Yang Yang (杨阳)
Professor
Center for Future Media
School of Computer Science and Engineering
University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
Address: 2006 Xiyuan Ave., West Hi-Tech Zone, Chengdu, Sichuan, China, 611731
Email:  yang.yang@uestc.edu.cn

Professor Yang Yang is the Vice Dean of the School of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC). He obtained his PhD degree (2013) from the University of Queensland (UQ), Australia, Master degree (2009) from Peking University and Bachelor degree (2006) from Jilin University. Before joining UESTC, he worked as a Research Fellow at National University of Singapore (NUS), collaborated with Prof Tat-Seng Chua(2012 - 2014),and as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Queensland (2014). Yang Yang received the best paper award at the 25th ACM International Conference on Multimedia, the World's FIRST 10K Best Paper Award – Platinum Award from the 18th IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo, the best student paper award from the 21st ACM International Conference on Multimedia, the best paper award honorable mention at ACM SIGIR 2016, the best paper award at Australasian Database Conference 2017, the best paper award from the 14th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering, and the best paper runner-up award from the 21st International Conference on MultiMedia Modeling. His research interests include multimedia retrieval, social media analysis, and machine learning. Till now, Prof. Yang has published over 200 papers at top international journals and conferences. He served as the chair of the ACM Multimedia 2021 program committee. In 2022, Yang Yang won the Wu Wenjun Artificial Intelligence Natural Science Award, which is the Highest Award of China Intelligent Science and Technology.

*** I am recruiting Postdoc, Intern, Research Assistant and graduate students (PhD and Master) on research topics of multimedia retrieval, computer vision, social media analysis and machine learning. If you are highly self-motivated and determined to create something innovative, please do not hesitate to drop me an email. ***

Research Interests

Selected Publications

Journal Articles:
  • Jiwei Wei, Yang Yang, Xing Xu, Jingkuan Song, Guoqing Wang, Heng Tao Shen. "Less is Better: Exponential Loss for Cross-Modal Matching".  IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT), 2023.
  • Yahui Xu, Yi Bin, Jiwei Wei, Yang Yang*, Guoqing Wang, Heng Tao Shen. "Multi-Modal Transformer with Global-Local Alignment for Composed Query Image Retrieval". IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM), 2023.
  • Zheng Wang, Xing Xu, Guoqing Wang, Yang Yang*, Heng Tao Shen. "Quaternion Relation Embedding for Scene Graph Generation". IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM), 2023.
  • Yi Bin，Yujuan Ding，Bo Peng，Liang Peng，Yang Yang*，Tat-Seng Chua. "Entity Slot Filling for Visual Captioning". IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT), 2022.
  • Jie Xu, Yazhou Ren*, Huayi Tang, Zhimeng Yang, Lili Pan, Yang Yang, Xiaorong Pu, Philip S. Yu, Lifang He. "Self-supervised discriminative feature learning for deep multi-view clustering". IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 2022.
  • Shiyuan He, Weiyang Wang, Zheng Wang, Xing Xu, Yang Yang, Xiaoming Wang*,Heng Tao Shen. "Category Alignment Adversarial Learning for Cross-modal Retrieval". IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 2022.
  • Ziqiang Zheng, Yi Bin, Xiaoou Lv, Yang Wu, Yang Yang*, Heng Tao Shen. "Asynchronous generative adversarial network for asymmetric unpaired image-to-image translation". IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM), 2022.
  • Xiang Guang, Yang Yang*, Jingjing Li; Xiaofeng Zhu, Jingkuang Song, Heng Tao Shen. "On the Imaginary Wings: Texts Assisted Complex-valued Fusion Network for Fine-Grained Visual Classification". IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (TNNLS), 2022.
  • Ziqiang Zheng, Yuanmeng Hu, Yi Bin, Xing Xu, Yang Yang*, Heng Tao Shen. "Composition-Aware Image Steganography through Adversarial Self-Generated Supervision". IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (TNNLS), 2022.
