Associate Professor Javen Shi

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• Appointments

  Date	Position	Institution name
  2015	Senior Lecturer	University of Adelaide
  2012 - 2014	ARC DECRA fellow	University of Adelaide
  2010 - 2011	Senior Research Associate	University of Adelaide

• Awards and Achievements

  Date	Type	Title	Institution Name	Country	Amount
  2012	Award	ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award	ARC	Australia	—

• Language Competencies

  Language	Competency
  Chinese (Mandarin)	Can read, write, speak, understand spoken and peer review
  English	Can read, write, speak, understand spoken and peer review

• Education

  Date	Institution name	Country	Title
  2006 - 2010	Australian National University, Canberra	Australia	PhD
  2003 - 2006	Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an	China	Master
  1999 - 2003	Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an	China	Bachelor

• Research Interests

  Artificial Intelligence Computer Vision Knowledge Representation and Machine Learning

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• Journals

  Year	Citation
  2019	Suwanwimolkul, S., Zhang, L., Ranasinghe, D., & Shi, Q. (2019). One-step adaptive markov random field for structured compressive sensing. Signal Processing, 156, 116-144. DOI
  2019	Gong, D., Tan, M., Shi, Q., van den Hengel, A., & Zhang, Y. (2019). MPTV: matching pursuit based total variation minimization for image deconvolution. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 28(4), 1851-1865. DOI
  2019	Suwanwimolkul, S., Zhang, L., Gong, D., Zhang, Z., Chen, C., Ranasinghe, D., & Qinfeng Shi, J. (2019). An adaptive markov random field for structured compressive sensing. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 28(3), 1556-1570. DOI
  2018	Yao, R., Lin, G., Shen, C., Zhang, Y., & Shi, Q. (2018). Semantics-Aware Visual Object Tracking. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Online, 1-14. DOI
  2018	Yao, R., Lin, G., Shi, Q., & Ranasinghe, D. (2018). Efficient dense labelling of human activity sequences from wearables using fully convolutional networks. Pattern Recognition, 78, 252-266. DOI Scopus3 WoS3
  2018	Zhang, L., Wei, W., Zhang, Y., Shen, C., van den Hengel, A., & Shi, Q. (2018). Cluster sparsity field: an internal hyperspectral imagery prior for reconstruction. International Journal of Computer Vision, 126(8), 797-821. DOI Scopus16 WoS14
  2017	Shinmoto Torres, R., Shi, Q., van den Hengel, A., & Ranasinghe, D. (2017). A hierarchical model for recognizing alarming states in a batteryless sensor alarm intervention for preventing falls in older people. Pervasive and Mobile Computing, 40, 1-16. DOI Scopus3 WoS2
  2017	Yao, R., Shi, Q., Shen, C., Zhang, Y., & Van Den Hengel, A. (2017). Part-based robust tracking using online latent structured learning. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, 27(6), 1235-1248. DOI Scopus1 WoS2
  2017	Abbasnejad, M., Shi, Q., Abbasnejad, I., Hengel, A., & Dick, A. (2017). Bayesian Conditional Generative Adverserial Networks.. CoRR, abs/1706.05477.
  2016	Zhang, L., Wei, W., Zhang, Y., Shen, C., Van Den Hengel, A., & Shi, Q. (2016). Dictionary learning for promoting structured sparsity in hyperspectral compressive sensing. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 54(12), 7223-7235. DOI Scopus20 WoS17
  2015	Shi, Q., Reid, M., Caetano, T., Van Den Hengel, A., & Wang, Z. (2015). A hybrid loss for multiclass and structured prediction. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 37(1), 2-12. DOI Scopus2 WoS1
  2015	Shen, F., Shen, C., Shi, Q., Van Den Hengel, A., Tang, Z., & Shen, H. (2015). Hashing on nonlinear manifolds. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 24(6), 1839-1851. DOI Scopus78 WoS67 Europe PMC13
  2015	Li, H., Shen, C., Van Den Hengel, A., & Shi, Q. (2015). Worst case linear discriminant analysis as scalable semidefinite feasibility problems. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 24(8), 2382-2392. DOI Scopus3 WoS8
  2015	Yin, M., Gao, J., Lin, Z., Shi, Q., & Guo, Y. (2015). Dual graph regularized latent low-rank representation for subspace clustering. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 24(12), 4918-4933. DOI Scopus44 WoS33 Europe PMC6
  2014	Paisitkriangkrai, S., Shen, C., Shi, Q., & van den Hengel, A. (2014). RandomBoost: simplified multiclass boosting through randomization. IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, 25(4), 764-779. DOI Scopus6 WoS7 Europe PMC1
  2012	Gao, J., Shi, Q., & Caetano, T. (2012). Dimensionality reduction via compressive sensing. Pattern Recognition Letters, 33(9), 1163-1170. DOI Scopus23 WoS17
  2011	Shi, Q., Li, C., Wang, L., & Smola, A. (2011). Human action segmentation and recognition using discriminative semi-Markov models. International Journal of Computer Vision, 93(1), 22-32. DOI Scopus77 WoS53
  2009	Shi, Q., Petterson, J., Dror, G., Langford, J., Smola, A., & Vishwanathan, S. (2009). Hash Kernels for Structured Data. Journal of Machine Learning Research (Print), 10, 2615-2637. Scopus96
  —	Li, H., Shen, C., & Shi, Q. (n.d.). Real-time Visual Tracking Using Sparse Representation.

