Shuren Qi 祁树仁

Postdoctoral Fellow

City University of Hong Kong

Frontier of Artificial Networks (FAN) Group

Department of Data Science; College of Computing

I am currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Data Science, City University of Hong Kong (CityU). Prior to this, I was a Postdoctoral Fellow at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). I obtained my Ph.D. from Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (NUAA).

My research focuses on principled and scalable modeling of inductive bias for data representation. In particular, I study how invariance, symmetry, and hierarchy serve as inductive biases for learning in the 2020s and beyond, and develop frameworks that are theoretically grounded, structurally transparent, and compatible with scaling. My research has been published in top-tier journals and conferences, such as ACM Computing Surveys, IEEE TPAMI, IEEE TIP, ICCV, and USENIX Security.

Research Interests

  • Invariance & Symmetry
  • Representation Theory
  • Geometric Deep Learning
  • World Models
  • AI for Science
  • Trustworthy AI

News

Recent Updates
Pinned A series of invited talks Frontier of Artificial Network.
Paper accepted by IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM).
Huawei Workshop: Neural Networks and Model Compression [poster] [program].
Serving as an Associate Editor of Expert Systems (Wiley).
Paper accepted by IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP).
Joining the Department of Data Science, City University of Hong Kong, as a Postdoctoral Fellow.

Selected Publications

Full list on Google Scholar →

Representations

WWW WWW Tutorial 2025

Rethink Deep Learning with Invariance in Data Representation

Shuren Qi, Fei Wang, Tieyong Zeng, Fenglei Fan
ACM Web Conference (WWW), Tutorial Track, 2025
Preprint Preprint 2026

Geometric Invariance Priors in Vision Transformers: Principles and Costs

Shuren Qi, Yushu Zhang, Yuming Fang, Xiaochun Cao, Fenglei Fan
Preprint, 2026
ICCV ICCV 2025

Transparent Vision: A Theory of Hierarchical Invariant Representations

Shuren Qi, Yushu Zhang, Chao Wang, Zhihua Xia, Xiaochun Cao, Fenglei Fan
International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2025
TPAMI TPAMI 2023

A Principled Design of Image Representation: Towards Forensic Tasks

Shuren Qi, Yushu Zhang, Chao Wang, Jiantao Zhou, Xiaochun Cao
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), 2023
TPAMI TPAMI 2024

Representing Noisy Image Without Denoising

Shuren Qi, Yushu Zhang, Chao Wang, Tao Xiang, Xiaochun Cao, Yong Xiang
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), 2024
CSUR CSUR 2023

A Survey of Orthogonal Moments for Image Representation: Theory, Implementation, and Evaluation ESI Highly Cited

Shuren Qi, Yushu Zhang, Chao Wang, Jiantao Zhou, Xiaochun Cao
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), 2023 · Accepted in 1st round of peer review

Applications

USENIX USENIX Security 2025

Atkscopes: Multiresolution Adversarial Perturbation as a Unified Attack on Perceptual Hashing and Beyond

Yushu Zhang, Yuanyuan Sun, Shuren Qi*, Zhongyun Hua, Wenying Wen, Yuming Fang
USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security), 2025   Available Functional Reproduced
TMM TMM 2026

Robust Yet Imperceptible Diffusion Watermarking for AI-Generated Image Verification

Shuren Qi, Wenying Wen, Mengxin Shen, Yushu Zhang, Fenglei Fan
IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM), 2026
TIP TIP 2025

Boosting Geometric Invariants for Discriminative Forensics of Large-Scale Generated Visual Content

Shuren Qi, Chao Wang, Zhiqiu Huang, Yushu Zhang, Xiangyu Chen, Yi Zhang, Tieyong Zeng, Fenglei Fan
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP), 2025
TIP TIP 2026

Revealing Photoshop Inpainting Traces Under JPEG Compressions

Yushu Zhang, Lu Zhang, Shuren Qi*, Xiangli Xiao, Wenying Wen
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP), 2026
TIP TIP 2025

Hard EXIF: Protecting Image Authorship Through Metadata, Hardware, and Content

Yushu Zhang, Bowen Shi, Shuren Qi*, Xiangli Xiao, Ping Wang, Wenying Wen
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP), 2025
CSUR CSUR 2024

Security and Privacy on Generative Data in AIGC: A Survey ESI Highly Cited

Tao Wang, Yushu Zhang, Shuren Qi, Ruoyu Zhao, Zhihua Xia, Jian Weng
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), 2024