Wei ZHOU


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Assistant Professor in Intelligent Visual Computing, PhD, BEng, IEEE Senior Member
Exceptional Talent Endorsed by Royal Society
Visual Computing Research Group
British Standards Institution

Email: zhouw26 [at] cardiff [dot] ac [dot] uk

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Biography

I have been an Assistant Professor (UK Lecturer) in the School of Computer Science and Informatics at Cardiff University, United Kingdom since 2023. I am a member of Visual Computing Research Group, which is led by Prof. Paul Rosin. I am also a committee member of British Standards Institution. I am participating in the JPEG standardization activities. I am a Senior Member of IEEE (2024, previously Member 2021, Student Member 2019).

Before that, I studied and worked in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Waterloo, Canada under the supervision of Prof. Zhou Wang (FIEEE, FRSC, FCAE, Canada Research Chair) from 2019 to 2023. During the period, I received my PhD degree in 2021, with outstanding thesis award. I used to be a visiting scholar at Japan National Institute of Informatics, a research assistant with Intel, a research intern in Microsoft Research and Alibaba Cloud (both with awards). I had an educational background in Electrical Engineering at University of Science and Technology of China, under the supervision of Prof. Zhibo Chen and Prof. Weiping Li (Life Fellow of IEEE, Dean).

My research interests mainly focus on image/video processing, multimedia computing, applied perception, human-centric AI, computational photography, imaging, vision, displays, and machine learning. I aim to develop efficient and intelligent visual processing algorithms based on human perception, helping improve the quality of experience for human visual systems. I received the ACM SIGMM Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award (China Section) in 2022 and the Grand Challenge Winner Award in CVPR CLIC 2021.

One fully funded competition PhD studentship is available. The project is about Visual Perception for AIGC. The successful applicant will be co-supervised by Prof. Yukun Lai and Prof. Hantao Liu. The other fully funded competition PhD studentship is also available. Please reach out to me if interested.

Recent News

  • [05/2024] One paper accepted to ACM TOMM.
  • [04/2024] Appointed as an Associate Editor of Neurocomputing. Please submit to it!
  • [04/2024] One paper accepted to IEEE JETCAS.
  • [03/2024] One paper accepted to IEEE TBC.
  • [03/2024] One paper accepted to IEEE QoMEX. Congratulations to Armin.
  • [03/2024] One paper selected as ESI Highly Cited Paper.
  • [03/2024] One paper accepted to IEEE ICME. Congratulations to Yixiao.
  • [03/2024] One paper accepted to Neurocomputing. Congratulations to Jun.
  • [03/2024] One paper accepted to IEEE SPL.
  • [02/2024] I will be a Visiting Professor in the School of AI at Dalian University of Technology from March to April. Reach out to me for collaborations!
  • [02/2024] One paper accepted to IEEE TBC.
  • [02/2024] Involved in an EU COST Action.
  • [01/2024] Elevated to IEEE Senior Member.
  • [01/2024] Our special session accepted to ICIP 2024.
  • [01/2024] Invited as an Area Chair of ACM Multimedia 2024.
  • [01/2024] One paper accepted to IEEE TIV. It is the first paper about image quality evaluation published in Intelligent Vehicles field.
  • [12/2023] Appointed as an Associate Editor of IEEE TNNLS. Please submit to it!
  • [12/2023] Awarded DUT Collaboration Fund.
  • [11/2023] One paper accepted to Displays.
  • [09/2023] One paper selected as ESI Highly Cited Paper.
  • [09/2023] One paper accepted to IEEE TCSVT.
  • [06/2023] Two papers accepted to ICIP 2023 (one as Oral presentation).
  • [05/2023] Our special session accepted to MMSP 2023.
  • [05/2023] Appointed as an Associate Editor of Signal, Image and Video Processing (SIVP, Springer).
  • [03/2023] One paper accepted to IEEE SPL.
  • [02/2023] Awarded Sensors Outstanding Reviewer Award.
  • [09/2022] Awarded ACM SIGMM China Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award.
  • [08/2022] Invited as an Associate Editor of HCIS Journal (JCR Q1, IF=7.375).
  • [07/2022] One paper accepted to IEEE TMM.
  • [06/2022] Two papers accepted to ACM-MM 2022.
  • [06/2022] One paper accepted to MICCAI 2022.
  • [05/2022] One paper accepted to IEEE JSTARS.
  • [04/2022] One paper accepted to JVCI.
  • [03/2022] One paper accepted to Displays.
  • [02/2022] One paper accepted to IEEE TMM.
  • [12/2021] Awarded VCIP Best Reviewer Award.
  • [08/2021] One paper accepted to VCIP 2021.
  • [07/2021] Awarded President Award from Chinese Academy of Sciences.
  • [07/2021] One paper accepted to ACM-MM 2021 as Oral presentation.
  • [05/2021] One paper accepted to IEEE TCSVT.
  • [05/2021] One invited paper accepted to QoMEX 2021 as Oral presentation.
  • [04/2021] One paper accepted to CVPR CLIC 2021 and won winner award.
  • [01/2021] One paper accepted to ISCAS 2021 as Oral presentation.

