Zhen Liu 0022

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10since 2021 · last 2026
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Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 9 · 2 first-author · 9 since 2021Graphics, computer vision, multimedia, augmented reality and games · 7 · 3 first-author · 7 since 2021
YearPublicationVenuePosition
2026 RAW-Flow: Advancing RGB-to-RAW Image Reconstruction with Deterministic Latent Flow Matching
abstract
RGB-to-RAW reconstruction, or the reverse modeling of a camera Image Signal Processing (ISP) pipeline, aims to recover high-fidelity RAW data from RGB images. Despite notable progress, existing learning-based methods typically treat this task as a direct regression objective and still struggle with detail inconsistency and color deviation, due to the ill-posed nature of inverse ISP and the inherent information loss in quantized RGB images. To address these limitations, we pioneer a generative perspective by reformulating RGB-to-RAW reconstruction as a deterministic latent transport problem and introduce a novel framework named RAW-Flow, which leverages flow matching to learn a deterministic vector field in latent space, to effectively bridge the gap between RGB and RAW representations and enable accurate reconstruction of structural details and color information. To further enhance latent transport, we introduce a cross-scale context guidance module that injects hierarchical RGB features into the flow estimation process. Moreover, we design a Dual-domain Latent Autoencoder (DLAE) with a feature alignment constraint to support the proposed latent transport framework, which jointly encodes RGB and RAW inputs while promoting stable training and high-fidelity reconstruction. Extensive experiments demonstrate that RAW-Flow outperforms state-of-the-art approaches both quantitatively and visually.
Zhen Liu 0022, Diedong Feng, Hai Jiang 0006, Liaoyuan Zeng, Hao Wang 0073, Chaoyu Feng, Bing Zeng 0001, Shuaicheng Liu
AAAI1
2026 Solving ILL-posed Regions in High Dynamic Range Reconstruction With Uncertainty-Aware Diffusion Models
abstract
Learning-based approaches have achieved promising progress in High Dynamic Range (HDR) image reconstruction, particularly in ghost removal. However, they often struggle in ill-posed regions, such as areas with occlusion or saturation, where insufficient or unreliable information leads to persistent residual ghosting artifacts and structural distortions. In this paper, we present UA-Diff, an uncertainty-aware diffusion framework designed to generate visually coherent, ghost-free HDR images. Specifically, our approach introduces an Uncertainty Generation Module (UGM) that estimates pixel-wise reconstruction confidence via a probabilistic Laplacian loss, producing an uncertainty map that explicitly highlights challenging ill-posed regions. To address these regions effectively, we develop an Uncertainty-Aware Diffusion Module (UADM) that operates selectively on the average-coefficient component of a 2D discrete wavelet transform, where dominant artifacts tend to concentrate. This enables reduced computational overhead while preserving high-quality details. Moreover, we propose an Uncertainty-Guided Sampling (UGS) strategy that leverages the uncertainty map to guide the denoising process, ensuring faithful reconstruction in reliable regions and targeted refinement in uncertain areas. Extensive experiments on three public HDR benchmarks demonstrate that UA-Diff surpasses state-of-the-art methods both quantitatively and perceptually, especially in challenging ill-posed scenarios.
Zhen Liu 0022, Hai Jiang 0006, Haipeng Li 0001, Shuaicheng Liu, Bing Zeng 0001
IEEE Trans. Circuits Syst. Video Technol.1
2025 FlowPolicy: Enabling Fast and Robust 3D Flow-Based Policy via Consistency Flow Matching for Robot Manipulation
abstract
Robots can acquire complex manipulation skills by learning policies from expert demonstrations, which is often known as vision-based imitation learning. Generating policies based on diffusion and flow matching models has been shown to be effective, particularly in robotic manipulation tasks. However, recursion-based approaches are inference inefficient in working from noise distributions to policy distributions, posing a challenging trade-off between efficiency and quality. This motivates us to propose FlowPolicy, a novel framework for fast policy generation based on consistency flow matching and 3D vision. Our approach refines the flow dynamics by normalizing the self-consistency of the velocity field, enabling the model to derive task execution policies in a single inference step. Specifically, FlowPolicy conditions on the observed 3D point cloud, where consistency flow matching directly defines straight-line flows from different time states to the same action space, while simultaneously constraining their velocity values, that is, we approximate the trajectories from noise to robot actions by normalizing the self-consistency of the velocity field within the action space, thus improving the inference efficiency. We validate the effectiveness of FlowPolicy in Adroit and Metaworld, demonstrating a 7× increase in inference speed while maintaining competitive average success rates compared to state-of-the-art methods.
Qinglun Zhang, Zhen Liu 0022, Haoqiang Fan, Guanghui Liu 0001, Bing Zeng 0001, Shuaicheng Liu
AAAI2
2025 Learning to See in the Extremely Dark
Hai Jiang 0006, Binhao Guan, Zhen Liu 0022, Xiaohong Liu 0001, Songchen Han, Shuaicheng Liu
ICCV3
2025 MHAVSR: A multi-layer hybrid alignment network for video super-resolution
Xintao Qiu, Yuanbo Zhou, Xinlin Zhang, Yuyang Xue, Xiaoyong Lin, Xinwei Dai, Guoyang Liu, Zhen Liu 0022, Xiaojing Wei, Junxiu Yang, Tong Tong 0001, Qinquan Gao
Neurocomputing10
2025 ISPFormer: Learning RAW-to-sRGB mappings with wavelet-based self-attention
Yang Ren 0001, Xinhan Niu, Hai Jiang 0006, Zhen Liu 0022, Ting Jiang 0005, Guanghui Liu 0001, Shuaicheng Liu
Neurocomputing4
2025 Minimum Latency Deep Online Video Stabilization and Its Extensions
abstract
We present a novel deep camera path optimization framework for minimum latency online video stabilization. Typically, a stabilization pipeline consists of three steps: motion estimation, path smoothing, and novel view synthesis. Most previous methods concentrate on motion estimation while path optimization receives less attention, particularly in the crucial online setting where future frames are inaccessible. In this work, we adopt off-the-shelf high-quality deep motion models for motion estimation and focus only on the path optimization. Specifically, our camera path smoothing network takes a short 2D camera path in a sliding window as input and outputs the stabilizing warp field of the last frame, which warps the coming frame to its stabilized position. We explore three motion densities: a global single camera path, local mesh-based bundled paths, and dense flow paths. A hybrid loss and an efficient motion smoothing attention (EMSA) module are proposed for spatially and temporally consistent path smoothing. Moreover, we build a motion dataset that contains stable and unstable motion pairs for training. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our method surpasses state-of-the-art online stabilization methods and rivals the performance of offline methods, offering compelling advancements in the field of video stabilization.
Shuaicheng Liu, Zhuofan Zhang, Zhen Liu 0022, Ping Tan 0002, Bing Zeng 0001
IEEE Trans. Pattern Anal. Mach. Intell.3
2023 Low-Light Image Enhancement with Illumination-Aware Gamma Correction and Complete Image Modelling Network
abstract
This paper presents a novel network structure with illumination-aware gamma correction and complete image modelling to solve the low-light image enhancement problem. Low-light environments usually lead to less informative large-scale dark areas, directly learning deep representations from low-light images is insensitive to recovering normal illumination. We propose to integrate the effectiveness of gamma correction with the strong modelling capacities of deep networks, which enables the correction factor gamma to be learned in a coarse to elaborate manner via adaptively perceiving the deviated illumination. Because exponential operation introduces high computational complexity, we propose to use Taylor Series to approximate gamma correction, accelerating the training and inference speed. Dark areas usually occupy large scales in low-light images, common local modelling structures, e.g., CNN, SwinIR, are thus insufficient to recover accurate illumination across whole low-light images. We propose a novel Transformer block to completely simulate the dependencies of all pixels across images via a local-to-global hierarchical attention mechanism, so that dark areas could be inferred by borrowing the information from far informative regions in a highly effective manner. Extensive experiments on several benchmark datasets demonstrate that our approach outperforms state-of-the-art methods.
Yinglong Wang 0002, Zhen Liu 0022, Jianzhuang Liu, Songcen Xu, Shuaicheng Liu
ICCV2
2023 Minimum Latency Deep Online Video Stabilization
abstract
We present a novel camera path optimization framework for the task of online video stabilization. Typically, a stabilization pipeline consists of three steps: motion estimating, path smoothing, and novel view rendering. Most previous methods concentrate on motion estimation, proposing various global or local motion models. In contrast, path optimization receives relatively less attention, especially in the important online setting, where no future frames are available. In this work, we adopt recent off-the-shelf high-quality deep motion models for motion estimation to recover the camera trajectory and focus on the latter two steps. Our network takes a short 2D camera path in a sliding window as input and outputs the stabilizing warp field of the last frame in the window, which warps the coming frame to its stabilized position. A hybrid loss is well-defined to constrain the spatial and temporal consistency. In addition, we build a motion dataset that contains stable and unstable motion pairs for the training. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our approach significantly outperforms state-of-the-art online methods both qualitatively and quantitatively and achieves comparable performance to offline methods. Our code and dataset are available at https://github.com/liuzhen03/NNDVS.
Zhuofan Zhang, Zhen Liu 0022, Ping Tan 0002, Bing Zeng 0001, Shuaicheng Liu
ICCV2
2022 Ghost-free High Dynamic Range Imaging with Context-Aware Transformer
Zhen Liu 0022, Yinglong Wang 0002, Bing Zeng 0001, Shuaicheng Liu
ECCV (19)1