Prof. Yong Xu

Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen)

Dr. Yong Xu is currently a professor and doctoral supervisor at Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen), Director of Shenzhen Key Laboratory for Visual Target Detection and Recognition, a Distinguished Professor of the "Changjiang Scholars" Program by the Ministry of Education, a recipient of the Guangdong Provincial "Special Support Talent Plan", a Shenzhen Pengcheng Scholar, and a Shenzhen National-level Leading Talent. His main research directions include pattern recognition, computer vision, visual large models, etc. He has made outstanding academic achievements in the field of artificial intelligence, being listed in the 2024 Global Top 0.05% Top Scientists list released by the international academic institution ScholarGPS; he has been consecutively selected as an Elsevier China High Cited Scholar for seven years, and ranked among the top 100 domestic and top 1,000 global computer scientists in the Global Top Computer Scientists Rankings released by Guide2Research. He has presided over multiple national and provincial-level projects, obtained more than 40 authorized invention patents, and won 8 provincial and ministerial-level scientific and technological awards/natural science awards/technology invention awards. His social appointments include Editor-in-Chief of the international academic journal International Journal of Image and Graphics, Founding Associate Editor of the flagship journal of the Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence CAAI Transactions on Intelligence Technology, and Standing Committee Member of the Pattern Recognition Professional Committee of the Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence.

Prof. Haiquan Zhao

Southwest Jiaotong University

Zhao Haiquan, PhD in Engineering, Professor, Senior Member of IEEE and the Chinese Institute of Electronics, Elsevier Highly Cited Scholar, Global Top 0.05% Scholar (ScholarGPS), Global Top 2% Scientist (Stanford), Academic and Technical Leader of Sichuan Province, Outstanding Expert with Outstanding Contributions in Sichuan Province, Winner of the Sichuan Province Outstanding Youth Fund, Distinguished Expert of the Haizhi Program of the Sichuan Association for Science and Technology, has published 280 SCI papers, received the First Prize of Natural Science from the Chinese Society of Automation, and six provincial and ministerial awards including the Second Prize for Science and Technology Progress from the Ministry of Education, the China Railway Science and Technology Progress Award, and the Tang Lixin Outstanding Scholar Award. He serves on the editorial boards of several international SCI journals including IEEE TASLP, IEEE TSMCA, IEEE SPL, and Signal Processing, among others. His main research areas are signal processing, pattern recognition, and artificial intelligence.

Assoc. Prof. Shengcai Liao

IEEE Fellow, IAPR Fellow,  United Arab Emirates University

Dr. Shengcai Liao is an Associate Professor and founding director of the Computer Vision Lab (CVLab) in the College of Information Technology (CIT) in UAEU. He is an IEEE Fellow and IAPR Fellow. He was a Principal Scientist in IIAI, G42 in UAE during 2018-2024, and an Associate Professor in Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CASIA) from 2014 to 2018. He received B.S. degree in mathematics from Sun Yat-sen University in 2005 and Ph.D. degree from CASIA in 2010. He was a Postdoc at Michigan State University during 2010-2012. He is interested in digital human, robotics, embodied AI, human-centric AI, and image and video generation. He has published 100+ papers, with over 23,000 citations and h-index 57. He ranks #905 among 215,114 world-wide AI scientists (Top 0.42%) in 2019 (by Stanford University). His representative work LOMO+XQDA for person re-identification has been cited over 2,600 times and ranks #11 in Most Influential CVPR Papers 2015. He was awarded Best Paper/Best Student Paper in ICB 2006/2007/2015, and CCBR 2016, Best/Outstanding Reviewer in IJCB 2014, CVPR 2019/2021, Great Contribution Award for Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, Second-Class Award of the China State Science and Technology Progress Award 2019, and Winner of CVPR 2017 Detection in Crowded Scenes Challenge and ICCV 2019 NightOwls Pedestrian Detection Challenge. He served as an Assistant Editor for “Encyclopedia of Biometrics, 2nd Ed.”, Guest Associate Editor for IEEE T-BIOM, and Associate Editor for IEEE TPAMI, TIP and TMM. He served as Program Chair for IJCB 2022 and ICIG 2025, and Area Chair for CVPR 2022/2023/2025, ICCV 2023/2025, ICML 2025-2026, NeurIPS 2023-2026, AAAI 2026, ECCV 2024, and WACV 2024/2025.

Prof. Wenhua Qian

Yunnan University

Wenhua Qian, Ph.D., Professor of the School of Information, postdoctoral researcher at Southeast University, industrial innovation talent under Yunnan Province's "Xingdian Talent Support Program," outstanding young talent of Yunnan Province's "Ten Thousand Talents Program," and academic technology leader for young and middle-aged professionals in Yunnan Province. He is a core member of the School of Information's signature research direction in "Graphic and Image Processing." He has been selected for Yunnan Province's Outstanding Youth Cultivation Program and the Yunnan University Backbone Teacher Training Program.

Dr. Qian is a senior member of the China Computer Society, a council member of the China Society of Image and Graphics, a senior member of the China Graphical Society, a committee member of the CAD/CG Special Committee, a member of the National Digital Entertainment and Simulation Society, a member of the Chinese Computer Vision Professional Committee, a member of the Digital Cultural Heritage Professional Committee, a member of the Education Professional Committee of the Yunnan Computer Society, and a committee member of the Teaching Guidance Committee for computer-related disciplines in Yunnan Provincial Universities. He serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Image and Graphics in China, and on the editorial boards of journals such as Computers & Graphics. He has also served as the chairman of the YOCSEF Kunming Subforum of the China Computer Society.