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Chaowei Fang

Biography

Chaowei Fang is an Associate Professor in the School of Software, Faculty of Electronic and Information Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, and a recipient of the university’s Young Elite Talents Program. From 2020 to 2026, he served as an Associate Professor at the School of Artificial Intelligence, Xidian University. He received his Ph.D. from The University of Hong Kong in 2019 and his B.Eng. from Xi’an Jiaotong University in 2013. His research interests include multimodal information processing, representation, and understanding. Email: chaoweifang AT outlook.com

方超伟是西安交通大学电信学部软件学院副教授，入选学校青年拔尖人才计划。2020–2026年于西安电子科技大学人工智能学院任副教授。2019年获香港大学博士学位，2013年获西安交通大学学士学位。研究方向包括：多模态信息处理、表示与理解。邮箱：chaoweifang AT outlook.com

Research Topics

Image Classification Image Segmentation Image Super-resolution Label-efficient Machine Learning Low-level Image Processing Medical Image Analysis Neural Network Design Object Detection Representation Learning Semi-supervised Learning

Publications

1. Chaowei Fang , Bolin Fu , Tao Yang , De Cheng . Improving Face Forgery Detection via Hierarchical Mixture of Experts and Fine-grained Visual-Text Alignment. PR, 2026.
2. Xuan Zhao , Jiashun Chen , Wanting Xu , Huiyuan Yan , Chaowei Fang , Xing Wei . EduMARS: Can Vision-Language Models Grade Like Teachers? Benchmarking Multimodal, Rubric-Based Assessment on Chinese K-12 Answers. ACL Findings, 2026.
3. Chaowei Fang , Bolin Fu , De Cheng , Chengpei Tang , Guanbin Li . Learning Prompt Adapters for Forgetting-Free Continual Image Super-resolution. TIP, 2026.
4. De Cheng , Yubo Li , Chaowei Fang , Shizhou Zhang , Nannan Wang , Xinbo Gao . Isolating Interference Factors for Robust Cloth-Changing Person Re-Identification. TPAMI, 2026.
5. Chaowei Fang , Bolin Fu , De Cheng , Lechao Cheng , Guanbin Li . Dual-domain Adaptation Networks for Realistic Image Super-resolution. TMM, 2025.
6. Chaowei Fang , Bolin Fu , De Cheng , Lechao Cheng , Dingwen Zhang . High-frequency structure transformer for magnetic resonance image super-resolution. PR, 2025.
7. Zihao Mo , Junye Chen , Chaowei Fang , Guanbin Li . PatchWiper: Leveraging Dynamic Patch-Wise Parameters for Real-World Visible Watermark Removal. ACM MM, 2025.
8. Fangwen Wu , Lechao Cheng , Shengeng Tang , Xiaofeng Zhu , Chaowei Fang , Dingwen Zhang , Meng Wang . Navigating Semantic Drift in Task-Agnostic Class-Incremental Learning. ICML, 2025.
9. Junye Chen , Chaowei Fang , Jichang Li , Yicheng Leng , Guanbin Li . Decouple and Couple: Exploiting Prior Knowledge for Visible Video Watermark Removal. TIP, 2025.
10. De Cheng , Lei Wei , Chaowei Fang , Lingfeng He , Nannan Wang , Xinbo Gao . Progressive Feature-Attribute Matching via Bi-directional Generation for Transductive Zero-Shot Learning. TCSVT, 2025.
11. Chengqing Cai , Shuangyi Tan , Xinmiao Wang , Bohao Zhang , Chaowei Fang , Guanbin Li , Longqin Xu , Shuangyin Liu , Ruixin Wang . Real-Time Detection of Hypoxia Stress Behavior in Aquaculture Fish Using an Enhanced YOLOv8 Model. Aquaculture International, 2025.
12. Xiaoqian Zhu , Xiangrong Zhang , Tianyang Zhang , Chaowei Fang , Xu Tang , Licheng Jiao . RegionMatch: Pixel-Region Collaboration for Semi-Supervised Semantic Segmentation in Remote Sensing Images. IJCAI, 2025.
13. Chaowei Fang , Hangfei Ma , Zhihao Li , De Cheng , Yue Zhang , Guanbin Li . Screening, Rectifying, and Re-Screening: A Unified Framework for Tuning Vision-Language Models with Noisy Labels. IJCAI, 2025.
14. Yue Zhang , Yiyi Chen , Chaowei Fang , Qian Wang , Jiayi Wu , Jingmin Xin . Learning from Open-set Noisy Labels based on Multi-prototype Modeling. PR, 2025.
15. Sen Chen , Hongying Liu , Chaowei Fang , Fanhua Shang , Yuanyuan Liu , Liang Wan , Dongmei Jiang , Yaowei Wang . Unsupervised Degradation Representation Aware Transform for Real-World Blind Image Super-Resolution. AAAI, 2025.
