Academic Qualification

B.Eng from Hunan University, China

M.Eng from National University of Defense Technology, China

PhD degree from Surrey University, UK

Teaching Area

Computer Vision

Aritifical Intelligence

Machine Learning

Bioinfomatics

Research Area

Basic AI research, including graph/sequence/multimodal representation learning, self-supervised learning, generative models, and pre-training methods.

AI for Science, including AI+Life Sciences, AI+Synthetic Biology, etc.

Working Experience

Nanyang Technological University (1992-2000)

Microsoft Research Asia (2004 -2004)

Institute of Automation (2004 - 2018)

WestLake University (2019 - present)

Macau University of Science and Technology (2018 - present)

Academic Publication (selected)

Representative Publications

1.          Stan. Z. Li. Markov Random Field Modeling in Image Analysis (3rd Edition). Springer. 2011.

2.          Stan Z. Li and Anil K. Jain (eds). Handbook of Face Recognition (2nd Edition). Springer, 2011.

3.          Stan Z. Li and Anil K. Jain (eds). Encyclopedia of Biometrics. Springer, 2015.

4.          SZ Li, ZQ Zhang. Floatboost learning and statistical face detection. IEEE Transactions on pattern analysis and machine intelligence 26 (9), 1112-1123. 2004.

5.          SZ Li, RF Chu, SC Liao, L Zhang. Illumination invariant face recognition using near-infrared images. IEEE Transactions on pattern analysis and machine intelligence, 29 (4), 627-639. 2007.

6.          SZ Li, J Lu. Face recognition using the nearest feature line method. IEEE transactions on neural networks 10 (2), 439-443. 1999.

7.          SZ Li, Face recognition based on nearest linear combinations. Proc. of CVPR, pp.839-844 June 1998

8.          SZ Li, L Zhu, ZQ Zhang, A Blake, HJ Zhang, H Shum. Statistical learning of multi-view face detection. ECCV,2002.

9.          SZ Li, XW Hou, HJ Zhang, QS Cheng. Learning spatially localized, parts-based representation. CVPR 2001.

10.      S Liao, Y Hu, X Zhu, SZ Li. Person re-identification by local maximal occurrence representation and metric learning. CVPR 2015.

11.      D Yi, Z Lei, S Liao, SZ Li. Deep metric learning for person re-identification. ICPR 2014.

12.      D Yi, Z Lei, S Liao, SZ Li. Learning face representation from scratch. arXiv:1411.7923. 2014.

13.      S Liao, X Zhu, Z Lei, L Zhang, SZ Li. Learning multi-scale block local binary patterns for face recognition. ICB 2007.

14.      D Yi, Z Lei, S Liao, SZ Li. Deep metric learning for person re-identification. 22nd International Conference on Pattern Recognition, 34-39，2014.

15.      G Guo, SZ Li, K Chan. Face recognition by support vector machines. FG 2000.

2020

1.          1. Stan. Z. Li, Zelin Zang, Lirong Wu.  Markov-Lipschitz Deep Learning. arXiv:2006.08256. 2020.

2.          Siyuan Li, Haitao Lin, Zelin Zang, Lirong Wu, Jun Xia, Stan Z. Li.  Invertible Manifold Learning for Dimension Reduction. arXiv:2010.04012. 2020.

3.          Lirong Wu, Zicheng Liu, Zelin Zang, Jun Xia, Siyuan Li, Stan. Z Li.  Deep Clustering and Representation Learning that Preserves Geometric Structures. arXiv:2009.09590. 2020.

4.          Zhangyang Gao, Haitao Lin, Stan. Z Li.  Clustering Based on Graph of Density Topology. arXiv:2009.11612. 2020.

5.          Jun Xia, Haitao Lin, Yongjie Xu, Lirong Wu, Zhangyang Gao, Siyuan Li, Stan Z. Li.  Towards Robust Graph Neural Networks against Label Noise. 2020.

6.          6. Stan Z. Li, Zelin Zang, Lirong Wu.  Deep Manifold Computing and Visualization. arXiv:2010.14831. 2020.

