Publications [Google Scholar]

Summary: TPAMI, CVPR, ICCV & ECCV (10), IEEE Transactions (16).

2022

• Instance Shadow Detection with A Single-Stage Detector
  Tianyu Wang, Xiaowei Hu*, Pheng-Ann Heng, and Chi-Wing Fu. (* corresponding author)
  IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (IEEE TPAMI), accepted, 2022.
  [paper] [arXiv] [code] [SOBA dataset]

• Learning Shadow Correspondence for Video Shadow Detection
  Xinpeng Ding, Jingwen Yang, Xiaowei Hu, and Xiaomeng Li.
  European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), accepted, 2022.
  [arXiv] [code]

• Enhanced Coarse-to-Fine Network for Image Restoration
  Yurui Zhu, Xi Wang, Xueyang Fu, and Xiaowei Hu.
  1st Mobile Intelligent Photography & Imaging Workshop @ ECCV 2022, accepted, 2022.
  [certificate] [code]

• Enhancing Pseudo Label Quality for Semi-Supervised Domain-Generalized Medical Image Segmentation
  Huifeng Yao, Xiaowei Hu, and Xiaomeng Li.
  AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), pp. 3099-3107, 2022.
  [paper] [arXiv] [code]

• Representative Feature Alignment for Adaptive Object Detection
  Shan Xu, Huaidong Zhang, Xuemiao Xu, Xiaowei Hu, Yangyang Xu, Liangui Dai, Kup-Sze Choi, and Pheng-Ann Heng.
  IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (IEEE TCSVT), accepted, 2022.
  

2021

• Revisiting Shadow Detection: A New Benchmark Dataset for Complex World
  Xiaowei Hu, Tianyu Wang, Chi-Wing Fu, Yitong Jiang, Qiong Wang, and Pheng-Ann Heng.
  IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (IEEE TIP), vol. 30, pp. 1925-1934, 2021.
  [paper] [arXiv] [CUHK-Shadow dataset] [evaluation function] [code]

• Single-Image Real-Time Rain Removal Based on Depth-Guided Non-Local Features
  Xiaowei Hu, Lei Zhu, Tianyu Wang, Chi-Wing Fu, and Pheng-Ann Heng.
  IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (IEEE TIP), vol. 30, pp. 1759-1770, 2021.
  [paper] [code] [RainCityscapes dataset]

• Single-Stage Instance Shadow Detection with Bidirectional Relation Learning
  Tianyu Wang^, Xiaowei Hu^, Chi-Wing Fu, and Pheng-Ann Heng. (^ joint first authors)
  IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), pp. 1-11, 2021. (Oral)
  [paper] [supp.] [video] [code] [poster]

• SAC-Net: Spatial Attenuation Context for Salient Object Detection
  Xiaowei Hu, Chi-Wing Fu, Lei Zhu, Tianyu Wang, and Pheng-Ann Heng.
  IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (IEEE TCSVT), vol. 31, no. 3, pp. 1079-1090, 2021.
  [paper] [arXiv] [supp.] [code] [results]

• Deep Texture-Aware Features for Camouflaged Object Detection
  Jingjing Ren^, Xiaowei Hu^, Lei Zhu, Xuemiao Xu, Yangyang Xu, Weiming Wang, Zijun Deng, and Pheng-Ann Heng. (^ joint first authors)
  IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (IEEE TCSVT), accepted, 2021.
  [paper]

• Rotation-oriented Collaborative Self-supervised Learning for Retinal Disease Diagnosis
  Xiaomeng Li, Xiaowei Hu, Xiaojuan Qi, Lequan Yu, Wei Zhao, Pheng-Ann Heng, and Lei Xing.
  IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging (IEEE TMI), vol. 40, no. 9, pp. 2284-2294, 2021. (TMI Popular Paper)
  [paper] [code]

• SALMNet: A Structure-Aware Lane Marking Detection Network
  Xuemiao Xu, Tianfei Yu, Xiaowei Hu, Wing W. Y. Ng, and Pheng-Ann Heng.
  IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (IEEE TITS), vol. 22, no. 8, pp. 4986-4997, 2021.
  [paper]

