Personal Profile
My name is Haopeng (Hop) Li, and I received my PhD from The University of Melbourne. I was supervised by Prof. Tom Drummond, Dr. Mingming Gong, and Dr. Qiuhong Ke. I received my B.S. degree from the School of Science at Northwestern Polytechnical University, and my Master’s degree from the School of Artificial Intelligence, Optics, and Electronics (iOPEN) at Northwestern Polytechnical University. I’m currently an AI algorithm engineer at PICO, ByteDance.
My research interests include:
- Computer Vision
- Video Understanding
- Multimodal Learning
- Generative Models
I have published several papers in recognized journals and conferences, including T-PAMI, T-IP, ECCV, and ICML.
Education
Dec 2020 — Dec 2024
The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
PhD · Engineering and IT
Sep 2017 — May 2020
Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, China
MSc · Computer Science and Technology
Sep 2013 — Jun 2017
Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, China
BSc · Mathematics and Applied Mathematics
Experience
Jan 2025 — Now
PICO, ByteDance, China
AI Algorithm Engineer · Human Visual Perception
Jun 2023 — Aug 2023
Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
Research Assistant · Bridge Competition Cheating Detection
Jun 2022 — Aug 2022
The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
Research Assistant · Sports Video Understanding
Jun 2020 — Dec 2020
SenseTime Group Ltd, Beijing, China
Research Intern · Full-time · Crowd Video Analysis
Publications
Jan 2026
SAM-Veteran: An MLLM-Based Human-like SAM Agent for Reasoning Segmentation
2026 International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)
Tianyuan Du, Haopeng Li, Zhen Fan, Jiarui Zhang, Panwang Pan, Yang Zhang
Jan 2026
Sports-QA: A Large-Scale Video Question Answering Benchmark for Complex and Professional Sports
International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV)
Haopeng Li, Andong Deng, Jun Liu, Hossein Rahmani, Yulan Guo, Bernt Schiele, Mohammed Bennamoun, Qiuhong Ke
Jun 2025
Answering from Sure to Uncertain: Uncertainty-Aware Curriculum Learning for Video Question Answering
2025 British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC)
Haopeng Li, Mohammed Bennamoun, Jun Liu, Hossein Rahmani, Qiuhong Ke
June 2025
Admitting Ignorance Helps the Video Question Answering Models to Answer
IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (T-MM)
Haopeng Li, Tom Drummond, Mingming Gong, Mohammed Bennamoun, Qiuhong Ke
May 2024
Visual-Text Cross Alignment: Refining the Similarity Score in Vision-Language Models
2024 International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)
Jinhao Li, Haopeng Li, Sarah Monazam Erfani, Lei Feng, James Bailey, Feng Liu
Jan 2023
Progressive Video Summarization via Multimodal Self-supervised Learning
2023 IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV)
Haopeng Li, Qiuhong Ke, Mingming Gong, Tom Drummond
Jan 2023
Precondition and Effect Reasoning for Action Recognition
Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU)
Hongsang Yoo, Haopeng Li, Qiuhong Ke, Liangchen Liu, Rui Zhang
Oct 2022
Doubly Deformable Aggregation of Covariance Matrices for Few-Shot Segmentation
2022 European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)
Zhitong Xiong, Haopeng Li, Xiao Xiang Zhu
Sep 2022
Video Crowd Localization with Multifocus Gaussian Neighborhood Attention and a Large-Scale Benchmark
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (T-IP)
Haopeng Li, Lingbo Liu, Kunlin Yang, Shinan Liu, Junyu Gao, Bin Zhao, Rui Zhang, Jun Hou
Jun 2022
Video Joint Modelling Based on Hierarchical Transformer for Co-summarization
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (T-PAMI)
Haopeng Li, Qiuhong Ke, Mingming Gong, Rui Zhang
Dec 2021
Action-ViT: Pedestrian Intent Prediction in Traffic Scenes
IEEE Signal Processing Letters (SPL)
Shengzhe Zhao, Haopeng Li, Qiuhong Ke, Liangchen Liu, Rui Zhang
Apr 2021
Reconstructive Sequence-Graph Network for Video Summarization
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (T-PAMI)
Bin Zhao, Haopeng Li, Xiaoqiang Lu, Xuelong Li
May 2020
Video Frame Interpolation via Residue Refinement
2020 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
Haopeng Li, Yuan Yuan, Qi Wang
Awards and Honors
Mar 2020
Melbourne Research Scholarship
The University of Melbourne
Oct 2019
China National Scholarship
Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China
Apr 2016
International Mathematical Contest in Modeling (Meritorious Winner)
The Consortium for Mathematics and Its Applications (COMAP)