Tian-Zhu Xiang | Publications

About

Tian-Zhu Xiang is working as a researcher and Technical Manager of Applied AI at Space42. Before that, he was a researcher at Inception Institute of Artificial Intelligence (IIAI). He received his PhD from LIESMARS, Wuhan University in 2019. His research mainly focuses on computer vision, remote sensing and medical image analysis. Specifically, he is interested in camouflaged scene understanding, visual saliency, medical image segmentation and remote sensing image analysis.

Publications (*: Corresponding, ^†Equal contributions)

Preprints

Towards Real Zero-Shot Camouflaged Object Segmentation without Camouflaged Annotations
Cheng Lei, Jie Fan, Xinran Li, Tian-Zhu Xiang, Ao Li, Ce Zhu, Le Zhang
arXiv Preprint, 2025

 
  @article{lei2024towards,
    title={Towards Real Zero-Shot Camouflaged Object Segmentation without Camouflaged Annotations},
    author={Lei, Cheng and Fan, Jie and Li, Xinran and Xiang, Tianzhu and Li, Ao and Zhu, Ce and Zhang, Le},
    journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.16953},
    year={2024}
  }

2024

ZoomNeXt: A Unified Collaborative Pyramid Network for Camouflaged Object Detection
Youwei Pang^†, Xiaoqi Zhao^†, Tian-Zhu Xiang^†, Lihe Zhang, Huchuan Lu
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intel ligence (TPAMI), 2024

 
@ARTICLE{Pang2024ZoomNeXt,
  author={Pang, Youwei and Zhao, Xiaoqi and Xiang, Tian-Zhu and Zhang, Lihe and Lu, Huchuan},
  journal={IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence}, 
  title={ZoomNeXt: A Unified Collaborative Pyramid Network for Camouflaged Object Detection}, 
  year={2024},
  volume={46},
  number={12},
  pages={9205-9220},
  doi={10.1109/TPAMI.2024.3417329}}

Hierarchical Graph Interaction Transformer with Dynamic Token Clustering for Camouflaged Object Detection
Siyuan Yao, Hao Sun, Tian-Zhu Xiang, Xiao Wang, Xiaochun Cao
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP), 2024

 
@ARTICLE{yao2024hierarchical,
  author={Yao, Siyuan and Sun, Hao and Xiang, Tian-Zhu and Wang, Xiao and Cao, Xiaochun},
  journal={IEEE Transactions on Image Processing}, 
  title={Hierarchical Graph Interaction Transformer With Dynamic Token Clustering for Camouflaged Object Detection}, 
  year={2024},
  volume={33},
  number={},
  pages={5936-5948},
  doi={10.1109/TIP.2024.3475219}}

Collaborative Camouflaged Object Detection: A Large-Scale Dataset and Benchmark
Cong Zhang, Hongbo Bi*, Tian-Zhu Xiang*, Ranwan Wu, Jinghui Tong, Xiufang Wang
IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (TNNLS), 2024

 
@ARTICLE{zhang2024cocod,
  author={Zhang, Cong and Bi, Hongbo and Xiang, Tian-Zhu and Wu, Ranwan and Tong, Jinghui and Wang, Xiufang},
  journal={IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems}, 
  title={Collaborative Camouflaged Object Detection: A Large-Scale Dataset and Benchmark}, 
  year={2024},
  volume={35},
  number={12},
  pages={18470-18484},
  doi={10.1109/TNNLS.2023.3317091}}

2023

A Unified Query-based Paradigm for Camouflaged Instance Segmentation
Bo Dong, Jialun Pei, Rongrong Gao, Tian-Zhu Xiang^*, Shuo Wang and Huan Xiong
ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM), 2023
[PDF] [arXiv] [Code] [bibtex]

@inproceedings{dong2023aunified,
author    = {Bo Dong and Jialun Pei and Rongrong Gao and Tian-Zhu Xiang and Shuo Wang and Huan Xiong},
title     = {A Unified Query-based Paradigm for Camouflaged Instance Segmentation},
booktitle = {ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM)},
year      = {2023}}

