Selected Papers by Topics

 

My Google Citation Profile:

http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=tAK5l1IAAAAJ

Newly accepted:

     [1]     D. Chen, Z. Zhang, J. Liang, L. Zhang, "SSL: A Self-similarity Loss for Improving Generative Image Super-resolution," in ACM MM 2024. (paper) (code) (A simple yet effective loss for generative SR!)

     [2]     Z. Ma, Y. Wei, Y. Zhang, X. Zhu, Z. Lei, L. Zhang, "ScaleDreamer: Scalable Text-to-3D Synthesis with Asynchronous Score Distillation," in ECCV 2024. (paper) (code) (High-quality, prompt-consistent text-to-3D synthesis up to 100k prompts!)

     [3]     T. Yang, R. Wu, P. Ren, X. Xie, L. Zhang, "Pixel-Aware Stable Diffusion for Realistic Image Super-Resolution and Personalized Stylization," in ECCV 2024. (paper) (code) (Pixel-aware generation for various tasks!)

     [4]     X. Yang, C. He, J. Ma, L. Zhang, "Motion-Guided Latent Diffusion for Temporally Consistent Real-World Video Super-Resolution," in ECCV 2024. (paper) (code) (Simple yet effective video super-resolution with diffusion priors!)

     [5]     R.B. Li, R.H. Li, S. Guo, L. Zhang, "Source Prompt Disentangled Inversion for Boosting Image Editability with Diffusion Models," in ECCV 2024. (paper) (code) (Disentangle the source and target prompts for better inversion!)

     [6]     Y. Wei, Z. Ji, J. Bai, H. Zhang, L. Zhang, W. Zuo, "MasterWeaver: Taming Editability and Identity for Personalized Text-to-Image Generation," in ECCV 2024. (paper) (code) (Identity preserved and flexible personalized image editing!)

     [7]     M. Ni, Y. Shen, L. Zhang, W. Zuo, "Responsible Visual Editing," in ECCV 2024. (paper) (code) (Making visual editing safer, fairer and more responsible!)

     [8]     T. Wu, K. Ma, J. Liang, Y. Yang, L. Zhang, "A Comprehensive Study of Multimodal Large Language Models for Image Quality Assessment," in ECCV 2024. (paper) (code) (Can MLLM understand image quality?)

     [9]     Y. Zhang, W. Zhu, C. He, L. Zhang, "LAPT: Label-driven Automated Prompt Tuning for OOD Detection with Vision-Language Models," in ECCV 2024. (paper) (code) (New SOTA on full-spectrum OOD detection!)

    [10]   R. Li, Z. Zhang, C. He, Z. Ma, V. Patel, L. Zhang, "Dense Multimodal Alignment for Open-Vocabulary 3D Scene Understanding," in ECCV 2024. (paper) (code) (1(text)-2(image)-3(point cloud) aligned for 3D scene understanding!)

    [11]   P. Wang, Y. Wang, S. Li, Z. Zhang, Z. Lei, L. Zhang, "Open Vocabulary 3D Scene Understanding via Geometry Guided Self-Distillation," in ECCV 2024. (paper) (code) (Self-distillation works better with geometry guidance!)

    [12]   G. Zhang, J. Fan, L. Chen, Z. Zhang, Z. Lei, L. Zhang, "General Geometry-Aware Weakly Supervised 3D Object Detection," in ECCV 2024. (paper) (code) (A unified and strong framework for 3D object detection!)

    [13]   C. He, R. Li, G. Zhang, L. Zhang, "ScatterFormer: Efficient Voxel Transformer with Scattered Attention," in ECCV 2024. (paper) (code)

    [14]   J. Li, L. Wang, L. Zhang, B. Wang, "TensoSDF: Roughness-aware Tensorial Representation for Robust Geometry and Material Reconstruction," ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 2024). (paper) (code)

    [15]   L. Sun, J. Liang, S. Liu, H. Yong, L. Zhang, "Perception-Distortion Balanced Super-Resolution: A Multi-Objective Optimization Perspective," IEEE Trans. on Image Processing, 2024. (paper) (code)

    [16]   Z. Zhang, R. Li, S. Guo, Y. Cao, L. Zhang, "TMP: Temporal Motion Propagation for Online Video Super-Resolution," IEEE Trans. on Image Processing, 2024. (paper) (code)

 

Major Conference Papers:

CVPR 2024

    [17]   M. Li, S. Li, X. Zhang, L. Zhang, "UniVS: Unified and Universal Video Segmentation with Prompts as Queries," in CVPR 2024. (paper) (code)

    [18]   Y. Yuan, W. Li, J. Liu, D. Tang, X. Luo, C. Qin, L. Zhang and J. Zhu, "Osprey: Pixel Understanding with Visual Instruction Tuning," in CVPR 2024. (paper) (code)

    [19]   R. Wu, T. Yang, L. Sun, Z. Zhang, S. Li, L. Zhang, "SeeSR: Towards Semantics-Aware Real-World Image Super-Resolution," in CVPR 2024. (paper) (code) (See also the related work of PASD.)

    [20]   Y. Zhang, W. Zhu, H. Tang, Z. Ma, K. Zhou, L. Zhang, "Dual Memory Networks: A Versatile Adaptation Approach for Vision-Language Models," in CVPR 2024. (paper) (code)

    [21]   J. Li, Z. Chen, X. Wu, L. Wang, B. Wang, L. Zhang, "Neural Super-Resolution for Real-time Rendering with Radiance Demodulation," in CVPR 2024. (paper) (code)

 

NeurISP 2023

    [22]   W. Li, Y. Yuan, S. Wang, W. Liu, D. Tang, J. Liu, J. Zhu, L. Zhang, "Label-efficient Segmentation via Affinity Propagation," in NeurIPS 2023. (paper) (code)

 

ICCV 2023

    [23]   Y. Wei, Y. Zhang, Z. Ji, J. Bai, L. Zhang, W. Zuo, "ELITE: Encoding Visual Concepts into Textual Embeddings for Customized Text-to-Image Generation," in ICCV 2023. (paper) (supp) (code) (Oral presentation)

    [24]   J. Ma, Z. Liang, W. Xiang, X. Yang, L. Zhang, "A Benchmark for Chinese-English Scene Text Image Super-resolution," in ICCV 2023. (paper) (supp) (code&dataset)

    [25]   W. Li, Y. Yuan, S. Wang, J. Zhu, J. Li, J. Liu, L. Zhang, "Point2Mask: Point-supervised Panoptic Segmentation via Optimal Transport," in ICCV 2023. (paper) (supp) (code)

    [26]   W. Xiang, C. Li, Y. Zhou, B. Wang, L. Zhang, "Generative Action Description Prompts for Skeleton-based Action Recognition," in ICCV 2023. (paper) (supp) (code)

    [27]   L. Chen, C. Lei, R. Li, S. Li, Z. Zhang, L. Zhang, "FPR: False Positive Rectification for Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation," in ICCV 2023. (paper) (code)

    [28]   Y. Yuan, Y. Wang, L. Wang, X. Zhao, H. Lu, Y. Wang, W. Su, L. Zhang, "Isomer: Isomerous Transformer for Zero-shot Video Object Segmentation," in ICCV 2023. (paper) (code)

 

Siggraph Asia 2023

    [29]   Y. Cui, G. Pan, J. Yang, L. Zhang, L. Yan, B. Wang, "Multiple-bounce Smith Microfacet BRDFs using the Invariance Principle," Siggraph Asia 2023. (paper) (supp) (code)

 

CVPR 2023

    [30]   H. Yong, Y. Sun, L. Zhang, "A General Regret Bound of Preconditioned Gradient Method for DNN Training," in CVPR 2023. (paper) (supp) (code) (Highlight paper)

    [31]   C. He, R. Li, Y. Zhang, S. Li, L. Zhang, "MSF: Motion-guided Sequential Fusion for Efficient 3D Object Detection from Point Cloud Sequences," in CVPR 2023. (paper) (code)

    [32]   M. Li, S. Li, W. Xiang, L. Zhang, "MDQE: Mining Discriminative Query Embeddings to Segment Occluded Instances on Challenging Videos," in CVPR 2023. (paper) (supp) (code)

    [33]   D. Chen, J. Liang, X. Zhang, M. Liu, H. Zeng, L. Zhang, "Human Guided Ground-truth Generation for Realistic Image Super-resolution," in CVPR 2023. (paper) (supp) (dataset&code)

    [34]   S. Liu, X. Zhang, H. Zeng, L. Sun, Z. Liang, L. Zhang, "Joint HDR Denoising and Fusion: A Real-World Mobile HDR Image Dataset," in CVPR 2023. (paper) (supp) (dataset&code)

    [35]   Z. Ma, X. Zhu, G-J. Qi, Z. Lei, Lei Zhang, "OTAvatar: One-shot Talking Face Avatar with Controllable Tri-plane Rendering," in CVPR 2023. (paper) (supp) (code)

    [36]   R. Li, C. He, Y. Zhang, S. Li, L. Chen, L. Zhang, "SIM: Semantic-aware Instance Mask Generation for Box-Supervised Instance Segmentation," in CVPR 2023. (paper) (code)

    [37]   R. Li, S. Li, C. He, Y. Zhang, L. Zhang, "DynaMask: Dynamic Mask Selection for Instance Segmentation," in CVPR 2023. (paper) (code)

    [38]   S. Li, M. Li, R. Li, C. He, L. Zhang, "One-to-Few Label Assignment for End-to-End Dense Detection," in CVPR 2023. (paper) (supp) (code)

    [39]   P. Wang, Z. Zhang, Z. Lei, L. Zhang, "Sharpness-Aware Gradient Matching for Domain Generalization," in CVPR 2023. (paper) (supp) (code)

    [40]   Y. Wei, Z. Ji, X. Wu, J. Bai, L. Zhang, W. Zuo, "Inferring and Leveraging Parts from Object Shape for Improving Semantic Image Synthesis," in CVPR 2023. (paper) (supp) (code)

 

ECCV 2022

    [41]   X. Zhang, H. Zeng, S. Guo, L. Zhang, "Efficient Long-Range Attention Network for Image Super-resolution," in ECCV 2022. (paper) (supp) (code) (An effective and efficient transformer architecture for image restoration.)

    [42]   J. Liang, H. Zeng, L. Zhang, "Efficient and Degradation-Adaptive Network for Real-World Image Super-Resolution," in ECCV 2022. (paper) (supp) (code) (Toward more practical and effective real-world super-resolution.)

    [43]   H. Yong and L. Zhang, "An Embedded Feature Whitening Approach to Deep Neural Network Optimization," in ECCV 2022. (paper) (supp) (code) (To make feature whitening much more practical for DNN optimization.)

    [44]   W. Xiang, C. Li, X. Wei, B. Wang, L. Zhang, "Spatiotemporal Self-attention Modeling with Temporal Patch Shift for Action Recognition," in ECCV 2022. (paper) (supp) (code) (A simple yet effective self-attention model for video based action recognition.)

