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Vision and language, 3D vision

1998 …2026

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Biography

Jianfei Cai is currently a Professor at the Faculty of IT, Monash University, where he previously served as the inaugural Head of the Data Science & AI Department. Before that, he was a full professor, a cluster deputy director of the Data Science & AI Research Center (DSAIR), Head of the Visual and Interactive Computing Division, and Head of the Computer Communications Division at Nanyang Technological University (NTU). His major research interests include computer vision, multimedia, and visual computing. He has published more than 300 technical papers in international conferences and journals. He is a co-recipient of paper awards in ACCV, ICCM, IEEE ICIP, and MMSP, and the winner of Monash FIT’s Dean's Researcher of the Year Award. He is currently on the editorial board of TPAMI and IJCV. He has served as an Associate Editor for IEEE T-IP, T-MM, and T-CSVT as well as serving as Area Chair for CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, ACM Multimedia, IJCAI, ICME, ICIP, and ISCAS. He was the Chair of IEEE CAS VSPC-TC during 2016-2018. He also served as the leading TPC Chair for IEEE ICME 2012 and the best paper award committee chair/co-chair for IEEE T-MM 2020/2019. He is the leading General Chair for ACM Multimedia 2024 and a Fellow of IEEE.

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(Personal webpage: https://jianfei-cai.github.io/)

(Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=N6czCoUAAAAJ)

(Office address: Room 201-B, 20 Exhibition Walk, Clayton VIC 3800)

(For DSAI Department matters, please send email to [email protected])

Education/Academic qualification

Electrical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy, University of Missouri Columbia

Award Date: 19 May 2002

Electrical Engineering, Master of Engineering, Southeast University (Jiangsu, China)

Award Date: 24 Apr 1997

Electrical Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Award Date: 24 Jun 1994

Research area keywords

  • visual computing
  • computer vision
  • vision and language
  • 3D imaging and analysis
  • deep learning
  • Multimedia

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  1. SDG 2 - Zero Hunger
    SDG 2 Zero Hunger
  2. SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being
    SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being
  3. SDG 7 - Affordable and Clean Energy
    SDG 7 Affordable and Clean Energy

Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years

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  • FPN-in-FPN: A Nested Multi-scale Aggregation Network for Polyp Segmentation

    Ye, J., Su, Y., Wu, Y., He, J., Zhuang, B., Chen, Z. & Cai, J., 2026, Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2025 - 28th International Conference Daejeon, South Korea, September 23–27, 2025 Proceedings, Part XI. Gee, J. C., Hong, J., Sudre, C. H., Golland, P., Park, J., Alexander, D. C., Iglesias, J. E., Venkataraman, A. & Kim, J. H. (eds.). Cham Switzerland: Springer, p. 199-208 10 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; vol. 15970).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference PaperResearchpeer-review

  • Hierarchical Prompt-Enhanced Image Generation Using Hyperbolic Space

    Chen, S., Pan, Z., Cai, J., Fang, P., Harandi, M. & Phung, D., 2026, Neural Information Processing - 31st International Conference, ICONIP 2024 Auckland, New Zealand, December 2–6, 2024 Proceedings, Part XI. Mahmud, M., Doborjeh, M., Wong, K., Leung, A. C. S., Doborjeh, Z. & Tanveer, M. (eds.). Singapore Singapore: Springer, p. 121-136 16 p. (Communications in Computer and Information Science; vol. 2292).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference PaperResearchpeer-review

  • New Multiple Sclerosis Lesion Segmentation via Calibrated Inter-patch Blending

    Ye, J., Dao, S. D., Wu, Y., George, Y., Nguyen-Duc, T., Schmidt, D. F., Shi, H., Chong, W. & Cai, J., 2026, Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2025 - 28th International Conference Daejeon, South Korea, September 23–27, 2025 Proceedings, Part XVI. Gee, J. C., Hong, J., Sudre, C. H., Golland, P., Park, J., Alexander, D. C., Iglesias, J. E., Venkataraman, A. & Kim, J. H. (eds.). Cham Switzerland: Springer, p. 365-375 11 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; vol. 15975).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference PaperResearchpeer-review

  • PanFlow: Decoupled Motion Control for Panoramic Video Generation

    Zhang, C., Liang, H., Chen, D. Y., Wu, Q., Plataniotis, K. N., Gambardella, C. C. & Cai, J., 2026, Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Koenig, S., Jenkins, C. & Taylor, M. E. (eds.). Washington DC USA: Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), p. 12385-12393 9 p. (Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence; vol. 40, no. 15).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference PaperResearchpeer-review

    Open Access
  • Differentiable Convex Polyhedra Optimization from Multi-view Images

    Ren, D., Mei, H., Shi, H., Zheng, J., Cai, J. & Yang, L., 2025, Computer Vision – ECCV 2024 - 18th European Conference Milan, Italy, September 29–October 4, 2024 Proceedings, Part IX. Leonardis, A., Ricci, E., Roth, S., Russakovsky, O., Sattler, T. & Varol, G. (eds.). Cham Switzerland: Springer, p. 251-269 19 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; vol. 15067).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference PaperResearchpeer-review