Zhiwei Xiong (熊志伟)

Professor, PhD Advisor

Dept. Electronic Engineering & Information Science (EEIS), University of Science and Technology of China (USTC)

Email: zwxiong AT ustc.edu.cn
Phone: (86) 551-63603627
Address: Dept. EEIS, P.O.Box 4, Hefei 230027, Anhui, China
Office: Room 1103, West Tower of Twin Buildings, West Campus of USTC


Brief

Zhiwei Xiong received his B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electronic Engineering from USTC in 2006 and 2011, respectively. After working at Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA) as a Researcher for five years, he returned USTC as a Professor in 2016. His research interests include computational photography, 3D vision, and biomedical image analysis. His publications receive 6K+ citations according to Google Scholar, with an H-index of 40. He was awarded MSRA Fellowship 2009 and IEEE VCIP Best Paper 2016.

Our VIDAR (Visual Information Discovery And Recovery) lab is a vibrant team aiming at world-class research in computer vision and image processing. Undergraduate talents who have passion in related fields are welcome to join us. Kindly note that we have a high standard for graduate students, and be prepared for challenging interviews during application.


Latest Publications (*corresponding author, visit VIDAR for more information)

Biomedical Image Analysis

  • Yinda Chen, Wei Huang, Shenglong Zhou, Qi Chen, Zhiwei Xiong*, "Self-supervised neuron segmentation with multi-agent reinforcement learning", IJCAI, 2023.
  • Xiaoyu Liu, Bo Hu, Mingxing Li, Wei Huang, Yueyi Zhang, Zhiwei Xiong*, "A soma segmentation benchmark in full adult fly brain", CVPR, 2023.
  • Shenglong Zhou, Bo Hu, Zhiwei Xiong*, Feng Wu, "Self-distilled hierarchical network for unsupervised deformable image registration", IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 2023, Early Access.
  • Wei Huang, Xiaoyu Liu, Zhen Cheng, Yueyi Zhang, Zhiwei Xiong*, "Domain adaptive mitochondria segmentation via enforcing inter-section consistency", MICCAI, 2022.
  • Qi Chen, Mingxing Li, Jiacheng Li, Bo Hu, Zhiwei Xiong*, "Mask rearranging data augmentation for 3D mitochondria segmentation", MICCAI, 2022.
  • Xiaoyu Liu, Bo Hu, Wei Huang, Yueyi Zhang*, Zhiwei Xiong, "Efficient biomedical instance segmentation via knowledge distillation", MICCAI, 2022.
  • Xiaoyu Liu, Wei Huang, Yueyi Zhang, Zhiwei Xiong*, "Biological instance segmentation with a superpixel-guided graph", IJCAI, 2022.
  • Wei Huang, Shiyu Deng, Chang Chen, Xueyang Fu, Zhiwei Xiong*, "Learning to model pixel-embedded affinity for homogeneous instance segmentation", AAAI, 2022.
  • Shiyu Deng, Wei Huang, Chang Chen, Xueyang Fu, Zhiwei Xiong*, "A unified deep learning framework for ssTEM image restoration", IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging 41(12): 3734-3746, 2022.
  • Wei Huang, Chang Chen, Zhiwei Xiong*, Yueyi Zhang, Xuejin Chen, Xiaoyan Sun, Feng Wu, "Semi-supervised neuron segmentation via reinforced consistency learning", IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging 41(11): 3016-3028, 2022.
  • Bo Hu, Shenglong Zhou, Zhiwei Xiong*, Feng Wu, "Recursive decomposition network for deformable image registration", IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics 26(10): 5130-5141, 2022.
  • 3D & Event

  • Yue Li, Jiayong Peng, Yueyi Zhang*, Zhiwei Xiong, "Self-distilled depth from single-shot structured light with intensity reconstruction", IEEE Transactions on Computational Imaging, 2023, Accepted.
  • Yue Li, Jiayong Peng, Juntian Ye, Yueyi Zhang, Feihu Xu, Zhiwei Xiong*, "NLOST: non-line-of-sight imaging with transformer", CVPR, 2023.
  • Wenming Weng, Yueyi Zhang*, Zhiwei Xiong, "Event-based blurry frame interpolation under blind exposure", CVPR, 2023.
  • Xueyan Huang, Yueyi Zhang*, Zhiwei Xiong, "Progressive spatio-temporal alignment for efficient event-based motion estimation", CVPR, 2023.
  • Wenjie Chang, Yueyi Zhang*, Zhiwei Xiong, "Depth estimation from indoor panoramas with neural scene representation", CVPR, 2023.
  • Jiayong Peng, Zhiwei Xiong*, Hao Tan, Xin Huang, Zheng-Ping Li, Feihu Xu, "Boosting photon-efficient image reconstruction with a unified deep neural network", IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence 45(4): 4180-4197, 2023.
  • Wenming Weng, Yueyi Zhang*, Zhiwei Xiong, "Boosting event stream super-resolution with a recurrent neural network", ECCV, 2022.
  • Hanlin Li, Guanting Dong, Yueyi Zhang*, Xiaoyan Sun, Zhiwei Xiong, "RPPformer-Flow: relative position guided point transformer for scene flow estimation", ACM MM, 2022.
  • Xihao Chen, Zhiwei Xiong*, Zhen Cheng, Jiayong Peng, Yueyi Zhang, Zheng-Jun Zha, "Degradation-agnostic correspondence from resolution-asymmetric stereo", CVPR, 2022.
  • Guanting Dong, Yueyi Zhang, Hanlin Li, Xiaoyan Sun, Zhiwei Xiong*, "Exploiting rigidity constraints for LiDAR scene flow estimation", CVPR, 2022.
  • Zeyu Xiao, Wenming Weng, Yueyi Zhang*, Zhiwei Xiong, "EVA2: event-assisted video frame interpolation via cross-modal alignment and aggregation", IEEE Transactions on Computational Imaging 8: 1145-1158, 2022.
  • Computational Photography

