Publications

Summary: CVPR, ICCV & ECCV (13), TPAMI (2), IEEE Transactions (17).

^ joint first authors; * corresponding author;

2024

• Revitalizing Multivariate Time Series Forecasting: Learnable Decomposition with Inter-Series Dependencies and Intra-Series Variations Modeling
  Guoqi Yu, Jing Zou, Xiaowei Hu, Angelica I. Aviles-Rivero, Jing Qin, and Shujun Wang.
  Arxiv Tech Report, 2024
  [arXiv]

• Semi-Supervised TEE Segmentation via Interacting with SAM Equipped with Noise-Resilient Prompting
  Sen Deng, Yidan Feng, Haoneng Lin, Yiting Fan, Alex Pui-Wai Lee, Xiaowei Hu, and Jing Qin.
  AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), pp. 11757-11765, 2024.
  

• Dynamic Message Propagation Network for RGB-D and Video Salient Object Detection
  Baian Chen, Zhilei Chen, Xiaowei Hu, Jun Xu, Haoran Xie, Jing Qin, and Mingqiang Wei.
  ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing Communications and Applications (ACM TOMM), vol. 21, no. 1, pp. 1-21, 2024
  [paper] [arXiv]

2023

• TrafficMOT: A Challenging Dataset for Multi-Object Tracking in Complex Traffic Scenarios
  Lihao Liu, Yanqi Cheng, Zhongying Deng, Shujun Wang, Dongdong Chen, Xiaowei Hu, Pietro Liò, Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb, and Angelica I. Aviles-Rivero.
  Arxiv Tech Report, 2023.
  [arXiv]

• Instance Shadow Detection with A Single-Stage Detector
  Tianyu Wang, Xiaowei Hu*, Pheng-Ann Heng, and Chi-Wing Fu.
  IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (IEEE TPAMI), vol. 45, no. 3, pp. 3259-3273, 2023.
  [paper] [arXiv] [code] [SOBA dataset]

• IDRNet: Intervention-Driven Relation Network for Semantic Segmentation
  Zhenchao Jin, Xiaowei Hu, Lingting Zhu, Luchuan Song, Li Yuan, Lequan Yu.
  Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2023.
  [paper] [arXiv] [code]

• SILT: Shadow-Aware Iterative Label Tuning for Learning to Detect Shadows from Noisy Labels
  Han Yang^, Tianyu Wang^, Xiaowei Hu*, and Chi-Wing Fu.
  IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), pp. 12687-12698, 2023.
  [paper] [arXiv] [code]

• Learning Weather-General and Weather-Specific Features for Image Restoration Under Multiple Adverse Weather Conditions
  Yurui Zhu^, Tianyu Wang^, Xueyang Fu*, Xuanyu Yang, Xin Guo, Jifeng Dai, Yu Qiao, and Xiaowei Hu*.
  IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), pp. 21747-21758, 2023.
  [paper] [code]

• Video Dehazing via a Multi-Range Temporal Alignment Network with Physical Prior
  Jiaqi Xu, Xiaowei Hu*, Lei Zhu*, Qi Dou, Jifeng Dai, Yu Qiao, and Pheng-Ann Heng.
  IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), pp. 18053-18062, 2023.
  [paper] [arXiv] [code] [HazeWorld dataset] [report (zhihu)]

• Matching Is Not Enough: A Two-Stage Framework for Category-Agnostic Pose Estimation
  Min Shi, Zihao Huang, Xianzheng Ma, Xiaowei Hu, and Zhiguo Cao.
  IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), pp. 7308-7317, 2023. (Highlight)
  [paper] [code]

• InternImage: Exploring Large-Scale Vision Foundation Models with Deformable Convolutions
  Wenhai Wang, Jifeng Dai, Zhe Chen, Zhenhang Huang, Zhiqi Li, Xizhou Zhu, Xiaowei Hu, Tong Lu, Lewei Lu, Hongsheng Li, Xiaogang Wang, and Yu Qiao.
  IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), pp. 14408-14419, 2023. (Highlight)
  [paper] [arXiv] [code] [video]

• 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.
  IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (IEEE TCSVT), vol. 33, no. 3, pp. 1157-1167, 2023.
  [paper] [arXiv]

• 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), vol. 33, no. 2, pp. 689-700, 2023.
  [paper]

• Spectrum and Style Transformation Framework for Omni-Domain COVID-19 Diagnosis
  Zhenkun Wang, Shuangchun Gui, Xinpeng Ding, Xiaowei Hu*, Xiaowei Xu*, and Xiaomeng Li.
  IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence (IEEE TETCI), vol. 7, no. 5, pp. 1527-1538, 2023.
  [paper]

2022

• Video Instance Shadow Detection
  Zhenghao Xing^, Tianyu Wang^, Xiaowei Hu*, Haoran Wu, Chi-Wing Fu, and Pheng-Ann Heng.
  Arxiv Tech Report, 2022.
  [arXiv]

• Demystify Transformers & Convolutions in Modern Image Deep Networks
  Xiaowei Hu^, Min Shi^, Weiyun Wang^, Sitong Wu^, Linjie Xing, Wenhai Wang, Xizhou Zhu, Lewei Lu, Jie Zhou, Xiaogang Wang, Yu Qiao, and Jifeng Dai*.
  Arxiv Tech Report, 2022.
  [arXiv] [code]

• Sparse2Dense: Learning to Densify 3D Features for 3D Object Detection
  Tianyu Wang, Xiaowei Hu*, Zhengze Liu, and Chi-Wing Fu.
  Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2022.
  [paper] [arXiv] [code]

• Learning Shadow Correspondence for Video Shadow Detection
  Xinpeng Ding, Jingwen Yang, Xiaowei Hu, and Xiaomeng Li.
  European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), pp. 705-722, 2022.
  [paper] [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, pp. 130-146, 2022.
  [paper] [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]

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.
  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]

• 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] [arXiv]

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.
  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.
  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.
  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. (ESI Highly Cited Paper)
  [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.
  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]

PhD Thesis

• Shadow Detection and Removal with Deep Learning
  The Chinese University of Hong Kong, June, 2020.
  [thesis]

Patents

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