About Me

I am a soon-graduating PhD candidate in Computer Vision at the University of Melbourne, under the supervision of Associate Professor Krista A. Ehinger and Dr Qiuhong Ke. I got my MSc Degree at the University of Melbourne in 2021. My work focuses on bridging the gap between computer vision systems and human perception, with expertise in understanding and completing visually occluded content. My interests include object reconstruction, segmentation, recognition, and scene understanding. I am open to research collaborations related to amodal completion.

📝 Publications

• Yanbei Jiang, Yihao Ding, Chao Lei, Jiayang Ao, Jey Han Lau, Krista A. Ehinger. Beyond Perception: Evaluating Abstract Visual Reasoning through Multi-Stage Task. Accepted to the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) 2025 Findings.
• Jiayang Ao, Yanbei Jiang, Qiuhong Ke, and Krista A Ehinger. Open-World Amodal Appearance Completion. Accepted to the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2025.
• Jiayang Ao, Qiuhong Ke, and Krista A Ehinger. Sequential Amodal Segmentation via Cumulative Occlusion Learning. In Proceedings of the 35th British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), November 2024.
• Jiayang Ao, Qiuhong Ke, and Krista A. Ehinger. Amodal intra-class instance segmentation: Synthetic datasets and benchmark. In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), pages 281–290, January 2024.
• Jiayang Ao, Qiuhong Ke, and Krista A Ehinger. Image amodal completion: A survey. Computer Vision and Image Understanding, page 103661, 2023.

🔬 Professional Appointments

• ArtCert Researcher, Faculty of Arts, University of Melbourne, 04/2025 – 06/2025

🏫 Teaching

• Lecturer & Course Developer, ISYS3466 Data-Driven Decision Making: Machine Learning for Business Professionals, the RMIT University, 07/2024- 12/2024
• Head tutor & Course Developer, COMP90086 Computer Vision, the University of Melbourne, 07/2021- 12/2024
• Head tutor, COMP90049 Introduction to Machine Learning, the University of Melbourne, 02/2022- 07/2024
• Head tutor, COMP30027 Machine Learning, the University of Melbourne, 02/2022- 06/2025

🏆 Scholarships, Awards & Funding

• [Jun 2025] CVPR Travel Support Award
• [Sep 2024] Human Annotation Fund, AI group, School of Computing and Information Systems, the University of Melbourne
• [Jan 2024] IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision Travel Grant
• [Nov 2023] Engineering and IT Conference Travel Scholarship
• [Nov 2023] Melbourne School of Engineering Travelling Scholarship (CIS)
• [Nov 2022] FEIT Excellence Award in Teaching and Learning for Tutors and Demonstrators
• [Aug 2021] Melbourne Research Scholarship (Fee offset and Allowance)
• [Jun 2019] Outstanding Graduates of Central South University
• [May 2018] Central China Hackathon Rank #2
• [May 2018] Innovation and Entrepreneurship Training Program for College Students, China National Projects
• [Jun 2017] China Top10 in ‘Her Startup’ Empowering Women Entrepreneurs Competition for College Students
• [Jan 2017] Interdisciplinary Contest In Modeling (Honorable Mention)

🏛️ SERVICES

Unimelb Open Day Demonstration 2024

External Reviewer

• ACM Multimedia (MM) 2024

🎓 Education

• 2021.10 - present, Doctor of Philosophy - Engineering and IT, The University of Melbourne
• 2019.07 - 2021.07, Master of Science (Computer Science) (with distinction), The University of Melbourne
• 2015.09 - 2019.06, Bachelor of Management (Information Management and Information Systems), Central South University