Xianhong Wen
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Xianhong Wen has a total of 12 co-authors. Here are the top co-authors by number of shared publications:
- Kehua Guo
School of Computer Science and engineering, Central South University, Changsha, China
6 shared publications - Bin Hu
Changsha University of Science and Technology
3 shared publications - Xiangyuan Zhu
Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory of Network Investigational Technology, Hunan Police Academy, China
3 shared publications - Zehui Xiao
School of Computer Science and Engineering, Central South University, China
3 shared publications - Sheng Ren
Hunan University of Arts and Science
2 shared publications - Tianyu Chen
School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences, La Trobe University, Bundoora, VIC, Australia
2 shared publications
Latest Publications
- Open Access
- 24 June 2026
- Published by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications
- Vol. 22 (9) , 1-19
A Lightweight Multi-Modal Attention Fusion Network for Guided Depth Map Super-Resolution
Existing guided depth map super-resolution methods have achieved promising results, but most of these methods suffer from large model parameters and high computational complexity, limiting their practical applicability. To address these challenges, this paper proposes a lightweight guided depth map super-resolution framework based on the Multi-Modal Attention Fusion Network (MAFNet). Specifically, we design a two-branch architecture for MAFNet, wherein the Swin branch captures global dependencies and the CNN branch extracts detailed local features, thus ensuring efficient processing. Furthermore, we propose a triple cross-modal attention module for effective fusion of color and depth information, and a compression selectivity bottleneck module to selectively filter essential features. Experimental evaluation on multiple public datasets demonstrates that the proposed MAFNet achieves a compelling balance between model performance and computational efficiency, offering a robust solution for guided depth map super-resolution.
- 24 June 2026
- Published by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications
- Vol. 22 (9) , 1-19
Open AccessA Lightweight Multi-Modal Attention Fusion Network for Guided Depth Map Super-Resolution
Existing guided depth map super-resolution methods have achieved promising results, but most of these methods suffer from large model parameters and high computational complexity, limiting their practical applicability. To address these challenges, this paper proposes a lightweight guided depth map super-resolution framework based on the Multi-Modal Attention Fusion Network (MAFNet). Specifically, we design a two-branch architecture for MAFNet, wherein the Swin branch captures global dependencies and the CNN branch extracts detailed local features, thus ensuring efficient processing. Furthermore, we propose a triple cross-modal attention module for effective fusion of color and depth information, and a compression selectivity bottleneck module to selectively filter essential features. Experimental evaluation on multiple public datasets demonstrates that the proposed MAFNet achieves a compelling balance between model performance and computational efficiency, offering a robust solution for guided depth map super-resolution.
- 1 January 2026
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
- Vol. 28, 9585-9595
Dual Representation Aggregation Network for Blind Image Super-Resolution via Iterative Bi-Level Optimization
- 1 January 2026
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
- Vol. 28, 9585-9595
Dual Representation Aggregation Network for Blind Image Super-Resolution via Iterative Bi-Level Optimization
- 31 December 2025
- Published by Elsevier in Pattern Recognition
- Vol. 174
Degradation-aware graph neural network for blind super-resolution
- 31 December 2025
- Published by Elsevier in Pattern Recognition
- Vol. 174
Degradation-aware graph neural network for blind super-resolution
- Open Access
- 13 June 2025
- Published by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications
Adaptive Alignment Contrastive Learning of Degradation Prediction for Blind Image Super-Resolution
Blind super-resolution (BSR) is entering a new era focused on diverse and complex applications, where the trade-off between generalization and performance prevents models from performing as they should. Model performance decreases when trained on multiple degraded images due to the inter-class and intra-class imbalances in degradation prediction, which consists of degradation sampling and estimation. The inter-class imbalance in degradation estimation causes inaccurate estimates, leading to severe artifacts in images. The intra-class imbalance in degradation sampling causes a long-tail problem, leading to model collapse and satisfactory results only in specific applications. To tackle these challenges, we propose adaptive alignment contrastive learning (AACL), which includes adaptive degradation sampling (ADS) and \(\sigma\) -alignment. ADS utilizes nonlinear sampling by weighting the parameters of the degradation process for training uniformly degraded images, avoiding the long-tail problem. \(\sigma\) -alignment controls the standard deviation among positive samples, we identify a subset with small degraded distance, which aids contrastive learning in extracting representations more effectively. We extend AACL to several CNN-based and Transformer-based methods by coming up with a 6 \(\times\) 6 fair architecture with degradation representation fusion block (DRFB) and degradation representation fusion group (DRFG). DRFB and DRFG are designed for degradation representation fusion and image reconstruction, respectively. We evaluate on 6 types of degradation, and the improvement experiments on synthesized images show that our method balances performance and generalization, and is applicable to networks with different architectures. The comparison experiments show that our improved methods achieve promising results compared to SOTA methods. Code is available at: https://github.com/para999/AACL.- 13 June 2025
- Published by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications
Open AccessAdaptive Alignment Contrastive Learning of Degradation Prediction for Blind Image Super-Resolution
Blind super-resolution (BSR) is entering a new era focused on diverse and complex applications, where the trade-off between generalization and performance prevents models from performing as they should. Model performance decreases when trained on multiple degraded images due to the inter-class and intra-class imbalances in degradation prediction, which consists of degradation sampling and estimation. The inter-class imbalance in degradation estimation causes inaccurate estimates, leading to severe artifacts in images. The intra-class imbalance in degradation sampling causes a long-tail problem, leading to model collapse and satisfactory results only in specific applications. To tackle these challenges, we propose adaptive alignment contrastive learning (AACL), which includes adaptive degradation sampling (ADS) and \(\sigma\) -alignment. ADS utilizes nonlinear sampling by weighting the parameters of the degradation process for training uniformly degraded images, avoiding the long-tail problem. \(\sigma\) -alignment controls the standard deviation among positive samples, we identify a subset with small degraded distance, which aids contrastive learning in extracting representations more effectively. We extend AACL to several CNN-based and Transformer-based methods by coming up with a 6 \(\times\) 6 fair architecture with degradation representation fusion block (DRFB) and degradation representation fusion group (DRFG). DRFB and DRFG are designed for degradation representation fusion and image reconstruction, respectively. We evaluate on 6 types of degradation, and the improvement experiments on synthesized images show that our method balances performance and generalization, and is applicable to networks with different architectures. The comparison experiments show that our improved methods achieve promising results compared to SOTA methods. Code is available at: https://github.com/para999/AACL. - 20 February 2025
