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Li Cheng
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Research
Latest papers
PDFormer: A Multimodal Transformer for Quantifying Motor Symptom Severity in Parkinson's Disease.
Medical image analysis · 2026 · senior author
Technologies and Sensors for Artificial Muscles in Rehabilitation.
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024
Author Correction: BigNeuron: a resource to benchmark and predict performance of algorithms for automated tracing of neurons in light microscopy datasets.
Nature methods · 2024
Latest funding
- $200,000
Multimodal Embodied AI by Integrating learning, Perception, and Physical Reasoning
NSERC · 2025 · Principal investigator
- $150,000
Foundation model-enabled mobile image analytics platform for precision agriculture
NSERC · 2023 · Principal investigator
- $25,000
Smart Livestock Monitoring using Video Cameras
NSERC · 2023 · Principal investigator
10 publications.
PDFormer: A Multimodal Transformer for Quantifying Motor Symptom Severity in Parkinson's Disease.
Li Y, Ahmed M, Ba F, Gong M, Cheng L
Technologies and Sensors for Artificial Muscles in Rehabilitation.
Basu V, Cheng L, Zheng B
Author Correction: BigNeuron: a resource to benchmark and predict performance of algorithms for automated tracing of neurons in light microscopy datasets.
Manubens-Gil L, Zhou Z, Chen H, Ramanathan A, Liu X, Liu Y, Bria A, Gillette T, Ruan Z, Yang J, Radojević M, Zhao T, Cheng L, Qu L, Liu S, Bouchard KE, Gu L, Cai W, Ji S, Roysam B, Wang CW, Yu H, Sironi A, Iascone DM, Zhou J, Bas E, Conde-Sousa E, Aguiar P, Li X, Li Y, Nanda S, Wang Y, Muresan L, Fua P, Ye B, He HY, Staiger JF, Peter M, Cox DN, Simonneau M, Oberlaender M, Jefferis G, Ito K, Gonzalez-Bellido P, Kim J, Rubel E, Cline HT, Zeng H, Nern A, Chiang AS, Yao J, Roskams J, Livesey R, Stevens J, Liu T, Dang C, Guo Y, Zhong N, Tourassi G, Hill S, Hawrylycz M, Koch C, Meijering E, Ascoli GA, Peng H
BigNeuron: a resource to benchmark and predict performance of algorithms for automated tracing of neurons in light microscopy datasets.
Manubens-Gil L, Zhou Z, Chen H, Ramanathan A, Liu X, Liu Y, Bria A, Gillette T, Ruan Z, Yang J, Radojević M, Zhao T, Cheng L, Qu L, Liu S, Bouchard KE, Gu L, Cai W, Ji S, Roysam B, Wang CW, Yu H, Sironi A, Iascone DM, Zhou J, Bas E, Conde-Sousa E, Aguiar P, Li X, Li Y, Nanda S, Wang Y, Muresan L, Fua P, Ye B, He HY, Staiger JF, Peter M, Cox DN, Simonneau M, Oberlaender M, Jefferis G, Ito K, Gonzalez-Bellido P, Kim J, Rubel E, Cline HT, Zeng H, Nern A, Chiang AS, Yao J, Roskams J, Livesey R, Stevens J, Liu T, Dang C, Guo Y, Zhong N, Tourassi G, Hill S, Hawrylycz M, Koch C, Meijering E, Ascoli GA, Peng H
The RETA Benchmark for Retinal Vascular Tree Analysis.
Lyu X, Cheng L, Zhang S
Online comment-based prediction of cosmetic ingredient's sensory irritation using gradient boosting algorithm.
Jiang B, Wang H, Cheng L, Zi Y, He C, Den YA
IDRiD: Diabetic Retinopathy - Segmentation and Grading Challenge.
Porwal P, Pachade S, Kokare M, Deshmukh G, Son J, Bae W, Liu L, Wang J, Liu X, Gao L, Wu T, Xiao J, Wang F, Yin B, Wang Y, Danala G, He L, Choi YH, Lee YC, Jung SH, Li Z, Sui X, Wu J, Li X, Zhou T, Toth J, Baran A, Kori A, Chennamsetty SS, Safwan M, Alex V, Lyu X, Cheng L, Chu Q, Li P, Ji X, Zhang S, Shen Y, Dai L, Saha O, Sathish R, Melo T, Araújo T, Harangi B, Sheng B, Fang R, Sheet D, Hajdu A, Zheng Y, Mendonça AM, Zhang S, Campilho A, Zheng B, Shen D, Giancardo L, Quellec G, Mériaudeau F
Fully automated leg tracking of Drosophila neurodegeneration models reveals distinct conserved movement signatures.
Wu S, Tan KJ, Govindarajan LN, Stewart JC, Gu L, Ho JWH, Katarya M, Wong BH, Tan EK, Li D, Claridge-Chang A, Libedinsky C, Cheng L, Aw SS
Synthesizing retinal and neuronal images with generative adversarial nets.
Zhao H, Li H, Maurer-Stroh S, Cheng L
Component optimization for image understanding: a Bayesian approach.
Cheng L, Caelli T, Sanchez-Azofeifa A
Multimodal Embodied AI by Integrating learning, Perception, and Physical Reasoning
Principal investigators: Cheng, Li
Keywords: Information systems and technology; Agriculture
Foundation model-enabled mobile image analytics platform for precision agriculture
Principal investigators: Cheng, Li L
Keywords: canola disease; drone and mobile phone images; foundation models; image analysis; large language models; mobile image processing; multimodal data analytics; natural language processing; precision agriculture; sclerotinia stem rot
Smart Livestock Monitoring using Video Cameras
Principal investigators: Cheng, Li L
Keywords: 3D shape reconstruction; daily activities of livestock; images and videos; in-the-wild monitor and analysis; Livestock farming; motion analysis
Wildland fire management using near real time high resolution remote sensing data
Principal investigators: Boisvert, Jeff J
Keywords: emergency management; exposure assessment; fire behavior prediction; fuel characterization; geostatistics; remote sensing; risk assessment; unmanned aerial vehicles (uav); wildfire; wildland fires
A joint, interdisciplinary, advanced ergonomics research facility for motion capture, 3D imaging and virtual reality
Principal investigators: Li, Xinming
Analysing visual behaviours of articulated objects from images and videos
Principal investigators: Cheng, Li
Analysing visual behaviours of articulated objects from images and videos
Principal investigators: Cheng, Li
Keywords: pose estimation; action recognition and detection; visual behaviour analysis; image and video analysis; computer vision; deep learning; machine learning
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
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