• Learning Gated Non-Local Residual for Single-Image Rain Streak Removal
  Lei Zhu, Zijun Deng, Xiaowei Hu, Haoran Xie, Xuemiao Xu, Jing Qin, and Pheng-Ann Heng.
  IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (IEEE TCSVT), vol. 31, no. 6, pp. 2147-2159, 2021.
  [paper]

• Learning Semantic Context from Normal Samples for Unsupervised Anomaly Detection
  Xudong Yan, Huaidong Zhang, Xuemiao Xu, Xiaowei Hu, and Pheng-Ann Heng.
  AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), vol. 35, no. 4, pp. 3110-3118, 2021.
  [paper] [code]

• Global Guidance Network for Breast Lesion Segmentation in Ultrasound Images
  Cheng Xue, Lei Zhu, Huazhu Fu, Xiaowei Hu, Xiaomeng Li, Hai Zhang, and Pheng-Ann Heng.
  Medical Image Analysis (MedIA), vol. 70, article no. 101989, 2021.
  [paper]

2020

• Direction-Aware Spatial Context Features for Shadow Detection and Removal
  Xiaowei Hu, Chi-Wing Fu, Lei Zhu, Jing Qin, and Pheng-Ann Heng.
  IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (IEEE TPAMI), vol. 42, no. 11, pp. 2795-2808, 2020.
  [paper] [arXiv] [supp.] [code]

• Instance Shadow Detection
  Tianyu Wang^, Xiaowei Hu^, Qiong Wang, Pheng-Ann Heng, and Chi-Wing Fu. (^ joint first authors)
  IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), pp. 1880-1889, 2020.
  [paper] [arXiv] [code] [SOBA dataset] [results] [video]

• Saliency-Aware Texture Smoothing
  Lei Zhu^, Xiaowei Hu^, Chi-Wing Fu, Jing Qin, and Pheng-Ann Heng. (^ joint first authors)
  IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (IEEE TVCG), vol. 26, no. 7, pp. 2471-2484, 2020.
  [paper] [code] [SDTS dataset]

• Ψ-Net: Stacking Densely Convolutional LSTMs for Sub-cortical Brain Structure Segmentation
  Lihao Liu^, Xiaowei Hu^, Lei Zhu, Chi-Wing Fu, Jing Qin, and Pheng-Ann Heng. (^ joint first authors)
  IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging (IEEE TMI), vol. 39, no. 9, pp. 2806-2817, 2020.
  [paper] [code]

• CANet: Cross-disease Attention Network for Joint Diabetic Retinopathy and Diabetic Macular Edema Grading
  Xiaomeng Li, Xiaowei Hu, Lequan Yu, Lei Zhu, Chi-Wing Fu, and Pheng-Ann Heng.
  IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging (IEEE TMI), vol. 39, no. 5, pp. 1483-1493, 2020.
  [paper] [code]

• GrabAR: Occlusion-aware Grabbing Virtual Objects in AR
  Xiao Tang, Xiaowei Hu, Chi-Wing Fu, and Daniel Cohen-Or.
  ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST), pp. 697-708, 2020.
  [paper] [arXiv] [project]

• Aggregating Attentional Dilated Features for Salient Object Detection
  Lei Zhu, Jiaxing Chen, Xiaowei Hu, Chi-Wing Fu, Xuemiao Xu, Jing Qin, and Pheng-Ann Heng.
  IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (IEEE TCSVT), vol. 30, no. 10, pp. 3358-3371, 2020.
  [paper] [code] [results]

2019

• Mask-ShadowGAN: Learning to Remove Shadows from Unpaired Data
  Xiaowei Hu, Yitong Jiang, Chi-Wing Fu, and Pheng-Ann Heng.
  IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), pp. 2472-2481, 2019.
  [paper] [arXiv] [code] [USR dataset] [poster]

• Deep Multi-Model Fusion for Single-Image Dehazing
  Zijun Deng, Lei Zhu, Xiaowei Hu, Chi-Wing Fu, Xuemiao Xu, Qing Zhang, Jing Qin, and Pheng-Ann Heng.
  IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), pp. 2453-2462, 2019.
  [paper] [code] [results]