  • Xiang Guan, Yang Yang, Jingjing Li, Xiaofeng Zhu, Jingkuan Song and Heng Tao Shen. "On the Imaginary Wings: Texts Assisted Complex-valued Fusion Network for Fine-Grained Visual Classification". IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (TNNLS), 2021.
  • Jing Ma, Jun Li, Wei Gao, Yang Yang and Kam-Fai Wong. "Improving Rumor Detection by Promoting Information Campaigns with Transformer-based Generative Adversarial Learning". IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 2021.
  • Jiwei Wei, Yang Yang, Xing Xu, Xiaofeng Zhu and Heng Tao Shen. "Universal Weighting Metric Learning for Cross-Modal Retrieval". IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), 2021.
  • Xing Xu, Yifan Wang, Yixuan He, Yang Yang, Alan Hanjalic and Heng Tao Shen. "Cross-Modal Hybrid Feature Fusion for Image-Sentence Matching". ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing Communications and Applications(TOMM), 2021.
  • Xing Xu, Kaiyi Lin, Yang Yang, Alan Hanjalic and Heng Tao Shen. "Joint Feature Synthesis and Embedding: Adversarial Cross-modal Retrieval Revisited". IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), 2021.
  • Ziqiang Zheng, Zhibin Yu, Haiyong Zheng, Yang Yang and Heng Tao Shen. "One-Shot Image-to-Image Translation via Part-Global Learning with a Multi-adversarial Framework". IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM), 2021.
  • Xing Xu, Jingran Zhang, Yujie Li, Yichuan Wang, Yang Yang and Heng Tao Shen*. "Adversarial Attack against Urban Scene Segmentation for Autonomous Vehicles". IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (TII), 2021.
  • Xiang Guan, Yang Yang, Jingjing Li, Xing Xu and Heng Tao Shen. "Mind the Remainder: A Taylor’s Theorem View on Recurrent Neural Networks". IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (TNNLS), 2021.
  • Liang Peng, Yang Yang, Zheng Wang, Zi Huang and Heng Tao Shen. "MRA-Net: Improving VQA via Multi-modal Relation Attention Network". IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), 2020.
  • Liang Peng, Yang Yang, Xiaopeng Zhang, Yanli Ji, Huimin Lu and Heng Tao Shen. "Answer Again: Improving VQA with Cascaded-Answering Model". IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 2020.
  • Lei Zhang, Ji Liu, Fuxiang Huang, Yang Yang and David Zhang. "Deep-Like Hashing-in-Hash for Visual Retrieval: An Embarrassingly Simple Method". IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP), 2020.
  • Mengmeng Jing, Jidong Zhao, Jingjing Li, Lei Zhu, Yang Yang and Heng Tao Shen. "Adaptive Component Embedding for Domain Adaptation". IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics (TCYB), 2020.
  • Mengmeng Jing, Jingjing Li, Ke Lu, Lei Zhu and Yang Yang. "Learning explicitly transferable representations for domain adaptation". Neural Networks, 2020.
  • Xing Xu, Tan Wang, Yang Yang, Alan Hanjalic and Heng Tao Shen. "Radial Graph Convolutional Network for Visual Question Generation". IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (TNNLS), 2020.
  • Yadan Luo, Yang Li, Fumin Shen, Yang Yang, Peng Cui and Zi Huang. "Collaborative Learning for Extremely Low Bit Asymmetric Hashing". IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 2020.
  • Heng Tao Shen, Luchen Liu, Zi Huang, Xing Xu, Fumin Shen, Richang Hong and Yang Yang. "Exploiting Subspace Relation in Semantic Labels for Cross-modal Hashing". IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 2020.
  • Xing Xu, Tan Wang, Yang Yang, Lin Zuo, Fumin Shen and Heng Tao Shen. "Cross-Modal Attention with Semantic Consistence for Image-Text Matching". IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (TNNLS), 2020.
