• Hongxia Xie (谢洪霞)

    Jilin University

    I am an associate professor (tenure-track) in the College of Computer Science and Technology at Jilin University, China, and serve as the principal investigator of the Affective Vision and Computing (AVC) Lab. My research interests include computer vision, affective computing, and vision-language models. Our mission is to bridge the affective gap between machines and humans. I received my Ph.D. degree from the Institute of Electronics of National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (NYCU) under the supervision of Prof. Wen-Huang Cheng (IEEE Fellow) and the co-supervision of Prof. Hong-Han Shuai. Over the past five years, I have published nearly 20 academic papers in top-tier venues such as CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, ACM Multimedia, AAAI, IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, and IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics. One of my papers also received the Best Paper Award at IEEE ICME 2021.

    🔥News

    • 🔥[2026/02]: Four papers got accepted by CVPR 2026 🎉
    • 🔥[2025/12]: One paper got accepted by AAAI 2026 🎉
    • 🔥[2025/07]: Two papers got accepted by ACM Multimedia 2025 (Datasets Track) 🎉
    • 🔥[2025/07]: One paper got accepted by ACM Multimedia 2025 🎉
    • 🔥[2025/07]: One paper got accepted by ICCV 2025 🎉
    • 🔥[2025/01]: I am awarded the Leading Talent Title by Jilin Province Government, China 🎉
    • 🔥[2024/12]: One paper got accepted by AAAI 2025 🎉
    • 🔥[2024/11]: I will serve as the Grand Challenge Co-chairs of ACM Multimedia 2025 🎉
    • 🔥[2024/08]: I receive the Youth Project Funding from National Natural Science Foundation of China (funding rate of 15.54%) 🎉
    • 🔥[2024/07]: I won the Best Poster Award in China Affective Computing Conference 🎉
    • 🔥[2024/07]: One paper got accepted by ECCV 2024 🎉
    • 🔥[2024/04]: One paper got accepted by ACM Computing Survey 🎉
    • 🔥[2024/02]: One paper got accepted by CVPR 2024 🎉
    • 🔥[2023/10]: One paper got accepted by ICCE 2024 🎉
    • 🔥[2023/07]: One paper got accepted by ICCV 2023 🎉
    • 🔥[2023/06]: One paper got accepted by IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing 🎉

    🔥Enrollment Quota Notice:

    • My PhD positions for 2026 are already filled. There will be 1–2 positions available for the 2027 Fall. Interested students are welcome to contact me via email.
    • There are 3 master’s openings for the 2027 Fall.
    • Remote research assistants are welcome.
  • Publication

    For a full paper list, please refer to the Google Scholar page.

    Journal

    • H.-I. Liu, Galindo, M., H.-X. Xie, L.-K. Wong, H.-H. Shuai, and W.-H. Cheng, "Lightweight Deep Learning for Resource-Constrained Environments: A Survey", ACM Computing Surveys, 2024. [PDF]
    • H.-X. Xie, L. Lo, H.-H. Shuai, and W.-H. Cheng, “An overview of facial micro-expression analysis: Data, methodology and challenge,” IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, pp. 1–1, 2022. DOI: 10.1109/TAFFC.2022.3143100. [PDF]
    • P.-J. Huang, H.-X. Xie, H.-C. Huang, H.-H. Shuai, and W.-H. Cheng, “CA-FER: Mitigating spurious correlation with counterfactual attention in facial expression recognition,” IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, (* means equal contribution). DOI: 10.1109/TAFFC.2023.3312768. [PDF]
    • L. Lo, H.-X. Xie, H.-H. Shuai, and W.-H. Cheng, “Facial chirality: From visual self-reflection to robust facial featurelearning,” IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, vol. 24, pp. 4275–4284, 2022. DOI: 10.1109/TMM.2022.3197365. [PDF]
    • W.-C. Kao, H.-X. Xie, C.-Y. Lin, and W.-H. Cheng, “Specific expert learning: Enriching ensemble diversity via knowledge distillation,” IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, pp. 1–12, 2021. DOI: 10.1109/TCYB.2021.3125320. [PDF]

