About Me

I am a Ph.D. candidate at the South China University of Technology (SCUT), School of Software Engineering, advised by Prof. Fei Liu (刘飞) and co-supervised by Prof. Mingkui Tan (谭明奎). I hold a Bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering from the School of Software Engineering, South China University of Technology. My research focuses on video understanding, medical image analysis, and semi-supervised/few-shot learning, with publications in top-tier venues including CVPR, AAAI and IJCAI, and journals such as TIP. I also actively serve as a reviewer for leading conferences (e.g., AAAI and ICME).

🔥 News

2026.04: 🎉🎉 One paper is accepted by ACL 2026 Findings!
2026.03: 🎉🎉 Three papers are accepted by ICME 2026!
2026.02: 🎉🎉 One paper is accepted by CVPR 2026, and another by CVPR 2026 Findings!
2026.01: 🎉🎉 One paper is accepted by PR 2026!
2025.11: 🎉🎉 One paper is accepted by AAAI 2026!
2025.06: 🎉🎉 One paper is accepted by TIP 2025!
2025.05: 🎉🎉 One paper is accepted by IJCAI 2025!

📝 Primary Publications

TIP 2025 Zero-Shot Skeleton-Based Action Recognition With Prototype-Guided Feature Alignment
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP 2025)
Kai Zhou, Shuhai Zhang, Zeng You, Jinwu Hu, Mingkui Tan, Fei Liu
Paper / arXiv / Code

ICME 2026 Structure-aware Keypoint Localization for Videofluoroscopic Swallowing Study
IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME 2026)
Kai Zhou, Chuanshen Chen, Runhao Zeng, Meng Dai, Yifan Yang, Jinwu Hu, Daiyuan Li, Mingkui Tan, Fei Liu

ICME 2026 Body Regional Guidance for Semi-supervised Human Pose Estimation
IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME 2026)
Kai Zhou, Chuanshen Chen, Runhao Zeng, Zeng You, Mingkui Tan, Fei Liu

CVPR 2026 Instance-level Visual Active Tracking with Occlusion-Aware Planning
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2026)
Haowei Sun, Kai Zhou (co-first author), Hao Gao, Jinwu Hu, Xutao Wen, Qixiang Ye, Mingkui Tan
arXiv / Code

AAAI 2026 Action-and-object Aware Alignment for Partially Relevant Video Retrieval
Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2026)
Chuanshen Chen, Kai Zhou (co-first author), Zhiquan Wen, Zeng You, Yirui Li, Tianhang Xiang, Mingkui Tan
Paper / Code

ACL 2026 Findings Training-Free Test-Time Contrastive Learning for Large Language Models
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Kaiwen Zheng, Kai Zhou (co-first author), Te Gu, Mingkai Peng, Fei Liu
arXiv / Code

CVPR 2026 Findings CaptAin: Caption-driven Alignment for Bridging Modality Gaps in Partially Relevant Video Retrieval
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Findings Track (CVPR 2026 Findings)
Chuanshen Chen, Kai Zhou (co-first author), Feiqi Wang, Yutao Ning, Zhendong Xiong, Yirui Li, Zhiquan Wen, Mingkui Tan
Code

ICME 2026 MAF-Det: Motion-Aware Forgery Cue Perception for AI-Generated Video Detection
IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME 2026)
Daiyuan Li, Kai Zhou (co-first author), Yifan Yang, Shuhai Zhang, Zitong Yu, Mingkui Tan

PR 2026 FocalGaussian: Improving text-driven 3D human generation with body part focus
Pattern Recognition (PR 2026)
Yifan Yang, Zeshuai Deng, Dong Liu, Zixiong Huang, Kai Zhou, Hailin Luo, Qing Du, Mingkui Tan
Paper / Project Page

IJCAI 2025 Efficient Dynamic Ensembling for Multiple LLM Experts
International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2025)
Jinwu Hu, Yufeng Wang, Shuhai Zhang, Kai Zhou, Guohao Chen, Yu Hu, Bin Xiao, Mingkui Tan
Paper / arXiv / Code

🎖 Honors and Awards

AAAI-2026 Student Scholarship & Volunteer Award

📖 Educations

2020.09 - now, PhD, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou.
2016.09 - 2020.06, Undergraduate, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou.

💻 Internships