Publications

2025

1. 

   Arxiv

   Hybrid Agents for Image Restoration

   Bingchen Li, Xin Li^✉, Yiting Lu, Zhibo Chen

   Arxiv

   arXiv

2. 

   Arxiv

   Q&C: When Quantization Meets Cache in Efficient Image Generation

   Xin Ding, Xin Li, Haotong Qin, Zhibo Chen

   Arxiv

   arXiv Code

3. 

   Arxiv

   LossAgent: Towards Any Optimization Objectives for Image Processing with LLM Agents

   Bingchen Li, Xin Li^✉, Yiting Lu, Zhibo Chen

   Arxiv

   arXiv

4. 

   IJCV’25

   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

   IJCV , 2025

   PDF Code

5. 

   AAAI’26

   Test-Time Preference Optimization for Image Restoration

   Bingchen Li, Xin Li^✉, Jiaqi Xu, Jiaming Guo, Wenbo Li, Renjing Pei, Zhibo Chen

   AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2026

   PDF Code

6. 

   AAAI’26

   UniFit: Towards Universal Virtual Try-on with MLLM-Guided Semantic Alignment

   Wei Zhang, Yeying Jin, Xin Li, Yan Zhang, Xiaofeng Cong, Cong Wang, Fengcai Qiao, Zhichao Lian

   AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2026

   PDF Code

7. 

   AAAI’26

   Sonic4D: Spatial Audio Generation for Immersive 4D Scene Exploration

   Siyi Xie, Hanxin Zhu, Tianyu He, Xin Li^✉, Zhibo Chen^✉

   AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2026

   PDF Project

8. 

   NeurIPS’25

   Diff-ICMH: Harmonizing Machine and Human Vision in Image Compression with Generative Prior

   Ruoyu Feng, Yunpeng Qi, Jinming Liu, Yixin Gao, Xin Li^✉, Xin Jin, Zhibo Chen

   Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2025

   PDF Code

9. 

   CVPRW’25

   NTIRE 2025 challenge on day and night raindrop removal for dual-focused images: Methods and results

   Xin Li, Yeying Jin, Xin Jin, Zongwei Wu, Bingchen Li, Yufei Wang, Wenhan Yang, Yu Li, Zhibo Chen, Bihan Wen, Robby T. Tan, Radu Timofte, et al.

   CVPR Workshops (NTIRE), 2025

   PDF Project

10. 

    CVPRW’25

    NTIRE 2025 challenge on short-form ugc video quality assessment and enhancement: Methods and results

    Xin Li, Kun Yuan, Bingchen Li, Fengbin Guan, Yizhen Shao, Zihao Yu, Xijun Wang, Yiting Lu, Wei Luo, Suhang Yao, Ming Sun, Chao Zhou, Zhibo Chen, Radu Timofte, et al.

    CVPR Workshops (NTIRE), 2025

    PDF Code

11. 

    CVPRW’25

    NTIRE 2025 challenge on short-form ugc video quality assessment and enhancement: Kwaisr dataset and study

    Xin Li^✉, Xijun Wang, Bingchen Li, Kun Yuan, Yizhen Shao, Suhang Yao, Ming Sun, Chao Zhou, Radu Timofte, Zhibo Chen

    CVPR Workshops (NTIRE), 2025

    PDF Dataset

12. 

    TIP’25

    Task-to-Instance Prompt Learning for Vision-Language Models at Test Time

    Zhihe Lu, Jiawang Bai, Xin Li, Zeyu Xiao, Xinchao Wang

    IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 2025

    DOI Code

13. 

    CVPR’25

    RaSS: Improving Denoising Diffusion Samplers with Reinforced Active Sampling Scheduler

    Xin Ding, Lei Yu, Xin Li^✉, Zhijun Tu, Hanting Chen, Jie Hu, Zhibo Chen

    IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2025

    PDF Code

14. 

    ICCVW’25

    Why Compress What You Can Generate? When GPT-4o Generation Ushers in Image Compression Fields

    Yixin Gao, Xiaohan Pan, Xin Li^✉, Zhibo Chen

    ICCV Workshops, 2025

    PDF Code

15. 

    JUSTC

    A Close Look at Few-shot Real Image Super-resolution from the Distortion Relation Perspective

    Xin Li^✉, Xin Jin, Jun Fu, Xiaoyuan Yu, Bei Tong, Zhibo Chen

    JUSTC, 2025 (Cover Paper)

    PDF arXiv

16. 

