Short Bio
Dr. Shengcai Liao is an Associate Professor and founding director of the Computer Vision Lab (CVLab) in the College of Information Technology (CIT) in UAEU. He is an IEEE Fellow and IAPR Fellow. He was a Principal Scientist in IIAI, G42 in UAE during 2018-2024, and an Associate Professor in Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CASIA) from 2014 to 2018. He received B.S. degree in mathematics from Sun Yat-sen University in 2005 and Ph.D. degree from CASIA in 2010. He was a Postdoc at Michigan State University during 2010-2012. He is interested in digital human, robotics, embodied AI, human-centric AI, and image and video generation. He has published 100+ papers, with over 23,000 citations and h-index 57. He ranks #905 among 215,114 world-wide AI scientists (Top 0.42%) in 2019 (by Stanford University). His representative work LOMO+XQDA for person re-identification has been cited over 2,600 times and ranks #11 in Most Influential CVPR Papers 2015. He was awarded Best Paper/Best Student Paper in ICB 2006/2007/2015, and CCBR 2016, Best/Outstanding Reviewer in IJCB 2014, CVPR 2019/2021, Great Contribution Award for Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, Second-Class Award of the China State Science and Technology Progress Award 2019, and Winner of CVPR 2017 Detection in Crowded Scenes Challenge and ICCV 2019 NightOwls Pedestrian Detection Challenge. He served as an Assistant Editor for “Encyclopedia of Biometrics, 2nd Ed.”, Guest Associate Editor for IEEE T-BIOM, and Associate Editor for IEEE TPAMI, TIP and TMM. He served as Program Chair for IJCB 2022 and ICIG 2025, and Area Chair for CVPR 2022/2023/2025, ICCV 2023/2025, ICML 2025-2026, NeurIPS 2023-2026, AAAI 2026, ECCV 2024, and WACV 2024/2025.
News
- 09/2025, Looking for Spring and Fall 2026 PhD (Full PhD Fellowship) and master students with strong passion and curiosity in multimodal LLM, image and video generation, embodied AI, and digital humans!
- 08/2025, I established a new Computer Vision Lab (CVLab) in UAEU. Welcome to join!
- 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.
- 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
Generative AI: Personalized Image/Video Generation, Digital Human, Multimodal LLM
Robotics: Embodied AI, Humanoid/Social Robots, Human-Robot Interaction
Human-Centric AI: Face/Person Detection/Recognition/Analysis/Tracking, Biometrics, Video Analysis, Similarity/Metric Learning
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
Courses
- CENG202: Discrete Mathematics, CIT, UAEU. Sections: Fall 2024 (2), Summer 2025 (1), Spring 2026 (1).
- CENG580: Selected Topics in Computer Engineering (Deep Learning for Computer Vision), CIT, UAEU. Sections: Spring 2025 (2), Fall 2025 (1).
- ITPG698: Special Topics in IT (LLMs and Multimodal Generative AI, Master), CIT, UAEU. Sections: Fall 2025 (1).
- CENG655: Special Topics in Comp. & IoT (Computer Vision for IoT, Master), CIT, UAEU. Sections: Spring 2026 (1).
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 Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI)
- 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
Area Chair
- AAAI 2026, ICML 2026, ICML 2025, NeurIPS 2026, NeurIPS 2025, 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