Selected Awards

  • 2024 Interdisciplinary Research Sandpit from British Academy, Travel Grant
  • 2023 Winner of the Sensors Annually Outstanding Reviewer Award (5 of all reviewers)
  • 2022 ACM SIGMM China Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award
  • 2022 Finalist of Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
  • 2022 MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship, Travel Grant from University of Nantes, France
  • 2021 Grand Challenge Winner Award for IEEE CVPR CLIC Perceptual Metric Track
  • 2021 Best Reviewer Award in IEEE VCIP (5 of all reviewers)
  • 2021 President Award, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)
  • 2020 Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Funding Support of USTC
  • 2019 Outstanding Research Intern of Alibaba Group
  • 2018 Microsoft Research STAR of Tomorrow Excellence Award

Academic Leadership

  • (2024-) Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems
  • (2024-) Associate Editor, Elsevier Neurocomputing
  • (2023-) Associate Editor, Springer Signal, Image and Video Processing
  • (2022-) Associate Editor, Human-centric Computing and Information Sciences
  • (2024) Area Chair, ACM International Conference on Multimedia
  • (2024 IEEE ICIP) Sepcial Session Chair, AI-based Medical Image Quality Assessment and Enhancement Towards Better Disease Diagnosis
  • (2023 IEEE MMSP) Leading Special Session Chair, Quality Assessment and Enhancement for Multimedia Visual Signals
  • (2024-2025) Leading Topic Editor, Visual Computing and Understanding: New Developments and Trends
  • (2022-2024) Topic/Guest Editor, Advances in Perceptual Quality Assessment of User Generated Contents
  • (2022-2023) Guest Editor, Special Issue on Quality of Experience for Metaverse, Elsevier Displays

LION Lab

I direct the InteLligent multImedia perceptiOn and generatioN (LION) research lab. My lab focuses on studying different perceptual and generative models in the intelligent multimedia field. Our lab is always looking for talented and self-motivated students.

Each year, our School has a number of funding schemes to support PhD research (School Studentships). Chinese PhD applicants are also welcome to apply via Cardiff University-China Scholarship Council joint-funded PhD Scholarship. If you are interested in working with me on cutting-edge image processing/multimedia research, please drop me an email.

Cardiff University (top 1 university in Wales, part of the Russell Group, QS154) is ranked top 5 (CSRankings) across the UK in the areas of Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision, Computer Graphics, and Natural Language Processing. I have worked with 20 students and extensively collaborated with researchers in both academia and industry worldwide. I will actively recommend my students for internships (Google, Meta, Intel, Microsoft, Tencent, Alibaba, etc.) and help them establish networking.
Last updated: December 17, 2023.