  • Shiyuan He, Bokun Wang, Zheng Wang, Yang Yang, Fumin Shen, Zi Huang and Heng Tao Shen. "Bidirectional Discrete Matrix Factorization Hashing for Image Search". IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics (TCYB), 2019. [Bibtex]
  • Yang Yang, Yaqian Duan, Xinze Wang, Zi Huang, Ning Xie and Heng Tao Shen. "Hierarchical Multi-Clue Modelling for POI Popularity Prediction with Heterogeneous Tourist Information". IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 2019. [Bibtex]
  • Xiaopeng Zhang, Yang Yang, Hongkai Xiong and Jiashi Feng. "PML-LocNet: Improving Object Localization with Priorinduced Multi-view Learning Network". IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP), 2019.
  • Lei Zhang, Ji Liu, Yang Yang, Fuxiang Huang, Feiping Nie, David Zhang. "Optimal Projection Guided Transfer Hashing for Image Retrieval". IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT), 2019.
  • Yanli Ji, Yue Zhan, Yang Yang, Xing Xu, Fumin Shen and Heng Tao Shen. "A Context Knowledge Map Guided Coarse-to-fine Action Recognition". IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP), 2019.
  • Hui Cui, Lei Zhu, Jingjing Li, Yang Yang and Liqiang Nie. "Scalable Deep Hashing for Large-scale Social Image Retrieval". IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP), 2019.
  • Xing Xu, Huimin Lu, Jingkuan Song, Yang Yang, Heng Tao Shen and Xuelong Li. "Ternary Adversarial Networks with Self-Supervision for Zero-Shot Cross-Modal Retrieval". IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics (TCYB), 2019.
  • Yanli Ji, Yang Yang, Fumin Shen, Heng Tao Shen and Xuelong Li. "A Survey of Human Action Analysis in HRI Applications". IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT), 2019.
  • Mengqiu Hu, Yang Yang*, Fumin Shen, Ning Xie, Richang Hong and Heng Tao Shen. "Collective Reconstructive Embeddings for Cross-modal Hashing". IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP), 2019. [Bibtex]
  • Mingxing Zhang, Yang Yang*, Hanwang Zhang, Yanli Ji, Heng Tao Shen and Tat-Seng Chua. "More is Better: Precise and Detailed Image Captioning using Online Positive Recall and Missing Concepts Mining". IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP), 2019. [Bibtex]
  • Fumin Shen, Xiang Zhou, Jun Yu, Yang Yang, Li Liu, Heng Tao Shen. "Scalable Zero-Shot Learning via Binary Visual-Semantic Embeddings". IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP), 2019.
  • Xiang Zhou, Fumin Shen, Li Liu, Wei Liu, Liqiang Nie, Yang Yang and Heng Tao Shen. "Graph Convolutional Network Hashing". IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics (TCYB), 2018.
  • Yang Yang, Jie Zhou, Jiangbo Ai, Yi Bin, Alan Hanjalic, Heng Tao Shen and Yanli Ji. "Video Captioning with Adversarial LSTM". IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP), 2018. [Bibtex]
  • Yi Bin, Yang Yang*, Fumin Shen, Ning Xie, Heng Tao Shen and Xuelong Li. "Describing Video with Attention based Bidirectional LSTM". IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics (TCYB), 2018. [Bibtex]
  • Fumin Shen, Yan Xu, Li Liu, Yang Yang, Zi Huang and Heng Tao Shen. "Unsupervised Deep Hashing with Similarity-Adaptive and Discrete Optimization". IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), 2018.
  • Mengqiu Hu, Yang Yang*, Fumin Shen, Ning Xie and Heng Tao Shen. "Hashing with Angular Reconstructive Embeddings". IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP), 2018. [Bibtex]
  • Yadan Luo, Yang Yang*, Fumin Shen, Zi Huang, Pan Zhou and Heng Tao Shen. "Robust Discrete Code Modeling for Supervised Hashing". Pattern Recognition (PR), 2018. [Bibtex]
  • Yang Yang, Fumin Shen, Zi Huang, Heng Tao Shen and Xuelong Li. "Discrete Nonnegative Spectral Clustering". IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 2017. [Bibtex]
  • Mengqiu Hu, Yang Yang*, Fumin Shen, Luming Zhang, Heng Tao Shen and Xuelong Li. "Robust Web Image Annotation via Exploring Multi-facet and Structural Knowledge". IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP), 2017. [Bibtex]
  • Fumin Shen, Yang Yang, Li Liu, Wei Liu, Dacheng Tao and Heng Tao Shen. "Asymmetric Binary Coding for Image Search". IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM), 2017.
