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.