    [45]   W. Li, W. Liu, J. Zhu, M. Cui, X. Hua, L. Zhang, "Box-supervised Instance Segmentation with Level Set Evolution," in ECCV 2022. (paper) (code) (New state-of-the-art for box-supervised instance segmentation.)

    [46]   H. Zheng, H. Yong, L. Zhang, "Unfolded Deep Kernel Estimation for Blind Image Super-resolution," in ECCV 2022. (paper) (supp) (code) (The first explicit unfolding solution for deep kernel estimation.)

    [47]   X. Li, C. Chen, X. Lin, W. Zuo, L. Zhang, "From Face to Natural Image: Learning Real Degradation for Blind Image Super-Resolution," In ECCV 2022. (paper) (supp) (code) (Transfer facial image priors to natural image restoration.)

 

CVPR 2022

    [48]   J. Liang, H. Zeng, L. Zhang, "Details or Artifacts: A Locally Discriminative Learning Approach to Realistic Image Super-Resolution," in CVPR 2022. (oral presentation) (paper) (code) (We make the GAN-based super-resolution models much more robust!)

    [49]   Y. Zhang, M. Li, R. Li, K. Jia, L. Zhang, "Exact Feature Distribution Matching for Arbitrary Style Transfer and Domain Generalization," in CVPR 2022. (oral presentation) (paper) (code) (A simple yet very effective step toward feature statistics learning.)

    [50]   S. Li, C. He, R. Li, L. Zhang, "A Dual Weighting Label Assignment Scheme for Object Detection," in CVPR 2022. (paper) (code) (A flexible weighting scheme to both positive and negative samples.)

    [51]   B. Chen, P. Li, X. Chen, B. Wang, L. Zhang, X-S. Hua, "Dense Learning based Semi-Supervised Object Detection," in CVPR 2022. (paper) (code) (The first anchor-free semi-supervised object detector.)

    [52]   C. He, L. Zhang, "Voxel Set Transformer: A Set-to-Set Approach to 3D Object Detection from Point Clouds," in CVPR 2022. (paper) (code) (A set-to-set transformer built upon voxel.)

    [53]   R. Li, S. Li, C. He, Y. Zhang, X. Jia, L. Zhang, "Class-Balanced Pixel-Level Self-Labeling for Domain Adaptive Semantic Segmentation," in CVPR 2022. (paper) (code)

    [54]   S. Guo, X. Yang, J. Ma, G. Ren, L. Zhang, "A Differentiable Two-stage Alignment Scheme for Burst Image Reconstruction with Large Shift," in CVPR 2022. (paper) (code)

    [55]   J. Ma, Z. Liang, L. Zhang, "A Text Attention Network for Spatial Deformation Robust Scene Text Image Super-resolution," in CVPR 2022. (paper) (code)

    [56]   Z. Yue, Q. Zhao, J. Xie, L. Zhang, D. Meng, Kwan-Yee K. Wong, "Blind Image Super-resolution with Elaborate Degradation Modeling on Noise and Kernel," in CVPR 2022. (paper) (code)

 

AAAI 2022

    [57]   W. Liu, G. Ren, R. Yu, S. Guo, J. Zhu, L. Zhang, "Image-Adaptive YOLO for Object Detection in Adverse Weather Conditions," in AAAI 2022. (paper) (supp) (code) (Adaptively enhance the image for better object detection in bad weather!)

 

ACM MM 2021

    [58]   X. Zhang, H. Zeng, L. Zhang, "Edge-oriented Convolution Block for Real-time Super Resolution on Mobile Devices," in ACM Multimedia 2021. (oral) (paper) (code) (Make real-time video super-resolution on mobile devices possible!)

 

ICCV 2021

    [59]   X. Yang, W. Xiang, H. Zeng, L. Zhang, "Real-world Video Super-resolution: A Benchmark Dataset and A Decomposition based Learning Scheme," in ICCV 2021. (paper) (dataset&code) (The first real-world video super-resolution dataset!)

    [60]   G. Chen, C. Chen, S. Guo, Z. Liang, K-Y. Wong, L. Zhang, "HDR Video Reconstruction: A Coarse-to-fine Network and A Real-world Benchmark Dataset," in ICCV 2021. (paper) (dataset&code) (A large-scale real-world HDR video reconstruction dataset!)

    [61]   J. Tang, J. Lei, D. Xu, F. Ma, K. Jia, L. Zhang, "Sign-Agnostic CONet: Learning Implicit Surface Reconstructions by Sign-Agnostic Optimization of Convolutional Occupancy Networks," in ICCV 2021. (oral) (paper) (code)

    [62]   B. Chen, Z. Yan, K. Li, P. Li, B. Wang, W. Zuo, L. Zhang, "Variational Attention: Propagating Domain-Specific Knowledge for Multi-Domain Learning in Crowd Counting," in ICCV 2021. (paper)

 

CVPR 2021

    [63]   H. Zheng, H. Yong, L. Zhang, "Deep Convolutional Dictionary Learning for Image Denoising," in CVPR 2021. (paper) (supp) (code) (What is the limit of image denoising? We just go one step further.)

    [64]   T. Yang, P. Ren, X. Xie, L. Zhang, "GAN Prior Embedded Network for Blind Face Restoration in the Wild," in CVPR 2021. (paper) (supp) (code) (Robust face image enhancement in the wild!) (Training code was released!)

    [65]   J. Liang, H. Zeng, L. Zhang, "High-Resolution Photorealistic Image Translation in Real-Time: A Laplacian Pyramid Translation Network," in CVPR 2021. (paper) (supp) (code) (4K I2I in real time!)

    [66]   J. Liang, H. Zeng, M. Cui, X. Xie, L. Zhang, "PPR10K: A Large-Scale Portrait Photo Retouching Dataset with Human-Region Mask and Group-Level Consistency," in CVPR 2021. (paper) (supp) (code) (The first large-scale portrait photo retouching dataset!)

    [67]   M. Li, S. Li, L. Li, and L. Zhang, "Spatial Feature Calibration and Temporal Fusion for Effective One-stage Video Instance Segmentation," in CVPR 2021. (paper) (supp) (code)

    [68]   Q. Yang, X. Wei, B. Wang, X-S. Hua, L. Zhang, "Interactive Self-Training with Mean Teachers for Semi-Supervised Object Detection," in CVPR 2021. (paper) (code)

    [69]   C. Chen, X. Li, L. Yang, X. Lin, L. Zhang, K-Y. Wong, "Progressive Semantic-Aware Style Transformation for Blind Face Restoration," in CVPR 2021. (paper) (code)

    [70]   J. Tang, D. Xu, F. Ma, K. Jia, L. Zhang, "Learning Parallel Dense Correspondence from Spatio-Temporal Descriptors for Efficient and Robust 4D Reconstruction," in CVPR 2021. (paper) (code)

    [71]   P. Li, B. Wang, L. Zhang, "Virtual Fully-Connected Layer: Training Large-scale Face Recognition Dataset with Limited Computational Resources," in CVPR 2021. (paper) (supp) (code)

    [72]   W. Li, T. Guo, P. Li, B. Chen, B. Wang, W. Zuo, L. Zhang, "VirFace: Enhancing Face Recognition via Unlabeled Shallow Data," in CVPR 2021. (paper) (supp) (code)

 

AAAI 2021

    [73]   S. Li, J. Huang, X-S. Hua, L. Zhang, "Category Dictionary Guided Unsupervised Domain Adaptation for Object Detection", in AAAI 2021. (paper) (code)

 

ACCV 2020

    [74]   J. Xiao, H. Yong, L. Zhang, "Degradation Model Learning for Real-World Single Image Super-resolution," in ACCV2020. (paper) (code)

    [75]   W. Xiang, J. Huang, X-S. Hua, L. Zhang, "Part-aware Attention Network for Person Re-Identification," in ACCV 2020. (paper) (code)

    [76]   W. Xiang, H. Yong, J. Huang, X-S. Hua, L. Zhang, "Second-order Camera-aware Color Transformation for Cross-domain Person Re-identification," in ACCV 2020. (paper) (code)

 

ACM MM 2020

    [77]   H. Zheng, W. Zuo, L. Zhang, "BS-MCVR: Binary-sensing based Mobile-cloud Visual Recognition," in ACM Multimedia 2020. (oral) (paper) (code) (Toward a binary-sensing camera for future visual recognition!)

 

ECCV 2020

    [78]   H. Yong, J. Huang, X. Hua, L. Zhang, "Gradient Centralization: A New Optimization Technique for Deep Neural Networks," in ECCV 2020. (oral) (paper) (supp) (code) (One line of code to improve DNN optimization!)

    [79]   L. Li, K. Wang, S. Li, X. Feng, L. Zhang, "LST-Net: Learning a Convolutional Neural Network with a Learnable Sparse Transform," in ECCV 2020. (paper) (supp) (code) (A new bottleneck for learning efficient and effective CNNs!)

    [80]   Z. Liang, S. Guo, H. Gu, H. Zhang, L. Zhang, "A Decoupled Learning Scheme for Real-world Burst Denoising from Raw Images," in ECCV 2020. (paper) (supp) (code) (A novel learning scheme for real-world burst denoising!)

    [81]   H. Yong, J. Huang, D. Meng, X. Hua, L. Zhang, "Momentum Batch Normalization for Deep Learning with Small Batch Size," in ECCV 2020. (paper) (supp) (code)

    [82]   Z. Yue, Q. Zhao, L. Zhang, D. Meng, "Dual Adversarial Network: Toward Real Noise Removal and Noise Generation," in ECCV 2020. (paper) (code)

    [83]   X. Li, C. Chen, S. Zhou, X. Lin, W. Zuo, L. Zhang, "Blind Face Restoration via Deep Multi-scale Component Dictionaries," in ECCV 2020. (paper) (code)

    [84]   Y. Zhang, B. Deng, K. Jia, L. Zhang, "Label Propagation with Augmented Anchors: A Simple Semi-Supervised Learning Baseline for Unsupervised Domain Adaptation," in ECCV 2020. (spotlight) (paper) (code)

    [85]   X. Zhao, Y. Pang, L. Zhang, H. Lu, L. Zhang, "Suppress and Balance: A Simple Gated Network for Salient Object Detection," in ECCV 2020. (oral) (paper) (code)

    [86]   X. Zhao, L. Zhang, Y. Pang, H. Lu, L. Zhang, "A Single Stream Network for Robust and Real-time RGB-D Salient Object Detection," in ECCV 2020. (paper) (code)

 

CVPR 2020

    [87]   C. He, H. Zeng, J. Huang, X. Hua, L. Zhang, "Structure Aware Single-stage 3D Object Detection from Point Cloud," in CVPR 2020. (paper) (code)

    [88]   J. Xiao*, S. Gu*, L. Zhang, "Multi-Domain Learning for Accurate and Few-Shot Color Constancy," in CVPR 2020. (paper) (code) (*The first two authors contributed equally to this work.)

