Biography

Liming Zhao is currently a researcher at Alibaba TongYi Lab, transitioned from the DAMO Academy following an internal reorganization. 

In 2018, he obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science at Zhejiang University, advised Prof. Xi Li and Prof. Yueting Zhuang.

Earlier, he received his bachelor's degree from Shandong University in 2013.

His current research interests are primarily in computer vision and machine learning, especially visual perception and deep learning.

His works have been published in journals/conferences such as TPAMI, TIP, CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, ICML, NeurIPS, ACM MM, AAAI and IJCAI.

He serves as a reviewer for top journals (IEEE TIP and ACM TIST) and conferences (CVPR, ICCV, AAAI, IJCAI, ACM MM) .

Work Experience

2016.03 – 2016.12： Microsoft Research Asia       Visual Computing Group       Mentor: Jingdong Wang

2018.08 –  2023.10： Alibaba DAMO Academy      Machine Intelligence Technology       Vision Group

2023.10 –  present： Alibaba TongYi Lab      Machine Intelligence Technology       Vision Group

Publications

[15] Liming Zhao, Kecheng Zheng, Yun Zheng, Deli Zhao, Jingren Zhou "RLEG: Vision-Language Representation Learning with Diffusion-based Embedding Generation." In ICML, 2023. 

[14] Pandeng Li, Chen-Wei Xie, Hongtao Xie, Liming Zhao, Lei Zhang, Yun Zheng, Deli Zhao, Yongdong Zhang. "MomentDiff: Generative Video Moment Retrieval from Random to Real." In Neural. 2023.

[13] Pandeng Li, Chen-Wei Xie, Liming Zhao, Hongtao Xie, Jiannan Ge, Yun Zheng, Deli Zhao, Yongdong Zhang. "Progressive Spatio-Temporal Prototype Matching for Text-Video Retrieval." In ICCV. 2023. 

[12] Jianmin Wu*, Liming Zhao*, Dangwei Li*, Chen-Wei Xie, Siyang Sun, Yun Zheng "Deeply Exploit Visual and Language Information for Social Media Popularity Prediction." In ACM MM, 2022.  (*equal contributions, 1st place winner of ACM MM SMP Grand Challenge )

[11] Chen-Wei Xie, Siyang Sun, Liming Zhao, Jianmin Wu, Dangwei Li, Yun Zheng. "Deep Video Understanding with a Unified Multi-Modal Retrieval Framework." In ACM MM, 2022.  (1st place winner of ACM MM DVU Grand Challenge )

[10] Liming Zhao, Siyang Sun, Yanhao Zhang, Yun Zheng, Pan Pan. "FastClip: An Efficient Video Understanding System with Heterogeneous Computing and Coarse-to-fine Processing." In TheWebConf (WWW), 2022. 

[9] Lele Cheng, Xiangzeng Zhou, Liming Zhao, Dangwei Li, Hong Shang, Yun Zheng, Pan Pan, Yinghui Xu. "Weakly Supervised Learning with Side Information for Noisy Labeled Images." In ECCV, 2020.  (1st place winner of CVPR 2019 WebVision challenge )

[8] Xi Li, Liming Zhao*, Wei Ji, Yiming Wu, Fei Wu, Ming-Hsuan Yang, Dacheng Tao, and Ian Reid. “Multi-Task Structure-aware Context Modeling for Robust Keypoint-based Object Tracking.” IEEE Trans. Pattern Anal. and Mach. Intell. (TPAMI), 2019. (*corresponding author, advisor on first author)

[7] Liming Zhao, Mingjie Li, Depu Meng, Xi Li, Zhaoxiang Zhang, Yueting Zhuang, Zhuowen Tu and  Jingdong Wang. "Deep Convolutional Neural Networks with Merge-and-Run Mappings." In IJCAI, 2018. 

[6] Fangfang Wang*, Liming Zhao*, Xi Li, Xinchao Wang, and Dacheng Tao. “Geometry-Aware Scene Text Detection with Instance Transformation Network.” In CVPR, 2018. (*authors contributed equally)

[5] Liming Zhao, Xi Li, Jingdong Wang, and Yueting Zhuang. “Deeply-Learned Part-Aligned Representationsfor Person Re-Identification.” In ICCV, 2017.

[4] Yaqing Zhang, Xi Li, Liming Zhao, Zhongfei Zhang. “Semantics-aware DeepCorrespondence Structure Learning for Robust Person Re-identification.” In IJCAI, 2016.

[3] Xi Li, Liming Zhao*, Lina Wei, MingHsuan Yang, Fei Wu, Yueting Zhuang, Haibin Ling, and Jingdong Wang. “DeepSaliency: Multi-Task Deep Neural Network Model forSalient Object Detection.” IEEE Trans. Image Process. (TIP), 2016. (*corresponding author, advisor on first author)

[2] Yaqing Zhang, Xi Li, Zhongfei Zhang, Fei Wu, and Liming Zhao. “Deep Learning Driven Blockwise Moving Object Detection with Binary Scene Modeling.” Neurocomputing, 2015. 

[1] Liming Zhao, Xi Li, Jun Xiao, Fei Wu, and Yueting Zhuang. “Metric Learning Driven Multi-Task StructuredOutput Optimization for Robust Keypoint Tracking.” In AAAI, 2015.