Bin ZHU
Full-time Faculty
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
School of Computing and Information Systems
SCIS
Qualification
- PhD, City University of Hong Kong, 2021
Teaching Topics
- Object Oriented Programming
Research Advisor/Co-Research Advisor to
Research Areas and Areas of Expertise
Strategic Priorities
HighlightsBin Zhu is an emerging leader in human-centered multimedia analysis, specializing in cross-modal search, egocentric video understanding, generative AI, and AI applications for healthcare, with impactful contributions to both foundational research and real-world multimedia systems.
Combines methodological innovation in cross-modal and generative AI with practical impact in healthcare, dietary recommendation, and immersive multimedia systems; recognized for advancing egocentric video understanding, efficient video hashing, and adaptive AI planning; actively contributes to open datasets and benchmarks, and emphasizes societal benefit and accessibility.
Focused research areas include Frontier research in processing, modeling, analyzing, and understanding multimedia content to facilitate natural and immersive human experiences; cross-modal and multi-modal learning; generative models for image and video synthesis; AI-driven dietary and healthcare applications; video editing and retrieval; adaptive planning for embodied agents.
Combines methodological innovation in cross-modal and generative AI with practical impact in healthcare, dietary recommendation, and immersive multimedia systems; recognized for advancing egocentric video understanding, efficient video hashing, and adaptive AI planning; actively contributes to open datasets and benchmarks, and emphasizes societal benefit and accessibility.
Focused research areas include Frontier research in processing, modeling, analyzing, and understanding multimedia content to facilitate natural and immersive human experiences; cross-modal and multi-modal learning; generative models for image and video synthesis; AI-driven dietary and healthcare applications; video editing and retrieval; adaptive planning for embodied agents.
Areas of Expertise
Human-centered multimedia analysiscross-modal search and creationegocentric video understandingmulti-modal large language modelsgenerative AIAI for healthcarevideo hashingrecipe retrievaldomain adaptationvisual instruction fine-tuning.
Past Awarded Grant
- Quantity-aware Embedding for Dietary Suggestion Generation, SMU Internal Grant, Ministry of Education (MOE) Tier 1 , PI (Project Level): Bin ZHU, 2024, S$120,000
- Self-Adaptive Planning with Environmental Awareness for Embodied Agents, Ministry of Education (MOE) Tier 2, Ministry of Education (MOE) Tier 2 PI (Project Level): Bin ZHU, Co-PI (Project Level): HARA, Kotaro, SGD959,166
Latest Publications
Showing up to 6 latest publications from the past 5 years.
- RC-NF: Robot-Conditioned Normalizing Flow for Real-Time Anomaly Detection in Robotic Manipulation [2026]S Zhou, B Zhu, J Yang, X Zhao, J Chen, YG JiangProceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern …, 2026
- X Han, B Zhu, S Hu, FM Li, P Carrington, R Zimmermann, J ChenarXiv preprint arXiv:2603.11698, 2026
- N Zhang, B Zhu, S Zhou, J ChenarXiv preprint arXiv:2603.06001, 2026
- C Zeng, Y Jiang, G Gao, S Wang, D Danier, B Zhu, S Rudinac, D Bull, ...arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.12173, 2026
- HM Pham, J Wu, X Ma, Y Zhang, Y Xu, A Saeed, B Zhu, Z Pan, D MaarXiv preprint arXiv:2603.03331, 2026
- B Zhu, F Han¹, P Jiao¹, J ChenMultiMedia Modeling: 32nd International Conference on Multimedia Modeling …, 2026
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Qualification
- PhD, City University of Hong Kong, 2021
Teaching Topics
- Object Oriented Programming