Papers

(†equal contribution, *corresponding author)


Low-Level and Computational Photography

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    Prior Metadata-Driven RAW Reconstruction: Eliminating the Need for Per-Image Metadata
    Wencheng Han†, Chen Zhang†, Yang Zhou, Wentao Liu, Chen Qian, Chengzhong Xu, Jianbing Shen*
    ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM, 2024)

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    Leveraging Frame Affinity for sRGB-to-RAW Video De-rendering
    Chen Zhang†, Wencheng Han†, Yang Zhou, Jianbing Shen*, Chengzhong Xu, Wentao Liu*
    IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR, 2024) [Paper] [Code]

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    Research Progress of Deep Learning Driven Underwater Image Enhancement and Restoration
    Runmin cong, Yumo Zhang, Chen Zhang, Chongyi Li, Yao Zhao
    Journal of Singal Processing (2020, Excellent Papers for 2020-2022, with only two papers in 2020, 2/231=0.87%) [Paper]

Salient Object Detection & Image Segmentation

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    Empowering DINO Representations for Underwater Instance Segmentation via Aligner and Prompter
    Zhiyang Chen†, Chen Zhang†, Hao Fang, Runmin Cong*
    AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI, 2026, Oral)

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    Point-aware Interaction and CNN-induced Refinement Network for RGB-D Salient Object Detection
    Runmin Cong, Hongyu Liu, Chen Zhang*, Wei Zhang, Feng Zheng, Ran Song, Sam Kwong
    ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM, 2023, Oral) [Paper] [Arxiv] [Code]

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    Research Progress of RGB-D Salient Object Detection in Deep Learning Era
    Runmin Cong, Chen Zhang, Mai Xu*, Hongyu Liu, Yao Zhao
    Journal of Software (2022) [Paper]

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    A Weakly Supervised Learning Framework for Salient Object Detection via Hybrid Labels
    Runmin Cong, Qi Qin, Chen Zhang*, Qiuping Jiang, Hua Li, Yao Zhao, Sam Kwong
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT, 2022, ESI Highly Cited Paper) [Paper] [Arxiv] [Code]

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    CIR-Net: Cross-modality Interaction and Refinement Network for RGB-D Salient Object Detection
    Runmin Cong, Qinwei Lin, Chen Zhang*, Chongyi Li*, Yao Zhao, Qingming Huang, Sam Kwong
    IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP, 2022, ESI Highly Cited Paper) [Paper] [Arxiv] [Code]

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    Does Thermal Really Always Matter for RGB-T Salient Object Detection?
    Runmin Cong, Kepu Zhang, Chen Zhang, Feng Zheng, Yao Zhao, Qingming Huang, Sam Kwong
    IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM, 2022, ESI Highly Cited Paper) [Paper] [Arxiv] [Code]

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    A Benchmark Dataset and Baseline Model for Co-salient Object Detection within RGB-D Images
    Ning Yang, Chen Zhang, Yumo Zhang, Haowei Yang, Ling Du*
    Multimedia Tools and Applications (MTAP, 2022) [Paper]

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    GGRNet: Global Graph Reasoning Network for Salient Object Detection in Optical Remote Sensing Images
    Xuan Liu, Yumo Zhang, Runmin Cong*, Chen Zhang, Ning Yang, Chunjie Zhang, Yao Zhao
    Chinese Conference on Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision (PRCV, 2021) [Paper]

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    Cross-Modality Discrepant Interaction Network for RGB-D Salient Object Detection
    Chen Zhang, Runmin Cong*, Qinwei Lin, Lin Ma, Feng Li, Yao Zhao, Sam Kwong
    ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM, 2021, Valse 2021 Spotlight) [Paper] [ArXiv] [Code]

Few-shot Learning

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    MM-Prompt: Multi-modality and Multi-granularity Prompts for Few-Shot Segmentation
    Hang Xiong, Runmin Cong*, Jinpeng Chen, Chen Zhang, Feng Li, Huihui Bai, Sam Kwong
    ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM, 2025) [Paper]

Patents

  1. Collaborative saliency target detection method
    Runmin Cong, Chen Zhang, Ning Yang, Yumo Zhang, Haowei Yang, Yao Zhao
    Chinese Patent, No.: CN112348033B [Link]

  2. RGB-D image saliency target detection method
    Runmin Cong, Ning Yang, Chen Zhang, Yumo Zhang, Yao Zhao
    Chinese Patent, No.: CN113763422B [Link]

  3. Optical remote sensing image saliency target detection method
    Runmin Cong, Yumo Zhang, Ning Yang, Chen Zhang, Haowei Yang, Yao Zhao
    Chinese Patent, No.: CN112347859A [Link]

  4. RGB-D image saliency target detection method based on cross-modal interaction and correction
    Runmin Cong, Hongyu Liu, Chen Zhang, Qinwei Lin, Yao Zhao
    Chinese Patent, No.: CN115170830A [Link]

  5. Depth image super-resolution reconstruction method combining monocular depth estimation
    Runmin Cong, Qi Tang, Ronghui Sheng, Chen Zhang, Lingzhi He, Yao Zhao
    Chinese Patent, No.: 202110803976.2 [Link]