About Me

I am currently a senior researcher at Samsung Research China - Beijing (SRC-B). I obtained M.S. degree in Electronic Science and Technology in 2019 from the school of Guizhou University. My research interest is to solve challenging problems in image restoration and face recognition. I have won multiple championships about image restoration in the CVPR competitions. My current work mainly focuses on image super resolution, nighttime flare removal and face clustering.

Experiences

Senior Researcher | Samsung Research China - Beijing (SRC-B)
Image Restoration and Face clustering
Time: July 2019 - present.

School-enterprise Cooperation | Samsung & Tsinghua University
Face clustering
Time: Aug 2022 - Aug 2023. Advisor: Prof. Jiwen Lu

Samsung Best Paper Award

Neighbor-Aware Face Clustering for Mobile Gallery
Samsung Best Paper Award, SBPA 2023  
Silver Award (Top 1.66%)
Dafeng Zhang, Jiangbo Guo and Zhezhu Jin.
[Paper] [Code]

How to Push the Swin Transformer to SOTA at Image Super-Resolution?
Samsung Best Paper Award, SBPA 2023  
Bronze Award (Top 4.24%)
Dafeng Zhang, Xiaobing Wang, Feiyu Huang, Shizhuo Liu and Zhezhu Jin.
[Paper] [Code]

Publications [Google Scholar]

CLIP-Cluster: CLIP-Guided Attribute Hallucination for Face Clustering
International Conference on Computer Vision, ICCV 2023  
Poster
Shuai Shen, Wanhua Li, Xiaobing Wang, Dafeng Zhang, Zhezhu Jin, Jie Zhou and Jiwen Lu.
[Paper] [Code]

FF-Former: Swin Fourier Transformer for Nighttime Flare Removal
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshop, CVPRW 2023  
Dafeng Zhang, Jia Ouyang, Guanqun Liu, Xiaobing Wang, Xiangyu Kong and Zhezhu Jin.
[Paper] [Code]

NAFBET: Bokeh Effect Transformation with Parameter Analysis Block based on NAFNet
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshop, CVPRW 2023  
Xiangyu Kong, Fan Wang, Dafeng Zhang, Jinlong Wu and Zikun Liu.
[Paper] [Code]

Context-Aware Face Clustering with Graph Convolutional Networks
International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2023  
Dafeng Zhang, Jiangbo Guo and Zhezhu Jin.
[Paper] [Code]

MRNet: Multi-Refinement Network for Dual-pixel Images Defocus Deblurring
International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2023  
Oral
Dafeng Zhang, Xiaobing Wang and Zhezhu Jin.
[Paper] [Code]

Dynamic Multi-Scale Network for Dual-Pixel Images Defocus Deblurring with Transformer
International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, ICME 2022  
Oral
Dafeng Zhang and Xiaobing Wang.
[Paper] [Code]

Technical Reports

SwinFIR: Revisiting the SWINIR with fast Fourier convolution and improved training for image super-resolution
arXiv Preprint, 2023
Dafeng Zhang, Feiyu Huang, Shizhuo Liu, Xiaobing Wang and Zhezhu Jin.
[Paper] [Code]

Challenge Awards

2024

NTIRE 2024 Challenge on Stereo Image Super-Resolution: Track 1
New Trends in Image Restoration and Enhancement Workshop (NTIRE), CVPR 2024  
Winner Award
Davinci and Saining Zhang.
[Report]

NTIRE 2024 Challenge on Stereo Image Super-Resolution: Track 2
New Trends in Image Restoration and Enhancement Workshop (NTIRE), CVPR 2024  
Winner Award
Davinci and Saining Zhang.
[Report]

2023

MIPI 2023 Challenge on Nighttime Flare Removal
Mobile Intelligent Photography and Imaging WorkShop (MIPI), CVPR 2023  
Best Visualization Award
Dafeng Zhang, Xiangyu Kong, Guanqun Liu, Mengmeng Bai, Jia Ouyang, Xiaobing Wang and Jiahui Yuan.
[Report]

