Hi there! This is Zhixiong Yang (杨志雄), I am a Ph.D. student at School of Electronic Science, National University of Defense Technology, advised by Prof. Jingyuan Xia and Prof. Yaowen Fu. Previously, I received my bachelor degree from the Northeastern University in 2021. If you are interested in collaborating with me or want to have a chat, always feel free to contact me through E-mail or Wechat (s1mple_21_).

My research focuses on Image Inverse Problem, such as super-resolution, restoration, and radar imaging.

🔥 News

  • 2025.06: 🎉 SAKE was accepted by IEEE GRSL!
  • 2025.05: 🎉 TPAMI paper (MLMC) was selected as Highly Cited Paper and Hot Paper!
  • 2024.10: 🎉 DDSR was accepted by Neural Networks!
  • 2024.05: 🎉 MLMC was accepted by Trans.PAMI!
  • 2024.03: 🎉 DKP was accepted by CVPR2024!
  • 2023.08: 🎉 MLSI was accepted by 雷达学报!
  • 2022.06: 🎉 LAGD was accepted by IEEE WCL!

📝 Publications

†: equal contribution, * : corresponding author

🖼️ Super-resolution


MLMC

Blind super-resolution via meta-learning and Markov chain Monte Carlo simulation
Jingyuan Xia, Zhixiong Yang†,*, Shengxi Li, Shuanghui Zhang, Yaowen Fu, Deniz Gündüz, Xiang Li
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (Trans.PAMI), 2024 (Highly Cited Paper/Hot Paper)
[Paper], [Codes]


DKP

A dynamic kernel prior model for unsupervised blind image super-resolution
Zhixiong Yang, Jingyuan Xia†,*, Shengxi Li, Xinghua Huang, Shuanghui Zhang, Zhen Liu, Yaowen Fu, Yongxiang Liu
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024
[Paper], [Codes]

DDSR

Meta-learning based blind image super-resolution approach to different degradations
Zhixiong Yang, Jingyuan Xia*, Shengxi Li, Wende Liu, Shuaifeng Zhi, Shuanghui Zhang, Li Liu, Yaowen Fu, Deniz Gündüz
Elsevier Neural Networks (NN), 2024
[Paper], [Codes]

📡 ISAR Imaging


Radar

A metalearning-based sparse aperture ISAR imaging method
Jingyuan Xia, Zhixiong Yang*, Zhixing Zhou, Huaizhang Liao, Shuanghui Zhang, Yaowen Fu
Journal of Radars (雷达学报), 2023
[Paper], [Codes]


📶 MIMO Beamforming


LAGD

A learning-aided flexible gradient descent approach to MISO beamforming
Zhixiong Yang, Jing-Yuan Xia*, Junshan Luo, Shuanghui Zhang, Deniz Gündüz
IEEE Wireless Communications Letters (IEEE WCL), 2022
[Paper], [Codes]

⌛️ In Submission & Preprint


BKSR

BKSR: Band-kernel Stochastic Learning for Unsupervised Blind Hyperspectral Image Super-Resolution
Under Review
Paper and Codes will be released after accept.

EMSD

Error-Robust Unsupervised Shadow Removal via Luminance Probability Learning under Mask Misalignment
Under Review
Paper and Codes will be released after accept.


LAOF

A Learning-aided Plug-and-play Method for Sparse Aperture ISAR Imaging and Autofocusing
Under Review
Paper and Codes will be released after accept.


🎖 Honors and Awards

  • 2024.10 National Scholarship (Ph.D) (Top 1%) (国家奖学金)
  • 2023.10 School-level First-Class Scholarship (Ph.D) (Top 10%) (校级一等奖学金)
  • 2022.10 School-level First-Class Scholarship (Master) (Top 10%) (校级一等奖学金)
  • 2021.06 Provincial Outstanding Graduate (Undergraduate) (Top 0.1%) (省级优秀毕业生)
  • 2021.06 Top Ten Undergraduate Students (Undergraduate) (Top 0.1%) (十佳本科生)
  • 2020.10 National Scholarship (Undergraduate) (Top 1%) (国家奖学金)
  • 2019.10 National Scholarship (Undergraduate) (Top 1%) (国家奖学金)

👨‍💻 Academic Service

  • Reviewer for CVPR, NeurIPS, ICCV, AAAI, ECCV, AISTATS, …
  • Reviewer for IEEE-(Trans.CSVT, Trans.GRS), …
  • 第二届空间信息技术大会-优秀学生报告, 2025.05, 成都, [Link]
  • CVPR2024分享会暨OPPO计算影像专家联谊会-优秀学生报告, 2024.05, 深圳, [Link]

📖 Educations

  • 2023.03 - now, Ph.D., School of Electronic Science, National University of Defense Technology.
  • 2021.09 - 2022.12, Master, School of Electronic Science, National University of Defense Technology.
  • 2017.09 - 2021.06, Undergraduate, College of Computer and Communication Engineering, Northeastern University.
  • 2014.09 - 2017.06, No. 1 Middle School affiliated to Central China Normal University.

💫 Beyond Code

💦 Sports

  • 💪 Gym workouts 3x/week
  • 🏀 Basketball/Badminton/Table tennis everyday if time permits
  • 🚀 Skill exploration: swimming and tennis
"Sweat is my reset button."

🎮 Gaming

  • ⚔️ LOL: ARAM (All Random All Mid) player
  • 🎯 CSGO: I'm a big Fans of s1mple
  • 🐒 Occasionally Black Myth: Wukong and Delta Force
"Games teach resilience."

✈️ ️Wanderlust

  • 🚗 Road-tripping to unseen destinations
  • 📸 Capturing moments through my lens
  • 🏕️ Preferring mountain trails over tourist spots
"World-exploration: life's fundamental code."