PeopleofSuperintelligence

Researcher

Jun Liu

Jun Liu is a computer-vision researcher whose AI work examines human actions through video. He worked at Tencent in 2014–2015, earned a PhD from Nanyang Technological University in 2019, and served on the SUTD faculty from 2019 to 2024. His papers include the NTU RGB+D dataset and UAV-Human benchmark for human action and behavior analysis. He served as BMVC Program Chair in 2025 and is BMVC General Chair and VCIP Program Chair in 2026; the IAPR elected him a Fellow in 2026. As of October 2026, he is Professor (Chair in Digital Health) at Lancaster University, where his research spans AI, computer vision, machine learning, and digital health.

Now at
Lancaster University
Works
431
Citations
18,648
h-index
57

Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 14 October 2026.

Photo of Jun Liu

Timeline

  1. 2014–2015

    Industry work at Tencent

    Before his academic career, he works at Tencent from 2014 to 2015.

  2. 2016

    The NTU RGB+D dataset

    At CVPR in 2016, he coauthors NTU RGB+D, a dataset for RGB+D human action recognition with more than 56,000 video samples and four million frames.

  3. 2019–2024

    A PhD and SUTD faculty role

    He earns his PhD from Nanyang Technological University in 2019 and serves as faculty at Singapore University of Technology and Design from 2019 to 2024.

  4. 2021

    The UAV-Human benchmark

    In 2021, his SUTD group introduces the UAV-Human benchmark for human behavior understanding with unmanned aerial vehicles. The dataset contains 67,428 multi-modal video sequences and 119 subjects for action recognition.

  5. 2025–2026

    Conference chair roles

    He serves as Program Chair of BMVC in 2025 and General Chair of BMVC and Program Chair of VCIP in 2026.

  6. 2026

    An IAPR Fellowship

    The IAPR elects him a Fellow in 2026 for contributions to human behavior analysis and video understanding, and service through member society events, conference organization, and editorial governance.

  7. As of October 2026

    Professor in Digital Health

    He is Professor (Chair in Digital Health) at the School of Computing and Communications, Lancaster University. His research focuses on AI, computer vision, machine learning, and digital health applications.

Sources and credits

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  1. Jun Liu - Lancaster University lancaster.ac.uk. Checked 14 October 2026.
  2. CVPR 2016 Open Access Repository openaccess.thecvf.com. Checked 14 October 2026.
  3. Congratulations to Assistant Professor Liu Jun and his PhD students Xu Li and Li Tianjiao for papers accepted by CVPR 2021 - Singapore University of Technology and Design sutd.edu.sg. Checked 14 October 2026.
  4. CVPR 2021 Open Access Repository openaccess.thecvf.com. Checked 14 October 2026.
  5. Lancaster Digital Health Professor elected as Fellow of prestigious computing body - Lancaster University lancaster.ac.uk. Checked 14 October 2026.
  6. Alphabetical List of IAPR Fellows – International Association for Pattern Recognition iapr.org. Checked 14 October 2026.