Qi Wu

Associate Professor Qi Wu

Associate Prof/Reader

School of Computer and Mathematical Sciences

Faculty of Sciences, Engineering and Technology

Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD, but is currently at capacity - email supervisor to discuss availability.


Dr Qi Wu is currently an Associate Professor in the University of Adelaide and he was an ARC Senior Research Associate in the Australian Centre for Robotic Vision (ACRV) in the University of Adelaide, Australia. Before that, he works as a Postdoc Researcher in the Australian Centre for Visual Technologies (ACVT). He received an MSc in Global Computing and Media Technology, a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Bath (United Kingdom), in 2011 and 2015. His research interests include cross-depictive style object modelling, object detection and Vision-to-Language problems. He is especially interested in the problem of Image Captioning and Visual Question Answering. His image captioning model produced the best result in the Microsoft COCO Image Captioning Challenges in the last year and his VQA model is the current state-of-the-art in the area. His work has been published in prestigious journals and conferences such as TPAMI, CVPR, ICCV and ECCV.

My research interests are mainly in computer vision and machine learning. My previous research projects include modeling visual objects regardless of depictive styles and image understanding using contextual cues. I am currently leading a small team at the Adelaide to research on the topic of Vision-and-Language.

I have been in the computer vision filed for nearly 10 years and I have a strong track record in this field. Currently, I am working on the vision to language problem and I am especially an expert in the image captioning and visual question answering (VQA). In 2015, my image captioning model and VQA model achieved the leading performance in the Microsoft COCO Image Captioning Challenges and VQA Challenges. I have published several papers in the top journals such as IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), IEEE Signal Processing Magazine (SPM), Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU). I also have published several papers on the top conference, such as International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), AAAI, The Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) and the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), and so on.

  • Appointments

    Date Position Institution name
    2023 - ongoing Associate Professor University of Adelaide
    2018 - 2022 Senior Lecturer University of Adelaide, Adelaide
    2017 - 2018 ARC Senior Research Associate Australia Centre for Robotic Vision, University of Adelaide
    2015 - 2017 Senior Research Associate University of Adelaide
    2014 - ongoing Research Intern Lenovo
    2011 - 2015 PhD University of Bath
  • 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
    2011 - 2015 University of Bath United Kingdom PhD
    2010 - 2011 University of Bath United Kingdom MSc
    2006 - 2010 China Jiliang University China BSc
  • Research Interests

  • MyIP-7370, CERA grants, Anton van den Hengel, Anthony Dick, Qi Wu, Answer Me Why:Explainability is Critical if We are to Trust Automated Decision Making, 98,000 AUD

  • MyIP-7370, CERA grants, Anton van den Hengel, Anthony Dick, Qi Wu, Robust long-term Autonomous Navigation, 98,000 AUD

  • Facebook’s Research and Academic Relations Program, Peter Anderson, Qi Wu, Damien Teney, Niko Sunderhauf, Stephen Gould, Anton van den Hengel, Treasure Hunt: Natural Language N

  • Computer Vision

  • Machine Learning

  • Algorithms and Data Structure Analysis

  • Research Methods

  • Advanced Topics in Computer Science

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

    Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
    2023 Principal Supervisor Explainable Machine Learning via Examining the Vulnerability of Models Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Feng Chen
    2023 Principal Supervisor Vision-and-Language in the Wild Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Zheng Yu
    2022 Principal Supervisor Explainable Vision-and-Language Models Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Chaohan Wang
    2022 Principal Supervisor Towards Robust and Efficient Referring Expression Comprehension Master of Philosophy Master Full Time Mr Chongyang Zhao
    2022 Co-Supervisor MUDE: Mixed-reality Unified Development Environment for Context-Aware AI Automation Tasks Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Miss Xiaoyan Wei
    2022 Co-Supervisor Efficient Deep Learning on the Edge Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Xu Zhan
    2022 Principal Supervisor Spatiotemporal Multimodal Learning in Embodied AI Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Gengze Zhou
    2021 Principal Supervisor Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) to Synthesize Images or Videos from Text. Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Qi Chen
    2021 Co-Supervisor Recognizing Individual and Collective Activity Using Videos Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Bahram Mohammadi
    2020 Principal Supervisor General Vision and Language Methods in Real Applications Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Miss Yanyuan Qiao
    2020 Principal Supervisor Towards Conversational Vision-Based Artificial Intelligence Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Chaorui Deng
  • Past Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)

    Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
    2019 - 2022 Co-Supervisor Towards Optimistic, Imaginative, and Harmonious Reinforcement Learning in
    Single-Agent and Multi-Agent Environments
    Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Mahdi Kazemi Moghaddam
    2018 - 2021 Co-Supervisor Fully Convolutional Instance-level Visual Recognition Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Zhi Tian
    2018 - 2022 Co-Supervisor 3D Scene Reconstruction from A Monocular Image Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Wei Yin
    2018 - 2021 Co-Supervisor Multi-modality Data Analysis Using Deep Reinforcement Learning Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Hu Wang
    2018 - 2022 Co-Supervisor Efficient Deep Networks for Image Matting Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Ms Yutong Dai
    2017 - 2018 Co-Supervisor Text Detection and Recognition in Natural Scene Images Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mrs Hui Li
  • Position: Associate Prof/Reader
  • Phone: 83132134
  • Email: qi.wu01@adelaide.edu.au
  • Campus: North Terrace
  • Building: Australian Institute for Machine Learning, floor 1
  • Org Unit: Computer Science

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