Dr Jianbo Jiao PhD, FHEA, MIEEE

School of Computer Science
Associate Professor in Computer Science

Contact details

Email: j.jiao@bham.ac.uk

Address: University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Jianbo Jiao is an Associate Professor in Computer Vision and Machine Learning in the School of Computer Science at University of Birmingham. where he leads the MIx (Machine Intelligence + x) group. Before joining Birmingham, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Biomedical Image Analysis (BioMedIA) group and the Visual Geometry Group (VGG) at the University of Oxford, working on the projects SeeBiByte and VisualAI.

His research is mainly about Computer Vision and Machine Learning, especially on learning from limited supervision and multi-modal data, in an open world.

For more information, please visit Dr Jianbo Jiao’s homepage and his group page.

Biography

Jianbo’s research interests include Computer Vision and Machine Learning, with their applications to challenging and interesting vision and healthcare problems. He obtained his MSc from Peking University in 2015, and PhD in Computer Science from City University of Hong Kong in 2018, supported by the Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme. He was a visiting scholar with the Beckman Institute at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 2017 to 2018, working with Prof Thomas S. Huang. After that, He joined the BioMedIA group and VGG in Oxford as a postdoctoral researcher, where he worked on the EPSRC projects SeeBiByte and VisualAI with Prof Alison Noble and Prof Andrew Zisserman.

Jianbo is leading the MIx (Machine Intelligence + x) group, a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA), and was a Royal Society Short Industry Fellow, a recipient of the Amazon Research Award. He has been consistently publishing at top venues in computer vision and machine learning (e.g. ICCV/CVPR/ECCV/BMVC/TPAMI/IJCV/NeurIPS/AAAI, etc.), and holds 3 patents. He has also been actively contributing to the community, and served as the Associate Editor for The Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR), IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (T-CSVT), The Visual Computer (International Journal of Computer Graphics), Co-Chair of the 25th Annual Conference on Medical Image Understanding and Analysis (MIUA), Area Chair of various leading international conferences (e.g. NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ACM MM, etc.), Senior Program Committee member of the 30^th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), and on the program committee of several leading international conferences and journals. He has also been recognised by several Outstanding Reviewer Awards from the leading conferences and journals (e.g. CVPR, ECCV, ICCV, NeurIPS, ICML and MICCAI, etc).

Postgraduate supervision

Computer Vision
Machine Learning
Healthcare
AI4Science

Research

Jianbo’s research interests include Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Healthcare, and AI4Science. His current research interests mainly focus on learning representations in the open world, by exploring auxiliary information from different modalities (e.g. image/video, speech/audio, text/NLP, depth/stereo, gaze/saliency, motion, etc.) and reducing the dependency on supervision (e.g. self-supervised/weakly-supervised/semi-supervised learning, transfer learning).

More information with an updated publication list please see his Google Scholar profile.

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Liang, J, Xu, Y, Song, H, Lu, Y, Deng, Y, Long, Y, Huang, Y, Liu, S, Jiao, J & He, S 2025, 'ContX: Scene context prediction via context bank and layout perception', Pattern Recognition, vol. 168, 111852. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2025.111852

Gao, G, Zhang, A, Jiao, J, Liu, CH & Wei, Y 2025, 'PRFormer: Matching Proposal and Reference Masks by Semantic and Spatial Similarity for Few-Shot Semantic Segmentation', IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology. https://doi.org/10.1109/TCSVT.2025.3550879

Conference contribution

MacSwayne, D, Leonardis, A & Jiao, J 2025, 3D Superquadric Splatting. in 2026 IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV). IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), IEEE, 2026 IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision, Tucson, Arizona, United States, 6/03/26.

