Dr. Xu Wang (王旭) is currently an associate researcher at the College of Computer Science, Sichuan University. He received the B.E. degree and Ph.D. degree from Sichuan University in 2015 and 2021, respectively. He was a Joint Ph.D at the Australian Institute for Machine Learning (AIML), University of Adelaide, funded by the China Scholarship Council from 2019 to 2021. His research interests include Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Multi-view Analysis, and Multi-modal Learning.

📖 Educations

• 2015.07 - 2021.06, Ph.D., Sichuan University, Chengdu, China.
• 2019.09 - 2021.03, Joint Ph.D., Australian Institute for Machine Learning (AIML), University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia.
• 2011.09 - 2015.06, B.E., Sichuan University, Chengdu, China.

🔥 News

• 2024.09:   I will serve as a Workflow Chair for the 34th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2025), which will be held in Montreal, Canada from 16th Aug 2025 – 22th Aug 2025.
• 2024.06:   One paper was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics & Security (IEEE TIFS). Congratulations to Yong!
• 2023.12:   One paper was accepted by The AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2024). Congratulations to Haoran!

✏️ Call for Paper

• Electronics (Q2, IF: 2.9) special issue on ‘Data-Driven Intelligence in Autonomous Systems’, Deadline: 15 August 2024. Call for paper

📝 Publications

(# denotes corresponding author, ^ denotes equal contribution)

2024

• Yong Chen, Xuedong Li, Peng Hu, Dezhong Peng, Xu Wang#. DifFilter: Defending Against Adversarial Perturbations with Diffusion Filter. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics & Security (IEEE TIFS). 2024. (CCF-A)
• Haoran Liu, Ying Ma, Ming Yan, Yingke Chen, Dezhong Peng, Xu Wang#. DiDA: Disambiguated Domain Alignment for Cross-Domain Retrieval with Partial Labels. AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). 2024, 38(4), 3612-3620. (CCF-A Oral) [Code]
• Chao Su, Zhi Li, Tianyi Lei, Dezhong Peng, Xu Wang#. MetaVG: A Meta-Learning Framework for Visual Grounding. IEEE Signal Processing Letters. 2024, 31: 236-240. [Code]
• Yuan Sun, Zhenwen Ren, Peng Hu, Dezhong Peng, Xu Wang#. Hierarchical Consensus Hashing for Cross-Modal Retrieval. IEEE Transactions on Multimedia. 2024, 26: 824-836. (ESI Highly Cited) [Code]

2023

• Peng Hu, Liangli Zhen, Xi Peng, Hongyuan Zhu, Jie Lin, Xu Wang, Dezhong Peng. Deep Supervised Multi-View Learning with Graph Priors. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (IEEE TIP). 2023, doi: 10.1109/TIP.2023.3335825. (CCF-A) [Code]
• Xu Wang, Dezhong Peng, Peng Hu, Yunhong Gong, Yong Chen. Cross-Domain Alignment for Zero-Shot Sketch-Based Image Retrieval. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (IEEE TCSVT). 2023, 33(11): 7024-7035. [Code]
• Xu Wang, Dezhong Peng, Ming Yan, Peng Hu. Correspondence-Free Domain Alignment for Unsupervised Cross-Domain Image Retrieval. AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). 2023, 10200–10208. (CCF-A Oral) [Code]
• Peng Hu, Zhenyu Huang, Dezhong Peng, Xu Wang, Xi Peng. Cross-Modal Retrieval with Partially Mismatched Pairs. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (IEEE TPAMI). 2023, doi: 10.1109/TPAMI.2023.3247939. (CCF-A) [Code]
• Yuan Sun, Xu Wang, Dezhong Peng, Zhenwen Ren, Xiaobo Shen. Hierarchical Hashing Learning for Image Set Classification. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (IEEE TIP). 2023, 32: 1732-44. (CCF-A)
• Qian Wang, Weiqi Zhang, Tianyi Lei, Yu Cao, Dezhong Peng, Xu Wang#. CLSEP: Contrastive Learning of Sentence Embedding with Prompt. Knowledge-Based Systems. 2023, 266: 110381. [Code]
• Yong Chen, Xu Wang, Peng Hu, Zhong Yuan, Dezhong Peng, Qilin Li. Learning Relationship-Preserving Representation for Multi-Task Adversarial Attacks. Neurocomputing. 2023, 554: 126580.

2022

• Tianyi Lei, Honghui Hu, Qiaoyang Luo, Dezhong Peng, Xu Wang#. Adaptive Meta-learner via Gradient Similarity for Few-shot Text Classification. International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING). 2022, 4873–4882. [Code]
• Yang Qin, Dezhong Peng, Xi Peng, Xu Wang, Peng Hu. Deep Evidential Learning with Noisy Correspondence for Cross-modal Retrieval. The ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM). 2022, 4948-4956. (CCF-A) [Code]
• Yong Chen, Xu Wang#, Peng Hu, Dezhong Peng. MagicGAN: Multiagent Attacks Generate Interferential Category via GAN. Knowledge-Based Systems. 2022, 258: 110023.

2021

• Xu Wang^, Peng Hu^, Liangli Zhen, Dezhong Peng. DRSL: Deep Relational Similarity Learning for Cross-modal Retrieval. Information Sciences. 2021, 546: 298-311. [Code]

2020

• Xu Wang, Peng Hu, Pei Liu, Dezhong Peng. Deep Semisupervised Class- and Correlation-collapsed Cross-view Learning. IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics (IEEE TCYB). 2020, 52(3): 1588-1601.

2019

• Liangli Zhen, Peng Hu, Xu Wang, Dezhong Peng. Deep Supervised Cross-Modal Retrieval. IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR). 2019, 10394-10403. (CCF-A) [Code]
• Peng Hu^, Xu Wang^, Liangli Zhen, Dezhong Peng. Separated Variational Hashing Networks for Cross-Modal Retrieval. The ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM). 2019, 1721-1729. (CCF-A)
• Xu Wang, Dezhong Peng, Peng Hu, Yongsheng Sang. Adversarial Correlated Autoencoder for Unsupervised Multi-view Representation Learning. Knowledge-Based Systems. 2019, 168: 109-20.
• Peng Hu, Dezhong Peng, Xu Wang, Yong Xiang. Multimodal Adversarial Network for Cross-modal Retrieval. Knowledge-Based Systems. 2019, 180: 38-50. [Code]

🎖 Honors and Awards

• Special Support from China Postdoctoral Foundation.
• Excellent Doctoral Candidate of Sichuan Province.
• Support from the China Scholarship Council.
• China National Scholarship.