Biography

I am currently an associate professor at Xidian University, China. I completed my Ph.D. in Computer Science from City University of Hong Kong in 2020 and the B.Eng./M.Sc. in Information and Communication Engineering from Zhejiang University in 2013/2016. I have also spent time interning at Adobe Research and CASIA.

My research interests lie in the areas of computer vision and computer graphics, with special emphasis on layout modeling. Specifically, I am interested in teaching computers to understand layouts of natural scenes or graphic designs in spatial/temporal domain, and exploring the potential use in various applications such as shadow/reflection/flare detection and removal.

Selected Publications

  • Learning Object Context for Novel-view Scene Layout Generation
    Xiaotian Qiao, Gerhard Hancke, Rynson W.H. Lau
    IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2022
    PDF Project

    Distilling Reflection Dynamics for Single-Image Reflection Removal
    Quanlong Zheng, Xiaotian Qiao, Ying Cao, Shi Guo, Lei Zhang, Rynson W.H. Lau
    IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision Workshop (ICCVW), 2021
    PDF Project

    Tell Me Where I Am: Object-level Scene Context Prediction
    Xiaotian Qiao, Quanlong Zheng, Ying Cao, Rynson W.H. Lau
    IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2019 (Oral)
    PDF Project

    Content-aware Generative Modeling of Graphic Design Layouts
    Xinru Zheng*, Xiaotian Qiao*, Ying Cao, Rynson W.H. Lau (*equal contribution)
    ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH), 2019
    PDF Project

    Distraction-Aware Shadow Detection
    Quanlong Zheng, Xiaotian Qiao, Ying Cao, Rynson W.H. Lau
    IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2019
    PDF Project

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