• News
• Research Interests
• Employment
• Education
• Awards and Honors
• Professional Activities

News

• 12/2024, I am deeply honored to be named an IEEE Fellow and IAPR Fellow!
• 08/2024, I'm delighted to share with you that I've just joined United Arab Emirates University (UAEU) as an Associate Professor. I'm looking for postdocs, PhD/master students, and visiting students who will work on multimodal LLM and generative AI, and digital humans. Contact me if you are interested in.
• 12/2021, A video introducing TransMatcher is released.
• 02/2021, We are hiring! [LinkedIn] [公众号]
• 11/2019, In ICCV2019, we have been awarded the 1st place for the NightOwls Pedestrian Detection Challenge 2019, and 2nd place for the WIDER Face & Person Challenge 2019 – Track 2: Pedestrian Detection!
• 10/2018, I have joined the Inception Institute of Artificial Intelligence (IIAI), Abu Dhabi, UAE.
• 09/2018, Slides of the ECCV tutorial “Representation Learning for Pedestrian Re-identification” have been shared.
• 08/2018, Welcome to our Github page: [VideoObjectSearch], with several recent codes published in ECCV, ICME, etc.
• 05/2015, The LOMO+XQDA source code is released. [project page]
• 10/2014, The OPeRID v1.0 database and benchmark toolkit is released. [project page]
• 07/2014, A benchmark tool for large-scale unconstrained face recognition is released. [project page]

Research Interests

Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, Machine Learning

Face Detection, Face Recognition, Biometrics

Object Detection, Object Tracking, Person Re-identification

Similarity/Metric Learning, Deep Learning, Domain Generalization

AIGC, Image Generation, Synthetic Persons, MetaHuman

Employment

• 08/2024 ~ present, Associate Professor, College of Information Technology (CIT), United Arab Emirates University (UAEU)
• 10/2021 ~ 06/2024, Acting Director of R&D, Principal Scientist, Inception Institute of Artificial Intelligence (IIAI), G42
• 10/2018 ~ 09/2021, Lead Scientist, Inception Institute of Artificial Intelligence (IIAI), G42
• 11/2014 ~ 10/2018, Associate Professor, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences
• 08/2012 ~ 10/2014, Assistant Professor, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences
• 08/2010 ~ 08/2012, Postdoc, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Michigan State University

Education

• 09/2005 ~ 07/2010, PhD, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences
• 09/2001 ~ 07/2005, B.S. Degree in Mathematics, Sun Yat-sen University
• 09/1998 ~ 07/2001, High School, Meizhou Zengxianzi Middle School

Awards and Honors

• Outstanding Reviewer, the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2021), June 19-25, 2021.
• The Second Class Award, The State Science and Technology Progress Award, Beijing, China, December 18, 2019.
• The 1st Place, NightOwls Pedestrian Detection Challenge 2019 (in Conjunction with the ICCV 2019), Seoul, Korea, October 27, 2019.
• The 2nd Place, WIDER Pedestrian Detection Track, in WIDER Face and Person Challenge 2019 (in Conjunction with the ICCV 2019), Seoul, Korea, October 28, 2019.
• Outstanding Reviewer, the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2019), Long Beach, CA, USA, June 16-20, 2019.
• The Winner, CVPR 2017 Detection in Crowded Scenes Challenge (MOT17Det), Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, July 21-26, 2017.
• The 3rd Place, The International Challenge on Biometric Recognition in the Wild (ICB-RW, in Conjunction with the ICB 2016), Halmstad, Sweden, June 13-16, 2016.
• Best Student Paper Award (Advisor), The 11th Chinese Conference on Biometric Recognition (CCBR 2016), Chengdu, China, Oct. 14-16, 2016.
• Best Student Paper Award (Advisor), The 8th IAPR International Conference on Biometrics (ICB 2015), Phuket, Thailand, May 19-22, 2015.
• The 4th Place, The VOT2014 Benchmark (in Conjunction with the ECCV 2014), Zurich, Switzerland, September 6th, 2014.
• Best Reviewer Award, IAPR/IEEE International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB 2014), 29 September – 2 October 2014, Clearwater, Florida, USA.
• Great Contribution Award, face authentication system for Beijing 2008 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games
• First Prize of Best Paper Award, the 2nd IAPR/IEEE International Conference on Biometrics (ICB 2007, Seoul, Korea, August, 2007
• Best Student Paper Award, the 1st IAPR International Conference on Biometrics (ICB 2006), Hong Kong, January 2006

Professional Activities

Tutorials

• Person Re-Identification: Synthetic Data And Model Generalization, in IJCB 2022, October 10, 2022.
• Representation Learning for Pedestrian Re-identification, in ECCV2018, September 8, 2018. [slides]
• Person Re-identification: State of the Art and Future Trends, in ICPR2018, August 20, 2018. [slides]
• Research Progress in Person Re-identification, in CCCV2017, October 11, 2017. [slides]

Editor

• Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP)
• Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM)
• Guest Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Biometrics, Behavior, and Identity Science (T-BIOM)
• Assistant Editor, Encyclopedia of Biometrics, 2nd Edition, Springer, 2015

Program Chair

• IJCB 2022

Area Chair

• ICCV 2025, CVPR 2025, WACV 2025, NeurIPS 2024, ECCV 2024, WACV 2024, NeurIPS 2023, ICCV 2023, CVPR 2023, CVPR 2022, ICB 2018, ICPR 2016, ICB 2016, ELM 2014

Senior Program Committee

• IJCAI 2021

Program Committee

• ICCV 2011-2021, CVPR 2012-2021, ECCV 2012-2022
• NeurIPS 2020-2022, AAAI 2020-2024, ICLR 2022-2023, ICML 2023
• ICPR 2014-2022, AVSS 2015-2017, WACV 2013, BMVC 2017
• ICB, IJCB, BTAS