Dr. Lian Xu

Assistant Professor

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Biography

Lian Xu is a research fellow in the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering at The University of Western Australia (UWA). He completed his PhD at UWA in 2021. His research interests lie in the broad areas of machine learning, computer vision, healthcare, smart agriculture, and automatic marine monitoring application domains. In particular, he focuses on annotation-efficient learning, scene understanding, weakly supervised object localization, weakly supervised semantic segmentation, and multi-modal learning, particularly in the context of vision-language data. Lian has published several works in top-tier conferences and journals in the field of computer vision, including the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), and IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (TNNLS).

Research Interests

Experience

Research Fellow

2021-01-01 — Present

The University of Western Australia • Perth, Australia

Conducting advanced research in machine learning and computer vision, focusing on annotation-efficient learning and scene understanding.

Requirements for University of Western Australia

Master Program
Requirements
GPA Requirement
Required:2.8
IELTS
Listening
Required:6
Reading
Required:6
Writing
Required:6
Speaking
Required:6
Overall
Required:6.5
TOEFL
Listening
Required:20
Reading
Required:20
Writing
Required:22
Speaking
Required:20
Total
Required:82
Prerequisites
Bachelor degree in a relevant field Personal Statement Curriculum Vitae
Application Checklist
  • Academic Transcripts
  • English Language Proficiency Proof
  • Personal Statement
  • References
  • Proof of Identity
Specialization Notes

Requirements are standardized across the Graduate School for most Master by Coursework programs at UWA.