Tong Chen

Education

Sep. 2019 – July. 2023               Ph.D. in School of Electronic Science and Engineering, Nanjing University

Sep. 2015 – July. 2018               M.S in School of Electronic Science and Engineering, Nanjing University

Sep. 2011 – July. 2015               B.E. in School of Electronic Science and Engineering, Nanjing University

Research Interests: Image/Video/Point Cloud Compression using Deep Neural Networks

Artificial Intelligence (AI) for multimedia (1D audio, 2D image/video, and 3D point cloud) processing and compression.

Publications (# co-first author, * corresponding author)

• Kang You, Tong Chen*, Dandan Ding, M. Salman Asif, and Zhan Ma, "RENO: Real-time Neural Compression for 3D LiDAR Point Clouds", CVPR, 2025. [Project Website]

• Junzhe Zhang, Tong Chen, Kang You, Dandan Ding, and Zhan Ma. "Conditional Lossless Point Cloud Attribute Compression via Spatial Decomposition", IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT), 2025.

• Junteng Zhang, Tong Chen*, Hao Zhu, Dong Wang, Dandan Ding, and Zhan Ma. "Compressing 3D Gaussian Splatting via a Generalizable Neural Coder", VCIP, Dec, 2024. (oral)

• Ruixiang Xue, Jiaxin Li, Tong Chen*, Dandan Ding, Xun Cao, and Zhan Ma.  "NeRI: Implicit Neural Representation of LiDAR Point Cloud Using Range Image Sequence", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2024. [Project Website]

• Shaohan Sun, Yuzhuo Kong, Tong Chen* Zhan Ma, "Variable rate Neural Speech Compression with Multiscale Feature Extraction and Improved Entropy Modeling", Data Compression Conference (DCC), 2024.
  

• Junzhe Zhang#, Tong Chen#, Dandan Ding, and Zhan Ma, "G-PCC++: Enhanced Geometry-based Point Cloud Compression", ACM Multimedia, Oct. 2023. [Project Website] (oral)

• Junteng Zhang#, Tong Chen#, Dandan Ding, and Zhan Ma, "YOGA: Yet Another Geometry-based Point Cloud Compressor", ACM Multimedia, Oct. 2023. [Project Website]

• Tong Chen and Zhan Ma. "Towards Robust Neural Image Compression: Adversarial Attack and Model Finetuning", IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT), 2023.
  

• Tong Chen, Haojie Liu, Zhan Ma, Qiu Shen, Xun Cao and Yao Wang. "End-to-End Learnt Image Compression via Non-Local Attention Optimization and Improved Context Modeling", IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP), 2021. (ESI High Cited Paper)

• Tong Chen and Zhan Ma. "Variable Bitrate Image Compression with Quality Scaling Factors", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2020.

Services

I am/was invited reviewer for TIP, TCSVT, TOMM, SPL and NeurIPS, ICLR, CVPR, ACM MM, ISCAS;

I am/was invited as session chair for ICASSP24.

Honors & Awards

2020 IEEE MMSP2020 Grand Challenge - Best Performing Solution Award                                                                  

2016 The China Graduate Electronics Design Contest (Business Plan Special Session) - Third Prize                              

2014 Undergraduate Electronic Design Contest - Embedded System Design Invitational Contest (Intel Cup)- Second Prize        

2014 Students Photoelectric Design Competition of Nanjing University - First Prize  

2014 National Undergraduate Electronics Design Contest (JiangSu Division) - Second Prize 

2013 Electronics Design Contest (TI Cup) of School of Electronics Science and Engineering Nanjing University - First Prize