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Professor Jialie Shen

Professor in Computer Vision and Machine Learning

School of Science & Technology Department of Computer Science

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Overview

Professor Shen is currently a Professor in computer vision and machine learning with the Department of Computer Science, City St George's, University of London. His research spans key areas of artificial intelligence (AI), including computer vision, deep learning, machine learning, data science, and multimodal intelligence, with an emphasis on scalable, high-impact AI systems. His research results have expounded in more than 150 publications at prestigious journals and conferences (e.g,. ICML, NeurIPS, ICCV, CVPR, IJCAI, and AAAI), with several awards: the Lee Foundation Fellowship for Research Excellence Singapore, the Microsoft Mobile Plus Cloud Computing Theme Research Program Award, the Best Reviewer Award for Information Processing and Management (IP&M) 2019 and ACM Multimedia 2020, the Test of Time Reviewer Award for Information Processing and Management (IP&M) 2022, and Associate Editor with Honourable Mention for Pattern Recognition (PR) 2023/24.  Professor Shen has a strong record as a technical champion in international AI and Multimedia competitions. Professor Shen also plays active editorial and professional role within the research community, serving as Senior PC member or Area Chair for major conferences (e.g., NeurIPS, IJCAI, AAAI, SIGIR, ACM MM), and as Associate Editor, Senior Area Editor or Editorial Board Member for leading journals including Neurocomputing, IP&M, Pattern Recognition, IEEE Transactions on Big Data, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, and ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (ACM TOMM). In parallel, he has an established grant review and evaluation record, serving as an invited reviewer and panel member for major national and international funding agencies (e.g, EPSRC, AHRC, The Swiss National Science Foundation, NSERC Canada).  He is also a member of the EPSRC Peer Review College. He is Fellow of RSA and senior member of IEEE.

Qualifications

  • PhD in Computer Science, UNSW Sydney, Australia, 2006

Employment

  • Professor in Computer Vision and Machine Learning, City, University of London, United Kingdom, January 2022 - present
  • Reader, Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom, October 2018 - January 2022

Languages

Chinese (Cantonese) (can read, write, speak, understand spoken, peer review) and English (can read, write, speak, understand spoken, peer review)

Publications

Publications by category

Conference papers and proceedings (7)

  • Tan, L., Gong, J., Shen, J., Mi, Y., Zhao, G., Shen, J.... Qian, X. Sequence-augmented Conversational Recommendation System Based on Diffusion Models for Personalized Cultural Exploration. MMAsia '25: ACM Multimedia Asia.doi:10.1145/3743093.3770941
  • Jiang, X., An, B., Zou, Z., Nie, D., Shen, J., Qian, X.... Zhao, G. Ear with Eye: Lightweight Multimodal Audio-Visual Network Inspired by Bionic Structures. MM '25: The 33rd ACM International Conference on Multimedia.doi:10.1145/3746027.3755149
  • Chen, X., Li, Y., Han, Y. and Shen, J. Ex Pede Herculem, Predicting Global Actionness Curve from Local Clips. MM '25: The 33rd ACM International Conference on Multimedia.doi:10.1145/3746027.3754712
  • Shen, J., Morrison, M. and Li, Z. (2023). Scalable Multimodal Learning and Multimedia Recommendation. 2023 IEEE 9th International Conference on Collaboration and Internet Computing (CIC) 1-4 November.doi:10.1109/cic58953.2023.00027
  • Xu, G., Hao, J., Shen, L., Hu, H., Luo, Y., Lin, H.... Shen, J. LGViT: Dynamic Early Exiting for Accelerating Vision Transformer. MM '23: The 31st ACM International Conference on Multimedia.doi:10.1145/3581783.3611762
  • Xu, R., Luo, Y., Hu, H., Du, B., Shen, J. and Wen, Y. Rethinking the Localization in Weakly Supervised Object Localization. MM '23: The 31st ACM International Conference on Multimedia.doi:10.1145/3581783.3611959
  • Mo, Y., Lei, Y., Shen, J., Shi, X., Shen, H.T., Zhu, X.... Scarlett, J. Disentangled Multiplex Graph Representation Learning. .