• Conference Papers

  Year	Citation
  2018	Abbasnejad, M. E., Dick, A. R., Shi, Q., & Hengel, A. V. D. (2018). Active learning from noisy tagged images. In Proceedings of BMVC 2018 and Workshops (pp. 1-13). Newcastle upon Tyne: BMVA Press.
  2018	Deblurring Natural Image Using Super-Gaussian Fields (2018). In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) Vol. 11205 LNCS (pp. 467-484). DOI
  2018	Yang, J., Gong, D., Liu, L., & Shi, Q. (2018). Seeing Deeply and Bidirectionally: A Deep Learning Approach for Single Image Reflection Removal. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) Vol. 11207 LNCS (pp. 675-691). DOI
  2018	Abedin Varamin, A., Abbasnejad, E., Shi, Q., Ranasinghe, D., & Rezatofighi, H. (2018). Deep Auto-Set: A Deep Auto-Encoder-Set Network for Activity Recognition Using Wearables. In MobiQuitous. New York, USA.
  2017	Gong, D., Tan, M., Zhang, Y., Van Den Hengel, A., & Shi, Q. (2017). MPGL: An efficient matching pursuit method for generalized LASSO. In Proceedings of the 31st AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 2017 (pp. 1934-1940). San Francisco: AAAI. Scopus5
  2017	Zhang, Z., Shi, Q., McAuley, J., Wei, W., Zhang, Y., Yao, R., & Van Den Hengel, A. (2017). Solving constrained combinatorial optimization problems via MAP inference without high-order penalties. In Proceedings of the 31st AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 2017 (pp. 3804-3810). San Francisco: AAAI.
  2017	Dynamic programming bipartite belief propagation for hyper graph matching (2017). In IJCAI International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (pp. 4662-4668).
  2017	Gong, D., Tan, M., Zhang, Y., Hengel, A., & Shi, Q. (2017). Self-paced kernel estimation for robust blind image deblurring. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV 2017) Vol. 2017 (pp. 1670-1679). Piscataway, NJ: IEEE. DOI Scopus6 WoS2
  2017	Liu, C., Yao, R., Rezatofighi, S., Reid, I., & Shi, Q. (2017). Multi-object model-free tracking with joint appearance and motion inference. In Y. Guo, H. Li, W. Cai, M. Murshed, Z. Wang, J. Gao, & D. Feng (Eds.), Proceedings of the International Conference on Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications (DICTA 2017) Vol. 2017-December (pp. 1-8). Piscataway, NJ: IEEE. DOI
  2017	Gong, D., Yang, J., Liu, L., Zhang, Y., Reid, I., Shen, C., . . . Shi, Q. (2017). From motion blur to motion flow: a deep learning solution for removing heterogeneous motion blur. In Proceedings of the 30th IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2017) Vol. 2017-January (pp. 3806-3815). Piscataway, NJ: IEEE. DOI Scopus7
  2016	Zhang, Z., Shi, Q., McAuley, J., Wei, W., Zhang, Y., & Van Den Hengel, A. (2016). Pairwise matching through max-weight bipartite belief propagation. In Proceedings of the 29th IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPR 2016) Vol. 2016 (pp. 1202-1210). Las Vegas, NV: IEEE. DOI Scopus15 WoS6
  2016	Gong, D., Tan, M., Zhang, Y., Van Den Hengel, A., & Shi, Q. (2016). Blind image deconvolution by automatic gradient activation. In Proceedings of the 29th IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2016) Vol. 2016-January (pp. 1827-1836). Las Vegas, NV: IEEE. DOI Scopus18 WoS9
  2016	Rezatofighi, S., Milan, A., Zhang, Z., Shi, Q., Dick, A., & Reid, I. (2016). Joint probabilistic matching using m-best solutions. In Proceedings of the 29th IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPR 2016) Vol. 2016-January (pp. 136-145). Las Vegas, NV: IEEE. DOI Scopus7 WoS4
