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Jian Zhao, Researcher
 

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Jian Zhao, Researcher

Talent Title: Young Elite Scientist Sponsorship Program, Beijing Association for Science and Technology (2020, Back from NUS in 2019); Young Elite Scientist Sponsorship Program, China Association for Science and Technology (2021); WU WEN JUN AI Outstanding Youth Award, Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence (2023)

Academic Homepage: [EVOL Lab] | [Github] | [Google Scholar]

Research interests: Multimedia Analytics, Vicinagearth Security, and Embodied AI

Postal Address:
127 West Youyi Road, 64#,
Xi'an Shanxi,
P. R. China

Postal Code: 710072

E-mail Address: jian_zhao AT nwpu.edu.cn

 

Education Experience

  • Ph.D. 2016.01-2019.04, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), Faculty of Engineering (FOE) | National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore, Major: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Vision, Supervisor: Jiashi Feng and Shuicheng Yan

  • M.E. 2012.09-2014.12, School of Computer | National University of Defense Technology (NUDT), Changsha Hunan, P.R. China, Major: Computer Science and Techology, Supervisor: Xucan Chen

  • B.E. 2008.09-2012.07: School of Automation Science and Electrical Engineering | Beihang University (BUAA), Beijing, P.R. China, Major: Automatic Control and Information Technology, Supervisor: Shaopeng Dong and Mei Yuan

 

Work Experience

  • 2024.02-Now: Leader/Young Scientist/Researcher | Evolutionary Vision+x Oriented Learning (EVOL) Lab, Institute of AI (TeleAI), China Telecom, Beijing, P. R. China

  • 2024.03-Now: Researcher | School of Artificial Intelligence, Optics and Electronics (iOPEN) | Northwestern Polytechnical University (NWPU), Xi'an Shanxi, P.R. China

  • 2022.06-2023.12: Visiting Scholar | Peng Cheng Laboratory, Shenzhen Guangdong, P.R. China

  • 2019.01-2020.12: Rhino-Bird Visiting Scholar | Tencent AI Lab, Shenzhen Guangdong, P.R. China

  • 2019.07-2024.01: Assistant Researcher | Academy of Military Sciences (AMS), Beijing, P.R. China

  • 2018.12-2019.04: "Texpert" Research Scientist | FiT DeepSea AI Lab, Tencent, Shenzhen Guangdong, P.R. China

  • 2016.05-2018.09: Research Intern | Core Technology Group, Learning & Vision, Panasonic R&D Center, Singapore

  • 2016.06-2017.12: Graduate Assistant | National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore

 

Academic Awards

  • 2023, WU WEN JUN AI Outstanding Youth Award, Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence (CAAI)

  • 2023, Outstanding Contribution Award, the 3rd Anti-UAV Workshop & Challenge with CVPR (CCF-A) 2023

  • 2022, 1st Prize Award (2/5), WU WEN JUN AI Natural Science Award, Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence (CAAI)

  • 2022, 1st-Place Award (Advisor), Huawei Special Award, the "Huawei Cup" 4th China Graduate Artificial Intelligence Innovation Challenge

  • 2021, 1st-Place Award (Advisor), Masked Face Recognition Challenge (WebFace260M Track) with ICCV (CCF-A) 2021

  • 2020, A-Level Certificate (Advisor), China Artificial Intelligence Competition (Activity Recognition Track)

  • 2019, Lee Hwee Kuan Award (1/6), Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence Association (PREMIA), Singapore

  • 2018, Best Student Paper Award (1/6), ACM MM (CCF-A) 2018

  • 2017, 1st-Place Award (3/9), MS-Celeb-1M Face Recognition Challenge (Recognizing One Million Celebrities Track) with ICCV (CCF-A) 2017

  • 2017, 1st-Place Award (1/7), MS-Celeb-1M Face Recognition Challenge (Low-Shot Learning Track) with ICCV (CCF-A) 2017

  • 2017, 1st-Place Award (1/10), National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) IJB-A Unconstrained Face Recognition Challenge (Verification Track)

  • 2017, 1st-Place Award (1/10), National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) IJB-A Unconstrained Face Recognition Challenge (Identification Track)

  • 2017, 2nd-Place Award (1/6), Look into Person (L.I.P) Challenge (Human Parsing Track) with CVPR (CCF-A) 2017.