NTIRE 2023 Challenge on Stereo Image Super-Resolution: Track 1
New Trends in Image Restoration and Enhancement Workshop (NTIRE), CVPR 2023  
Winner Award
Dafeng Zhang, Jia Li, Fan Wang and Zheng Xie.
[Report]

NTIRE 2023 Challenge on Stereo Image Super-Resolution: Track 2
New Trends in Image Restoration and Enhancement Workshop (NTIRE), CVPR 2023  
Winner Award
Dafeng Zhang, Jia Li, Fan Wang and Zheng Xie.
[Report]

NTIRE 2023 Challenge on Lens-to-Lens Bokeh Effect Transformation
New Trends in Image Restoration and Enhancement Workshop (NTIRE), CVPR 2023  
Winner Award
Xiangyu Kong, Dafeng Zhang, Jinlong Wu and Fan Wang.
[Report]

NTIRE 2023 Challenge on HR Depth from Images of Specular and Transparent Surfaces Track 1: Stereo
New Trends in Image Restoration and Enhancement Workshop (NTIRE), CVPR 2023  
Winner Award
Jun Shi, Dafeng Zhang, Yong A, Yixiang Jin and Dingzhe Li.
[Report]

NTIRE 2023 Challenge on Image Denoising
New Trends in Image Restoration and Enhancement Workshop (NTIRE), CVPR 2023  
Runner-Up Award
Xiangyu Kong, Jinlong Wu, Dafeng Zhang and Jianxing Zhang.
[Report]

NTIRE 2023 Challenge on Stereo Image Super-Resolution: Track 3
New Trends in Image Restoration and Enhancement Workshop (NTIRE), CVPR 2023  
3rd Place Award
Dafeng Zhang, Jia Li, Fan Wang and Zheng Xie.
[Report]

NTIRE 2023 Challenge on Image Super-Resolution (×4)
New Trends in Image Restoration and Enhancement Workshop (NTIRE), CVPR 2023  
4th Place Award
Dafeng Zhang, Jia Li, Fan Wang and Chunmiao Li.
[Report]

2022

百度网盘AI大赛:图像处理挑战赛-文档图像摩尔纹消除赛
Baidu
Winner Award
Dafeng Zhang, Xiaobing Wang and Zhezhu Jin.
[Leaderboard] [Code]

MIPI 2022 Challenge on Under-display Camera Image Restoration
Mobile Intelligent Photography and Imaging WorkShop (MIPI), ECCV 2022  
3rd Place Award
Dafeng Zhang, Feiyu Huang, Shizhuo Liu, Xiaobing Wang, and Zhezhu Jin.
[Report]

AIM 2022 Challenge on Super-Resolution of Compressed Image
Advances in Image Manipulation Workshop (AIM), ECCV 2022  
4th Place Award
Dafeng Zhang, Xiaobing Wang and Zhezhu Jin.
[Report]

2021

NTIRE 2021 Challenge on Defocus Deblurring using Dual-pixel Images
New Trends in Image Restoration and Enhancement Workshop (NTIRE), CVPR 2021  
Winner Award
Dafeng Zhang and Xiaobing Wang.
[Report]

NTIRE 2021 Challenge on Image Deblurring: Track 2 JPEG Artifacts
New Trends in Image Restoration and Enhancement Workshop (NTIRE), CVPR 2021  
Runner-Up Award
Xiaobing Wang and Dafeng Zhang.
[Report]

NTIRE 2021 Challenge on Image Deblurring: Track 1 Low Resolution
New Trends in Image Restoration and Enhancement Workshop (NTIRE), CVPR 2021  
4th Place Award
Dafeng Zhang and Xiaobing Wang.
[Report]

Academic Services

Conference and Workshop Committee: Journal Reviewer:
  • International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV)
  • IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (TNNLS)
Conference Reviewer:
  • The IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
  • IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)