About

My name is spelled like the wireless-charging standard “Qi”, but the Chinese character 琦 means a kind of fine jade — and by extension “outstanding”.

I am an associate professor (tenured) at the Visual Computing Research Center, College of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Shenzhen University, where I lead the iMUSE Lab. Before joining Shenzhen University I completed a Ph.D. and a postdoctoral year in the VISAL lab at City University of Hong Kong, supervised by Prof. Antoni B. Chan (City University of Hong Kong). My research is about making camera systems understand crowds at scale — how many people are there, where are they, where are they going, and what would they do next — and about the 3D reconstruction and scene understanding that such multi-camera systems depend on.

qi.zhang.opt@gmail.com qizhang@szu.edu.cn VCC, CSSE, Shenzhen University PI, iMUSE Lab Doctoral supervisor

Appointments

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Promoted to tenured associate professor in April 2026 and a doctoral supervisor from the same year. Within the college I also serve as an inspector for postgraduate education, reviewing teaching quality across its graduate programmes.

2026.04 – now

Associate Professor (Tenured) & Doctoral Supervisor

Visual Computing Research Center, College of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Shenzhen University
Principal Investigator, iMUSE Lab · Inspector for postgraduate education, CSSE
2022.08 – 2026.04

Assistant Professor

Visual Computing Research Center, College of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Shenzhen University
2022.04 – 2022.07

Distinguished Associate Researcher

Guangdong Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Economy (SZ) (Guangming Lab) & VCC, Shenzhen University
2021.05 – 2022.04

Postdoctoral Researcher

Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong (VISAL)
2017.09 – 2021.02

Ph.D. (UGC-funded)

Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong
2014.09 – 2017.06

M.Eng., Signal & Information Processing

University of Chinese Academy of Sciences & Xi'an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics, CAS
2010.09 – 2014.06

B.Eng., Optoelectronic Information Engineering

Huazhong University of Science and Technology

Honors & Awards

2023 Appointed to the Shenzhen “Pengcheng Peacock” Distinguished Talent Post (鹏城孔雀特聘岗位), a municipal high-level talent designation; member of the Shenzhen Peacock High-level Talent Innovation Team.
2023 UrbanBIS received the Outstanding Open-Source Dataset Award of the CCF Technical Committee on Computer Aided Design (CCF-CAD).
2023 The teaching team I belong to at CSSE was named a national “Huang Danian-style” Faculty Team (全国高校黄大年式教师团队) by the Ministry of Education.
2022 Silver Medal at Inventions Geneva Evaluation Days (IGED) for “Automatic Wide-area Crowd Surveillance Using Multiple Cameras”.

Research Funding

Grant	Period	Role	Amount
National Natural Science Foundation of China, Young Scientists Fund	2023-2025	PI	300K CNY
Shenzhen Young Talents Start-Up Funding	2024-2026	PI	3M CNY
Shenzhen University Young Faculty Start-Up Funding	2023-2025	PI	200K CNY
National Key R&D Program of China, sub-project	—	Sub-project leader	—
Shenzhen Peacock Research Group Project	2022-2027	Core Member	15M CNY
Guangdong Provincial Flagship Project on Next-Generation Artificial Intelligence	—	Participant	12M CNY
Shenzhen Municipal Major Science and Technology Special Project	—	Participant	8M CNY

Held as PI: 3.5M CNY across three start-up and young-scientist grants. I also lead a sub-project within the National Key R&D Program of China; the provincial and municipal projects are institutional awards that I contribute to.

Teaching

College Computer Science · Undergraduate · 2022-2024, Fall
Mobile Internet Applications · Undergraduate · 2024, Spring
Optimization Methods · Postgraduate · 2023, 2024, Spring

Patents

Ten granted invention patents to date; the five with public application numbers are listed here.

System and Method for Counting Objects
Antoni B. Chan, Qi Zhang · US Patent US11048948B2, 2021
A blind image deblurring method based on local constraint (一种基于局部约束的图像盲去模糊方法)
Xuelong Li, Xiaoqiang Lu, Qi Zhang · ZL201510112076, 2021
A method and equipment for crowd detection based on weighted view contribution (基于视角贡献权重的人群检测方法及相关装置)
Qi Zhang, Hui Huang, Yunfei Gong · ZL202310809287, 2024
Multi-view three-dimensional object reconstruction method, terminal and storage medium (一种多视图三维物体重建方法、终端及存储介质)
Qi Zhang, Hui Huang, Zhouhang Luo · ZL202410989536, 2024
Point supervision-based multi-view optimal transmission crowd detection method, system and terminal (基于点监督的多视角最优传输人群检测方法、系统及终端)
Qi Zhang, Hui Huang, Kaiyi Zhang · ZL20241089136, 2024

Academic Service

Leadership roles

Area Chair · NeurIPS 2026
Image & Video Processing Session Chair · CVM 2023
Publicity Chair · CVAI 2027

Program committee & reviewer

CVPR 2020- AAAI 2021-2026 ICCV 2021, 2023, 2025 NeurIPS 2023, 2025, 2026 ECCV 2022, 2024, 2026 ICLR 2024-2026 ICML 2024-2026 IJCAI 2024-2026 ACM MM 2021, 2024, 2025, 2026 SIGGRAPH 2025 EUROGRAPHICS 2024 PG 2026 CVM 2023-2026 CGI 2023-2026 WACV 2021-2026 ACCV 2020, 2022, 2024 ICPR 2020, 2022 ICME 2023 3DV 2022 ACM MMAsia 2025

Journal reviewer

International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV) · IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP) · IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (TNNLS) · IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM) · IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT) · IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics (TCE) · IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IoT) · IEEE Access · Information Fusion · Journal of Computer Science and Technology (JCST) · Computer Animation & Virtual Worlds (CAVW) · Scientific Reports · International Journal of Machine Learning and Cybernetics · IET Computer Vision · IET Electronics Letters · Frontiers of Computer Science · Vicinagearth · Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation (JVCI) · Neurocomputing · Pattern Recognition · Pattern Recognition Letters · Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU) · The Visual Computer · Knowledge-Based Systems

Committee memberships

Technical Committee on 3D Vision, China Society of Image and Graphics (CSIG)
Technical Committee on Multimodal Interaction and Cognitive Simulation, China Simulation Society