Chris Wei ZHOU


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Assistant Professor in Intelligent Visual Computing, PhD, BEng, IEEE Senior Member
Associate Editor of IEEE TNNLS, Pattern Recognition, Neurocomputing
Exceptional Talent Endorsed by Royal Society
Visual Computing Research Group
British Standards Institution

Email: zhouw26 [at] cardiff [dot] ac [dot] uk

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Biography

I have been an Assistant Professor (UK Lecturer) in the School of Computer Science and Informatics at Cardiff University, United Kingdom since 2023. I am a member of Visual Computing Research Group, which is led by Prof. Paul Rosin. I am also a committee member of British Standards Institution and EPSRC Peer Review College. I serve as Chair for the Elections Committee of IEEE UK and Ireland SPS Chapter. I am a Senior Member of IEEE (2024, previously Member 2021, Student Member 2019). I was named in the 2024 edition of the Stanford University list of World Top 2% Scientists.

I was born in Nanjing, Jiangsu, China. Before moving to UK, I studied and worked in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Waterloo, Canada under the supervision of Prof. Zhou Wang (FIEEE, FRSC, FCAE, Canada Research Chair) from 2019 to 2023. During the period, I received my PhD degree in 2021, with outstanding thesis award. I used to be a visiting professor at Dalian University of Technology (2024), a visiting scholar at Japan National Institute of Informatics (2017), a research assistant with Intel (2016-2018), a research intern in Microsoft Research (2018, with excellent award) and Alibaba Cloud (2019, with outstanding award). I had an educational background in Electrical Engineering at University of Science and Technology of China, under the supervision of Prof. Zhibo Chen and Prof. Weiping Li (Life Fellow of IEEE, Dean, Served as the Editor-in-Chief for IEEE TCSVT).

My research interests mainly focus on image/video processing, multimedia computing, applied perception, human-centric AI, computational photography, imaging, vision, displays, and machine learning. I aim to develop efficient and intelligent visual processing algorithms based on human perception, helping improve the quality of experience for human visual systems. I received the ACM SIGMM Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award (China Section, 1st nationwide) in 2022 and the Grand Challenge Winner Award (1st place) in CVPR CLIC 2021.

I am actively looking for self-motivated students (PhD, MPhil, and visiting scholars). Fully-Funded Cardiff University-CSC PhD Studentships are now open. The deadline to apply is 28 November 2024. Please reach out to me if interested.