  • Xing Xu, Fumin Shen, Yang Yang, Heng Tao Shen and Xuelong Li. "Learning Discriminative Binary Codes for Large-scale Cross-modal Retrieval". IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP), 2017.
  • Chao Li, Zi Huang, Yang Yang, Jiewei Cao, Xiaoshuai Sun and Heng Tao Shen. "Hierarchical Latent Concept Discovery for Video Event Detection". IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP), 2017.
  • Litao Yu, Yang Yang*, Zi Huang, Peng Wang, Jingkuan Song and Heng Tao Shen. "Web Video Event Recognition by Semantic Analysis from Ubiquitous Documents". IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP), 2016.
  • Fumin Shen, Xiang Zhou, Yang Yang, Jingkuan Song, Heng Tao Shen and Dacheng Tao. "A Fast Optimization Method for General Binary Code Learning". IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP), 2016.
  • Luming Zhang, Yang Yang*, Meng Wang, Liqiang Nie and Xuelong Li. "Detecting Densely Distributed Graph Patterns for Fine-grained Image Categorization". IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP), 2016.
  • Richang Hong, Yang Yang*, Meng Wang and Xian-Sheng Hua. "Learning Visual Semantic Relationships for Efficient Visual Retrieval". IEEE Transactions on Big Data (TBD), 2016.
  • Yang Yang, Fumin Shen, Heng Tao Shen, Hanxi Li and Xuelong Li. "Robust Discrete Spectral Hashing for Large-Scale Image Semantic Indexing". IEEE Transactions on Big Data (TBD), 2015. [Bibtex]
  • Yang Yang, Zhigang Ma, Yi Yang, Feiping Nie and Heng Tao Shen. "Multitask Spectral Clustering by Exploring Intertask Correlation". IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics (TCYB), 2015. [Bibtex]
  • Jingwen Bian, Yang Yang*, Hanwang Zhang and Tat-Seng Chua. "Multimedia Summarization for Social Events in Microblog Stream". IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM), 2015.
  • Shuai Liao, Xirong Li, Heng Tao Shen, Yang Yang and Xiaoyong Du. "Tag Features for Geo-Aware Image Classification". IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM), 2015.
  • Fuhao Zou, Jingkuan Song, Yang Yang, Nicu Sebe and Ke Zhou. "Compact Image Fingerprint via Multiple Kernel Hashing". IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM), 2015.
  • Xishan Zhang, Yang Yang*, Yongdong Zhang, Huanbo Luan, Jintao Li, Hanwang Zhang and Tat-Seng Chua. "Enhancing Video Event Recognition using Automatically Constructed Semantic-Visual Knowledge Base". IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM), 2015.
  • Yang Yang, Zheng-Jun Zha, Yue Gao, Xiaofeng Zhu and Tat-Seng Chua. "Exploiting Web Images for Semantic Video Indexing via Robust Sample-specific Loss". IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM), 2014. [Bibtex]
  • Hanwang Zhang, Zheng-Jun Zha, Yang Yang*, Shuicheng Yan and Tat-Seng Chua. "Robust (Semi-) Nonnegative Graph Embedding". IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP), 2014.
  • Hanwang Zhang, Zheng-Jun Zha, Yang Yang, Shuicheng Yan, Yue Gao and Tat-Seng Chua. "Attribute-augmented Semantic Hierarchy: Towards Bridging Semantic Gap and Intention Gap in Image Retrieval". ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications (TOMM), 2014.
  • Jingkuan Song, Yi Yang, Xuelong Li, Zi Huang and Yang Yang. "Robust Hashing with Local Models for Effective Similarity Search". IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics (TCYB), 2014.
