Personal profile
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])
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
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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SDG 2 Zero Hunger
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SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being
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SDG 7 Affordable and Clean Energy
Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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MICCAI: MICCAI Society Awards for the Advancement of Health Equity
Chen, Z. (Primary Chief Investigator (PCI)), Islam, K. T. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Law, M. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Caeyensberghs, K. (Chief Investigator (CI)) & Cai, J. (Chief Investigator (CI))
17/12/25 → 16/12/26
Project: Research
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Can Machines Unlearn? : Can Machines Unlearn? Toward Next-Generation Safe Artificial Intelligence
Phung, D. (Primary Chief Investigator (PCI)), Tafazzoli Harandi, M. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Le, T. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Zhang, J. (Chief Investigator (CI)) & Cai, J. (Chief Investigator (CI))
ARC - Australian Research Council
30/05/25 → 29/05/29
Project: Research
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Adobe’s gift
Zhuang, B. (Primary Chief Investigator (PCI)) & Cai, J. (Chief Investigator (CI))
1/02/25 → 31/01/27
Project: Research
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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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Adobe Research Gift Fund: Adobe Research Gift Fund
Cai, J. (Primary Chief Investigator (PCI))
15/07/24 → 14/07/34
Project: Research
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Hierarchical Prompt-Enhanced Image Generation Using Hyperbolic Space
Chen, S., Pan, Z., Cai, J., Fang, P., Harandi, M. & Phung, D., 2026, Neural Information Processing - 31st International Conference, ICONIP 2024 Auckland, New Zealand, December 2–6, 2024 Proceedings, Part XI. Mahmud, M., Doborjeh, M., Wong, K., Leung, A. C. S., Doborjeh, Z. & Tanveer, M. (eds.). Singapore Singapore: Springer, p. 121-136 16 p. (Communications in Computer and Information Science; vol. 2292).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Paper › Research › peer-review
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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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DrVideo: Document Retrieval Based Long Video Understanding
Ma, Z., Gou, C., Shi, H., Sun, B., Li, S., Rezatofighi, H. & Cai, J., 2025, Proceedings, 2025 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR 2025. Mortensen, E. (ed.). Piscataway NJ USA: IEEE, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, p. 18936-18946 11 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Paper › Research › peer-review
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Explicit Correspondence Matching for Generalizable Neural Radiance Fields
Chen, Y., Xu, H., Wu, Q., Zheng, C., Cham, T. J. & Cai, J., Dec 2025, In: IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. 47, 12, p. 11708-11719 12 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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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)