 

NeurISP 2019

    [89]   Z. Yue, H. Yong, Q. Zhao, L. Zhang, D. Meng, "Variational Denoising Network: Toward Blind Noise Modeling and Removal," NeurIPS 2019. (paper) (code)

 

ICCV 2019

    [90]   J. Cai*, H. Zeng*, H. Yong, Z. Cao, L. Zhang, "Toward Real-World Single Image Super-Resolution: A New Benchmark and A New Model," in ICCV 2019 (oral). (paper) (supp) (code) (*The first two authors contributed equally to this work.)

    [91]   S. Li, L. Yang, J. Huang, X. Hua, L. Zhang, "Dynamic Anchor Feature Selection for Single-Shot Object Detection", in ICCV 2019. (paper) (code)

 

CVPR 2019

    [92]   Hui Zeng, Lida Li, Zisheng Cao, Lei Zhang, "Reliable and Efficient Image Cropping: A Grid Anchor based Approach," in CVPR 2019. (paper) (supp) (code&dataset) (A totally new framework for image cropping with a large scale dataset!)

    [93]   Xixi Jia, Sanyang Liu, Xiagnchu Feng, Lei Zhang, "FOCNet: A Fractional Optimal Control Network for Image Denoising," in CVPR 2019. (paper) (code)

    [94]   Kai Zhang, Wangmeng Zuo, Lei Zhang, "Deep Plug-and-Play Super-Resolution for Arbitrary Blur Kernels," in CVPR 2019. (paper) (code)

    [95]   Shi Guo, Wangmeng Zuo, Zifei Yan, Kai Zhang, Lei Zhang, "Toward Convolutional Blind Denoising of Real-world Noisy Photographs," in CVPR 2019. (paper) (supp) (code)

    [96]   Tao Dai, Jianrui Cai, Yongbing Zhang, Shutao Xia, Lei Zhang, "Second-order Attention Network for Single Image Super-resolution," in CVPR 2019 (oral). (paper) (supp) (code)

 

AAAI 2019

    [97]   L. Yang, D. Zhang, L. Zhang, "Learning a Visual Tracker from a Single Movie without Human Annotation," AAAI 2019. (paper) (code)

 

ECCV 2018

    [98]   J. Xu, L. Zhang, D. Zhang, "A Trilateral Weighted Sparse Coding Scheme for Real-World Image Denoising," in ECCV 2018. (paper, supp) (code)

    [99]   S. Cai, W. Zuo, L. Davis, L. Zhang, "Weakly-supervised Video Summarization using Variational Encoder-Decoder and Web Prior," in ECCV 2018. (paper) (code)

 

CVPR 2018

  [100]  W. An, H. Wang, Q. Sun, J. Xu, Q. Dai, L. Zhang, "A PID Controller Approach for Stochastic Optimization of Deep Networks," in CVPR 2018. (Spotlight paper) (paper, supp) (code) (We, for the first time, connect classical control theory with deep network optimization, and improve up to 50% the efficiency over SGD-Momentum!)

  [101]  Z. Liang, J. Xu, D. Zhang, Z. Cao, L. Zhang, "A Hybrid L1-L0 Layer Decomposition Model for Tone Mapping," in CVPR 2018. (paper, supp) (code)

  [102]  K. Zhang, W. Zuo, L. Zhang, "Learning a Single Convolutional Super-Resolution Network for Multiple Degradations," in CVPR 2018. (paper) (code)

  [103]  F. Li, C. Tian, W. Zuo, L. Zhang, M-H. Yang, "Learning Spatial-Temporal Regularized Correlation Filters for Visual Tracking," in CVPR 2018. (paper, supp) (code)

  [104]  K. Wang, X. Yan, D. Zhang, L. Zhang, L. Lin, "Towards Human-Machine Cooperation: Self-supervised Sample Mining for Object Detection," in CVPR 2018. (paper) (code)

 

AAAI 2018

  [105]  T. Chen, Liang Lin, W. Zuo, X. Luo, L. Zhang, "Learning a Wavelet-Like Auto-encoder to Accelerate Deep Neural Networks," AAAI 2018. (paper) (code)

ICCV 2017

  [106]  J. Xu, L. Zhang, D. Zhang, X. Feng, "Multi-channel Weighted Nuclear Norm Minimization for Real Color Image Denoising," 2017 International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV 2017). (paper, supp) (code)

  [107]  S. Cai, W. Zuo, L. Zhang, "Higher-order Integration of Hierarchical Convolutional Activations for Fine-grained Visual Categorization," 2017 International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV 2017). (paper) (code)

  [108]  S. Gu, D. Meng, W. Zuo, L. Zhang, "Joint Convolutional Analysis and Synthesis Sparse Representation for Single Image Layer Separation," 2017 International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV 2017). (paper, supp) (code)

  [109]  W. Xie, M. Wang, X. Qi, L. Zhang, "3D Surface Detail Enhancement from A Single Normal Map," 2017 International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV 2017). (paper)

 

ACM MM 2017

  [110]  L. Yang, R. Liu, D. Zhang, L. Zhang, "Deep Location-Specific Tracking," ACM Multimedia 2017 (MM 2017). (paper) (code)

CVPR 2017

  [111]  K. Zhang, W. Zuo, S. Gu, L. Zhang, "Learning Deep CNN Denoiser Prior for Image Restoration," 2017 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2017). (paper) (code)

  [112]  S. Gu, W. Zuo, S. Guo, Y. Chen, C. Chen, L. Zhang, "Learning Dynamic Guidance for Depth Image Enhancement," 2017 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2017). (paper) (code)

  [113]  P. Li, Q. Wang, L. Zhang, "G2DeNet: Global Gaussian Distribution Embedding Network and Its Application to Visual Recognition," 2017 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2017). (Oral) (paper) (code)

ICME 2017

  [114]  R. Tan, K. Zhang, W. Zuo, L. Zhang, "Color Image Demosaicking via Deep Residual Learning," 2017 International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME 2017). (paper) (dataset&code)

  [115]  L. Zhu, L. Yang, D. Zhang, L. Zhang, "Learning A Real-time Generic Tracker using Convolutional Neural Networks," 2017 International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME 2017). (paper) (code)

CVPR 2016

  [116]  S. Cai, L. Zhang, W. Zuo and X. Feng, "A Probabilistic Collaborative Representation based Approach for Pattern Classification," 2016 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2016). (paper) (code) (Finally, we explained how CRC/SRC works!)

  [117]  K. Ma, Q. Wu, Z. Wang, Z. Duanmu, H. Yong, H. Li and L. Zhang, "Group MAD Competition - A New Methodology to Compare Objective Image Quality Models," 2016 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2016). (paper) (code&website) (IQA is far from solved yet!)

  [118]  K. Wang, L. Lin, W. Zuo, S. Gu and L. Zhang, "Dictionary Pair Classifier Driven Convolutional Neural Networks for Object Detection," 2016 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2016). (paper) (code) (Train stronger CNN features with representation based classifiers!)

  [119]  J. Ning, J. Yang, S. Jiang, L. Zhang and M-H Yang, "Visual Tracking via Dual Linear Structured SVM and Explicit Feature Map," 2016 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2016). (paper) (code) (website) (A tracker with both high accuracy and high speed!)

  [120]  F. Wang, W. Zuo, L. Lin, D. Zhang and L. Zhang, "Joint Learning of Single-image and Cross-image Representations for Person Re-identification," 2016 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2016). (paper, sup) (code)

  [121]  Q. Wang, P. Li, W. Zuo and L. Zhang, "RAID-G: Robust Estimation of Approximate Infinite Dimensional Gaussian with Application to Material Recognition," 2016 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2016). (paper, sup) (code)

  [122]  Q. Xie, Q. Zhao, D. Meng, Z. Xu, S. Gu, W. Zuo and L. Zhang, "Multispectral Images Denoising by Intrinsic Tensor Sparsity Regularization," 2016 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2016). (paper, sup) (code)

ICCV 2015

  [123]  J. Xu, L. Zhang, W. Zuo, D. Zhang, and X. Feng, "Patch Group Based Nonlocal Self-Similarity Prior Learning for Image Denoising," in ICCV 2015. (paper, sup) (code) (From "patch" based learning to "patch group" based learning!)

  [124]  S. Gu, W. Zuo, Q. Xie, D. Meng, X. Feng, L. Zhang, "Convolutional Sparse Coding for Image Super-resolution," in ICCV 2015. (paper, sup) (code) (State-of-the-art super-resolution result!)

  [125]  F. Chen, L. Zhang, and H. Yu, "External Patch Prior Guided Internal Clustering for Image Denoising," ICCV 2015. (paper, sup) (code) (Exploit external and internal information jointly for high performance denoising!)

CVPR 2015

  [126]  W. Zuo, D. Ren, S. Gu, L. Lin, and L. Zhang, "Discriminative Learning of Iteration-wise Priors for Blind Deconvolution," in CVPR 2015. (paper, sup) (A highly effective blind image deblurring algorithm!)

NIPS 2014

  [127]  S. Gu, L. Zhang, W. Zuo, and X. Feng, "Projective Dictionary Pair Learning for Pattern Classification," In NIPS 2014. (paper, sup) (code) (From "dictionary learning" to "dictionary pair learning"!)

ACCV 2014

  [128]  P. Zhu, M. Yang, L. Zhang, and Il-Yong Lee, "Local Generic Representation for Face Recognition with Single Sample per Person," In ACCV 2014. (paper) (code)

ECCV 2014

  [129]  K. Zhang, L. Zhang, Q. Liu, D. Zhang, and M-H. Yang, "Fast Tracking via Dense Spatio-Temporal Context Learning," In ECCV 2014. (paper) (code and website)

  [130]  S. Cai, W. Zuo, L. Zhang, X. Feng, and P. Wang, "Support Vector Guided Dictionary Learning," In ECCV 2014. (paper, sup) (code)

  [131]  Q. Wang, W. Zuo, L. Zhang, and P. Li, "Shrinkage Expansion Adaptive Metric Learning," In ECCV 2014. (paper, sup) (code)

CVPR 2014

  [132]  S. Gu, L. Zhang, W. Zuo, and X. Feng, "Weighted Nuclear Norm Minimization with Application to Image Denoising," In CVPR 2014. (paper) (sup) (code) (Excellent denoising results in terms of both PSNR and visual quality!)

Q. Xie, D. Meng, S. Gu, L. Zhang, W. Zuo, X. Feng and Z. Xu, "On the Optimal Solution of Weighted Nuclear Norm Minimization" Technical Report, arXiv: 1405.6012. (report) (In this technical report, we give a more complete analysis of the optimal solution of WNNM.)

  [133]  W. Lian and L. Zhang, "Point Matching in the Presence of Outliers in Both Point Sets: A Concave Optimization Approach," In CVPR 2014. (paper) (sup) (code will be available soon)

ICML 2014

  [134]  Q. Zhao, D. Meng, Z. Xu, W. Zuo, and L. Zhang, "Robust principal component analysis with complex noise," In ICML 2014. (paper) (code)

ICCV 2013

  [135]  W. Xue, X. Mou, L. Zhang, and X. Feng, "Perceptual Fidelity Aware Mean Squared Error," In ICCV 2013. (paper) (code) (We proved, both empirically and theoretically, that the MSE of the smoothed images can work very well for FR-IQA!)

