Dr. Ying ZHANG （张盈）

Welcome to my webpage

[Opening] I am looking for self-motivated students (1 PhD and 3 Master per year) and junior talents (1 postdoc) at the School of Computer Science at NWPU. Our team also recruits t other junior/senior to join. 

Research Interests

Deep Learning, Multimedia Intelligence, Human-AI Collaboration and Interaction, Edge Intelligence,

Selected Publications (Full List) 

* corresponding author, #equal contribution

Book Chapter

• Zhang, Ying,  et.al., "Towards an Enhanced and Lightweight Face Authentication System" in "Cutting Edge Applications of Computational Intelligence Tools and Techniques", Springer, December 2023. 

Conference/Journals

• Shuming Hu, Na Wang, Kaixing Zhao, Yao Jing, Ying Zhang, Zhu Wang, Bin Guo, and Zhiwen Yu.  Masterpiece Creation: An AI-Powered Robotic Calligraphy Creation System, The 2025 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp 2025), October 14-16, 2025, Espoo, Finlan., CCF-A

• Yuqi Zhang, Bin Guo, Nuo Li, Ying Zhang, Shijie Wang, Zhiwen Yu, and Qing Li. Tree-of-AdEditor:  Heuristic Tree Reasoning for Automated Video Advertisement Editing with Large Language Model, The 34th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2025), August 16-22, 2025, Montreal, Canada., CCF-A

• Tiancong Cheng, Ying Zhang, et.al., JointDistill: Adaptive Multi-Task Distillation for Joint Depth Estimation and Scene Segmentation, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME 2025) , June 30 -July 4, 2025, Nantes, France, 2025  CCF-B

• Hao Wang, Bin Guo, Yating Zeng, Mengqi Chen, Yasan Ding, Ying Zhang, Lina Yao, and Zhiwen Yu. Enabling Harmonious Human-Machine Interaction with Visual-Context Augmented Dialogue System: A Review.  ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 2025. To appear, CCF-A

• Tiancong Cheng, Ying Zhang, Rajiv Ratn Shah, Roger Zimmermann, Zhiwen Yu, and Bin Guo. Layer-Wise Competitive Multi-Task Learning, The 2025 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2025), April 6-11, 2025, Hyderabad, India. CCF-B

• Qiuyun Zhang, Bin Guo, Lina Yao, Xiaotian Qiao, Ying Zhang, and Zhiwen Yu. CollageNoter: Real-time and Adaptive Collage Layout Design for Screenshot-based E-Note-taking, The 39th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2025), Pennsylvania, USA, 2025, CCF-A

• Siru Zhong, Xixuan Hao, Yibo Yan, Ying Zhang, Yangqiu Song, Yuxuan Liang, Urbancross: Enhancing satellite image-text retrieval with cross-domain adaptation, Proceedings of the 32nd ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM 2024), Australia,Oct 28 - Nov 1, 2024, CCF-A

• Y Xie, Y Zhang, Y Yin, S Zhang, Y Zhang, R Shah, R Zimmermann, G Xiao, Traj2Former: A Local Context-aware Snapshot and Sequential Dual Fusion Transformer for Trajectory Classification,Proceedings of the 32nd ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM 2024), 2024, CCF-A

• K Li, Z Yu, J Xi, Y Zhang, B Guo, Predictive Model of Cultural Product Search Interest Based on Collective Memory Hawkes Process, 11th International Conference on Behavioural and Social Computing, Harbin, China, 2024.  🏆 Best Paper Runner Up Award!

• Ying Zhang, et.al., Predictability in Human Mobility: From Individual to Collective (Vision Paper), ACM Transactions on on Spatial Algorithms and Systems, 2024. 

• En Xu, Zhiwen Yu, Ying Zhang, et.al., "Limits of Predictability in Top-N Recommendation ", Information Processing and Management, 2024,  SCI-1, IF: 8.6

• Cascade Context-oriented Spatio-temporal Attention Network for Efficient and Fine-grained Video-grounded Dialogues, Frontiers of Computer Science, 2024, CCF-B

• H Wang, B,Guo, Y Zhang, etal,  "Memory-enhanced Emotional Support Conversations with Motivation-driven Strategy Inference", ECML PKDD, Vilnius,  2024, CCF-B

• Q Zhang, B,Guo, Y Zhang, etal,  "Design Graph Guided Element Importance-aware Layout generation with Multi-modality Cascade Transformer", AAAI, 2024, CCF-A. 

