Personal Profile
Dr. Xu Xuemiao, currently Professor and Doctoral Supervisor at South China University of Technology, Vice Dean of Jun De College at the Guangzhou International Campus of South China University of Technology. Key research personnel at the State Key Laboratory of Subtropical Building Science-Smart City Research Direction in the Greater Bay Area, the Ministry of Education's Joint Laboratory for Big Data and Robot Intelligence in Hong Kong, Macau, and Guangdong, and the Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Computational Intelligence and Network Space Information. Member of multiple specialized committees including the China Computer Federation's Computer Vision Committee, the Chinese Society of Image and Graphics' Multimedia Intelligence Committee, and the Chinese Society of Graphonomics' Big Data in Graphonomics Committee.
Dr. Xu has published over 60 research papers in internationally important journals and conferences in the fields of artificial intelligence, computer vision, and graphics, including 42 SCI-indexed papers (1 ESI Highly Cited Paper, 18 JCR Q1 papers), 9 top-tier conference papers, 20 pending invention patents, and 9 granted patents; she has led 2 National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) projects and 6 Guangdong Provincial Major Special Projects, achieving over 8 billion RMB in industrialization value, and received the 2021 Guangdong Provincial Science and Technology Progress Award (Second Prize) (First Completed Person) and the China Highway and Transportation Society Science and Technology Award (Second Prize). She has led graduate teams to win two national championships in the 'Digital Human' AI Challenge and Visual Challenge hosted by Alibaba Cloud, the national championship in the Smart Inventory category of the Digital China Innovation Competition, and the national third place in the Pedestrian Re-identification track of the National Artificial Intelligence Competition.
Education Background
2005.09-2009.08, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, PhD
2002.09-2005.07, South China University of Technology, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Master's Degree
1998.09-2002.07, South China University of Technology, Department of Optoelectronic Information and Applications, Bachelor's Degree
Work Experience
2021.05-Present, South China University of Technology, Vice Dean of Jun De College at the Guangzhou International Campus
2019.05-2021.05, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou International Campus, Deputy Party Secretary (on secondment)
2015.09-Present, South China University of Technology, Professor
2010.11-2015.09, South China University of Technology, Associate Professor
2014.08-2014.09, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Visiting Scholar
2012.07-2012.09, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Visiting Scholar
2009.09-2010.09, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Research Projects
Principal Investigator / Co-Investigator for 12 National and Provincial-Level Projects
1.Guangdong Provincial Key-Area R&D Program, 'Key Technologies for Human-Machine Interactive Precision Surgical Planning and Real-Time Guidance Software', Project No.: 2020B010165004, Duration: Oct. 1, 2019 - Sept. 30, 2022, Funding: RMB 20 million, Sub-project Leader, Ongoing
2.Guangdong Provincial Key-Area R&D Program, 'Research and Demonstration of Smart Highway Systems Based on Cloud-Network-Edge-End Architecture', Project No.: 2020B010166003, Duration: Oct. 1, 2019-Sept. 30, 2022, Funding: RMB 8 million, Sub-project Leader, Ongoing
3.Guangdong Provincial Key-Area R&D Program, 'Development and Industrial Application of AI Chips for 3D Visual Perception', Project No.: 2018B010107003, Duration: Oct. 1, 2018-Sept. 30, 2021, Funding: RMB 10 million, Sub-project Principal Investigator, Ongoing
4.National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) General Program, 'Intelligent Analysis of Surveillance Visual Data Based on Machine Vision', Project No.: 61772206, Duration: Jan. 1, 2018-Dec. 31, 2021, Funding: RMB 600,000, Principal Investigator, Completed
5.Guangdong Natural Science Foundation-Key Project, 'Research on Intelligent Analysis Methods for Traffic Visual Big Data Based on Spatiotemporal Correlation Deep Learning', Project No.: 2017A030311027, Duration: May 1, 2017-May 1, 2020, Funding: RMB 500,000, Principal Investigator, Completed
6.Guangdong High-Level Talent Special Support Program-Young Top-Notch Talent in Scientific Innovation, Project No.: 2016TQ03X319, Duration: June 1, 2017 -May 31, 2020, Funding: RMB 300,000, Principal Investigator, Completed
7.Guangdong Applied Science and Technology Research & Development Fund, 'Development and Demonstration of an Intelligent Highway Monitoring Platform Based on Vision Technology', Project No.: 2016B010124011, Duration: Mar. 1, 2016-Jan. 1, 2019, Funding: RMB 3 million, Sub-project Leader, Completed
8.Guangdong Major Talent Program-Capacity Building for Scientific and Technological Platforms, 'Cloud-Based Incubation Service Platform for High-Level Talents' Innovation and Entrepreneurship Using Big Data Analytics', Project No.: 2015A070711001, Duration: Apr. 30, 2015-Apr. 30, 2018, Funding: RMB 3 million, Sub-project Leader, Completed
9.Guangdong-Hong Kong Key Area Breakthrough Project, 'Real-Time Traffic Information Services Based on Floating Car Data and Traffic Video Analysis', Project No.: 2011A011305004, Duration: Dec. 31, 2011-Dec. 31, 2013, Funding: RMB 1 million, Sub-project Leader, Completed
10.Guangzhou Pearl River S&T New Star Program, 'Research and Application of Key Technologies for Digital Animation', Project No.: 2011J2200087, Duration: Nov. 1, 2011-Oct. 1, 2014, Funding: RMB 300,000, Principal Investigator, Completed
11.Guangzhou Major Industry Technology Key Research and Development Program, 'Intelligent Monitoring and Risk Prevention for Coastal Vessels Based on Multi-Source Heterogeneous Data Fusion', Project No.: 201802010027, Duration: Oct. 1, 2017-Sept. 30, 2020, Funding: RMB 4 million, Sub-project Leader, Completed
12.National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)-Youth Program, 'Structure-Based Automatic Generation of ASCII Art Animation', Project No.: 61103120, Duration: Jan. 1, 2012-Dec. 31, 2014, Funding: RMB 250,000, Principal Investigator, Completed
Flagship Achievements
Selected Papers in SCI Q1 Journals and Top-Tier Conferences
1.Jingjing Ren, QingqingZheng, Yuanyuan Zhao, Xuemiao Xu*, Chen Li, DLFormer:Discrete Latent Transformer for Video Inpainting, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Accepted, 2022.
