Xin Li

Xin Li

Postdoc Research Fellow
University of Science and Technology of China
Email: xin.li@ustc.edu.cn

Currently, I work in USTC as a Postdoc Research Fellow and work with Zhibo Chen. I have obtained my Ph.D. in MOE-Microsoft Key Laboratory of Multimedia Computing and Communication, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), supervised by Zhibo Chen. Prior to that, I obtained my B.S. degree in Department of Electronic Engineering and Information Science from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC). From Apr. 2021 to Apr. 2022, I was a research intern at Intelligence Media Group of MSRA under the supervision of Cuiling Lan and Wenjun Zeng. I have been a visiting Ph.D. of Learning and Vision (LV) Lab at the National University of Singapore under the supervision of Xinchao Wang. My research interests mainly focus on image/video processing, transfer learning of foundational models, generation, and agent.

[Workshop/Competitions]
  • Short-form UGC Image Super-resolution (4x) @ CVPR 2025 NTIRE Workshop
  • Efficient Short-form UGC Video Quality Assessment @ CVPR 2025 NTIRE Workshop
  • The First Challenge on Day and Night Raindrop Removal for Dual-Focused Images @ CVPR 2025 NTIRE Workshop
    • [Welcome to join us] We are seeking self-motivated students to join our USTC Intelligent Media Computing Lab for internships, masters, and in-school Ph.D. transfers. We warmly welcome like-minded talents to join us in pioneering the frontiers of intelligent media computing. Our lab is devoted to Generative AI, Visual Compression, Quality Assessment, AI Agents, AI for Science, and Embodied AI. If you are interested, please send email to xin.li@ustc.edu.cn and cc chenzhibo@ustc.edu.cn

    News

    [4/2025] Selected for First-Class Support, Mozi Distinguished Young Scholar Special Allowance Program
    [3/2025] Invited as the Area Chair for ACM MultiMedia 2025.
    [2/2025] Four papers were accepted by CVPR2025(1), IEEE ISCAS (2), and JUSTC(1) totally.
    [2/2025] I am organizing The First Challenge on Day and Night Raindrop Removal for Dual-Focused Images in the 10th NTIRE Workshop at CVPR 2025.
    [1/2025] I am organizing the Short-form UGC Video Quality Assessment and Enhancement Challenge (Two Tracks: VQA and Image SR) (Offical Repo) in the 10th NTIRE Workshop at CVPR 2025.
    [12/2024] One paper accepted by AAAI 2025.
    [09/2024] Awarded by ACM SIGMM China Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award.
    [08/2024] One paper accepted by IEEE TMM and invited as the reviewer for ICLR2025.
    [07/2024] One paper accepted by IEEE TIP.
    [07/2024] Three papers accepted by ECCV 2024.
    [06/2024] Invited as the reviewer for AAAI2024.
    [06/2024] One tutorial "Low-level Image Processing with Diffusion Models" is accepted and will be hosted in IEEE VCIP2024.
    [05/2024] Invited as the reviewer for NeurIPS2024.
    [04/2024] Won the Basic Research Project for Young Students of National Natural Science Foundation of China (Doctoral candidate), PI (首届国家自然科学基金青年学生基础研究项目-博士研究生)
    [03/2024] Won two first prize in CVPR NTIRE2024 Blind Compressed Image Enhancement Challenge and CVPR NTIRE2024 Quality Assessment for AI-Generated Content (AIGC) Challenge.
    [03/2024] Won first prize in the 6th CLIC2022 (Video Perceptual Track) of DCC.
    [02/2024] Three papers accepted in CVPR2024.
    [02/2024] I am organizing the Short-form UGC Video Quality Assessment Challenge jointly with co-organizing the 9th NTIRE Workshop at CVPR 2024.
    [01/2024] Invited as the reviewer for ECCV2024.
    [12/2023] Invited as the reviewer for ICML2024.
    [12/2023] Awarded IEEE VCIP Best Paper Award.
    [09/2023] One paper accepted by IEEE TMM.
    [09/2023] One paper accepted by NeurIPS2023.
    [02/2023] One paper accepted by CVPR2023.
    [11/2022] One paper accepted by AAAI2023 (Oral).
    [10/2022] Awarded ByteDance Scholarship 2022 (Ten Students in China).
    [08/2022] One paper accepted by ECCV Workshop 2022.
    [07/2022] Awarded China Scholarship Council (CSC) scholarship.
    [06/2022] One paper accepted by IEEE TMM.
    [06/2022] One paper accepted by MICCAI 2022.
    [04/2022] First prize in 5th CVPR CLIC 2022 in Perceptual Metric Track.
    [11/2021] One paper accepted by IEEE TIP 2021.
    [10/2021] Awarded China National Scholarship.
    [09/2021] One paper accepted by IEEE TCSVT 2021.
    [06/2021] One paper accepted by IEEE TIP 2021.
    [11/2020] One papers accepted by AAAI 2021.
    [08/2020] One paper accepted by ECCV Workshop 2020.
    [06/2020] Two papers accepted by ECCV 2020.
    [03/2020] One paper accepted by CVPR Workshop 2020.
    [01/2020] The third prize in the 2019 4K+HDR National Artificial Intelligence Competition. (3/1000+).