• Y Zhang, Y Yin, Y Zhang, Z Liu, Z Wang, R Zimmermann,  "Prototypical Cross-domain Knowledge Transfer for Cervical Dysplasia Visual Inspection", ACM Multimedia, 2023, CCF-A. 

• T Cheng, Y Zhang*, Y Yin, R Zimmermann, Z Yu, B Guo, A Multi-Teacher Assisted Knowledge Distillation Approach for Enhanced Face Image Authentication, The ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (ACM ICMR 2023), Thessaloniki, Greece, 2023, CCF-B

• Y Zhang, et.al., FaceLivePlus: A Unified System for Face Liveness Detection and Face Verification, The ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (ACM ICMR 2023), Thessaloniki, Greece, 2023, CCF-B

• Zhang, Ying, Yonit Zall, Ronen Nissim, and Roger Zimmermann. "Evaluation of a new dataset for visual detection of cervical precancerous lesions." Expert Systems with Applications 190 (2022): 116048.  SCI-1, IF:  6.954 

• Y Zhang, Y Yin, Y Zhang*, R Zimmermann, Mix-up self-supervised learning for contrast-agnostic applications, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, Taipei, Taiwan, 2022, CCF-B

• J HU, C Wang, Y Zhang*, L Liu, Y Yin, R Zimmermann, Parallel Edge-Image Learning for Image Inpainting, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, Taipei, Taiwan, 2022, CCF-B

• Zhang, Ying, Yifang Yin, Zhenguang Liu, and Roger Zimmermann. "A spatial regulated patch-wise approach for cervical dysplasia diagnosis." In Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, vol. 35, no. 1, pp. 733-740. 2021. , CCF-A 

• Yin Yifang, Ying Zhang*, Zhenguang Liu, Yuxuan Liang, Sheng Wang, Rajiv Ratn Shah, and Roger Zimmermann. "Learning Multi-context Aware Location Representations from Large-scale Geotagged Images." In Proceedings of the 29th ACM International Conference on Multimedia, pp. 899-907. 2021.  CCF-A 

• Yin Yifang#, Ying Zhang#, Zhenguang Liu, Sheng Wang, Rajiv Ratn Shah, and Roger Zimmermann. "GPS2Vec: Pre-trained Semantic Embeddings for Worldwide GPS Coordinates." IEEE Transactions on Multimedia 24 (2021): 890-903. , SCI-1 , IF:  8.182 

• Yin, Yifang, Harsh Shrivastava, Ying Zhang, Zhenguang Liu, Rajiv Ratn Shah, and Roger Zimmermann. "Enhanced audio tagging via multi-to single-modal teacher-student mutual learning." In Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, vol. 35, no. 12, pp. 10709-10717. 2021. CCF-A 

• Zhang, Ying, and Roger Zimmermann. "Efficient summarization from multiple georeferenced user-generated videos." IEEE Transactions on Multimedia 18, no. 3 (2016): 418-431. , SCI-1 , IF: 8.182 

• Zhang, Ying, Luming Zhang, and Roger Zimmermann. "Aesthetics-guided summarization from multiple user generated videos." ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (ACM TOMM) 11, no. 2 (2015): 1-23. , CCF-B , IF: 4.094

• Zhang, Ying, Roger Zimmermann, Luming Zhang, and David A. Shamma. "Points of interest detection from multiple sensor-rich videos in geo-space." In Proceedings of the 22nd ACM international conference on Multimedia (ACM MM), pp. 861-864. 2014.  CCF-A 

• Zhang, Luming, Rongrong Ji, Yingjie Xia, Ying Zhang, and Xuelong Li. "Learning a probabilistic topology discovering model for scene categorization." IEEE transactions on neural networks and learning systems 26, no. 8 (2014): 1622-1634.  SCI-1 , IF: 14.255

• Zhang Ying, Jonathan Goh, Lei Lei Win, and Vrizlynn LL Thing. "Image region forgery detection: A deep learning approach." SG-CRC 2016 (2016): 1-11. Citation>200

• Zheng Lilei, Ying Zhang*, and Vrizlynn LL Thing. "A survey on image tampering and its detection in real-world photos." Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation 58 (2019): 380-399. Citation>100

• Zhang, Ying, Rohit Kumar Dubey, Guang Hua, and Vrizlynn LL Thing. "Face spoofing video detection using spatio-temporal statistical binary pattern." In TENCON 2018-2018 IEEE Region 10 Conference, pp. 0309-0314. IEEE, 2018.  🏆 Best paper award!

