PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

-- 2023-present, Member of Academia Europaea

-- 2022-present, Member of Finnish Academy of Sciences and Letters

-- 2022-present, IEEE (The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) Fellow

-- 2023-present, ELLIS (European Lab for Learning & Intelligent Systems) Fellow

-- 2020-present, IAPR (The International Association for Pattern Recognition) Fellow

-- 2021-present, AAIA (The Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association) Fellow

-- 2022-present, AAIA Women Committee members

-- 2023.03-present, vice chair of the award subcommittee of IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS), Machine Learning for Signal Processing (MLSP) Technical Committee (MLSP TC).

-- Selected to world's top 2% scientists (most widely cited scientists in different disciplines) by Stanford University for four consecutive years (2019-2023).

-- Co-Program chair of ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction 2021 (ICMI).

-- Tutorial Chair for ICPR 2024 (Kolkata, India).

-- International Advisory Committee member: ICACA 2024 (3-rd International Conference on Advanced Computing and Applications (ICACA-2024) by CSI Kolkata Chapter).

-- Panels Chair for FG 2023 (Hawaii, USA).

-- General Chair for Arctic AI days 2022

-- Publicity chair of 22nd Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis (SCIA 2023), Levi, Finland.

-- General chair of  2022 International Conference on Image Processing and Media Computing (ICIPMC 2022), May 27-29, 2022 Xi'an, China.

-- Co-publicity chair of Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG 2018).

-- Late Breaking Results Co-Chairs of 21st ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2019)

-- General chair of 3rd and 4th International Conference on Biometric Engineering and Applications (ICBEA 2019, Stockholm, Sweden, 2019; and ICBEA 2020, Xi'an, China, 2020)

-- Area Chair for ICASSP 2024; ACM Multimedia 2023; International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition 2017, 2018, 2024; IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision 2017.

-- Editorial Board Member: Pattern Recognition (JUFO 3, 2016-); IEEE Trans. on Multimedia (JUFO 2, 2022-2024); IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (JUFO 2, 2018.01-2021.12); Image and Vision Computing Journal (JUFO 2, 2015.09-); Journal of Electronic Imaging (JUFO 1, 2017.09-2019.12); Frontiers in Psychology (JUFO 1, 2020-2024); International Journal of Network Dynamics and Intelligence (2022-); Visual Intelligence (2023-).

-- Co-organizer of Finnish DENIS summer school on Affective Computing (2016).

-- Pre-examiner and opponent of doctoral dissertations: 12 PhD theses for students from China, Finland, UK, Singapore and Malaysia.

-- Grant proposal reviewer: for the National Science Center, Poland, 2013; National Centre of Science and Technology Evaluation, Republic of Kazakhstan (2019); Medical Research Council of UK Research and Innovation (2019).

-- Judge Committee of 2023 Innovators Under 35 China.

--  International Scientific and Innovation Advisory Committee: Centre for Research-based Innovation called Visual Intelligence, Norway.

--  International Expert in the Turkiye-EU project ¨C ECITE, 2023-2025.

-- Chair of review group for docentship application: University of Oulu, 2014, 2015

-- Guest editor for ten special issues:

(Sanna Järvelä, Guoying Zhao, Andy Nguyen, Haoyu Chen) British Journal of Educational Technology (BJET) special section on Hybrid Intelligence: Human-AI Co-evolution and Learning, 2024-2025.

(with B. Chen, S. Tan, G. Coatrieux) Security and Communication Networks: Special issue on Data-Driven Face Forensics and Security, 2020-2021

(with X. Huang, M. Pietikäinen, W. Zheng, A. Dhall) Image and vision computing: special issue on Automatic face analytics for human behavior understanding, 2018-2019

(with M. Pietikäinen, L. Liu, J. Chen, X. Wang and R. Chellappa) IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence: Special Issue on Compact and Efficient Feature Representation and Learning in Computer Vision, 2017-2018

(with X. Shen, W. Chen) Frontiers in Psychology: Special issue on Recognizing Microexpression: An Interdisciplinary Perspective, 2016-2017

(with S. Zafeiriou, I. Kotsia, M. Nicolaou, J. Cohn) IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing: Special Issue on Human Behavior Analysis ''in-the-wild'', 2016-2017

(with S. Zafeiriou, I. Kotsia, M. Pietikäinen, J. Cohn and R. Chellappa) Special issue on Spontaneous Facial Behaviour Analysis (SFBA) for Computer Vision and Image Understanding, 2014-2015.

