Jian ZHAO 赵健

Leader of Evolutionary Vision+x Oriented Learning (EVOL) Lab & Young Scientist @ Institute of AI (TeleAI), China Telecom, Beijing, P.R. China
Researcher @ School of Artificial Intelligence, Optics and Electronics (iOPEN) ｜ Northwestern Polytechnical University (NWPU), Xi'an Shanxi, P.R. China
Office: 11 Dongzhimen South Street, Dongcheng District, Beijing, China 100027
Phone: (86) 15313525501
Email: zhaoj90 (at) chinatelecom (dot) cn OR jian_zhao (at) nwpu (dot) edu (dot) cn OR zhaojian90 (at) u (dot) nus (dot) edu OR zhaoj08 (at) pcl (dot) ac (dot) cn
Prospective Students : Contact me.


Research Interests

My research interests include Multimedia Analytics, Vicinagearth Security, and Embodied AI. In particular, I have recently worked in:

  • Multimedia Analytics: detection and tracking of small objects in complex scenarios, etc.
  • Vicinagearth Security: perception and understanding of visual targets under unconstrained conditions, etc.
  • Embodied AI (AI for Social Good): AI agent for Beauty, Food, Home, Tour, Clip, etc.

More details can be found here.

News

  • [ ACTIVITY ]
    01 Dec 2024, Will organize the Resource-Limited Infrared Small Target Detection (LimitIRSTD) Challenge with ICPR 2024.
  • [ ACTIVITY ]
    18 Oct 2024, Will organize the Wide Infrared Small Target Detection (WideIRSTD) Challenge with PRCV 2024.
  • [ PAPER ]
    17 Apr 2024, One paper is accepted to IJCAI 2024, congrats to Jianqiang Xia!
  • [ ACTIVITY ]
    28 May 2024, Will organize the SkatingVerse Workshop & Challenge with FG 2024.
  • [ ACTIVITY ]
    14 Apr 2024, Will organize the LLM & AGI Workshop with CAIIAC 2024.
  • [ ACTIVITY ]
    10 Apr 2024, Will organize the VALSE Webinar on "Incomplete Multi-Modal Information Fusion for Perception and Understanding in Complex Scenarios".
  • [ ACTIVITY ]
    02 Apr 2024, officially interviewed by CSIG.
  • [ PAPER ]
    13 Mar 2024, One paper is accepted to ICME 2024, congrats to Ziliang Gan!
  • [ TEAM ]
    1 Mar 2024, I joined School of Artificial Intelligence, Optics and Electronics (iOPEN), Northwestern Polytechnical University (NWPU) as a Researcher.
  • [ PAPER ]
    27 Feb 2024, Two papers are accepted to CVPR 2024, congrats to Tao Wang and Chen Min!
  • [ TEAM ]
    26 Feb 2024, I joined China Telecom Institute of AI (TeleAI) as a Young Scientist.
  • [ PAPER ]
    17 Feb 2024, One paper is accepted to T-OMM, congrats to Zhihao Zhang!
  • [ AWARD ]
    25 Jan 2024, I received the 2023 CAAI WU WEN JUN AI Outstanding Youth Award!
  • [ PAPER ]
    23 Jan 2024, One paper is accepted to IJCV, congrats to Haoyu Xie!

Selected Honors & Awards

Academic Services & Activities

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 [Certificate]
  • Artificial Intelligence Advances [Certificate]
  • IET Computer Vision [Certificate]
    • Guest Editor
  • Pattern Recognition Letters special issue on Recent Advances in Deep Learning Model Security [WeChat News1 News2 News3]
  • Electronics special issue on Multimedia Content Analysis, Management and Retrieval: Trends and Challenges [CFP]
    • 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 [Official Notification]
    • 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 (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
    • Member
  • IEEE, CCF, CAAI, CSIG, CSIG-BVD, CSIG-MM, BSIG

    • 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 [BSIG News] [Synced News]
  • The 3rd Anti-UAV Workshop & Challenge with CVPR 2023 [Poster] [WeChat News1 News2] [ModelScope News] [CSDN News]
  • The 2ndAnti-UAV Workshop & Challenge with ICCV 2021
  • The "Knowledge and Semantic Hybrid Driven Visual Understanding" Workshop with VALSE 2021
  • The 1stAnti-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 [BSIG News]
  • The Wide Infrared Small Target Detection (WideIRSTD) Challenge with PRCV 2024 [BSIG News]
  • The LLM & AGI Workshop with CAIIAC 2024 [Official Summary]
  • 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 Activities