Journal articles (17)

  • Zhan, M., Wu, Z., Yang, J., Peng, L., Shen, J. and Zhu, X. (2026). Dual transferable knowledge interaction for source-free domain adaptation. Information Processing & Management, 63(1), pp. 104302-104302. doi:10.1016/j.ipm.2025.104302

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  • Fei, H., Ji, W., Wei, Y., Zheng, Z., Shen, J., Hanjalic, A.... Zimmermann, R. (2025). Introduction to the Special Issue on Deep Multimodal Generation and Retrieval. ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications, 21(11), pp. 1-13. doi:10.1145/3762666

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  • Chen, L., Yu, H., Dong, X., Li, Y., Shen, J., Shen, J.... Xu, Q. (2025). BAUODNET for Class Imbalance Learning in Underwater Object Detection. IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence, 9(3), pp. 2452-2461. doi:10.1109/tetci.2024.3462249

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  • Zhao, C., Ling, H., Shen, J., Fang, H., Xie, S., Fang, Y.... Li, P. (2025). GSyncCode: Geometry Synchronous Hidden Code for One-step Photography Decoding. ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications, 21(2), pp. 1-21. doi:10.1145/3706060

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  • Wu, F., Zhao, G., Li, T., Shen, J. and Qian, X. (2024). Improving Conversational Recommendation System Through Personalized Preference Modeling and Knowledge Graph. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 36(12), pp. 8529-8540. doi:10.1109/tkde.2024.3421580

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  • Yan, S., Xu, L., Shu, X., Lu, Z. and Shen, J. (2024). LM-Metric: Learned pair weighting and contextual memory for deep metric learning. Pattern Recognition, 155, pp. 110722-110722. doi:10.1016/j.patcog.2024.110722

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  • Peng, L., Mo, Y., Xu, J., Shen, J., Shi, X., Li, X.... Zhu, X. (2024). GRLC: Graph Representation Learning With Constraints. IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, 35(6), pp. 8609-8622. doi:10.1109/tnnls.2022.3230979

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  • Zhao, G., Zhang, X., Tang, H., Shen, J. and Qian, X. (2024). Domain-Oriented Knowledge Transfer for Cross-Domain Recommendation. IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 26, pp. 9539-9550. doi:10.1109/tmm.2024.3394686

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  • Zhu, L., Wang, T., Li, J., Zhang, Z., Shen, J. and Wang, X. (2023). Efficient Query-based Black-box Attack against Cross-modal Hashing Retrieval. ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 41(3), pp. 1-25. doi:10.1145/3559758

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  • Wu, J., Sun, W., Gan, T., Ding, N., Jiang, F., Shen, J.... Nie, L. (2023). Neighbor-Guided Consistent and Contrastive Learning for Semi-Supervised Action Recognition. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 32, pp. 2215-2227. doi:10.1109/tip.2023.3265261

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  • Wu, L., Liu, D., Zhang, W., Chen, D., Ge, Z., Boussaid, F.... Shen, J. (2022). Pseudo-Pair Based Self-Similarity Learning for Unsupervised Person Re-Identification. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 31, pp. 4803-4816. doi:10.1109/tip.2022.3186746

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  • Zhang, L., Shen, J., Zhang, J., Xu, J., Li, Z., Yao, Y.... Yu, L. (2022). Multimodal Marketing Intent Analysis for Effective Targeted Advertising. IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 24, pp. 1830-1843. doi:10.1109/tmm.2021.3073267

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  • Zhang, L., Xu, J., Gong, Y., Yu, L., Zhang, J. and Shen, J. (2022). Unsupervised Image and Text Fusion for Travel Information Enhancement. IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 24, pp. 1415-1425. doi:10.1109/tmm.2021.3064408

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  • Gao, T., Zhu, S., Liu, J., Shen, J., Shen, J., Yang, S.... Xiong, P. (2021). A new context-aware approach for automatic Chinese poetry generation. Knowledge-Based Systems, 232, pp. 107409-107409. doi:10.1016/j.knosys.2021.107409

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  • Shi, Y., Wei, Z., Ling, H., Wang, Z., Zhu, P., Shen, J.... Li, P. (2021). Adaptive and Robust Partition Learning for Person Retrieval With Policy Gradient. IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 23, pp. 3264-3277. doi:10.1109/tmm.2020.3023272

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  • Shi, Y., Wei, Z., Ling, H., Wang, Z., Shen, J. and Li, P. (2021). Person Retrieval in Surveillance Videos Via Deep Attribute Mining and Reasoning. IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 23, pp. 4376-4387. doi:10.1109/tmm.2020.3042068

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  • Wang, L., Qian, X., Zhang, Y., Shen, J. and Cao, X. (2020). Enhancing Sketch-Based Image Retrieval by CNN Semantic Re-ranking. IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, 50(7), pp. 3330-3342. doi:10.1109/tcyb.2019.2894498

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Professional activities

Editorial activity (7)

  • IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Senior Area Editor, January 2026 - present.
  • The Fortieth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), Area Chair, 2026 - present.
  • IEEE Transactions on Big Data, Associate Editor, 2025 - present.
  • IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Associate Editor, January 2022 - December 2025.
  • Pattern Recognition, Associate Editor, 2020 - present.
  • 49th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. (Full papers and posters), Area Chair.
  • The 34th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2025), Area Chair.