Overview
Background
My name is Xin Yu, a Senior Lecturer at the University of Queensland. I am an Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher Award 2023-2025 (DECRA) recipient and an awardee of the prestigious Google Research Scholar Program in 2021. I am also a Google Visiting Faculty. Previously, I was a research fellow at the Australian National University (ANU). I received my PhD degree from the Australian National Unversity under the supervision of Prof. Richard Hartley, Prof. Fatih Porikli and Dr. Basura Fernando. I also received a PhD degree from Tsinghua University supervised by Prof. Li Zhang. I am interested in Computer Vision and Machine Learning topics.
My research topics includes various computer vision and machine learning tasks, especially in efficient low-level image processing, image retrieval and localization, action recognition, 3D pose estimation, visual navigation and sign language recognition and translation.
Availability
- Dr Xin Yu is:
- Available for supervision
Research impacts
One of my research papers has been awarded "Best Paper Honorable Mention" award in the premium computer vision conference WACV 2020, and one paper has been nominated for the Best Paper Award in CVPR 2020.
I was awarded the Outstanding Reviewer Award in ECCV 2020, CVPR 2021 and ICCV 2021. CVPR, ICCV and ECCV are internationally world-leading computer vision and machine learning conferences. My research interests include deep learning techniques, image processing, and computer vision tasks. I am a program committee member of top-tier computer vision and machine learning conferences, such as CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, ICML, ICLR and NeurIPS, and a reviewer of prestigious journals, such as TPAMI, IJCV and TIP.
I am happy to supervise self-motivated PhD and MPhil students. If you are an undergraduate student and willing to conduct your honour project, please drop me an email.
Works
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2020
Conference Publication
Copy and Paste GAN: Face Hallucination From Shaded Thumbnails
Zhang, Yang, Tsang, Ivor W., Luo, Yawei, Hu, Chang-Hui, Lu, Xiaobo and Yu, Xin (2020). Copy and Paste GAN: Face Hallucination From Shaded Thumbnails. 2020 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Seattle, WA United States, 13-19 June 2020. Piscataway, NJ United States: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. doi: 10.1109/cvpr42600.2020.00738
2020
Conference Publication
Weakly-Supervised Salient Object Detection via Scribble Annotations
Zhang, Jing, Yu, Xin, Li, Aixuan, Song, Peipei, Liu, Bowen and Dai, Yuchao (2020). Weakly-Supervised Salient Object Detection via Scribble Annotations. 2020 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Seattle, WA United States, 13-19 June 2020. Piscataway, NJ United States: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. doi: 10.1109/cvpr42600.2020.01256
2020
Conference Publication
Word-level Deep Sign Language Recognition from Video: A New Large-scale Dataset and Methods Comparison
Li, Dongxu, Opazo, Cristian Rodriguez, Yu, Xin and Li, Hongdong (2020). Word-level Deep Sign Language Recognition from Video: A New Large-scale Dataset and Methods Comparison. IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), Snowmass, CO United States, 1-5 March 2020. Piscataway, NJ United States: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. doi: 10.1109/WACV45572.2020.9093512
2020
Conference Publication
Learning Object Relation Graph and Tentative Policy for Visual Navigation
Du, Heming, Yu, Xin and Zheng, Liang (2020). Learning Object Relation Graph and Tentative Policy for Visual Navigation. European Conference on Computer Vision ECCV 2020, Glasgow, United Kingdom, 23–28 August 2020. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-58571-6_2
2020
Conference Publication
Where am I looking at? Joint Location and Orientation Estimation by Cross-View Matching
Shi, Yujiao, Yu, Xin, Campbell, Dylan and Li, Hongdong (2020). Where am I looking at? Joint Location and Orientation Estimation by Cross-View Matching. 2020 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Online, 14-19 June 2020. Piscataway, NJ United States: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. doi: 10.1109/CVPR42600.2020.00412
2020
Conference Publication
Going Beyond Real Data: A Robust Visual Representation for Vehicle Re-identification
