My name is Junqi Liao (廖峻骐). I am studying for my PhD in the School of Information Science and Technology at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in Hefei, Anhui Province. My supervisors are Professor Li Li (李礼) and Professor Dong Liu (刘东).

My research interests include:

  • Video coding
  • Image coding
  • Reinforcement learning

🎓 Educations

  • 2017.09 - 2021.06, Undergraduate, Dalian Maritime University (DMU), School of Information Science and Technology, Dalian.
  • 2021.09 - Now, Doctoral candidate, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), School of Information Science and Technology, Hefei.

📝 Publications


TMM 2024
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  • Junqi Liao, Li Li, Dong Liu, Houqiang Li. Content-adaptive Rate-Distortion Modeling for Frame-level Rate Control in Versatile Video Coding. IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 2024 [HTML]
VCIP 2023
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  • Junqi Liao, Li Li, Dong Liu, Houqiang Li. Reinforcement Learning-based Frame-level Bit Allocation for VVC. 2023 IEEE International Conference on Visual Communications and Image Processing (VCIP), 2023
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  • Haotian Zhang, Junqi Liao, Yiheng Jiang, Li Li, Dong Liu. Padding-Aware Learned Image Compression. 2023 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), 2023
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  • Haotian Zhang, Feihong Mei, Junqi Liao, Li Li, Dong Liu. Practical Learned Image Compression with Online Encoder Optimization[C]//2024 Picture Coding Symposium (PCS). IEEE, 2024: 1-5. [HTML]

🏅 Honors and Awards

  • 2024.03 ICIP 2024 Grand Challenge on Video Complexity First prize winner
  • 2023.12 VCIP 2023 Grand Challenge Award (Image compression track) First prize winner
  • 2022.12 VCIP 2022 Grand Challenge Award (Image compression performance track) Second prize winner

💻 Standard Contributions

IEEE

  • 2022.06 - 2024.02, IEEE 1857.11 Working Draft Editing
  • 2023.08, CE5: Entropy codec engine convergence, VC-46-M407
  • 2023.07, Crosscheck Report of M400, VC-45-M404

JVET

  • J Liao, L Li, D Liu, H Li, and F. Wu, “AHG10: Improvement of Input Video Padding in VTM”, m62771, Antalya, April 2023.
  • J Liao, L Li, D Liu, H Li, and F. Wu, “AHG10: Lambda-QP Relationship Fix for Slice-level Multi-QP Optimization”, m62778, Antalya, April 2023.
  • J Liao, L Li, D Liu, H Li, and F. Wu, “Lambda-QP relationship fix for slice-level multi-QP optimization”, m61319, Mainz, October 2022.