(with J. Chen, Z. Lei, L. Liu, M. Pietikäinen) Speical Issue on robust local descriptors for computer vision, Neurocomputing 2014-2015.

(with M. Pietikäinen, M. Turk, L. Wang, L. Cheng) Special Issue on Machine Learning in Motion Analysis, Image and Vision Computing, 2011-2012.

(with L. Wang, N. Rajpoot, M. Nixon) Special issue on New Advances in Video-based Gait Analysis and Applications: Challenges and Solutions, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics - Part B: Cybernetics, 2009-2010.

-- Co-chair of 27 international workshops: The 3rd RePSS - Vision-based Remote Physiological Signal Sensing, with IJCAI 2024; MAC: ACM Multimedia 2024 Micro-Action Analysis Challenge; Workshop on Hybrid Intelligence with ADRA (AI, Data and Robotics Association ) forum 2023; The 1st and 2nd Challenge Workshop on Micro-gesture Analysis for Hidden Emotion Understanding (MiGA) with IJCAI 2023, IJCAI2024;  1st International Workshop on Multimodal and Responsible Affective Computing (MRAC 2023) with ACM MM 2023; Chinese-MER 2023: Chinese Multimodal Emotion Recognition Challenge with ACM MM 2023; 2nd Workshop on "What's Next in Affect Modelling?" with ACII 2022; "The 2nd Challenge Workshop on Remote Physiological Signal Sensing (RePSS)" with ICCV 2021; "Multimodal Sentiment Analysis in Real-life Media Challenge and Workshop" with ACM Multimedia 2021; IEEE BigMM Grand Challenge 2020 on Touchless Technologies; ''CVPM 2020: International Workshop and Challenge on Computer Vision for Physiological Measurement'' with CVPR 2020; Workshop on "Automatic Face Analytics for Human Behavior Understanding (FaceHUB 2018)" with FG 2018; Workshop on "CEFRL: Compact and Efficient Feature Representation and Learning in Computer Vision" with ICCV 2017; Workshop on "Automatic Face Analytics for Human Behavior Understanding (FaceHUB)" with BMVC 2017; ''Faces 'in-the-wild' Workshop-Challenge (Wild-Face)'' with CVPR 2017; ''Multi-view lipreading challenge'' with ACCV 2016; Workshop on ''Spontaneous Facial Behavior Analysis'' with ACCV 2016; Workshop on ''Robust Features for Computer Vision'' with CVPR 2016; Workshop on Context-Based Affect Recognition and Affective Face 'in-the-wild' with CVPR 2016; Workshop on ''Spontaneous Facial Behavior Analysis'', in connection with top tier conference ECCV 2014; Workshop on ''RoLoD: Robust local descriptors for computer vision'' with ACCV 2014; Workshops on Machine Learning for Vision-based Motion Analysis, in connection with top tier conferences ECCV 2008, ICCV 2009, CVPR 2011.

-- Co-chair of special sessions:

 (with Qing Liu, Robert Jenssen) Organization chair of ICASSP 2024 special session on ¡°Learning with Incomplete Medical Data¡±

 (with X. Fu and M. Pietikäinen) Organization chair of special session ''Expression and Micro-Expression Analysis: From Psychology to Computer Vision'' for IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition 2013 (FG'13)

(with Z. Zhou and S. Zafeiriou) Organization chair of special session ''Analysis of mouth motion for speech recognition and speaker verification'' for IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition 2015 (FG'15)

-- Tutorials:

  FG 2018 tutorial: Guoying Zhao and Matti Pietikäinen: Reading hidden emotions from micro-expression analysis. Xi'an, China.

  SCIA 2013 tutorial: Matti Pietikäinen and Guoying Zhao: Image and video analysis with local binary pattern variants, June 17, Helsinki, Finland.

  ICCV 2009 tutorial: Matti Pietikäinen and Guoying Zhao, Local texture descriptors in computer vision, 27th, Sep. 2009, Kyoto, Japan.

  18th ICPR 2006 Tutorials: Matti Pietikäinen, Guoying Zhao & Abdenour Hadid (University of Oulu, Finland), Local Binary Pattern Approach to Computer Vision. Aug. 20-24, 2006, Hongkong.

-- Invited talks:

 IEEE International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB 2023), Sep. 25-28, Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Nordic Learning Analytics Summer Institute (NLASI 2023), June 1, 2023.

Science Forum, Helsinki, Finland, Jan. 13, 2023.

CNCC (China National Computer Congress) Micro-expression Forum, Dec. 8, 2022.