7.          Kai Zhou, Yaoting Sun, Lu Li, Zelin Zang, …… , Stan Z. Li, Tiannan Guo. Eleven Routine Clinical Features Predict COVID-19 Severity. medRxiv:10.1101/2020.07.28.20163022. 2020.

8.          Yaoting Sun, Sathiyamoorthy Selvarajan, Zelin Zang, ……, Stan Z. Li, Tiannan Guo. Protein Classifier for Thyroid Nodules Learned from Rapidly Acquired Proteotypes. medRxiv:10.1101/2020.04.09.20059741. 2020.

9.          Fangfei Zhang, Shaoyang Yu, Lirong Wu, Zelin Zang, ……, Stan Z. Li, Tiannan Guo. Phenotype Prediction using a Tensor Representation and Deep Learning from Data Independent Acquisition Mass Spectrometry. bioRxiv:10.1101/2020.03.05.978635. 2020.

(More can be found at Stan Z. Li @Google Scholar)

2019

1.          Ajian Liu, Zichang Tan, Xuan Li, Jun Wan, Sergio Escalera, Guodong Guo, Stan Z. Li. Static and Dynamic Fusion for Multi-modal Cross-ethnicity Face Anti-spoofing[J]. arXiv preprint arXiv:1912.02340, 2019.

2.          S Zhang, X Wang, Z Lei, Stan Z. Li. Faceboxes: A CPU real-time and accurate unconstrained face detector[J]. Neurocomputing, 2019, 364: 297-309.

3.          Q Yuan, J Wan, C Lin, Y Li, Q Miao, Stan Z. Li. Global and Local Spatial-Attention Network for Isolated Gesture Recognition[C]//Chinese Conference on Biometric Recognition. Springer, Cham, 2019: 84-93.

4.          Jinchuan Xiao, Yinhang Tang, Jianzhu Guo, Yang Yang, Xiangyu Zhu, Zhen Lei, Stan Z. Li. 3DMA: A Multi-modality 3D Mask Face Anti-spoofing Database[C]//2019 16th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance (AVSS). IEEE, 2019: 1-8.

5.          S Zhang, C Chi, Z Lei, Stan Z Li. RefineFace: Refinement Neural Network for High Performance Face Detection[J]. arXiv preprint arXiv:1909.04376, 2019.

6.          Z Tan, Y Yang, J Wan, G Guo, Stan Z. Li. Deeply-learned hybrid representations for facial age estimation[C]//Proceedings of the 28th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. AAAI Press, 2019: 3548-3554.

7.          C Chi, S Zhang, J Xing, Z Lei, Stan Z. Li. X Zou. Selective refinement network for high performance face detection[C]//Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 2019, 33: 8231-8238.

8.          Shifeng Zhang, Yiliang Xie, Jun Wan, Hansheng Xia, Stan Z. Li. Guodong Guo. WiderPerson: A Diverse Dataset for Dense Pedestrian Detection in the Wild[J]. IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 2019.

9.          Jinlin Wu, Shengcai Liao, Zhen lei, Xiaobo Wang, Yang Yang, Stan Z. Li. Clustering and dynamic sampling based unsupervised domain adaptation for person re-identification[C]//2019 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME). IEEE, 2019: 886-891.

10.      Zichang Tan, Yang Yang, Jun Wan, Hanyuan Hang, Guodong Guo, Stan Z. Li. Attention-Based Pedestrian Attribute Analysis[J]. IEEE transactions on image processing, 2019, 28(12): 6126-6140.

11.      Haonan Chen, Guosheng Hu, Zhen Lei, Yaowu Chen, Neil M. Robertson, Stan Z. Li. Attention-Based Two-Stream Convolutional Networks for Face Spoofing Detection[J]. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, 2019, 15: 578-593.

12.      Yang Yang, Zhen Lei, Jinqiao Wang, Stan Z. Li. In Defense of Color Names for Small-Scale Person Re-Identification[C]//2019 International Conference on Biometrics (ICB). IEEE, 2019: 1-6.

