Associate Professor Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Dr. Shiqi Yu is an Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech). He received his Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Technology from Chu Kochen Honors College, Zhejiang University in 2002 and his Ph.D. in Pattern Recognition and Intelligent Systems from the Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, in 2007.
Research: His main research areas are gait recognition and object detection. In the field of gait recognition, he created the CASIA-B gait database, which is widely used in gait recognition, and the OpenGait open-source project, which has become a major algorithm evaluation framework. He has published more than 100 papers on gait recognition in IEEE TPAMI, IEEE TIFS, IEEE TBIOM, PR, CVPR, ECCV, IJCB, etc. In terms of object detection, his face detection algorithm was adopted by numerous enterprises. Additionally, he received the second prize of the Guangdong Provincial Science and Technology Award in 2021 for his work in remote sensing image processing. He has been listed among the Top 2% Scientists (Career Long) since 2025, and Top 2% Scientists (Single Year) since 2021.
Teaching: Over the past three years, Dr. Yu has been teaching the following courses: “Advanced Programming”, “C/C++ Programming”, “Database Principles” and “Algorithm Design and Analysis.” He has authored textbooks “Image Processing and Computer Vision Practice” and “OpenCV Tutorial: Fundamentals”, and translated the book “Learning OpenCV”.
Public services: Dr. Yu currently serves as a supervisor of China Society of Image and Graphics (2020-2025, 2025-2030), Chair of IAPR TC4 (2025-2026), Vice President of IEEE Biometrics Council (2024-2025, 2026-2027), and a Board Member of the OpenCV Foundation (since 2020). He has previously served as the program chair of CCBR 2017, CCBR 2021 and IJCB 2024, as well as the general chair of CCBR 2023 and the 14th and 15th Guangdong-HK-Macao Conference on Image and Graphics. Moreover, he has been the main organizer of the IAPR/IEEE Winter School on Biometrics, held annually in Shenzhen since 2018.
Personal Profile
Office
Room 312, South Tower, CoE Building, Southern University of Science and Technology
Research Area
Computer vision, Biometrics
Educational Background
- Sep. 2002 – Nov. 2007, Ph.D. in pattern recognition and intelligent systems, National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Sep. 1998 – Jun. 2002, B.E. in computer science and engineering, Chu Kochen Honors College, Zhejiang University
Professional Experience
- Sep. 2019 - , Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology
- Oct. 2010 - Aug. 2019, Associate Professor, College of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Shenzhen University
- Jan. 2010 - Sep. 2010, Associate Professor, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Nov. 2007 - Jan. 2010, Assistant Professor, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Services
Organizations
- Memeber of the Supervision Committe, China Society of Image and Graphics, 2020-present
- Member of the Council, China Society of Image and Graphics, 2016-2020
- Chair, IEEE Guangzhou Section Biometrics Council Chapter
- Secretary, IAPR Technical Committee on Biometrics (TC4), 2019-Present
Events
- Vice Director/Local Chair, IAPR/IEEE Winter School on Biometrics 2018 to present (held in each January)
- Asia Liaison, 18th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal-Based Surveillance (AVSS 2022)
- Organzier, 3rd International Competition on Human Identification at a Distance 2022 (HID 2022)
- Sponsorship Chair, 2022 International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB 2022)
- Sponsorship Chair, 16th Chinese Conference on Biometric Recognition 2022 (CCBR 2022)
- Track Chair, Track 4: Biometrics and Human-Computer Interaction, 26th International Conference on Pattern Recognition 2022 (ICPR 2022)
- Organzier, TC4 Competition on Human Identification at a Distance 2021 (HID 2021)
- Program Chair, 2021 International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB2021)
- Organzier, TC4 Competition and Workshop on Human Identification at a Distance 2020 (HID 2020)
- Program Chair, 12th Chinese Conference on Biometric Recognition 2017 (CCBR 2017)
Journals
- Associate Editor, Pattern Recognition
Honors & Awards
- Best Practice Award in Teaching in 2018, College of Computer Science and Software engineering, Shenzhen University.
- Winner, International Contest on Pattern Recognition Techniques for Indirect Immunofluorescence Images Analysis 2016
- Winner, International Contest on Pattern Recognition Techniques for Indirect Immunofluorescence Images Analysis 2013
Research
Gait recognition, biometrics, computer vision
Teaching
CS307 Principles of Database Systems
CS205 C/C++ Program Design
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Update to date publication list: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=rcrtTYEAAAAJ&hl=en
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Join us
Updated in Oct. 2024
The team has focus on gait recognition for more than 20 years.
PhD Student:
Enrolled in September of each year.
~1 international student per year.
Research fields: gait recognition, pedestrian video synthesis,
Requirements: Good programming skills, good English writing ability, GPA should be >= 3.0 (4.0).
Requirements: The applicant should have good publications in biometrics. Otherwise the application will NOT be considered.
Contact:
If you are interested in any of the above positions, please email your CV and related materials to Prof. Shiqi Yu <yusq@sustech.edu.cn>
Contact Us
Contact Address
Room 312, South Block, Building of College of Engineering, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, 1088 Xueyuan Avenue, Nanshan, Shenzhen, 518055, China
Office Phone
+86-755-8801 5127
yusq@sustech.edu.cn