• [Hot] We are recruiting Ph. D students, Post-Docs and Research faculties in the field of computational neuroscience. Please contact us (yhtian AT pku dot edu dot cn)!
• [Hot] Call for Papers: Special Issue of IEEE Transactions on Multimedia “MultimediaComputing with Interpretable Machine Learning”, Extended Deadline!!!
• [Hot] The Portal of Video Analysis Contest in conjunction with the National Graduate Contest on Smart-City Technology and Creative Design

Member News:

• Prof. Yonghong Tian is appointed as Boya Distinguished Professor, School of EECS, Peking University since 2019.
• Prof. Yonghong Tian is awarded by National Science Foundation for Distinguished Young Scholars in August 2018.
• “Residual-BasedVideo Restoration for HEVC Intra Coding”, authored by Li Ma, Yonghong Tian, and Tiejun Huang, won the best paper award in IEEE 4th International Conference on Multimedia Big Data (BigMM 2018).
• Our team wins the The Second-Class Award for National Technology Innovation Award, China, in 2017! Prof. Tiejun Huang, Prof. Yonghong Tian, and Dr.  Yaowei Wang are listed as the first, second, and fifth in the awarded project.
• Prof. Yonghong Tian is appointed to the Associate Editor of the IET Smart Cities Journal since 2019!
• Prof. Yonghong Tian is appointed to the Associate Editor of the IEEE Multimedia Magazine since 2018!
• Prof. Yonghong Tian is appointed to the adjunct professor of Huazhong University of Science and Technology since 2018!
• Prof. Yonghong Tian is appointed to the Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology since 2018!
• Prof. Yonghong Tian is appointed to the Steering Committee Member of the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo. since 2018!
• Prof. Yonghong Tian is appointed to Co-Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Multimedia Data Engineering and Management (IJMDEM) since August 2017!
• Our team wins the 2016 Excellent Patent Award by the State Intellectual Property Office of China! Prof. Yonghong Tian, Dr. Mengling Jiang, and Prof. Tiejun Huang are listed as the first, second, and third inventors in the awarded patent.
• Our team wins the first prize of the 2015 Technology Innovation Award by Chinese Institute of Electronics! Prof. Yonghong Tian, Prof. Tiejun Huang, Dr.  Yaowei Wang and Prof. Wen Gao are listed as the first, second, fifth and sixth winners in the awarded project.
• “Per-sample Multiple Kernel Approach for Visual Concept Learning”, co-authored by Jingjing Yang, Yuanning Li, Yonghong Tian*, Ling-yu Duan and Wen Gao, has been selected as the winner of the 2015 EURASIP Best Paper Award for the EURASIP JOURNAL ON IMAGE AND VIDEO PROCESSING.
• Prof. Yonghong Tian is appointed to TPC Co-chair of IEEE MIPR 2018! Welcome to submission!
• Prof. Yonghong Tian is appointed to Associate Editor of IEEE Access since March 2017.
• Mr. Peixi Peng and Mrs. Shu Fang have passed their Ph. D dissertations. Congratulation!
• Prof. Tiejun Huang is awarded by National Science Foundation for Distinguished Young Scholars in August 2014.
• Prof. Yonghong Tian is appointed to Guest Editor of IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (2015), IEEE Multimedia Magazine (2016), International Journal of Multimedia Data Engineering and Management (2016) and International Journal of Semantic Computing (2016).
• Prof. Yonghong Tian is appointed to Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Multimedia since August 2014!
• Prof. Yonghong Tian is appointed to Associate Editor of the International Journal of Multimedia Data Engineering and Management (IJMDEM) since July 2015!
• Prof. Yonghong Tian is appointed to TPC Co-chair of IEEE ISM 2015! Welcome to submission!
• Prof. Yonghong Tian is appointed to TPC Co-chair of IEEE ICME 2015! Welcome to submission!
• Our team is organizing the First IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Big Data (BigMM). Prof. Tiejun Huang is appointed to General Co-chair, while Prof. Yonghong Tian is appointed to TPC Co-chair! Welcome to submission!
• Dr.Jia Li has been assigned as Associate Professor in Beihang University from July 2014.
• Dr. Luntian Mou has been assigned as a Lecture in Beijing University of Technology from July 2014.
• Dr.Jia Li, graduated from our  group, gained Chinese Academy of Sciences outstanding doctoral thesis and the  outstanding doctoral thesis in Beijing City.

