Cong Wu
About Me
I’m currently a Lecturer at the School of Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science, Jiangnan University. I received my Ph.D. degree from Jiangnan University in 2024 under the supervision of Prof. Xiao-Jun Wu and Prof. Josef Kittler, and Bachelor degree from Jiangnan University in 2018. I was a visiting Ph.D. student at the Centre for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing (CVSSP), University of Surrey, Guildford, United Kingdom, from 2022 to 2023.
The focus of my works is on deep learning approaches for Computer Vision. Particularly, I have focused on Video Understanding(Action Recognition/Spatial Temporal Reasoning/Visual Scene Understanding), Vision-Language Modeling, Representation Learning(Self-Supervised Learning/Transfer Learning/Few-Shot Learning).
News
- [Jun. 2026] Our paper about Zero-Shot Skeleton-Based Action Recognition is accepted to ECCV 2026! Congrats, Xuan.
- [Jun. 2025] Our paper about Human Action Recognition is accepted to ICCV 2025! Congrats, Youwei.
- [Sep. 2024] We won the second place in Temporal sound localisation of ECCV 2024 Perception Test Challenge! Congrats, Linze.
- [Jul. 2024] Our paper about Few-Shot Action Recognition is accepted to ECCV 2024!
- [Dec. 2023] Our paper about Self-Superivised 3D Human Action Recognition is accepted to AAAI 2024!
Selected Publications
Conference
- Cong Wu, Xiao-Jun Wu, Linze Li, Tianyang Xu, Zhenhua Feng, Josef Kittler. Efficient Few-Shot Action Recognition via Multi-level Post-reasoning. European Conference on Computer Vision, 2024. code
- Cong Wu, Xiao-Jun Wu, Josef Kittler, Tianyang Xu, Sara Ahmed, Muhammad Awais, Zhenhua Feng. Scd-net: Spatiotemporal clues disentanglement network for self-supervised skeleton-based action recognition. Proceedings of the AAAI conference on artificial intelligence, 2024. code
- Youwei Zhou, Tianyang Xu, Cong Wu, Xiaojun Wu, Josef Kittler. Adaptive Hyper-Graph Convolution Network for Skeleton-based Human Action Recognition with Virtual Connections. International Conference on Computer Vision, 2025. code
Journal
- Cong Wu, Tianyang Xu, Zhenhua Feng, Xiao-Jun Wu, Josef Kittler. Interactive Image-to-Video Transfer Learning. Neural Networks, 2025. code
- Cong Wu, Xiao-Jun Wu, Tianyang Xu, Josef Kittler. Adaptive Pooling with Dual-Stage Fusion for Skeleton-Based Action Recognition. Neural Networks, 2025. code
- Cong Wu, Xiao-Jun Wu, Tianyang Xu, Zhongwei Shen, Josef Kittler. Motion complement and temporal multifocusing for skeleton-based action recognition. IEEE transactions on circuits and systems for video technology, 2024. code
- Cong Wu, Xiao-Jun Wu, Tianyang Xu, Josef Kittler. Scene adaptive mechanism for action recognition. Computer Vision and Image Understanding, 2024. code
- Cong Wu, Xiao-Jun Wu, Josef Kittler. Graph2Net: Perceptually-Enriched Graph Learning for Skeleton-Based Action Recognition. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, 2021. code
- Jie Liu, Chongben Tao, Zhongwei Shen, Cong Wu, Tianyang Xu, Xizhao Luo, Feng Cao, Zhen Gao, Zufeng Zhang, Sai Xu. Dual Attention Focus Network for Few-Shot Skeleton-Based Action Recognition. Knowledge-Based Systems, 2025.
- Rui Wang, Jiayao Jin, Ziheng Chen, Cong Wu, Xiao-Jun Wu and Nicu Sebe. Structural Topology Refinement Network for Skeleton-Based Action Recognition). IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, 2025. code
- Zhongwei Shen, Xiao-Jun Wu, Hui Li, Tianyang Xu, Cong Wu. I know how you move: Explicit motion estimation for human action recognition. IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 2022. code
(You can also find my publication lists on my Google Scholar.)
Awards
- 1st-Place, Multi-Modal Video Reasoning and Analyzing Competition-Skeleton-based Action Recognition (ICCV 2021)
- 1st-Place, Multi-Modal Video Reasoning and Analyzing Competition-Fisheye Video-based Action Recognition (ICCV 2021)
- 2nd-Place, AI City Challenge-Naturalistic Driving Action Recognition (CVPR 2023)
- 2nd-Place, Multi-Modal Video Reasoning and Analyzing Competition-Person Reidentification (ICME 2024)
- 2nd-Place, Multi-Modal Video Reasoning and Analyzing Competition-Skeleton-based Action Recognition (ICME 2024)
- 2nd-Place, The Second Perception Test Challenge-Temporal Sound Localisation (ECCV 2024)
Education
- 2020.09-2024.06, Ph.D., Control Science and Engineering, Jiangnan University, China
- 2022.09-2023.09, Visiting Ph.D., University of Surrey, United Kingdom
- 2018.09-2020.06, M.E., Computer Science and Technology, Jiangnan University, China
- 2014.09-2018.06, B.S., Information and Computing Science, Jiangnan University, China
Teaching
- Data Visualization (2025 Spring)
- Freshman Seminar (Artificial Intelligence Major) (2025 Spring; 2026 Spring)
- Comprehensive Practice in Artificial Intelligence (2025 Spring; 2026 Spring)
- Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning (2026 Spring)
- Python Programming (2026 Fall, Expected)
- Computer Vision (2026 Fall, Expected)
Services
- Invited as Reviewer for conferences, including CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, AAAI, ACM MM, BMVC, ACCV, etc.
- Invited as Reviewer for journals, including IEEE Trans, PR, NN, etc.
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