Zheng, Zhedong, Jiang, Minyue, Wang, Zhigang, Wang, Jian, Bai, Zechen, Zhang, Xuanmeng, Yu, Xin, Tan, Xiao, Yang, Yi, Wen, Shilei and Ding, Errui (2020). Going Beyond Real Data: A Robust Visual Representation for Vehicle Re-identification. IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition CVPRW 2020, Online, 14-19 June 2020. Piscataway, NJ United States: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. doi: 10.1109/CVPRW50498.2020.00307
2020
Conference Publication
LyRN (Lyapunov Reaching Network): A Real-Time Closed Loop approach from Monocular Vision
Zhuang, Zheyu, Yu, Xin and Mahony, Robert (2020). LyRN (Lyapunov Reaching Network): A Real-Time Closed Loop approach from Monocular Vision. 2020 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Online, 31 May - 15 June 2020. Piscataway, NJ United States: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. doi: 10.1109/icra40945.2020.9196781
2020
Conference Publication
Optimal Feature Transport for Cross-View Image Geo-Localization
Shi, Yujiao, Yu, Xin, Liu, Liu, Zhang, Tong and Li, Hongdong (2020). Optimal Feature Transport for Cross-View Image Geo-Localization. 34th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence / 32nd Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference / 10th AAAI Symposium on Educational Advances in Artificial Intelligence, New York, NY United States, 7-12 February 2020. Palo Alto, CA United States: AAAI Press.
2019
Conference Publication
Spatial-Aware Feature Aggregation for Cross-View Image based Geo-Localization
Shi, Yujiao, Liu, Liu, Yu, Xin and Li, Hongdong (2019). Spatial-Aware Feature Aggregation for Cross-View Image based Geo-Localization. 33rd Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), Vancouver, Canada, 8-14 December 2019. Maryland Heights, MO United States: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers.
2019
Journal Article
Hallucinating Unaligned Face Images by Multiscale Transformative Discriminative Networks
Yu, Xin, Porikli, Fatih, Fernando, Basura and Hartley, Richard (2019). Hallucinating Unaligned Face Images by Multiscale Transformative Discriminative Networks. International Journal of Computer Vision, 128 (2), 500-526. doi: 10.1007/s11263-019-01254-5
2019
Conference Publication
SOSNet: Second Order Similarity Regularization for Local Descriptor Learning
Tian, Yurun, Yu, Xin, Fan, Bin, Wu, Fuchao, Heijnen, Huub and Balntas, Vassileios (2019). SOSNet: Second Order Similarity Regularization for Local Descriptor Learning. 32nd IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Long Beach, CA United States, 16-20 June 2019. Piscataway, NJ United States: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. doi: 10.1109/CVPR.2019.01127
2019
Journal Article
Identity-Preserving Face Recovery from Stylized Portraits
Shiri, Fatemeh, Yu, Xin, Porikli, Fatih, Hartley, Richard and Koniusz, Piotr (2019). Identity-Preserving Face Recovery from Stylized Portraits. International Journal of Computer Vision, 127 (6-7), 863-883. doi: 10.1007/s11263-019-01169-1
2019
Conference Publication
Recovering Faces from Portraits with Auxiliary Facial Attributes
Shiri, Fatemeh, Yu, Xin, Porikli, Fatih, Hartley, Richard and Koniusz, Piotr (2019). Recovering Faces from Portraits with Auxiliary Facial Attributes. 19th IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), Waikoloa Village, HI United States, 7-11 January 2019. Piscataway, NJ United States: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. doi: 10.1109/WACV.2019.00049
2019
Conference Publication
Bringing a Blurry Frame Alive at High Frame-Rate with an Event Camera
Pan, Liyuan, Scheerlinck, Cedric, Yu, Xin, Hartley, Richard, Liu, Miaomiao and Dai, Yuchao (2019). Bringing a Blurry Frame Alive at High Frame-Rate with an Event Camera. 32nd IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Long Beach, CA United States, 16-20 June 2019. Piscataway, NJ United States: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. doi: 10.1109/CVPR.2019.00698
2019
Conference Publication
Unsupervised Extraction of Local Image Descriptors via Relative Distance Ranking Loss
Yu, Xin, Tian, Yurun, Porikli, Fatih, Hartley, Richard, Li, Hongdong, Heijnen, Huub and Balntas, Vassileios (2019). Unsupervised Extraction of Local Image Descriptors via Relative Distance Ranking Loss. IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Seoul, Korea, 27 October - 2 November 2019. Piscataway, NJ United States: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. doi: 10.1109/ICCVW.2019.00351
2019
Journal Article
Single Image Depth Estimation With Normal Guided Scale Invariant Deep Convolutional Fields
Yan, Han, Yu, Xin, Zhang, Yu, Zhang, Shunli, Zhao, Xiaolin and Zhang, Li (2019). Single Image Depth Estimation With Normal Guided Scale Invariant Deep Convolutional Fields. IEEE Transactions On Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, 29 (1) 8105853, 80-92. doi: 10.1109/TCSVT.2017.2772892
2018
Journal Article
Imagining the Unimaginable Faces by Deconvolutional Networks
Yu, Xin and Porikli, Fatih (2018). Imagining the Unimaginable Faces by Deconvolutional Networks. IEEE Transactions On Image Processing, 27 (6), 2747-2761. doi: 10.1109/TIP.2018.2808840
2018
Journal Article
PMSC: PatchMatch-Based Superpixel Cut for Accurate Stereo Matching
Li, Lincheng, Zhang, Shunli, Yu, Xin and Zhang, Li (2018). PMSC: PatchMatch-Based Superpixel Cut for Accurate Stereo Matching. IEEE Transactions On Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, 28 (3), 679-692. doi: 10.1109/TCSVT.2016.2628782
2018
Conference Publication
Identity-preserving Face Recovery from Portraits
Shiri, Fatemeh, Yu, Xin, Porikli, Fatih, Hartley, Richard and Koniusz, Piotr (2018). Identity-preserving Face Recovery from Portraits. 18th IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), Lake Tahoe, NV United States, 12-15 March 2018. Piscataway, NJ United States: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. doi: 10.1109/WACV.2018.00018
2018
Conference Publication
Face Super-Resolution Guided by Facial Component Heatmaps
Yu, Xin, Fernando, Basura, Ghanem, Bernard, Porikli, Fatih and Hartley, Richard (2018). Face Super-Resolution Guided by Facial Component Heatmaps. 15th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Munich, Germany, 8-14 September 2018. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-01240-3_14
Supervision
Availability
- Dr Xin Yu is:
- Available for supervision
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Supervision history
Current supervision
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Doctor Philosophy
Enhancing Building Fire Safety by Utilising Machine Learning Techniques
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Brian Lovell
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Doctor Philosophy
The prediction, diagnosis, and severity estimation models for plant disease
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Sen Wang
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Doctor Philosophy
Two way Auslan Translation
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Helen Huang
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Doctor Philosophy
Automatic Retinal Health Monitoring through Multi-modal Medical Imaging
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Mahsa Baktashmotlagh
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Doctor Philosophy
Advancing Human Perception: Countering Evolving Malicious Fake Visual Data
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Miao Xu
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Doctor Philosophy
Understanding Human Intention and Performance
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Sen Wang
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Doctor Philosophy
Combating evolving deceptive fake visual information through deepfake detection
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Sen Wang
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Doctor Philosophy
Understanding Human Intention and Performance
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Miao Xu
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Doctor Philosophy
Human Posture Recognition Applied to Physical Activity
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Sean Tweedy
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Doctor Philosophy
Two way Auslan Translation
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Mahsa Baktashmotlagh
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Doctor Philosophy
Towards Efficient Pest Detection in Agriculture
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Sen Wang
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Doctor Philosophy
Multimodal foundation model design and analysis
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Miao Xu
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Doctor Philosophy
Data driven approaches for smart farming
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Helen Huang
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Doctor Philosophy
Remote Sensing Analysis in computer vision
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Helen Huang
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Doctor Philosophy
Enhancing Robustness and Generalizability in Computational Models
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Mahsa Baktashmotlagh
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