Education
2018.09 - 2023.02, Ph.D. in Electronic Engineering, City University of Hong Kong
(supervised by Prof. Lai-Man Po, GPA: 3.82/4.3)
2014.09 - 2018.06, B.Eng. in Electronic and Information Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology
(Exemplary Engineer Class, Qiming College, supervised by Prof. Xiaojun Hei, GPA: 3.8/4.0)
Working Experiences
2023.04 - now, Research Engineer, Huawei Hong Kong Research Center, Hong Kong
Intern Experiences
2023.01 - 2023.03, Research Intern, Lightspeed and Quantum Studios, Tencent IEG, Shenzhen
2019.11 - 2022.05, Research Intern, AI Imaging Group, SenseTime, Shenzhen
Publication
Yuzhi Zhao, Lai-Man Po, Kangcheng Liu, Xuehui Wang, Wing-Yin Yu. SVCNet: Real-time Scribble-based Video Colorization with Pyramid Networks. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 2023
Yuzhi Zhao, Lai-Man Po, Tingyu Lin, Qiong Yan, Wei Liu, Pengfei Xian. HSGAN: Hyperspectral Reconstruction from RGB Images with Generative Adversarial Network. IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, 2023
Yuzhi Zhao, Lai-Man Po, Xuehui Wang, Qiong Yan, Wei Shen, et al. ChildPredictor: A Child Face Prediction Framework with Disentangled Learning. IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 2022
Yuzhi Zhao, Lai-Man Po, Wing-Yin Yu, YAU Rehman, Mengyang Liu, Yujia Zhang, Weifeng Ou. VCGAN: Video Colorization with Hybrid Generative Adversarial Network. IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 2022
Yuzhi Zhao, Lai-Man Po, Kwok-Wai Cheung, Wing-Yin Yu, YAU Rehman. SCGAN: Saliency Map-guided Colorization with Generative Adversarial Network. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, 2020
Yuzhi Zhao, Lai-Man Po, Xin Ye, Qiong Yan, Yongzhe Xu. Joint Image Deblurring and Denoising with Dual-exposure Quad-Bayer Sensors. Under Major Revision of IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
Yuzhi Zhao, Yongzhe Xu, Qiong Yan, Dingdong Yang, Xuehui Wang, and Lai-Man Po. D2HNet: Joint Denoising and Deblurring with Hierarchical Network for Robust Night Image Restoration. ECCV, 2022
Yuzhi Zhao, Lai-Man Po, Tingyu Lin, Xuehui Wang, Kangcheng Liu, et al. Legacy Photo Editing with Learned Noise Prior. WACV (oral), 2021
Yuzhi Zhao, Lai-Man Po, Qiong Yan, Wei Liu, Tingyu Lin. Hierarchical Regression Network for Spectral Reconstruction from RGB images. CVPR Workshops, 2020
Yuzhi Zhao, Lai-Man Po, Tiantian Zhang, Zongbang Liao, Xiang Shi, et al. Saliency Map-aided Generative Adversarial Network for RAW to RGB Mapping. ICCV Workshops, 2019
Wing-Yin Yu, Lai-Man Po, Ray C.C. Cheung, Yuzhi Zhao, Yu Xue, Kun Li. Bidirectionally Deformable Motion Modulation For Video-based Human Pose Transfer. ICCV, 2023
Kangcheng Liu, Yuzhi Zhao, Qiang Nie, Zhi Gao, and Ben M. Chen. Weakly Supervised 3D Scene Segmentation with Region-Level Boundary Awareness and Instance Discrimination. ECCV, 2022
Kangcheng Liu, Yuzhi Zhao, Zhi Gao, and Ben M. Chen. WeakLabel3D-Net: A Complete Framework for Real-Scene LiDAR Point Clouds Weakly Supervised Multi-Tasks Understanding. ICRA, 2022
Yujia Zhang, Lai-Man Po, Xuyuan Xu, Mengyang Liu, Yexin Wang, Weifeng Ou, Yuzhi Zhao, Wing-Yin Yu. Contrastive Spatio-Temporal Pretext Learning for Self-supervised Video Representation. AAAI, 2022
Wing-Yin Yu, Lai-Man Po, Jingjing Xiong, Yuzhi Zhao, Pengfei Xian. ShaTure: Shape and Texture Deformation for Human Pose and Attribute Transfer. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 2022
Pengfei Xian, Lai-Man Po, Jingjing Xiong, Chang Zhou, Yuzhi Zhao, Wing-Yin Yu, Weifeng Ou, Yujia Zhang, Xiaori Zhang. Pixel Voting Decoder: A novel decoder that regresses pixel relationships for segmentation. Expert Systems with Applications, 2022
Jingjing Xiong, Lai-Man Po, Wing-Yin Yu, Yuzhi Zhao, Kwok-Wai Cheung. Distortion Map-Guided Feature Rectification for Efficient Video Semantic Segmentation. IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 2021
Wing-Yin Yu, Lai-Man Po, Yuzhi Zhao, Jingjing Xiong, Kin-Wai Lau. Spatial Content Alignment For Pose Transfer. ICME (oral), 2021
Xuehui Wang, Qingyun Zhao, Lei Fan, Yuzhi Zhao, Tiantian Wang, Qiong Yan, Long Chen. Semasuperpixel: A Multi Channel Probability Driven Superpixel Segmentation Method. ICIP, 2021
Wing-Yin Yu, Lai-Man Po, Yuzhi Zhao, Yujia Zhang, Kin-Wai Lau. FEANet: Foreground-edge-aware Network with DenseASPOC for Human Parsing. Image and Vision Computing, 2021
Xuehui Wang, Qing Wang, Yuzhi Zhao, Junchi Yan, Lei Fan, Long Chen. Lightweight Single-image Super-resolution Network with Attentive Auxiliary Feature Learning. ACCV, 2020
Wei Liu, Qiong Yan, Yuzhi Zhao. Densely Self-guided Wavelet Network for Image Denoising. CVPR Workshops, 2020
Yujia Zhang, Lai Man Po, Mengyang Liu, Yasar Abbas Ur Rehman, Weifeng Ou, Yuzhi Zhao. Data-level Information Enhancement: Motion-patch-based Siamese Convolutional Neural Networks for Human Activity Recognition in Videos. Expert Systems with Applications, 2020
Yasar Abbas Ur Rehman, Lai-Man Po, Mengyang Liu, Zijie Zou, Weifeng Ou, Yuzhi Zhao. Face Liveness Detection using Convolutional-features Fusion of Real and Deep Network Generated Face Images. Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, 2019
Patents
Yuzhi Zhao, Qiong Yan. A mobile phone night denoising algorithm based on multi-scale convolutional neural network. CN Patent
Yongzhe Xu, Yuzhi Zhao, Qiong Yan, Dingdong Yang. An image deblurring technology based on fusion of long- and short-exposure images. CN Patent
Honor and Awards
1st Place in NTIRE 2020 Challenge on Hyperspectral Reconstruction from RGB Images, CVPR NTIRE Workshop, 2020
4th Place in AIM 2019 Challenge on RAW to RGB Mapping, ICCV AIM Workshop, 2019
Meritorious Winner, Interdisciplinary Contest in Modelling, 2018
Excellent Graduate, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 2018
Outstanding Student Leader Scholarship, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 2015
Academic Progress Scholarship, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 2015
Extracurricular Activity
President, Bicycle Association, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 2015.05 - 2016.05
Top-10 Singer, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 2015
Interest
Singing, Cycling, Hiking, etc.