  • 2017, 2nd-Place Award (2/6), Look into Person (L.I.P) Challenge (Human Pose Estimation Track) with CVPR (CCF-A) 2017.

  • 2016, 3rd-Place Award (2/8), MS-Celeb-1M Face Recognition Challenge (Hard Set Track) with ACM MM (CCF-A) 2016

 

Academic Services

    Member of the Board of Directors

  • Beijing Society of Image and Graphics (BSIG)

    • Editorial Board Member

  • Editorial Board Member of Electronics and Signal Processing

  • Artificial Intelligence Advances

  • IET Computer Vision

    • Guest Editor

  • Pattern Recognition Letters special issue on Recent Advances in Deep Learning Model Security

  • Electronics special issue on Multimedia Content Analysis, Management and Retrieval: Trends and Challenges

    • Senior Area Chair

  • Vision and Learning Seminar (VALSE)

    • Session Chair

  • ACM MM 2021

  • ECCV 2020 China Pre-Conference

    • Area Chair

  • The Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence (CAAI) International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (CICAI) 2023

  • The Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence (CAAI) International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (CICAI) 2022

    • Presentation Chair

  • The Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence (CAAI) International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (CICAI) 2021

    • Workshop Chair

  • The Chinese Conference on Biometric Recognition (CCBR) 2024

    • Member of Expert Arbitration

  • The "Challenge Cup" National Undergraduate Curricular Academic Science and Technology Works by Race

  • China Artificial Intelligence Competition

    • Senior Member

  • Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence (CAAI)

  • China Society of Image and Graphics (CSIG)

    • Technical Consultant

  • Synced (2022-Now)

  • Baidu Institute of AI (2020-2022)

  • OPPO Institute (2021-2022)

  • PENSEES Institute (2020-2021)

    • Committee Member

  • Technical Committee on Computer Vision, China Computer Federation (CCF-CV)

  • Technical Committee on Big Visual Data, China Society of Image and Graphics (CSIG-BVD)

    • Developer Expert

  • PaddlePaddle, Baidu

    • Invited Reviewer

    Journal:

  • T-PAMI, IJCV, T-MM, T-IFS, T-CSVT, Neurocomputing, T-CDS, T-AFFC, T-HMS, KNOSYS, IET Computer Vision, CSSP, JVCI, GVC, IMAVIS, ESWA, INFFUS, CVIU, ITS

    • Conference:

  • NeurIPS (one of the top 30% highest-scoring reviewers of NeurIPS 2018), CVPR, ICCV, ACM MM, AAAI, ICLR, ICML, ICME, ACCV, UAI, FG, CICAI, ICASSP

    • Chair

  • The 1st SkatingVerse Workshop & Challenge with FG 2024

  • The 3rd Anti-UAV Workshop & Challenge with CVPR 2023

  • The 2nd Anti-UAV Workshop & Challenge with ICCV 2021

  • The "Knowledge and Semantic Hybrid Driven Visual Understanding" Workshop with VALSE 2021

  • The 1st Anti-UAV Workshop & Challenge with CVPR 2020

  • The Challenge on Unconstrained Face Recognition, Suspicious Object Recognition, and Special Behavior Recognition

    • Co-Chair

  • The Resource-Limited Infrared Small Target Detection (LimitIRSTD) Challenge with ICPR 2024

  • The Wide Infrared Small Target Detection (WideIRSTD) Challenge with PRCV 2024

  • The LLM & AGI Workshop with CAIIAC 2024

  • The Visual Target Perception: Present and Future Workshop with CAIIAM 2023

  • The Explainable Deep Learning Algorithms and Vision Applications Workshop with VALSE 2022

  • The Knowledge and Semantics Driven Visual Understanding Workshop with VALSE 2021

  • The RLQ-TOD Workshop and Challenge with ECCV 2020

  • The L.I.P Workshop and MHP Challenge with CVPR 2018

 

Academic Achievements

    [Google Scholar][Publication List]

    *: Corresponding Author, the research works by advising postdocs/students/interns; †: Equal Contribution.

