Wei GAO

Wei GAO (高伟) Ph.D., IEEE Senior Member
Assistant Professor, Ph.D. Supervisor

PI of Multimedia Computing and AI Lab (MMCAL)

School of Electronic and Computer Engineering,
Peking University

Contact Information:
Address: Building A, PKU Campus, Xili University Town, Nanshan District, Shenzhen 518055, China
Email: gaowei262 AT pku.edu.cn

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Biography

3D Point Cloud Coding

Image/Video Coding

Quality Assessment and Enhancement

Multimodal Learning and Applications

Multimedia Computing and AI Lab (MMCAL)

PKU-SECE

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Short Biography in Chinese

（1）多媒体编码与处理：

（2）多模态学习及应用：

多媒体计算与智能实验室，MMCAL

可靠自主感知无人系统（自动驾驶/机器人/无人机）

沉浸交互媒体通信系统（虚拟现实/增强现实）

Research

We are working on the multimedia/multimodal information processing theories, methods, and applications (especially immersive media communication and autonomous unmanned systems).

Multimedia Coding and Processing:
Multimedia Coding (3D Point Cloud Coding, Image/Video Coding, Deep Learning-Based Coding, Human and Machine Perception-Driven Coding)
Multimedia Quality Assessment and Enhancement
3D Gaussian Splatting for Reconstruction/Compression/Rendering/Generation/Representation
Multimodal Learning and Applications:
Multimodal Learning and 3D Vision Perception in Unmanned Systems (Autonomous Driving, Robotics, UAV Navigation, etc.)
Applications of Multimodal Large Model and Generative AI

Team

Multimedia Computing and AI Lab (MMCAL)

Postdoctoral Fellow positions are opening at Peking University and Peng Cheng Laboratory.
Ph.D.&M.Phil. positions are opening at Peking University (including the Joint Ph.D. Program with Peng Cheng Laboratory).
Please feel free to send your CV and the supporting documents (certificates and transcripts, etc.) via Email.

Members: Our group currently consists of 2 Postdocs, 6 Ph.D. Students, 15 M.Phil. Students, 7 Undergraduate Students (Recruited as Ph.D. and M.Phil. Students in Sept. 2025).

Publications

We have published more than 170 research papers.

Selected Publications (2022-Now)

Full Publications

BibTeX

Patents & Standardizations

We have filed more than 100 PCT International/US/China patents in the fields of multimedia computing and AI, and have submitted more than 50 standard proposals.

Link (EN)
Link (CN)

Reference Materials

We have edited two reference books: (1) Deep Learning for 3D Point Clouds, Springer Nature, 2024. (2) Point Cloud Compression: Technologies and Standardization, Springer Nature, 2024.

Other Reference Materials

Teaching

I am teaching the following courses for postgraduate students (Ph.D. & MPhil) at Peking University:

3D Vision & Computational Photography (Fall Semester)
Selected Topics in Advanced Video Processing (Spring Semester)

Awards

2024 CSIG Natural Science Award - Second Prize (Theories and Methods for Multimodal Vision Perception with Restricted Environments)
2023 AVS Industrial Technology Innovation Team Award (For Contributions to Point Cloud Compression Standard)
2022 CCF Excellent Open Source Graphics Software Nomination Award
2021 CCF-Tencent Rhino-Bird Excellent Patent Award
2021 IEEE Multimedia Rising Star (Runner Up Award) for Outstanding Early-stage Career Achievements in the Area of 3D Immersive Media Research
2019/2018 Guangdong Computer Federation Outstanding Paper Award (2 Papers)
2024/2023/2022 Shenzhen Science and Technology Association Outstanding Paper Award (5 Papers)
Others: Guangdong Province Youth Top-notch Talent, Shenzhen City Peacock Plan High-Caliber Talent

Professional Activities

Membership:

Senior Member of IEEE
Senior Member of China CCF/CSIG
Elected Member, IEEE Visual Signal Processing and Communications Technical Committee (IEEE VSPC-TC), Since 2023.1
Elected Member, APSIPA Image Video and Multimedia Technical Committee (APSIPA IVM-TC), Since 2022.1
Elected Member, CCF Technical Committee on Multimedia Technology (CCF TCMM), Since 2022.7
Elected Member, CSIG Technical Committee on Multimedia (CSIG TCMM), Since 2022.7
Elected Member, CSIG Technical Committee on 3D Vision (CSIG TC3DV), Since 2022.12
Elected Member, CSIG Technical Committee on Image and Video Communications (CSIG TCIVC), Since 2024.7

International Journal Editorship & Conference Organizer:

Associate Editor, Signal Processing (Elsevier SIGPRO), Since 2022.1
Associate Editor, Neural Processing Letters (Springer NEPL), Since 2021.6
Associate Editor, APSIPA Transactions on Signal and Information Processing (APSIPA SIP), Since 2024.2
Associate Editor, IET Image Processing (IET IPR), 2020.6-2023.6
Associate Editor, IET Electronics Letters (IET EL), 2020.7-2023.6
Guest Editor, Special Issue on Deep Learning-Based Data Compression in APSIPA Transactions on Signal and Information Processing, 2024
Guest Editor, Special Issue on 3D Point Cloud Processing and Applications in ZTE Communications, 2023
Tutorial Speaker, Tutorial on AI-based Multimedia Data Compression: Perception Utility Optimization and Standardization (AIMDC) at ACM MM 2025
Tutorial Speaker, Tutorial on Point Cloud Compression, Enhancement and Applications: From 3D Perception to Large Models (PC3DPLM) at ACM MM 2024
Tutorial Speaker, Tutorial on Neural Network Design and Optimization for 3D Point Cloud Computing (NNPC) at IEEE IJCNN 2024
Tutorial Speaker, Tutorial on Point Cloud Coding, Enhancement and Analysis: Towards Perception and Reliability (PCEA) at IEEE ICIP 2024
Tutorial Speaker, Tutorial on 3D Point Cloud Compression and Processing for Multi-dimensional Applied Perception (PCP-MAP) at IEEE ICME 2023
Lead Organizer, International Workshop on Application-driven Point Cloud Processing and 3D Vision (APP3DV) at ACM MM 2025 (Webpage)
Lead Organizer, International Workshop on Perception-inspired Communication and Processing for Immersive and Interactive Multimedia (PCPI2M) at IEEE ICME 2023 (Webpage)
Lead Organizer, Special Session on 3D Point Cloud Acquisition, Processing and Communication (3DPC-APC) at IEEE VCIP 2022 (Webpage)
Lead Organizer, International Workshop on Advances in Point Cloud Compression, Processing and Analysis (APCCPA) at ACM MM 2022 (Webpage)
Organizer, International Workshop on Quality of Experience in Interactive Multimedia (QoEIM) at IEEE ICME 2021 (Webpage)
Competition Chair, Local Arrangement Committee, International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) 2023

Reviewer of International Journals and Conferences:

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI)
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP)
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT)
IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM)
IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (TNNLS)
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC)
IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (TGRS)
IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems (JETCAS)
IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics (TCYB)
IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting (TBC)
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG)
IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics (TIE)
IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (TII)
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers (TCAS-I)
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs (TCAS-II)
IEEE Signal Processing Letters (SPL)
International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV)
Signal Processing (SIGPRO)
Neurocomputing (NEUCOM)
Information Sciences (INS)
Signal Processing: Image Communication (SPIC)
APSIPA Transactions on Signal and Information Processing (APSIPA SIP)
International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation (JAG)
IET Image Processing (IET IPR)
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)
Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)
IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI)
ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM)
IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME)
IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
IEEE International Conference on Visual Communication and Image Processing (VCIP)
International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR)
Picture Coding Symposium (PCS)

Open Source Projects

OpenI

OpenPointCloud (Open Source Project for Point Cloud Coding and Processing)
OpenAICoding (Open Source Project for Learning-based Image/Video Coding)
OpenDatasets (Large-scale Datasets for Multimedia Computing and AI)
OpenHardwareVC (Open Source Project for AVS3 8K Encoding Hardware)
OpenCompression (Open Source Project for Visual Media Compression Optimization)
OpenVision (Open Source Project for Computer Vision)

Gallery

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