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Zixun Zhang

PhD candidate

Liaoning, China

zhangchlr1995 [at] gmail [dot] com



Last update: 2024.11.15


My name is Zixun Zhang. I am now a final year PhD candidate advised by Dr. Zhen Li with DeepBitLab, FNii at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen (CUHK-Shenzhen).

I got my Academic master's degree and Bachelor's degree at Dalian University of Technology (DLUT) advised by Prof. Na Lei and Prof. Lin Lin. During my master's study, I was a visiting student and research assistant at Shenzhen Research Institute of Big Data (SRIBD), CUHK-Shenzhen mentored by Dr. Zhen Li.

My research interest falls in Efficient Deep Learning, and its application on various CV domains especially on medical image analysis. Specifically,

  1. Optimization Efficiency: aim to train a model better to achieve higher quality metrics (accuracy, F1 score, etc.) and also aim to accelerate the training efficiency.
  2. Label/Data Efficiency: minimize the dependence on data labeling or data amount and enhance the learning efficiency and quality.
  3. Others: model compression or neural architecture search for compact architecture.

Latest News

  • New! 2024.08 - One paper is is accepted by BIBM 2024.
  • New! 2024.05 - One paper is early accepted by MICCAI 2024.
  • 2023.11 - One paper is accepted by Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics.
  • 2023.11 - I'm visiting A*STAR as visiting PhD with Dr. Tao Luo and Dr. Liangli Zhen.
  • 2023.10 - One paper is accepted by BIBM 2023.
  • 2023.06 - One paper is accepted by Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics.
  • 2023.05 - One paper is early accepted by MICCAI 2023.
  • 2023.02 - One paper is accepted by TNNLS.
  • 2022.09 - One paper is accepted by ACCV 2022.
  • 2022.06 - One paper is accepted by ICDCS 2022, EAI Workshop.
  • 2020.01 - One paper is accepted by ECAI 2020.
Experience & Education

PhD candidate at Computer and Information Engineering, CUHK-Shenzhen Sept 2021 - Present
Visiting student and Research assistant, SRIBD, CUHK-Shenzhen Jun 2019 - Aug 2020
M.Eng. student at Software Engineering, DLUT Sept 2017 - Jun 2020
B.Eng. student at Software Engineering (Intensive Japanese), DLUT Sept 2013 - Jun 2017

Publications
(* authors contributed equally to this work)
  1. MetaSelection: Metaheuristic Sub-Structure Selection for Neural Network Pruning Using Evolutionary Algorithm
    ECAI 2020 (Oral Presentation!) [PDF] [2020.01]
    Zixun Zhang, Zhen Li, Lin Lin, Na Lei, Guanbin Li, Shuguang Cui
  2. Temperature Annealing Knowledge Distillation from Averaged Teacher
    ICDCS 2022 EAI Workshop [PDF] [2022.06]
    Xiaozhe Gu, Zixun Zhang, Tao Luo
  3. APAUNet: Axis Projection Attention UNet for Small Target in 3D Medical Segmentation
    ACCV 2022 [PDF] [2022.09]
    Yuncheng Jiang*, Zixun Zhang*, Shixi Qin, Yao Guo, Zhen Li, Shuguang Cui
  4. Hierarchical Weight Averaging for Deep Neural Networks
    IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems [PDF] [2023.02]
    Xiaozhe Gu*, Zixun Zhang*, Yuncheng Jiang, Tao Luo, Ruimao Zhang, Shuguang Cui, Zhen Li
  5. YONA: You Only Need One Adjacent Reference-frame for Accurate and Fast Video Polyp Detection
    MICCAI 2023 (Early Accept) [PDF] [2023.05]
    Yuncheng Jiang*, Zixun Zhang*, Ruimao Zhang, Guanbin Li, Shuguang Cui, Zhen Li
  6. NG-NAS: Node growth neural architecture search for 3D medical image segmentation
    Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics [2023.06]
    Shixi Qin, Zixun Zhang, Yuncheng Jiang, Shuguang Cui, Shenghui Cheng, Zhen Li
  7. ScribblePolyp: Scribble-Supervised Polyp Segmentation through Dual Consistency Alignment
    BIBM 2023 [PDF] [2023.10]
    Zixun Zhang*, Yuncheng Jiang*, Jun Wei, Hanna Cui, Zhen Li
  8. ECC-PolypDet: Enhanced CenterNet with Contrastive Learning for Automatic Polyp Detection
    Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics [PDF] [2023.11]
    Yuncheng Jiang*, Zixun Zhang*, Yiwen Hu*, Guanbin Li, Xiang Wan, Song Wu, Shuguang Cui, Silin Huang, Zhen Li
  9. Towards a Benchmark for Colorectal Cancer Segmentation in Endorectal Ultrasound Videos: Dataset and Model Development
    MICCAI 2024 (Early Accept) [PDF] [2024.05]
    Yuncheng Jiang*, Yiwen Hu*, Zixun Zhang*, Jun Wei, Chun-Mei Feng, Xuemei Tang, Xiang Wan, Yong Liu, Shuguang Cui, Zhen Li
  10. Let Video Teaches You More: Video-to-Image Knowledge Distillation using DEtection TRansformer for Medical Video Lesion Detection
    BIBM 2024 [PDF] [2024.05]
    Yuncheng Jiang*, Zixun Zhang*, Jun Wei*, Chun-Mei Feng, Guanbin Li, Xiang Wan, Shuguang Cui, Zhen Li
Services

  1. Teaching Assistant: MFE5110 Stochastic models (2022 Fall), MFE5150 Financial Data Analysis (2023 Spring).
  2. Journal Reviewer: TNNLS.
  3. Conference Reviewer: KDD 2024, ICONIP 2023, ACM MM 2023, ACCV 2022, ISGIE 2022, SIGIR 2022, ECIR 2021.