Biography

Zhou Yuan is currently a professor and doctoral supervisor at the School of Electrical and Information Engineering, Tianjin University. She was a visiting scholar at Princeton University in the United States from 2016 to 2017, and a visiting scholar at the University of Southern Queensland in Australia from 2013 to 2014. Her research interest includes machine learning, image retrieval and recognition, video transmission and analysis, and artificial intelligence oceanography.

She serves as a committee member of the Pattern Recognition Committee of the Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence, the Multimedia Committee of the China Computer Federation, and the Visual Big Data Committee of the Chinese Society of Image and Graphics. She is an IEEE Senior Member.

She has published more than 80 SCI and EI papers and obtained 20 authorized Chinese invention patents. As the project leader, she presided 1 National Key Research and Development Project, 3 National Natural Science Foundation projects. In addition, she presided several provincial projects, ministerial projects, enterprise cooperation projects and military projects. As the main contributor, she won 2 first prizes and 1 second prize of provincial science and technology awards.

Education

Ph D (Communication and Information System), Tianjin University, 2008-2011

MS (Communication and Information System), Tianjin University, 2006-2008

BS (Electronic Information Engineering), Tianjin University, 2002-2006

Research Interests

(1) Machine learning, deep learning

(2) Image retrieval and recognition

(3) Video transmission and analysis

(4) Artificial Intelligence Oceanography

Selected Publications

[1] Yuan Zhou*, Xiaoting Du, Mingfei Wang, etc, “Cross-Scale Residual Network: a General Framework for Image Super-resolution, Denoising, and Deblocking”, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, 2021. (SCI, IF:19.118)

[2] Yuan Zhou*, Shuwei Huo, Wei Xiang, etc, "Semi-Supervised Salient Object Detection Using a Linear Feedback Control System Model", IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, Vol. 49, No. 4, Apr. 2019. (SCI, IF:19.118)

[3] Yuan Zhou*, Jianxing Yang, Hongru Li, etc, “Adversarial Learning for Multiscale Crowd Counting under Complex Scenes”, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, vol. 30, no. 1, pp. 5423-5432, Nov. 2021. (SCI, IF:19.118)

[4] Yuan Zhou*, Xukai Xie, and Sun-Yuan Kung, “Exploiting Operation Importance for Differentiable Neural Architecture Search”, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, 2022. (SCI, IF:14.255)

[5] Shuwei Huo, Yuan Zhou*, Wei Xiang and Sun-Yuan Kung, “Semi-supervised Learning Based on a Novel Iterative Optimization Model for Saliency Detection”, IEEE Transactions on Neural Network and Learning Systems, vol. 30, no. 1, pp. 225-241, Jan. 2019. (SCI, IF:14.255)

[6] Yuan Zhou*, Tao Cao and Wei Xiang，“Anypath Routing Protocol Design via Q-Learning for Underwater Sensor Networks”. IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2 Vol. 8, Issue. 10, pp. 8173 - 8190, May 2021. (SCI, IF: 10.238）

[7] Shuwei Huo, Yuan Zhou*, Jianjun Lei, etc. “Iterative Feedback Control-Based Salient Object Segmentation,” IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, vol. 20, no 6, pp. 1350-1364, Jun 2018. (SCI, IF: 8.182)

[8] Yuan Zhou*, Ailing Mao, Shuwei Huo etc, “Salient Object Detection via Fuzzy Theory and Object-level Enhancement”, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 74-85, Jan. 2019. (SCI, IF: 8.182)

[9] Yuan Zhou, Ruolin Wang*, Hongru Li* and Sun-Yuan Kung, "Temporal Action Localization Using Long Short-Term Dependency," IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, vol. 23, pp. 4363-4375, Dec. 2021. (SCI, IF: 8.182)

[10] Yuan Zhou*, Liyang Feng, etc, “Hyperspectral and Multispectral Image Fusion Based on Local Low Rank and Coupled Spectral Unmixing”, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 55, no. 10, pp. 5997-6009, Oct. 2017. (SCI, IF: 8.125).

[11] Yuan Zhou, Chang Lu, Keran Chen, and Xiaofeng Li*, "Multilayer Fusion Recurrent Neural Network for Sea Surface Height Anomaly Field Prediction," IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 60, pp. 1-11, 2022, Art no. 4205111, doi: 10.1109/TGRS.2021.3126460. (SCI, IF: 8.125).

[12] Yuan Zhou, Keran Chen, and Xiaofeng Li*, “Dual Branch Neural Network for Sea Fog Detection in Geostationary Ocean Color Imager,”accepted by IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 2022. (SCI, IF: 8.125).

[13] Yuan Zhou, Yanjie Feng, Shuwei Huo and Xiaofeng Li*, “Joint Frequency-Spatial Domain Network for Remote Sensing Optical Image Change Detection,”accepted by IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 2022. (SCI, IF: 8.125).

[14] Yuan Zhou*, Tianhao Zhang, Shuwei Huo, etc, “Adaptive Irregular Graph Construction Based Salient Object Detection”, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Vol. 30, Issue 6, Jun. 2020. (SCI, IF: 5.859)

[15] Yuan Zhou*, Qiong Wu, Kangming Yan, etc, “Underwater Image Restoration using Color-Line Model”, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol. 29, no .3, Mar. 2019. (SCI, IF: 5.859)

[16] Yuan Zhou, Kangming Yan, Xiaofeng Li*, “Underwater Image Enhancement via Physical-Feedback Adversarial Transfer Learning” IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering, vol. 47, issue. 1, pp. 76-87, Jan. 2022. (SCI, IF: 3.883)

[17] Yuan Zhou*, Hongyu Yang, Yu-Hen Hu, etc, "Cross-Layer Network Lifetime Maximization in Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks," IEEE Systems Journal, vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 220-231, March 2020. (SCI, IF: 4.802)

[18] Yuan Zhou*, Wei Xiang and Gengkun. Wang, “Frame loss concealment for multi-view video transmission over wireless multimedia sensor networks” IEEE Sensors Journal, vol. 15, no. 3, pp. 1892-1901, Mar. 2015. (SCI, IF: 4.325) 

[19] Wei Xiang, Ning Wang, and Yuan Zhou*, “An Energy-efficient Routing Algorithm for Software-defined Wireless Sensor Networks”,IEEE Sensors Journal, vol. 16, no. 20, pp. 7393-7400, Oct. 2016. (SCI, IF: 4.325)

[20] Yuan Zhou*, Dandan Li, Shuwei Huo and Sun-Yuan Kung, "Shape Autotuning Activation Function", Expert Systems With Applications, vol. 171, 1 June 2021. (SCI, IF: 8.665)

Selected Awards and Honors

(1) Tianjin Youth Science and Technology Outstanding Talents

(2) The Tianjin “131” Innovative Talent

(3) The Excellent Advisor Teacher of the Chinese Institute of Electronics

(4) The Excellent Advisor Teacher of Tianjin

(5) The First Prize for Advance on Science and Technology of Henan in 2020

(6) The First Prize for Technological Invention of Tianjin in 2017

(7) The Second Prize for Advance on Science and Technology of Tianjin in 2013

Teaching Experience

(1) Digital Signal Processing (For undergraduates)

(2) Computer Network and Communication (Bilingual) (For undergraduates)

(3) Machine Vision (For graduates)

(4) 3D Video Processing and Transmission: Basic Principles and Applications (For graduates)