Personal Profile
Qing Chunmei received her Ph.D. in Electronic Imaging and Media Communications from the University of Bradford, UK, and completed her postdoctoral research at the University of Lincoln, UK. She has been a visiting scholar at Microsoft Research Cambridge and the University of Strathclyde, UK. She currently serves as a committee member of the Affective Computing Technical Committee of the China Society of Image and Graphics (CSIG) and as Secretary of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society (CASS) Guangzhou Chapter.
Her research interests include brain-inspired visual enhancement and perception, multimodal affective computing, and intelligent human-computer interaction. She has led eight research projects, including General Programs and Youth Programs of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), Key Science and Technology Special Projects of Guangdong Province, and Guangdong Provincial Natural Science Foundation projects. She has also participated in multiple international and national projects, such as those funded by the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), the European Union Framework Programme 6 (FP6), and the National Key R&D Program of the Ministry of Science and Technology of China. She has published over 50 peer-reviewed papers in relevant fields and filed more than 20 invention patents.
Education Background
2006.10-2009.12: School of Informatics, University of Bradford, UK, Ph.D.
2003.09-2006.09: School of Mathematics and Computational Science, Sun Yat-sen University, Combined Master's-Ph.D. Program
1999.09-2003.06: School of Mathematics and Computational Science, Sun Yat-sen University, Bachelor's Degree
Work Experience
2013.03-Present: South China University of Technology, Associate Professor
2017.07-2018.07: Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Strathclyde, UK, Visiting Scholar
2011.09-2013.01: School of Engineering, University of Lincoln, UK, Part-time Research Assistant
2011.03-2011.05: Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK, Visiting Scholar
2010.02-2011.07: School of Computer Science, University of Lincoln, UK, Postdoctoral Researcher
Research Projects
2022.1-2024.12: Multimodal Affective Computing Based on Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy, General Program of Guangdong Provincial Natural Science Foundation, RMB 100,000, Principal Investigator
2020.1-2023.12: Research on Image Emotional Style Transfer in VR Environments, General Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, RMB 610,000, Principal Investigator
2015.1-2017.12: High-Precision Spatial Localization for Underwater Mobile Vision in Unstructured Nuclear Environments, Youth Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, RMB 270,000, Principal Investigator
2014.11-2016.12: Core Technology Development and Industrialization of Smart Wearable Devices for Bidirectional Intelligent Interaction, Frontier and Key Technology Innovation Special Project (Major Science and Technology Special Project) of Guangdong Province, RMB 3,000,000, Principal Investigator
Courses Taught
Introduction to Engineering Practice I (taught entirely in English), Undergraduate Major Compulsory Course
Digital Systems Design and Course Project for Digital Systems Design (taught entirely in English), Undergraduate Major Compulsory Courses
Comprehensive Design of Electronic Systems and Course Project for Comprehensive Design of Electronic Systems, Undergraduate Major Compulsory Courses
Flagship Achievements
[1]Chunmei Qing, Huansheng Zhu, Xiaofen Xing*, Dongwen Chen, Jianxiu Jin,Attentive and context-aware deep network for saliency prediction on omni-directional images, Digital Signal Processing, Volume 120, 2022, 103289
[2]Canqiang Chen, Chunmei Qing*, Xiangmin Xu, Patrick Dickson, Cross Parallax Attention Network for Stereo Image Super-Resolution, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 10.1109/TMM.2021.3050092
[3]Tong Zhang, Guoxi Su, Chunmei Qing, Xiangmin Xu, Bolun Cai, Xiaofen Xing: Hierarchical Lifelong Learning by Sharing Representations and Integrating Hypothesis. IEEE Trans. Syst. Man Cybern. Syst. 51(2): 1004-1014 (2021)
[4]Haochun Ou, Chunmei Qing*, Xiangmin Xu, Jianxiu Jin, ”Multi-Level Context Pyramid Network for Visual Sentiment Analysis,” Sensors 21(6): 2136 (2021)
[5]Dongwen Chen, Chunmei Qing*, Xiangmin Xu. SalBiNet360: Saliency Prediction on 360°Image with Local-Global Bifurcated Deep Network. the 27th IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces, Atlanta, 2020, March 22-26.
[6]Chunmei Qing, Rui Qiao, Xiangmin Xu, Yongqiang Cheng: Interpretable Emotion Recognition Using EEG Signals. IEEE Access 7: 94160-94170 (2019)
[7]Chunmei Qing, Jiawei Ruan, Xiangmin Xu, Jinchang Ren, Jaime Zabalza: Spatial-spectral classification of hyperspectral images: a deep learning framework with Markov Random fields based modelling. IET Image Processing 13(2): 235-245 (2019)
[8]Suo Qiu, Feiping Nie, Xiangmin Xu, Chunmei Qing, Dong Xu:Accelerating Flexible Manifold Embedding for Scalable Semi-Supervised Learning. IEEE Trans. Circuits Syst. Video Techn. 29(9): 2786-2795 (2019)
[9]Weizhao Chen, Zhijing Yang, Faxian Cao, Yijun Yan, Meilin Wang, Chunmei Qing, Yongqiang Cheng: Dimensionality reduction based on determinantal point process and singular spectrum analysis for hyperspectral images. IET Image Processing 13(2): 299-306 (2019)
[10]Jaime Zabalza, Chunmei Qing*, Peter Yuen, Genyun Sun, Huimin Zhao, Jinchang Ren: Fast implementation of two-dimensional singular spectrum analysis for effective data classification in hyperspectral imaging. J. Franklin Institute 355(4): 1733-1751 (2018).
[11] Qing Chunmei, Huang Rong, Xu Xiangmin; Panoramic Image Emotion Recognition Method and System Based on Multi-View Subregion Adaptation, Chinese Patent Application No. 202110816786.4
[12] Cen Jinglun, Li Zhipeng, Qing Chunmei, Luo Wanxiang; Audio-Visual Multimodal Emotion Classification Method and System, Chinese Patent Application No. 202110646620.2
[13] Qing Chunmei, Huang Maochun, Xu Xiangmin; Emotion Recognition Method, System, and Storage Medium Based on a Two-Stream Graph Convolutional Network Architecture, Chinese Patent Application No. 202011193601.0
[14] Chen Dongwen, Qing Chunmei, Xu Xiangmin; Panoramic Image Visual Saliency Detection Method Based on Graph Convolutional Neural Networks, Chinese Patent Application No. 202011335092.0
[15] Qing Chunmei, Jin Shan, Xu Xiangmin, Xing Xiaofen; Corrected Real-Time Emotion Recognition Method and System Based on Eye-Tracking Data, Chinese Patent Application No. 202010101839.X
[16] Qing Chunmei, Ou Haochun; Emotion Transfer System Based on Real-Scene Emotional Expression, Chinese Patent Application No. 201910159043.7 (Granted)
[17] Qing Chunmei, Chen Canqiang; Method and System for Autonomous Multi-Emotion Image Transformation, Chinese Patent Application No. 201910029893.5
[18] Qing Chunmei, Wu Tao, Chang Zhigang, Jia Qinglin, Gao Wenguan; Child Self-Monitoring System Based on Abnormal Speech Recognition Technology, Chinese Patent No. ZL 201510542402.9 (Granted)
[19] Qing Chunmei, Su Linda, Chen Junyu, Zhang Qingrui, Peng Jianhao, Zhang Xinxin; Classroom Monitoring Method Based on Intelligent Video Processing Technology, Chinese Patent No. ZL 201510970928.7 (Granted)
[20] Qing Chunmei, Huang Tao, Yuan Shucong, Xu Xiangmin; Kinect Depth Reconstruction Algorithm Based on Camera Motion and Image Brightness/Darkness, Chinese Patent Application No. 2016110613646 (Granted)