  2016	Tan, M., Xiao, S., Gao, J., Xu, D., Van Den Hengel, A., & Shi, Q. (2016). Proximal riemannian pursuit for large-scale trace-norm minimization. In Proceedings of the I29th IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2016) Vol. 2016-January (pp. 5877-5886). Las Vegas, NV: IEEE. DOI Scopus1
  2016	Zhang, L., Wei, W., Zhang, Y., Shen, C., Van Den Hengel, A., & Shi, Q. (2016). Cluster sparsity field for hyperspectral imagery denoising. In B. Leibe, J. Matas, N. Sebe, & M. Welling (Eds.), Proceedings of the 14th European Conference on Computer Vision Vol. 9909 (pp. 631-647). Amsterdam, Netherlands: Springer International Publishing AG. DOI Scopus8 WoS7
  2016	Zhang, W. E., Tan, M., Sheng, Q. Z., Yao, L., & Shi, Q. (2016). Efficient orthogonal non-negative matrix factorization over stiefel manifold. In Proceedings of the 25th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM '16) Vol. 24-28-October-2016 (pp. 1743-1752). Indianapolis, IN, USA: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). DOI
  2016	Tan, M., Yan, Y., Wang, L., Van Den Hengel, A., Tsang, I., & Shi, Q. (2016). Learning sparse confidence-weighted classifier on very high dimensional data. In Proceedings of the 30th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence Vol. 3 (pp. 2080-2086). Phoenix, AZ: AAAI Press. Scopus1
  2015	Yan, Y., Tan, M., Tsang, I., Yang, Y., Zhang, C., & Shi, Q. (2015). Scalable maximum margin matrix factorization by active Riemannian subspace search. In Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence Vol. 2015-January (pp. 3988-3994). Buenos Aires, Argentina: AAAI Press. Scopus8 WoS3
  2015	McAuley, J., Targett, C., Shi, Q., & Van Den Hengel, A. (2015). Image-based recommendations on styles and substitutes. In Proceedings of the 38th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (pp. 43-52). Santiago, Chile: Association for Computing Machinery. DOI Scopus223 WoS76
  2015	Tan, M., Shi, Q., Van Den Hengel, A., Shen, C., Gao, J., Hu, F., & Zhang, Z. (2015). Learning graph structure for multi-label image classification via clique generation. In Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Vol. 07-12-June-2015 (pp. 4100-4109). Boston, MA: IEEE. DOI Scopus9 WoS2
  2015	Rezatofighi, S., Milan, A., Zhang, Z., Shi, Q., Dick, A., & Reid, I. (2015). Joint Probabilistic Data Association Revisited. In Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision Vol. 2015 International Conference on Computer Vision, ICCV 2015 (pp. 3047-3055). Santiago, CHILE: IEEE. DOI Scopus70 WoS29
  2015	Zhang, L., Wei, W., Zhang, Y., Li, F., Shen, C., & Shi, Q. (2015). Hyperspectral Compressive Sensing Using Manifold-Structured Sparsity Prior. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) Vol. 2015 International Conference on Computer Vision, ICCV 2015 (pp. 3550-3558). Santiago, Chile: IEEE. DOI Scopus9 WoS10
  2014	Lin, G., Shen, C., Shi, Q., Van Den Hengel, A., & Suter, D. (2014). Fast supervised hashing with decision trees for high-dimensional data. In Proceedings of 2014 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (pp. 1971-1978). Columbus, Ohio: IEEE. DOI Scopus171 WoS64
  2014	Shinmoto Torres, R., Ranasinghe, D., & Shi, Q. (2014). Evaluation of wearable sensor tag data segmentation approaches for real time activity classification in elderly. In I. Stojmenovic, Z. Cheng, & S. Guo (Eds.), Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking, and Services Vol. 131 (pp. 384-395). Tokyo, Japan: SPRINGER INT PUBLISHING AG. DOI Scopus6 WoS1
