Biography
Currently an Associate Professor at Southeast University, affiliated with the PALM Laboratory.
I obtained my Ph.D. in Computer Science from Institute of Computing Technology (ICT), Chinese Academy of Science (CAS), in June 2020, under the supervision of Professor Shiguang Shan. During my doctoral studies, I also engaged in close research collaboration with Associate Professor Jiabei Zeng. From 2022 to 2024, I conducted full-time academic research at the City University of Hong Kong, in collaboration with Professor Antion Bert Chan), and at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, in collaboration with Professor Guan Cuntai).
In 2021, my doctoral dissertation, titled “Facial Expression Analysis in Open-World Scenarios”, was selected as one of the Top 10 Outstanding Doctoral Dissertations by the China Society of Image and Graphics (CSIG).
My research interests include artifical intelligence, multimodal understanding, generative model, affective computing.
Selected Publications
Instance-Consistent Fair Face Recognition
Yong Li, Yufei Sun, Zhen Cui, Pengcheng Shen, Shiguang Shan
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence(TPAMI), (2025).
Learning Representations for Facial Actions from Unlabeled Videos
Yong Li, Jiabei Zeng, Shiguang Shan
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), (2022).
Decoupled Doubly Contrastive Learning for Cross Domain Facial Action Unit Detection
Yong Li, Menglin Liu, Zhen Cui, Yi Ding, Yuan Zong, Wenming Zheng, Shiguang Shan, Cuntai Guan
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP), (2025).
Beyond Overfitting: Doubly Adaptive Dropout for Generalizable AU Detection
Yong Li, Yi Ren, Xuesong Niu, Yi Ding, Xiu-Shen Wei, Cuntai Guan
IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing (TAC), (2025).
Learning Attribute-Aware Hash Codes for Fine-Grained Image Retrieval via Query Optimization
Peng Wang, Yong Li, Lin Zhao, Xiu-Shen Wei
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), (2025).
EEG-Deformer: A Dense Convolutional Transformer for Brain-computer Interfaces
Yi Ding#, Yong Li#, Hao Sun, Rui Liu, Chengxuan Tong, Chenyu Liu, Xinliang Zhou, Cuntai Guan
IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (J-BHI), (2024).
Collaborative Contrastive Learning for Cross-Domain Gaze Estimation
Lifan Xia, Yong Li*, Xin Cai, Zhen Cui, Chunyan Xu, Antoni B. Chan
Pattern Recognition (PR), (2024).
Contrastive Learning of Person-independent Representations for Facial Action Unit Detection
Yong Li, Shiguang Shan
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP), (2023).
3D3M: 3D Modulated Morphable Model for Monocular Face Reconstruction
Yong Li, Qiang Hao, Jianguo Hu, Xinmiao Pan, Zechao Li, Zhen Cui
IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM), (2022).
Learning Fair Face Representation With Progressive Cross Transformer
Yong Li, Yufei Sun, Zhen Cui, Shiguang Shan, Jian Yang
Arxiv (2021), under review.
Meta Auxiliary Learning for Facial Action Unit Detection
Yong Li, Shiguang Shan
IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing (TAC), (2021).
Kinnet: Fine-to-coarse deep metric learning for kinship verification
Yong Li, Jiabei Zeng, Jie Zhang, Anbo Dai, Meina Kan, Shiguang Shan, Xilin Chen
Proceedings of the 2017 Workshop on Recognizing Families In the Wild,13-20, (2017) (keynote).
Context-dependent emotion recognition
Zili Wang, Lingjie Lao, Xiaoya Zhang, Yong Li*, Tong Zhang, Zhen Cui
(Best poster in ChinaMM (2022)).
Education
- Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
- Sep.2016 – Jun.2020
- Ph.D. student, Computer Sciences
- Zhengzhou University
- Sep.2012 – Jul.2015
- M.S., Computer Software and Theory
- Zhengzhou University
- Sep.2008 – Jul.2012
- B.S., Computer Science
Experience
- City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
- Research Fellow, 2022 - 2023
- Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
- Research Fellow, 2023 - 2024
- Baidu Inc., Beijing, China
- Software R&D Engineer, Jul. 2015 – Jul.2016
Honors
- Best Poster Award, China Multimedia Conference, 2022 (Corresponding Author, Paper Title: Context-dependent Emotion Recognition)
- Hong Kong Scholars Program Fellow, City University of Hong Kong, 2022
- Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award, China Society of Image and Graphics (CSIG), 2021 (Top 10 nationwide) [Link]
- Zhu Li Yuehua Scholarship, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS), 2019
- Champion, Kinship Verification Challenge, ACM Multimedia Conference, California, USA, 2017 [Link]
Services
- (Senior) PC Member:
- CVPR 2020-2025, ICCV 2021-2025, ECCV 2020-2024
- AAAI 2020-2024
- Reviewer:
- IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI)
- International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV)
- IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP)
- IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing (TAC)
- IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT)
- IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM)
- Pattern Recognition Journal (PR)