Qi Zhang 张琦
Associate Professor (Tenured), Visual Computing Research Center, College of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Shenzhen University · qizhang@szu.edu.cn · qi.zhang.opt@gmail.com
Appointments
| 2026.04–now | Associate Professor (Tenured) & Doctoral Supervisor (Principal Investigator, iMUSE Lab · Inspector for postgraduate education, CSSE) | Visual Computing Research Center, College of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Shenzhen University |
| 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 |
Publications
17 conference and 4 journal papers, plus 6 preprints. Bold = my name; * = corresponding author.
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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
Teaching
- College Computer Science · Undergraduate · 2022-2024, Fall
- Mobile Internet Applications · Undergraduate · 2024, Spring
- Optimization Methods · Postgraduate · 2023, 2024, Spring
Student Awards & Mentoring
- 2025 Three graduate students (Yunfei Gong, Kaiyi Zhang, Jixuan Chen) were awarded the Shenzhen University Graduate Student Independent Training Project (50K CNY); only four projects were approved across the whole college.
- 2025 Undergraduate student Juxing won the Third Prize in the Guangdong regional competition of the China Collegiate Computer Design Contest.
- 2024 Yunfei Gong graduated as an Outstanding Graduate and continued to the Ph.D. program at Shenzhen University under my supervision.
Academic Service
- Area Chair, NeurIPS 2026
- Image & Video Processing Session Chair, CVM 2023
- Publicity Chair, CVAI 2027
Program committee: CVPR, AAAI, ICCV, NeurIPS, ECCV, ICLR, ICML, IJCAI, ACM MM, SIGGRAPH, EUROGRAPHICS, PG, CVM, CGI, WACV, ACCV, ICPR, ICME, 3DV, ACM MMAsia.
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.