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!

📝 Selected Publications

(* equal contribution, # corresponding author)

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InterLight: Leveraging Intrinsic Image Priors for Low-Light Enhancement

Ziqi Wang, Xu Zhang#, Laibin Chang, Shi Chen, Jiaqi Ma, Huan Zhang

PDF | Project

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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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🔬 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.