Diffusion Model for Camouflaged Object Detection
Zhennan Chen, Rongrong Gao, Tian-Zhu Xiang^*, Fan Lin^*
European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI), 2023
[PDF] [arXiv] [Code] [bibtex]

@inproceedings{chen2023diffusion,
title     = {Diffusion Model for Camouflaged Object Detection},
author    = {Zhennan Chen and Rongrong Gao and Tian-Zhu Xiang and Fan Lin},
booktitle = {European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI)},
Pages     = {445 - 452},
doi       = {10.3233/FAIA230302},
year      = {2023}}

Feature Shrinkage Pyramid for Camouflaged Object Detection with Transformers
Zhou Huang^†, Hang Dai^†, Tian-Zhu Xiang^*, Shuo Wang, Huai-Xin Chen, Jie Qin, and Huan Xiong
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2023
[PDF] [arXiv] [Code] [Project] [bibtex]

@inproceedings{Huang2023Feature,
author    = {Huang, Zhou and Dai, Hang and Xiang, Tian-Zhu and Wang, Suo and Chen, Huai-Xin and Qin, Jie and Xiong, Huan},
title     = {Feature Shrinkage Pyramid for Camouflaged Object Detection with Transformers},
booktitle = {IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)},
year      = {2023}}

Scene-level Point Cloud Colorization with Semantic-and-Geometric-aware Networks
Rongrong Gao, Tian-Zhu Xiang, Chenyang Lei, Jaesik Park, Qifeng Chen
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2023
[PDF] [arXiv] [bibtex]

@inproceedings{gao2023scene, 
title={Scene-level Point Cloud Colorization with Semantic-and-Geometric-aware Networks},
author={Rongrong Gao, Tian-Zhu Xiang, Chenyang Lei, Jaesik Park, Qifeng Chen},
booktitle={IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation},
year={2023},}

Memory-aided Contrastive Consensus Learning for Co-salient Object Detection
Peng Zheng, Jie Qin*, Shuo Wang, Tian-Zhu Xiang, Huan Xiong*
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2023
[PDF] [arXiv] [Code] [bibtex]

@inproceedings{zheng2023memory, 
title={Memory-aided Contrastive Consensus Learning for Co-salient Object Detection},
author={Peng Zheng, Jie Qin, Shuo Wang, Tian-Zhu Xiang, Huan Xiong},
booktitle={AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
year={2023},}

2022

TCNet: Co-Salient Object Detection via Parallel Interaction of Transformers and CNNs
Yanliang Ge, Qiao Zhang, Tian-Zhu Xiang*, Cong Zhang, Jing Zhang, Hongbo Bi*
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT), 2022
[PDF] [Code] [bibtex]

@article{ge2022tcnet, 
title={TCNet: Co-Salient Object Detection via Parallel Interaction of Transformers and CNNs},
author={Yanliang Ge and Qiao Zhang and Tian-Zhu Xiang and Cong Zhang and Jing Zhang and Hongbo Bi},
journal={IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology},
pages={1 - 1},
year={2022},
doi={10.1109/TCSVT.2022.3225865},
publisher={IEEE}
}

GSNNet: Group Semantic-Guided Neighbor Interaction Network for Co-Saliency Detection
Yanliang Ge, Qiao Zhang, Tian-Zhu Xiang*, Cong Zhang, Jing Zhang, Hongbo Bi*
Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU), 2022
[PDF] [bibtex]

@article{ge2022gsnnet, 
              title = {GSNNet: Group semantic-guided neighbor interaction network for co-salient object detection},
              journal = {Computer Vision and Image Understanding},
              volume = {227},
              pages = {103611},
              year = {2023},
              issn = {1077-3142},
              doi = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cviu.2022.103611},
              url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1077314222001898},
              author = {Yanliang Ge and Qiao Zhang and Tian-Zhu Xiang and Cong Zhang and Jing Zhang and Hongbo Bi},
              }

