Hao Ai
I am a Ph.D. candidate in the School of Computer Science at the University of Birmingham, UK. I am fortunate to be advised by Prof. Eyal Ofek @ UoB, Prof. Aleš Leonardis @ UoB, and Prof. Jianbo Jiao @ UoB.
I completed my master’s degree under the supervision of Prof. Qingmin Liao.
Experience
Featured Open-Source Projects
Articulation in Motion: Prior-free Part Mobility Analysis for Articulated Objects By Dynamic-Static Disentanglement
Elite360D: Towards Efficient 360 Depth Estimation via Semantic- and Distance-Aware Bi-Projection Fusion.
A Survey of Representation Learning, Optimization Strategies, and Applications for Omnidirectional Vision.
HRDFuse: Monocular 360deg depth estimation by collaboratively learning holistic-with-regional depth distributions.
News
- 2026.01: AiM (First author) was accepted to ICLR 2026.
- 2025.12: ST²360D was accepted to NeurIPS 2025. Congrats to the co-authors!
- 2025.06: PanDA was accepted to CVPR 2025. Congrats to the co-authors!
- 2025.06: CUBE360 was accepted to IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L). Congrats to Wenjie!
- 2025.04: Our survey paper, A Survey of Representation Learning, Optimization Strategies, and Applications for Omnidirectional Vision (First author), was accepted to IJCV.
- 2024.09: I continued my Ph.D. journey at the University of Birmingham with a school scholarship, working with Prof. Aleš Leonardis, Prof. Jianbo Jiao, and Prof. Eyal Ofek.
- 2024.08: We released Elite360M (First author), an efficient 360° multi-task learning framework.
- 2024.06: Elite360D (First author) was accepted to CVPR 2024.
- 2024.03: Dream360 (First author) was accepted to IEEE TVCG.
- 2023.10: OmniZoomer was accepted to ICCV 2023. Congrats to Zidong!
- 2023.06: HRDFuse (First author) was accepted to CVPR 2023.
- 2023.04: I joined the VLIS Lab at HKUST(GZ) as a Ph.D. student with the school scholarship and worked with Prof. Addison Lin Wang. I am grateful for his guidance and support.
I previously spent two years pursuing a PhD at HKUST(GZ), where my research centered on 360 image-based scene understanding and image processing:
360 Vision
During my current PhD study at the University of Birmingham, I focus more on human-centered interactive reconstruction of the physical world.
Interactive Physical World Reconstruction
If you are interested at my research field, please feel free to contact me. Any discussion and collaboration are welcome.
Academic Services
- Reviewers for Journal: IJCV, TCSVT, Scientific Reports, Signal, Image and Video Processing, etc.
- Reviewers for Conference: ICLR, CVPR, ECCV, NeurIPS, etc.