An obituary was released on the WeChat public account of SenseTime at 17:07 pm on the 16th, confirming the death of Professor Tang Xiaoou, the founder of SenseTime and a famous artificial intelligence scientist.
According to media reports, insiders of SenseTime Technology revealed that Tang Xiaoou unfortunately passed away in his sleep, and the jumping off the building on the Internet is false information, please do not spread rumors.
According to the data, Tang Xiaoou was born in Anshan, Liaoning Province in 1968, is an artificial intelligence scientist, a professor of the Department of Information Engineering of the University of Chinese Hong Kong, an outstanding scholar of the School of Engineering, and a co-founder and executive director of SenseTime.
It is understood that Tang Xiaoou graduated from the University of Science and Technology of China in 1990, received a master's degree from the University of Rochester in 1991, received a doctorate degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1996, served as a professor in the Department of Information Engineering of the University of Hong Kong Chinese in January 1998, founded the Multimedia Laboratory of the University of Hong Kong Chinese in 2001, worked at Microsoft Research Asia from March 2005 to January 2008 as the director of the visual computing group, and served as the vice president of the Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2009。
Tang Xiaoou is known as the "pioneer" and "pathfinder" of global facial recognition technology.
In March 2014, Tang Xiaoou's team released the GaussianFace face recognition algorithm, which achieved an accuracy rate of 98.52% on the LFW database, breaking through the human eye recognition capability for the first time in the world.
At that time, there was always a bottleneck in the field of face recognition how to improve the accuracy of algorithm recognition, and at that time, the accuracy rate of 97.53% of the human eye was once considered to be the ceiling of the algorithm that could not be surpassed.
However, Tang Xiaoou improved the accuracy rate to 98.52%, which can be said to have created history in the field of face recognition.
According to public information, in 2014, Tang Xiaoou, as one of the founders of the company, founded SenseTime Technology in Hong Kong. At that time, the founding team of SenseTime basically originated from the core members of the Multimedia Laboratory of Chinese University of Hong Kong, which was founded in Hong Kong in 2001.
Since then, SenseTime has grown all the way, and is known as the "AI Four Tigers" along with Megvii, Yuncong, and YITU. In 2021, SenseTime Technology will be listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, and Tang Xiaoou once appeared on the Forbes rich list with a value of more than 30 billion.
The Chinese AI community has an interesting assessment of Tang Xiaoou: an outstanding talk show actor who has been delayed by his artificial intelligence career.
"It's my turn to speak, I'll first send a notice to the conference, today's lunch has been canceled, and afternoon tea has been changed, everyone is not in a hurry, listen slowly." ”
"The organizing committee told me that there were about 10 million people watching the live broadcast on the Internet today, so I was very nervous, so I made a 100-page PPT, I thought 100,000 people a page would be worthy of the audience, but the organizing committee was very nervous, and kept asking me if it would be overtime to talk about 100 pages in 40 minutes, so I assured them, don't worry, it will be. ”
As a well-known scholar and practitioner at the forefront of the field of artificial intelligence, Tang Xiaoou said that every night before going to bed, he listened to Mr. Yu Qian's cross talk and thought: "How can a machine surpass such an interesting soul?" ”
Tang Xiaoou's sudden death caused collective shock and mourning in the science and technology circle.
Dou Jianwen, co-president of Haimo Technology, updated his circle of friends: God is jealous of talents! I have founded the "Association of 100 of the University of Science and Technology of China" together, and I have also pointed out the country and promoted words in the "Zhongyu Daqun", and I have also listened to your business vision of "making the world no difficult to brag about" with typical "soup-style humor...... Everything is close and vivid.
It is understood that under the leadership of Tang Xiaoou, SenseTime Technology has achieved fruitful results in recent years. Data shows that from its establishment in 2014 to January 2022, SenseTime has won more than 70 global championships and more than 800 AI invention patents.
However, SenseTime has not been smooth sailing, and on November 28, 2023, SenseTime was shorted by the short-selling institution Grizzly Bear. As of the close of trading on December 15, 2023, its market capitalization was HK$42.17 billion.
By November 28, 2023, SenseTime was shorted by the short-selling institution Grizzly Bear. As of the close of trading on December 15, 2023, its market capitalization was HK$42.17 billion.
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Source: Voice of West Lake