Dr Xinqi Fan
Lecturer
My profile
Biography
Dr. Xinqi Fan is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at Manchester Metropolitan University. He received the Bachelor’s degree from Southwest University, the Master’s degree from the University of Western Australia, and the Ph.D. degree from the City University of Hong Kong.
Dr. Fan’s research interests include computer vision and its applications in healthcare. He has published in leading conferences and journals, including CVPR, ACM MM, MICCAI, and IEEE TIP. He was a recipient of the National Scholarship, and a recipient of Yuhui Scholarship for academic excellence in Computer and Information Science. He and his collaborators won a Silver Medal from the International Exhibition of Inventions Geneva, a Silver Medal from the Internet+ Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition, and the Second Place in Facial Micro-Expression Challenge from ACM Multimedia. He is a certificated Facial Action Coding System coder.
Dr. Fan actively contributes to the academic community as a reviewer for leading conferences and journals, such as NeurIPS, CVPR, ICCV, ACM MM, ECAI, IEEE TAFFC, IEEE TNNLS, IEEE TMM, IEEE TCSVT, IEEE TBME, and PR. He previously served as Chair of the IEEE student branch at City University of Hong Kong.
Projects
Principal Investigator
Automatic Inflammatory Bowel Disease
UK Research and Innovation - Higher Education Innovation Fund & MMU - Transforming Health Collaborative Fund
In collaboration with Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust, Chinese University of Hong Kong and Hong Kong Metropolitan University
2024 -
Principal Investigator
Multimodal Learning for Emotion Understanding and Healthcare Applications
Manchester Metropolitan University
2024 -
Principal Investigator
Spatiotemporal Analysis of Soccer Officials in Decision-Making
Manchester Metropolitan University
2024 -
Co-Principal Investigator
Development of Interpretable Deep Biomarker for Monitoring Carotid Atherosclerosis Based on 3D Ultrasound Imaging
University Grant Committee of Hong Kong
2024 -
Teaching
Supervision
Current PhD student(s):
Shudipta Roy 2024 -
Nurjahan Sultana 2023 -
Recruitment:
I always look for highly motivated students to join my team to do research. Students will get full support and have academic exchange opportunities in top universities worldwide. Preferred academic backgrounds include but are not limited to artificial intelligence, data science, computer science, electrical and electronic engineering, and automation.
The successful candidates will join an energetic and friendly research group, Human-Centred Computing Group, led by Prof. Moi Hoon Yap (Professor of Image and Vision Computing).
If you are interested in joining my team, please do not hesitate to contact me at [email protected] with your CV and a short self-introduction. I always welcome self-funded Ph.D. students with a strong background, and will have funded Ph.D. opportunities depending on the funding.
Research outputs
Selected Publication
- A. Zafar, D. Aftab, R. Qureshi, X. Fan, et al., “Single stage adaptive multi-attention network for image restoration,” IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP)., 2024.
- X. Fan, X. Chen, M. Jiang, et al., “SelfME: Self-supervised motion learning for micro-expression recognition,” IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)., 2023.
- X. Chen, X. Fan, B. Chiu, “Interpretable deep biomarker for serial monitoring of carotid atherosclerosis based on three-dimensional ultrasound imaging,” International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI)., 2023.
- A. Shahid, M. Nawaz, X. Fan, et al., “View-adaptive graph neural network for action recognition,” IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems (TCDS)., 2022.
- X. Fan, A. Shahid, H. Yan, “Facial micro-expression generation based on deep motion retargeting and transfer learning,” ACM International Conference on Multimedia (MM)., 2021.
- S. Yu, X. Fan, T. Chau, et al., “Square-Root Sigma-Point Filtering Approach to State Estimation for Wind Turbine Generators in Interconnected Energy Systems,” IEEE Systems Journal., 2021.
- Chapters in books
Chapters in books
Chen, X., Fan, X., Chiu, B. (2023) 'Interpretable Deep Biomarker for Serial Monitoring of Carotid Atherosclerosis Based on Three-Dimensional Ultrasound Imaging.' Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention – MICCAI 2023. pp. 295-305.
