About Me

I am currently an Assistant Professor (Distinguished Associate Professor) in the School of Data Science, Qingdao University of Science and Technology (QUST), China. Before joining QUST, I received my Ph.D. degree in the School of Computer and Information Technology, Beijing Jiaotong University (BJTU) in 2023, supervised by Prof. Baopeng Zhang and Prof. Zhu Teng. From 2022 to 2023, I was a visiting Ph.D. student with the Computer Vision & Learning Group, Singapore University of Technology and Design, working with Prof.Jun Liu. My research interests lie in the general areas of computer vision and machine learning.

Research Interests

• Computer vision, particularly visual tracking, object detection, person re-identification, and classification.
• Machine learning, particularly active learning, few-shot learning, domain adaptation, and generalization.

News

• 2025.11: Our paper “Content Diversity-guided Ambiguity Mitigation for Open-Set Noisy Label Learning” is accepted by AAAI 2026.
• 2025.09: Our paper “Affinity-aware Uncertainty Quantification for Learning with Noisy Labels” is accepted by Pattern Recognition (PR).

Publications

* denotes equal contribution, ^ denotes the corresponding author

• Content Diversity-guided Ambiguity Mitigation for Open-Set Noisy Label Learning
  Zhihao Zhou, Rui Li^, Xueying Li.
  AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2026 (AAAI, CCF-A)
• Affinity-aware Uncertainty Quantification for Learning with Noisy Labels
  Zhihao Zhou, Rui Li^, Wenjie Ai, Xueying Li, Zhu Teng, Baopeng Zhang, Junwei Du.
  Pattern Recognition, 2025 (PR, CCF-B, SCI-An1) [PDF]
• HCgNet: A Hierarchical Context-guided Network for Multi-Object Tracking
  Rui Li, Baopeng Zhang, Wei Liu, Zhaoyang Li, Jack Fan, Zhu Teng, Jianping Fan.
  Knowledge-Based Systems, 2024 (KBS, SCI-An1) [PDF]
• Heterogeneous Diversity Driven Active Learning for Multi-Object Tracking
  Rui Li, Baopeng Zhang, Jun Liu, Wei Liu, Jian Zhao, Zhu Teng.
  International Conference on Computer Vision, 2023 (ICCV, CCF-A) [PDF]
• Inference-Domain Network Evolution: A New Perspective for One-Shot Multi-Object Tracking
  Rui Li, Baopeng Zhang, Jun Liu, Wei Liu, Zhu Teng.
  IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 2023 (TIP, CCF-A, SCI-An1) [PDF]
• PANet: An end-to-end Network based on Relative Motion for Online Multi-Object Tracking
  Rui Li, Baopeng Zhang, Wei Liu, Zhu Teng, Jianping Fan.
  ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications, 2023 (TOMM, CCF-B, SCI-An2) [PDF]
• An end-to-end Identity Association Network based on Geometry Refinement for Multi-Object Tracking
  Rui Li, Baopeng Zhang, Zhu Teng, Jianping Fan.
  Pattern Recognition, 2022 (PR, CCF-B, SCI-An1) [PDF]
• A Divide-and-Unite Deep Network for Person Re-Identification
  Rui Li, Baopeng Zhang, Zhu Teng, Jianping Fan.
  Applied Intelligence, 2021 (AI, SCI-An2) [PDF]
• Deep Attention Network for Person Re-Identification with Multi-Loss
  Rui Li, Baopeng Zhang, Dong-Joong Kang, Zhu Teng.
  Computers & Electrical Engineering, 2021 (CEE, SCI-An3) [PDF]
• Domain-Camera Adaptation for Unsupervised Person Re-Identification
  Jiajie Tian, Qihao Tang, Rui Li*, Zhu Teng, Baopeng ZHng, Jianping Fan.
  ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology, 2021 (TIST, SCI-An3) [PDF]

Research Projects

• Research on multi-object tracking based on temporal and spatial features, Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, PI, 2020-2022
• Research on key technologies of multi-object tracking based on machine vision in camera network, Natural Science Foundation of China，2020-2023
• Research on robust real-time object tracking based on multi-neural network，Beijing Municipal Natural Science Foundation，2021-2023
• Research on cross-domain multi-object tracking based on graph network in the open world，Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities，2022-2024

Academic Services

Reviewer for Journals:

• Pattern Recognition (PR)
• Neural Computing and Applications (KBS)
• Applied Intelligence (AI)

Reviewer for Conferences:

• International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)
• AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
• International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI)

Honors and Awards

• China Scholarship Council (CSC) scholarships, 2021
• Three good students of Beijing Jiaotong University, 2020-2022
• First-Class Scholarship of Beijing Jiaotong University, 2018-2022
• Jingyeda Scholarship of Beijing Jiaotong University，2018
• Excellent Undergraduate in Beijing, 2017
• National Scholarship, 2015