    ICML’25

    QMamba: On First Exploration of Vision Mamba for Image Quality Assessment

    Fengbin Guan, Xin Li^✉, Zihao Yu, Yiting Lu, and Zhibo Chen

    ICML , 2025

    arXiv

17. 

    AAAI’25

    TIV-Diffusion: Towards Object-Centric Movement for Text-driven Image to Video Generation

    Xingrui Wang, Xin Li^✉, Yaosi Hu, Hanxin Zhu, Chen Hou, Cuiling Lan and Zhibo Chen^✉

    AAAI , 2025

    arXiv

18. 

    IEEE ISCAS’25

    InternVQA: Advancing Compressed Video Quality Assessment with Distilling Large Foundation Model

    Fengbin Guan, Zihao Yu, Yiting Lu Xin Li^✉;, Zhibo Chen^✉

    IEEE ISCAS (Lecture) , 2025

    arXiv

19. 

    IEEE ISCAS’25

    Towards Defining an Efficient and Expandable File Format for AI-Generated Contents

    Yixin Gao, Runsen Feng, Xin Li^✉;, Weiping Li, Zhibo Chen^✉

    IEEE ISCAS (Lecture) , 2025

    arXiv

2024

1. 

   IEEE TMM’24

   StyleAM: Perception-Oriented Unsupervised Domain Adaption for No-reference Image Quality Assessment

   Yiting Lu, Xin Li^✉, Jianzhao Liu, and Zhibo Chen^✉

   IEEE Transactions on MultiMedia (TMM) , 2024

   arXiv Code

2. 

   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

3. 

   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

4. 

   ECCV’24

   Raindrop Clarity: A Dual-Focused Dataset for Day and Night Raindrop Removal

   Yeying Jin, Xin Li, Jiadong Wang, Yan Zhang, and Malu Zhang

   ECCV , 2024

   PDF Code

5. 

   ECCV’24

   MoE-DiffIR: Task-customized Diffusion Priors for Universal Compressed Image Restoration

   Yulin Ren , Xin Li^✉, Bingchen Li, Xingrui Wang, Mengxi Guo, Shijie Zhao, Li Zhang and Zhibo Chen^✉

   ECCV , 2024

   PDF Project Code

6. 

   ICML’24

   Beyond Sole Strength: Customized Ensembles for Generalized Vision-Language Models

   Zhihe Lu , Jiawang Bai, Xin Li, Zeyu Xiao and Xinchao Wang

   ICML , 2024

   PDF Code

7. 

   CVPR’24

   SeD: Semantic-Aware Discriminator for Image Super-Resolution

   Bingchen Li^† , Xin Li^†(Equal Contribution), Hanxin Zhu, Yeying Jin, Ruoyu Feng, Zhizheng Zhang and Zhibo Chen

   CVPR , 2024

   PDF Code

8. 

   CVPR’24

   KVQ: Kwai Video Quality Assessment for Short-form Videos

   Yiting Lu^† , Xin Li^†, Yajing Pei^†, Kun Yuan, Qizhi Xie, Yunpeng Qu, Ming Sun, Chao Zhou and Zhibo Chen

   CVPR , 2024

   PDF PROJECT Code

9. 

   CVPR’24

   Is Vanilla MLP in Neural Radiance Field Enough for Few-shot View Synthesis?

   Hanxin Zhu , Tianyu He, Xin Li, Bingchen Li and Zhibo Chen

   CVPR , 2024

   PDF

10. 

    ICIP’24

    PRIORFORMER: A UGC-VQA METHOD WITH CONTENT AND DISTORTION PRIORS

    Yajing Pei, Shiyu Huang, Yiting Lu, Xin Li^✉ and Zhibo Chen^✉

    ICIP , 2024

    PDF

11. 

    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

13. 

    NTIRE’24

    PromptCIR: Blind Compressed Image Restoration with Prompt Learning

    Bingchen Li, Xin Li , Yiting Lu, Ruoyu Feng, Mengxi Guo, Shijie Zhao, Li Zhang and Zhibo Chen

    CVPR Workshop, Winner Method for Blind Compressed Image Restoration Track , 2024

    PDF Code

14. 

    NTIRE’24

    AIGC-VQA: A Holistic Perception Metric for AIGC Video Quality Assessment

    Yiting Lu, Xin Li , Bingchen Li, Zihao Yu, Fengbin Guan, Xingrui Wang, Ruling Liao, Yan Ye and Zhibo Chen

    CVPR Workshop, Winner Method for AIGC VQA Track , 2024

    PDF Code

15. 

