Dr Fang-Lue ZHANG
Senior Lecturer
PhD from Tsinghua University
Engineering
Computer Science and Engineering
I am now a senior lecturer within the School of Computer Science and Engineering. From 2017 to 2026, I worked with the Victoria Graphics Group at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. From 2015 to 2017, after earning my doctoral degree working on structure-based image analysis and editing at the Visual Media Lab at Tsinghua in 2015, I continued working as a Post-Doctoral researcher and collaborating on research projects with industry, where my research focus was mainly on the intelligent image and video editing and enhancement. In 2026, I joined UNSW as a senior lecturer.
I have been actively contributing to computer graphics, AI, and Virtual Reality community, with over 110+ papers published, including 40 papers in the highest quality (CORE Tier-A*) journals and conferences, including SIGGRAPH/SIGGRAPH Asia, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, CVPR, IEEE VR, AAAI, and IEEE Transactions on Image Processing. My work on learning-based visual content generation and panoramic image/video understanding are all state-of-the-art tools. I received the Victoria Early-Career Research Excellence Award in 2019 and several major research grants from the New Zealand Royal Society, MBIE, and industrial partners.
My current research interests include learning-based image/video understanding and manipulation approaches, panoramic scene processing and reconstruction for VR/MR applications. PhD and masters positions are available for doing research in the above fields. Please email me for more details.
E-mail
Location
Room 501E
Level 5, K17 Building
Kensington Campus
NSW 2033
- Publications
- Media
- Grants
- Awards
- Research Activities
- Engagement
- Teaching and Supervision
2026-2027, Principal Investigator, "Real-Time 3D Reconstruction and Visualization of Mining Environment",
Industrial Project, NZ$600,000
2023-2026, Principal Investigator, “Holistic Volumetric Representation for Reconstructing Immersive Videos”,
Catalyst: Leaders (JVH Fellowship), NZ$150,000, Funder: New Zealand Royal Society
2021-2026, Principal Investigator, “Reconstructing Dynamic Panoramic Scenes in Mixed Reality”,
Marsden Fast-Start Grant, NZ$300,000, Funder: New Zealand Royal Society
2025-2027, Principal Investigator, “Structure-aware Learning for Texture-less Image Generation”,
Faculty Strategic Research Grant, NZ$24,976, Funder: Victoria University of Wellington
2022-2023, Principal Investigator, “Ending with Impact (Robotics Spearhead): Adaptive Path Planning”,
National Challenge 10, NZ$89,497, Funder: Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (NZ)
2022-2024, Principal Investigator, “Automatic High-resolution Line Art Colorization”,
Industrial Project, $40,000, Funder: UniAdventure and KiwiNet
2022-2023, Principal Investigator, “Video Feature Exploration”,
Industrial Project, $2,657, Funder: The Cargo Cult ltd.
2018-2023, Co-PI, “Structual Analysis of Stereoscopic 360-Degree Video for Mixed Reality”,
International Exchange Project, $24,112, Funder: The Royal Society (United Kingdom)
2019-2022, Key Researcher and Theme-Leader, “Karetao Hangarau-a-Mahi: Adaptive learning robots (Tranche II)”,
National Challenge 10, $3,000,000, Funder: Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (NZ)
2017-2018, Key Researcher, “Karetao Hangarau-a-Mahi: Adaptive learning robots (Tranche I)”,
National Challenge 10, $2,000,000, Funder: Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (NZ)
2017-2018, Principal Investigator, “Aesthetic oriented video editing and enhancement”,
Research Establishment Grant, $9,400, Funder: Victoria University of Wellington
2025, Best Paper Award of ICXR 2025
2025, Best Paper Award of CVIP 2025
2024, Honourable Mention Paper of IEEE VR 2024 (Core A* top conference)
2020, Best Paper Award of Computational Visual Media (Q1 journal)
2020, Victoria Early-Career Research Excellence Award
2020, Best Reviewer Award of Computational Visual Media (Q1 journal) (NZD 1,000)
2013, IBM scholarship for excellent PhD students (3 in Tsinghua University)
2012, National Scholarship of China Ministry of Education (Top 5%, NZD 7,000)
2026, IEEE Senior Member
2026, Program Committee of AAAI 2026 (Core Tier A*, Top AI conference)
2024-2026, Program Committee of ACM MM (Core Tier A*)
2024-2026, Program Committee of IEEE VR (Core Tier A*, Top VR conference)
2024-2026, Program Committee of IEEE ISMAR (Core Tier A*)
2023-2026, Industrial Relationship Coordinator of IEEE New Zealand Central Sector
2022-2026, Associate Editor of the journal of Computer & Graphics, (SJR Q1)
2022-2026, Committee Member of IEEE Central New Zealand Sector,
2024, Program Chair of Computational Visual Media 2024, Wellington
2024, Guest Editor of the Special Issue of CVM of Graphical Models (SJR Q2)
2024, Guest Editor of the Special Issue of CVM of Journal of Computer Science and Technology (SJR Q2)
2021-2022, Guest Editor of the Special Issue of PG GEMs of Computer & Graphics.
2020-2021, Program Chair of Pacific Graphics 2020 and 2021 (CORE ranking A), Wellington
My Research Supervision
My current research interests include learning-based image/video understanding and manipulation approaches, panoramic scene processing and reconstruction for VR/MR applications. PhD and masters positions are available for doing research in the above fields. Please email me for more details.
My Teaching
Computer Graphics, Convenor and Lecturer
Computer Vision, Lecturer