UP Lab

Xiatian Zhu, a Senior Lecturer affiliated with the Surrey Institute for People-Centred Artificial Intelligence and the Centre for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing (CVSSP) at the University of Surrey in Guildford, UK, leads the Universal Perception (UP) Lab. Previously a research scientist at Samsung AI Centre, Cambridge, UK, He holds a Ph.D. from the Queen Mary University of London. He serves as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM). He also serves/served as an Area Chair of top conferences such as CVPR, ICCV, NeurIPS, and ICLR.
UP Lab is dedicated to advancing Multimodal Generative AI (GenAI) by modelling diverse data and observations, such as images, videos, audio, text, 3D points, LiDAR, radar, and remote sensing etc. Our applications span a wide range of domains, such as creative media, fashion design, healthcare, climate science, finance, cybersecurity, chemical engineering, sports, gaming, and social issues. Guided by our principle of putting people at the heart of AI, we prioritize the ethical integration of AI capacities with real-world application norms, emphasizing sustainable and responsible AI practices. This ensures our AI initiatives are grounded in community needs and values, aiming to develop transformative technologies that positively impact society and enhance the well-being of individuals and communities.
News
Sep 18, 2025 | 3 NeurIPS papers accepted |
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Sep 6, 2025 | Winners for both CBCT imagery segmentation and interactive segmentation tasks of the ToothFairy3 Challenge, MICCAI 2025. Team: Zhi Qin Tan, Xiatian Zhu, Owen Addison, Yunpeng Li |
Sep 2, 2025 | Serving as Area Chair for The IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2026 |
Aug 28, 2025 | Serving as Oral Session Chair for IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) 2025 |
Aug 16, 2025 | Serving as Area Chair for The Fourteenth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2026 |
Jun 26, 2025 | 3 ICCV papers accepted |
May 2, 2025 | 2 ICML papers accepted |
Apr 9, 2025 | Serving as Area Chair for The Thirty-Ninth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2025 |
Mar 1, 2025 | Welcome Ms. Yinuo Jing joining us as a visiting student |
Feb 28, 2025 | Delivered a keynote speech on Autonomous Driving at the 1st Human-Autonomous Vehicle Interaction Workshop, WACV 2025. |
Feb 26, 2025 | 5 CVPR papers (1 highlight) accepted |
Feb 25, 2025 | Serving as Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Multimedia |
Feb 10, 2025 | Welcome Mr. Yupeng Fang joining us as a visiting student |
Feb 3, 2025 | Delivered a seminar speech on Multi-modal Generative AI at King's College London. |
Jan 27, 2025 | Serving as Associate Editor for Neurocomputing |