HONORS

  • Nicolas D. Georganas Best Paper Award, ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (TOMM), 2022. “Smart Director: An Event-Driven Directing System for Live Broadcasting,” with Yingwei Pan, Yue Chen, Qian Bao, Ning Zhang, Ting Yao, Jingen Liu.
  • Fellow of the Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence (CAAI), 2022.
  • International Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering (CAE), 2022.
  • IEEE ICME Multimedia Star Innovator Award, 2022, with Ting Yao and Wei Zhang.
  • APSIPA Industrial Distinguished Leader Award, 2019.
  • Prize Paper Award, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM), 2019. “PROVID: Progressive and Multimoda Vehicle Reidentification for Large-Scale Urban Surveillance,” with Xinchen Liu, Wu Liu, and Huadong Ma.
  • Fellow of IEEE, for contributions to multimedia analysis and applications, 2019.
  • Distinguished Industry Speaker of IEEE Signal Processing Society, 2018-2019.
  • Nicolas D. Georganas Best Paper Award, ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (TOMM), 2017. “Automatic Generation of Visual-Textual Presentation Layout,” with Xuyong Yang, Ying-Qing Xu, Yong Rui, and Shipeng Li.
  • Fellow of IAPR, for contributions to large-scale video analysis, understanding, and applications, 2016.
  • Distinguished Scientist of ACM, for contributions in large-scale video analysis, 2016.
  • Best Paper Award, IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT), 2014. “Contextual Bag-of-Words for Visual Categorization,” with Teng Li, In So Kweon, Xian-Sheng Hua.
  • Prize Paper Award, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM), 2013. “Video Annotation Through Search and Graph Reinforcement Mining,” with Emily Moxley, Bangalore S. Manjunath.
  • Best Student Paper Award, IEEE International Conference on Visual Communications and Image Processing (VCIP), 2012. “Assessing Photo Quality with Geo-context and Crowdsourced Photos,” with Wenyuan Yin and Chang Wen Chen.
  • Best Paper Award, “Visual Query Suggestion“, ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM), 2009, with Zheng-Jun Zha, Linjun Yang, Meng Wang, and Zengfu Wang.
  • Best Poster Paper Award, “When Multimedia Advertising Meets the New Internet Era,” IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP), 2008, with Xian-Sheng Hua and Shipeng Li.
  • Best Paper Award, “Correlative Multi-Label Video Annotation,” ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM), 2007, with Guo-Jun Qi, Xian-Sheng Hua, Yong Rui, Jinhui Tang, and Hong-Jiang Zhang.
  • President Scholarship, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2006.
  • Microsoft Research Fellow, Microsoft Research Asia, 2002.