Recent Publication News:

• Daoyuan Xu, Peiyin Xing, Yaowei Wang, Yonghong Tian^* Efficient and Fast Coefficient Sign Inference for Video Coding , 2019 Data Compression Conference (DCC), 2019
• Zongxian Li, Sheng Li, Lantian Xue, Yonghong Tian^*. Semi-Siamese Network for Content-based Video Relevance Prediction, 2019 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS). IEEE, 2019: 1-5
• Yiqian Chang, Yemin Shi, Yaowei Wang, Yonghong Tian^*, “Bi-directional Re-ranking for Person Re-identification”. In: IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Information Processing and Retrieval (MIPR). San Jose, CA, USA: MIPR, 2019.
• Siwei Dong ; Lin Zhu ; Daoyuan Xu ;Yonghong Tian^*; Tiejun Huang”An Efficient Coding Method for Spike Camera Using Inter-Spike Intervals.” 2019 Data Compression Conference (DCC). IEEE, 2019.
• Yihua Fu ; Jianing Li ; Siwei Dong ;Yonghong Tian^*; Tiejun Huang, Peking University. “Spike Coding: Towards Lossy Compression for Dynamic Vision Sensor.” 2019 Data Compression Conference (DCC). IEEE, 2019.
• Lin Zhu, Siwei Dong, Teijun Huang, Yonghong Tian^*. A Retiana-inspired Sampling Method for Visual Texture Reconstruction. ICME 2019
• Jianing Li, Siwei Dong, Zhaofei Yu,Teijun Huang, Yonghong Tian^*. Event-based enhanced: a joint detection framework based neuromorphic camera. ICME 2019
• Limeng Qiao, Yemin Shi, Jia Li, Yonghong Tian^*, Tiejun Huang, Yaowei Wang. Transductive Episodic-wise Adaptive Metric for Few-Shot Learning. Accepted in ICCV, 2019.
• Ma L,Tian Y^*, Xing P, Huang T. Residual-Based Post-processing for HEVC, IEEE MultiMedia 2019.
• Yu, Z., Liu, J. K., Jia, S., Zhang, Y., Zheng, J., Tian Y^*, and Huang, T., Towards the Next Generation of Retinal Neuroprosthesis: Visual Computation with Spikes. Engineering, In Press, (2019)
• Siwei Dong, Zhichao Bi, Yonghong Tian^*, Tiejun Huang, Spike Coding for Dynamic Vision Sensor in Intelligent Driving IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2019
• Yuanyuan Yang, Yonghong Tian^*, Tiejun Huang, Multiscale video sequence matching for near-duplicate detection and retrieval  Multimedia Tools and Applications, 2019
• Yonghong Tian^*, Lan Wei, Shijian Lu, Tiejun Huang, Free-view gait recognition  2019 PLOS ONE

Competition News:

• We are organizing the first BigMM Challenge. The topic of BigMM 2015 Challenge is to address the problem of large-scale object tracking over a network of multiple cameras. More details can be found in BigMM 2015 Challenge.
• We have organized the Video Analysis Contest 2014, which was held in conjunction with the first National Graduate Contest on Smart-City Technology and Creative Design that is organized by China Academic Degrees & Graduate Education Development Center (CDGDC) and the Young Center of China Association of Science and Technology (CAST) and was hosted by Beihang University. The Video Analysis Contest 2015 will be hosted by Wuhan University.
• Our results in TRECVID-ED2011. We joined in five events and we got the first place in PeopleMeet and ObjectPut. We are the second place in Embrace and Pointing.
• Our results in TRECVID-ED2010. We joined four events in all seven. We got two best results and one second place in all participators.
• Our results in TRECVID-ED2009.We’ve joined in five events and got apparent improvement in  four events compared to the results in TRECVID-ED2008.
• We also own the championship in the mission of WikipediaMM in ImageCLEF, in 2008.

Activities:

• We had a trip to Beidaihe, Hebei on June 29th and 30th, to enjoy our summer outing as well as to celebrate the graduation of our five senior fellows.
• On Oct. 27th & 28th, 2012, we had an autumn outing to Qinglong Gorge and Mutianyu Greatwall, Huairou.
• On Sept. 8th & 9th, 2018, we had an autumn outing to Shidu, Beijing