  [136]  W. Zuo, D. Meng, L. Zhang, X. Feng, and D. Zhang, "A Generalized Iterated Shrinkage Algorithm for Non-convex Sparse Coding," In ICCV 2013. (paper, sup) (code) (The corrected solution of non-convex sparse coding by iterated thresholding!)

  [137]  P. Zhu, L. Zhang, W. Zuo, and D. Zhang, "From Point to Set: Extend the Learning of Distance Metrics," In ICCV 2013. (paper) (code) (We extended the metric learning from point-to-point to point-to-set and set-to-set!)

  [138]  P. Li, Q. Wang, and L. Zhang, "A Novel Earth Mover's Distance Methodology for Image Matching with Gaussian Mixture Models," In ICCV 2013. (paper) (code) (A new framework for image classification.)

  [139]  P. Li, Q. Wang, W. Zuo, and L. Zhang, "Log-Euclidean Kernels for Sparse Representation and Dictionary Learning," In ICCV 2013. (paper) (code) (Sparse representation and dictionary learning in a new space.)

  [140]  M. Yang, Luc Van Gool, and L. Zhang, "Sparse Variation Dictionary Learning for Face Recognition with A Single Training Sample Per Person," In ICCV 2013. (paper) (code) (Dictionary learning with a generic dataset for face recognition with a single training sample.)

CVPR 2013

  [141]  W. Zuo, L. Zhang, C. Song, and D. Zhang, "Texture Enhanced Image Denoising via Gradient Histogram Preservation," In CVPR 2013. (paper) (code)

  [142]  W. Xue, L. Zhang, and X. Mou, "Learning without Human Scores for Blind Image Quality Assessment," In CVPR 2013. (paper) (code)

AAAI 2013

  [143]  D. Meng, Z. Xu, L. Zhang, and J. Zhao, "A Cyclic Weighted Median Method for L1 Low-Rank Matrix Factorization with Missing Entries," In AAAI 2013. (paper) (code) (A very simple but very efficient and effective L1 matrix factorization algorithm.)

ACCV 2012

  [144]  S. Wang, L. Zhang, and Y. Liang, "Nonlocal Spectral Prior Model for Low-level Vision," In ACCV12. (paper) (code will be available soon)

 

ECCV 2012

  [145]  K. Zhang, L. Zhang, and M.H. Yang, "Real-time Compressive Tracking," In ECCV 2012. (paper) (code and website) (No training, no feature selection, speed up-to 40fps under Matlab, but with state-of-the-art tracking performance in terms of both success rate and center location error!)

  [146]  B. Peng and L. Zhang, "Evaluation of Image Segmentation Quality by Adaptive Ground Truth Composition," In ECCV 2012. (paper) (code and website) (A novel metric to evaluate the quality of image segmentation!)

  [147]  W. Lian and L. Zhang, "Robust Point Matching Revisited: A Concave Optimization Approach," In ECCV 2012. (paper) (code)

  [148]  M. Yang, L. Zhang, and D. Zhang, "Efficient Misalignment-Robust Representation for Real-Time Face Recognition," In ECCV 2012. (paper) (code)

  [149]  P. Zhu, L. Zhang, Q. Hu, and Simon C.K. Shiu, "Multi-scale Patch based Collaborative Representation for Face Recognition with Margin Distribution Optimization," In ECCV 2012. (paper) (code)

 

CVPR 2012

  [150]  M. Yang, L. Zhang, D. Zhang, and S. Wang, "Relaxed Collaborative Representation for Pattern Classification," In CVPR 2012. (paper) (code)

  [151]  S. Wang, L. Zhang, Y. Liang, and Q. Pan, "Semi-Coupled Dictionary Learning with Applications to Image Super-Resolution and Photo-Sketch Image Synthesis," In CVPR 2012. (paper) (code and website)

 

ICCV 2011

  [152]  L. Zhang, M. Yang, and X. Feng, "Sparse Representation or Collaborative Representation: Which Helps Face Recognition?" In ICCV 2011. (paper, code)

  [153]  M. Yang, L. Zhang, X. Feng, and D. Zhang, "Fisher Discrimination Dictionary Learning for Sparse Representation," In ICCV 2011. (paper, code)

  [154]  L. Zhang, P. Zhu, Q. Hu, and D. Zhang, "A Linear Subspace Learning Approach via Sparse Coding," In ICCV 2011. (paper, code)

  [155]  W. Dong, L. Zhang, and G. Shi, "Centralized Sparse Representation for Image Restoration," In ICCV 2011. (paper, code)

 

CVPR 2011

  [156]  Meng Yang, Lei Zhang, Jian Yang, and David Zhang, "Robust Sparse Coding for Face Recognition," In CVPR 2011. (paper) (code)

  [157]  Weisheng Dong, Xin Li, Lei Zhang, and Guangming Shi, "Sparsity-based Image Denoising via Dictionary Learning and Structural Clustering," In CVPR 2011 (oral). (paper) (code)

 

ECCV 2010

  [158]  M. Yang and L. Zhang, "Gabor Feature based Sparse Representation for Face Recognition with Gabor Occlusion Dictionary," In ECCV 2010. (code)

  [159]  W. Lian and L. Zhang, "Rotation invariant non-rigid shape matching in cluttered scenes," In ECCV 2010. (code)

 

CVPR 2008-2010

  [160]  W. Li, L. Zhang, D. Zhang, G. Lu, and J. Yan, "Efficient Joint 2D and 3D Palmprint Matching with Alignment Refinement," In CVPR 2010. (database)

  [161]  Q. Zhao, L. Zhang, D. Zhang, W. Huang, and J. Bai, "Curvature and Singularity Driven Diffusion for Oriented Pattern Enhancement with Singular Points," In CVPR09.

  [162]  L. Zhang, Q. Gao, and D. Zhang, "Directional Independent Component Analysis with Tensor Representation," In CVPR2008, pp.1-7, 23-28, June, Anchorage, Alaska, U.S. (Oral).

 

Other Conference Papers

  [163]  Lin Zhang, Lei Zhang, X. Mou, and D. Zhang, "A Comprehensive Evaluation of Full Reference Image Quality Assessment Algorithms," In ICIP 2012. (paper)

  [164]  W. Dong, G. Shi, L. Zhang, and X. Wu, "Super-resolution with nonlocal regularized sparse representation," In SPIE VCIP 2010. (Best paper award)

  [165]  Meng Yang, Lei Zhang, Daivd Zhang, and Jian Yang, "Metaface Learning for Sparse Representation based Face Recognition," In ICIP 2010. (code)

  [166]  Lin Zhang, Lei Zhang, Zhenhua Guo, and David Zhang, "MONOGENIC-LBP: A NEW APPROACH FOR ROTATION INVARIANT TEXTURE CLASSIFICATION," In ICIP 2010. (code)

  [167]  Lin Zhang, Lei Zhang, and X. Mou, "RFSIM: A Feature based Image Quality Assessment Metric using Riesz Transforms," In ICIP 2010. (code)

  [168]  Kaihua Zhang, Lei Zhang, and Su Zhang, "A Variational Multiphase Level Set Approach to Simultaneous Segmentation and Bias Correction," In ICIP 2010. (code)

  [169]  Qijun Zhao, Feng Liu, Lei Zhang, and David Zhang, "A comparative study on quality assessment of high resolution fingerprint images," In ICIP 2010.

  [170]  Jin Xie, Lei Zhang, Jane You, and David Zhang, "TEXTURE CLASSIFICATION VIA PATCH-BASED SPARSE TEXTON LEARNING," In ICIP 2010.

  [171]  Meng Yang, Lei Zhang, Lin Zhang, and David Zhang, "Monogenic Binary Pattern (MBP): A Novel Feature Extraction and Representation Model for Face Recognition," In ICPR 2010.

  [172]  Lei Zhang, Meng Yang, Zhizhao Feng, and David Zhang, "On the Dimensionality Reduction for Sparse Representation based Face Recognition," In ICPR 2010. (paper) (code)

  [173]  Qijun Zhao, Feng Liu, Lei Zhang, and David Zhang, "Parallel versus Hierarchical Fusion of Extended Fingerprint Features," In ICPR 2010.

  [174]  Feng Liu, Qijun Zhao, Lei Zhang, and David Zhang, "Fingerprint Pore Matching based on Sparse Representation," In ICPR 2010.

  [175]  Bob Zhang, Lei Zhang, Jane You, and Fakhri Karray, "Microaneurysm (MA) Detection via Sparse Representation Classifier with MA and Non-MA Dictionary Learning," In ICPR 2010. (paper)

  [176]  B. Peng, L. Zhang, and J. Yang, "Iterated Graph Cuts for Image Segmentation," In ACCV 2009. (software)

  [177]  Lin Zhang, Lei Zhang, and D. Zhang, "A Multi-Scale Bilateral Structure Tensor Based Corner Detector," In ACCV 2009. (code)

  [178]  Weisheng Dong, Lei Zhang, Guangming Shi, and Xiaolin Wu, "Nonlocal back-projection for adaptive image enlargement," In ICIP 2009. (code)

  [179]  Lin Zhang, Lei Zhang, and David Zhang, "Finger-Knuckle-Print: A New Biometric Identifier," In ICIP 2009.

  [180]  Lin Zhang, Lei Zhang, and David Zhang, "Finger-Knuckle-Print Verification Based On Band-Limited Phase-Only Correlation," The 13th International Conference on Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns (CAIP09).

  [181]  Q. Zhao, L. Zhang, D. Zhang, and N. Luo, "Direct Pore Matching for Fingerprint Recognition," International Conference on Biometrics 2009 (ICB09), pp. 597-606, Alghero, Italy, June 2-5, 2009.

  [182]  Wei Li, Lei Zhang, and David Zhang, "Three Dimensional Palmprint Recognition," 2009 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, SMC09.

  [183]  X. Li, B. Gunturk, and L. Zhang, "Image demosaicing: a systematic survey," Visual Communications and Image Processing 2008, Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 6822, pp. 68221J-68221J-15 (2008). San Jose, CA, USA

  [184]  Q. Zhao, L. Zhang, D. Zhang, and N. Luo, "Adaptive Pore Model for Fingerprint Pore Extraction," Proceedings of International Conference on Pattern Recognition 2008 (ICPR08), pp. 1-4, Tampa, Florida, USA, Dec. 8-11, 2008.

  [185]  D. Zhang, G. Lu, W. Li, L. Zhang, and N. Luo, "Three Dimensional Palmprint Recognition using Structured Light Imaging," 2nd IEEE International Conference on Biometrics: Theory, Applications and Systems (BTAS08), Sept. 29-Oct. 1 2008, pp. 1-6. Hyatt Regency Crystal City, U.S.

  [186]  Lei Zhang, Zhenhua Guo, Zhou Wang, and David Zhang, "Palmprint verification using complex wavelet transform," In ICIP07, September 16-19, 2007, San Antonio, Texas, USA. Volume 2, Page(s): II - 417 - II - 420.