• Hua, Guang, Ying Zhang*, Jonathan Goh, and Vrizlynn LL Thing. "Audio authentication by exploring the absolute-error-map of ENF signals." IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security 11, no. 5 (2016): 1003-1016. CCF-A, IF: 7.231

• Zhang Ying, Yu-Ling Hsueh, Wang-Chien Lee, and Yi-Hao Jhang. "Efficient cache-supported path planning on roads." IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering 28, no. 4 (2015): 951-964. , CCF-A , IF:  9.235

• Yin, Yifang, Abhinav Sunderrajan, Xiaocheng Huang, Jagannadan Varadarajan, Guanfeng Wang, Dhruva Sahrawat, Ying Zhang, Roger Zimmermann, and See-Kiong Ng. "Multi-scale graph convolutional network for intersection detection from gps trajectories." In Proceedings of the 3rd ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on AI for Geographic Knowledge Discovery, pp. 36-39. 2019.  🏆 Best paper award!

• Yin, Yifang, An Tran, Ying Zhang, Wenmiao Hu, Guanfeng Wang, Jagannadan Varadarajan, Roger Zimmermann, and See-Kiong Ng. "Multimodal Fusion of Satellite Images and Crowdsourced GPS Traces for Robust Road Attribute Detection." In Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems, pp. 107-116. 2021.  🏆 Best paper candidate! 

Recent Professional Activities (selected)

Associate Editor: Frontier of Computer Science 

Conference Chair: AIoTSys 2023 Program Chair (Outstanding Contribution Award), IEEE MIPR 2023 Demo Chair, AIoTSys 2024 Program Co-Chair, IEEE UIC 2024 Workshop Chair (Distingushed Leadership Award)

Technical Program Committee:  AAAI 2024/2025/2026, IJCAI 2022/2023/2024/2025, ACM MM, ICME 2023/2024/2025, ICASSP2023/2024/2025, AsiaCCS, BigMM, ICASSP 2023/2024/2025, ICMR 2024, IJCNN 2025, AAAI-26 SAPP 

Journal Reviewer: IEEE TMM, IEEE TKDE, IEEE TIFS, IEEE Cybernetics, IEEE TDSC, ACM TOMM, ISA Transactions, Pattern Recognition, IEEE Network Maganize 2024

Member of ACM, IEEE, IEEE Computer Society and CCF

Supervision/Co-supervision

PhD students

• Tiancong Cheng (co-supervised with Prof. Zhiwen Yu): Edge Intelligence，ICME 2025; IEEE ICASSP 2025; ACM ICMR 2023 ;  CCF Chinasoft 2022; Recipient of Excellent Undergraduate Graduation Project (Thesis) 

• Qiuyun Zhang (co-supervised with Prof. Bin Guo) : Human-Agent Interaction in Art, Oversea internship@UNSW, Australia, AAAI 2025,  ACM CHI 2023, ACM MM 2023 

• Yuqi Zhang  (co-supervised with Prof. Bin Guo): Human-Agent Interaction in Art , Oversea Internship@CityU ,HK; IJCAI 2025, CVEU 2023   

• Shuming Hu  (co-supervised with Prof. Zhiwen Yu): Human-Agent Interaction in Art , UbiComp 2025  

Graduated students

• Hao Wang  (co-supervised with Prof. Bin Guo): Human-Agent Interaction. Now with Xi'an Jiaotong University. ACM TOIS 2025, PKDD 2024, FCS 2024. 

• Ke Li (co-supervised with Prof. Zhiwen Yu): Human Behavior Analytics, Now with Nanjing Bank. BESC 2024 (Best student paper runner-up), PCC 2022, WWW TempWeb 2023 

• Lixin Huang (co-supervised with Prof. Zhiwen Yu): Human Behavior Analytics, Now with Baidu. 

Teaching 

• AI Computing System, Spring 2024/2025

• U10M12009.01 : Computer Networks (English), Fall 2022/2023/2024/2025

• Frontiers of AI and its Applications (English), International Summer School, Summer 2022