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Dafeng Zhang

Samsung Research China - Beijing (SRC-B)
dfeng.zhang@samsung.com


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 restoration, image generation and face clustering.

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Experiences

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

    2. Cooperation

  2. University Cooperation | Samsung & Nankai University
    Face Generation
    Advisor: Prof. Mingming Cheng and Yaxing Wang.
    Time: Dec 2024 - present.

  3. University Cooperation | Samsung & Tsinghua University
    Face Clustering
    Advisor: Prof. Jiwen Lu.
    Time: Aug 2022 - Aug 2023.

    4. Publications

  4. AAAI
    Enhancing Noise Resilience in Face Clustering via Sparse Differential Transformer
    Dafeng Zhang, Yongqi song and Shizhuo Liu
    The Fortieth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2026.
    PDF Code BibTex Poster Presentation

  5. NeurIPS
    DIFFSSR: Stereo Image Super-resolution Using Differential Transformer
    Dafeng Zhang
    The Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2025.
    PDF Code BibTex Poster Presentation

  6. NeurIPS
    From Cradle to Cane: A Two-Pass Framework for High-Fidelity Lifespan Face Aging
    Tao Liu, Dafeng Zhang, Gengchen Li, Shizhuo Liu, Yongqi song, Senmao Li, Shiqi Yang, Boqian Li, Kai Wang, Yaxing Wang
    The Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2025.
    PDF Code BibTex Poster Presentation

  7. ICASSP
    MambaNext: An Enhanced Backbone Network with Focus Linear Attention
    Dafeng Zhang and Shizhuo Liu
    IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2025.
    PDF Code BibTex Poster Presentation

  8. ICASSP
    Find Details in Long Videos: Tower-of-Thoughts and Self-Retrieval Augmented Generation for Video Understanding
    Tong Yue, Mingrui Xiao, Dafeng Zhang, Xin Liu, Yali Li and Shengjin Wang
    IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2025.
    PDF Code BibTex Poster Presentation

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

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

  11. ICCV
    CLIP-Cluster: CLIP-Guided Attribute Hallucination for Face Clustering
    Shuai Shen, Wanhua Li, Xiaobing Wang, Dafeng Zhang, Zhezhu Jin, Jie Zhou and Jiwen Lu
    IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2023.
    PDF Code BibTex Poster Presentation

  12. CVPRW
    FF-Former: Swin Fourier Transformer for Nighttime Flare Removal
    Dafeng Zhang, Jia Ouyang, Guanqun Liu, Xiaobing Wang, Xiangyu Kong and Zhezhu Jin
    IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshop (CVPRW), 2023.
    PDF Code BibTex Best Visualization Award in MIPI2024

  13. CVPRW
    NAFBET: Bokeh Effect Transformation with Parameter Analysis Block based on NAFNet
    Xiangyu Kong, Fan Wang, Dafeng Zhang, Jinlong Wu and Zikun Liu
    IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshop (CVPRW), 2023.
    PDF Code BibTex Winner Award in NTIRE2023

  14. ICASSP
    Context-Aware Face Clustering with Graph Convolutional Networks
    Dafeng Zhang, Jiangbo Guo and Zhezhu Jin
    IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2023.
    PDF Code BibTex Poster Presentation

  15. ICASSP
    MRNet: Multi-Refinement Network for Dual-pixel Images Defocus Deblurring
    Dafeng Zhang, Xiaobing Wang and Zhezhu Jin
    IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2023.
    PDF Code BibTex Winner Award in NTIRE2021

  16. ICME
    Dynamic Multi-Scale Network for Dual-Pixel Images Defocus Deblurring with Transformer
    Dafeng Zhang and Xiaobing Wang
    IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo(ICME), 2022.
    PDF Code BibTex Oral Presentation

  17. ArXiv
    SwinFIR: Revisiting the SWINIR with fast Fourier convolution and improved training for image super-resolution
    Dafeng Zhang, Feiyu Huang, Shizhuo Liu, Xiaobing Wang and Zhezhu Jin
    ArXiv Preprint(ArXiv), 2022.
    PDF Code BibTex Winner Award in NTIRE2023/2024

    18. Challenge Awards

    2025
  18. CVPR
    NTIRE 2025 NTIRE Image Super-Resolution (x4): Track 1
    Xiangyu Kong, Xiaoxuan Yu, Hyunhee Park, Suejin Han, Hakjae Jeon, Dafeng Zhang and Hyung-Ju Chun
    New Trends in Image Restoration and Enhancement Workshop (NTIRE), 2025.
    Report Winner Award

  19. CVPR
    NTIRE 2025 NTIRE Image Super-Resolution (x4): Track 2
    Xiangyu Kong, Xiaoxuan Yu, Hyunhee Park, Suejin Han, Hakjae Jeon, Dafeng Zhang and Hyung-Ju Chun
    New Trends in Image Restoration and Enhancement Workshop (NTIRE), 2025.
    Report 3rd Place Award

  20. ICCV
    AIM 2025 High FPS Motion Deblurring - Track 2 High Motion
    Dafeng Zhang, Yongqi Song, Jiangbo Guo and Shuhua Jin
    Advances in Image Manipulation workshop (AIM), 2025.
    Report 3rd Place Award

    21. 2024
  21. CVPR
    NTIRE 2024 Challenge on Stereo Image Super-Resolution: Track 1
    Davinci and Saining Zhang
    New Trends in Image Restoration and Enhancement Workshop (NTIRE), 2024.
    Report Winner Award

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

    23. 2023
  23. CVPR
    MIPI 2023 Challenge on Nighttime Flare Removal
    Dafeng Zhang, Xiangyu Kong, Guanqun Liu, Mengmeng Bai, Jia Ouyang, Xiaobing Wang and Jiahui Yuan
    Mobile Intelligent Photography and Imaging WorkShop(MIPI), 2023.
    Report Best Visualization Award

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

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

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

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

  28. CVPR
    MIPI 2023 Challenge on Nighttime Flare Removal
    Dafeng Zhang, Xiangyu Kong, Guanqun Liu, Mengmeng Bai, Jia Ouyang, Xiaobing Wang and Jiahui Yuan
    Mobile Intelligent Photography and Imaging WorkShop(MIPI), 2023.
    Report 2nd Place Award

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

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

    31. 2022
  31. Baidu
    图像处理挑战赛-文档图像摩尔纹消除赛
    Dafeng Zhang, Xiaobing Wang and Zhezhu Jin
    百度网盘AI大赛(Baidu), 2022.
    Leaderboard Code 一等奖

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

    33. 2021
  33. CVPR
    NTIRE 2021 Challenge on Defocus Deblurring using Dual-pixel Images
    Dafeng Zhang and Xiaobing Wang
    New Trends in Image Restoration and Enhancement Workshop (NTIRE), 2021.
    Report Winner Award

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

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