  [187]  Marko Slyz and Lei Zhang, "A Block-based Inter-band Lossless Hyperspectral Image Compressor," DCC05 (Data Compression Conference) 2005, pp.427-436, Cliff Lodge, USA, 29-31 March 2005.

 

Journal Papers

Image Restoration and Enhancement

  [188]  Z. Yue, H. Yong, Q. Zhao, L. Zhang, D. Meng, and Kwan-Yee K. Wong, "Deep Variational Network Toward Blind Image Restoration," IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 2024. (paper) (code)

  [189]  X. Li, S. Zhang, S. Zhou, L. Zhang, W. Zuo, "Learning Dual Memory Dictionaries for Blind Face Restoration," IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 2022. (paper) (code)

  [190]  J. Ma, S. Guo, L. Zhang, "Text Prior Guided Scene Text Image Super-Resolution," IEEE Trans. on Image Processing. (paper) (code) (Text images can be much better enhanced than what you think.)

  [191]  S. Guo, Z. Liang, L. Zhang, "Joint Denoising and Demosaicking with Green Channel Prior for Real-world Burst Images," IEEE Trans. on Image Processing, vol. 30, pp. 6930-6942, Aug. 2021. (paper) (code)

  [192]  K. Zhang, Y. Li, W. Zuo, L. Zhang, Luc Van Gool, Radu Timofte, "Plug-and-Play Image Restoration with Deep Denoiser Prior," IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 2021. (paper) (code)

  [193]  Z. Liang, J. Cai, Z. Cao, L. Zhang, "CameraNet: A Two-Stage Framework for Effective Camera ISP Learning," IEEE Trans. on Image Processing. (paper) (code)

  [194]  M. Li, X. Cao, Q. Zhao, L. Zhang, D. Meng, "Online Rain/Snow Removal from Surveillance Videos," IEEE Trans. on Image Processing. (paper) (code)

  [195]  H. Zeng, J. Cai, L. Li, Z. Cao, L. Zhang, "Learning Image-adaptive 3D Lookup Tables for High Performance Photo Enhancement in Real-time," IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. (paper) (supp) (code) (High quality adaptive photo enhancement in real-time (<2ms for 4K resolution images)!)

  [196]  X. Li, G. Hu, J. Zhu, W. Zuo, M. Wang, L. Zhang, "Learning Symmetry Consistent Deep CNNs for Face Completion," IEEE Trans. on Image Processing, vol. 29, issue 7, pp. 7641-7655, July 2020. (paper) (code)

  [197]  Z. Li, W. Zuo, Z. Wang, L. Zhang, "Confidence-based Large-scale Dense Multi-view Stereo," IEEE Trans. on Image Processing, vol. 29, issue 6, pp. 7176-7191, June 2020. (paper)

  [198]  S. Gu, S. Guo, W. Zuo, Y. Chen, R. Timofte, Luc Van Gool, L. Zhang, "Learned Dynamic Guidance for Depth Image Reconstruction," IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. (paper) (code)

  [199]  J. Cai, W. Zuo, L. Zhang, "Dark and Bright Channel Prior Embedded Network for Dynamic Scene Deblurring," IEEE Trans. on Image Processing. (paper) (code)

  [200]  H. Li, K. Ma, H. Yong, L. Zhang, "Fast Multi-Scale Structural Patch Decomposition for Multi-Exposure Image Fusion," IEEE Trans. on Image Processing. (paper) (code)

  [201]  J. Cai, Z. Cao, L. Zhang, "Learning a Single Tucker Decomposition Network for Lossy Image Compression with Multiple Bits-Per-Pixel Rates," IEEE Trans. on Image Processing. (paper) (code)

  [202]  D. Ren, W. Zuo, D. Zhang, L. Zhang, M-H. Yang, "Simultaneous Fidelity and Regularization Learning for Image Restoration," to appear, IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. (paper) (code)

  [203]  R. Liu, X. Fan, M. Hou, Z. Jiang, Z. Luo, L. Zhang, "Learning Aggregated Transmission Propagation Networks for Haze Removal and Beyond," IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, vol. 30, issue 10, pp. 2973-2986, Oct. 2019. (paper)

  [204]  R. Liu, L. Ma, Y. Wang, L. Zhang, "Learning Converged Propagations with Deep Prior Ensemble for Image Enhancement," IEEE Trans. on Image Processing, vol. 28, issue 3, pp. 1528-1543, Mar. 2019. (paper) (code)

  [205]  F. Zhu, Z. Liang, X. Jia, L. Zhang, Y. Yu, "A Benchmark for Edge-Preserving Image Smoothing," IEEE Trans. on Image Processing, 2019. (paper) (code&dataset)

  [206]  H. Yong, J. Huang, W. Xiang, X. Hua, L. Zhang, "Panoramic Background Image Generation for PTZ Cameras," IEEE Trans. on Image Processing, 2019. (paper) (code)

  [207]  K. Zhang, W. Zuo, L. Zhang, "FFDNet: Toward a Fast and Flexible Solution for CNN based Image Denoising," IEEE Trans. on Image Processing, vol. 27, issue 9, pp. 4608-4622, Sept. 2018. (paper) (code) (Fast, flexible yet effective denoising!)

  [208]  J. Xu, L. Zhang, D. Zhang, "External Prior Guided Internal Prior Learning for Real-World Noisy Image Denoising," IEEE Trans. on Image Processing, vol. 27, issue 6, pp. 2996-3010, June 2018. (paper, supp) (code)

  [209]  D.W. Ren, W.M. Zuo, D. Zhang, J. Xu, L. Zhang, "Partial Deconvolution with Inaccurate Blur Kernel," IEEE Trans. on Image Processing, vol. 27, issue 1, pp. 511-524, Jan. 2018.

  [210]  J. Cai, S. Gu, L. Zhang, "Learning a Deep Single Image Contrast Enhancer from Multi-Exposure Images," IEEE Trans. on Image Processing, vol. 27, issue 4, pp. 2049-2062, April 2018. (paper) (dataset&code)

  [211]  H. Li, X. Jia, L. Zhang, "Clustering based Content and Color Adaptive Tone Mapping," Computer Vision and Image Understanding, vol. 168, pp. 37-49, Mar. 2018. (paper) (code)

  [212]  L. Zhang and W. Zuo, "Image Restoration: From Sparse and Low-rank Priors to Deep Priors," IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, vol. 34, issue 5, pp. 172-179, Sept. 2017. (lecture-notes article, paper, slides)

  [213]  K. Zhang, W. Zuo, Y. Chen, D. Meng, L. Zhang, "Beyond a Gaussian Denoiser: Residual Learning of Deep CNN for Image Denoising," IEEE Trans. on Image Processing, issue 7, pp. 3142-3155, July 2017. (paper) (code)

  [214]  K. Ma, H. Li, H. Yong, Z. Wang, D. Meng, L. Zhang, "Robust Multi-Exposure Image Fusion: A Structural Patch Decomposition Approach," IEEE Trans. on Image Processing, vol. 26, issue 5, pp. 2519 - 2532, May 2017. (paper) (sup) (code)

  [215]  J. Jiao, Q. Yang, S. He, S. Gu, L. Zhang, R.W.H. Lau, "Joint Image Denoising and Disparity Estimation via Stereo Structure PCA and Noise-tolerant Cost," International Journal of Computer Vision, vol. 124, issue 2, pp. 204-222, Sept. 2017. (paper) (code)

  [216]  S. Gu, Q. Xie, D. Meng, W. Zuo, X. Feng, L. Zhang, "Weighted Nuclear Norm Minimization and Its Applications to Low Level Vision," International Journal of Computer Vision, vol. 121, issue 2, pp. 183-208, Jan. 2017. (paper) (code_Denoising, code_RPCA, code_MC)

  [217]  Y. Xie, S. Gu, Y. Liu, W. Zuo, W. Zhang, L. Zhang, "Weighted Schatten p-Norm Minimization for Image Denoising and Background Subtraction," IEEE Trans. on Image Processing, vol. 25, issue 10, pp. 4842 - 4857, Oct. 2016. (paper) (code)

  [218]  W. Zuo, D. Ren, D. Zhang, S. Gu, L. Zhang, "Learning Iteration-wise Generalized Shrinkage-Thresholding Operators for Blind Deconvolution," IEEE Trans. on Image Processing, vol. 25, issue 4, pp. 1751-1764, April 2016. (paper) (code)

  [219]  Z. Li, K. Wang, W. Zuo, D. Meng, L. Zhang, "Detail-preserving and Content-aware Variational Multi-view Stereo Reconstruction," IEEE Trans. on Image Processing, vol. 25, issue 2, pp. 864-877, Feb. 2016. (paper)

  [220]  W. Zuo, L. Zhang, C. Song, D. Zhang, and H. Gao, "Gradient Histogram Estimation and Preservation for Texture Enhanced Image Denoising," IEEE Trans. on Image Processing, vol. 23, issue 6, pp. 2459-2472, June 2014. (paper) (code) (This is an extension of our GHP work in CVPR'13)

  [221]  J. Jiang, L. Zhang, and J. Yang, "Mixed Noise Removal by Weighted Encoding with Sparse Nonlocal Regularization," IEEE Trans. on Image Processing, vol. 23, issue 6, pp. 2651-2662, June 2014. (paper) (sup) (code)

  [222]  W. Dong, L. Zhang, G. Shi, and X. Li, "Nonlocally Centralized Sparse Representation for Image Restoration," IEEE Trans. on Image Processing, vol. 22, no. 4, pp. 1620-1630, Apr. 2013. (paper) (website) (code) (This paper is an improvement of our ICCV11 paper "Centralized Sparse Representation for Image Restoration".)

  [223]  W. Dong, L. Zhang, R. Lukac, and G. Shi, "Sparse Representation based Image Interpolation with Nonlocal Autoregressive Modeling," IEEE Trans. on Image Processing, vol. 22, no. 4, pp. 1382-1394, Apr. 2013. (paper) (website) (code)

  [224]  W. Dong, L. Zhang, G. Shi, and X. Wu, "Image deblurring and super-resolution by adaptive sparse domain selection and adaptive regularization," IEEE Trans. on Image Processing, vol. 20, no. 7, pp. 1838-1857, July 2011. (paper, matlab code & website)

  [225]  L. Zhang, W. Dong, D. Zhang, and G. Shi, "Two-stage Image Denoising by Principal Component Analysis with Local Pixel Grouping," Pattern Recognition, vol. 43, issue 4, pp. 1531-1549, April 2010. (paper, matlab code, website) (Code optimized!)