AAIA East China Artificial Intelligence Summit, July 23, 2022.

International Conference on Ubiquitous Positioning, Indoor Navigation and Location-Based Services (IEEE UPINLBS), Mar. 19, 2022;

Vision and Learning Seminar (VALSE), Jan. 19, 2022

''Measuring Heart Rate from Videos'' in Huawei Summit, Nov. 4, 2021.

''3D Mask Face Anti-Spoofing by Detecting Pulse from Face Videos'' in ICCV ''Face Anti-Spoofing Workshop and Challenge'', Oct. 11, 2021

Keynote talk ''Emotional Interfaces with Face Analysis'' in ICPR Workshop on ''facial and body expressions, micro-expressions and behavior recognition'', Jan. 10, 2021.

Invited talk ''Towards emotion AI and applications in Education'' in 5th Virtual Conference of Sino-Finnish Joint Learning Innovation Institute. Nov. 25, 2020.

Invited talk ''Facial micro-expression analysis: Our roadmap'' in 9th International Conference on Computing and Pattern Recognition (ICCPR 2020), Oct. 31, 2020

Invited talk ''Remote Heart Rate Measure from Videos'' in IPM-AI Summer School 2020 (Aug. 22-26, 2020, http://cs.ipm.ac.ir/asoc2020/).

Keynote talk ''Remote Heart Rate Measure from Videos: Methods and Application in Atrial Fibrillation Detection'' in 12th International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedical Technology (ICBBT 2020), May 17, 2020.

Keynote talk ''Face anti-spoofing with remote heart rate estimation from videos'' in 3rd International Conference on Biometric Engineering and Applications (ICBEA 2019), May 30, 2019.

Keynote talk ''Facial expression analysis: From macro to micro'' in the 6th International Workshop on Context Based Affect Recognition (CBAR 2019) in conjunction with FG2019, May 14, 2019.

Keynote talk ''Measuring Heart Rate from Videos and Its application in Atrial Fibrillation Detection'' in international symposium on frontier technologies and medical imaging analysis, June 28, 2018, Central South University.

Keynote talk in First Workshop on Large-scale Emotion Recognition and Analysis in conjunction with FG2018.

Keynote talk in Facial Micro-Expression Grand Challenge (MEGC): Methods and Datasets in conjunction with FG2018.

Keynote talk ''Towards reading hidden emotions: micro-expression analysis and heart rate estimation'' in SIG 27 Conference, Nov. 29, 2016

Keynote talk ''Facial Expression and Micro-Expression Analysis: Progress and Challenges'' in ACCV workshop on Computer Vision for Affective Computing (CV4AC), Nov. 1, 2014

-- Director of UOulu AI community (12.2018-12.2023).

-- Vice-cooridinator of special interest group on computer vision, Finnish center of artificial intelligence (02.2020-)

-- Board member of Finnish AI society (FAIS, 2019-2023); of Scientific Board of Chinese Association of Science and Technology in Finland  (CASTF); of Center for Machine Vision Research, University of Oulu, Finland, 2010-present.

-- Mentor: for FG 2013 Doctoral Consortium

-- Member of program committees: ICCV, CVPR, FG, BMVC, ICPR, CRV, AVSS, etc.

-- Book editor and author

Editor of Springer book: Machine Learning for Vision-based Motion Analysis, 2009

Editor of IGI global book: Machine Learning for Human Motion Analysis: Theory and Practice, 2009; 

Author of Springer book: Computer Vision Using Local Binary Patterns. Springer, 2011.

-- Reviewer for Journals: TPAMI, TIP, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, TCSVT, TKDE, SMC-A, SMC-B, SMC-C, TIFS, IVC, IJCV, Neurocomputing, PR, PAA, PRL, IJPRAI, Transactions on Affective Computing,  etc.

-- Reviewer for Conferences

ICCV, CVPR, ECCV, ICME, ICPR, FG, CRV, ICIAP, ICB, CAIP, CISP,  etc.

Visits:

--  CNS Lab, Stanford University, Sep. 2022 - Mar. 2023.

--  Prof. Jeffrey Cohn's group in University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), USA, from Mid. June for two weeks

--  Prof. Dimitris Metaxas' group in Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA, from June to Aug., 2016

--  Prof. Maja Pantic's IBUG group in Imperial College of London, UK, from July 12 to Sep. 28, 2013

--  Prof. Mark Nixon's ISIS group in Southampton University, UK, from July 11 to 22, 2011.

--  Prof. Stan Z. Li's group in Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences from April 6th to 19^th, 2009