Micheal Yang received the PhD degree (summa cum laude) from University of Bonn in 2011. From 06/2016 until 03/2024, he was Assistant Professor at University of Twente, heading a group working on scene understanding. Since 03/2024, he is Professor of Visual Computing at University of Bath.

His research is in the fields of Visual Computing and Computer Vision with specialization on Scene Understanding, Multimodal Learning, Deep Generative Models. He published over 100 papers in international journals and conference proceedings. He serves as Editorial Board Member of International Journal of Computer Vision, and recipient of the Best Science Paper Award at BMVC 2016 and The Willem Schermerhorn Award (2021). He co-organized 12 workshops with CVPR/ICCV/ECCV, and is guest editor of 4 journal special issues. He is regularly serving as program committee member of conferences and reviewer for international journals.

Prospective PhD students are welcome to contact him for general Computer Vision research projects, in particular on the topics of

• 3D scene synthesis 
• Scene graph generation
• Multimodal learning

Our lab recruits one or two PhD students each fall. Prospective PhD students should apply to the Bath PhD Program in Computer Science.

Please visit his personal homepage for up to date information:

https://sites.google.com/site/michaelyingyang

Collaborators & Industrial Partners

Over the last years we have been collaborating with various scientific partners – such as Leibniz University Hannover, University of Twente, Zhejiang University, IIT Geova, Wuhan University, and more.

We have also been collaborating with various industrial research labs - such as Microsoft Research Asia, Amazon Research,  NEC Lab America, and Niantic.

Main educational responsibilities are teaching topics on computer vision, deep learning, scene understanding, visual computing, AI.

Main Master thesis project topics: 

3D scene synthesis 

Visual question answering

Scene graph generation