Biography

I am currently a Lecture at University of Leicester, College of Computing and Mathematical Science. Before that, I was a postdoc fellow wth Prof. Zhou Wang in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo. I received my Ph.D. from the University of Sydney (USYD), adviced by Prof. Dacheng Tao. Prior to that, I obtained my MPhil from the Australian National University (ANU) and honorable B.S. degree from Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT) . My research interests including computer vision, machine learning, and artificial intelligence.

Career

• Lecture, University of Leicester (UoL)

  • 2024 - now

Education and Postdoc

• Postdoc Fellow, University of Waterloo (UW)

  • 2022 -  2024

  • Supervisor: Prof. Zhou Wang

• Ph.D, Computer Science, University of Sydney (USYD)

  • December 2020

  • Supervisor: Prof. Dacheng Tao

• MPhil, Computer Science, Australian National University (ANU)

  • June 2016

  • Supervisor: Prof. Yuchao Dai

• Honour B.S.,  Automation Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT)

  • December 2013

  • Honour Project Supervisor: Dr. Yi Li

Selected Publications (dblp)

• Dynamic Shadow Unveils Invisible Semantics for Video Outpainting

Ruilin Li, Hang Yu, Jiayan Qiu

Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2025.

• SIGMA: Refining Large Language Model Reasoning via Sibling-Guided Monte Carlo Augmentation

Yanwei Ren, Haotian Zhang, Fuxiang Wu, Jiayan Qiu, Jiaxing Huang, Baosheng Yu, Liu Liu

Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2025.

• Controllable Data Generation with Hierarchical Neural Representations

Sheyang Tang, Xiaoyu Xu, Jiayan Qiu, Zhou Wang

International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2025.

• Visual Relationship Transformation

Xiaoyu Xu, Jiayan Qiu*, Baosheng Yu, Zhou Wang

European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2024.

• Shadow-Enlightend Image Outpainting

Hang Yu, Ruilin Li, Shaorong Xie, Jiayan Qiu*

IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024.

• Relationship Spatialization for Depth Estimation 

Xiaoyu Xu, Jiayan Qiu*, Xinchao Wang, Zhou Wang

European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2022.

• Matching Seqlets: An Unsupervised Approach for Locality Preserving Sequence Matching 

Jiayan Qiu, Xinchao Wang, Pascal Fua, Dacheng Tao

IEEE transactions on pattern analysis and machine intelligence (TPAMI), 2021.

• Scene Essence 

Jiayan Qiu, Yiding Yang, Xinchao Wang, Dacheng Tao

IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2021.

• Hallucinating Visual Instances in Total Absentia 

Jiayan Qiu, Yiding Yang, Xinchao Wang, Dacheng Tao

European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2020. (Spotlight Oral) 

• Distillating Knowledge from Graph Convolutional Networks 

Yiding Yang, Jiayan Qiu, Mingli Song, Dacheng Tao, Xinchao Wang

IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2020.

• Learning Propagation Rules for Attribution Map Generation

Yiding Yang, Jiayan Qiu, Mingli Song, Dacheng Tao, Xinchao Wang

European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2020.

• World from Blur 

Jiayan Qiu, Xinchao Wang, Pascal Fua, Dacheng Tao

IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2019.

• Towards evolutionary compression 

Yunhe Wang, Chang Xu, Jiayan Qiu, Chao Xu, Dacheng Tao

ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining (ACM KDD), 2018.

• Hierarchical aggregation based deep aging feature for age prediction 

Jiayan Qiu,Yuchao Dai, Yuhang Zhang, Jose M. Alvarez

International Conference on Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications (DICTA), 2015. 

Services

• Reviewer of Journals or Transactions 

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (T-PAMI)

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (T-IP)

IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics (T-CYB)

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (T-CSVT)

Information Sciences (INS)

Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation (JVIS)

• (Senior) Program Commitee

IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR-21, 22, 23, 24)

IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV-21, 23)

European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV-22,24)

The International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML-22, 23, 24)

Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeuraIPS-21, 22, 23, 24)

The International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR-22, 23, 24, 25)

The AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25)

International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-21, 22, 23, 24)

• Guest Editor

Frontiers in Signal Processing

MDPI-Electronics