Profile:

  • Runmin Cong (IEEE/CCF/CSIG/CIE Senior Member, ACM/APSIPA IVM Member) is currently a Professor with the School of Control Science and Engineering, Shandong University (SDU), Jinan, China. He received the Ph.D. degree in information and communication engineering from Tianjin University, Tianjin, China, in June 2019. Before joining SDU, he was an Associate Professor with the Institute of Information Science, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, China. He was a visiting student/staff at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, and City University of Hong Kong (CityU), Hong Kong SAR. His research interests include computer vision, machine learning, multimedia processing and understanding, saliency computation, remote sensing image interpretation and analysis, and visual content enhancement in an open environment, etc. He has published more than 100 papers in prestigious international journals and conferences, including 84 IEEE/ACM Trans/CCF-A papers, 2 ESI hot papers (Top 0.1%), 17 ESI highly cited papers (Top 1%), 21 papers were selected as IEEE Popular Documents, and 34 China patents have been authorized. He serves/served as an Associate Editor/Editorial Board Member of the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, the Neurocomputing, the IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering, the Signal, Image and Video Processing, International Journal of Interactive Multimedia and Artificial Intelligence, the Youth Editorial Board Member of the CAAI Transactions on Intelligence Technology, the Guest Editor of the IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering, Drones, the Signal Processing: Image Communication, and the Multimedia Tools and Applications, and the AC/SPC/PC of NeurIPS, CVPR, ICML, ICCV, ECCV, SIGGRAPH, ACM MM, AAAI, IJCAI, ICME, ICPR, PRCV, ICMR, etc. Dr. Cong was a recipient of the Young Elite Scientist Sponsorship Program by the China Association for Science and Technology, the Taishan Scholar Project of Shandong Province, the Beijing Nova Program, the World’s Top 2% Scientists (2020, 2021), the Youth Talent Development Program of Beijing Jiaotong University, IEEE Chester W. Sall Memorial Award, Winner of ECCV 2024-LSVOS Referring Video Object Segmentation (RVOS) Challenge, Runner-Up of IEEE CVPR 2024-NTIRE Stereo Image Super-Resolution Challenge (Track 1), IEEE ICME Best Student Paper Award Runner-Up, Second Prize of CSIG Natural Science Award, First Prize for Scientific and Technological Progress Award of Tianjin Municipality, ACM SIGWEB China Rising Star Award, IEEE CVPR 2021 Outstanding Reviewer, 2021 IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering Outstanding Reviewer, Excellent Doctorial Dissertation Award from CSIG and BSIG, Excellent Scientific Paper Award for Beijing Youth.

Education & Work Experience:

  • 2023/01-Now: Professor, Doctoral Supervisor
    School of Control Science and Engineering
    Shandong University (SDU), Jinan, China
    Team Leader: “Chang Jiang Scholars Program” Professor Wei Zhang
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  • 2019/07-2022/12: Associate Professor
    Institute of Information Science (IIS), Center of Digital Media Information Processing (MePro)
    Beijing Key Laboratory of Advanced Information Science and Network Technology
    Beijing Jiaotong University (BJTU), Beijing, China
    Team Leader: “Chang Jiang Scholars Program” Professor Yao Zhao (IEEE Fellow)
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  • 2018/05-2019/05: Research Associate
    Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong (CityU), Hong Kong SAR
    Advisor: Chair Prof. Sam Kwong (HKAES/NAI Fellow, IEEE Fellow)
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  • 2016/12-2017/02: Research Assistant
    School of Computer Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore
    Advisor: Prof. Weisi Lin (IEEE/IET Fellow)
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  • 2015/09-2019/06: Ph.D.
    Information and Communication Engineering, Tianjin University (TJU), Tianjin, China
    Thesis: Research on Visual Saliency Detection with Comprehensive Information
    Supervisor: Chair Prof. Qingming Huang (IEEE Fellow) and Chair Prof. Jianjun Lei

Research Interests:

  • Attention Perception and Saliency Computation:
    Exploring the salient object detection and segmentation solutions for RGB images, RGB-D images, related image groups, video sequences, light field images, 360° panoramic images, etc.
  • Visual Content Enhancement in An Open Environment:
    Exploring various content enhancement issues in different environments, including the quality assessment/enhancement/restoration/super-resolution/reconstruction of low-light/haze/underwater/blurred/reflection/low-resolution/LDR image and video, etc.
  • Multimedia Big Data Understanding and Application:
    Exploring information processing and content understanding solutions for cross-media and cross-modal data, including referring image comprehension and segmentation, cross-media information retrieval, and visual question answering, etc.
  • Interpretation and Analysis of Remote Sensing Image:
    Exploring solutions for the classification, segmentation, retrieval, reconstruction, and detection of optical remote sensing images, hyperspectral images, radar images, UAV images, etc.
  • Advanced Machine Learning Theory and Methodology:
    Exploring machine learning related theories and practices, such as zero-shot/few-shot learning, self-supervised/weakly-supervised learning, continual learning, contrastive learning, meta learning, etc.