  • Towards Age-Invariant Face Recognition. Jian Zhao*, Shuicheng Yan, Jiashi Feng. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (T-PAMI), 2020.

  • 3D-Aided Dual-Agent GANs for Unconstrained Face Recognition. Jian Zhao*, Lin Xiong, Jianshu Li, Junliang Xing, Shuicheng Yan, Jiashi Feng. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (T-PAMI), 2018.

  • Anti-UAV410: A Thermal Infrared Benchmark and Customized Scheme for Tracking Drones in the Wild. Bo Huang, Jianan Li*, Junjie Chen, Gang Wang*, Jian Zhao*, Tingfa Xu. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (T-PAMI), 2023.

  • Recognizing Profile Faces by Imagining Frontal View. Jian Zhao*, Junliang Xing, Lin Xiong, Shuicheng Yan, Jiashi Feng. International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), 2019.

  • Fine-Grained Multi-Human Parsing. Jian Zhao*, Jianshu Li, Hengzhu Liu, Shuicheng Yan, Jiashi Feng. International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), 2019.

  • PRCL: Probabilistic Representation Contrastive Learning for Semi-Supervised Semantic Segmentation. Haoyu Xie†, Changqi Wang†, Jian Zhao†*, Yang Liu, Jun Dan, Chong Fu, Baigui Sun*. International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), 2024.

  • Multi-Prototype Networks for Unconstrained Set-based Face Recognition. Jian Zhao*, Jianshu Li, Xiaoguang Tu, Fang Zhao, Yuan Xin, Junliang Xing, Hengzhu Liu, Shuicheng Yan, Jiashi Feng. International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2019 (Oral).

  • Look Across Elapse: Disentangled Representation Learning and Photorealistic Cross-Age Face Synthesis for Age-Invariant Face Recognition. Jian Zhao*, Yu Cheng, Yi Cheng, Yang Yang, Haochong Lan, Fang Zhao, Lin Xiong, Yan Xu, Jianshu Li, Sugiri Pranata, Shengmei Shen, Junliang Xing, Hengzhu Liu, Shuicheng Yan, Jiashi Feng.AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2019 (Oral).

  • Multi-Prototype Networks for Unconstrained Set-based Face Recognition. Jian Zhao*, Jianshu Li, Xiaoguang Tu, Fang Zhao, Yuan Xin, Junliang Xing, Hengzhu Liu, Shuicheng Yan, Jiashi Feng. International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2019 (Oral).

  • Understanding Humans in Crowded Scenes: Deep Nested Adversarial Learning and A New Benchmark for Multi-Human Parsing. Jian Zhao†*, Jianshu Li†, Yu Cheng†, Li Zhou, Terence Sim, Shuicheng Yan, Jiashi Feng. ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM), 2018 (Best Student Paper).

  • Single-stage Multi-human Parsing via Point Sets and Center-based Offsets. Jiaming Chu, Lei Jin*, Junliang Xing, Jian Zhao*. ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM), 2023.

  • DecenterNet: Bottom-Up Human Pose Estimation Via Decentralized Pose Representation. Tao Wang, Lei Jin*, Zhang Wang, Xiaojin Fan, Yu Cheng, Yinglei Teng, Junliang Xing, and Jian Zhao*. ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM), 2023.