  [226]  L. Zhang and X. Wu, "An edge-guided image interpolation algorithm via directional filtering and data fusion," IEEE Trans. on Image Processing, vol. 15, pp. 2226-2238, Aug. 2006. (paper, matlab code)

  [227]  L. Zhang, X. Wu, A. Buades, and X. Li, "Color Demosaicking by Local Directional Interpolation and Non-local Adaptive Thresholding," Journal of Electronic Imaging 20(2), 023016 (Apr-Jun 2011), DOI:10.1117/1.3600632. (paper, website and dataset, code)

  [228]  L. Zhang, W. Dong, X. Wu, and G. Shi, "Spatial-Temporal Color Video Reconstruction from Noisy CFA Sequence," IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol. 20, no. 6, pp. 838-847, June 2010. (paper)

  [229]  L. Zhang, R. Lukac, X. Wu, and D. Zhang, "PCA-based Spatially Adaptive Denoising of CFA Images for Single-Sensor Digital Cameras," IEEE Trans. on Image Processing, vol. 18, no. 4, pp. 797-812, April 2009. (paper, matlab code, website)

  [230]  L. Zhang, X. Wu, and D. Zhang, "Color Reproduction from Noisy CFA Data of Single Sensor Digital Cameras," IEEE Trans. Image Processing, vol. 16, no. 9, pp. 2184-2197, Sept. 2007. (paper, matlab code, website)

  [231]  L. Zhang, X. Li, and D. Zhang, "Image Denoising and Zooming under the LMMSE Framework," IET Image Processing, Vol. 6, Issue 3, pp. 273-283, 2012. (paper) (code)

  [232]  L. Zhang and X. Wu, "Color demosaicking via directional linear minimum mean square-error estimation," IEEE Trans. on Image Processing, vol. 14, pp. 2167-2178, Dec. 2005. (paper, matlab code)

  [233]  F. Zhang, X. Wu, X. Yang, W. Zhang, and L. Zhang, "Robust Color Demosaicking with Adaptation to Varying Spectral Correlations," IEEE Trans. on Image Processing, vol. 18, no. 12, pp. 2706-2717, Dec 2009. (paper)

  [234]  X. Wu and L. Zhang, "Improvement of color video demosaicking in temporal domain," IEEE Trans. on Image Processing, vol. 15, pp. 3138-3151, Oct. 2006. (paper, software)

  [235]  X. Wu and L. Zhang, "Temporal color video demosaicking via motion estimation and data fusion," IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol. 16, pp. 231-240, Feb. 2006. (paper)

  [236]  L. Zhang, B. Paul, and X. Wu, "Multiscale LMMSE-based image denoising with optimal wavelet selection," IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol. 15, pp. 469-481, April 2005. (paper, matlab code)

  [237]  Q. Pan, L. Zhang, H. Zhang, and G. Dai, "Two de-noising methods by wavelet transform," IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing, vol. 47, pp. 3401-3406, Dec. 1999. (paper)

Image Quality and Aesthetic Assessment

  [238]  H. Zeng, L. Li, Z. Cao, L. Zhang, "Grid Anchor based Image Cropping: A New Benchmark and An Efficient Model," IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. (paper) (code) (Extension of our CVPR19 work with a much bigger dataset.)

  [239]  H. Zeng, Z. Cao, L. Zhang, A.C. Bovik, "A Unified Probabilistic Formulation of Image Aesthetic Assessment," IEEE Trans. on Image Processing. (paper) (code)

  [240]  K. Ma, Z. Duanmu, Z. Wang, Q. Wu, W. Liu, H. Yong, H. Li, L. Zhang, "Group Maximum Differentiation Competition: Model Comparison with Few Samples," to appear, IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. (paper) (code)

  [241]  J. Kim, H. Zeng, D. Ghadiyaram, S. Lee, L. Zhang, A.C. Bovik, "Deep Convolutional Neural Models for Picture Quality Prediction," IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, vol. 34, issue 6, pp. 130-141, Nov. 2017. (paper)

  [242]  K. Ma, Z. Duanmu, Q. Wu, Z. Wang, H. Yong, H. Li, L. Zhang, "Waterloo Exploration Database: New Challenges for Image Quality Assessment Models," IEEE Trans. on Image Processing, vol. 26, issue 2, pp. 1004 - 1016, Feb. 2017. (paper) (code&database)

  [243]  Lin Zhang, Lei Zhang, and Alan C. Bovik, "A Feature-Enriched Completely Blind Image Quality Evaluator," IEEE Trans. on Image Processing, vol. 24, issue 8, pp. 2579 - 2591, Aug. 2015. (paper) (code and website) (An "opinion-unaware" method which outperforms all "opinion-aware" methods!)

  [244]  W. Xue, X. Mou, L. Zhang, A. Bovik, and X. Feng, "Blind Image Quality Assessment Using Joint Statistics of Gradient Magnitude and Laplacian Features," IEEE Trans. on Image Processing, vol. 23, issue 11, pp. 4850 - 4862, Nov. 2014. (paper) (code)

  [245]  W. Xue, L. Zhang, X. Mou, and A. C. Bovik, "Gradient Magnitude Similarity Deviation: A Highly Efficient Perceptual Image Quality Index," IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 23, issue 2, pp. 684 - 695, Feb., 2014. (paper) (code) (website) (A very simple but highly efficient and effective full reference IQA algorithm!)

  [246]  Lin Zhang, Lei Zhang, X. Mou, and D. Zhang, "FSIM: A Feature Similarity Index for Image Quality Assessment," IEEE Trans. Image Processing, vol. 20, no. 8, pp. 2378-2386, 2011. (paper, website & code)

  [247]  M. Zhang, X. Mou, and L. Zhang, "Non-Shift Edge based Ratio (NSER): An Image Quality Assessment Metric Based on Early Vision Features," IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 18, no. 5, pp. 315-318, May, 2011. (paper)

Pattern Recognition, Object Detection, Machine Learning

  [248]  L. Li, J. Xie, P. Li, and L. Zhang, "Detachable Second-order Pooling: Towards High Performance First-order Networks," IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems. (paper) (code)

  [249]  Y. Zhang, B. Deng, H. Tang, L. Zhang, K. Jia, "Unsupervised Multi-Class Domain Adaptation: Theory, Algorithms, and Practice," IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. (paper) (code)

  [250]  X. Jia, X. Feng, W. Wang, L. Zhang, "Generalized Unitarily Invariant Gauge Regularization for Fast Low-Rank Matrix Recovery," IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems. (paper) (code)

  [251]  Q. Wang, J. Xie, W. Zuo, L. Zhang, P. Li, "Deep CNNs Meet Global Covariance Pooling: Better Representation and Generalization," IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. (paper)

  [252]  Z. Yue, H. Yong, D. Meng, Q. Zhao, Y. Leung, L. Zhang, "Robust Multi-view Subspace Learning with Non-independently and Non-identically Distributed Complex Noise," IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems. (paper) (code)

  [253]  W. An, H. Wang, Q. Sun, J. Xu, Y. Luo, L. Zhang, "PID Controller based Stochastic Optimization Acceleration for Deep Neural Networks," IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems. DOI: 10.1109/TNNLS.2019.2963066

  [254]  K. Wang, L. Lin, X. Yan, Z. Chen, D. Zhang, L. Zhang, "Cost-Effective Object Detection: Active Sample Mining with Switchable Selection Criteria", IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, vol. 30, issue 3, pp. 834-850, Mar. 2019. (paper)

  [255]  Z. Fu, Y. Chen, H. Yong, R. Jiang, L. Zhang, X. Hua, "Foreground Gating and Background Refining Network for Surveillance Object Detection," IEEE Trans. on Image Processing, 2019. (paper) (code)

  [256]  L. Lin, K. Wang, D. Meng, W. Zuo, L. Zhang, "Active Self-Paced Learning for Cost-Effective and Progressive Face Identification," IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 40, issue 1, pp. 7-19, 2018. (paper) (code)

  [257]  W. Zuo. F. Wang, D. Zhang, L. Lin, Y. Huang, D. Meng, L. Zhang, "Distance Metric Learning via Iterated Support Vector Machines for Person Verification," IEEE Trans. on Image Processing, vol. 26, issue 10, pp. 4937-4950, Oct. 2017. (paper) (code)

  [258]  P. Li, H. Zeng, Q. Wang, Simon C. K. Shiu, L. Zhang, "High-order Local Pooling and Encoding Gaussians over a Dictionary of Gaussians," IEEE Trans. on Image Processing, vol. 26, issue 7, pp. 3372-3384, July 2017. (paper) (code)

  [259]  L. Lin, G. Wang, W. Zuo, X. Feng, and L. Zhang, "Cross-Domain Visual Matching via Generalized Similarity Measure and Feature Learning," IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 39, issue 6, pp. 1089-1102, June 2017. (paper) (code)

  [260]  P. Li, Q. Wang, H. Zeng, L. Zhang, "Local Log-Euclidean Multivariate Gaussian Descriptor and Its Application to Image Classification," IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 39, issue 4, pp. 803-817, April 2017. (paper) (code)

  [261]  Q. Wang, P. Li, L. Zhang, W. Zuo, "Towards Effective Codebookless Model for Image Classification," Pattern Recognition, vol. 59, pp. 63-71, Nov. 2016. (paper) (code)

  [262]  L. Lin, K. Wang, W. Zuo, M. Wang, J. Luo, and L. Zhang, "A Deep Structured Model with Radius-Margin Bound for 3D Human Activity Recognition," International Journal of Computer Vision, vol. 118, issue. 2, pp. 256-273, June. 2016. (paper, dateset&code)

  [263]  F. Wang, W. Zuo, L. Zhang, Deyu Meng, and David Zhang, "A Kernel Classification Framework for Metric Learning," IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, vol. 26, issue 9, pp. 1950-1962, Sept. 2015. (paper) (code) (We make metric learning hundred to thousand times faster!)

  [264]  M. Yang, L. Zhang, X. Feng, and D. Zhang, "Sparse Representation based Fisher Discrimination Dictionary Learning for Image Classification," International Journal of Computer Vision, vol. 109, issue 3, pp. 209-232, Sept. 2014. (paper) (code) (This is an extension of our FDDL work in ICCV'11)

  [265]  P. Zhu, W. Zuo, L. Zhang, S. Shiu, and D. Zhang, "Image Set based Collaborative Representation for Face Recognition," IEEE Trans. on Information Forensics and Security, vol. 9, no. 7, pp. 1120-1132, July 2014. (paper) (code)

  [266]  L. Zhang, M. Yang, X. Feng, Y. Ma, and D. Zhang, "Collaborative Representation based Classification for Face Recognition," Technical report. arXiv: 1204.2358. (paper) (code) (This is a substantial extension of our ICCV11 paper "Sparse Representation or Collaborative Representation: Which Helps Face Recognition?")

  [267]  M. Yang, L. Zhang, J. Yang, and D. Zhang, "Regularized Robust Coding for Face Recognition," IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Volume 22, Issue 5, Pages 1753-1766, May 2013. (paper) (code) (This paper is a substantial extension of our CVPR11 paper "Robust sparse coding for face recognition".)

  [268]  M. Yang, L. Zhang, S. Shiu, and D. Zhang, "Monogenic Binary Coding: An Efficient Local Feature Extraction Approach to Face Recognition," IEEE Trans. on Information Forensics and Security, vol. 7, no. 6, pp. 1738-1751, Dec. 2012. (paper) (code) (In this work we proposed a new binary coding scheme, namely MBC, which has very high efficiency and accuracy in face representation and recognition.)

