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Tao Jiang
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About Me
I was a Senior Computer Vision Engineer at an AI company focused on animal welfare, VetVisionAI, based in Derby, UK. My research interests span Machine Learning, Computer Vision and Computer Graphics, with a focus on Animal ReID and Tracking, Hand Tracking, Sign Language Recognition, Simultaneous Localization and Mapping(SLAM).
Previously, I worked as a Computer Vision Research and Development Engineer at the AR/VR company Zappar in London, UK. Before that, I was a Research Fellow at the Centre for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing (CVSSP) at the University of Surrey, where I worked with Prof. Richard Bowden.
I completed my Ph.D. at the National Centre for Computer Animation (NCCA), Bournemouth University, UK, under the supervision of Prof. Xiaosong Yang and Prof. Jianjun Zhang. I obtained both my Master's and Bachelor's degrees in Computer Science from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China(UESTC).
Job Experience
| 2023.11 - 2025.11: | Senior Computer Vision Engineer, VetVisionAI, Derby, UK. |
| 2021.10 - 2023.10: | Computer Vision Research and Development Engineer, Zappar, London, UK. |
| 2019.10 - 2021.10: | Research Fellow in Centre for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing, University of Surrey, UK. |
| 2017.10 - 2018.04: | Remotely working on SLAM as a Computer Vision Engineer for Occipital, US |
| 2015.06 - 2015.07: | Computer Graphics design assistant for Zhiyitech, HangZhou, China. |
Education
| 2015.09 - 2019.09: | PhD in Computer Animation, Bournemouth University, UK. |
| 2012.09 - 2015.09: | MSC in Digital Multimedia, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China. |
| 2006.09 - 2010.09: | BSC in Computer Science, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China. |
Skills
| Programming Language: | C++, Objective-C, Python, Matlab |
| Developing Platform: | Windows, Ubuntu, MacOS, Android, Jetson |
| Machine Learning Framework: | PyTorch, Tensorflow |
| DevOps: | Git, Docker, CI/CD, Azure |
| Computer Vision: | OpenCV |
| Computer Graphics: | Unity, OpenGL, GLSL |
| GPU Programming: | CUDA, Metal |
Projects
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Title: Animal ReID and Tracking Author: Tao Jiang Date: Feb 19, 2025 |
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Title: Ray Tracing Author: Tao Jiang Date: Jan 3, 2024 |
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Title: 3D Hand Reconstruction Author: Tao Jiang Date: Oct 2, 2023 |
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Title: Hand Segmentation Author: Tao Jiang Date: July 28, 2023 |
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Title: Hand Tracking Author: Tao Jiang Date: May 04, 2022 |
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Title: Sign Spotting Author: Tao Jiang, Necati Cihan Camgoz, Richard Bowden Date: Mar 03, 2021 |
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Title: Human Action Recoginition Author: Tao Jiang Date: June 01, 2019 |
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Title: Dynamic Fusion Author: Tao Jiang, Shuang Liu Date: December 01, 2018 |
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Title: Inversion-Free As-Similar-As-Possible Deformation Author: Tao Jiang Date: November 10, 2017 |
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Title: As-Rigid-As-Possible Surface Modeling Author: Tao Jiang Date: October 01, 2016 |
Publications
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Tao Jiang, Camgoz Necati Cihan, Bowden Richard Looking for the Signs: Identifying Isolated Sign Instances in Continuous Video Footage 
IEEE International Conferene on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, 2021. |
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Tao Jiang, Camgoz Necati Cihan, Bowden Richard Skeletor: Skeletal Transformers for Robust Body-Pose Estimation 
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW), 2021 |
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Amit Moryossef, Ioannis Tsochantaridis, Joe Dinn, Necati Cihan Camgoz, Richard Bowden,
Tao Jiang, Annette Rios, Mathias Muller, Sarah Ebling Evaluating the Immediate Applicability of Pose Estimation for Sign Language Recognition
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW), 2021 |
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M Wang, Li Wang, Tao Jiang, Nan Xiang, M Wei, X Yang, Taku Komura, J Zhang Bas-relief modelling from enriched detail and geometry with deep normal transfer
Neurocomputing, 2020. |
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Nan Xiang, Ruibin Wang, Tao Jiang, Li Wang, Yanran Li, Xiaosong Yang, Jianjun
Zhang Sketch-based modeling with a differentiable renderer
Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds, 2020. |
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Tao Jiang, X Yang, J Zhang, Feng Tian, Shuang Liu, Nan Xiang, Kun Qian Huber-L1-based non-isometric surface registration
The Visual Computer, 2019. |
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Nan Xiang, Li Wang, Tao Jiang, Yanran Li, Xiaosong Yang, Jianjun Zhang Single-image Mesh Reconstruction and Pose Estimation via Generative Normal Map
Accepted in International Conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents, 2019. |
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Simone Barbieri, Tao Jiang, Ben cawthorne, Zhidong Xiao, Xiaosong Yang 3D content creation exploiting 2D character animation
In ACM SIGGRAPH Posters, pp.50, ACM, 2018. |
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Tao Jiang, Kun Qian, Shuang Liu, Jing Wang, Xiaosong Yang, Jianjun Zhang Consistent as-similar-as-possible non-isometric surface registration
The Visual Computer, 2017. |
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Zhao Wang, Shuang Liu, Rongqiang Qian, Tao Jiang, X Yang, J Zhang. Human motion data refinement unitizing structural sparsity and spatial-temporal information
In 13th International Conference on Signal Processing, pp.975-982, IEEE, 2016. |
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Kun Qian, Tao Jiang, Meili Wang, Xiaosong Yang, Jianjun Zhang Energized soft tissue dissection in surgery simulation
Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds, 27(3-4), pp.280-289, 2016. |