  • Yang Yang, Yi Yang, Yanchun Zhang, Xiaoyong Du, Heng Tao Shen and Xiaofang Zhou. "Discriminative Nonnegative Spectral Clustering with Out-of-Sample Extension". IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 2013.
  • Yang Yang, Zi Huang, Yi Yang, Heng Tao Shen and Jiebo Luo. "Local Image Tagging via Graph Regularized Joint Group Sparsity". Pattern Recognition (PR), 2013.
  • Yang Yang, Yi Yang and Heng Tao Shen. "Effective Transfer Tagging from Image to Video". ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications (TOMM), 2013.
  • Jiajun Liu, Yi Yang, Zi Huang, Yang Yang and Heng Tao Shen. "On the Influence Propagation of Web Videos". IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 2013.
Conference Papers:
  • Zheng Wang, Zhenwei Gao, Kangshuai Guo, Yang Yang, Xiaoming Wang, Heng Tao Shen. Multilateral Semantic Relations Modeling for Image Text Retrieval. The IEEE / CVF Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR), 2023.
  • Yuhui Wu, Chen Pan, Guoqing Wang, Yang Yang, Jiwei Wei, Chongyi Li, Heng Tao Shen. "Learning Semantic-Aware Knowledge Guidance for Low-Light Image Enhancement". The IEEE / CVF Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR), 2023.
  • Jialin Tian, Xing Xu*, Fumin Shen, Yang Yang, Heng Tao Shen. "TVT: Three-Way Vision Transformer through Multi-Modal Hypersphere Learning for Zero-Shot Sketch-Based Image Retrieval". The 36th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2022.
  • Lingling Gao, Yanli Ji*,Yang Yang,Heng Tao Shen. "Global-local Cross-view Fisher Discrimination for View-Invariant Action Recognition". ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM), 2022.
  • Zheng Wang,Zhenwei Gao, Xing Xu,Yadan Luo,Yang Yang*,Heng Tao Shen. "Point to Rectangle Matching for Image Text Retrieval". ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM), 2022.
  • Zeyu Ma, Yang Yang*,Guoqing Wang,Xing Xu,Heng Tao Shen,Mingxing Zhang. "Rethinking Open-World Object Detection in Autonomous Driving Scenarios". ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM), 2022.
  • Yi Bin, Wenhao Shi, Jipeng Zhang,Yujuan Ding,Yang Yang*,Heng Tao Shen. "Non-Autoregessive Cross-Modal Coherence Modelling". ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM), 2022.
  • Siyuan Li, Xing Xu*, Zailei Zhou, Yang Yang, Guoqing Wang, Heng Tao Shen. "ARRA: Absolute-Relative Ranking Attack against Image Retrieval". ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM), 2022.
  • Mingxing Zhang, Yang Yang, Xinghan Chen, Yanli Ji, Xing Xu, Jingjing Li and Heng Tao Shen. "Multi-stage Aggregated Transformer Network for Temporal Language Localization in Videos". IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2021.
  • Zeyuan Chen, Yangchao Wang, Yang Yang and Dong Liu. "PSD: Principled Synthetic-to-Real Dehazing Guided by Physical Priors". IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2021.
  • Zhaojing Luo, Shaofeng Cai, Can Cui, Beng Chin Ooi and Yang Yang. "Adaptive Knowledge Driven Regularization for Deep Neural Networks". The 35th AAAI Conference (AAAI), 2021.
  • Mengmeng Jing, Jingjing Li, Lei Zhu, Zhengming Ding, Ke Lu and Yang Yang. "Balanced Open Set Domain Adaptation via Centroid Alignment". The 35th AAAI Conference (AAAI), 2021.
  • Liang Sun, Xiang Guan, Yang Yang and Lei Zhang. "Text-Embedded Bilinear Model for Fine-Grained Visual Recognition". ACM Multimedia (ACM MM), 2020.
  • Mengmeng Jing , Jingjing Li, Ke Lu, Lei Zhu, Yang Yang and Zi Huang. "Incomplete Cross-modal Retrieval with Dual-Aligned Variational Autoencoders". ACM Multimedia (ACM MM), 2020.