13.      Haibo Jin, Shifeng Zhang, Xiangyu Zhu, Yinhang Tang, Zhen Lei, Stan Z. Li. Learning Lightweight Face Detector with Knowledge Distillation[C]//2019 International Conference on Biometrics (ICB). IEEE, 2019: 1-7.

14.      S Zhang, L Wen, H Shi, Z Lei, S Lyu, Stan Z. Li. Single-shot scale-aware network for real-time face detection[J]. International Journal of Computer Vision, 2019, 127(6-7): 537-559.

15.      Xiangyu Zhu, Hao Liu, Zhen Lei, Hailin Shi, Fan Yang, Dong Yi, Guojun Qi, Stan Z. Li. Large-scale bisample learning on id versus spot face recognition[J]. International Journal of Computer Vision, 2019, 127(6-7): 684-700.

16.      Xuxin Lin, Yanyan Liang, Jun Wan, Chi Lin, Stan Z. Li. Region-Based Context Enhanced Network for Robust Multiple Face Alignment[J]. IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 2019, 21(12): 3053-3067.

17.      X Wang, Z Lei, X Guo, C Zhang, H Shi, Stan Z. Li. Multi-view subspace clustering with intactness-aware similarity[J]. Pattern Recognition, 2019, 88: 50-63.

18.      Loy C C, Lin D, Ouyang W, Stan Z. Li, et al. WIDER face and pedestrian challenge 2018: Methods and results[J]. arXiv preprint arXiv:1902.06854, 2019.

19.      Shifeng Zhang, Rui Zhu, Xiaobo Wang, Hailin Shi, Tianyu Fu, Shuo Wang, Tao Mei, Stan Z. Li. Improved selective refinement network for face detection[J]. arXiv preprint arXiv:1901.06651, 2019.

20.      Jianzhu Guo, Xiangyu Zhu, Jinchuan Xiao, Zhen Lei, Genxun Wan, Stan Z. Li. Improving Face Anti-Spoofing by 3D Virtual Synthesis[J]. arXiv preprint arXiv:1901.00488, 2019.

21.      Jinlin Wu, Yang Yang, Hao Liu, Shengcai Liao, Zhen Lei, Stan Z. Li. Unsupervised Graph Association for Person Re-Identification[C]//Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision. 2019: 8321-8330.

22.      Chubin Zhuang, Shifeng Zhang, Xiangyu Zhu, Zhen Lei, Jinqiao Wang, Stan Z. Li. FLDet: A CPU Real-time Joint Face and Landmark Detector[C]//IAPR International Conference on Biometrics (ICB). Crete, Greece. 2019.

23.      Hao Liu, Xiangyu Zhu, Zhen Lei, Stan Z. Li. Adaptiveface: Adaptive margin and sampling for face recognition[C]//Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. 2019: 11947-11956.

24.      Ajian Liu, Jun Wan, Sergio Escalera, Stan Z. Li, et al. Multi-modal face anti-spoofing attack detection challenge at cvpr2019[C]//Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops. 2019: 0-0.

25.      Shifeng Zhang, Xiaobo Wang, Ajian Liu, Chenxu Zhao, Jun Wan, Sergio Escalera, Hailin Shi, Zezheng Wang, Stan Z. Li. A dataset and benchmark for large-scale multi-modal face anti-spoofing[C]//Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. 2019: 919-928.

2018 

1.          Xiangyu Zhu, Xiaoming Liu, Zhen Lei, Stan Z. Li, "Face Alignment In Full Pose Range: A 3D Total Solution", IEEE Transaction on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (Accepted).

2.          Hailin Shi, Xiangyu Zhu, Shengcai Liao, Zhen Lei, Stan Z. Li. “Ensemble Deep Network for Face Recognition in the Wild”, IEEE Transaction on Intelligent Systems (IS) (Accepted)

3.          Shifeng Zhang, Xiangyu Zhu, Zhen Lei, Xiaobo Wang, Hailin Shi, Stan Z. Li, "Detecting Face with Densely Connected Face Proposal Network," in Neurocomputing, Volume 284, Pages 119-127, 5 April 2018.