    DCC’24

    Video Quality Assessment Based on Swin TransformerV2 and Coarse to Fine Strategy

    Zihao Yu , Fengbin Guan, Yiting Lu, Xin Li and Zhibo Chen

    DCC , 2024, Winner Method for CLIC 2024

    PDF

2023

1. 

   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

2. 

   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

3. 

   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

4. 

   VCIP Best Paper

   Diagnosis-oriented Medical Image Compression with Efficient Transfer Learning

   Guangqi Xie^†,  Xin Li^† (Equal Contribution) , Xiaohan Pan and Zhibo Chen

   VCIP Best Paper Award , 2023

   PDF

5. 

   VCIP'23 Oral

   Density-aware Swin Transformer for Compressed Point Cloud Geometry Artifacts Removal

   Xiqian Yu,  Xin Li, Hanxin Zhu and Zhibo Chen

   VCIP Oral , 2023

   PDF

6. 

   AAAI'23 Oral

   SelectAugment: Hierarchical Deterministic Sample Selection for Data Augmentation

   Shiqi Lin,  Zhizheng Zhang,  Xin Li, Wenjun Zeng and Zhibo Chen

   AAAI Oral , 2023

   PDF

7. 

   IEEE TMM’23

   Local patch autoaugment with multi-agent collaboration

   Shiqi Lin, Tao Yu, Runsen Feng,  Xin Li , Xiaoyuan Yu, Lei Xiao and Zhibo Chen

   IEEE Transactions on MultiMedia (TMM) , 2023

   PDF

2022

1. 

   IEEE TMM’22

   LIQA: Lifelong blind image quality assessment

   Jianzhao Liu, Wei Zhou,  Xin Li , Jiahua Xu and Zhibo Chen

   IEEE Transactions on MultiMedia (TMM) , 2022

   PDF

2. 

   ECCV Workshop

   HST: Hierarchical Swin Transformer for Compressed Image Super-resolution

   Bingchen Li,  Xin Li, Yiting Lu, Sen Liu, Ruoyu Feng and Zhibo Chen

   ECCV Workshop , 2022

   PDF Code

3. 

   MICCAI’22

   RTN: Reinforced Transformer Network for Coronary CT Angiography Vessel-level Image Quality Assessment

   Yiting Lu, Jun Fu,  Xin Li, Wei Zhou, Sen Liu, XinxinZhang, Congfu Jia, Ying Liu and Zhibo Chen

   MICCAI , 2022

   PDF

4. 

   CVPR Workshop

   SwinIQA: Learned Swin Distance for Compressed Image Quality Assessment

   Jianzhao Liu,  Xin Li, Yanding Peng, Tao Yu and Zhibo Chen

   CVPR Workshop , 2022

   PDF

5. 

   VCIP’22

   Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning Based Video Semantic Coding for Segmentation

   Guangqi Xie,  Xin Li, Shiqi Lin, Li Zhang, Kai Zhang, Yue Li and Zhibo Chen

   VCIP , 2022

   PDF

6. 

   VCIP’22

   Learned Lossless JPEG Transcoding via Joint Lossy and Residual Compression

   Xiaoshuai Fan,  Xin Li and Zhibo Chen

   VCIP , 2022

   PDF

2021

1. 

   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

2. 

   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

3. 

   IEEE TCSVT’21

   Learned Block-based Hybrid Image Compression

   Yaojun Wu^†,  Xin Li^† (Equal Contribution) , Zhizheng Zhang, Xin Jin and Zhibo Chen

   IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT) , 2021

   PDF

4. 

   IEEE TCSVT’21

   Dual prior learning for blind and blended image restoration

   Xin Jin, Li Zhang, Chaowei Shan, Xin Li, and Zhibo Chen

   IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP) , 2021

   PDF

2020

1. 

   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

2. 

   CVPR Workshop

   Multi-scale grouped dense network for VVC intra coding

   Xin Li , Simeng Sun, Zhizheng Zhang and Zhibo Chen

   CVPR Workshop , 2020

   PDF

3. 

   ECCV Workshop

   FAN: Frequency Aggregation Network for Real Image Super-resolution

   Yingxue Pang,  Xin Li^† (Equal Contribution) , Xin Jin, Yaojun Wu Jianzhao Liu, Sen Liu and Zhibo Chen

   ECCV Workshop , 2020

   PDF

4. 

   ECCV’20

   LIRA: Lifelong Image Restoration from Unknown Blended Distortions

   Jianzhao Liu, Jianxin Lin,  Xin Li , Wei Zhou, Sen Liu and Zhibo Chen

   ECCV , 2020

   PDF