• Depth-Attentional Features for Single-Image Rain Removal
  Xiaowei Hu, Chi-Wing Fu, Lei Zhu, and Pheng-Ann Heng.
  IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), pp. 8022-8031, 2019.
  [paper] [supp.] [code] [RainCityscapes dataset] [poster]

• SINet: A Scale-Insensitive Convolutional Neural Network for Fast Vehicle Detection
  Xiaowei Hu, Xuemiao Xu, Yongjie Xiao, Hao Chen, Shengfeng He, Jing Qin, and Pheng-Ann Heng.
  IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (IEEE TITS), vol. 20, no. 3, pp. 1010-1019, 2019.
  ESI Highly Cited Paper
  [paper] [arXiv] [code] [LSVH dataset (Google)] [LSVH dataset (Baidu)]

• Probabilistic Multilayer Regularization Network for Unsupervised 3D Brain Image Registration
  Lihao Liu, Xiaowei Hu, Lei Zhu, and Pheng-Ann Heng.
  International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), pp. 346-354, 2019.
  [paper] [arXiv] [code]

• Deep Attentive Features for Prostate Segmentation in 3D Transrectal Ultrasound
  Yi Wang, Haoran Dou, Xiaowei Hu, Lei Zhu, Xin Yang, Ming Xu, Jing Qin, Pheng-Ann Heng, Tianfu Wang, and Dong Ni.
  IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging (IEEE TMI), vol. 38, no. 12, pp. 2768-2778, 2019.
  [paper] [arXiv] [code]

• Enhancing Augmented VR Interaction via Egocentric Scene Analysis
  Yang Tian, Chi-Wing Fu, Shengdong Zhao, Ruihui Li, Xiao Tang, Xiaowei Hu, and Pheng-Ann Heng.
  Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (Ubicomp),
  vol. 3, no. 3, article no. 105, 2019.
  [paper]

• CATARACTS: Challenge on Automatic Tool Annotation for cataRACT Surgery
  Hassan Al Hajj, Mathieu Lamard, Pierre-Henri Conze, Soumali Roychowdhury, Xiaowei Hu, et al.
  Medical Image Analysis (MedIA), vol. 52, pp. 24-41, 2019.
  [paper]

2018 & before

• Direction-Aware Spatial Context Features for Shadow Detection
  Xiaowei Hu, Lei Zhu, Chi-Wing Fu, Jing Qin, and Pheng-Ann Heng.
  IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), pp. 7454-7462, 2018. (Oral)
  [paper] [arXiv] [supp.] [code] [results] [poster] [slides] [video]

• Recurrently Aggregating Deep Features for Salient Object Detection
  Xiaowei Hu, Lei Zhu, Jing Qin, Chi-Wing Fu, and Pheng-Ann Heng.
  AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), pp. 6943-6950, 2018. (Spotlight)
  [paper] [supp.] [code] [results] [poster]

• R³Net: Recurrent Residual Refinement Network for Saliency Detection
  Zijun Deng^, Xiaowei Hu^, Lei Zhu, Xuemiao Xu, Jing Qin, Guoqiang Han, and Pheng-Ann Heng. (^ joint first authors)
  International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), pp. 684-690, 2018. (Oral)
  [paper] [code] [results] [poster] [slides]

• Bidirectional Feature Pyramid Network with Recurrent Attention Residual Modules for Shadow Detection
  Lei Zhu, Zijun Deng, Xiaowei Hu, Chi-Wing Fu, Xuemiao Xu, Jing Qin, and Pheng-Ann Heng.
  European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), pp. 122-137, 2018.
  [paper] [code] [poster]

• Deep Attentional Features for Prostate Segmentation in Ultrasound
  Yi Wang, Zijun Deng, Xiaowei Hu, Lei Zhu, Xin Yang, Xuemiao Xu, Pheng-Ann Heng, and Dong Ni.
  International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), pp. 523-530, 2018.
  [paper] [code]

• AGNet: Attention-Guided Network for Surgical Tool Presence Detection
  Xiaowei Hu, Lequan Yu, Hao Chen, Jing Qin, and Pheng-Ann Heng.
  Deep Learning in Medical Image Analysis and Multimodal Learning for Clinical Decision Support, pp. 186-194, 2017.
  [paper] [code]