Research Projects:

  • (Principal Investigator) 2021-2023, The National Natural Science Foundation of China
    Project Title: Research on visual salient object detection for RGB-D data
  • (Principal Investigator) 2020-2023, The Beijing Nova Program
    Project Title: Research on stereo saliency analysis and super-resolution reconstruction empowered by deep learning
  • (Principal Investigator) 2022-2024, The Beijing Municipal Natural Science Foundation
    Project Title: Research on generation, enhancement, and application of depth data
  • (Principal Participator) 2022-2024, The National Key Research & Development Plan of China
    Project Title: Continual learning theory and method
  • (Principal Investigator) 2019-2021, The Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities
    Project Title: Research on salient object detection for multi-source and multi-modal data
  • (Principal Investigator) 2020-2021, The China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (Special Program)
    Project Title: Research on salient object detection for RGB-D images
  • (Principal Investigator) 2019-2021, The China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (General Program)
    Project Title: Research on visual saliency detection in the multi-source data context
  • (Principal Investigator) 2018-2019, Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Foundation of Tianjin University
    Project Title: Research on visual saliency detection with comprehensive information
  • (Principal Participator) 2017-2021, The National Key R&D Program of China
    Project Title: Real-time real 3D display technology for big data applications

Honors & Awards:

Academic Activities:

❈  Associate Editor/Editorial Board Member:


❈  Guest Editor:


❈  Special Session Organizer:


❈  Conference Challenge Organizer:


❈  Professional Affiliations:

  • Senior Member of IEEE (2023-), Member of IEEE (2019-2022)
  • Member of ACM (2021-)
  • Member of APSIPA Technical Committee on Image, Video, and Multimedia (APSIPA IVM) (2020-)
  • Council Member of Beijing Society of Image and Graphics (BSIG) (2021-)
  • Senior Area Chair (SAC) of the VALSE (2023-2025)
  • Executive Area Chair (EAC) of the VALSE (2021-2022)
  • Senior Member of China Society of Image and Graphics (CSIG) (2021-)
  • Senior Member of China Computer Federation (CCF) (2022-)
  • Senior Member of Chinese Institute of Electronics (CIE) (2023-)
  • Vice Secretary-General of CSIG Working Committee for Elite Young Professionals (2021-)
  • Member of CSIG Working Committee for Elite Young Professionals (2020-)
  • Member of CSIG Working Committee for International Cooperation and Exchanges (2021-)
  • Member of CSIG Technical Committee on Machine Vision (2019-)
  • Member of CSIG Technical Committee on Big Vision Data (2019-)
  • Member of CSIG Technical Committee on Transport Video (2020-)
  • Member of China Computer Federation (CCF) (2019-)
  • Member of CCF Technical Committee on Computer Vision (2020-)
  • Member of CCF Technical Committee on Multimedia Technology (2020-)
  • Member of Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence (CAAI) (2019-)
  • Member of CAAI Technical Committee on Deep Learning (2020-)
  • Member of CAAI Technical Committee on Pattern Recognition (2020-)
  • Member of CAAI Committee for Elite Young Professionals (2023-)
  • Member of Chinese Institute of Electronics (CIE) (2020-2022)
  • Member of CIE Young Scientists Club (2021-)

❈  Invited Talks:


❈  Reviewer for Journals:

  • IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI)
  • International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV)
  • IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP)
  • IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (TNNLS)
  • IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics (TCyb)
  • IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics (TIE)
  • IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (TII)
  • IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM)
  • IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT)
  • IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (TGRS)
  • IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging (TMI)
  • IEEE Transactions on Big Data (TBD)
  • IEEE Transactions on Computational Imaging (TCI)
  • IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems (TCDS)
  • IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics: Systems (TSMC)
  • IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics (TCE)
  • IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence (TETCI)
  • IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems (TAES)
  • IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence (TAI)
  • IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles (TIV)
  • ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST)
  • ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing Communications and Applications (TOMM)
  • Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (JBHI)
  • ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (PHOTO)
  • International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation (JAG)
  • IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing (JSTARS)
  • IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering (JOE)
  • IEEE Signal Processing Letters (SPL)
  • IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters (GRSL)
  • IEEE Intelligent Systems (IS)
  • Pattern Recognition (PR)
  • Neurocomputing
  • Neural Networks
  • Information Fusion
  • Information Fusion
  • SCIENCE CHINA Technological Sciences
  • SCIENCE CHINA Information Sciences
  • Pattern Recognition Letters (PRL)
  • International Journal of Remote Sensing (IJRS)
  • Image and Vision Computing Journal
  • The Visual Computer
  • IET Image Processing
  • BMC Medical Imaging

❈  Area Chair/PC Member/Reviewer for Conferences:

  • IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2021-2023
  • IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) 2021
  • European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) 2022
  • International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 2021, 2022
  • Conference and Workshop on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2020-2022, 2023(AC)
  • International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2023
  • ACM SIGGRAPH Annual Conference (SIGGRAPH) 2022
  • ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM) 2020-2022
  • AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) 2021-2022, 2023-2024 (SPC)
  • International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) 2020-2023
  • IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME) 2020, 2021 (AC), 2022, 2023 (AC)
  • International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR) 2022 (AC)
  • IEEE Visual Communications and Image Processing Conference (VCIP) 2021, 2022
  • Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference (APSIPA ASC) 2019 (AC), 2020
  • Pacific Conference on Computer Graphics and Applications (PG) 2018, 2020
  • IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR) 2018
  • International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) 2023
  • Asian Conference on Pattern Recognition (ACPR) 2017
  • International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI) 2016, 2022