UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
SANTA CRUZ


Xiang Zhu
Ph.D. Student
Email: xzhu AT soe DOT ucsc DOT edu
Phone: (831)459-4141 (office)
Address: Department of Electrical Engineering
UC Santa Cruz
CA 95064, U.S.A.
Background
As a Ph.D. student at UC Santa Cruz, I joined the Multi-Dimensional Signal Processing (MDSP) group in 2008. My research interests mainly focus on signal and image processing. I obtained my B.S. (2005) and M.S. (2008) degree in E.E. from Nanjing University, China.
Resume
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Publications
Journal
1. X. Zhu and P. Milanfar, "Automatic Parameter Selection for Denoising Algorithms Using a No-Reference Measure of Image Content", IEEE Trans. on Image Processing, Vol. 19, pp. 3116-3132, Dec. 2010. Project Page
2. X. Zhu and P. Milanfar, "Removing Atmospheric Turbulence via Space-Invariant Deconvolution", IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vol. 35, pp. 157-170, Jan. 2013. Project Page
3. H. Talebi, X. Zhu and P. Milanfar, "How to SAIF-ly Boost Denoising Perfromnace", IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol 22, No. 4, pp. 1470-1485, April 2013. Project Page
4. X. Zhu, S. Cohen, S. Schiller and P. Milanfar, "Estimating Spatially Varying Defocus Blur from A Single Image", IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol 22, No. 12, pp. 4879-4891, Dec. 2013.
Conference
1. X. Zhu, J. Yuan and S. Du, "Super-Resolution Reconstruction of Image Sequences Compressed with DWT-Based Techniques", International Conference on Wavelet Analysis and Pattern Recognition, Beijing, China, 2007.
2. J. Yuan, S. Du and X. Zhu, "Fast Super-Resolution for License Plate Image Reconstruction", 19th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), Tampa, FL, 2008.
3. X. Zhu and P. Milanfar, "A No-Reference Sharpness Metric Sensitive to Blur and Noise", 1st International Workshop on Quality of Multimedia Experience (QoMEX), San Diego, CA, July 2009. Poster
4. X. Zhu and P. Milanfar, "Image Reconstruction from Videos Distorted by Atmospheric Turbulence", SPIE Electronic Imaging, Conference 7543 on Visual Information Processing and Communication, San Jose, CA, 2010.
5. X. Zhu and P. Milanfar, "A No-Reference Image Content Metric and Its Application to Denoising ", IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Hong Kong, September 2010.
6. X. Zhu and P. Milanfar, "Restoration for Weakly Blurred and Strongly Noisy Images", IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), Kona, Hawaii, January 2011.
7. X. Zhu and P. Milanfar, "Stabilizing and Deblurring Atmospheric Turbulence", International Conference on Computational Photography (ICCP), Pittsburgh, PA, April 2011. See related talk.
8. X. Zhu, F. Sroubek, and P. Milanfar, "Deconvolving PSFs for A Better Motion Deblurring using Multiple Images ", European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Florence, Italy, Oct. 2012.
9. X. Zhu, and P. Milanfar, "Qpro: An Improved No-Reference Image Content Metric Using Locally Adapted SVD", International Workshop on Video Processing and Quality Metrics for Consumer Electronics (VPQM), Scottsdale, Arizona, Jan. 2013.