16. Zhenhua Wu , Linxuan Jiang , Xiang Li , Chaowei Fang , Yipeng Qin , Guanbin Li . Hierarchically Controlled Deformable 3D Gaussians for Talking Head Synthesis. AAAI, 2025.
17. Yicheng Leng , Chaowei Fang , Junye Chen , Yixiang Fang , Sheng Li , Guanbin Li . Bridging Knowledge Gap between Image Inpainting and Large-Area Visible Watermark Removal. AAAI, 2025.
18. Ying Yang , De Cheng , Chaowei Fang , Yubiao Wang , Changzhe Jiao , Lechao Cheng , Nannan Wang , Xinbo Gao . Diffusion-based Layer-wise Semantic Reconstruction for Unsupervised Out-of-Distribution Detection. NeurIPS, 2024.
19. De Cheng , Haichun Tai , Nannan Wang , Chaowei Fang , Xinbo Gao . Neighbor Consistency and Global-Local Interaction: A Novel Pseudo-label Refinement Approach for Unsupervised Person Re-Identification. TIFS, 2024.
20. Yubo Li , De Cheng , Chaowei Fang , Changzhe Jiao , Nannan Wang , Xinbo Gao . Disentangling Identity Features from Interference Factors for Cloth-Changing Person Re-Identification. ACM MM, 2024.
21. Guanbin Li , Zhuohua Chen , Mingzhi Mao , Liang Lin , Chaowei Fang . Uncertainty-aware Active Domain Adaptive Salient Object Detection. TIP, 2024.
22. Yuzhu Wang , Lechao Cheng , Chaowei Fang , Dingwen Zhang , Manni Duan , Meng Wang . Revisiting the Power of Prompt for Visual Tuning. ICML, 2024.
23. Kaihui Yang , Junwei Han , Guangyu Guo , Chaowei Fang , Yingzi Fan , Lechao Cheng , Dingwen Zhang . Progressive Adapting and Pruning: Domain-Incremental Learning for Saliency Prediction. TOMM, 2024.
24. Deguang Chen , Jianrui Chen , Chaowei Fang , Zhichao Zhang . Complex visual question answering based on uniform form and content. Appl. Int., 2024.
25. Jingxuan He , Lechao Cheng , Chaowei Fang , Zunlei Feng , Tingting Mu , Mingli Song . Progressive Feature Self-Reinforcement for Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation. AAAI, 2024.
26. Yicheng Leng , Chaowei Fang , Gen Li , Yixiang Fang , Guanbin Li . Removing Interference and Recovering Content Imaginatively for Visible Watermark Removal. AAAI, 2024.
27. Chaowei Fang , Ziyin Zhou , Junye Chen , Hanjing Su , Qingyao Wu , Guanbin Li . Variance-insensitive and Target-preserving Mask Refinement for Interactive Image Segmentation. AAAI, 2024.
28. Dingwen Zhang , Hao Li , Wenyuan Zeng , Chaowei Fang , Lechao Cheng , Ming-Ming Cheng , and Junwei Han . Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation via Alternate Self-Dual Teaching. TIP, 2023.
29. Ziyi Zhang , Weikai Chen , Chaowei Fang , Zhen Li , Lechao Cheng , Liang Lin , Guanbin Li . RankMatch: Fostering Confidence and Consistency in Learning with Noisy Labels. ICCV, 2023.
30. Ruifei Zhang , Feng Zhang , Dejun Fan , Chaowei Fang , Xiang Wan , Guanbin Li , Xutao Lin . Multi-task Learning with Hierarchical Guidance for Locating and Stratifying Submucosal Tumors. JBHI, 2023.
31. Chaowei Fang , Lechao Cheng , Yining Mao , Dingwen Zhang , Yixiang Fang , Guanbin Li , Huiyan Qi , Licheng Jiao . Separating Noisy Samples from Tail Classes for Long-Tailed Image Classification with Label Noise. TNNLS, 2023.
32. Shuang Wang , Qi Zang , Chaowei Fang , Dou Quan , Yutong Wan , Biao Hou , Licheng Jiao . Select, Purify and Exchange: A Multi-Source Unsupervised Domain Adaptation Method for Building Extraction. TNNLS, 2023.
33. Weizhi Zhong , Chaowei Fang , Yinqi Cai , Pengxu Wei , Gangming Zhao , Liang Lin , Guanbin Li . Identity-Preserving Talking Face Generation with Landmark and Appearance Priors. CVPR, 2023.
34. Chaowei Fang , Qian Wang , Lechao Cheng , Zhifan Gao , Chengwei Pan , Zhen Cao , Zhaohui Zheng , Dingwen Zhang . Reliable Mutual Distillation for Medical Image Segmentation under Imperfect Annotations. TMI, 2023.
35. Yuxiang Nie , Chaowei Fang , Lechao Cheng , Liang Lin , Guanbin Li . Adapting Object Size Variance and Class Imbalance for Semi-Supervised Object Detection. AAAI, 2023.
36. Kuo Wang , Jingyu Zhuang , Guanbin Li , Chaowei Fang , Lechao Cheng , Liang Lin , Fan Zhou . De-biased Teacher: Rethinking IoU Matching for Semi-Supervised Object Detection. AAAI, 2023.