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems
- Vol. 26 (9) , 14215-14224
Backdoor Defense in Transportation Cyber-Physical Systems Using Frequency Domain Hybrid Distillation
In the context of transportation cyber-physical systems (T-CPS), backdoor attacks leveraging traffic images have emerged as a significant security threat. As T-CPS increasingly relies on visual information, such as real-time images captured by traffic cameras, for tasks like traffic sign recognition and autonomous driving, the risk of image-based backdoor attacks has grown substantially. Although various detection-based defense techniques have shown some success in identifying backdoored models, they often fail to fully eliminate backdoor effects, leaving residual security risks. To address this challenge, we propose a Frequency-Domain Hybrid Distillation (FDHD) method for backdoor defense, which effectively weakens the association between backdoor triggers and target labels by combining distillation mechanisms in both the frequency and pixel domains. Furthermore, we design a loss function that integrates feature reconstruction with adaptive alignment, enhancing the student network’s ability to mimic the teacher network and thereby bolstering the backdoor defense capability. Extensive experiments conducted by FDHD on multiple benchmark datasets against the five latest attacks demonstrate that our proposed defense method effectively reduces backdoor threats while maintaining high accuracy in predicting clean samples. This approach will protect against image-based backdoor attacks in T-CPS and lay the foundation for enhancing future traffic safety.
- 20 February 2025
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems
- Vol. 26 (9) , 14215-14224
Backdoor Defense in Transportation Cyber-Physical Systems Using Frequency Domain Hybrid Distillation
In the context of transportation cyber-physical systems (T-CPS), backdoor attacks leveraging traffic images have emerged as a significant security threat. As T-CPS increasingly relies on visual information, such as real-time images captured by traffic cameras, for tasks like traffic sign recognition and autonomous driving, the risk of image-based backdoor attacks has grown substantially. Although various detection-based defense techniques have shown some success in identifying backdoored models, they often fail to fully eliminate backdoor effects, leaving residual security risks. To address this challenge, we propose a Frequency-Domain Hybrid Distillation (FDHD) method for backdoor defense, which effectively weakens the association between backdoor triggers and target labels by combining distillation mechanisms in both the frequency and pixel domains. Furthermore, we design a loss function that integrates feature reconstruction with adaptive alignment, enhancing the student network’s ability to mimic the teacher network and thereby bolstering the backdoor defense capability. Extensive experiments conducted by FDHD on multiple benchmark datasets against the five latest attacks demonstrate that our proposed defense method effectively reduces backdoor threats while maintaining high accuracy in predicting clean samples. This approach will protect against image-based backdoor attacks in T-CPS and lay the foundation for enhancing future traffic safety.
- 18 February 2025
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
- Vol. 27 (15209210) , 5352-5362
GAN Prior-Enhanced Novel View Synthesis From Monocular Degraded Images
With the escalating demand for three-dimensional visual applications such as gaming, virtual reality, and autonomous driving, novel view synthesis has become a critical area of research. Current methods mainly depend on multiple views of the same subject to achieve satisfactory results, but there is often a significant lack of available data. Typically, only a single degraded image is available for reconstruction, which may be affected by occlusion, low resolution, or absence of color information. To overcome this limitation, we propose a two-stage feature matching approach designed specifically for single degraded images, leading to the synthesis of high-quality novel perspective images. This method involves the sequential use of an encoder for feature extraction followed by the fine-tuning of a generator for feature matching. Additionally, the integration of an information filtering module proposed by us during the GAN inversion process helps eliminate misleading information present in degraded images, thereby correcting the inversion direction. Extensive experimental results show that our method outperforms existing state-of-the-art single-view novel view synthesis techniques in handling challenges like occluded, grayscale, and low-resolution images. Moreover, the efficacy of our method remains unparalleled even when aforementioned method integrated with image restoration algorithms.
- 18 February 2025
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
- Vol. 27 (15209210) , 5352-5362
GAN Prior-Enhanced Novel View Synthesis From Monocular Degraded Images
With the escalating demand for three-dimensional visual applications such as gaming, virtual reality, and autonomous driving, novel view synthesis has become a critical area of research. Current methods mainly depend on multiple views of the same subject to achieve satisfactory results, but there is often a significant lack of available data. Typically, only a single degraded image is available for reconstruction, which may be affected by occlusion, low resolution, or absence of color information. To overcome this limitation, we propose a two-stage feature matching approach designed specifically for single degraded images, leading to the synthesis of high-quality novel perspective images. This method involves the sequential use of an encoder for feature extraction followed by the fine-tuning of a generator for feature matching. Additionally, the integration of an information filtering module proposed by us during the GAN inversion process helps eliminate misleading information present in degraded images, thereby correcting the inversion direction. Extensive experimental results show that our method outperforms existing state-of-the-art single-view novel view synthesis techniques in handling challenges like occluded, grayscale, and low-resolution images. Moreover, the efficacy of our method remains unparalleled even when aforementioned method integrated with image restoration algorithms.