Michael Ying Yang

Micheal Ying Yang received the PhD degree (summa cum laude) from University of Bonn in 2011. From 06/2016 until 03/2024, he was Assistant Professor at University of Twente, heading a group working on scene understanding. Since 03/2024, he is Professor of Visual Computing at University of Bath.

His research interests are in the fields of computer vision with specialization on scene understanding. He works on Multimodal Learning and Deep Generative Models in the recent years. He published over 100 articles in international journals and conference proceedings and co-supervise 5 PhD students. He serves as Associate Editor of ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, and recipient of the ISPRS President's Honorary Citation (2016) and Best Science Paper Award at BMVC 2016 and The Willem Schermerhorn Award (2021). He co-organized 12 workshops with CVPR/ICCV/ECCV, and is guest editor of 4 journal special issues. He is regularly serving as program committee member of conferences and reviewer for international journals.

Activities in education

Main educational responsibilities are teaching topics on deep learning, scene understanding with UAVs, image processing, 3D modeling and photogrammetry.

Activities in research

His research interests are in the fields of computer vision with specialization on scene understanding. He works on Multimodal Learning and Deep Generative Models in the recent years. He published over 100 papers in international journals and conference proceedings and co-supervise 4 PhD students. 

Current supervision (co-promoter) of PhD students in ITC:

Kun Li

Yao Wei