Research Interests
Qi Liu is currently a Professor with the School of Future Technology at South China University of Technology. Dr. Liu received a Ph.D degree in Electrical Engineering from City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China, in 2019. During 2018 - 2019, he was a Visiting Scholar at the University of California Davis, CA, USA. From 2019 to 2022, he worked as a Research Fellow in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore. His research interests mainly focus on multimodal perception, reconstruction, and generation, including target estimation, sparse perception, 3D scene reconstruction/rendering/generation/editing, music generation and editing, human-object interaction, etc. Dr. Liu has published over 50 papers in peer-reviewed journals and conferences, including IEEE TFS、TCYB、TCSVT、IoT-J、NeurIPS、ICCV、ACL、CVPR、AAAI, etc., and has been an Associate Editor of the IEEE Systems Journal (2022-), and Digital Signal Processing (2022-). He was also Guest Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, IET Signal Processing, etc. He received the Best Paper Award from IEEE ICSIDP in 2019 and ICCBD+AI in 2024. Please refer to our lab website: https://drliuqi.github.io/.
Contact email: drliuqi@scut.edu.cn
Education
Ph.D degree: Aug. 2016 - Oct. 2019
Department of Electrical Engineering, City University of Hong Kong (CityU), Hong Kong, China
Supervisor: Prof. Hing Cheung So
M.S degree: Sept. 2013 - Mar. 2016
College of Automation, Harbin Engineering University (HEU), Harbin, China
Supervisor: Prof. Wei Wang
B.E degree: Sept. 2009 - Jul. 2013
College of Automation, Harbin Engineering University (HEU), Harbin, China
Work Experience
Professor: Mar. 2022 - now, School of Future Technology, South China University of Technology (SCUT), Guangzhou, China
Research Fellow: Oct. 2019 - Mar. 2022, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore, Supervisor: Prof. Haizhou Li
Visiting Scholar: Oct. 2018 - Apr. 2019, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California Davis (UCD), CA, USA, Supervisor: Prof. Zhi Ding
Selected Publications
[1] Yuxiao Wang, Yu Lei, Zhenao Wei, Weiying Xue, Xinyu Jiang, Nan Zhuang, Qi Liu*. Prompt Guidance and Human Proximal Perception for HOT Prediction with Regional Joint Loss, ICCV, 2025.
[2] Jingfeng Guo, Jian Liu, Jinnan Chen*, Shiwei Mao, Changrong Hu, Puhua Jiang, Junlin Yu, Jing Xu, Qi Liu*, Lixin Xu, Zhuo Chen, Chunchao Guo. Auto-Connect: Connectivity-Preserving RigFormer with Direct Preference Optimization, NeurIPS, 2025.
[3] Xiaohan Zhang, Zhenyu Sun, Yukui Qiu, Junyan Su, Qi Liu*. Toy-GS: Assembling Local Gaussians for Precisely Rendering Large-Scale Free Camera Trajectories, AAAI, 2025.
[4] Nan Zhuang, Boyu Cao, Yi Yang, Jing Xu, Mingda Xu, Yuxiao Wang, Qi Liu*. LLM Agents Can be Choice-supportive Biased Evaluators: An Empirical Study, AAAI, 2025.
[5] Yuxiao Wang, Qi Liu*, Yu Lei. TED-Net: Dispersal Attention for Perceiving Interaction Region in Indirectly-Contact HOI Detection, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, 34(7), 2024.