37. Jiaming Li , Chaowei Fang , Guanbin Li . Gradient-Rebalanced Uncertainty Minimization for Cross-Site Adaptation of Medical Image Segmentation. PRCV, 2022.
38. Lechao Cheng , Chaowei Fang , Dingwen Zhang , Guanbin Li , Gang Huang . Compound Batch Normalization for Long-tailed Image Classification. ACM MM, 2022.
39. Chaowei Fang , Dingwen Zhang , Liang Wang , Yulun Zhang , Lechao Cheng , Junwei Han . Cross-Modality High-Frequency Transformer for MR Image Super-Resolution. ACM MM, 2022.
40. Kuo Wang , Yuxiang Nie , Chaowei Fang , Chengzhi Han , Xuewen Wu , Xiaohui Wang , Liang Lin , Fan Zhou , Guanbin Li . Double-Check Soft Teacher for Semi-Supervised Object Detection. IJCAI, 2022.
41. Chaowei Fang , Liang Wang , Dingwen Zhang , Jun Xu , Yixuan Yuan , Junwei Han . Incremental Cross-view Mutual Distillation for Self-supervised Medical CT Synthesis. CVPR, 2022. PDF
42. Xinkai Zhao , Chaowei Fang , De-Jun Fan , Xutao Lin , Feng Gao , Guanbin Li . Cross-level Contrastive Learning and Consistency Constraint for Semi-supervised Medical Image Segmentation. ISBI, 2022. PDF
43. Chaowei Fang , Xue Li , Zhongyu Li , Licheng Jiao , Dingwen Zhang . Interactive Dual-Model Learning for Semi-supervised Medical Image Segmentation (in Chinese). ACTA AUTOMATICA SINICA, 2022.
44. Chaowei Fang , Haibin Tian , Dingwen Zhang , Qiang Zhang , Jungong Han , Junwei Han . Densely Nested Top-Down Flows for Salient Object Detection. SCIS, 2021. PDF
45. Taiping Qu , Xiheng Wang , Chaowei Fang , Li Mao , Juan Li , Ping Li , Jinrong Qu , Xiuli Li , Huadan Xue , Yizhou Yu , Zhengyu Jin . M3Net: A Multi-scale Multi-view Framework for Multi-phase Pancreas Segmentation Based on Cross-phase Non-local Attention. MIA, 2021. PDF
46. Junkai Huang , Chaowei Fang , Weikai Chen , Zhenhua Chai , Xiaolin Wei , Pengxu Wei , Liang Lin , Guanbin Li . Trash to Treasure: Harvesting OOD Data with Cross-Modal Matching for Open-Set Semi-Supervised Learning. ICCV, 2021. PDF
47. Yiyang Huang , Xuefeng Liang , Chaowei Fang . CALLip: Lipreading using Contrastive and Attribute Learning. ACM MM, 2021. PDF
48. Gangming Zhao , Chaowei Fang , Guanbin Li , Licheng Jiao , Yizhou Yu . Contralaterally Enhanced Networks for Thoracic Disease Detection. TMI, 2021. PDF
49. Xinkai Zhao , Chaowei Fang , Feng Gao , De-Jun FAN , Xutao Lin , Guanbin Li . Deep Transformers for Fast Small Intestine Grounding in Capsule Endoscope Video. ISBI, 2021. PDF
50. Dou Xu , Chang Cai , Chaowei Fang , Bin Kong , Jihua Zhu , Zhongyu Li . Graph Neural Networks for Unsupervised Domain Adaptation of Histopathological ImageAnalytics. ISBI, 2021. PDF
51. Feida Zhu , Chaowei Fang , Kai-Kuang Ma . PNEN: Pyramid Non-Local Enhanced Networks. TIP, 2020. PDF
52. Jixin Wang , Sanping Zhou , Chaowei Fang , Le Wang , Jinjun Wang . Meta Corrupted Pixels Mining for Medical Image Segmentation. MICCAI, 2020. PDF
53. Zhongyu Li , Xiayue Fan , Zengyi Shang , Lina Zhang , Haotian Zhen , Chaowei Fang . Towards Computational Analytics of 3D Neuron Images using Deep Adversarial Learning. Neurocomputing, 2020. PDF
54. Chaowei Fang , Guanbin Li , Xiaoguang Han , Yizhou Yu . Self-Enhanced Convolutional Network for Facial Video Hallucination. TIP, 2019. PDF
55. Chaowei Fang , Guanbin Li , Chengwei Pan , Yiming Li , Yizhou Yu . Globally Guided Progressive Fusion Network for 3D Pancreas Segmentation. MICCAI, 2019. PDF
56. Chaowei Fang , Zicheng Liao , Yizhou Yu . Piecewise Flat Embedding for Image Segmentation. TPAMI, 2019. PDF Code
57. Zhongyu Li , Chaowei Fang , Shaoting Zhang . Deep Feature Representation for The Computational Analytics of 3D Neuronal Morphology. ISBI, 2018. PDF
58. Wei Zhang , Chaowei Fang , Guanbin Li . Automatic Colorization with Improved Spatial Coherence and Boundary Localization. JCST, 2017.
59. Yizhou Yu , Chaowei Fang , Zicheng Liao . Piecewise Flat Embedding for Image Segmentation. ICCV, 2015. PDF

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