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[07/2026] A candidate has been awarded an University of Exeter - Paris-Saclay PhD scholarship and will join my group in October this year.

[05/2026] A candidate has been awarded an Exeter-CSC PhD scholarship and will join my group in September this year.

[03/2026] Our special issue proposal Multimodal Representation Learning Based on Vision Foundation Models has been accepted by Pattern Recognition. Open for Submission: from 15-Apr-2026 to 31-Mar-2027. More details can be found here.

[03/2026] Our special issue proposal Embodied Intelligence: Bringing Disciplines Through System Integration has been accepted by Virtual Reality & Intelligent Hardware. The submission deadline is 31 December 2026.

[01/2026] Our workshop proposal on pedestrian behavior prediction has been accepted by ICRA2026, which will be held in Vienna, Austria, on June 1, 2026. More details can be found here.

[11/2025] I organized a BMVC2025 workshop “DIFA: Deep Learning-based Information Fusion and Its Applications” on 27th November 2025 in the Cutlers’ Hall, Sheffield, UK. Other organizers are Dr. Zhixiang Chen from University of Sheffield and Dr. Shuyan Li from Queen’s University Belfast. More details can be found on our workshop website.

[10/2025] Invited to give a talk at the “AI for everyone” event organized by the UK Huazhong University of Science and Technology Alumni Association.

[09/2025] Our paper “Brain tumor segmentation using multimodal MRI” has been accepted by the DIFA 2025 workshop (BMVC2025). This paper is resulted from my MSc student Qinqing Li’s final project.

[09/2025] Our paper “More effort is needed to protect pedestrian privacy in the era of AI” has been accepted by NeurIPS2025 as an Oral paper (Position Paper Track, acceptance rate is less than 6%). [PDF]

[09/2025] Honored to be listed once again among the World’s Top 2% Scientists (Stanford University’s list, 2025) — my third time receiving this recognition!

[09/2025] Welcome Quangao to join my lab as a PhD student! Quangao received his Master degree from Chinese Academy of Science before joining my lab.

[09/2025] My TPAMI paper Visible and Infrared Image Fusion Using Deep Learning was selected as ESI Hot Paper. This is also an ESI Highly Cited paper.

[06/2025] I’m very pleased to have received the Dean of PGR’s Commendation for Excellence in Supervision. Exeter News (internal only)

[05/2025] Invited to give a talk at Exeter CS Seminar.

[05/2025] I organized the Exeter Computer Vision Workshop: PhD Research Talks.

[05/2025] I was awarded an Exeter-Fudan Fellowship as PI.

[04/2025] Our paper “BGM: Demand Prediction for Expanding Bike-Sharing Systems with Dynamic Graph Modeling” has been accepted by IJCAI2025.

[04/2025] My MSc student, Qinqing Li, attended the BCSWomen Lovelace Colloquium in the University of Glasgow to present her work on multimodal medical image processing.

[02/2025] Invited to give a talk at the Personal Robotics Laboratory, Imperial College London.

[02/2025] Invited to give a talk at the Intelligent Systems and Network Group, Imperial College London.

[02/2025] I was awarded a Royal Society Research Grant from as PI.

[01/2025] Welcome Ning to join my lab as a PhD student!

[12/2024] I organised the first Exeter Computer Vision Workshop at the University of Exeter. This is the first formal activity of the Exeter Computer Vision Group. Exeter CS News (internal only)

[12/2024] I gave a talk at the 1st Exeter Computer Vision Workshop, Exeter, UK.

[12/2024] I gave a talk titled “How AI is changing my job” at the Around The World Webinar of the MCAA AI GIG (Marie Curie Alumni Association Artificial Intelligence General Interest Group).

[12/2024] I gave a talk titled “Rethinking performance evaluation in image fusion” at the BMVA Symposium on Image & Video Quality in the British Computer Society (BCS), London.

[12/2024] Invited to join the Executive Committee of the UK Huazhong University of Science and Technology Alumni Association.

[11/2024] I organized a BMVC2024 workshop titled “DIFA: Deep Learning-based Image Fusion and Its Applications” as the lead organizer in Glasgow, UK, on 27th November 2024. More details can be found on our workshop website.

[11/2024] Invited to attend the AI roundtable discussion at the Outstanding Young Scholars Society UK Annual Meeting in London.

[09/2024] Welcome Zixian to join my lab as a PhD student! Before joining my lab, Zixian received his MSc degree in Applied Machine Learning (with distinction) from Imperial College London.

[09/2024] I have been listed among the World’s Top 2% Scientists (Stanford University’s list, 2024)!