    Conference

    • R.-X Zhang, Q.-Y. Zheng, Z.-Z Zhou, Z.-Q Liao, S.-Y Wu, J.-Y. Jiang-Lin, B. Wen, H.-X. Xie, J.-L Fu, and W.-H. Cheng, “MindPower: Enabling Theory-of-Mind Reasoning in VLM-based Embodied Agents”, in Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2026. [PDF]
    • Y.-B Mao, J.-L Fu, R.-X Zhang, H.-X. Xie, and M.-B Yao, “Beyond Success: Refining Elegant Robot Manipulation from Mixed-Quality Data via Just-in-Time Intervention”, in Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2026. [PDF]
    • M. Yuan, D.-W Lin, H.-X. Xie, T.-R Wu, and R. Ma, “CAD-Refiner: A Unified Framework for CAD Generation and Iterative Editing”, in Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2026.
    • J.-Y. Jiang-Lin, K.-Y. Huang, L. Zou, L. Lo, S.-P. Yang, Y.-W. Tseng, K.-H. Lin, C.-L. Chen, Y.-T. Ta, Y.-T. Wang, P.-C. Chen, H.-X. Xie, H.-H. Shuai, and W.-H. Cheng, “TriDF: Evaluating Perception, Detection, and Hallucination for Interpretable DeepFake Detection”, in Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2026.
    • C. Zhang, H.-X. Xie, B. Wen, S.-H. Zuo, R.-X Zhang, and W.-H.Cheng, “EmoArt: AMultidimensional Dataset for Emotion-Aware Artistic Generation”, in Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Multimedia , Dataset Track, 2025.
    • R.-X Zhang, J.-D. Gao, B. Wen, H.-X. Xie, C.-M, Zhang, H.-H. Shuai, and W.-H. Cheng, “RecipeGen: A Step-Aligned Multimodal Benchmark for Real-World Recipe Generation”, in Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Multimedia, Dataset Track, 2025.
    • R.-X Zhang, B. Wen, H.-X. Xie, Y. Yao, S.-H. Zuo, J.-L.-J.-Y, H.-H. Shuai, and W.-H. Cheng, “CookAnything: A Framework forFlexible and Consistent Multi-Step Recipe Image Generation”, in Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Multimedia, 2025.
    • J.-H Lin, Y. Yao, C.-F., Hsu, H.-X. Xie, H.-H.Shuai, and W.-H. Cheng, “Perspective-Aware Teaching: Adapting Knowledge for Heterogeneous Distillation”, In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2025.
    • P.-C Chen, Y. Yao, H.-X. Xie, H.-J. Chen, H.-H. Shuai,and W.-H. Cheng, “Foreground Focus: Enhancing Coherence and Fidelity in Camouflaged ImageGeneration”, in Proceedings of the IEEE InternationalConference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), 2025. (oral)
    • Y.-H. Huang, L. Ling, H.-X. Xie, H.-H. Shuai, and W.-H. Cheng, "Future Sight and Tough Fights: Revolutionizing Sequential Recommendation with FENRec", in Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2025.
    • Y. Yao, C.-F. Hsu, J.-H. Lin, H.-X. Xie, et al., "The Fabrication of Reality and Fantasy: Scene Generation with LLM-Assisted Prompt Interpretation", in European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2024. [PDF]
    • H.-X. Xie, C.-J. Peng, Y.-W. Tseng, et al., “EmoVIT: Revolutionizing emotion insights with visual instruction tuning,” in Proceedings of the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR), 2024. [PDF]
    • H.-X. Xie, M.-X. Lee, T.-J. Chen, et al., “Most important person-guided dual-branch cross-patch attention for group affect recognition,” in Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2023. [PDF]
    • H.-X. Xie, L. Lo, H.-H. Shuai, and W.-H. Cheng, “AU-assisted graph attention convolutional network for micro-expression recognition,” in Proceedings of the 28th ACM International Conference on Multimedia (MM), 2020, pp. 2871–2880. [PDF]
    • H.-X. Xie, H. Zhong, H.-H. Shuai, and W.-H. Cheng, “Learning to prompt for vision-language emotion recognition,” in Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII), AHRI workshop, 2023. [PDF]
    • H.-X. Xie, I.-H. Li, L. Ling, H.-H. Shuai, and W.-H. Cheng, “Refining valence arousal estimation with dual-stream label density smoothing,” in International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE), 2024. [PDF]
    • L. Lo, H.-X. Xie, H.-H. Shuai, and W.-H. Cheng, “Facial chirality: Using self-face reflection to learn discriminative features for facial expression recognition,” in 2021 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), IEEE,2021, pp. 1–6. [PDF]
    • L. Lo, H.-X. Xie, H.-H. Shuai, and W.-H. Cheng, “MER-GCN: Micro-expression recognition based on relation modeling with graph convolutional networks,” in 2020 IEEE Conference on Multimedia Information Processing and Retrieval (MIPR), IEEE, 2020, pp. 79–84. [PDF]
  • Teaching

    • Cutting-Edge Research Introduction in Computer Science (Target student: Master’s and PhD students in the School of Computer Science), 2024 & 2025 Spring.
    • Introduction of Artificial Intelligence (Target student: Freshman), 2024 & 2025 Fall.

  • Academic Service

    • Reviewer of ECCV 2026, ICML 2026, CVPR 2024-2026, ACM Multimedia 2021-2026, ICME 2021-2024, TIP, TMM, ACM TOMM
    • Grand Challenge Co-chairs of ACM Multimedia 2025
    • Technical Committee Member of the IEEE Consumer Technology Society (CTSoc)
    • Executive Committee Member of the Multimedia Technical Committee of the China Computer Federation (CCF-MM)
    • Digital Media Chair of CIS-RAM 2026
    • Web Chair of IEEE ICME 2022
    • Web Chair of ACM ICMR 2021

  • PI of the AVC Lab

    I lead the Affective and Vision Computing (AVC) Lab starting in 2024. Although it is a newly established team, it is full of energy. Currently, we have about 30 students, most of whom are undergraduates at Jilin University. We recruit research assistants year-round. If you are interested in joining our lab, please feel free to get in touch.