News
Apr. 2025
Our paper "Robust Relevance Feedback for Interactive Known-item Video Search" was accepted by ICMR 2025.
Feb. 2025
I joined SMU as a Research Scientist.
Jan. 2025
Our paper "Interactive Video Search with Multi-modal LLM Video Captioning" was accepted by MMM 2025.
Dec. 2024
I passed my Ph.D. dissertation defense.
July. 2023
I was selected as an award winner for the SMU Presidential Doctoral Fellowship and the School of Computing and Information Systems (SCIS) Dean’s List.
Aug. 2023
I passed my Ph.D. dissertation proposal defense.
Jan. 2023
We won the 3rd price in Video Browsing Showdown 2023.
Dec. 2022
Our paper "Reinforcement Learning Enhanced PicHunter for Interactive Search" was accepted by MMM 2023.
Oct. 2022
Our ACM MM 2022 paper won the Top Rated Paper Award. The reward was given to 13 papers out of 690 accepted submissions (1.88%). The best paper was recommended from this list.
June 2022
Our full paper "Interactive Video Corpus Moment Retrieval using Reinforcement Learning" was accepted by ACM Multimedia 2022 as an oral paper.
Nov. 2021
I passed the Ph.D. qualifying examination and officially became a Ph.D. candidate.
Oct. 2021
Our paper "Reinforcement Learning-Based Interactive Video Search" was accepted by MMM 2022.
June 2021
We won the third price in Video Browsing Showdown , 2021.
Oct. 2020
Our paper "SQL-like interpretable interactive video search" was accepted by MMM 2021.
Mar. 2020
I was admitted into Ph.D. in Computer Science programme as a full-time student commencing in Aug. 2020, Singapore Management University .
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Zhixin Ma
Research Scientist
Computer Science, SCIS
80 Stamford Road
zxma AT smu.edu.sg |
About Me
MA Zhixin is currently a Research Scientist at Singapore Management University. He earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Singapore Management University in 2024 and his Bachelor's degree from Shandong University in 2019. His research interests span multimedia computing and human-in-the-loop interactive systems. His current work focuses on interactive video retrieval and multimodal large language models.
Experiences
| Research Scientist
Jan. 2025 - present, Singapore Singapore Management University |
| Research Assistant
Jan. 2019 - July 2020, Singapore National University of Singapore NExT++ Research Centre Advisor: Dr. Wenqiang Lei and Prof. Tat-Seng Chua |
Education
| Singapore Management University
Aug. 2020 - Dec. 2024, Singapore Ph.D. in Computer Science Advisor: Prof. Chong-Wah Ngo |
| Shandong University
Sep. 2015 - Jun. 2019, Jinan & Qingdao, China Bachelor in Computer Science and Technology Advisor: Prof. Tian Gan and Prof. Liqiang Nie |
Publications
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Robust Relevance Feedback for Interactive Known-item Video Search
Zhixin Ma, Chong-Wah Ngo 15th ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval, 2025 |
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Leveraging LLMs and Generative Models for Interactive Known-Item Video Search
Zhixin Ma, Jiaxin Wu, Chong-Wah Ngo 30th International Conference on Multimedia Modeling, 2024 |
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Interactive Video Retrieval in the Age of Effective Joint Embedding Deep Models
Jakub Lokoč, Stelios Andreadis, Werner Bailer, ..., Zhixin Ma, ..., Stefanos Vrochidis Multimedia Systems, 2023 |
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Reinforcement Learning Enhanced PicHunter for Interactive Search
Zhixin Ma, Jiaxin Wu, Weixiong Loo, Chong-Wah Ngo 29th International Conference on Multimedia Modeling, 2023 |
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Interactive Video Corpus Moment Retrieval using Reinforcement Learning
Zhixin Ma, Chong-Wah Ngo ACM MM 2022; Oral & Top Rated Paper Award: 13 out of 690 accepted papers (1.88%) |
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Reinforcement Learning-Based Interactive Video Search
Zhixin Ma, Jiaxin Wu, Zhijian Hou, Chong-Wah Ngo 28th International Conference on Multimedia Modeling, 2022 |
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SQL-like interpretable interactive video search
Jiaxin Wu, Phuong Anh Nguyen, Zhixin Ma, Chong-Wah Ngo 27th International Conference on Multimedia Modeling, 2021 |
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Re-examining the Role of Schema Linking Text-to-SQL
Wenqiang Lei, Weixin Wang, Zhixin Ma, Tian Gan, Wei Lu, Min-Yen Kan and Tat-Seng Chua EMNLP 2020 |
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Learn to Gesture: Let Your Body Speak
Tian Gan, Zhixin Ma, Yuxiao Lu, Xuemeng Song and Liqiang Nie ACM MMAsia 2019 |
Community Services
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Invited Talk
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Reinforcement Learning Enhanced Interactive Video Retrieval
1 Feb. 2023 at NExT Research Centre, NUS |
Teaching Assistants
| IS446: Managing Customer Relations with Analytics: Asian Insights Term 1, AY2023-2024 |
| CS702: Computational Interaction Term 2, AY2022-2023 |
| CS601: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence Term 1, AY2021-2022 |
Honors
| SMU Presidential Doctoral Fellowship , AY2023 |
| Dean’s List of School of Computing and Information Systems (SCIS), AY2023 |
| The 3rd price in Video Browsing Showdown (VBS), 2023 |
| ACM Multimedia Top Rated Paper Award, AY2022 |
| ACM Multimedia Student Travel Grant, AY2022 |
| The 3rd price in Video Browsing Showdown (VBS), 2021 |
Last update: Feb. 2025.