[09/2024] I started to serve as the Deputy Director of Business Engagement & Innovation at the Department of Computer Science.

[08/2024] I gave a talk at the Outstanding Young Scholars Society UK about faculty positions and fellowship applications.

[07/2024] Our paper “Predicting Spatio-temporal Traffic Flow: A Comprehensive End-to-end Approach from Surveillance Cameras “ has been accepted by Transportmetrica B: Transport Dynamics. This is a collaborative paper with the Transport Systems & Logistics Lab and Personal Robotics Lab at Imperial College London.

[07/2024] Two of my IEEE T-PAMI papers were selected as ESI Highly Cited Papers.

[06/2024] I gave a talk on 6th June at “Future of AI Awards 2024: Collaborate, Debate, Invent”. I introduced my research and shared my fellowship experience.

[06/2024] Our paper “3PFS: Protecting pedestrian privacy through face swapping” has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems. Congratulations to Zixian! The paper is based on Zixian’s MSc project at Imperial College London, where I was his primary supervisor and Prof. Yiannis Demiris was his co-supervisor. The video demo can be found in the ‘Research’ section.

[04/2024] I gave a talk at the BMVA One Day Meeting - Trustworthy Multimodal Learning with Foundation Models: Bridging the Gap between AI Research and Real World Applications in the British Computer Society (BCS), London.

[04/2024] I started my position as a Visiting Researcher at Imperial College London.

[04/2024] I joined the University of Exeter as a Senior Lecturer and founded the Fusion Intelligence Laboratory. The lab aims to use machine intelligence and multi-source information fusion to benefit humanity.

[03/2024] I was featured as “Imperial People” [Details].

[12/2023] I was awarded the Department Award for Citizenship and Community by the Department of EEE, Imperial College London. [Imperial News].

[11/2023] I was selected as “Fellow of the Month” by the Postdoc and Fellows Development Centre (PFDC), Imperial College London. [PFDC Newsletter].

[11/2023] I gave an invited talk at the Redwood Academy entitled “Beauty of fusion: Deep learning-based image fusion and its applications” on 8th November 2023.

[11/2023] My MSc student obtained his degree with distinction! Congratulations to Zixian! So far, all the MSc students I supervised or co-supervised at Imperial College London have got distinction!

[09/2023] I have been listed among the World’s Top 2% Scientists (Stanford University’s list, 2023)!

[07/2023] It was a very nice experience to show EEE kids what we are doing at the Personal Robotics Lab at the Faculty of Engineering’s “Bring Your Child to Work Day”! In particular, I showcased the Unusual Cameras (thermal camera, event camera) of our lab. [Imperial News].

[07/2023] I am now a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA)! [ICL EEE Staff Newsletter] [ICL EEE Staff Newsletter 2]

[06/2023] As an outreach activity of my MSCA fellowship, my demo “The Smart Wheelchair” at the Great Exhibition Road Festival 2023 was very successful! We attracted more than 2000 visitors during the weekend. We successfully introduced our smart wheelchair and our ongoing research to our visitors, including many children. [Imperial News].

[06/2023] I was selected as a Mentor for Imperial’s Activate Student Mentoring Programme.

[04/2023] Our paper ‘Dual-branch spatio-temporal graph neural networks for pedestrian trajectory prediction’ has been accepted by Pattern Recognition. The video demo can be found in the ‘Research’ section.

[03/2023] Our paper ‘Visible and Infrared Image Fusion Using Deep Learning’ has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence.

[12/2022] I was invited to give a talk “The beauty of fusion: Deep learning-based image fusion and its applications” at China Agricultural University (online).

[04/2022] One paper has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems.

[03/2022] I have taught five lectures for the Deep Learning (Spring 2021-2022, ELEC60009/96033/96039) course at the Department of EEE, Imperial College London, to more than 100 students. The topics are representation learning, generative models, reinforcement learning, hyperparameters, and meta-learning. It was a really nice experience to teach this course together with Prof. Krystian Mikolajczyk.

[01/2022] I will be a lecturer of ELEC60009/96033/96039 - Deep Learning (Spring 2021-2022) at the Department of EEE, Imperial College London.

[01/2022] One paper has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems.

[05/2021] One paper has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence.

[02/2021] My application for Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships has been successful. This is one of the most prestigious fellowships in the world. [EEE Newsletter].

[02/2021] One paper has been accepted by Information Fusion.

[08/2020] The book Image Fusion that I co-authored has been published by Shanghai Jiao Tong University Press & Springer Nature Singapore. This book has won the National Science and Technology Academic Publications Fund of China (2019).