Xin Tian
Email: xin(dot)tian(at)whu(dot)edu(dot)cn
Email: xin(dot)tian(at)whu(dot)edu(dot)cn
Short Biography
I am currently a Professor with the Electronic Information School, Wuhan University, China. I have received the BS degree from the Department of Electronic Science and Technology, and the PhD degree from the Institute for Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China, in 2004 and 2010, respectively. From August 2015 to August 2016, I was a visiting scholar in Georgia Institute of Technology, America, supervised by Prof. Faramarz Fekri. My awards include the First Prize for Scientific and Technological Progress in Surveying and Mapping in China, the First Prize for Excellent Achievements of Information Technology in Electric Power Industry of China, and etc.
Research Interests
Generally speaking, my research interest lies in computational imaging. My current research includes image fusion, single-photon counting imaging, dictionary learning, and sparse coding, etc.
Academic Activities
Editorial Board for Journal of Applied Optics
Reviewer for IEEE TSP, TGRS, SPL, AAAI, etc.
ICASSP 2021 Session Chair
IEEE Senior Member
Recent Publications
R. Liu, Y. Xiao, Y. Peng, and X. Tian*. DDFSRM: Denoising Diffusion Fusion Model for Line-Scanning Super-Resolution, IEEE Transactions on Computational Imaging, 2024, 10: 1357-1367.
Z. Zhang, H. Li, C. Ke, J. Chen, and X. Tian*. Deep Variational Network for Blind Pansharpening, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, 2024, 1-15.
C. Ke, Z. Zhang, W. Zhang, J. Chen, and X. Tian*. Kernel-guided injection deep network for blind fusion of multispectral and panchromatic images, Pattern Recognition, 2024, 157: 110889.
R. Liu, S. Meng, Y. Peng, and X. Tian*. TransFusion-CR: Two-Phase SAR-to-Optical Translation and Deep Feature Fusion for Cloud Removal, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 2024.
J. Rao, Y. Peng, J. Chen, and X. Tian*. "Various Degradation: Dual Cross-Refinement Transformer For Blind Sonar Image Super-Resolution", IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 2024.
R. Liu, Z. Zhang, and X. Tian*. "Scanning-Driven Photon-Counting 3D Imaging through Scattering Media via Asynchronous Polarization Modulation", Laser & Photonics Reviews, 2024, 2300916. (Selected as a feature paper on a frontispiece).
H. Wang, H. Zhang, X. Tian, and J. Ma. "Zero-Sharpen: A universal pansharpening method across satellites for reducing scale-variance gap via zero-shot variation", Information Fusion, 2024, 102003.
H. Liang, R. Liu, Z. Wang, J. Ma, and X. Tian*. "Variational Bayesian deep network for blind Poisson denoising", Pattern Recognition, 2023, 143, 109810.
C. Ke, W. Zhang, Z. Wang, J. Ma, and X. Tian*. "Coarse-to-fine Cross-domain Learning Fusion Network for Pansharpening", IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 2023.
R. Liu, Y. Xiao, Z. Wang, J. Ma, and X. Tian*. "Scanning-based compressive hyperspectral imaging via spectral-coded illumination", Optics Letters, 2023, 48 (13), 3387-3390.
X. Tian, K. Li, W. Zhang, Z. Wang, and J. Ma. "Interpretable model-driven deep network for hyperspectral, multispectral, and panchromatic image fusion", IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, 2023.
M. Gong, H. Zhang, H. Xu, X. Tian, and J. Ma. "Multipatch Progressive Pansharpening With Knowledge Distillation", IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 2023, 61, 1-15.
C. Ke, H. Liang, D. Li, and X. Tian*. "High-Frequency Transformer Network Based on Window Cross-Attention for Pansharpening", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2023.
X. Tian, F. He, R. Liu, and J. Ma. "Interpretable Poisson Optimization-inspired Deep Network for Single-photon Counting Image Denoising", IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, 2023, 72, 5002111.
R. Liu, H. Liang, Z, Wang, J. Ma, and X. Tian*. "Fusion-based high-quality polarization 3D reconstruction", Optics and Lasers in Engineering, 2023, 162, 107397.
Y. Lu, J. Ma, L. Fang, X. Tian, and J. Jiang. "Robust and Scalable Gaussian Process Regression and Its Applications", in IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2023.
H. Zhang, H. Wang, X. Tian, and J. Ma. "P2Sharpen: A progressive pansharpening network with deep spectral transformation", Information Fusion, 2023, 91, 103-122.
F. He, R. Liu, and X. Tian*. "Scanning-based photon-limited imaging through scattering media", Optics and Lasers in Engineering, 2023, 161, 107388.
S. Li, X. Liu, Y. Xiao, Y. Ma, J. Yang, K. Zhu, and X. Tian. "3D compressive imaging system with a single photon-counting detector", Optics Express, 2023, 31 (3), 4712-4738.
X. Tian, W. Zhang, D. Yu, and J. Ma. "Sparse tensor prior for hyperspectral, multispectral, and panchromatic image fusion", IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica, 2023, 10 (1), 284-286.
H. Xu, Y. Sun, X. Mei, X. Tian, and J. Ma. "Attention-guided polarization image fusion using salient information distribution", IEEE Transactions on Computational Imaging, 2022, 8, 1117-1130.
K. Li, W. Zhang, D. Yu, and X. Tian*. "HyperNet: A Deep Network for Hyperspectral, Multispectral, and Panchromatic Image Fusion", ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 2022, 188, 30-44.
B. Huang, Z. Wang, K. Jiang, Q. Zou, X. Tian, T. Lu, and Z. Han. "Joint segmentation and identification feature learning for occlusion face recognition", IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, 2022.
X. Tian, Y. Xiao, R. Liu, F. He, and J. Ma. "Line-wise scanning-based super-resolution imaging", Optics Letters, 2022, 47(9): 2230-2233.
H. Xu, M. Gong, X. Tian, J. Huang, and J. Ma. "CUFD: An encoder-decoder network for visible and infrared image fusion based on common and unique feature decomposition", Computer Vision and Image Understanding, 2022, 218, 103407.
X. Tian, W. Zhang, Y. Chen, Z. Wang, and J. Ma. "HyperFusion: A Computational Approach for Hyperspectral, Multispectral, and Panchromatic Image Fusion", IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 2022, 60, 5518216.
G. Wang, Z. Wang, B. Huang, K. Jiang, Z. He, H. Zhu, J. Xiao, and X. Tian. "Two-stage unsupervised facial image quality measurement", Information Sciences, 2022, 611, 432-445.
K. Zeng, Z. Wang, T. Lu, J. Chen, B. Huang, Z. Han, and X. Tian. "Realistic frontal face reconstruction using coupled complementarity of far-near-sighted face images", Pattern Recognition, 2022, 129, 108754.
F. He, X. Tian*, R. Liu, and J. Ma. "MoG-DS: model-guided deep convolutional network for joint denoising and super-resolution of a single-photon counting image", Optics Express, 2022, 30 (18), 33068-33082.
M. Gong, J. Ma, H. Xu, X. Tian, and X. Zhang. "D2TNet: A ConvLSTM network with dual-direction transfer for pan-sharpening", IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 2022, 60, 1-14.
X. Tian, R. Liu, Z. Wang, and J. Ma. "High quality 3D reconstruction based on fusion of polarization imaging and binocular stereo vision", Information Fusion, 2022, 77, 19-28.
X. Wang, J. Ma, P. Yi, X. Tian*, J. Jiang, and X. P. Zhang. "Learning an epipolar shift compensation for light field image super-resolution", Information Fusion, 2022, 79: 188-199.
A. Fan, J. Ma, X. Tian, X. Mei, and W. Liu. "Coherent point drift revisited for non-rigid shape matching and registration", Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2022, 1424-1434.
R. Liu, X. Tian*, F. He, and J. Ma. "Multi-depth photon-counting imaging based on polarisation modulation", Optics Express, 2021, 29 (24), 39362-39375.
X. Liu, Y. Ma, S. Li, J. Yang, Z. Zhang, and X. Tian. "Photon counting correction method to improve the quality of reconstructed images in single photon compressive imaging systems", Optics Express, 2021. 29 (23), 37945-37961.
H. Zhang, J. Yuan, X. Tian, and J. Ma. "GAN-FM: Infrared and Visible Image Fusion Using GAN with Full-scale Skip Connection and Dual Markovian Discriminators", IEEE Transactions on Computational Imaging, 2021, 7, 1134-1147.
X. Tian, W. Chen, Z. Wang, and J. Ma. "Polarization prior to single-photon counting image denoising", Optics Express, 2021, 29 (14), 21664-21682.
R. Liu, X. Tian*, S. Li. "Polarisation-modulated photon-counting 3D imaging based on a negative parabolic pulse model", Optics Express, 2021, 29 (13): 20577-20589.
X. Tian, K. Li, Z. Wang, and J. Ma. "VP-Net: An Interpretable Deep Network for Variational Pansharpening", IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 2022, 60, 5400416.
H. Zhang, H. Xu, X. Tian, J. Jiang, and J. Ma. "Image fusion meets deep learning: A survey and perspective", Information Fusion, 2021, 76, 323-336.
