Zhiwei Zhong received his Ph.D. from the Faculty of Computing,Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT), where he was supervised by Professor Xianming Liu and Professor Debin Zhao. He is currently a postdoctoral researcher at City University of Hong Kong (CityU) under the supervision of Professor Shiqi Wang. His primary research areas are computer vision and image processing, with a focus on image restoration, guided image super-resolution, and deep learning.
🔥 News
- 2023.04: 🎉🎉 One paper titled “Guided Depth Map Super-Resolution: A Survey” has been accepted by ACM CSUR (Top journal, IF=23.8).
- 2024.06: 🎉🎉 We achieved the first place at IEEE CVPR 2024 PBVS Thermal Image Super-resolution Challenge.
📝 Publications

High-Resolution Depth Maps Imaging via Attention-Based Hierarchical Multi-Modal Fusion
Zhiwei Zhong, Xianming Liu, Junjun Jiang, Debin Zhao, Zhiwen Chen, Xiangyang Ji
- Propose a novel attention-based hierarchical multi-modal fusion (AHMF) network for guided depth map supe-resolution.

Deep Attentional Guided Image Filtering
Zhiwei Zhong, Xianming Liu, Junjun Jiang, Debin Zhao, Xiangyang Ji
- Propose a learning-based multi-scale image filtering framework.

Guided Depth Map Super-Resolution: A Survey
Zhiwei Zhong, Xianming Liu, Junjun Jiang, Debin Zhao, Xiangyang Ji
- A comprehensive survey and a benchmark for guided depth map super-resolution.
🎖 Honors and Awards
- 2021.12 Winner of ACM ICMR 2021 Guided Depth Map Super-resolution Challenge.
- 2023.06 Winner of IEEE CVPR 2023 PBVS Thermal Image Super-resolution Challenge, Track 1, SSIM.
- 2023.06 Winner of IEEE CVPR 2023 PBVS Thermal Image Super-resolution Challenge, Track 2.
- 2024.06 Winner of IEEE CVPR 2024 PBVS Thermal Image Super-resolution Challenge, Track 1.
- 2024.06 Winner of IEEE CVPR 2024 PBVS Thermal Image Super-resolution Challenge, Track 2.
- National Scholarship, Heilongjiang Provincial Outstanding Student, Heilongjiang Provincial Outstanding Ph.D. Graduate, HIT Outstanding Ph.D. Graduate, Tencent Scholarship, HIT Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis Nomination ($10\%$)
💼 Work Experience
- 2023.12 - (now), Postdoc Research, Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong (CityU), HK, China.
📖 Educations
- 2017.09 - 2023.09, Ph. D. , School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT), Harbin, China.
- 2013.09 - 2017.06, Bachelor, School of Computer Science and Technology, Heilongjiang University, Harbin, China.
💬 Invited Talks
- 2024.10, Guided Image Super-resolution: From Traditional Methods to Deep Learning (Northeastern University, Shenyang, China).
💻 Internships
- 2018.09 - 2023.12, Peng Cheng Laboratory, Shenzhen, China.