LI WEIRAN

Ph.D. Candidate

China Agricultural University & National University of Singapore

Hi! I am a joint Ph.D. candidate at China Agricultural University and the National University of Singapore, working in the field of computer vision. My supervisor is Prof. Zhenbo Li, co-supervisor is Prof. Hwa Liang Leo. My current research interests include object tracking, vision–language models, and smart aquaculture applications. As of 2025, I have published over ten SCI papers in venues such as AAAI, TMM, TII, with more than 200 citations. I currently serve as a PC member for ACM MM and AAAI, and as a reviewer for journals including EAAI, ESWA, NEUNET, PR, KBS, NEUCOM, INPA, and COMPAG. ----- If you are interested in our research or would like to discuss potential collaborations, feel free to contact me via email or add me on WeChat. (Ifso plz note urself shortly, as I got many spam msgs, thx!) ----- I am also actively seeking postdoctoral positions and faculty opportunities. Please feel free to reach out.

Research Interests

Deep Learning: Computer Vision (CV)CV: Object TrackingVision-Language ModelSmart Aquaculture Application

News

Jan 2026

One of our works has been published online on KBS. Congratulations to Qiannan!

Nov 2025

One of our works has been accepted for the AAAI 2026 (Oral)!

Nov 2025

One of our works has been published online on TII!


Selected Publications

MAR-GCN: A meta-action refinement graph convolutional network for skeleton-based human action recognition

Qiannan Guo, Weiran Li, Mina Han, Zhenbo Li*

Knowledge-Based Systems (KBS), 2026 CCF-C, CAAI-B

When Trackers Date Fish: A Benchmark and Framework for Underwater Multiple Fish Tracking

Weiran Li, Yeqiang Liu, Qiannan Guo, Yijie Wei, Hwa Liang Leo, Zhenbo Li*

The 40th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2026 OralCCF-A, CAAI-A

DA-MFT: Unsupervised Multiple Fish Tracking Framework Based on Domain Adaptation

Yeqiang Liu, Weiran Li, Wenxu Wang, Mina Han, Xue Liu, Zhenbo Li*

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (TII), 2025 CCF-C, CAAI-B

PDTrack: Progressive Distance Association for Multiple Object Tracking

Yeqiang Liu, Weiran Li, Yanhao Ding, Zhenbo Li*

IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2025 CCF-B, CAAI-B

Colliding Depths and Fusion: Leveraging Adaptive Feature Maps and Restorable Depth Recharge for Infrared and Visible Scene Fusion

Mina Han, Kailong Yu, Weiran Li, Qiannan Guo, Zhenbo Li*

IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM), 2025 CCF-B, CAAI-A

TFMFT: Transformer-Based Multiple Fish Tracking

Weiran Li, Yeqiang Liu, Wenxu Wang, Zhenbo Li*, Jun Yue

Computers and Electronics in Agriculture (COMPAG), 2024

A Lightweight Network for Portable Fry Counting Devices

Weiran Li, Qian Zhu, Hanyu Zhang, Ziyu Xu, Zhenbo Li*

Applied Soft Computing (ASOC), 2024

Deep Learning in Multiple Animal Tracking: A Survey

Yeqiang Liu, Weiran Li, Xue Liu, Zhenbo Li*, Jun Yue

Computers and Electronics in Agriculture (COMPAG), 2024 Survey Paper

Review of Vision Counting Methods and Applications for Farmed Animals

Jing Wang, Weiran Li, Yeqiang Liu, Zhenbo Li*

Transactions of the Chinese Society of Agricultural Machinery, 2023 Survey Paper

Dynamic Fry Counting Based on Multi-Object Tracking and One-Stage Detection

Hanyu Zhang, Weiran Li, Yanyu Qi, Haonan Liu, Zhenbo Li*

Computers and Electronics in Agriculture (COMPAG), 2023

LFCNet: A Lightweight Fish Counting Model Based on Density Map Regression

Yuanyang Zhao, Weiran Li, Yiming Li, Yanyu Qi, Zhenbo Li*, Jun Yue

Computers and Electronics in Agriculture (COMPAG), 2022

CMFTNet: Multiple Fish Tracking Based on Counterpoised Jointnet

Weiran Li, Fei Li, Zhenbo Li*

Computers and Electronics in Agriculture (COMPAG), 2022

A Survey of Fish Tracking Techniques Based on Computer Vision

Weiran Li, Zhenbo Li*, Fei Li, Meng Yuan, Chaojun Cen, Yanyu Qi, Qiannan Guo, You Li

arXiv preprint, 2021 Survey Paper


Education

China Agricultural University & National University of Singapore Present

Ph.D. in Computer Science and Technology

Jointly-cultivated Ph.D. Student supported by CSC

China Agricultural University

M.S. in Computer Science and Technology

Outstanding Master's Thesis / Top 0.7%

Shanghai Ocean University

B.S. in Spatial Information and Digital Technology

Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis