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Biography
Jianfei Cai is currently a Professor at the Faculty of IT, Monash University, where he previously served as the inaugural Head of the Data Science & AI Department. Before that, he was a full professor, a cluster deputy director of the Data Science & AI Research Center (DSAIR), Head of the Visual and Interactive Computing Division, and Head of the Computer Communications Division at Nanyang Technological University (NTU). His major research interests include computer vision, multimedia, and visual computing. He has published more than 300 technical papers in international conferences and journals. He is a co-recipient of paper awards in ACCV, ICCM, IEEE ICIP, and MMSP, and the winner of Monash FIT’s Dean's Researcher of the Year Award. He is currently on the editorial board of TPAMI and IJCV. He has served as an Associate Editor for IEEE T-IP, T-MM, and T-CSVT as well as serving as Area Chair for CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, ACM Multimedia, IJCAI, ICME, ICIP, and ISCAS. He was the Chair of IEEE CAS VSPC-TC during 2016-2018. He also served as the leading TPC Chair for IEEE ICME 2012 and the best paper award committee chair/co-chair for IEEE T-MM 2020/2019. He is the leading General Chair for ACM Multimedia 2024 and a Fellow of IEEE.
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(Personal webpage: https://jianfei-cai.github.io/)
(Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=N6czCoUAAAAJ)
(Office address: Room 201-B, 20 Exhibition Walk, Clayton VIC 3800)
(For DSAI Department matters, please send email to [email protected])
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Education/Academic qualification
Electrical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy, University of Missouri Columbia
Award Date: 19 May 2002
Electrical Engineering, Master of Engineering, Southeast University (Jiangsu, China)
Award Date: 24 Apr 1997
Electrical Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Award Date: 24 Jun 1994
Research area keywords
- visual computing
- computer vision
- vision and language
- 3D imaging and analysis
- deep learning
- Multimedia
Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Google Gift: MVSplat: Efficient 3D Gaussian Splatting from Sparse Multi-View Images
Chen, Y. (Primary Chief Investigator (PCI)) & Cai, J. (Supervisor)
17/09/24 → …
Project: Research
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TMLGenAI: Trustworthy Generative AI: Towards Safe and Aligned Foundation Models
Phung, D. (Primary Chief Investigator (PCI)), Vu, T. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Qu, L. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Le, T. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Haffari, R. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Webb, G. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Nicholson, A. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Ke, Q. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Cai, J. (Chief Investigator (CI)) & Bui, T. (Chief Investigator (CI))
11/06/24 → 10/07/26
Project: Research
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Google Travel Award: Diversified and Personalized Multi-rater Medical Image Segmentation
Wu, Y. (Primary Chief Investigator (PCI)) & Cai, J. (Supervisor)
3/06/24 → 2/06/25
Project: Research
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Differentiable Convex Polyhedra Optimization from Multi-view Images
Ren, D., Mei, H., Shi, H., Zheng, J., Cai, J. & Yang, L., 2025, Computer Vision – ECCV 2024 - 18th European Conference Milan, Italy, September 29–October 4, 2024 Proceedings, Part IX. Leonardis, A., Ricci, E., Roth, S., Russakovsky, O., Sattler, T. & Varol, G. (eds.). Cham Switzerland: Springer, p. 251-269 19 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; vol. 15067).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Paper › Research › peer-review
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Diffusion Model for Robust Multi-sensor Fusion in 3D Object Detection and BEV Segmentation
Le, D.-T., Shi, H., Cai, J. & Rezatofighi, H., 2025, Computer Vision – ECCV 2024 - 18th European Conference Milan, Italy, September 29–October 4, 2024 Proceedings, Part LXVIII. Leonardis, A., Ricci, E., Roth, S., Russakovsky, O., Sattler, T. & Varol, G. (eds.). Cham Switzerland: Springer, p. 232-249 18 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; vol. 15126).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Paper › Research › peer-review
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HAC: Hash-Grid Assisted Context for 3D Gaussian Splatting Compression
Chen, Y., Wu, Q., Lin, W., Harandi, M. & Cai, J., 2025, Computer Vision – ECCV 2024 - 18th European Conference Milan, Italy, September 29–October 4, 2024 Proceedings, Part VII. Leonardis, A., Ricci, E., Roth, S., Russakovsky, O., Sattler, T. & Varol, G. (eds.). Cham Switzerland: Springer, p. 422-438 17 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; vol. 15065).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Paper › Research › peer-review
2 Citations (Scopus) -
LLMFormer: Large Language Model for Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation
Shi, H., Dao, S. D. & Cai, J., Feb 2025, In: International Journal of Computer Vision. 133, p. 742–759 18 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
8 Citations (Scopus) -
McGrids: Monte Carlo-Driven Adaptive Grids for Iso-Surface Extraction
Ren, D., Shi, H., Zheng, J. & Cai, J., 2025, Computer Vision - ECCV 2024, 18th European Conference Milan, Italy, September 29–October 4, 2024 Proceedings, Part LVII. Leonardis, A., Ricci, E., Roth, S., Russakovsky, O., Sattler, T. & Varol, G. (eds.). Cham Switzerland: Springer, p. 127-144 18 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; vol. 15115).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Paper › Research › peer-review
Prizes
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First Place Award
Sharma, G. (Recipient), Stefanov, K. (Recipient), Dhall, A. (Recipient) & Cai, J. (Recipient), 2022
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)