Cross-modal Hierarchical Interaction Network for RGB-D Salient Object Detection
Hongbo Bi, Ranwan Wu, Ziqi Liu, Huihui Zhu, Cong Zhang, Tian-Zhu Xiang*
Pattern Recognition, 2022
[PDF] [Code] [bibtex]

                @article{bi2022cross, 
                title={Cross-modal Hierarchical Interaction Network for RGB-D Salient Object Detection},
                author={Bi, Hongbo and Wu, Ranwan and Liu, Ziqi and Zhu, Huihui and Zhang, Cong and Xiang, Tian-Zhu},
                journal={Pattern Recognition},
                pages={109194},
                year={2022},
                publisher={Elsevier}
                }

Leveraging Balanced Semantic Embedding for Generative Zero-Shot Learning
Guo-Sen Xie*, Xu-Yao Zhang, Tian-Zhu Xiang*, Fang Zhao, Zheng Zhang, Ling Shao, Xuelong Li
IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (TNNLS), 2022
[PDF] [bibtex]

                @article{xie2022leveraging, 
                author={Guo-Sen Xie and Xu-Yao Zhang and Tian-Zhu Xiang and Fang Zhao and Zheng Zhang and Ling Shao and Xuelong Li},
                journal={IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems}, 
                title={Leveraging Balanced Semantic Embedding for Generative Zero-Shot Learning}, 
                year={2022},
                volume={},
                number={},
                pages={1-8},
                doi={10.1109/TNNLS.2022.3208525}
                }

PSNet: Parallel Symmetric Network for RGB-T Salient Object Detection
Hongbo Bi, Ranwan Wu, Ziqi Liu, Jiayuan Zhang, Cong Zhang, Tian-Zhu Xiang*, Xiufang Wang*
Neurocomputing, 2022
[PDF] [Code] [bibtex]

                @article{bi2022psnet,
                title={PSNet: Parallel Symmetric Network for RGB-T Salient Object Detection},
                author={Bi, Hongbo and Wu, Ranwan and Liu, Ziqi and Zhang, Jiayuan and Zhang, Cong and Xiang, Tian-Zhu and Wang, Xiufang},
                journal={Neurocomputing},
                volume = {511},
                pages = {410-425},
                year={2022},
                publisher={Elsevier},
                doi = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neucom.2022.09.052},
                }

Scribble-based Boundary-aware Network for Weakly Supervised Salient Object Detection in Remote Sensing Images
Zhou Huang, Tian-Zhu Xiang, Huai-Xin Chen*, Hang Dai
ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 2022
[PDF] [arXiv] [Code] [bibtex]

                @article{huang2022scribble, 
                author={Zhou Huang and Xiang, Tian-Zhu and Huai-Xin Chen and Hang Dai},
                journal={ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing}, 
                title={Scribble-based Boundary-aware Network for Weakly Supervised Salient Object Detection in Remote Sensing Images}, 
                year={2022},
                volume={191},
                pages={290--301},
                doi={https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2022.07.014}
                }

Trichomonas Vaginalis Segmentation in Microscope Images
Lin Li, Jingyi Liu, Shuo Wang, Xunkun Wang*, Tian-Zhu Xiang*
Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Interventions (MICCAI), 2022
[PDF] [arXiv] [Dataset&Results] [bibtex]

                @inproceedings{li2022trich, 
                title={Trichomonas Vaginalis Segmentation in Microscope Images},
                author={Li, Lin and Liu, Jingyi and Wang, Shuo and Wang, Xunkun and Xiang, Tian-Zhu},
                booktitle={International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI)},
                year={2022}
                }

Boundary-Guided Camouflaged Object Detection
Yujia Sun, Shuo Wang, Chenglizhao Chen, Tian-Zhu Xiang*
International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2022
[PDF] [arXiv] [Code] [bibtex]

                @inproceedings{sun2022boundary, 
                title={Boundary-Guided Camouflaged Object Detection},
                author={Yujia Sun, Shuo Wang, Chenglizhao Chen and Tian-Zhu Xiang},
                booktitle={International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI)},
                pages={1335--1341},
                year={2022}
                }