Recent News

  • [10/2024] Selected as Digileader by Digital Futures and attended the Digitalize-24 event in Stockholm, Sweden.
  • [10/2024] One paper accepted to Neurocomputing.
  • [09/2024] Honored to be recognized as World Top 2% Scientists.
  • [09/2024] One paper accepted to IEEE TMI.
  • [09/2024] One paper accepted to IEEE TMM.
  • [08/2024] One paper accepted to IEEE TCSVT.
  • [08/2024] One paper accepted to IEEE TMM.
  • [07/2024] Served as Chair for the Elections Committee of IEEE UK and Ireland SPS Chapter.
  • [07/2024] One paper accepted to CVIU.
  • [06/2024] Received Taith Research Mobility Funding.
  • [06/2024] One paper accepted to IEEE TVT.
  • [06/2024] One paper accepted to IEEE SPL.
  • [06/2024] Joined EPSRC Peer Review College.
  • [06/2024] Appointed as an Associate Editor of Pattern Recognition. Please submit to it!
  • [06/2024] Two papers accepted to IEEE ICIP (one as Oral presentation).
  • [05/2024] Two papers accepted to IEEE TCSVT.
  • [05/2024] One paper accepted to IEEE TIV.
  • [05/2024] One paper accepted to ACM TOMM. Have a look at our showcase!
  • [04/2024] Appointed as an Associate Editor of Neurocomputing. Please submit to it!
  • [04/2024] One paper accepted to IEEE JETCAS.
  • [04/2024] Invited talks at NJU, NJUST, and BJTU.
  • [03/2024] One paper accepted to IEEE TBC.
  • [03/2024] One paper accepted to IEEE QoMEX as Oral presentation. Congratulations to Armin.
  • [03/2024] One paper selected as ESI Highly Cited Paper.
  • [03/2024] One paper accepted to IEEE ICME. Congratulations to Yixiao.
  • [03/2024] One paper accepted to Neurocomputing. Congratulations to Jun.
  • [03/2024] One paper accepted to IEEE SPL.
  • [02/2024] I will be a Visiting Professor in the School of AI at Dalian University of Technology from March to April. Reach out to me for collaborations!
  • [02/2024] One paper accepted to IEEE TBC.
  • [02/2024] Involved in an EU COST Action.
  • [01/2024] Awarded Journal of Electronics & Information Technology Outstanding Reviewer Award.
  • [01/2024] Elevated to IEEE Senior Member.
  • [01/2024] Our special session accepted to ICIP 2024.
  • [01/2024] Invited as an Area Chair of ACM Multimedia 2024.
  • [01/2024] One paper accepted to IEEE TIV. It is the first paper about image quality evaluation published in Intelligent Vehicles field.
  • [12/2023] Appointed as an Associate Editor of IEEE TNNLS. Please submit to it!
  • [12/2023] Received DUT Collaboration Funding.
  • [11/2023] One paper accepted to Displays.
  • [09/2023] Joined British Standards Institution as a committee member.
  • [09/2023] One paper selected as ESI Highly Cited Paper.
  • [09/2023] One paper accepted to IEEE TCSVT.
  • [06/2023] Two papers accepted to ICIP 2023 (one as Oral presentation).
  • [05/2023] Our special session accepted to MMSP 2023.
  • [05/2023] Appointed as an Associate Editor of Signal, Image and Video Processing (SIVP, Springer).
  • [03/2023] One paper accepted to IEEE SPL.
  • [02/2023] Awarded Sensors Outstanding Reviewer Award.
  • [09/2022] Awarded ACM SIGMM China Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award.
  • [08/2022] Invited as an Associate Editor of HCIS Journal (JCR Q1, IF=7.375).
  • [07/2022] One paper accepted to IEEE TMM.
  • [06/2022] Two papers accepted to ACM-MM 2022.
  • [06/2022] One paper accepted to MICCAI 2022.
  • [05/2022] One paper accepted to IEEE JSTARS.
  • [04/2022] One paper accepted to JVCI.
  • [03/2022] One paper accepted to Displays.
  • [02/2022] One paper accepted to IEEE TMM.
  • [12/2021] Awarded VCIP Best Reviewer Award.
  • [08/2021] One paper accepted to VCIP 2021.
  • [07/2021] Awarded President Award from Chinese Academy of Sciences.
  • [07/2021] One paper accepted to ACM-MM 2021 as Oral presentation.
  • [05/2021] One paper accepted to IEEE TCSVT.
  • [05/2021] One invited paper accepted to QoMEX 2021 as Oral presentation.
  • [04/2021] One paper accepted to CVPR CLIC 2021 and won winner award.
  • [01/2021] One paper accepted to ISCAS 2021 as Oral presentation.

Representative Publications

[Full List]
    Image Processing:

  • Tensor Oriented No-Reference Light Field Image Quality Assessment
    Wei Zhou, Likun Shi, Zhibo Chen, Jinglin Zhang
    IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 2020 | [The first work explores tensor theory for evaluating light field image quality]

  • Dual-Stream Interactive Networks for No-Reference Stereoscopic Image Quality Assessment
    Wei Zhou, Zhibo Chen, Weiping Li
    IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 2019 | [The first deep learning-based stereoscopic image quality prediction work considers the hierarchical dual-stream interactive nature of the human visual system]

  • Blind Stereoscopic Video Quality Assessment: From Depth Perception to Overall Experience
    Zhibo Chen, Wei Zhou#, Weiping Li
    IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 2018 | [The first attempt combines depth perception and overall experience in stereoscopic vision]

    • Video Technology:

  • Perceptual Depth Quality Assessment of Stereoscopic Omnidirectional Images
    Wei Zhou, Zhou Wang
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, 2024 | [The first perceptual depth quality measure for stereoscopic VR]

  • No-Reference Quality Assessment for 360-degree Images by Analysis of Multifrequency Information and Local-global Naturalness
    Wei Zhou, Jiahua Xu, Qiuping Jiang, Zhibo Chen
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, 2022 | [The first natural scene statistics algorithm for VR quality assessment]

  • Blind Omnidirectional Image Quality Assessment with Viewport Oriented Graph Convolutional Networks
    Jiahua Xu*, Wei Zhou*, Zhibo Chen
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, 2021 | [The first framework that based on graph networks for predicting the perceptual quality of VR images]