  2013	Shinmoto Torres, R., Ranasinghe, D., Shi, Q., & Sample, A. (2013). Sensor enabled wearable RFID technology for mitigating the risk of falls near beds. In Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE International Conference on RFID (pp. 191-198). United States: IEEE. DOI Scopus34 WoS14
  2013	Yao, R., Shi, Q., Shen, C., Zhang, Y., & Van Den Hengel, A. (2013). Part-based visual tracking with online latent structural learning. In Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (pp. 2363-2370). United States of America: IEEE. DOI Scopus160 WoS106
  2013	Wang, Z., Shi, Q., Shen, C., & Van Den Hengel, A. (2013). Bilinear programming for human activity recognition with unknown MRF graphs. In Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (pp. 1690-1697). United States of America: IEEE. DOI Scopus14 WoS5
  2013	Shen, F., Shen, C., Shi, Q., Van Den Hengel, A., & Tang, Z. (2013). Inductive hashing on manifolds. In Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (pp. 1562-1569). United States of America: IEEE. DOI Scopus127 WoS79
  2012	Shi, Q., Shen, C., Hill, R., & Van Den Hengel, A. (2012). Is margin preserved after random projection?. In Proceedings of the29th International Conference on Machine Learning, ICML 12 Vol. 1 (pp. 591-598). USA: Omnipress. Scopus25
  2012	Yao, R., Shi, Q., Shen, C., Zhang, Y., & Van Den Hengel, A. (2012). Robust tracking with weighted online structured learning. In Proceedings of the 2012 European Conference on Computer Vision, ECCV 2012 Vol. 7574 LNCS (pp. 158-172). Germany: Springer-Verlag. DOI Scopus20 WoS9
  2012	Li, X., Shen, C., Shi, Q., Dick, A., & Van Den Hengel, A. (2012). Non-sparse linear representations for visual tracking with online reservoir metric learning. In Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR 2012 (pp. 1760-1767). USA: IEEE. DOI Scopus62 WoS34
  2011	Li, H., Shen, C., & Shi, Q. (2011). Real-time visual tracking using compressive sensing. In Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (pp. 1305-1312). 978-1-4577-0394-2: IEEE. DOI Scopus269 WoS163
  2011	Shi, Q., Eriksson, A., Van Den Hengel, A., & Shen, C. (2011). Is face recognition really a compressive sensing problem?. In Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (pp. 553-560). USA: IEEE. DOI Scopus221 WoS139
  2010	Shi, Q., Li, H., & Shen, C. (2010). Rapid face recognition using hashing. In Proceedings of 23rd IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (pp. 2753-2760). ISA: IEEE. DOI Scopus31
  2009	Shi, Q., Zhou, L., Cheng, L., & Schuurmans, D. (2009). Discriminative maximum margin image object categorization with exact inference. In The 5th International Conference on Image and Graphics (pp. 232-237). Los Alamitos, California: IEEE Computer Society. DOI
  2009	Shi, Q., Petterson, J., Dror, G., Langford, J., Smola, A., Strehl, A., & Vishwanathan, S. (2009). Hash kernels. In D. V. Dyk, & M. Welling (Eds.), JMLR Workshop and Conference Proceedings : Volume 5: AISTATS 2009 Vol. 5 (pp. 496-503). Online: JMLR. Scopus19
  2008	Shi, Q., Wang, L., Cheng, L., & Smola, A. (2008). Discriminative human action segmentation and recognition using semi-Markov model. In 2008 IEEE conference on computer vision and pattern recognition (pp. 1-8). Online: IEEE. DOI Scopus68
  2007	Shi, Q., Altun, Y., Smola, A., & Vishwanathan, S. (2007). Semi-Markov models for sequence segmentation. In Proceedings of the 2007 Joint Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning (pp. 640-648). United States: Association for Computational Linguistics. Scopus7

