2026 The 8th International Conference on Video, Signal and Image Processing (VSIP)

Keynote Speakers

Prof. Yunfei Chen (FIEEE FIET)
University of Durham, UK

Bio: Yunfei Chen is currently a Professor of Signal Processing and Communications in the Department of Engineering at the University of Durham in the UK. His main research interests include wireless system design and analysis, UAV communications, joint radar-communications, energy harvesting communications, physical layer security, and machine learning for communications. He is an IEEE Fellow and IET Fellow. He served as editor for the IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Wireless Communications Letters and IEEE Communications Letters, as well as guest editors for special issues in various IEEE and non-IEEE journals. He won several Best Paper awards from the major conferences in wireless. He has co-authored more than 400 peer-reviewed journal papers and nearly 150 conference papers, 5 book chapters and one monograph. He was listed as Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate since 2020, and he currently has 25000+ Google citations with an h-index of 72.




Prof. Yuxin Hu
Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Hu Yuxin, male, born in February 1981, Research Professor and Doctoral Supervisor. He currently serves as Vice President of the Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
His long-term research focuses on core technologies for remote sensing satellite data processing and the development of application systems. He has presided over and completed more than 10 major national space engineering projects, including data processing and application systems for the Remote Sensing Satellite Group-33 constellation, Gaofen-4, Gaofen-11, Gaofen-12 and Gaofen-13 satellites.
He was awarded the KJW Outstanding Youth Fund and selected as a Leading Talent in Scientific and Technological Innovation under the National Ten-Thousand Talents Program. Throughout his career, he has received numerous prestigious honors, such as the First Class National Award for Progress in Science and Technology, Special-Class Provincial/Ministerial Award for Progress in Science and Technology, First Class Military Science and Technology Progress Award, and the Outstanding Achievement Award of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He has published over 80 academic papers and holds more than 30 authorized patents derived from his research outputs.

 


Prof. Shuwen Xu
Xidian University, China

Shuwen Xu is a professor and doctoral supervisor at Xidian University. He has published over 80 papers indexed by SCI and more than 30 indexed by EI. He holds 30 granted national patents, over 10 patent applications pending, and 2 granted software copyrights. His representative works have appeared in leading international journals such as IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, Signal Processing, Digital Signal Processing, Electronics Letters, IET Radar, Sonar & Navigation, and Science China. He has served as Program Committee Chair and Session Chair for multiple international conferences and has delivered over 30 invited talks. He has led several projects under the General Program and the Young Scientists Fund of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, as well as various national-level projects, with total funding exceeding RMB 30 million over the past three years. He serves on the editorial boards of several journals and acts as a reviewer for international journals such as IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, Electronics Letters, and IET Radar, Sonar & Navigation. He has received multiple provincial and ministerial-level science and technology achievement awards. His main research interests include target detection, weak target detection in complex clutter backgrounds, and time–frequency analysis.

 

 


Prof. Xianbin Cao
Beihang University, China

Prof. Xianbin Cao, Dean of School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Beihang University, China. He is National Leading Talent. He serves as Deputy Director of the State Key Laboratory of Integrated Air-Ground New Navigation System Technology, and Director of the MIIT Key Laboratory of Aerospace Mobile Communication. He also holds multiple academic society positions, including Chairman of the Avionics and Air Traffic Management Branch of the Chinese Society of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Vice Chairman of the Intelligent Transportation Information Engineering Branch of the China Institute of Electronics, and Executive Director of China Intelligent Transportation Systems Association. His long-term research focuses on air-space-ground mobile communication and operational control. As the leading contributor, he has been awarded one Second Class National Award for Technical Invention and one Second Class National Award for Scientific and Technological Progress, alongside six First Class Provincial and Ministerial-level Awards. His prestigious honors include the National Innovation Pioneer Medal, Qian Xuesen Outstanding Contribution Award, Feng Ru Aviation Science and Technology Elite Award, and ACM China Distinguished Scholar.

 

 


Prof. Qinyu Zhang
Harbin Institute of Technology, China

Professor Zhang, Dean of School of Electronics and Information Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, China, He has long been engaged in teaching and research covering intelligent wireless communications, space informatics and intelligent signal processing. He has presided over numerous key research projects, including Key Programs and Major Research Plans of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, National Science and Technology Major Projects, and major consulting projects commissioned by the Chinese Academy of Engineering. Parts of his research achievements have been deployed in national major engineering initiatives. He is a recipient of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars and has been selected for national high-level talent support programs. His other honors include the Shenzhen Pengcheng Distinguished Talent Award and the Guangdong Nanyou Outstanding Teacher Award. Currently, he serves as an editorial board member of journals such as Science China and the Journal on Communications, Director of Guangdong Key Laboratory of Aerospace Communication and Network Technology, Fellow of the China Institute of Electronics, Fellow of the China Institute of Communications, and an expert on the Overall Expert Group for the Ministry of Science and Technology's 6G Technology R&D Program.

 

 


Assoc. Prof. Ning Xu
Southeast University, China

Doctoral Supervisor, School of Computer Science and Engineering, Southeast University, Principal Investigator (PI), National EDA Technology Innovation Center. Dr. Xu has long dedicated his research to machine learning and large language models. He has published more than 60 papers in top-tier international conferences and journals in artificial intelligence, including ICML, NeurIPS, ICLR and IEEE TPAMI. Leading his research team, he developed ChipExpert, the first open-source large model tailored for chip design. He is academic honors include the First Prize of Wu Wenjun Artificial Intelligence Natural Science Award and the Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award of the China Computer Federation (CCF). He has presided over several research projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), including the Youth Fund (Type B) and General Program. He serves as an AInet Fellow of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), Area Chair for three premier machine learning conferences (ICML, NeurIPS, ICLR), and Secretary-General of the International Cooperation and Exchange Committee of the China Society for Image and Graphics (CSIG).