal modeling for sentiment understanding, and data-efficient “free-lunch” enhancements for crowd counting. My long-term goal is to build embodied agents that acquire skills continuously in real environments.

Selected Publications

Incremental Micro-Expression Recognition: A Benchmark

Zhengqin Lai, Xiaopeng Hong*, Yabin Wang, Xiaobai Li

IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing (TAFFC), 2026

TAFFC · DOI
Agent-MER: A Cognitive Agent with Hierarchical Deliberation for Open-Vocabulary Multimodal Emotion Recognition

Zhengqin Lai, Zhilin Zhu, Xiaopeng Hong*, Yaowei Wang

Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM), 2025
Multimodal Blockwise Transformer for Robust Sentiment Recognition

Zhengqin Lai, Xiaopeng Hong*, Yabin Wang

Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Multimodal and Responsible Affective Computing (MRAC), 2024
Free Lunch Enhancements for Multi-modal Crowd Counting

Haoliang Meng, Xiaopeng Hong*, Zhengqin Lai, Miao Shang

Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2025

Honors & Awards

IJCAI @ MER 2024 — NOISE Track, Rank 3
ACM MM @ MER 2025 — FG Track, Rank 1