2.Jingjing Ren, Xiaowei Hu, Lei Zhu, Xuemiao Xu*, Yangyang Xu, Weiming Wang, Zijun Deng, and Pheng-Ann Heng, Deep Texture-aware Features for Camouflaged Object Detection IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video( TCSVT),2021.
3.Yangyang Xu, Yong Du, Wenpeng Xiao, Xuemiao Xu*and Shengfeng He*, From Continuity to Editability: Inverting GANs with Consecutive Images, IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2021.
4.Yangyang Xu, Xuemiao Xu*, Jianbo Jiao, Keke Li, Cheng Xu and Shengfeng He*, Multi-view Face Synthesis via Progressive Face Flow, IEEE Transaction on Image Processing(TIP), 2021.
5.Chao Ye, Huaidong Zhang,Xuemiao Xu*,Weiwei Cai, Jing Qin, Kup-Sze Choi, Object Detection in Densely Packed Scenes via Semi-Supervised Learning with Dual Consistency, International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI),2021
6.Xudong Yan, Huaidong Zhang, Xuemiao Xu*, Xiaowei Hu, Pheng-Ann Heng, Learning Semantic Context from Normal Samples for Unsupervised Anomaly Detection, Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2021
7.Lei Zhu, Zijun Deng, Xiaowei Hu, Haoran Xie, Xuemiao Xu*, Jing Qin, and Pheng-Ann Heng, Learning Gated Non-local Residual for Single-image Rain Streak Removal. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology(TCSVT). 2020.
8.Yangyang Xu, Xuemiao Xu*, Chu Han, Guoqiang Han, and Shengfeng He, Transductive Zero-shot Action Recognition via Visually-connected Graph Convolutional Networks, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems(TNNLS),2020.
9.Xuemiao Xu, Jiaxing Chen, Huaidong Zhang, Wing W. Y. Ng, D4Net: De-Deformation Defect Detection Network for Non-Rigid Products with Large Patterns, Information Science, 2020.
10.Xu, Xuemiao; Yu, Tianfei; Hu, Xiaowei; Ng, Wing; Heng, Pheng-Ann, SALMNet: A Structure-Aware Lane Marking Detection Network, IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Transactions(TITS), 2020
11.Xuemiao Xu, Hai He, Huaidong Zhang, Yangyang Xu, and Shengfeng He. Unsupervised Domain Adaptation via Importance Sampling. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology(TCSVT). 2020.
12.Zhang, Huaidong, Xu, Xuemiao*, Han, Guoqiang, and He, Shengfeng. Context-aware and Scale-insensitive Temporal Repetition Counting , IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2020.
13.Xuemiao Xu, Keke Li, Cheng Xu, and Shengfeng He*, GDFace: Gated Deformation for Multi-view Face Image Synthesis, Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2020
14.Huaidong Zhang, Xuemiao Xu *, Hai He, Le Zhou, Shengfeng He, Guoqiang Han, Jing Qin, DapengWu. Fast User-Guided Single Image Reflection Removal via Edge-aware Cascaded Networks. IEEE Transactions on Multimedia(TMM), 2019
15.Zijun Deng, Lei Zhu, Xiaowei Hu, Chi-Wing Fu, Xuemiao Xu*, Qing Zhang, Jing Qin, and Pheng-Ann Heng,Deep Multi-Model Fusion for Single-Image Dehazing,International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2019.
