Xinyu Zhang
The Australian Institute for Machine Learning (AIML), University of Adelaide

I am a Research Fellow at Australian Institute for Machine Learning (AIML), the University of Adelaide, founded by Centre for Augmented Reasoning (CAR). I am working closely with A/Prof. Lingqiao Liu and Prof. Anton van den Hengel.
Previously, I was a Senior Research Scientist in Baidu Inc., working closely with Chief Scientist Dr. Jingdong Wang. I earned my Ph.D from Tongji University and was a joint Ph.D student at the University of Adelaide, under the supervision of Prof. Chunhua Shen, Prof. Javen Qinfeng Shi, Prof. Anton van den Hengel and Prof. Mingyu You.
Research Topics
My research focuses on designing machine learning algorithms to understand and depict the real large-scale unstructured data, and generate and create the synthetic data to simulate the real world.
Specifically, my research topics center on Machine Learning and Computer Vision, especially in:
- Generative AI models: Image/Video generation/editing
- Foundation model pre-training: Foundation and human-centric pre-training
- Self-supervised / un-supervised / semi-supervised learning
- Object/Attribute detection/recognition; Image/Text-to-image retrieval
News
Jun, 2025 | I will serve as Area Chair in WACV 2026 |
May, 2025 | I will serve as Guest Editor in Entropy with the Special Issue [Rethinking Representation Learning in the Age of Large Models]. Call for papers! The submission deadline is 31 October 2025. |
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Jan, 2025 | One paper titled [InCPL] is accepted by Pattern Recognition on Test-time Prompt Tuning |
Jan, 2025 | Serving as Senior Program Committee Member (SPC) in IJCAI 2025 |
Dec, 2024 | I will serve as Area Chair in ICCV 2025 |
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Feb, 2024 | One paper [VRP-SAM] is accepted by CVPR 2024 on Efficient Reference Based Object Segmentation |
Papers (📖 Full list)
Services
Area Chair, ICCV 2025, WACV 2026
Outstanding Reviewer, CVPR 2025
Senior Program Commitee Members, IJCAI 2025
Registration Chair, DICTA 2025
Guest Editor, Entropy 2025 (Topic: Rethinking Representation Learning in the Age of Large Models [submission deadline: 31 October 2025])
Program Commitee Members, ICLR, ICML, NeurIPS, CVPR, ICCV, AAAI, IJCAI, ACMMM, ECCV, BMVC
Journal Reviewer, IEEE TPAMI, IJCV, IEEE TIP, TOMM, IEEE TNNLS, TMM, PR, Neurocomputing
Session Member, Award panel member in Sydney AI meetup 2024
Teaching
2020, S2 - Guest Lecturer, COMP SCI 3314: Introduction to Statistical Machine Learning, The University of Adelaide
2019, S2 - Guest Lecturer, COMP SCI 3314: Introduction to Statistical Machine Learning, The University of Adelaide
2016, S1 - Teaching Assistant, 2080387: Pattern Recognition, Tongji University
2015, S2 - Teaching Assistant, 2080214: Machine Vision, Tongji University