University Courses 

• Artificial Intelligence (COMP SCI 3007/7059), Semester 1, 2017 (Coordinator and Lecturer)

   

• Scientific Computing (COMP SCI 1012/1012BR), Semester 1, 2017 (Lecturer)

   

• Introduction to Statistical Machine Learning (COMP SCI 4401/7401), Semester 2, 2016 (Lecturer)

   

• Introduction to Geometric Algorithms (COMP SCI 4402/4802/7402), Semester 2, 2016 (Lecturer)

   

• Scientific Computing (COMP SCI 1012/1012BR), Semester 1, 2016 (Lecturer)

   

• Introduction to Statistical Machine Learning (COMP SCI 4401/7401), Semester 2, 2015 (Coordinator and Lecturer)

   

• Artificial Intelligence (COMP SCI 3007/7059), Semester 1, 2015 (Lecturer)

   

• Scientific Computing (COMP SCI 1012/1012BR), Semester 1, 2015 (Coordinator and Lecturer)

   

• Introduction to Statistical Machine Learning (COMP SCI 4401/7401), Semester 2, 2014 (Coordinator and Lecturer)

   

• Introduction to Statistical Machine Learning (COMP SCI 4401/7401), Semester 2, 2013 (Lecturer) 

   

• Introduction to Statistical Machine Learning (COMP SCI 4401/7401), Semester 2, 2012 (Guest Lecturer) 

   

Tutorials 

Probabilistic Graphical Models

1. Representation [ pdf], ACVT, UoA, April 15, 2011 

    

2. Inference [ pdf], ACVT, UoA, May 6, 2011 

    

3. Learning [ pdf], ACVT, UoA, May 27, 2011 

    

4. Sampling-based approximate inference [ pdf], ACVT, UoA, June 10, 2011 

    

5. Temporal models [ pdf], ACVT, UoA, August 12, 2011 

    

Generalisation Bounds

1. Basics [ pdf], ACVT, UoA, April 13, 2012 

    

2. VC dimensions and bounds [ pdf], ACVT, UoA, April 27, 2012 

    

3. Rademacher complexity and bounds [ pdf], ACVT, UoA, August 17, 2012 

    

4. PAC Bayesian Bounds, [ pdf], ACVT, UoA, August 31, 2012 

    

5. Regret bounds for online learning, [ pdf], ACVT, UoA, Nov. 2, 2012 

    

Please email me if you find errors or typos in the slides.

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• Current Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)

  Date	Role	Research Topic	Program	Degree Type	Student Load	Student Name
  2018	Principal Supervisor	Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining via Generative Adversarial Networks	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Mr Amin Parvaneh
  2018	Principal Supervisor	Machine Learning and Strategic Reasoning in Financial Market	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Mr Xiongren Chen
  2018	Co-Supervisor	Application of Deep-Set Networks for Object Detection	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Ms Mahsa Ehsanpour
  2017	Principal Supervisor	Beyond "IBM WATSON": Enable Machines to Learn and Reason Knowledge	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Mr Minming Qian
  2017	Principal Supervisor	Social network analysis using statistical machine learning	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Part Time	Mrs Iman Fahmy Shoaib
  2017	Co-Supervisor	Exploiting Pervasive Computing for Elderly care	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Mr Alireza Abedin Varamin
  2016	Principal Supervisor	Deep Learning and Probabilistic Graphical Models	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Mr Jie Yang
  2016	Principal Supervisor	Markov Logic Networks. Generalisations and Applications	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Part Time	Mr Xian Wang
  2014	Principal Supervisor	Online Learning with Graphical Models'	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Mr Chongyu Liu

• Past Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)

  Date	Role	Research Topic	Program	Degree Type	Student Load	Student Name
  2015 - 2018	Principal Supervisor	Adaptive Markov Random Fields for Structured Compressive Sensing	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Miss Suwichaya Suwanwimolkul
  2014 - 2016	Co-Supervisor	Deep Learning for Multi-label Scene Classification	Master of Philosophy	Master	Full Time	Mr Junjie Zhang
  2012 - 2014	Co-Supervisor	Markov Random Fields with Unknown Heterogeneous Graphs	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Mr Zhenhua Wang

• Position: Director Probabilistic Graphical Model Group
• Phone: 83130324
• Email: javen.shi@adelaide.edu.au
• Fax: 8313 4366
• Campus: North Terrace
• Building: Ingkarni Wardli, floor 5
• Room: 5 44
• Org Unit: School of Computer Science