  • Jingjing Li, Mengmeng Jing, Lei Zhu, Zhengming Ding, Ke Lu, Yang Yang. "Learning Modality-Invariant Latent Representations for Generalized Zero-shot Learning". ACM Multimedia (ACM MM), 2020.
  • Zhipu Liu, Lei Zhang and Yang Yang. "Hierarchical Bi-Directional Feature Perception Network for Person Re-Identification". ACM Multimedia (ACM MM), 2020.
  • Xing Xu, Jiefu Chen, Jinhui Xiao, Zheng Wang, Yang Yang and Heng Tao Shen. "Learning Optimization-based Adversarial Perturbations for Attacking Sequential Recognition Models". ACM Multimedia (ACM MM), 2020.
  • Yadan Luo, Zi Huang, Zheng Zhang, Ziwei Wang, Mahsa Baktashmotlagh and Yang Yang. "Learning from the Past: Continual Meta-Learning with Bayesian Graph Neural Networks". The 34th AAAI Conference (AAAI), 2020.
  • Jiwei Wei, Xing Xu, Yang Yang, Yanli Ji, Zheng Wang and Heng Tao Shen. "Universal Weighting Metric Learning for Cross-Modal Matching". IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2020.
  • Fuxiang Huang, Lei Zhang, Yang Yang and Xichuan Zhou. "Probability Weighted Compact Feature for Domain Adaptive Retrieval". IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2020.
  • Shaofeng Zhang, Zheng Wang, Xing Xu, Xiang Guan and Yang Yang. "Fooled by Imagination: Adversarial Attack to Image Captioning via Perturbation in Complex Domain". IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), 2020.
  • Jiwei Wei, Yang Yang, Jingjing Li, Lei Zhu, Lin Zuo and Heng Tao Shen. "Residual Graph Convolutional Networks for Zero-Shot Learning". ACM Multimedia Asia (ACM MM Asia), 2019.
  • Yadan Luo, Zi Huang, Zheng Zhang, Ziwei Wang, Jingjing Li and Yang Yang. "Curiosity-driven Reinforcement Learning for Diverse Visual Paragraph Generation". ACM Multimedia (ACM MM), 2019.
  • Tan Wang, Xing Xu, Yang Yang, Alan Hanjalic, Heng Tao Shen and Jingkuan Song. "Matching Images and Text with Multi-modal Tensor Fusion and Re-ranking". ACM Multimedia (ACM MM), 2019.
  • Liang Peng, Yang Yang, Zheng Wang, Xiao Wu and Zi Huang. "CRA-Net: Composed Relation Attention Network for Visual Question Answering". ACM Multimedia (ACM MM), 2019.
  • Yanli Ji, Feixiang Xu, Yang Yang, Ning Xie, Heng Tao Shen and Tatsuya Harada. "Attention Transfer (ANT) Network for View-invariant Action Recognition". ACM Multimedia (ACM MM), 2019.
  • Jingjing Li, Mengmeng Jing, Ke Lu, Lei Zhu, Yang Yang and Zi Huang. "Alleviating Feature Confusion for Generative Zero-shot Learning". ACM Multimedia (ACM MM), 2019.
  • Xiaopeng Zhang, Yang Yang and Jiashi Feng. "Learning to Localize Objects with Noisy Labeled Instances". The 33rd AAAI Conference (AAAI), 2019.
  • Yi Bin, Chaofan Tao, Yang Yang, Zi Huang, Jingjing Li and Heng Tao Shen. "MR-NET: Exploiting Mutual Relation for Visual Relationship Detection". The 33rd AAAI Conference (AAAI), 2019.
  • Jingjing Li, Mengmeng Jing, Ke Lu, Lei Zhu, Yang Yang and Zi Huang. "From Zero-Shot Learning to Cold-Start Recommendation". The 33rd AAAI Conference (AAAI), 2019.
