Qi Wang

Timeline

1. 2001–2010

   Education in pattern recognition

   At the University of Science and Technology of China, he earns a bachelor's degree in automation in 2005 and a doctorate in pattern recognition and intelligent systems in 2010.

2. 2010–2017

   Postdoctoral and faculty roles

   He completes postdoctoral work at the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Xi'an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics from 2010 to 2013. He serves as an associate professor at Northwestern Polytechnical University from January 2014 to June 2017.

3. 2019

   Learning from synthetic data

   In 2019, Wang, Junyu Gao, Wei Lin, and Yuan Yuan publish Learning From Synthetic Data for Crowd Counting in the Wild at CVPR. They build a large, diverse synthetic crowd dataset and propose supervised pretraining and domain adaptation for crowd counting in real scenes.

4. 2021

   Pixel-wise crowd understanding

   In 2021, Wang, Junyu Gao, Wei Lin, and Yuan Yuan publish Pixel-wise Crowd Understanding via Synthetic Data in the International Journal of Computer Vision. It uses labeled Grand Theft Auto V scenes to build the GCC dataset and applies supervised learning and domain adaptation to crowd counting and segmentation.

5. 2026

   An IAPR fellowship

   In 2026, IAPR elects him a Fellow for contributions to cross-domain image analysis and service to the association.

6. Since 2017

   Professor at NPU

   As of October 2026, he is a professor in the School of Artificial Intelligence, Optics and Electronics (iOPEN) at Northwestern Polytechnical University.