  • Zeyu Xiao, Ruisheng Gao, Yutong Liu, Yueyi Zhang, Zhiwei Xiong*, "Toward real-world light field super-resolution", CVPR Workshops, 2023.
  • Zeyu Xiao, Yutong Liu, Ruisheng Gao, Zhiwei Xiong*, "CutMIB: boosting light field super-resolution via multi-view image blending", CVPR, 2023.
  • Ruikang Xu, Mingde Yao, Zhiwei Xiong*, "Zero-shot dual-lens super-resolution", CVPR, 2023.
  • Huimin Zeng, Jie Huang, Jiacheng Li, Zhiwei Xiong*, "Region-aware portrait retouching with sparse interactive guidance", IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 2023, Early Access.
  • Mingde Yao, Dongliang He, Xin Li, Zhihong Pan, Zhiwei Xiong*, "Bidirectional translation between UHD-HDR and HD-SDR videos", IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 2023, Early Access.
  • Ruisheng Gao, Zeyu Xiao, Zhiwei Xiong*, "Propagating difference flows for efficient video super-resolution", BMVC, 2022.
  • Ruikang Xu, Mingde Yao, Chang Chen, Lizhi Wang, Zhiwei Xiong*, "Continuous spectral reconstruction from RGB images via implicit neural representation", ECCV Workshops, 2022. (Best Paper Honorable Mention Award of Mobile Intelligent Photography & Imaging Workshop)
  • Jiacheng Li, Chang Chen, Zhen Cheng, Zhiwei Xiong*, "MuLUT: cooperating multiple look-up tables for efficient image super-resolution", ECCV, 2022.
  • Jiacheng Li, Chang Chen, Zhiwei Xiong*, "Contextual outpainting with object-level contrastive learning", CVPR, 2022.
  • Zhen Cheng, Yutong Liu, Zhiwei Xiong*, "Spatial-angular versatile convolution for light field reconstruction", IEEE Transactions on Computational Imaging 8: 1131-1144, 2022.
  • Jiacheng Li, Zhiwei Xiong*, Dong Liu, "Reference-guided landmark image inpainting with deep feature matching", IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology 32(12): 8422-8435, 2022.

  • Challenge Awards

  • 2023 ISBI 突触检测挑战赛 冠军
  • 2021 NTIRE@CVPR 图像去模糊挑战赛 低分辨率赛道 冠军
  • 2021 ISBI 大规模线粒体分割挑战赛 冠军
  • 2019 全国人工智能大赛 “AI+4K HDR”赛项 亚军 50万大奖
  • 2019 e-Heritage@ICCV 敦煌图像修复挑战赛 冠军
  • 2019 AIM@ICCV 背景虚化合成挑战赛 保真赛道 冠军
  • 2019 ACM MM 视频内容相关性预测挑战赛 电影赛道 冠军
  • 2018 PIRM@ECCV 光谱图像超分辨率挑战赛 冠军
  • 2018 NTIRE@CVPR RGB重建光谱挑战赛 冠军
  • 2016 ICME 光场图像压缩挑战赛 冠军

  • Teaching

  • 人工智能导论
  • Python与深度学习基础
  • 工程硕士专业英语

  • Alumni (*co-supervised)

  • 张越一 PhD* 2015 (mentored at MSRA) 中国科学技术大学副研究员 曾在微软(总部)任职
  • 王立志 PhD* 2016 (mentored at MSRA) 北京理工大学副教授、博士生导师
  • 陈畅 PhD* 2021 华为诺亚方舟实验室 (天才少年、base北京) 曾在美国密歇根州立大学交流 获国家奖学金
  • 刘亚婧 PhD 2021 京东(管培生、base北京) 曾在MSRA实习
  • 程震 PhD 2022 华为(base上海) 曾在华为诺亚实习
  • 王光庭 PhD* 2022 腾讯(base北京) USTC-MSRA联合培养
  • 彭家勇 PhD 2022 中科类脑(base合肥) 曾在美国威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校交流(远程) 获国家奖学金
  • 刘云 Master 2019 BIGO(base上海)
  • 李慧群 Master* 2019 腾讯(base深圳)
  • 施展 Master 2020 美国纽约州立大学石溪分校(PhD)
  • 高硕 Master* 2020 小米(base北京)
  • 谭浩 Master 2021 OPPO(base深圳)
  • 李明星 Master* 2022 阿里巴巴(base北京) 曾在阿里巴巴实习

  • Last updated June, 2023.