J. Ma, C. Peng, X. Tian*, and J. Jiang. "DBDnet: A Deep Boosting Strategy for Image Denoising", IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 2022, 24, 3157-3168.
P. Yi, Z. Wang, K. Jiang, J. Jiang, T. Lu, X. Tian, and J. Ma. "Omniscient Video Super-Resolution", in IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2021, pp. 4429-4438.
K. Li, W. Zhang, X. Tian*, J. Ma, H. Zhou, and Z. Wang. "Variation-Net: Interpretable Variation-Inspired Deep Network for Pansharpening", In IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), 2021, pp.1-6
B. Huang, Z. Wang, G. Wang, K. Jiang, K. Zeng, Z. Han, X. Tian, and Y. Yang. "When Face Recognition Meets Occlusion: A New Benchmark", In IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2021, pp. 4240-4244.
X. Tian, Y. Chen, C. Yang, and J. Ma. "Variational Pansharpening by Exploiting Cartoon-Texture Similarities", IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 2022, 60, pp. 5400416.
J. Ma, Z. Le, X. Tian, and J. Jiang. "SMFuse: Multi-focus Image Fusion via Self-supervised Mask-optimization", IEEE Transactions on Computational Imaging, 2021, 7, pp. 309-320.
Q. Hong, Z. Wang, Z. He, N. Wang, X. Tian, and T. Lu. "Masked Face Recognition with Identification Association", In IEEE 32nd International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI), 2020, pp.731-735.
Y. Chen, M. Zhang, S. Li, Z. Wang, and X. Tian*. "Cartoon-Texture Decomposition-Based Variational Pansharpening", In IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2020, pp. 2688-2692.
M. Zhang, Z. Zhao, Y. Chen, Z. Wang, and X. Tian*. "FusionNDVI: A Novel Fusion Method for NDVI in Remote Sensing", In IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2020, pp. 4816-4820.
M. Zhang, S. Li, F. Yu, and X. Tian*. "Image fusion employing adaptive spectral-spatial gradient sparse regularization in UAV remote sensing", Signal Processing, 2020, 170, 107434.
W. Chen, S. Li, and X. Tian*. "Robust single-photon counting imaging with spatially correlated and total variation constraints", Optics Express, 2020, 28(2): 2625-2639.
X. Tian, W. Chen, F. Zhao, B. Li, Z. Wang. "Robust CBCT reconstruction based on low-rank tensor decomposition and total variation regularization", In IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 2020, 330-334.
X. Tian, M. Zhang, C. Yang, J. Ma. "FusionNDVI: a computational fusion approach for high-resolution normalized difference vegetation index", IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 2020, 59 (6), 5258-5271.(IF=8.125)
X. Tian, Y. Chen, C. Yang, X. Gao, J. Ma. "A variational pansharpening method based on gradient sparse representation", IEEE Signal Processing Letters, 2020, 27, 1180-1184.
Z. Le, J. Huang, F. Fan, X. Tian, J. Ma. "A generative adversarial network for medical image fusion", In IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 2020, 330-334.
H. Zhang, J. Ma, C. Chen, X. Tian*. "NDVI-Net: A fusion network for generating high-resolution normalized difference vegetation index in remote sensing", ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 2020, 168, 182-196.
X. Jiang, J. Ma, A. Fan, H. Xu, G. Lin, T. Lu, X. Tian. "Robust feature matching for remote sensing image registration via linear adaptive filtering", IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 2021, 59(2), 1577-1591.
M. Zhang, Y. Chen, S. Li, X. Tian*. "Sparse representation-based image fusion for multi-source NDVI change detection", In IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2020, 20371137.
K. Jiang, Z. Wang, P. Yi, C. Chen, Y. Yang, X. Tian, J. Jiang. "Attention-guided deraining network via stage-wise learning", In IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2020, pp. 2618-2622.
X. Tian. "Fourier ptychographic reconstruction using mixed Gaussian–Poisson likelihood with total variation regularization", Electronics Letters, 2019, 55(19): 1041-1043.
X. Tian, A. Abdi, E. Liu, and F. Fekri. "Seismic signal compression through delay compensated and entropy constrained dictionary learning", In IEEE 19th International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC), 2018, pp. 1-5.
A. Payani, A. Abdi, X. Tian, F. Fekri, and M. Mohandes. "Advances in seismic data compression via learning from data: Compression for seismic data acquisition", IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, 2018, 35(2): 51-61.
X. Tian, A. Abdi, E. Liu, and F. Fekri. "Memory-assisted seismic signal compression based on dictionary learning and sparse coding", In IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing (GlobalSIP), 2017, pp. 358-362.