  • Yanli Ji, Feixiang Xu, Yang Yang, Fumin Shen, Heng Tao Shen and Wei-Shi Zheng. "A Large Scale RGB-D Database for Arbitrary-view Human Action Recognition". ACM Multimedia (ACM MM), 2018.
  • Deqiang Ouyang, Jie Shao, Yonghui Zhang, Yang Yang and Heng Tao Shen. "Video-based Person Re-identification via Self-Paced Learning and Deep Reinforcement Learning Framework". ACM Multimedia (ACM MM), 2018.
  • Hanchao Jun, Fumin Shen, Li Liu, Yang Yang and Heng Tao Shen. "Visual Spatial Attention Network for Relationship Detection". ACM Multimedia (ACM MM), 2018.
  • Bokun Wang, Yang Yang*, Xing Xu, Alan Hanjalic and Heng Tao Shen. "Adversarial Cross-Modal Retrieval". ACM Multimedia (ACM MM), 2017. [Best Paper Award] [Code, PDF, Bibtex]
  • Ruicong Xu, Yang Yang*, Fumin Shen, Ning Xie and Heng Tao Shen. "Efficient Binary Coding for Subspace-based Query-by-Image Video Retrieval". ACM Multimedia (ACM MM), 2017.
  • Yi Bin, Yang Yang*, Jie Zhou, Zi Huang and Heng Tao Shen. "Adaptively Attending to Visual Attributes and Linguistic Knowledge for Captioning". ACM Multimedia (ACM MM), 2017.
  • Zhiwei Liu, Yang Yang*, Zi Huang, Fumin Shen, Dongxiang Zhang and Heng Tao Shen. "Event Early Embedding: Predicting Event Volume Dynamics at Early Stage". ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR), 2017. (short)
  • Yaqian Duan, Xinze Wang, Yang Yang*, Zi Huang, Ning Xie and Heng Tao Shen. "POI Popularity Prediction via Hierarchical Fusion of Multiple Social Clues". ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR), 2017. (short)
  • Fumin Shen, Yadong Mu, Yang Yang, Wei Liu, Li Liu, Jingkuan Song and Heng Tao Shen. "Classification by Retrieval: Binarizing Data and Classifier". ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR), 2017. [Best Paper Award – Honorable Mention]
  • Yahui Xu, Yang Yang*, Fumin Shen, Xing Xu, Yuxuan Zhou and Heng Tao Shen. "Attribute Hashing for Zero-Shot Image Retrieval". IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), 2017. [World's FIRST 10K Best Paper Award – Platinum Award]
  • Xin Gao, Fumin Shen, Yang Yang, Xing Xu, Hanxi Li and Heng Tao Shen. "Asymmetric Sparse Hashing". IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), 2017. [Finalist of the World’s FIRST 10K Best Paper Award]
  • Xing Xu, Fumin Shen, Yang Yang, Dongxiang Zhang, Heng Tao Shen and Jingkuan Song. "Matrix Tri-Factorization with Manifold Regularizations for Zero-shot Learning". IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2017.
  • Xiaofeng Zhu, Wei He, Yonggang Li, Yang Yang, Shichao Zhang, Rongyao Hu and Yonghua Zhu. "One-Step Spectral Clustering via Dynamically Learning Affinity Matrix and Subspace". The 31st AAAI Conference (AAAI), 2017.
  • Yang Yang, Yadan Luo, Weilun Chen, Fumin Shen, Jie Shao and Heng Tao Shen. "Zero-Shot Hashing via Transferring Supervised Knowledge". ACM Multimedia (ACM MM), 2016.
  • Yang Yang, Fumin Shen, Zi Huang and Heng Tao Shen. "A Unified Framework for Discrete Spectral Clustering". International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2016.
  • Yang Yang, Hanwang Zhang, Mingxing Zhang, Fumin Shen and Xuelong Li. "Visual Coding in a Semantic Hierarchy". ACM Multimedia (ACM MM), 2015.
  • Jiewei Cao, Zi Huang and Yang Yang. "Spatial-aware Multimodal Location Estimation for Social Images". ACM Multimedia (ACM MM), 2015.