  • No-Reference Light Field Image Quality Assessment Based on Spatial-Angular Measurement
    Likun Shi*, Wei Zhou*, Zhibo Chen, Jinglin Zhang
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, 2019 | [The first no-reference metric for evaluating the perceptual quality of light field images]

    • Multimedia Computing:

  • Blind Quality Assessment of Dense 3D Point Clouds with Structure Guided Resampling
    Wei Zhou, Qi Yang, Wu Chen, Qiuping Jiang, Guangtao Zhai, Weisi Lin
    ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications, 2024 | [The useful tool to evaluate the perceptual quality of point clouds without reference]

  • LIQA: Lifelong Blind Image Quality Assessment
    Jianzhao Liu*, Wei Zhou*, Xin Li, Jiahua Xu, Zhibo Chen
    IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 2022 | [The first lifelong learning-based work in IQA field] | (ESI Highly Cited Paper)

  • Quality Assessment of Image Super-Resolution: Balancing Deterministic and Statistical Fidelity
    Wei Zhou, Zhou Wang
    ACM International Conference on Multimedia, 2022 | [The first work looks at the reconstructed quality of image super-resolution in a 2D fidelity space]

  • Adaptive Hypergraph Convolutional Network for No-Reference 360-degree Image Quality Assessment
    Jun Fu, Chen Hou, Wei Zhou#, Jiahua Xu, Zhibo Chen#
    ACM International Conference on Multimedia, 2022 | [The first hypergraph-based VR quality evaluation framework]

    • Signal Processing:

  • Vision-Language Consistency Guided Multi-modal Prompt Learning for Blind AI Generated Image Quality Assessment
    Jun Fu, Wei Zhou#, Qiuping Jiang, Hantao Liu, Guangtao Zhai
    IEEE Signal Processing Letters, 2024 | [The first CLIP-based model for AIGC quality evaluation]

  • Reduced-Reference Quality Assessment of Point Clouds via Content-Oriented Saliency Projection
    Wei Zhou, Guanghui Yue, Ruizeng Zhang, Yipeng Qin, Hantao Liu
    IEEE Signal Processing Letters, 2023 | [The first image-based RR metric for 3D point clouds]

Academic Leadership

Selected Awards

  • 2024 Top 2% Scientists Worldwide, Stanford University (斯坦福大学全球前2%顶尖科学家榜单)
  • 2024 Digileader by Digital Futures, Sweden
  • 2024 Interdisciplinary Research Sandpit from British Academy, Travel Grant
  • 2024 Journal of Electronics & Information Technology Outstanding Reviewer Award
  • 2023 Winner of the Sensors Annually Outstanding Reviewer Award
  • 2022 ACM SIGMM China Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award, 1st nationwide (ACM SIGMM优秀博士学位论文全国第一)
  • 2022 Finalist of Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
  • 2022 MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship, Travel Grant from University of Nantes, France
  • 2021 Grand Challenge Winner Award for IEEE CVPR CLIC Perceptual Metric Track, 1st place (CVPR基于学习的图像压缩挑战赛感知准则赛道冠军)
  • 2021 IEEE VCIP Best Reviewer Award (VCIP最佳审稿人)
  • 2021 President Award, Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院院长奖)
  • 2020 Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Funding of USTC
  • 2020 National Scholarship from USTC
  • 2019 Outstanding Research Intern of Alibaba Group
  • 2018 Microsoft Research STAR of Tomorrow Excellence Award
  • 2017 NII International Internship Funding Support, Japan
  • 2016 Provincial Outstanding Bachelor Thesis Award

LION Lab

I direct the InteLligent multImedia perceptiOn and generatioN (LION) research lab. My lab focuses on studying different perceptual and generative models in the intelligent multimedia field. Our lab is always looking for talented and self-motivated students.

Each year, our School has a number of funding schemes to support PhD research (School Studentships). Chinese PhD applicants are also welcome to apply via Cardiff University-China Scholarship Council joint-funded PhD Scholarship. If you are interested in working with me on cutting-edge image processing/multimedia research, please drop me an email.

Cardiff University (top 1 university in Wales, part of the Russell Group) is ranked top 2 (CSRankings) across the UK in the areas of Computer Vision, Computer Graphics, and Natural Language Processing. I have worked with 30 students and extensively collaborated with researchers in both academia and industry worldwide. I will actively recommend my students for internships (Google, Meta, Intel, Microsoft, Tencent, Alibaba, etc.) and help them establish networking.
Last updated: December 17, 2023.