  [269]  M. Yang, L. Zhang, S. Shiu, and D. Zhang, "Robust Kernel Representation with Statistical Local Features for Face Recognition," IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, Volume 24, Issue 6, Pages 900-912, June 2013. (paper) (code)

  [270]  M. Yang, Z. Feng, S. Shiu, and L. Zhang, "Fast and Robust Face Recognition via Coding Residual Map Learning based Adaptive Masking," Pattern Recognition, vol. 47, no. 2, pp. 535-543, Feb. 2014. (paper) (code will be available soon)

  [271]  Z. Feng*, M. Yang*, L. Zhang, Y. Liu, and D. Zhang, "Joint Discriminative Dimensionality Reduction and Dictionary Learning for Face Recognition," Pattern Recognition, Volume 46, Issue 8, Pages 2134-2143, Aug. 2013. (*The two authors contribute equally.) (paper) (code)

  [272]  M. Yang, L. Zhang, S. Shiu, and D. Zhang, "Gabor Feature based Robust Representation and Classification for Face Recognition with Gabor Occlusion Dictionary," Pattern Recognition, Volume 46, Issue 7, Pages 1865-1878, July 2013. (paper) (code)

  [273]  J. Yang, D. Chu, L. Zhang, Y. Xu, and J. Yang, "Sparse Representation Classifier Steered Discriminative Projection with Applications to Face Recognition," IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, Volume 24, Issue 7, Pages 1023-1035, July 2013.

  [274]  J. Yang, L. Zhang, Y. Xu, and Jing-yu Yang, "Beyond Sparsity: the Role of L1-optimizer in Pattern Classification," Pattern Recognition, vol. 45, issue 3, Pages 1104-1118, March 2012.

  [275]  J. Yang, L. Zhang, J. Yang, and D. Zhang, "From Classifiers to Discriminators: A Nearest Neighbor Rule Induced Discriminant Analysis," Pattern Recognition, vol. 44, issue 7, pp. 1387-1402, July 2011.

  [276]  W. Yang, C.Y. Sun, and L. Zhang, "A Multi-Manifold Discriminant Analysis Method for Image Feature Extraction," Pattern Recognition, vol. 44, issue 8, pp. 1649-1657, August 2011. (paper)

  [277]  B. Zhang, L. Zhang, D. Zhang, and L. Shen, "Directional Binary Code with Application to PolyU Near-Infrared Face Database," Pattern Recognition Letters, vol. 31, issue 14, pp. 2337-2344, Oct. 2010. (paper) (database)

  [278]  W. Di, L. Zhang, D. Zhang, and Q. Pan, "Studies on Hyperspectral Face Recognition in Visible Spectrum with Feature Band Selection," IEEE Trans. on System, Man and Cybernetics, Part A, vol. 40, issue 6, pp. 1354 - 1361, Nov. 2010. (paper) (database)

  [279]  J. Yang, C. Liu, and L. Zhang, "Color Space Normalization: Enhancing the Discriminating Power of Color Spaces for Face Recognition," Pattern Recognition, 2010, 43(4), 1454-1466, April 2010. (paper)

  [280]  Q. Gao, L. Zhang, D. Zhang, and H. Xu, "Independent components extraction from image matrix," Pattern Recognition Letters, vol. 31, issue 3, pp. 171 - 178, Feb. 2010. (paper)

  [281]  Q. Gao, L. Zhang, and D. Zhang, "Sequential Row-Column Independent Component Analysis for Face Recognition," Neurocomputing, vol. 72, pp. 1152-1159, Jan. 2009. (paper)

  [282]  Q. Gao, L. Zhang, and D. Zhang, "Face Recognition using FLDA with Single Training Image Per-person," Applied Mathematics and Computation, vol. 205, pp. 726-734, 2008. (paper, code)

  [283]  Y. Zhao, L. Zhang, and S. Kong, "Band Subset Based Clustering and Fusion for Hyperspectral Imagery Classification," IEEE Trans. on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 49, no. 2, pp. 747-756, Feb. 2011. (paper)

Image and Video Segmentation

  [284]  W. Li, W. Liu, J. Zhu, M. Cui, R. Yu, X. Hua, L. Zhang, "Box2Mask: Box-supervised Instance Segmentation via Level-set Evolution," IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 2024. (paper) (code)

  [285]  W. Liu, W. Li, J. Zhu, M. Cui, X. Xie, L. Zhang, "Improving Nighttime Driving-Scene Segmentation via Dual Image-adaptive Learnable Filters," IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology. (paper) (code)

  [286]  Y. Yin, D. Xu, X. Wang and L. Zhang, "Directional Deep Embedding and Appearance Learning for Fast Video Object Segmentation," IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems. (paper) (code)

  [287]  H. Yong, D. Meng, W. Zuo, L. Zhang, "Robust Online Matrix Factorization for Dynamic Background Subtraction," IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 40, issue 7, pp. 1726-1740, July 2018. (paper) (code)

  [288]  B. Peng, L. Zhang, X. Mou, M-H. Yang, "Evaluation of Segmentation Quality via Adaptive Composition of Reference Segmentations," IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 39, issue 10, pp. 1929-1941, Oct. 2017. (paper) (code&database)

  [289]  B. Peng, L. Zhang, and D. Zhang, "A Survey of Graph Theoretical Approaches to Image Segmentation," Pattern Recognition, Volume 46, Issue 3, Pages 1020-1038, Mar. 2013. (paper)

  [290]  K. Zhang, L. Zhang, H. Song, and D. Zhang, "Re-initialization Free Level Set Evolution via Reaction Diffusion," IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Volume 22, Issue 1, Pages 258-271, Jan. 2013. (paper) (code and website) (This work unifies the level set evolution under the reaction diffusion framework, which is completely free of re-initialization.)

  [291]  S. Li, H. Lu, and L. Zhang, "Arbitrary body segmentation in static images," Pattern Recognition, Volume 45, Issue 9, Pages 3402-3413, Sept. 2012.

  [292]  B. Peng, L. Zhang, and D. Zhang, "Automatic Image Segmentation by Dynamic Region Merging," IEEE Trans. on Image Processing, vol. 12, no. 12, pp. 3592-3605, 2011. (paper, software, website) (Source code)

  [293]  B. Peng, L. Zhang, D. Zhang, and J. Yang, "Image Segmentation by Iterated Region Merging with Localized Graph Cuts," Pattern Recognition, vol. 44, issues 10-11, pp. 2527-2538, October-November 2011. (paper) (software)

  [294]  K. Zhang, L. Zhang, H. Song, and W. Zhou, "Active contours with selective local or global segmentation: a new formulation and level set method," Image and Vision Computing, vol. 28, issue 4, pp. 668-676, April 2010. (paper, matlab code, website)

  [295]  K. Zhang, H. Song, and L. Zhang, "Active Contours Driven by Local Image Fitting Energy," Pattern recognition, vol. 43, issue 4, pp. 1199-1206, April 2010. (paper, matlab code)

  [296]  J. Ning, L. Zhang, D. Zhang, and C. Wu, "Interactive Image Segmentation by Maximal Similarity based Region Merging," Pattern Recognition, vol. 43, pp. 445-456, Feb, 2010. (paper, website & code)

  [297]  Y. Zhao, L. Zhang, D. Zhang, and Q. Pan, "Object Separation by Polarimetric and Spectral Imagery Fusion," Computer Vision and Image Understanding, vol. 113, no. 8, pp. 855-866, Aug. 2009. (paper, dataset)

Object Tracking

  [298]  F. Li, X. Wu, W. Zuo, D. Zhang, L. Zhang, "Remove Cosine Window from Correlation Filter-based Visual Trackers: When and How," IEEE Trans. on Image Processing, vol. 29, issue 6, pp. 7045-7060, June 2020. (paper)

  [299]  W. Zuo, X. Wu, L. Lin, L. Zhang, M-H. Yang, "Learning Support Correlation Filters for Visual Tracking," IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 41, issue 5, pp. 1158-1172, May 2019. (paper) (code)

  [300]  K. Zhang, L. Zhang, and M. Yang, "Fast Compressive Tracking," IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 36, no. 10, pp. 2002-2015, Oct. 2014. (paper) (code and website) (This is an extension of our CT tracker in ECCV'12)

  [301]  K. Zhang, L. Zhang, and M. Yang, "Real-time Object Tracking via Online Discriminative Feature Selection," IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 22, no. 12, pp. 4664-4677, Dec. 2013. (paper) (code)

  [302]  K. Zhang, L. Zhang, M. Yang, and Q. Hu, "Robust Object Tracking via Active Feature Selection," IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol. 23, no. 11, pp. 1957-1967, Nov. 2013. (paper) (code)

  [303]  J. Ning, L. Zhang, D. Zhang, and W. Yu, "Joint Registration and Active Contour Segmentation for Object Tracking," IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol. 23, no. 9, pp. 1589 -1597, Sept. 2013. (paper) (code) (website)

  [304]  J. Ning, L. Zhang, D. Zhang, and C. Wu, "Scale and Orientation Adaptive Mean Shift Tracking," IET Computer Vision, vol. 6, no.1, pp. 62-69, 2012. (paper, website. code)

  [305]  J. Ning, L. Zhang, D. Zhang, and C. Wu, "Robust Mean Shift Tracking with Corrected Background-Weighted Histogram," IET Computer Vision, vol. 6, no.1, pp. 52-61, 2012. (paper, website. code) (We prove that the background-weighted histogram in the original mean-shift tracking method is incorrect.)

  [306]  J. Ning, L. Zhang, D. Zhang, and C. Wu, "Robust Object Tracking using Joint Color-Texture Histogram," International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, vol. 23, No. 7 (2009) 1245-1263. (paper, code)

Texture Classification

  [307]  J. Xie, L. Zhang, J. You and S. Shiu, "Effective Texture Classification by Texton Encoding Induced Statistical Features," Pattern Recognition, vol. 48, issue 2, pp. 447-457, February 2015. (paper) (code) (A very effective texture classification scheme! The code has been updated by including the texton learning part.)

  [308]  Z. Guo, L. Zhang, and D. Zhang, "A Completed Modeling of Local Binary Pattern Operator for Texture Classification," IEEE Trans. on Image Processing, vol. 19, no. 6, pp. 1657-1663, June 2010. (paper, matlab code)

  [309]  Z. Guo, L. Zhang, and D. Zhang, "Rotation Invariant Texture Classification using LBP Variance (LBPV) with Global Matching," Pattern Recognition, vol. 43, no. 3, pp. 706-719, Mar. 2010. (paper, matlab code)

Biometrics (Finger-knuckle-print, Palmprint, Fingerprint, Palmvein, etc)

  [310]  G. Gao, L. Zhang, J. Yang, L. Zhang, and D. Zhang, "Reconstruction based Finger-Knuckle-Print Verification with Score Level Adaptive Binary Fusion," IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 22, issue 12, pp. 5050-5062, Dec., 2013. (paper)

  [311]  Lin Zhang, Lei Zhang, D. Zhang, and Z. Guo, "Phase Congruency Induced Local Features for Finger-Knuckle-Print Recognition," Pattern Recognition, Volume 45, Issue 7, Pages 2522-2531, July 2012. (paper) (website)

  [312]  Lin Zhang, Lei Zhang, D. Zhang, and H. Zhu, "Ensemble of Local and Global Information for Finger-Knuckle-Print Recognition," Pattern Recognition, vol. 44, no. 9, pp. 1990-1998, Sep. 2011. (paper) (website)

  [313]  Lin Zhang, Lei Zhang, D. Zhang, and H. Zhu, "Online Finger-Knuckle-Print Verification for Personal Authentication," Pattern Recognition, vol. 43, no. 7, pp. 2560-2571, July 2010. (paper) (website)

  [314]  Z. Guo, D. Zhang, L. Zhang, and W. Liu, "Feature Band Selection for Online Multispectral Palmprint Recognition," IEEE Trans. on Information Forensics and Security., vol. 7, issue 3, pp. 1094-1099, Mar. 2012.