Zoom In and Out: A Mixed-scale Triplet Network for Camouflaged Object Detection
Youwei Pang, Xiaoqi Zhao, Tian-Zhu Xiang, Lihe Zhang* and Huchuan Lu
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2022
[PDF] [arXiv] [Code] [Project] [bibtex]

@inproceedings{pang2022zoom,
title={Zoom In and Out: A Mixed-scale Triplet Network for Camouflaged Object Detection},
author={Youwei Pang, Xiaoqi Zhao, Tian-Zhu Xiang, Lihe Zhang and Huchuan Lu},
booktitle={Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)},
pages={2160--2170},
year={2022}
}

Before 2021

MVDI25K: A Large-scale Dataset of Microscopic Vaginal Discharge Images
Lin Li, Jingyi Liu, Fei Yu, Xunkun Wang*, Tian-Zhu Xiang*
BenchCouncil Transactions on Benchmarks, Standards and Evaluations (Bench'21), 2021
[PDF] [Dataset] [bibtex]

                @article{li2021mvdi25k,
                title={MVDI25K: A large-scale dataset of microscopic vaginal discharge images},
                author={Li, Lin and Liu, Jingyi and Yu, Fei and Wang, Xunkun and Xiang, Tian-Zhu},
                journal={BenchCouncil Transactions on Benchmarks, Standards and Evaluations},
                volume={1},
                number={1},
                pages={100008},
                year={2021},
                publisher={Elsevier}
              }

Mini-Unmanned Aerial Vehicle-Based Remote Sensing: Techniques, Applications, and Prospects
Tian-Zhu Xiang, Gui-Song Xia*, Liangpei Zhang
IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine (GRSM), 2019.
[PDF] [arXiv] [bibtex]

                @article{Xiang2019MUAV, 
                author={Xiang, Tian-Zhu and Xia, Gui-Song and Zhang, Liangpei},
                journal={IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine}, 
                title={Mini-Unmanned Aerial Vehicle-Based Remote Sensing: 
Techniques, applications, and prospects}, 
                year={2019},
                volume={7},
                number={3},
                pages={29-63},
                doi={10.1109/MGRS.2019.2918840}}

Image Stitching by Line-guided Local Warping With Global Similarity Constraint
Tian-Zhu Xiang, Gui-Song Xia*, Xiang Bai, Liangpei Zhang
Pattern Recognition, 2018.
[PDF] [arXiv] [bibtex]

                @article{xiang2018image,
                title={Image stitching by line-guided local warping with global similarity constraint},
                author={Xiang, Tian-Zhu and Xia, Gui-Song and Bai, Xiang and Zhang, Liangpei},
                journal={Pattern recognition},
                volume={83},
                pages={481--497},
                year={2018},
                publisher={Elsevier}
              }

Image Stitching Using Smoothly Planar Homography
Tian-Zhu Xiang, Gui-Song Xia*, Liangpei Zhang
Chinese Conference on Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision, 2018.
[PDF] [bibtex]

                @inproceedings{xiang2018sph,
                title={Image stitching using smoothly planar homography},
                author={Xiang, Tian-Zhu and Xia, Gui-Song and Zhang, Liangpei},
                booktitle={Chinese Conference on Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision (PRCV)},
                pages={524--536},
                year={2018},
                organization={Springer}
              }

Locally Warping-based Image Stitching by Imposing Line Constrains
Tian-Zhu Xiang, Gui-Song Xia*, Liangpei Zhang, Ningning Huang
IEEE International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), 2016.
[PDF] [bibtex]

                @inproceedings{xiang2016locally,
                title={Locally warping-based image stitching by imposing line constraints},
                author={Xiang, Tianzhu and Xia, Gui-Song and Zhang, Liangpei and Huang, Ningning},
                booktitle={2016 23rd International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR)},
                pages={4178--4183},
                year={2016},
                organization={IEEE}
              }

