I’m currently an associate professor at John Hopcroft Center (JHC) for Computer Science of Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU). My research interest mainly lies on Computer Vision and Multimedia. I received my Ph.D. degree in Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at McMaster University, supervised by Prof. Jun Chen. During the Ph.D., I visited Computer Vision Lab at Michigan State University adviced by Prof. Xiaoming Liu.

I was selected as the Microsoft Research Asia StarTrack Scholar in 2024. I received the Shanghai Pujiang Talent Program in 2022, the Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-financed Students Abroad in 2021, a Canada Graduate Scholarship from Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) in 2021, and a Borealis AI Fellowship in 2020. My research has been supported by the Young Scientists Fund of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, and many big tech companies.

My research interests mainly lie in the fields of computer vision and multimedia, and particularly in:

Image/Video Restoration and Enhancement
Image/Video Generation and Editing
Image/Video Quality Assessment
AI for Healthcare

Lab Website: SJTU Multimedia Lab

🎯 Prospective Students

I am always looking for enthusiastic and self-motivated students to work together on computer vision and mutimedia related topics. Please email me with your CV and transcripts if you are interested.

One opening for a master's admission in Sep. 25. Please contact me ASAP if interested.

🔥 News

[2025/2] Eight papers are accepted by CVPR 2025 (Two orals! 3.3% of the accepted papers, and two spotlights! 13.5% of the accepted papers)
[2025/1] One paper is accepted by ICLR 2025
[2024/12] One paper is accepted by AAAI 2025
[2024/9] Four papers are accepted by NeurIPS 2024
[2024/7] Five papers are accepted by ACM MM 2024 (Three orals! One oral paper was selected as Best Paper Nominees!)
[2024/7] Three papers are accepted by ECCV 2024 (One oral)
[2024/4] One paper is accepted by IJCAI 2024
[2024/2] Two papers are accepted by CVPR 2024
[2023/7] Three papers are accepted by ACM MM 2023 (Two orals!)
[2023/7] One paper is accepted by ICCV 2023
[2023/3] One paper is accepted by CVPR 2023
[2022/9] One paper is accepted by NeurIPS 2022
[2022/3] One paper is accepted by CVPR 2022

📝 Selected Publications

^* Equal contribution, ^† Corresponding author

More on Publications page

[CVPR Oral] Q-Eval-100K: Evaluating Visual Quality and Alignment Level for Text-to-Vision Content

Zicheng Zhang^*, Tengchuan Kou^*, Shushi Wang, Chunyi Li, Wei Sun, Wei Wang, Xiaoyu Li, Zongyu Wang, Xuezhi Cao, Xiongkuo Min, Xiaohong Liu^†, Guangtao Zhai
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2025.
[Paper] [Code]

[CVPR Oral] Rethinking Vision-Language Model in Face Forensics: Multi-Modal Interpretable Forged Face Detector

Xiao Guo, Xiufeng Song, Yue Zhang, Xiaohong Liu, Xiaoming Liu
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2025.
[Paper] [Code]

[CVPR Spotlight] Samba: A Unified Mamba-based Framework for General Salient Object Detection

Jiahao He, Keren Fu^†, Xiaohong Liu, Qijun Zhao
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2025.
[Paper] [Code]

[CVPR Spotlight] Image Quality Assessment: From Human to Machine Preference

Chunyi Li^*, Yuan Tia^*, Xiaoyue Ling^*, Zicheng Zhang, Haodong Duan, Haoning Wu, Ziheng Jia, Xiaohong Liu, Xiongkuo Min, Guo Lu^†, Weisi Lin, Guangtao Zhai^†
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2025.
[Paper] [Code]

[CVPR] Learning Hazing to Dehazing: Towards Realistic Haze Generation for Real-World Image Dehazing

Ruiyi Wang, Yushuo Zheng, Zicheng Zhang, Chunyi Li, Shuaicheng Liu, Guangtao Zhai, Xiaohong Liu^†
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2025.
[Paper] [Code]

[ECCV] GLARE: Low Light Image Enhancement via Generative Latent Feature based Codebook Retrieval

Han Zhou^*, Wei Dong^*, Xiaohong Liu^†, Shuaicheng Liu, Xiongkuo Min, Guangtao Zhai, Jun Chen^†
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2024.
[Paper] [Code]

[ECCV] LightenDiffusion: Unsupervised Low-Light Image Enhancement with Latent-Retinex Diffusion Models

Hai Jiang, Ao Luo, Xiaohong Liu, Songchen Han, Shuaicheng Liu^†
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2024.
[Paper] [Code]

[ECCV Oral] Towards Open-ended Visual Quality Comparison

Haoning Wu^*, Hanwei Zhu^*, Zicheng Zhang^*, Erli Zhang, Chaofeng Chen, Liang Liao, Chunyi Li, Annan Wang, Wenxiu Sun, Qiong Yan, Xiaohong Liu, Guangtao Zhai, Shiqi Wang, Weisi Lin
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2024.
[Paper] [Model] [Code]

[CVPR] Perception-Oriented Video Frame Interpolation via Asymmetric Blending

Guangyang Wu, Xin Tao, Changlin Li, Wenyi Wang, Xiaohong Liu^†, Qingqing Zheng^†
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024.
[Paper] [Project Page] [Code]

[CVPR] Text2QR: Harmonizing Aesthetic Customization and Scanning Robustness for Text-Guided QR Code Generation

Guangyang Wu, Xiaohong Liu^†, Jun Jia, Xuehao Cui, Guangtao Zhai
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024.
[Paper] [Project Page] [Code]

[ICCV] AccFlow: Backward Accumulation for Long-Range Optical Flow

Guangyang Wu, Xiaohong Liu^†, Kunming Luo^*, Xi Liu^*, Qingqing Zheng, Shuaicheng Liu, Xinyang Jiang, Guangtao Zhai, Wenyi Wang^†
IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2023.
[Paper] [Code]

[CVPR] Hierarchical Fine-Grained Image Forgery Detection and Localization

Xiao Guo, Xiaohong Liu, Zhiyuan Ren, Steven Grosz, Iacopo Masi, Xiaoming Liu
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2023.
[Paper] [Code]

[CVPR] Video Frame Interpolation Transformer

Zhihao Shi^*, Xiangyu Xu^*, Xiaohong Liu, Jun Chen, and Ming-Hsuan Yang
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2022.
[Paper] [Code]

[ICCV] GridDehazeNet: Attention based Multi-Scale Network for Image Dehazing

Xiaohong Liu^*, Yongrui Ma^*, Zhihao Shi, and Jun Chen
IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2019.
[Paper] [Code]

Services

Professional Service:

NTIRE 2025 XGC Quality Assessment Challenge Organizer
ICME 2025 Area Chair
ICIP 2024 Session Chair
ICICSP 2024 Special Session Chair
NTIRE 2024 Quality Assessment of AI-Generated Content Challenge Organizer
Serve as an Associate Editor of the ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (TOMM) from Jan. 2024
NTIRE 2023 Quality Assessment of Video Enhancement Challenge Organizer
IC 2023 AI for Medicine Area Organization Committee
CGI 2023 Workshops/Special Session Chair
VRIH Special issue: 3D Medical Image Processing and Analysis Organizer

Reviewer:

Journal: IEEE TPAMI, IEEE TIP, IEEE TIFS, IEEE TMM, IEEE TCSVT, IEEE TITS, IEEE TBC, Pattern Recognition
Conference: CVPR, ECCV, ICCV, NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, AAAI, IJCAI

Xiaohong Liu

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