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Xun YANG (Ph.D)杨勋

Professor

Department of Electronic Engineering and Information Science

School of Information Science and Technology

University of Science and Technology of China

Email: xyang21 AT ustc.edu.cn


Xun Yang now is a Professor in Department of Electronic Engineering and Information Science (EEIS), University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), Hefei, China. He was a research fellow in NExT++, School of Computing, National University of Singapore from 2018 to 2021. Xun received his Ph.D from Hefei University of Technology in 2017, under the supervision of Prof. Meng Wang. His research interests include information retrieval, computer vision, and multimedia information processing. Moreover, he has served as the PC member and the invited reviewer for top-tier conferences and prestigious journals including ACM MM, ACM MMAsia, AAAI, IJCAI, IEEE TCSVT, IEEE TKDE, IEEE TNNLS, and IEEE TMM.

Academic Experiences:

  • Tenure-Track Professor, University of Science and Technology of China, Nov. 2021 - Now.

  • Postdoc Research Fellow, National University of Singapore, April 2018 - May 2021. Advisior: Chua Tat-Seng (NExT++: NUS-Tsinghua Extreme Search Center)

  • Visiting Research Student, University of Technology Sydney, Australia, October 2015 - October 2017. Advisor: Tao Dacheng (CAI: Centre for Artificial Intelligence), Supported by China Scholarship Council (CSC) Scholarship

Publications (Google Scholar):

[1] Interpretable Fashion Matching with Rich Attributes. Xun Yang, Xiangnan He, Xiang Wang, Yunshan Ma, Fuli Feng, Meng Wang & Tat-Seng Chua. SIGIR 2019 (Full, Accept rate: 20%)

[2] Learning to Match on Graph for Fashion Compatibility Modeling. Xun Yang, Xiaoyu Du & Meng Wang. AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2020

[3] Who, Where, and What to Wear? Extracting Fashion Knowledge from Social Media. YunShan Ma, Xun Yang, Lizi Liao, Yixin Cao and Tat-Seng Chua. ACM MM 2019 (Long Paper)

[4] Learning Using Privileged Information for Food Recognition. Lei Meng, Long Chen, Xun Yang, Hanwang Zhang, Dacheng Tao, Chunyan Miao and Tat-Seng Chua. ACM MM 2019 (Long Paper)

[5] Annotating Objects and Relations in User-Generated Videos. Xindi Shang, Donglin Di, Junbin Xiao, Yu Cao, Xun Yang & Tat-Seng Chua. ICMR 2019 (Full)

[6] TransNFCM: Translation-Based Neural Fashion Compatibility Modeling. Xun Yang, Yunshan Ma, Lizi Liao, Meng Wang & Tat-Seng Chua. AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2019

[7] Person Re-identification via Structural Deep Metric Learning. Xun Yang, Peicheng Zhou & Meng Wang. IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (TNNLS), 2018

[8] Person Re-identification with Metric Learning using Privileged Information. Xun Yang, Meng Wang & Dacheng Tao. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP), 2018, 27 (2), 791-805

[9] Enhancing Person Re- identification in a Self-trained Subspace. Xun Yang, Meng Wang, Richang Hong, Qi Tian & Yong Rui. ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (TOMCCAP), 2017, 13(3): 27:1-27:23

[10] Saliency Detection on Light Field: A Multi-Cue Approach. Jun Zhang, Meng Wang, Liang Lin, Xun Yang & Jun Gao. ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (TOMCCAP) 13.3 (2017): 32

[11] Empirical Risk Minimization for Metric Learning Using Privileged Information. Xun Yang, Meng Wang, Luming Zhang, Dacheng Tao. International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2016, 2266-2272

[12] An Efficient Tracking System by Orthogonalized Templates. Xun Yang, Meng Wang, Luming Zhang, Fuming Sun & Meibin Qi. IEEE Transaction on Industrial Electronics (TIE), 2016, 63(5): 3187-3197

[13] Tree-Augmented Cross-Modal Encoding for Complex-Query Video Retrieval. Xun Yang, Jianfeng Dong, Yixin Cao, Xun Wang, Meng Wang, and Tat-Seng Chua. SIGIR 2020.

[14] Deep Neighborhood Component Analysis for Visual Similarity Modeling. Xueliang Liu, Xun Yang, Meng Wang, Richang Hong. ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST) , 2020, 11 (3), 1-15

[15] Topic-Guided Relational Conversational Recommender in Multi-Domain. Lizi Liao, Ryuichi Takanobu, Yunshan Ma, Xun Yang, Minlie Huang, Tat-Seng Chua. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering. 2020

[16] Visual Relation Grounding in Videos. Junbin Xiao, Xindi Shang, Xun Yang, Sheng Tang, Tat-seng Chua. ECCV 2020. (Spotlight)

[17] Dual Encoding for Video Retrieval by Text. Jianfeng Dong, Xirong Li, Chaoxi Xu, Xun Yang, Gang Yang, Xun Wang, Meng Wang. IEEE Trans. on PAMI. 2021

[18] Interventional video relation detection. Yicong Li, Xun Yang, Xindi Shang, Tat-Seng Chua. Proceedings of the 29th ACM International Conference on Multimedia (MM). 2021, 4091-4099

[19] Video Moment Retrieval with Cross-Modal Neural Architecture Search. Xun Yang, Shanshan Wang, Jian Dong, Jianfeng Dong, Meng Wang, Tat-Seng Chua. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing. 2022, 31, 1204-1216

Professional Activities:

  1. Senior Program Committee (SPC) Member for AAAI 2022

  2. Area Chair for ACM Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM) 2022

  3. Associate Editors:

    • Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Big Data (TBD).

  4. (Technical) Program Committee Member:

    • ACM Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM) 2019, 2020, 2021

    • IEEE International Conference on CVPR 2021, 2022

    • IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) 2021

    • ACM Conference on Multimedia Aisa (ACM MMAsia) 2019

    • IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing and Intelligence Systems (CCIS 2019)

    • AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2020, 2021)

    • International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2020)

    • IEEE International Conference on Knowledge Graph (ICKG 2020)

  5. Guest Editors / Organizers:

    • ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing Communications and Applications

    • IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology

  6. Invited Reviewer For:

    • IEEE Transactions on Multimedia

    • ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications

    • IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology

    • IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering

    • IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics

    • IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems

    • IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

    • Neurocomputing

    • Signal Processing: Image Communication

Honors and Awards:

  • 2016, National Scholarship for Postgraduate Students (Ph.D), China (¥30,000)

  • 2015, China Scholarship Council (CSC) Scholarship (AU $1,700/month*24)

  • 2013, National Scholarship for Postgraduate Students (Master), China (¥20,000)