Li, H & Jiao, J 2025, An Explorative Study on Abstract Images and Visual Representations Learned from Them. in 36th British Machine Vision Conference 2025, {BMVC} 2025, Sheffield, UK, November 24-27, 2025., 495, BMVA , The 36th British Machine Vision Conference 2025, Sheffield, United Kingdom, 24/11/25. <https://bmvc2025.bmva.org/proceedings/495/>

Hu, H, Lin, D, Huang, Q, Hou, Y, Chang, HJ & Jiao, J 2025, Audio-Visual Separation with Hierarchical Fusion and Representation Alignment. in 36th British Machine Vision Conference 2025, BMVC 2025, Sheffield, UK, November 24-27, 2025., 493, BMVA , The 36th British Machine Vision Conference 2025, Sheffield, United Kingdom, 24/11/25. <https://bmvc2025.bmva.org/proceedings/493/>

Lin, D, Qu, M, Han, K, Jiao, J, Jin, X & Wei, Y 2025, A Unified Reasoning Framework for Holistic Zero-Shot Video Anomaly Analysis. in Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 38 (NeurIPS 2025). Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, vol. 38, NeurIPS, The Thirty-Ninth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems
, San Diego, California, United States, 2/12/25.

Fang, K, Zhang, A, Gao, G, Jiao, J, Liu, CH & Wei, Y 2025, CoMBO: Conflict Mitigation via Branched Optimization for Class Incremental Segmentation. in 2025 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR). Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), IEEE, pp. 25667-25676, 2025 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Nashville, Tennessee, United States, 11/06/25. https://doi.org/10.1109/CVPR52734.2025.02390

Qu, C, Chen, H & Jiao, J 2025, Exploring Image Representation with Decoupled Classical Visual Descriptors. in 36th British Machine Vision Conference 2025, {BMVC} 2025, Sheffield, UK, November 24-27, 2025., 873, BMVA , The 36th British Machine Vision Conference 2025, Sheffield, United Kingdom, 24/11/25. <https://bmvc2025.bmva.org/proceedings/873/>

Wu, J, Peng, R, Jiao, J, Yang, J, Tang, L, Xiong, K, Liang, J, Yan, J, Liu, R & Wang, R 2025, LocalDyGS: Multi-view Global Dynamic Scene Modeling via Adaptive Local Implicit Feature Decoupling. in 2025 IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV). International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), IEEE, International Conference on Computer Vision 2025, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States, 19/10/25.

Yue, J, Yang, S, Chen, T, Jiao, J & Fu, Z 2025, Multimodal Hate Detection Using Dual-Stream Graph Neural Networks. in 36th British Machine Vision Conference 2025, {BMVC} 2025, Sheffield, UK, November 24-27, 2025., 408, BMVA , The 36th British Machine Vision Conference 2025, Sheffield, United Kingdom, 24/11/25. <https://bmvc2025.bmva.org/proceedings/408/>

Zhang, K, Jiao, J & Noble, JA 2025, Out-of-Clinical-Distribution Detection with a Softmax-Conditioned Variational Autoencoder Regulariser: Application to Fetal Ultrasound. in R Su, AF Frangi & Y Zhang (eds), Proceedings of 2024 International Conference on Medical Imaging and Computer-Aided Diagnosis (MICAD 2024): Medical Imaging and Computer-Aided Diagnosis. 1 edn, Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol. 1372, Springer, pp. 558-568, 5th International Conference on Medical Imaging and Computer Aided Diagnosis, MICAD 2024, Manchester, United Kingdom, 19/11/24. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-96-3863-5_51

Yang, S, Chen, T, Singh, R, Yue, J, Jiao, J & Fu, Z 2025, Revealing Temporal Label Noise in Multimodal Hateful Video Classification. in MUWS '25: Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Multimodal Human Understanding for the Web and Social Media. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), pp. 26-34, The 4th International Workshop on Multimodal Human Understanding for the Web and Social Media, Dublin, Ireland, 28/10/25. https://doi.org/10.1145/3728481.3762164

Preprint

Qu, C, Chen, H & Jiao, J 2025 'Exploring Image Representation with Decoupled Classical Visual Descriptors' arXiv, pp. 1-14. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2510.14536

Xiong, K, Feng, Y, Zhang, Q, Jiao, J, Zhao, Y, Liang, Z, Gao, H & Wang, R 2025 'MVD-HuGaS: Human Gaussians from a Single Image via 3D Human Multi-view Diffusion Prior' arXiv, pp. 1-11. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2503.08218

Yang, S, Chen, T, Yue, J, Cheng, G, Jiao, J & Fu, Z 2025 'Reasoning-Aware Multimodal Fusion for Hateful Video Detection' arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2512.02743

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