  • Hongyun Cai, Yang Yang, Xuefei Li and Zi Huang. "What are Popular: Exploring Twitter Features for Event Detection, Tracking and Visualization". ACM Multimedia (ACM MM), 2015.
  • Fumin Shen, Wei Liu, Shaoting Zhang, Yang Yang and Heng Tao Shen. "Learning Binary Codes for Maximum Inner Product Search". IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2015.
  • Yang Yang, Yue Gao, Hanwang Zhang, Jie Shao and Tat-Seng Chua. "Image Tagging with Social Assistance". ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (ICMR), 2014.
  • Jingwen Bian, Yang Yang and Tat-Seng Chua. "Predicting Trending Messages and Diffusion Participants in Microblogging Network". ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR), 2014.
  • Xue Geng, Hanwang Zhang, Zheng Song, Yang Yang, Huanbo Luan and Tat-Seng Chua. "One of a Kind: User Profiling by Social Curation". ACM Multimedia (ACM MM), 2014.
  • Hanwang Zhang, Zheng-Jun Zha, Yang Yang, Shuicheng Yan, Yue Gao and Tat-Seng Chua. "Attributes-augmented Semantic Hierarchy for Image Retrieval". ACM Multimedia (ACM MM), 2013. [Best Student Paper Award]
  • Jingkuan Song, Yang Yang, Yi Yang, Zi Huang and Heng Tao Shen. "Inter-Media Hashing for Large-Scale Retrieval from Heterogeneous Data Sources". ACM International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD), 2013.
  • Yang Yang, Yi Yang, Zi Huang, Heng Tao Shen and Feiping Nie. "Tag Localization with Spatial Correlations and Joint Group Sparsity". IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2011.
Students
Academic Activities
  • Associate Editor, KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems, 2016-
  • Travel Grant Co-chair, ACM Multimedia, 2015
  • Associate Editor, Neurocomputing, 2015-2016
  • Guest Editor, Multmedia Tools and Applications, 2014
  • Guest Editor, Multmedia Systems, 2014
  • Guest Editor, Neurocomputing, 2014
Awards
  • Wu Wenjun Intelligent Science and Technology Award, 2022.
  • Second Class Prize in Visual Recognition & QA Task, ZhejiangLab Cup Global AI Competition 2018.
  • Best Paper Award, ACM International Conference on Multimedia (MM), 2017.
  • World's FIRST 10K Best Paper Award – Platinum Award, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), 2017.
  • Best Paper Award Honorable Mention, ACM SIGIR conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR), 2017.
  • Best Paper Award, Australasian Database Conference (ADC), 2017.
  • Best Paper Runner-up, MultiMedia Modeling (MMM), 2015.
  • First Place in Placing Task, MediaEval 2014.
  • Best Student Paper Award, ACM International Conference on Multimedia (MM), 2013.
  • Best Paper Award, International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE), 2013.
  • UQ Graduate School International Travel Award (GSITA), May 2012 - Sept 2012.
  • ITEE PhD International Living Allowance Scholarships from UQ, Sept 2009 - Sept 2012.
  • UQ International Research Tuition Award (UQIRTA), Sept 2009 - Sept 2012.
  • ARC Research Network in Enterprise Information Infrastructure Fellowship, Sept 2011 - Oct 2011.
Courses
  • Visual Big Data Analysis and Computing, Semester 1, 2017 (Lecturer)
    University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China
  • Visual Big Data Analysis and Computing, Semester 1, 2016 (Lecturer)
    University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China
  • Big Multimedia Computing: Opportunities and Challenges, Semester 1, 2016 (Guest Lecturer)
    University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China
  • Database Principles and Applications, Semester 2, 2015 (Lecturer)
    University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China
  • Multimedia Technology and Applications, Semester 1, 2014 (Guest Lecturer)
    University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China
  • Information Retrieval and Web Search, Semester 2, 2014 (Co-lecturer)
    The University of Queensland, Australia
  • Data Mining, 2011 & 2012 (Teaching Assistant)
    The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia