PeopleofSuperintelligence

Researcher

Shiqi Yu

Shiqi Yu is a computer vision researcher who works on gait recognition, the identification of people by their walking patterns, and created the CASIA-B gait database and the OpenGait open-source project. He studied at Zhejiang University, earned a Ph.D. at the Institute of Automation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2007, worked at the Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology and Shenzhen University, and joined the Southern University of Science and Technology in 2019. OpenGait, a gait recognition codebase and benchmark study, was a highlight paper at CVPR 2023, and in 2021 he received the second prize of the Guangdong Provincial Science and Technology Award for work in remote sensing image processing. The International Association for Pattern Recognition named him a Fellow in 2026. He is an associate professor at SUSTech, Vice President Education of the IEEE Biometrics Council for 2026–2027, and Chair of IAPR TC4.

Works
510
Citations
8,283
h-index
34
Badges

Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 22 October 2026.

Timeline

  1. 1998–2007

    Zhejiang University and a CAS doctorate

    From 1998, he studies computer science and engineering at Zhejiang University's Chu Kochen Honors College and receives a B.E. in 2002. A Ph.D. in pattern recognition and intelligent systems follows in 2007 from the National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

  2. 2007–2019

    Shenzhen institute and university posts

    In November 2007, he joins the Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology (SIAT) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences as an assistant professor, and he becomes an associate professor there in January 2010. From October 2010 to August 2019, he is an associate professor in the College of Computer Science and Software Engineering at Shenzhen University. He wins the International Contest on Pattern Recognition Techniques for Indirect Immunofluorescence Images Analysis in 2013 and 2016, and receives Shenzhen University's Best Practice Award in Teaching in 2018.

  3. 2017–2023

    Chairing biometrics conferences

    Biometrics conferences give him chair roles: program chair of CCBR 2017 and IJCB 2021, and chair of CCBR 2023. From 2018, he is the main organizer of the IAPR/IEEE Winter School on Biometrics, held annually in Shenzhen.

  4. September 2019

    Associate professor at SUSTech

    He joins the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) as an associate professor in September 2019. His research covers computer vision, image processing, pattern recognition and artificial intelligence, and his face detection algorithm is adopted by numerous enterprises.

  5. 2021

    A Guangdong science prize

    The Guangdong Provincial Science and Technology Award gives him its second prize in 2021 for his work in remote sensing image processing.

  6. 2023–2025

    OpenGait for gait recognition

    The OpenGait paper, written with Chao Fan, Junhao Liang, Chuanfu Shen, Saihui Hou and Yongzhen Huang, appears at CVPR in 2023 as a highlight paper. It presents a flexible gait recognition codebase, a benchmark study and a baseline model named GaitBase, and the code comes from the Shiqi Yu Group. An extension paper is accepted to TPAMI in 2025.

  7. 2026

    An IAPR Fellowship

    The IAPR names him a Fellow in 2026 for foundational contributions to gait recognition through the development of influential datasets and approaches, and for service to the IAPR through its Technical Committees and conferences. He created the CASIA-B gait database, which is widely used in gait recognition.

  8. As of October 2026

    Biometrics Council vice president

    He is an associate professor at SUSTech and Vice President Education of the IEEE Biometrics Council for 2026–2027. He is also Chair of IAPR TC4 and a Board Member of the OpenCV Foundation. In April 2026, the Scalable AI Computing group announces that its PhD student has completed a research stay with the SUSTech research group he leads, which develops technologies to identify individuals from their walking patterns.

