Xiao-Qian Liu

Xiao-Qian Liu

PhD in artificial intelligence

Welcome to Xiao-Qian Liu’s Homepage

I am currently a postdoctoral fellow at the School of Software, Shandong University. I receive a Ph.D. in artificial intelligence from Shandong University in 2024 and an M.S. in Control engineering from Shandong University in 2020. My research interests include computer vision, multimedia analysis, unsupervised domain adaptation, and scene text recognition and understanding.

Education

  • 2021.09–2024.12, Shandong University, Ph.D. (graduated six months early)
  • 2017.09–2020.06, Shandong University, M.S.
  • 2013.09–2017.06, Shandong University of Science and Technology, B.S.

Employment

  • 2025.07–, Special Funding Postdoctoral Fellow, Shandong University.
  • 2020.08–2021.05, Civil worker, Tianjin.

Selected Publications

  • Xiao-Qian Liu, Zhen-Duo Chen, Xin Luo, and Xin-Shun Xu*, “Self-Supervised Discovery of Cross-Lingual Shared Knowledge for Continual Text Recognition,” IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP), vol. 34, pp. 6524-6536, 2025. (CCF-A)
  • Xiao-Qian Liu, Peng-Fei Zhang, Xin Luo, Zi Huang, and Xin-Shun Xu*, “Noisy-Aware Unsupervised Domain Adaptation for Scene Text Recognition,” IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP), vol. 33, pp. 6550-6563, 2024. (CCF-A)
  • Xiao-Qian Liu, Xue-Ying Ding, Xin Luo, and Xin-Shun Xu*, “ProtoUDA: Prototype-based Unsupervised Adaptation for Cross-Domain Text Recognition,” IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), vol. 36, no. 12,pp. 9096-9108, 2024. (CCF-A)
  • Xiao-Qian Liu, Ming-Hui Liu, Zhen-Duo Chen, Xin Luo, and Xin-Shun Xu*, “Hierarchical Multi-label Learning for Incremental Multilingual Text Recognition,” in the ACM International Conference on Multimedia (MM), 2024, 8750-8758. (CCF-A)
  • Xiao-Qian Liu, Peng-Fei Zhang, Xin Luo, Zi Huang, and Xin-Shun Xu*, “TextAdapter: Self-supervised Domain Adaptation for Cross-domain Text Recognition,” IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM), vol. 26, pp. 9854-9865, 2024. (CCF-B)
  • Xiao-Qian Liu, Xue-Ying Ding, Xin Luo, and Xin-Shun Xu*, “Unsupervised Domain Adaptation via Class Aggregation for Text Recognition,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT), vol. 33, no. 10, pp. 5617- 5630, 2023. (CCF-B).
  • Xiao-Qian Liu and Feng-Yu Zhou*, “Meta-Learning based Prototype-relation Network for Few-shot Classification,” Neurocomputing, vol. 383, pp. 224-234, 2020. (CCF-C)
  • Xiao-Qian Liu and Feng-Yu Zhou*, “Improved Curriculum Learning using SSM for Facial Expression Recognition,” The Visual Computer, vol. 36, pp. 1635-1649, 2020. (CCF-C)
  • Ming-Hui Liu, Xiao-Qian Liu, Xin Luo, and Xin-Shun Xu*, “DATA: Multi-Disentanglement Based Contrastive Learning for Open-World Semi-Supervised Deepfake Attribution,” IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM), 2025. (CCF-B)
  • Qian Zhang, Jiarui Zhao, Xiao-Qian Liu, Yu-Wei Zhan, Xin Luo, Zhen-Duo Chen, Xin Luo*, and Xin-Shun Xu, “Hypergraph-Based CLIP Hashing for Unsupervised Cross-Modal Retrieval,” Knowledge-Based Systems (KBS), 2025. (CCF-C)
  • Jia-Ying Zhang, Xiao-Qian Liu, Zhi-Yuan Xue, Xin Luo, and Xin-Shun Xu*, “MAGIC: A Multi Granularity Domain Adaptation Method forText Recognition,” Pattern Recognition (PR), vol. 161, pp. 111229, 2025. (CCF-B)
  • Jia-Nan Li, Xiao-Qian Liu, Xin Luo, and Xin-Shun Xu*, “VOLTER: Visual Collaboration and Dual-Stream Fusion for Scene Text Recognition,” IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM), vol. 26, pp. 6437-6448, 2024. (CCF-B)
  • Xue-Ying Ding, Xiao-Qian Liu, Xin Luo, and Xin-Shun Xu*, “DOC: Text Recognition via Dual Adaptation and Clustering, “ IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM), vol. 25, pp. 9071-9081, 2023. (CCF-B)
  • Xin-Yu Liu, Xiao-Qian Liu, Bin Wang, Xin Luo, and Xin-Shun Xu*, “Arbitrary-shaped Scene Text Detection with Scoring Mask Quality, “ in 2022 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), 2022, pp. 1–6. (CCF-B)

Patents

  • Method and System for Incremental Multilingual Text Recognition Based on Shared Knowledge Mining. No. ZL202511061575.9.
  • An Image Classifier Construction, Image Recognition Method and System based on Prototype Network Few-shot Learning. No. ZL201910563501.3.
  • A Facial Expression Recognition Method and Device based on Curriculum Learning. No. ZL201910122892.5.
  • A Meta Learning Few-shot based Facial Expression Recognition Method and System. No. ZL201910465071.1.
  • A Facial Expression Recognition System based on Curriculum Learning. No. 2019SR0470556.

Projects

  • 2025 The Postdoctoral Fellowship Program of CPSF (B)
  • 2024 China Association for Science and Technology Young Talent Support Project for Doctoral Students

Services

  • Reviewer for journals
    • IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
    • IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
    • Neural Networks
  • Reviewer for conferences
    • ACM International Conference on Multimedia

Awards

  • 2024 Shandong University President’s Award
  • 2024 National Scholarship
  • 2023 Excellent Student Cadre of Shandong University
  • 2022 Excellent Student Cadre of Shandong University
  • 2021 Excellent Master’s Thesis of Shandong Province
  • 2020 Excellent Graduates of Shandong Province
  • 2019 National Scholarship
  • 2018 Excellent Student Cadre of Shandong University
  • 2017 Excellent Graduates of Shandong Province
  • 2016 National Scholarship
  • 2015 Excellent Student of Shandong Province
  • 2014 National Encouragement scholarship