Welcome to the InteLligent multImedia perceptiOn and generatioN (LION) research lab at Cardiff University. Our lab is dedicated to enabling more controllable and faithful perception and generation of intelligent multimedia.

Mission

Our main goal is to advance perceptual and generative models of intelligent multimedia. Our research focuses on a variety of topics including but not limited to:
  • Visual Perception Modelling
  • Image/Video Quality Assessment and Enhancement
  • Evaluation on AI Generated Content

Publications

Please see Publications for more details.

Public Resources

Our lab focuses on transparent research and will release our code, model and dataset at Github.

Members

  • Minghao Zou (Postdoc Fellow), Collaborated papers: IEEE TCSVT under revision (First author), ACM MM 2025 (First author)
  • Yixiao Li (Visiting PhD from BUAA, under the support of International Joint Funding for Doctoral Students, £14,400), Collaborated papers: IEEE TIP (First author), AAAI 2026 (First author), IEEE ICME 2024 (First author), ICCVW 2025 (First author), BMVC 2025 (Co-first author)
  • Xiaotong Chen (Visiting PhD from BJTU)
  • Haibin Zhang (PhD student, CariffU, Co-supervised by Prof Hantao Liu and Prof Paul Rosin)
  • Yukun Ge (PhD student, CardiffU, Lead supervisor: Prof Hantao Liu)
  • Jiang Liu (PhD student, CardiffU, Lead supervisor: Prof Hantao Liu), Collaborated papers: IEEE TCSVT (First author), IEEE TCSVT (Corresponding author), IEEE ICME 2025 (Co-first author)
I am also lnternal (Cardiff University) and External (Shanghai Jiao Tong University) Examiners of PhD Thesis.

Students

From 2017 to 2021, I was leading a research group at USTC. Since 2019, I am also fortunate to work with many talented students at UWaterloo.
  • Huasheng Wang (PhD, 2024, CardiffU, Lead supervisor: Prof Hantao Liu), Collaborated papers: IEEE TCSVT (First author), IEEE TCSVT (Corresponding author)
  • Peng Xu (Master student, CardiffU)
  • Linyu Zheng (Master student, CardiffU)
  • Zijian Wei (Master student, CardiffU)
  • Zhiqiang Song (Master student, CardiffU)
  • Xinhao Guo (Master student, CardiffU)
  • Xiangyu Xia (Master student, CardiffU)
  • Hao Zhang (Master student, CardiffU)
  • Cheng Peng (Master student, CardiffU)
  • Bo Liu (Master student, CardiffU)
  • Zihao Liao (Undergraduate, CardiffU)
  • Mohammed Ahmed (Undergraduate, CardiffU)
  • Merwiss Metezai (Undergraduate, CardiffU)
  • Jack Thurman (Undergraduate, CardiffU)
  • Zijie Zhang (Master student, CardiffU)
  • Zhuhao Feng (Master student, CardiffU)
  • Yuqing Luo (Master student, CardiffU)
  • Sikai Liang (Master student, CardiffU)
  • Jiayi Deng (Master student, CardiffU)
  • Yiyang Li (Master student, CardiffU)
  • Tianming Yu (Master student, CardiffU)
  • Linwei Zhu (Master student, CardiffU)
  • Zijian Xu (Master student, CardiffU)
  • Jiangyang Liu (Master student, CardiffU)
  • Yusen Yang (Undergraduate, CardiffU)
  • John McNamara (Undergraduate, CardiffU)
  • Yuxi Tao (Master student, CardiffU)
  • Chenzhe Fu (Master student, CardiffU)
  • Armin Shafiee Sarvestani (PhD student, UWaterloo)
  • Yipeng Du (Undergraduate, UWaterloo)
  • Jinghan Zhou (PhD student, UWaterloo)
  • Shiyu Huang (Master student, USTC)
  • Yanding Peng (Master student, USTC)
  • Yiting Lu (PhD student, USTC)
  • Jun Fu (PhD, 2022 -> HW)
  • Jianzhao Liu (Master, 2022 -> Bytedance)
  • Ziyuan Luo (Master, 2021 -> Kwai)
  • Jiahua Xu (Master, 2021 -> Tencent, National Scholarship, Outstanding Master Thesis Award)
  • Ya Zhou (Master, 2020 -> Kwai)
  • Likun Shi (Master, 2019 -> SenseTime)
  • Xinyu Tang (Undergraduate, 2019 -> Princeton PhD, Guo Moruo Scholarship)
  • Chaoyi Lin (Master, 2018 -> Hikvision)

Internal Collaborators

External Collaborators