Scholar
Jiayang Ao
Google Scholar ID: Sq5U8MAAAAAJ
School of Computing and Information Systems, The University of Melbourne
Citations & Impact
Citations
47
H-index
3
i10-index
1
Publications
5
Co-authors
2
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- - Publications:
- * Lin Li, Youyang Qu, Jiayang Ao, Ming Ding, Chao Chen, Jun Zhang. The Art of Deception: Crafting Chimera Images for Covert and Robust Semantic Poisoning Attacks. Accepted to the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS) 2025.
- * Yanbei Jiang, Yihao Ding, Chao Lei, Jiayang Ao, Jey Han Lau, Krista A. Ehinger. Beyond Perception: Evaluating Abstract Visual Reasoning through Multi-Stage Task. In Proceedings of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) 2025 Findings.
- * Jiayang Ao, Yanbei Jiang, Qiuhong Ke, and Krista A Ehinger. Open-World Amodal Appearance Completion. In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2025.
- * Jiayang Ao, Qiuhong Ke, and Krista A Ehinger. Sequential Amodal Segmentation via Cumulative Occlusion Learning. In Proceedings of the 35th British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), November 2024.
- * Jiayang Ao, Qiuhong Ke, and Krista A. Ehinger. Amodal intra-class instance segmentation: Synthetic datasets and benchmark. In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), pages 281–290, January 2024.
- * Jiayang Ao, Qiuhong Ke, and Krista A Ehinger. Image amodal completion: A survey. Computer Vision and Image Understanding, page 103661, 2023.
- - Awards:
- * [Jun 2025] CVPR Travel Support Award
- * [Sep 2024] Human Annotation Fund, AI group, School of Computing and Information Systems, the University of Melbourne
- * [Jan 2024] IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision Travel Grant
- * [Nov 2023] Engineering and IT Conference Travel Scholarship
- * [Nov 2023] Melbourne School of Engineering Travelling Scholarship (CIS)
- * [Nov 2022] FEIT Excellence Award in Teaching and Learning for Tutors and Demonstrators
- * [Aug 2021] Melbourne Research Scholarship (Fee offset and Allowance)
- * [Jun 2019] Outstanding Graduates of Central South University
- * [May 2018] Central China Hackathon Rank #2
- * [May 2018] Innovation and Entrepreneurship Training Program for College Students, China National Projects
- * [Jun 2017] China Top10 in ‘Her Startup’ Empowering Women Entrepreneurs Competition for College Students
- * [Jan 2017] Interdisciplinary Contest In Modeling (Honorable Mention)
Research Experience
- - Research Scientist, Canva CORE/Leonardo.Ai, June 2025 - present
- - ArtCert Researcher, Faculty of Arts, University of Melbourne, April 2025 – June 2025
- - Lecturer & Course Developer, ISYS3466 Data-Driven Decision Making: Machine Learning for Business Professionals, RMIT University, July 2024 - December 2024
- - Head Tutor & Course Developer, COMP90086 Computer Vision, The University of Melbourne, July 2021 - December 2024
- - Head Tutor, COMP90049 Introduction to Machine Learning, The University of Melbourne, February 2022 - July 2024
- - Head Tutor, COMP30027 Machine Learning, The University of Melbourne, February 2022 - June 2025
Education
- - Doctoral Degree: Oct 2021 - Sep 2025, Doctor of Philosophy - Engineering and IT, The University of Melbourne, supervised by Associate Professor Krista A. Ehinger and Dr. Qiuhong Ke
- - Master's Degree: Jul 2019 - Jul 2021, Master of Science (Computer Science) (with distinction), The University of Melbourne
Background
- - Research Interests: Object reconstruction, segmentation, recognition, and scene understanding
- - Field: Computer Vision
- - Background: Fresh PhD graduate in Computer Vision at the University of Melbourne, focusing on bridging the gap between computer vision systems and human perception, with expertise in understanding and completing visually occluded content.
Miscellany
- - Open to research collaborations related to amodal completion.