Career

  1. Since 2019Southern University of Science and TechnologyAssociate Professor
  2. NowInternational Association for Pattern RecognitionChair
  3. NowOpenCV FoundationBoard Member
  4. 2025–2026Sichuan University
  5. 2024–2026University of Utah
  6. 2021–2023Southern University and Agricultural and Mechanical College
  7. 2021–2023University of Alaska Anchorage
  8. 2021–2023University of Texas at Arlington
  9. 2021–2023Clark Atlanta University
  10. 2021–2025RWTH Aachen University
  11. 2021–2026Chiba University
  12. 2021–2026Michigan State University
  13. 2020–2024Hubei University of Technology
  14. 2010–2019Shenzhen UniversityAssociate Professor
  15. 2007–2010Chinese Academy of SciencesAssistant Professor; Associate Professor

Education

  1. 2007Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of SciencesPh.D.
  2. 2002Zhejiang UniversityB.E.

From the biography and OpenAlex affiliations (the years of papers that list the organization), so some years are approximate.

Most-cited works

  1. A Framework for Evaluating the Effect of View Angle, Clothing and Carrying Condition on Gait Recognition2006 · International Conference on Pattern Recognition · 1,053 citationsWith Tieniu Tan
  2. Convolutional neural networks for hyperspectral image classification2016 · Neurocomputing · 706 citations
  3. A model-based gait recognition method with body pose and human prior knowledge2019 · Pattern Recognition · 509 citations
  4. A survey: Deep learning for hyperspectral image classification with few labeled samples2021 · Neurocomputing · 381 citations
  5. A Study on Gait-Based Gender Classification2009 · IEEE Transactions on Image Processing · 293 citationsWith Kaiqi Huang and Tieniu Tan

From OpenAlex, as of 21 October 2026.

  1. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology trained or employed 44 of the 187 AI major-prize winners, more than any other universityIncludes Southern University of Science and Technology. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology trained or employed 44 of the 187 AI major-prize winners, more than any other university. We compare doctorate and 5+ year employment links, career timing and current workplaces for 187 major-prize and 1,111 best-paper winners.
  2. The company share of AI researchers’ top papers was 31% in 2020–2024 and 8% in 1970–1974Includes International Association for Pattern Recognition. We estimate where the people shaping AI worked when their most-cited papers appeared: the company share was 31% in 2020–2024 and 8% in 1970–1974, and Google led all organizations in 2020–2024.
  3. Universities keep AI researchers for a median of 6 years, compared with 2 years at frontier labsIncludes Chinese Academy of Sciences. Across 15,811 dated work stays (6,529 people), median role tenure runs from 6 years at universities to 2 years at frontier labs. We compare all five organization types, starting decades from the 1970s to the 2020s, and the organizations that keep people longest.
  4. People shaping AI work at a median of 3 organizations over a career: 3 for university starters and institute and lab starters, versus 2 for company startersIncludes Chinese Academy of Sciences. Across 6,853 people shaping AI with a dated work role, we estimate a median of 3 parent organizations over a career (mean 3.6), comparing role groups, starting sectors and starting decades from the 1950s to 2020–2026.

Colleagues

People with dated positions at the same organization in the same years.

Sources and credits

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  1. YU, Shiqi - Faculty - SUSTech sustech.edu.cn. Checked 20 October 2026.
  2. Shiqi Yu's Homepage yushiqi.cn. Checked 20 October 2026.
  3. Shiqi Yu - The 20th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition fg2026.ieee-biometrics.org. Checked 20 October 2026.
  4. IEEE Biometrics Council 2025 Annual Election Results ieee-biometrics.org. Checked 20 October 2026.
  5. OpenGait: Revisiting Gait Recognition Towards Better Practicality (CVPR 2023 Open Access Repository) openaccess.thecvf.com. Checked 20 October 2026.
  6. [2211.06597] OpenGait: Revisiting Gait Recognition Toward Better Practicality arxiv.org. Checked 20 October 2026.
  7. GitHub - ShiqiYu/OpenGait: A flexible and extensible framework for gait recognition github.com. Checked 20 October 2026.
  8. Chronological List of IAPR Fellows - International Association for Pattern Recognition iapr.org. Checked 20 October 2026.
  9. Nicolás Cubero Completes Research Stay at SUSTech, China - SAIC Research Group - Scalable AI Computing saic.ac.uma.es. Checked 20 October 2026.