  • Towards Pose Invariant Face Recognition in the Wild. Jian Zhao*, Yu Cheng, Yan Xu, Lin Xiong, Jianshu Li, Fang Zhao, Karlekar Jayashree, Sugiri Pranata, Shengmei Shen, Junliang Xing, Shuicheng Yan, Jiashi Feng. IEEE/CVF Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR), 2018.

  • MSINet: Twins Contrastive Search of Multi-Scale Interaction for Object ReID. Jianyang Gu, Kai Wang, Hao Luo, Chen Chen, Wei Jiang*, Yuqiang Fang, Shanghang Zhang, Yang You, Jian Zhao*. IEEE/CVF Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR), 2023.

  • Single-Stage is Enough: Multi-Person Absolute 3D Pose Estimation. Lei Jin, Chenyang Xu, Xiaojuan Wang, Yabo Xiao, Yandong Guo, Xuecheng Nie, Jian Zhao*. IEEE/CVF Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR), 2022.

  • 3D-Aided Deep Pose-Invariant Face Recognition. Jian Zhao†*, Lin Xiong†, Yu Cheng†, Yi Cheng, Jianshu Li, Li Zhou, Yan Xu, Karlekar Jayashree, Sugiri Pranata, Shengmei Shen, Junliang Xing, Shuicheng Yan, Jiashi Feng. International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2018 (Oral).

  • Dual-Agent GANs for Photorealistic and Identity Preserving Profile Face Synthesis. Jian Zhao*, Lin Xiong, Karlekar Jayashree, Jianshu Li, Fang Zhao, Zhecan Wang, Sugiri Pranata, Shengmei Shen, Shuicheng Yan, Jiashi Feng. Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2017.

  • Marginalized CNN: Learning Deep Invariant Representations. Jian Zhao*, Jianshu Li, Fang Zhao, Shuicheng Yan, Jiashi Feng. British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), 2017.

  • Multi-Human Parsing With a Graph-based Generative Adversarial Model. Jianshu Li†, Jian Zhao†*, Congyan Lang, Yidong Li, Yunchao Wei, Gudong Guo, Terence Sim, Shuicheng Yan, Jiashi Feng. ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (T-OMM), 2020.

  • Dynamic Conditional Networks for Few-Shot Learning. Fang Zhao†, Jian Zhao†*, Shuicheng Yan, Jiashi Feng. European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2018.

  • Face.evoLVe: A High-Performance Face Recognition Library. Qingzhong Wang, Pengfei Zhang, Haoyi Xiong*, Jian Zhao*. Neurocomputing, 2021.

  • Anti-UAV: A Large Multi-Modal Benchmark for UAV Tracking. Nan Jiang, Kuiran Wang, Xiaoke Peng, Xuehui Yu, Qiang Wang, Junliang Xing, Guorong Li, Jian Zhao*, Zhenjun Han* IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (T-MM), 2021.

  • Zhao Jian, et al. An Auxiliary System for Countering Low, Slow, and Small UAVs. 2021. (National Invention Patent ZL202010593318.0)

  • Zhao Jian, et al. A Real-Time Automatic Detection and Recognition Method for UAV Signals. 2022. (National Invention Patent ZL202110487167.5)

  • Zhao Jian, et al. A Bilateral Flow Semantic Consistency Method for Tracking UAVs. 2022. (National Invention Patent ZL202110437098.7)

  • Zhao Jian, et al. A Siamese Network Object Tracking Method Based on Contrastive Learning. 2022. (National Invention Patent ZL202110442621.5)

  • Zhao Jian, et al. A Object Tracking Method Based on Attention Transform Network. 2022. (National Invention Patent ZL202110453474.1)

 

Additional Information

  • Our team is always open to young scientists, visiting scholars, interns, and jointly-supervised Ph.D. and Master students. Interested candidates are welcome to contact jian_zhao AT nwpu.edu.cn, and work with us to promote frontier exploration and application innovation, provide new quality productive forces for "intelligence +" scenarios, and take steps towards the vision of "Empower AI + Everything".

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