Assoc. Prof. Ye Yuan
Shenyang University of Technology, China
Biography: YUAN Ye currently serves as an Associate Professor in the Software College of Shenyang University of Technology in China. She received her B.E. degree and Master's degree from the Zhejiang University, China, and the University of New South Wales, Australia, in 2010 and 2012, respectively. She obtained her Ph.D. from the Northeastern University, China, in 2022, and had academic exchanges at the Ritsumeikan University, Japan, during 2014-2016. Her primary research interests lie in the fields of computer vision, computer graphics and image processing. Her research works are particularly focused on image segmentation, object detection, 3D reconstruction, and super-resolution. She has authored one academic monograph and contributed numerous papers to international journals and conferences, some of which have been published in IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Pattern Recognition.
Lecturer Jiaqing Liu
Ritsumeikan University, Japan
Biography: Jiaqing Liu received his B.E. degree from Northeastern University, China, in 2016, and his M.E. and D.E. degrees from Ritsumeikan University, Japan, in 2018 and 2021, respectively. From 2020 to 2021, he was a JSPS Research Fellow for Young Scientists. From 2021 to 2022, he served as a Specially Appointed Assistant Professor at the Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research (ISIR), Osaka University, Japan. He subsequently joined Ritsumeikan University, where he is currently a Lecturer in the College of Information Science and Engineering. His research interests include multimodal artificial intelligence, computer vision, affective computing, medical and healthcare AI, and human behavior analysis. His research focuses on integrating visual, audio, textual, and physiological information to understand human states and behaviors and to develop AI-based technologies for healthcare applications.