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 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:
- 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
Jan, 2025 | ![]() |
Jan, 2025 | One paper titled [InCPL] is accepted by Pattern Recognition (PR) on Test-time prompt tuning |
Jan, 2025 | Serving as Senior Program Committee Member (SPC) in IJCAI-25 |
Dec, 2024 | I will serve as Area Chair in ICCV-25 |
Sep, 2024 | ![]() |
Feb, 2024 | One paper [VRP-SAM] is accepted by CVPR 2024 on Efficient reference image based object segmentation |
Oct, 2023 | ![]() |
Oct, 2023 | One paper [STAT] is accepted by TMM on Multi-Object Tracking |
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Papers (📖 Full list)
Services
Area Chair, ICCV 2025
Senior Program Commitee Members, IJCAI 2025
Program Commitee Members, ICLR, ICML, NeurIPS, CVPR, ICCV, AAAI, IJCAI, ACMMM, ECCV
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