Wenxiong Kang, Ph.D.
Professor | Ph.D. Advisor
Vice Dean, School of Automation Science and Engineering, South China University of Technology (SCUT)

Academic Appointments & Titles
Deputy Director, Department of Intelligent Science and Technology, SCUT
Deputy Director, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Intelligent Finance Enterprise
Director, Guangdong Provincial Joint Laboratory of Biometric Recognition and Security (Under the Department of Education of Guangdong Province)
Director, SCUT-Benliu Power Artificial Intelligence Joint Laboratory
Director, SCUT-Hengxin Human-Machine Co-existence Intelligent System Joint Laboratory
Research Interests
Computer Vision | Biometrics | Embodied Intelligence | Natural Language Processing

Professional Memberships & Honors
Distinguished Member, China Computer Federation (CCF) and China Society of Image and Graphics (CSIG)
Senior Member, Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence (CAAI)
World’s Top 2% Scientists (Stanford University/Elsevier), Consecutive years since 2022
Vice Chair, IAPR Technical Committee 4 (Biometrics)
Board Member, CSIG Guangdong Provincial Society
Standing Committee Member, Big Data Branch of the Chinese Society of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesiology
Committee Member, Pattern Recognition Committee of CAAI
Committee Member, Intelligent Interaction Committee of CAAI
Committee Member, Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence Committee of the Chinese Association of Automation (CAA)
Committee Member, Hybrid Intelligence Committee of CAA
Committee Member, Visual Big Data Committee of CSIG
Committee Member, 2nd Education Working Committee of CAAI
Standing Committee Member, 7th Association for Science and Technology of Tianhe District, Guangzhou
Visiting Scholar Experiences
Nov. 2016 – Dec. 2017: Visiting Scholar, University of Sydney, Australia
Sept. 2009 – June 2010: Researcher, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Academic Services
Journal Reviewer: IEEE T-PAMI, IEEE T-IP, IEEE T-IFS, Pattern Recognition, *Scientia Sinica* (Informationis), *Journal of Computer Science and Technology*, *Acta Automatica Sinica* (both English and Chinese versions), etc.
Conference Services: Invited to organize, chair, and participate in numerous international and domestic conferences. Served as Program Committee Chair, Area Chair, Publicity Chair, and Registration Chair for ECCV, ICPR, IJCB, ACMMM, Chinese Control Conference, and Chinese Conference on Biometric Recognition.
Grant & Award Reviewer: Communication review expert for the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), as well as the Natural Science Foundations of Guangdong, Shandong, and Xiamen. Review expert for science and technology awards.
Research Achievements
Publications: Published/accepted over 100 papers in top-tier international and domestic journals (including IEEE T-PAMI, IJCV, *Scientia Sinica*) and conferences (including NeurIPS, AAAI, ECCV, ICCV, IJCB), with over 50 IEEE Transactions regular papers. Over 10 papers have received prestigious awards such as the AAAI Outstanding Paper Award and the IJCB Best Paper Award.
Patents: Holds 6 authorized international invention patents and over 60 national invention patents. 22 patents have been successfully transferred to industry partners.
Awards:Grand Prize, Science and Technology Award, Guangdong Internet of Things Association
Second Prize, Science and Technology Progress Award, Guangdong Electronic Information Industry Association
Second Prize, Science and Technology Progress Award, Chinese National Committee on Large Dams
Second Prize, 2024 Guangdong Machinery Industry Science and Technology Award
Research Projects
Government Grants: Principal Investigator (PI) or Co-PI of 8 national-level projects, including the National Key R&D Program, the 173 Basic Strengthening Plan Key Projects, and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC). PI of over 10 provincial and ministerial-level projects. Research focuses on multi-biometric recognition and spoofing attack detection, video analysis and understanding, 3D reconstruction, and scene understanding.
Industry Collaboration: Collaborated with over 20 enterprises and institutions (including Hikvision, Hisense, China Southern Power Grid, Guangdong Airport Group, GRG Banking, and Xinhui CIMC) on industry-academia-research projects. Research focuses on intelligent video analysis in power grid and civil aviation scenarios, intelligent detection/recognition/tracking of on-site workers, document image analysis and recognition, 3D hand gesture estimation, 3D human pose estimation, biometric recognition systems, industrial intelligent robots, and industrial vision measurement.
Undergraduate Teaching & Mentoring
Courses: *Image Processing and Machine Vision*, *Innovative Practice in Machine Vision and Intelligent Detection* (Undergraduate); *Practice in Pattern Recognition and Machine Vision* (Graduate).
Competitions: Mentored undergraduates to win multiple national-level first prizes, including the Gold Award and Best Innovation Award at the Pan-Pearl River Delta Computer Works Competition, and the National First Prize & Guangdong Grand Prize at the 11th National College Student E-commerce “Innovation, Creativity, and Entrepreneurship” Challenge.
Thesis Awards: Over 10 supervised undergraduates have received the university-level “Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis” award in recent years.
Graduate Student Mentoring
Current Group: Currently supervising 3 postdocs and over 20 Ph.D. and Master’s students.
Student Awards: Supervised students have frequently won the National Scholarship, President’s Scholarship, and the title of “Guangdong Excellent Graduate,” as well as SCUT Outstanding Master’s Thesis Awards.
International Training: 8 Ph.D. students have received funding from national and provincial scholarship councils for one-year joint training at top overseas universities, including EPFL (Switzerland), University of Oulu (Finland), Lancaster University (UK), National University of Singapore (NUS), and Nanyang Technological University (NTU, Singapore).
Graduate Competition Achievements: 1st Place in the International Gait Recognition Competition, Bronze Award in the 7th China International “Internet+” College Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition, 1st Prize in the Cross-camera Pedestrian Tracking Task at the National Graduate Smart City Technology and Creative Design Competition, 1st Prize in the South China Region of the China Graduate Electronic Design Contest, and Champion of the Interspeech 2021 Personalized Voice Wake-up Challenge.
Career Placement:Ph.D. Graduates: All full-time Ph.D. alumni have secured positions at research institutes of leading enterprises (one was introduced via a national talent program) or at Project 211 universities (e.g., Southwest Jiaotong University, South China Normal University, Hefei University of Technology, Shanghai University).
Master’s Graduates: Typically pursue algorithm research (Computer Vision, Image Processing, Pattern Recognition, Machine Learning) at top tech companies’ research divisions, including State Grid, CRRC, Huawei, Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent, JD.com, NVIDIA, ByteDance, Hikvision, Meituan, and NetEase. Others choose to continue their Ph.D. studies in the lab or at top universities in Hong Kong and abroad.
Publications (*Corresponding Author)
Publication List: https://dblp.org/pid/75/1559.html