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

  • Yixiao Li (2024-present, Visiting PhD from BUAA, under the support of International Joint Funding for Doctoral Students, £14,400), Collaborated papers: IEEE TNNLS second-round review (First author), IEEE TIP under review (First author), CVPR under review (First author), IEEE ICME 2024 (First author)
  • Jiang Liu (2023-present, PhD student, CardiffU, Lead supervisor: Prof Hantao Liu), Collaborated papers: IEEE TCSVT under review (First author)
  • Yuqing Luo (Master student, CardiffU)
  • Zijie Zhang (Master student, CardiffU)
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)
  • John McNamara (Undergraduate, CardiffU)
  • Yusen Yang (Undergraduate, 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