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Education, experience, and awards.
Contact Information
| Name | Heming Du (杜赫铭) |
| Professional Title | Postdoctoral Research Fellow, The University of Queensland |
| heming.du@uq.edu.au | |
| Website | https://xiaobaishu0097.github.io |
Professional Summary
Inclusive computer vision spanning pose estimation, adaptive 3D human mesh recovery, dense human parsing, embodied visual navigation, and vision-language models.
Experience
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2025 – Present Postdoctoral Research Fellow
The University of Queensland
INVITA Graindata Fusion project: multimodal agricultural data analytics, visualisation and statistical modelling to support crop management and yield prediction. Co-supervising PhD research on text-to-video retrieval and temporal moment retrieval.
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2024 – 2025 Research Fellow (part-time)
The University of Queensland
Faculty of Engineering, Architecture and Information Technology (EAIT). Multimodal video understanding research.
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2022 – Present Research Scientist
Follow Me AI Pty Ltd (FOME.ai)
Computer vision for sport and Paralympic technology.
- YouFor2032: athlete talent identification using pose estimation to support the Brisbane 2032 Olympics, with the Queensland Academy of Sport.
- AQIRP (2024 to 2027): video analysis with AI to improve Paralympic classification, supported by keypoint frameworks, datasets, and pose estimation algorithms for athletes with limb differences.
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2020 – 2021 PhD Researcher (industry collaboration)
CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation)
Coral reef monitoring with CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere using weak supervision for 3D point cloud instance segmentation and underwater sensing over extended periods on the Great Barrier Reef.
Education
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2020 – 2025 Doctor of Philosophy
The Australian National University
Computer Science, College of Engineering, Computing and Cybernetics
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2018 – 2019 Bachelor of Advanced Computing (Honours)
The Australian National University
College of Engineering and Computer Science
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2015 – 2019
Awards
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2023 First Prize: Image Classification of Nutrient Deficiencies in Winter Wheat and Winter Rye Challenge (ICCV 2023)
University of Bonn
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2019 First Prize (two tracks): 1st Mandarin Audio-Visual Speech Recognition Challenge, visual word-level recognition and visual keyword spotting
Chinese Academy of Sciences
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2019 2nd Runner-Up: CVPR 2019 AI City Challenge, City-Scale Multi-Camera Vehicle Re-Identification
NVIDIA Corporation
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2019 5th Place: CVPR 2019 AI City Challenge, City-Scale Multi-Camera Vehicle Tracking
NVIDIA Corporation
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2019 First Prize: 2nd Facial Micro-Expression Grand Challenge (FG 2019)
Manchester Metropolitan University