Welcome to my academic homepage. I am Xu Zhang, a Ph.D. candidate at Wuhan University (WHU). I am affiliated with the SIGMA Lab, which is headed by Prof. Bo Du, and I am advised by Prof. Lefei Zhang. Before that, I obtained a M.Eng degree from Guangdong University of Technology (GDUT) advised by Dr. Huan Zhang and Prof. Nian Cai. I worked as a research intern at Horizon Robotics, collaborating with Dr. Guoli Wang and Dr. Qian Zhang. I’m fortunate to work closely with Prof. Weisi Lin from Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and Prof. Yun Zhang from Sun Yat-sen University (SYSU). My research interests include:

• Low-level Vision Perception: All-in-One image restoration, Agentic image restoration, Image/Video quality assessment
• Multimodal Learning: Text-to-Image generation, Diffusion model

📧 I am open to collaboration and welcome inquiries from anyone interested in my research. Please feel free to concat.

📱 Contact

• WeChat: ZhangXu_0809
• Email: zhangx0802@whu.edu.cn

🔥 News

• 2025.11: 🎉🎉🎉 Two paper (Any2RSI, ClearAIR) have been accepted by AAAI’2026!
• 2025.09: 🎉🎉🎉 One paper (UniUIR) has been accepted by IEEE-TIP!
• 2025.04: 🎉🎉🎉 One paper (Perceive-IR) has been accepted by IEEE-TIP!

📝 Publications

(* equal contribution, ^# corresponding author)

Under Review

From Visibility to Detection: Saliency-Guided Underwater Image Restoration with Hierarchical Dual-Branch Refinement

Laibin Chang, Yunke Wang, Xu Zhang, Kui Jiang, Shaodong Wang, Bo Du

PDF | Project

AAAI'26 (Oral)

Any2RSI: Controllable Remote Sensing Text-to-Image Generation via Any Control and Enriched Description

Xu Zhang, Jianzhong Huang, Lefei Zhang

PDF | Project

Under Review

Hierarchical Graph Attention Network for No-Reference Omnidirectional Image Quality Assessment

Hao Yang*, Xu Zhang*, Jiaqi Ma, Linwei Zhu, Yun Zhang, Huan Zhang, Weisi Lin

PDF | Project

AAAI'26

ClearAIR: A Human-Visual-Perception-Inspired All-in-One Image Restoration

Xu Zhang, Huan Zhang, Guoli Wang, Qian Zhang, Lefei Zhang

PDF | Project

TIP 2025

Perceive-IR: Learning to Perceive Degradation Better for All-in-One Image Restoration

Xu Zhang*, Jiaqi Ma*, Guoli Wang, Qian Zhang, Huan Zhang, Lefei Zhang

PDF | Project

TIP 2025

UniUIR: Considering Underwater Image Restoration as An All-in-One Learner

Xu Zhang, Huan Zhang, Guoli Wang, Qian Zhang, Lefei Zhang, Bo Du

PDF | Project

CVIU 2025

Joint Multi-dimensional Dynamic Attention and Transformer for General Image Restoration

Huan Zhang, Xu Zhang^#, Nian Cai^#, Jianglei Di, Yun Zhang

PDF | Code

TCSVT 2023

AFD-Former: A Hybrid Transformer With Asymmetric Flow Division for Synthesized View Quality Enhancement

Xu Zhang; Nian Cai, Huan Zhang, Yun Zhang, Jianglei Di, Weisi Lin

PDF | Code

• Texture and Structural Distortion Metric based on Dual-Tree Complex Wavelet Transform for DIBR-synthesized Image Quality Assessment. Digital Signal Processing 2025.
  [paper]
  Huan Zhang, Zhijun Xiong, Xu Zhang, Jiangzhong Cao, Yun Zhang
• Enhancing 3D video watching experiences: Tackling compression and 3D warping distortions in synthesized view with perceptual guidance. Expert Systems with Applications 2025.
  [paper]
  Huan Zhang, Xu Zhang, Linwei Zhu, Yun Zhang, Jiangzhong Cao, Wing-Kuen Ling
• Unveiling the underwater world: CLIP perception model-guided underwater image enhancement. Pattern Recognition 2025.
  [paper] [code]
  Jiangzhong Cao, Zekai Zeng, Xu Zhang, Huan Zhang, Chunling Fan, Gangyi Jiang, Weisi Lin
• A deep learning framework for the joint prediction of the SOH and RUL of lithium-ion batteries based on bimodal images. Energy 2024.
  [paper]
  Nian Cai, Xiaoping Que, Xu Zhang, Weiguo Feng, Yinghong Zhou

🔬 Internships

• 2023.10-2025.07,    Horizon Robotics,    Research Intern.

💬 Academic Service

• Conference Reviewer: ACMMM 2025, ICLR 2024/2025/2026, AAAI 2026, CVPR 2026.
• Journal Reviewer: TIP, TNNLS, TCSVT, TMM, TGRS, GRSL, SPL, PR.