    Selected Publications

    († Equal Contribution, ✉ Corresponding Author)

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      IEEE TIP’24
      Semantic-aware Message Broadcasting for Efficient Unsupervised Domain Adaptation
      Xin Li , Cuiling Lan, Guoqiang Wei, and Zhibo Chen
      IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP) , 2024
      arXiv Code
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      ECCV’24
      UCIP: A Universal Framework for Compressed Image Super-Resolution using Dynamic Prompt
      Xin Li , Bingchen Li, Yeying Jin, Cuiling Lan, Hanxin Zhu, Yulin Ren and Zhibo Chen
      ECCV , 2024
      PDF Project Code
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      Arxiv
      Diffusion Models for Image Restoration and Enhancement–A Comprehensive Survey
      Xin Li , Yulin Ren, Xin Jin, Cuiling Lan, Xingrui Wang, Wenjun Zeng, Xinchao Wang and Zhibo Chen
      Arxiv , 2023
      PDF Code
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      NTIRE’24
      NTIRE 2024 Challenge on Short-form UGC Video Quality Assessment: Methods and Results
      Xin Li , Kun Yuan, Yajing Pei, Yiting Lu, Ming Sun, Chao Zhou, Zhibo Chen and Radu Timofte
      CVPR Workshop, Challenge Report for KVQ , 2024
      PDF Project Code
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      IEEE TMM’23
      FreqAlign: Excavating Perception-oriented Transferability for Blind Image Quality Assessment from A Frequency Perspective
      Xin Li , Yiting Lu and Zhibo Chen
      IEEE Transactions on MultiMedia (TMM) , 2023
      PDF
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      NeurIPS’23
      GraphAdapter: Tuning Vision-Language Models With Dual Knowledge Graph
      Xin Li , Dongze Lian, Zhihe Lu, Jiawang Bai, Zhibo Chen and Xinchao Wang
      NeurIPS , 2023
      PDF Code
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      CVPR’23
      Learning Distortion Invariant Representation for Image Restoration from A Causality Perspective
      Xin Li , Bingchen Li, Xin Jin, Cuiling Lan, and Zhibo Chen
      CVPR , 2023
      PDF Code
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      IEEE TIP’21
      Task-driven Semantic Coding via Reinforcement Learning
      Xin Li , Jun Shi and Zhibo Chen
      IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP) , 2023
      PDF Code
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      AAAI’21
      Learning Omni-Frequency Region-adaptive Representations for Real Image Super-Resolution
      Xin Li , Xin Jin, Tao Yu, Simeng Sun, Yingxue Pang, Zhizheng Zhang, and Zhibo Chen
      AAAI , 2021
      PDF
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      ECCV’20
      Learning disentangled feature representation for hybrid-distorted image restoration
      Xin Li , Xin Jin, Jianxin Lin, Sen Liu, Yaojun Wu, Tao Yu, Wei Zhou and Zhibo Chen
      ECCV , 2020
      PDF
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      CLIC’20
      Multi-scale grouped dense network for VVC intra coding
      Xin Li , Simeng Sun, Zhizheng Zhang and Zhibo Chen
      CVPR Workshop , 2020
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