4.          Zichang Tan, Jun Wan, Zhen Lei, Ruicong Zhi, Guodong Guo, Stan Z. Li, "Efficient Group-n Encoding and Decoding for Facial Age Estimation", IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vol 40, No. 11, 2018.

5.          Shifeng Zhang, Longyin Wen, Xiao Bian, Zhen Lei, Stan Z. Li. “Occlusion-aware R-CNN: Detecting Pedestrians in a Crowd”. In Proceedings of European Conference on Computer Vision, (ECCV2018). Munich, Germany, September 8-14, 2018.

6.          Xiaobo Wang, Zhen Lei, Shengcai Liao, Xiaojie Guo, Yang Yang, Stan Z. Li, “Dependence-Aware Feature Coding for Person Re-Identification”, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol 25, no. 4, pp.506-510, 2018.

7.          Jun Wan, Zichang Tan, Zhen Lei, Guodong Guo, Stan Z. Li, "Auxiliary Demographic Information Assisted Age Estimation with Cascaded Structure", IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, Vol 48, No. 9, pp. 2531-2541, 2018.

8.          Jianzhu Guo, Xiangyu Zhu, Zhen Lei, Stan Z. Li. “Face Synthesis for Eyeglasss-Robust Face Recognition”. In Proceedings of the 13th Chinese Conference on Biometrics, (CCBR2018). XinJiang, China, August 11-12, 2018.

9.          Chubin Zhuang, Shifeng Zhang, Xiangyu Zhu, Zhen Lei, Stan Z. Li. “Single Shot Attention-Based Face Detector”. In Proceedings of the 13th Chinese Conference on Biometrics, (CCBR2018). XinJiang, China, August 11-12, 2018.

10.      Xiaobo Wang, Zhen Lei, Hailin Shi, Xiaojie Guo, Xiangyu Zhu, Stan Z. Li. “Co-Referenced Subspace Clustering”. In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, San Diego, USA, July 23-27, 2018.

11.      Xiaobo Wang, Shifeng Zhang, Zhen Lei, Si Liu, Xiaojie Guo, Stan Z. Li. “Ensemble Soft-Margin Softmax Loss for Image Classification”. In Proceedings of the 27th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, (IJCAI-2018), Stockholm, Sweden, July 13-19, 2018.

12.      Shifeng Zhang, Longyin Wen, Xiao Bian, Zhen Lei, Stan Z. Li. “Single-Shot Refinement Neural Network for Object Detection”. In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, (CVPR2018). Salt Lake City, Utah, June 18-22, 2018.

13.      Jinlin Wu, Hailin Shi, Shu Zhang, Zhen Lei, Yang Yang, Stan Z. Li, "De-mark GAN: Removing DenseWatermarkWith Generative Adversarial Network". In Proceedings of the 11th IAPR International Conference on Biometrics (ICB2018). Queensland, Australia, Feb. 20-23, 2018.

14.      Lipeng Wan, Jun Wan, Yi Jin, Zichang Tan, Stan Z.Li, "Fine-grained Multi-attribute Adversarial Learning for Face Generation of Age, Gender and Ethnicity". In Proceedings of the 11th IAPR International Conference on Biometrics (ICB2018). Queensland, Australia, Feb. 20-23, 2018.

15.      Chi Lin, Jun Wan, Yanyan Liang, Stan Z. Li, "Large-scale Isolated Gesture Recognition Using Masked Res-C3D Network and Skeleton LSTM", In Proceedings of the 13th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG 2018), 2018.

16.      Yang-Yu Fan, Shu Liu, Bo Li, Zhe Guo, Ashok Samal, Jun Wan, Stan Z. Li, "Label Distribution-Based Facial Attractiveness Computation by Deep Residual Learning", IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, Vol 20, No, 8, pp. 2196-2208, 2018.

Professional Society Membership

IEEE Fellow