Qunliang Xing

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Qunliang Xing is currently a Ph.D. student at Beihang University, advised by Professor Mai Xu. He obtained his BEng and Honors degrees from Beihang University in 2019.

His research interests include Computer Vision and Multimedia. He has published several papers in top journals and conferences such as IEEE TPAMI and CVPR, including highly cited papers recognized by the Essential Science Indicators (ESI). His publications have received over 600 citations. He has won two NTIRE championships. His open-source projects have garnered more than 800 stars. He was selected for the Tencent Rhino-bird Open-source Training Program. He was awarded the OpenMMLab Active Contributor. He serves as a reviewer for CVPR, TIP, TMM, and others.

He also excels in sports, having won second place in the Beihang 100m final and the Beihang soccer championship as the school team captain twice.

• Ph.D. in Engineering (2019.9–2025.7)
  Advised by Changjiang Distinguished Professor Mai Xu
  School of Electronic Information Engineering, Beihang University
  Completed the Honors Ph.D. program at Shen-Yuan Honors College, Beihang University
• B.S. in Engineering (2015.9–2019.7)
  School of Electronic Information Engineering, Beihang University
  Graduated with an Honors Bachelor’s degree from Shen-Yuan Honors College, Beihang University
• High School (2012.9–2015.7)
  Shenzhen Nanshan Foreign Language School
  Admitted to Beihang University as the top scorer in Guangdong Province, China

• Reviewer
  • IEEE TIP ('21–), IEEE TMM ('21–), IEEE TCSVT ('22–), IEEE/CAA JAS ('22–)
  • IEEE/CVF CVPR ('25, '24), AAAI ('25), IEEE ICME ('21)
• Research Intern
  • Video Quality Enhancement @ Tao Technology, Alibaba Group (2021.12–2023.12)
    🏆 Winner of the CVPR NTIRE challenge
  • Tencent Rhino-bird Open-source Training Program @ Tencent (2021.7–2021.9)
    🏆 Selected as one of the 127 participants from over 1,800 applicants
  • Video Quality Enhancement for HW.265 Codec @ 2012 Lab, Huawei (2018.12–2019.12)
• Student Works
  • Mentor of Undergraduates @ Shen-Yuan Honors College, Beihang University (2020.10–2021.10)
    🏆 Selected as an excellent mentor (Top 25%)
  • Teaching Assistant for “Introduction to Machine Learning” @ Beihang University (2020.9–2021.1)

Co-first^* Corresponding^†
• MarsSQE: Stereo quality enhancement for Martian images using bi-level cross-view attention
  M. Xu, Y. Zhu, Q. Xing^†, J. Yang, X. Zou
  arXiv'24
• MarsQE: Semantic-informed quality enhancement for compressed Martian image
  C. Liu, M. Xu, Q. Xing, X. Zou
  arXiv'24
• Enhancing quality of compressed images by mitigating enhancement bias towards compression domain
  Q. Xing, M. Xu, S. Li, X. Deng, M. Zheng, H. Liu, Y. challenge
  IEEE/CVF CVPR'24
• DAQE: Enhancing the quality of compressed images by exploiting the inherent characteristic of defocus
  Q. Xing, M. Xu, X. Deng, Y. Guo
  IEEE TPAMI'23
• Progressive training of a two-stage framework for video restoration
  Q. Xing^*, M. Zheng^*, M. Qiao^*, M. Xu, L. Jiang, H. Liu, Y. challenge
  NTIRE with IEEE/CVF CVPR'22
  🏆 Winning method in the NTIRE challenge
• DeepQTMT: A deep learning approach for fast QTMT-based CU partition of intra-mode VVC
  T. Li, M. Xu, R. Tang, Y. Chen, Q. Xing
  IEEE TIP'21
• Early exit or not: Resource-efficient blind quality enhancement for compressed images
  Q. Xing, M. Xu, T. Li, Z. Guan
  ECCV'20
• MFQE 2.0: A new approach for multi-frame quality enhancement on compressed video
  Q. Xing, Z. Guan, M. Xu, R. Yang, T. Liu, Z. Wang
  IEEE TPAMI'19
  🏆 Top 1% highly cited paper recognized by the Essential Science Indicators (ESI)

• National Invention Patent
  • CN118840290: Compressed Mars image quality enhancement method and device based on semantic prior
  • CN111415311: Resource-saving image quality enhancement model
• Software Copyright
  • 2020SR0404831: Resource-efficient quality enhancement system for HEVC based on early-exit mechanism V1.0
  • 2020SR0472737: Multi-frame video quality enhancement system V2.0

• Beihang Shen-Yuan Medal，2024
  🏆 Highest student award at Beihang University; Awarded annually to 10 Ph.D students
• China National Scholarship, 2023
• Beihang Academic Excellence Fund for Ph.D. Candidates, 2023
  Ranked 1st out of 96 in the college; Completed in 2024
• Scientific Research Role Model, Shen-Yuan Honors College, Beihang University, 2023
  Ranked 1st out of 33 in the college
• Glarun Scholarship by the 14th Research Institute, CETC, 2022
  Among four awardees from 96 college students
• Beihang Excellent Graduate, 2019
  Top 20% in the university
• Beihang Outstanding/Merit Student, 2015/2018/2021/2022
  Top 5% in the university
• Shenzhen Merit Student, 2014
  Sole awardee in the school

• Winner of the CVPR NTIRE challenge on Super-Resolution and Quality Enhancement of Compressed Video, 2022
• OpenMMLab Active Contributor, 2022

• Beihang Soccer Super Cup champion (as the starting center-back), 2023
• Runner-up in the 100m final at the Beihang Sports Day, 2022
• Soccer Championship at the Beihang Sports Festival (as the starting center-back), 2017

Thanks to Jon Barron for sharing the source code of his site.