    • Officially interviewed by CSIG on 02 Apr 2024.
    • I was invited by Ningxia "Data from the East Computed by the West" Young Scientist Workshop on Artificial Intelligence Science and Technology Breakthroughs to deliver a talk "Towards Unconstrained Intelligent Perception and Deep Understanding on Images/Videos" on 28th Oct 2023.
    • I was invited by CAAI to deliver a talk "Towards Unconstrained Human-centric Intelligent Perception and Deep Understanding" on 29th Oct 2022.
    • I was invited by BSIG to deliver a talk "Towards Unconstrained Human-centric Intelligent Perception and Deep Understanding" on 9th Sep 2022.
    • I was invited by Tsinghua AIR Webinar to deliver a talk "Towards Unconstrained Image/Video Deep Understanding" on 19th Jul 2022.
    • I was invited by CSIG Webinar to deliver a talk "Towards Unconstrained Image/Video Deep Understanding" on 28th Jun 2022.
    • Officially interviewed by CSIG on 24 May 2022.
    • Officially interviewed by Beijing Association for Science and Technology, due to a series of contributions on "Unconstrained Image/Video Deep Understanding". [BAST Official Interview1 Interview2 Interview3]
    • Baidu PaddlePaddle officially merged face.evoLVe to better facilitate more cutting-edge researches and applications on facial analytics and human-centric multi-media understanding.
    • I have co-organized a VALSE Tutorial with Assoc. Prof. Xingxing Wei on the topic of "Deep Synthesis and Identification in Adversarial Environments" on 8th Sep 2021.
    • I have co-organized a VALSE Webinar with Dr. Wenguan Wang and Prof. Zheng Wang on the topic of "Human-Centric Vision Techniques" on 13th Jan 2021.
    • I was invited by Qihoo 360 to attend the "2020 Shanghai Digital Innovation Conference" on 5th Dec 2020 as a panel guest of "Opportunities and Challenges Brought by Artificial Intelligence to Cyberspace" session.
    • I have co-organized a VALSE Webinar with Prof. Chang Xu on the topic of "Visual Generation and Synthesis" on 23th Sep 2020.
    • I was invited by Jiang Men to attend the "将门ECCV 2020鲜声夺人云际会" on 30th Aug 2020 as a panel guest of "奔涌吧后浪：从PhD到助理教授身份转变" session.
    • I was invited by Prof. Jimin Xiao at Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Xi'an China to deliver a talk "Deep Learning for Human-Centric Image Analysis: From Face Recognition to Human Parsing" on 31st Jul 2020.
    • I have co-organized a VALSE Webinar with Prof. Shiguang Shan on the topic of "Face-based Human Understanding: beyond Face Recognition" on 25th Mar 2020.
    • I was invited by Prof. Congyan Lang at Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing China to deliver a talk "Deep Learning for Human-Centric Image Analysis: From Face Recognition to Human Parsing" on 24th Oct 2019.
    • I was invited by Dr. Jingtuo Liu at Baidu, Beijing China to deliver a talk "Deep Learning for Human-Centric Image Analysis: From Face Recognition to Human Parsing" on 5th Sep 2019.
    • I was invited by Prof. Ran He at Center for Research on Intelligent Perception and Computing, National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing China to deliver a talk "Deep Learning for Human-Centric Image Analysis: From Face Recognition to Human Parsing" on 29th Aug 2019.
    • I was invited by Huawei Noah's Ark Lab to deliver a talk "Understanding Humans in Visual Scenes" on 13th Jun 2019.
    • I was invited by Peng Cheng Laboratory (PCL) to attend the 2019 Overseas Young Scientist Workshop at Shenzhen China during 30th Mar 2019 to 1st Apr 2019 and deliver a talk "Deep Learning for Human-Centric Image Analysis: From Face Recognition to Human Parsing".
    • I delivered a spotlight talk "Understanding Humans in Crowded Scenes: Deep Nested Adversarial Learning and A New Benchmark for Multi-Human Parsing" on VALSE 2019.
    • I was invited by CoLab, School of Computer, Beihang University to deliver a talk "Deep Learning for Human-Centric Image Analysis: From Face Recognition to Human Parsing" on 23rd Mar 2019.
    • I was invited by Tencent Deep Sea AI Lab to deliver a talk "Margin-based Representation Learning, Residual Knowledge Distillation and Prior-Aided Super Resolution" on 1st Mar 2019.
    • I was invited by UBTECH to deliver a talk "Deep Learning for Human-Centric Image Understanding" on 8th Jan 2019.
    • I was invited by OmniVision to deliver a talk "Facial Analytics" on 16th Nov 2018.
    • I was invited by Jiang Men to deliver a talk "Deep Learning for Human-Centric Image Understanding" on 30th Aug 2018. [Poster] [Summary]
    • I was invited by VALSE Webinar to deliver a talk "Deep Learning for Human-Centric Image Understanding" on 22nd Aug 2018. [Summary]
    • I represented the Learning & Vision (LV) Group of NUS to "Launch of NUS new Vision, Mission and Values" at University Culture Center on 15th Aug 2018, and presented the recent achievements on Facial Analytics to NUS President Prof. Tan Eng Chye. [NUS Instagram] [NUS News] [Gallery]

    • Modified: 18 April 2024