Thanks to the sponsoring of the IEEE SPS through the Distinguished Industry SPeaker (DIS) program, Dr. Jianquan Liu (Director and Senior Principal Researcher at NEC Corporation) will join the GTTI MMSP 2026 meeting with the following talk.
The Engagement between Video Analytics and Generative AI
Dr. Jianquan Liu, Director & Senior Principal Researcher, NEC Corporation, Japan
Date and time
January 27 (Tue), 2026, 09:00-10:00
Abstract
In this talk, Dr. Jianquan Liu presents an industry perspective on the convergence of video analytics and generative AI. The talk begins with an overview of video analytics, covering advancements in action recognition, object tracking, human-object interactions, scene recognition, and behavioral pattern analysis. These technologies enable efficient extraction, retrieval, visualization, and summarization of video content. The presentation then explores the impact of generative AI, particularly large language models (LLMs), on video understanding. It discusses how LLMs enhance object recognition, semantic segmentation, action recognition, captioning, visual question answering, and storytelling. Dr. Liu provides industry case studies to illustrate these applications while also addressing limitations and challenges. The talk introduces NEC's narrative summarization framework, designed to tackle key challenges in video analytics. It concludes with a demonstration of "Video with LLM" technology, showcasing its practical application in automating traffic accident investigation reports. This presentation offers valuable insights into the current state and future potential of AI-driven video intelligence, bridging the gap between technical innovation and practical application for both industry professionals and general audiences.
Biosketch
Jianquan Liu is currently a Director and Senior Principal Researcher at NEC Corporation, working on the topics of multimedia data processing. He is selected as IEEE SPS 2026 Distinguished Industry Speaker, and also a Visiting Professor at Nagoya University and an Adjunct Professor at Hosei University, Japan. Prior to NEC, he was with Tencent Inc. from 2005 to 2006. He has published 80+ papers at major international/domestic conferences and journals and filed 100+ PCT patents. He also successfully transformed these technological contributions into commercial products in the industry. For his industry contributions, Dr. Liu has received the Japan Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) Award as the highest honor for industry corporations at the 38th Advanced Technology Award in 2025, the 25th Anniversary Special Award at CEATEC AWARD 2024, the APSIPA 2024 Industrial Distinguished Leader, the DBSJ Young Researcher’s Achievement and Contribution Award 2024, the IEICE Achievement Award 2023, the ITE Niwa & Takayanagi Achievement Award 2023, the 69th Electrical Science and Engineering Promotion Award, and the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) Award in 2021, the KANTO Invention and Innovation Award 2021, the IPSJ Research and Engineering Award 2020 and the IPSJ Industrial Achievement Award 2018. Currently, Dr. Liu is/was serving as a Member-at-Large of IEEE SPS Industry Board (2025-2026), the Industry Co-chair of IEEE ICIP 2023, 2025 and ACM MM 2023, 2024, 2025; the General Co-chair of IEEE MIPR 2021; the PC Co-chair of IEEE IRI 2022, ICME 2020, AIVR 2019, BigMM 2019, ISM 2018, ICSC 2018, etc. He is a senior member of ACM, IEEE, IEICE, and IPSJ, and a member of ITE, APSIPA and DBSJ, and an associate editor of IEEE TMM (2021-2024), ACM TOMM (2022-), EURASIP JIVP (2023-), IEEE MultiMedia Magazine (2019-2022), ITE Transaction on Media Technology and Applications (2021-), APSIPA Transactions on Signal and Information Processing (2022-), and the Journal of Information Processing (2017-2021). Dr. Liu received the M.E. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Tsukuba, Japan.