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Jian Zhang, PhD
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Jian
Zhang is a Professor in the Faculty of
Engineering and IT at UTS working on cutting-edge research in the areas of 2D
and 3D-based computer vision, pattern recognition & data analytics,
large-scale image and video content analytics and retrieval, and multimedia and
social media signal processing.
As
Director of the Multimedia Data Analytics Lab in the Global Big Data
Technologies Centre at UTS, Jian built an award-winning, cross-disciplinary UTS
research and engineering team, uniquely focusing on computer vision research
for the Agri-food sector. He led the establishment of a solid UTS project
pipeline, from his lab research to technology development and commercialisation
pathway. These projects are funded by Australian Rural Research and Development
Corporations (RDCs) including Meat & Livestock Australia/LiveCorp and Australian Eggs.
Jian has
published more than 230 peer-reviewed papers (h-index 42, and over 6574
citations on Google Scholar) and holds 10 approved US patents. His research has
been widely cited by related research communities and he has been invited to
give keynote addresses and talks at numerous international conferences. As a
supervisor, he has also enriched the experience of five research fellows and
had 16 UTS graduated PhD students.
Jian has
led the team to regularly partner with industry to undertake R&D programs
to improve efficiency and productivity across a range of sectors. His recent
projects for the Agri-food sector include developing artificial intelligence
and video analysis to detect, segment and track livestock movements in a range
of applications for fast and accurate counting of export vessel loading and
saleyards trade; designing a fish quality assessment system in Sydney Fish
Market and collaborating with Australian Eggs to develop video-based AI
technology to alert and protect smothering from pile-up and flock movement in chicken
farms.
Since
2011, working with industry partners, he has led more than 20 research projects
worth more than $4.73 million.
From
2004 to 2011, Jian was a Principal Researcher and Project Leader at Data61
(formerly NICTA) Australia and a Conjoint Associate Professor at the School of
Computer Science and Engineering at UNSW. He led three large NICTA research
projects in the areas of computer vision, pattern recognition, and video
surveillance content analytics.
From
1997 to 2003, Jian worked at the Visual Information Processing Laboratory at
Motorola Australian Research Centre as a Principal Research Engineer and
Research Manager of Visual Communications team. While there, he worked on a
range of research projects including image processing, video coding and
communication, image segmentation, and multimedia content adaptation.
Jian
earned his PhD from the School of Information Technology and Electrical
Engineering at the University of NSW in 1999.
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Professional Activities (selected key positions)
Editorial Boards
and Editors:
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Associate Editor (2017 – 2022)
of IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (T-MM).
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Associate Editor (2006 –
2015) of IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (T-CSVT).
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Guest Editor of Computer Vision
and Image Understanding for the Special Issue (March 2016) of Individual and
Group Activities in Video Event Analysis.
·
Guest Editor of IEEE Transactions
on Multimedia (T-MM) for the Special Issue (March 2021) of ICME 2020 Selected
Papers.
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Lead Guest Editor of IEEE
Transactions on Multimedia (T-MM) for the Special Issue (March 2022) on
Learning from Noisy Multimedia Data.
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Guest Editor of IEEE Transactions
on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology for the Special Issue (March 2007)
of the Convergence of Knowledge Engineering Semantics and Signal Processing in
Audio-visual Information Retrieval.
Conference Services:
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Lead Technical Program Chair of
2008 International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP2008), Cairns,
Australia.
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Technical Area Chair of 2009
International Conference on Multimedia and Expo.
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Lead Co-general Chair of
International Conference on Digital Image Computing: Techniques and
Applications (DICTA2010), Sydney, Australia.
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Special Session Chair of 2010
International Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services
(WIAMIS2010).
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Special Session Chair of 2010
International Conference on Image Processing on Thermal Image Processing.
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Area Chair of 2011 EEE
International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP2011).
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Technical Area Chair of 2011
International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 2011).
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Lead General Chair of IEEE
International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (2012), Melbourne, Australia.
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Co-technical Program Chair of IEEE
International Conference on Visual Communication and Image Processing (2014),
Malta.
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Lead Workshop Chair
of Big Data in 3D Computer Vision at 2013 IEEE International Conference
on Computer Vision (ICCV).
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Lead Workshop Chair of Large-Scale Data
in 3D Computer Vision at 2014 Asia
Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV).
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Lead Workshop Chair
of Large-Scale Data in 3D Computer Vision at 2016 IEEE International Conference on
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and (CVPR).
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Publicity Chair of 2016
International Conference on Video Communication and Image Processing (VCIP).
·
Lead General Chair of IEEE
International Conference on Visual Communication and Image Processing (2019),
Sydney, Australia.
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Technical Area Chair of The
Thirty-Fourth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-20).
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Co-technical Program Chair of IEEE
International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (2020), London, UK.
Membership of professional associations:
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Multimedia Systems &
Applications Technical Committee (MSA TC) of IEEE Circuits and Systems Society
(2012 – present).
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Visual Signal Processing &
Communications Technical Committee (VSPC TC) of IEEE Circuits and Systems
Society (2012 – present).
·
Technical Direction Board of IEEE
Signal Processing Society (SPS, 2019-2020).