Image Stitching With Perspective-preserving Warping
Tian-Zhu Xiang, Gui-Song Xia, Liangpei Zhang
ISPRS Ann. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci., 2016.
[PDF] [arXiv] [Official Version] [bibtex]

                @inproceedings{xiang2016ppw,
                title={Image stitching with perspective-preserving warping},
                author={Xiang, Tianzhu and Xia, Gui-Song and Zhang, Liangpei},
                booktitle={ISPRS Annals of Photogrammetry Remote Sensing & Spatial Information Science},
                pages={287-294},
                year={2016},
              }

A Fusion Algorithm for Infrared and Visible Images Based on Adaptive Dual-channel Unit-linking PCNN in NSCT Domain
Tian-Zhu Xiang, Li Yan*, Rongrong Gao
Infrared Physics & Technology, 2015.
[PDF] [bibtex]

                @article{xiang2015fusion,
                title={A fusion algorithm for infrared and visible images based on adaptive dual-channel unit-linking PCNN in NSCT domain},
                author={Xiang, Tianzhu and Yan, Li and Gao, Rongrong},
                journal={Infrared Physics \& Technology},
                volume={69},
                pages={53--61},
                year={2015},
                publisher={Elsevier}
              }

Fusion of Visible and Infrared Images Based on Spiking Cortical Model in Nonsubsampled Contourlet Transform domain
Xinyu Liu, Tian-Zhu Xiang
IEEE International Congress on Image and Signal Processing (CISP), 2014.
[PDF] [bibtex]

                @INPROCEEDINGS{Liu2014fusion,
                author={Liu, Xinyu and Xiang, Tianzhu},
                booktitle={2014 7th International Congress on Image and Signal Processing}, 
                title={Fusion of visible and infrared images based on spiking cortical model in nonsubsampled contourlet transform domain}, 
                year={2014},
                pages={747-753},
                doi={10.1109/CISP.2014.7003877}}

基于各向异性尺度Junction的图像拼接
Image Stitching Based on Anisotropic-Scale Junction
向天烛, 薛楠, 夏桂松, 张良培
Tian-Zhu Xiang, Nan Xue, Gui-Song Xia, Liangpei Zhang
信号处理, 2017.
Journal of Signal Processing, 2017.
[PDF] [bibtex]

                @article{xiang2017Junct,
                title={基于各向异性尺度 Junction 的图像拼接},
                author={向天烛 and 薛楠 and 夏桂松 and 张良培},
                journal={信号处理},
                volume={33},
                number={4},
                pages={465--417},
                year={2017}
              }

一种顾及区域特征差异的热红外与可见光图像多尺度融合方法
Region Feature Based Multi-scale Fusion Method for Thermal Infrared and Visible Images
向天烛, 高熔溶, 闫利, 徐振亮
Tian-Zhu Xiang, Rongrong Gao, Li Yan, Zhenliang Xu
武汉大学学报.信息科学版, 2017.
Geomatics and Information Science of Wuhan University, 2017.
[PDF] [bibtex]

                @article{xiang2017region,
                title={一种顾及区域特征差异的热红外与可见光图像多尺度融合方法},
                author={向天烛 and 高熔溶 and 闫利 and 徐振亮},
                journal={武汉大学学报.信息科学版},
                volume={42},
                number={7},
                pages={911--917},
                year={2017},
                publisher={武汉大学学报.信息科学版}
              }

NSCT域内结合边缘特征和自适应PCNN的红外与可见光图像融合
Fusion of Infrared and Visible Images Based on Edge Feature and Adaptive PCNN in NSCT Domain
闫利, 向天烛
Li Yan, Tian-Zhu Xiang
电子学报, 2016.
Acta Electronica Sinica, 2016.
[PDF] [bibtex]

                @article{Yan2016nsct,
                title={NSCT 域内结合边缘特征和自适应 PCNN 的红外与可见光图像融合},
                author={闫利 and 向天烛},
                journal={电子学报},
                volume={44},
                number={4},
                pages={761},
                year={2016}
              }

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Publications (*: Corresponding, †Equal contributions)