  [315]  J. Xie, L. Zhang, J. You, D. Zhang, and X. Qu, "A Study of Hand Back Skin Texture Patterns for Personal Identification and Gender Classification," Sensors, Volume 12, Issue 7, Pages 8691-8709, June 2012. (paper)

  [316]  W. Li, B. Zhang, L. Zhang, and J. Yan, "Principal Line-Based Alignment Refinement for Palmprint Recognition," IEEE Transactions on System, Man and Cybernetics, Part C, Volume 42, Issue 6, Pages 1491-1499, Nov. 2012.

  [317]  W. Li, D. Zhang, L. Zhang, G. Lu, and J. Yan, "3-D Palmprint Recognition with Joint Line and Orientation Features," IEEE Trans. on System, Man and Cybernetics, Part C, vol. 41, No. 2, pp.274-279, April, 2011. (paper) (database)

  [318]  D. Zhang, G. Lu, W. Li, L. Zhang, and N. Luo, "Palmprint Recognition using 3-D Information," IEEE Trans. System, Man and Cybernetics, Part C, vol. 39, no. 5, pp. 505-519, Sept. 2009. (paper) (database)

  [319]  L. Zhang and D. Zhang, "Characterization of palmprints by wavelet signatures via directional context modeling," IEEE Trans. on System, Man and Cybernetic, Part B. vol. 34, pp. 1335-1347, June, 2004. (paper)

  [320]  Z. Guo, D. Zhang, L. Zhang, and W. Zuo, "Palmprint Verification using Binary Orientation Co-occurrence Vector," Pattern Recognition Letters, vol. 30, no. 13, pp. 1219-1227, October, 2009. (paper)

  [321]  Z. Guo, W. Zuo, L. Zhang, and D. Zhang, "A Unified Distance Measurement for Orientation Coding in Palmprint Verification," Neurocomputing, Volume 73, pp. 944-950, Issues 4-6, January 2010. (paper)

  [322]  D. Zhang, Z. Guo, G. Lu, L. Zhang, and W. Zuo, "An Online System of Multispectral Palmprint Verification," IEEE Trans. on Instrument and Measurement, vol. 59, no. 2, pp. 480-490, Feb. 2010. (paper) (database)

  [323]  D. Zhang, Z. Guo, G. Lu, L. Zhang, Y. Liu, and W. Zuo, "Online Joint Palmprint and Palmvein Verification," Expert System with Applications, vol. 38, issue 3, pp. 2621-2631, March 2011. (paper)

  [324]  Q. Zhao, D. Zhang, L. Zhang, and N. Luo, "Adaptive Fingerprint Pore Modeling and Extraction," Pattern Recognition, Volume 43, Issue 8, Pages 2833-2844, August 2010. (paper) (database)

  [325]  Q. Zhao, D. Zhang, L. Zhang, and N. Luo, "High resolution partial fingerprint alignment using pore-valley descriptors", Pattern Recognition, vol. 43, no. 3, pp. 1050-1061, Mar. 2010. (paper) (database)

Image Retrieval and Hashing

  [326]  S. Jin, H. Yao, X. Sun, S. Zhou, L. Zhang, X. Hua, "Deep Saliency Hashing for Fine-grained Retrieval," IEEE Trans. on Image Processing., vol. 29, issue 3, pp. 5336-5351, Mar. 2020. DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2020.2971105

  [327]  R. Zhang, L. Lin, R. Zhang, W. Zuo, L. Zhang, "Bit-Scalable Deep Hashing with Regularized Similarity Learning for Image Retrieval and Person Re-identification," IEEE Trans. on Image Processing, vol. 24, issue 12, pp. 4766-4779, Dec. 2015. (paper) (code) (Bit scalable and deep hashing!)

  [328]  X. Zhu, L. Zhang, and Z. Huang, "A Sparse Embedding and Least Variance Encoding Approach to Hashing," IEEE Trans. on Image Processing, vol. 23, issue 9, pp. 3737- 3750, Sept. 2014. (paper) (code)

  [329]  G. Liu, L. Zhang,Y. Hou, Z. Li, and J. Yang, "Image Retrieval Based on Multi-Texton Histogram," Pattern Recognition, Volume 43, Issue 7, pp. 2380-2389, July 2010. (paper, code)

  [330]  G. Liu, Z. Li, L. Zhang, and Y. Xu, "Image Retrieval based on Micro-structure Descriptor," Pattern Recognition, vol. 44, issue 9, pp. 2123-2133, September 2011. (paper) (code)

Point and Shape Matching

  [331]  W. Lian, L. Zhang, M-H. Yang, "An Efficient Globally Optimal Algorithm for Asymmetric Point Matching," IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 2016. (paper) (code&website)

  [332]  W. Lian, L. Zhang, and D. Zhang, "Rotation Invariant Nonrigid Point Set Matching in Cluttered Scenes," IEEE Trans. Image Processing, vol. 21, issue 5, pp. 2786-2797, May 2012. (paper, source code)

  [333]  W. Lian, L. Zhang, Y. Liang, and Q. Pan, "A Quadratic Programming based Cluster Correspondence Projection Algorithm for Fast Point Matching," Computer Vision and Image Understanding, Vol. 114, Issue 3, pp. 322-333, March 2010. (paper, matlab code)

Edge Detection

  [334]  B. Paul, L. Zhang, and X. Wu, "Canny edge detection enhancement by scale multiplication," IEEE. Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 27, pp. 1485-1490, Sept. 2005. (paper, matlab code)

  [335]  L. Zhang, B. Paul, and X. Wu, "Edge detection by scale multiplication in wavelet domain," Pattern Recognition Letters, vol. 23, pp. 1771-1784, 2002. (paper)

Medical Image Analysis and Biomedical Engineering

  [336]  Xi Chen, Robert M. Nishikawa, Suk-tak Chan, Beverly A. Lau, L. Zhang, and X. Mou, "Algorithmic scatter correction in dual-energy digital mammography," Medical Physics, vol. 40, 111919 (2013). DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1118/1.4826173

  [337]  Q. Xu, H. Yu. X. Mou, L. Zhang, H. Jiang, and G. Wang, "Low-dose X-ray CT Reconstruction via Dictionary Learning," IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, Volume 31, Issue 9, Pages 1682-1697, Sept. 2012.

  [338]  B. Zhang, F. Karray, Q. Li, and L. Zhang, "Sparse Representation Classifier for Microaneurysm Detection and Retinal Blood Vessel Extraction," Information Sciences, Volume 200, Pages 78-90, Oct. 2012.

  [339]  Y. Zhao, L. Zhang, and Q. Pan, "Spectropolarimetric Imaging for Pathological Analysis of Skin," Applied Optics, vol. 48(10), pp. D236-D246, April 2009. (paper, dataset)

  [340]  X. Mou, X. Chen, L. Sun, H. Yu, Z. Ji, and L. Zhang, "The impact of calibration phantom errors on dual-energy digital mammography," Phys. Med. Biol. 53 6321-6336, 2008. (paper)

  [341]  L. Zhang, Q. Li, J. You, and D. Zhang, "A Modified Matched Filter with Double-Sided Thresholding for Screening Proliferative Diabetic Retinopathy," IEEE Trans. Information Technology in Biomedicine, vol. 13, no. 4, pp. 528-534, July 2009. (paper)

  [342]  Bob Zhang, Lin Zhang, Lei Zhang, and Fakhri Karray, "Retinal Vessel Extraction by Matched Filter with First-Order Derivative of Gaussian," Computers in Biology and Medicine, Volume 40, Issue 4, April 2010, Pages 438-445. (paper, matlab code)

  [343]  D. Guo, D. Zhang, and L. Zhang, "Sparse representation-based classification for breath sample identification," SENSORS AND ACTUATORS B-CHEMICAL, Vol. 158, No. 1, pp.43-53, 2011.

  [344]  D. Guo, D. Zhang, and L. Zhang, "An LDA Based Sensor Selection Approach Used in Breath Analysis System," SENSORS AND ACTUATORS B-CHEMICAL, Vol. 157, No. 1, pp.265-274, 2011.

  [345]  D. Guo, D. Zhang, N. Li, L. Zhang, and J. Yang, "A Novel Breath Analysis System Based on Electronic Olfaction" IEEE Trans. on Biomedical Engineering, vol. 57, no. 11, pp. 2753-2763, Nov. 2010. (paper)

  [346]  Y. Chen, L. Zhang, D. Zhang, and D. Zhang, "Wrist Pulse Signal Diagnosis using Modified Gaussian Models and Fuzzy C-Means Classification," Medical Engineering & Physics, Vol. 31, Issue 10, pp. 1283-1289, Dec. 2009. (paper)

  [347]  Y. Chen, L. Zhang, D. Zhang, and D. Zhang, "Computerized Wrist Pulse Signal Diagnosis Using Modified Auto-Regressive Models," Journal of Medical Systems, Sept. 2009, DOI 10.1007/s10916-009-9368-4. (paper)

  [348]  B. Paul and L. Zhang "Noise Reduction for Magnetic Resonance Images via Adaptive Multiscale Products Thresholding," IEEE Trans. on Medical Imaging, vol.22, pp. 1089-1099, Sep. 2003. (paper, matlab code)

Bioinformatics

  [349]  C. Zheng, L. Zhang, T. Ng, C. Shiu, and D. Huang, "Molecular Pattern Discovery Based on Penalized Matrix Decomposition," IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, vol. 8, no. 6, pp. 1592-1603, November/December 2011. (paper, code)

  [350]  C. Zheng, L. Zhang, T. Ng, and C. Shiu, "Metasample Based Sparse Representation for Tumor Classification," IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, vol. 8, issue 5, pp. 1273 - 1282, Sept.-Oct. 2011. (paper, code)

  [351]  C. Zheng, V. Ng, L. Zhang, C. Shiu, and H. Wang, "Tumor Classification Based on Non-negative Matrix Factorization using Gene Expression Data," IEEE Transactions on NanoBioscience, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 86-93, June 2011.

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Signal Processing (Adaptive Filtering, Multi-sensor Data Fusion, etc)

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