- Journal articles
Journal articles
Zafar, A., Aftab, D., Qureshi, R., Fan, X., Chen, P., Wu, J., Ali, H., Nawaz, S., Khan, S., Shah, M. (2024) 'Single Stage Adaptive Multi-Attention Network for Image Restoration.' IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 33pp. 2924-2935.
Shahid, A.R., Nawaz, M., Fan, X., Yan, H. (2023) 'View-Adaptive Graph Neural Network for Action Recognition.' IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems, 15(2) pp. 969-978.
Qureshi, R., Basit, S.A., Shamsi, J.A., Fan, X., Nawaz, M., Yan, H., Alam, T. (2022) 'Machine learning based personalized drug response prediction for lung cancer patients.' Scientific Reports, 12(1)
Fan, X., Shahid, A.R., Yan, H. (2022) 'Edge-aware motion based facial micro-expression generation with attention mechanism.' Pattern Recognition Letters, 162pp. 97-104.
Fan, X., Jiang, M., Shahid, A.R., Yan, H. (2022) 'Hierarchical scale convolutional neural network for facial expression recognition.' Cognitive Neurodynamics, 16(4) pp. 847-858.
Fan, X., Jiang, M., Yan, H. (2021) 'A Deep Learning Based Light-Weight Face Mask Detector with Residual Context Attention and Gaussian Heatmap to Fight against COVID-19.' IEEE Access, 9pp. 96964-96974.
Li, Y., Xue, F., Fan, X., Qu, Z., Zhou, G. (2018) 'Pedestrian walking safety system based on smartphone built-in sensors.' Iet Communications, 12(6) pp. 751-758.
- Conference papers
Conference papers
Roy, S., Fan, X., Alam, N., Chen, X., Qureshi, R., Wu, J., Yap, M.H. (2026) 'Bridging Accuracy and Explainability: A SHAP-Enhanced CNN for Skin Cancer Diagnosis.' Springer Nature Switzerland, pp. 72-86.
Roy, S., Fan, X., Alam, N., Chen, X., Yap, M.H. (2025) 'Explainable deep learning model for skin cancer classification.' In 29th UK Conference on Medical Image Understanding and Analysis (MIUA). 15/7/2025 - 17/7/2025.
Fan, X., Chen, X., Jiang, M., Shahid, A.R., Yan, H. (2023) 'SelfME: Self-Supervised Motion Learning for Micro-Expression Recognition.' 2023-June. pp. 13834-13843.
Bashir, S., Qureshi, R., Shah, A., Fan, X., Alam, T. (2023) 'YOLOv5-M: A Deep Neural Network for Medical Object Detection in Real-time.'
Fan, X., Shahid, A.R., Yan, H. (2022) 'Adaptive Dual Motion Model for Facial Micro-Expression Generation.' In ACM International Conference on Multimedia. pp. 7125-7129.
Fan, X., Shahid, A.R., Yan, H. (2021) 'Facial Micro-Expression Generation based on Deep Motion Retargeting and Transfer Learning.' pp. 4735-4739.
Fan, X., Jiang, M. (2021) 'RetinaFaceMask: A Single Stage Face Mask Detector for Assisting Control of the COVID-19 Pandemic.' In IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics. pp. 832-837.
Fan, X., Jiang, M., Zhang, H., Li, Y., Yan, H. (2021) 'Quantized Separable Residual Network for Facial Expression Recognition on FPGA.' 1397 CCIS. pp. 3-14.
Fan, X., Qureshi, R., Shahid, A.R., Cao, J., Yang, L., Yan, H. (2020) 'Hybrid separable convolutional inception residual network for human facial expression recognition.' 2020-December. pp. 21-26.
Fan, X., Liang, Y., Sun, Y., Fan, Z. (2018) 'A Dual Traffic Network Coupled with Improved Delay Models to Estimate Travel Time in Urban Traffic Systems.' 2018-June. pp. 1093-1098.