16.Lei Zhu, Jiaxing Chen, Xiaowei Hu, Chi-Wing Fu, Xuemiao Xu*, Jing Qin, and Pheng-Ann Heng,Aggregating Attentional Dilated Features for Salient Object Detection,IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology(TCSVT), 2019
17.Xuemiao Xu, Minshan Xie, Peiqi Miao, Wei Qu, Wenpeng Xiao, Huaidong Zhang, Xueting Liu, and Tien-Tsin Wong, Perceptual-aware Sketch Simplification Based on Integrated VGG Layers, IEEE Transaction on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), 2019
18.Zijun Deng, Xiaowei Hu, Lei Zhu, Xuemiao Xu*, Jing Qin, Guoqiang Han, and Pheng-Ann Heng, R3Net: Recurrent Residual Refinement Network for Saliency Detection, International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2018
19.Xiaowei Hu, Xuemiao Xu*, Yongjie Xiao, Hao Chen, Shengfeng He, Jing Qin, and Pheng-Ann Heng, SINet: A Scale-insensitive Convolutional Neural Network for Fast Vehicle Detection, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (TITS), 2018 (Highly Cited Paper)
20.Kin Chung Kwan, Xuemiao Xu*, Liang Wan, Tien-Tsin Wong, Wai-Man Pang. Packing Vertex Data into Hardware-Decompressible Textures, IEEE Transaction on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), 2018
21.LeiZhu, ZijunDeng, XiaoweiHu, Chi-WingFu, XuemiaoXu, JingQin, and Pheng-AnnHeng, “Bidirectional Feature Pyramid Network with Recurrent Attention Residual Modules for Shadow Detection,” European Conference on Computer Vision(ECCV), 2018
22.Xuemiao Xu, Linyuan Zhong, Minshan Xie, Xueting Liu, Jing Qin, and Tien-Tsin Wong,ASCII Art Synthesis from Natural Photographs, IEEE Transaction on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), 2017
23.Yulong Guo, Xiaopei Liu, Xuemiao Xu*, A Unified Detail-Preserving Liquid Simulation by Two-Phase Lattice Boltzmann Modeling. IEEE Transaction on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG). 2017
24.Yulong Guo, Xiaopei Liu, Chi Xiong, Xuemiao Xu,.Chi-Wing Fu, Towards High-quality Visualization of Superfluid Vortices, IEEE Transaction on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), 2017
Granted Patents
1.Chinese Invention Patent, Inventors: Huang Tianjin, Xu Xuemiao, Zhang Linling, 'A Method and Apparatus for Generating Structure-Based ASCII Art Images', Application No.: 201010530901.3, Granted: July 17, 2013
2.Chinese Invention Patent, Inventors: Xu Xuemiao, Jin Qiang, Yuan Xuehan, Lu Zhipeng, Guo Xianjun, Wu Wenbo, Zhou Biao, 'A Mobile Identification Method and Device Based on Inner Finger Knuckle Wrinkles', Application No.: 201310268525.9, Granted: December 28, 2016
3.Chinese Invention Patent, Inventors: Xu Xuemiao, Wang Li, 'Motion Object Detection Method Based on Gaussian Mixture Model and Edge Detection', Application No.: 201410090199.1, Granted: February 18, 2017
4.Chinese Invention Patent, Inventors: Xu Xuemiao, Hu Xiaowei, Zhao Nanxuan, Long Weijian, 'Road Surface Detection Method Based on a Multidimensional Information Probabilistic Model', Application No.: 201510284119.0, Granted: November 8, 2017
5.Chinese Invention Patent, Inventors: Xu Xuemiao, Wang Jiexin, Hu Xiaowei, Long Weijian, Zhou Biao, 'Vehicle Detection Method Based on Motion Edge Extractor', Application No.: 201510148996.5, Granted: October 30, 2017
6.Chinese Invention Patent, Inventors: Xu Xuemiao, Long Weijian, Hu Xiaowei, Zhou Biao, 'License Plate Detection Method Based on Color-Texture Analyzer and Machine Learning', Patent No.: ZL201510540320.0, Granted: May 10, 2018
7.Chinese Invention Patent, Inventors: Xu Xuemiao, Zhou Le, 'Image Reflection Removal Method Based on Deep Convolutional Generative Adversarial Networks', Patent No.: ZL201710173436.4, Granted: October 18, 2019
8.Chinese Invention Patent, Inventors: Xu Xuemiao, Xiao Yongjie, Hu Xiaowei, 'Multi-Scale Object Detection Method Based on Deep Convolutional Neural Networks', Patent No.: ZL201711267789.7, Granted: September 22, 2020
9.Chinese Utility Model Patent, Inventors: Li Xinlu, Xu Zhenyu, Xu Xuemiao, 'A Fixing Device for an Intelligent Obstacle Avoidance Module of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)', Patent No.: ZL202120533354.8, Granted: October 22, 2021
10.Chinese Utility Model Patent, Inventors: Xu Zhenyu, Li Xinlu, Xu Xuemiao, 'An Intelligent Pesticide Spraying Device for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)', Patent No.: ZL202120534947.6, Granted: October 22, 2021
11.Chinese Invention Patent, Inventors: Xu Xuemiao, Miu Peiqi, Xie Minshan, 'Sketch Simplification Method Based on Perceptual Loss in Deep Convolutional Neural Networks', Patent No.: ZL201810259452.X, Granted: November 3, 2021
