PeopleofSuperintelligence

Researcher

Deng-Ping Fan

Also known as Dengping FAN, Dengping Fan, 范登平

Deng-Ping Fan is a computer vision researcher whose work spans visual saliency, camouflaged object detection, and medical image segmentation. He introduced Structure-Measure in 2017, earned a Ph.D. from Nankai University in 2019, and held research roles at IIAI and ETH Zurich while contributing to DAVSOD, COD10K, SINet, PraNet, and Pyramid Vision Transformer. In 2025, he received MICCAI's Young Scientist Publication Impact Award for PraNet. He is an adjunct professor at the Shenzhen Loop Area Institute and a Full Professor and deputy director of Nankai University's Media Computing Lab; in 2026, he serves as an Area Chair for CVPR 2027.

Now at
Shenzhen Loop Area Institute and Nankai University

Timeline

  1. 2017

    Structure-Measure as a saliency metric

    In 2017, he and four coauthors introduce Structure-Measure, a foreground-map metric that evaluates region-aware and object-aware structural similarity.

  2. 2019

    A Nankai PhD and DAVSOD

    In 2019, he earns a Ph.D. at Nankai University under Ming-Ming Cheng. At CVPR 2019, he coauthors the DAVSOD paper, a video saliency dataset with 226 videos and 23,938 frames.

  3. 2019–2021

    Team lead at IIAI

    From 2019 to 2021, he leads IIAI-CV&Med as a research scientist (PI) and team lead, working with Ling Shao and Jianbing Shen.

  4. 2020

    Camouflaged object detection

    In 2020, he and five coauthors define camouflaged object detection as finding objects blended into their surroundings, and introduce COD10K, a dataset of 10,000 images, and the Search Identification Network (SINet).

  5. 2020

    PraNet for polyp segmentation

    He coauthors PraNet in 2020, a parallel reverse attention network for segmenting polyps in colonoscopy images.

  6. 2021–2023

    Postdoc at ETH and PVT

    From 2021 to 2023, he works as a postdoctoral researcher at ETH Zurich with Luc Van Gool in its Computer Vision Lab. In 2021, he coauthors Pyramid Vision Transformer (PVT), a convolution-free backbone for dense prediction.

  7. 2025

    A MICCAI impact award

    In 2025, he receives the MICCAI Young Scientist Publication Impact Award for PraNet, his MICCAI 2020 paper.

  8. Since 2025

    Professor at SLAI

    Since 2025, he holds an adjunct professorship at the Shenzhen Loop Area Institute (SLAI) and is a Full Professor and deputy director of Nankai University's Media Computing Lab. In 2026, he serves as an Area Chair for CVPR 2027.

Career

  1. Since 2025Shenzhen Loop Area InstituteAdjunct professor
  2. Since 2025Nankai UniversityFull Professor
  3. 2021–2023ETH ZurichPostdoctoral researcher
  4. 2019–2021Inception Institute of Artificial IntelligenceResearch scientist (PI) and team lead

Education

  1. 2019Nankai UniversityPh.D.

From the biography.

  1. More people shaping AI studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology than at any other institutionIncludes Nankai University. We estimate where the people shaping AI studied and where their careers led. Massachusetts Institute of Technology leads with 467 former students, including 291 recorded doctorates.
  2. The company share of AI researchers’ top papers was 31% in 2020–2024 and 8% in 1970–1974Includes Nankai University. We estimate where the people shaping AI worked when their most-cited papers appeared: the company share was 31% in 2020–2024 and 8% in 1970–1974, and Google led all organizations in 2020–2024.
  3. The median h-index is 48 at universities and 14 at frontier AI labsIncludes ETH Zurich. The median h-index is 48 at universities and 14 at frontier AI labs. We compare publishing careers, recent citations, dual appointments and job moves across 2,420 university researchers and 308 frontier-lab researchers.
  4. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology trained or employed 44 of the 187 AI major-prize winners, more than any other universityIncludes ETH Zurich. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology trained or employed 44 of the 187 AI major-prize winners, more than any other university. We compare doctorate and 5+ year employment links, career timing and current workplaces for 187 major-prize and 1,111 best-paper winners.

Colleagues

People named in this biography, and people with dated positions at the same organization in the same years.

Sources and credits

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  1. [1708.00786] Structure-measure: A New Way to Evaluate Foreground Maps arxiv.org. Checked 21 October 2026.
  2. Deng-Ping Fan dengpingfan.github.io. Checked 21 October 2026.
  3. CVPR 2019 Open Access Repository openaccess.thecvf.com. Checked 21 October 2026.
  4. CVPR 2020 Open Access Repository openaccess.thecvf.com. Checked 21 October 2026.
  5. [2006.11392] PraNet: Parallel Reverse Attention Network for Polyp Segmentation arxiv.org. Checked 21 October 2026.
  6. Deng-Ping Fan (Nankai University): Computer Vision — Lacuna lacuna.tiptreesystems.com. Checked 21 October 2026.
  7. ICCV 2021 Open Access Repository openaccess.thecvf.com. Checked 21 October 2026.
  8. Young Scientist Publication Impact Award - MICCAI Society miccai.org. Checked 21 October 2026.
  9. Deng-Ping Fan dengpingfan.github.io. Checked 21 October 2026.