Professional Title / Position：Associate Professor


Research Direction：Computer vision, deep learning, image segmentation, remote sensing image processing, medical image processing, salient object detection, image semantic segmentation, image representation, etc.


Team：Computer Public Course Team


Tel：


 Email：zhengyp@scut.edu.cn


 Biography：

Yunping Zheng, a member of the CCF and the ACM, graduated from the School of Computer Science and Technology at Huazhong University of Science and Technology, where he obtained a Doctorate in Computer Application Technology. His doctoral thesis was honored with the Hubei Provincial Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award. He was selected as a university-level candidate in the eighth batch of the "Thousand, Hundred, and Ten Talents Training Project" for higher education institutions in Guangdong Province. He spent one year as a visiting scholar at the University of Pennsylvania in the United States. In research, he has presided over one National Natural Science Foundation project, seven provincial/ministerial-level projects, one departmental-level project, one key project of central universities, two general projects of central universities, and three industry-collaborative projects. He has participated in one National 863 Project and one National Natural Science Foundation project. He has published over 100 academic papers in prestigious domestic and international journals and conference proceedings, including IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, Frontiers of Computer Science, IET Image Processing, Chinese Journal of Electronics, Journal of Computer, and Journal of Software. He holds over 10 authorized invention patents. In teaching, he has presided over three provincial-level teaching reform projects and over 10 university-level key and general teaching reform projects. He has published more than 10 teaching reform papers and received the South China University of Technology's ‘Nanguang Award’ for Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching (the university's highest teaching quality award).


 Education：

2003–2008 Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Doctor of Engineering


 Work Experience:

2009–2013  South China University of Technology, Lecturer

2013–2015  South China University of Technology, Associate Professor

2015–2016  University of Pennsylvania, Visiting Scholar

2016–up to now  South China University of Technology, Associate Professor


 Course：

Lectures on courses including Advanced Language Programming: C++ (Part I), Advanced Language Programming: C++ (Part II), C++ Programming, and Fundamentals of C++ Programming.


 Projects：

1. Principal Investigator of the 2013 National Natural Science Foundation of China Young Scientist Fund Project (Research on Medical Image Segmentation Algorithms Based on NAM and Biological Visual Perception, No. 61300134)

2. Principal Investigator of the 2015 Guangdong Provincial Natural Science Foundation Open Application Project (Key Technologies for Medical Image Processing and Analysis Based on NAM and ‘Large-Scale First’, No. 2015A030313206)

3. Principal Investigator of the 2017 Guangdong Provincial Natural Science Foundation Independent Application Project (Key Technologies for Medical Image Processing Based on NAM and Fuzzy Connectivity, No. 2017A030313349)

4. Principal Investigator of the 2021 Guangdong Natural Science Foundation Independent Application Project (Research on Hierarchical Image Segmentation Algorithms Based on NAM and Affinity, No. 2021A1515011517)

5. Principal Investigator of the 2023 Guangdong Natural Science Foundation Independent Application Project (Research on Image Semantic Segmentation Algorithms Based on Weakly Supervised Learning and NAM, No. 2023A1515011288)


 Publications：

  1.  Yunping Zheng, Bowen Yang and Mudar Sarem. Hierarchical Image Segmentation Based on Nonsymmetry and Anti-Packing Pattern Representation Model. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 30, pp. 2408-2421, 2021, doi: 10.1109/TIP.2021.3052359. [SCI，JCR Q1，International top-tier publications]

  2.  Yunping Zheng, Zhou Jiang, Shiqiang Shu, YuZe Zhu, Mudar Sarem. Salient Object Detection Enhanced Pseudo-Labels for Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation. Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, 2025, 111: 104548. [SCI，JCR Q2]  

  3.  Yunping Zheng, Yuan Xu, Shiqiang Shu, Mudar Sarem. Indoor Semantic Segmentation Based on Swin-Transformer. Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, 2024, 98: 103991. [SCI，JCR Q2]  

  4.  Yunping Zheng, Mudar Sarem. A fast region segmentation algorithm on compressed gray images using non-symmetry and anti-packing model and extended shading representation. Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, 2016, 34: 153-166.  [SCI，JCR Q2]

  5.  Yunping Zheng, Zhiwen Yu, Jane You, Mudar Sarem. A novel gray image representation using overlapping rectangular NAM and extended shading approach. Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, 2012, 23(7):972-983. [SCI，JCR Q2]

  6.  Yunping Zheng, Mudar Sarem.A novel binary image representation algorithm by using NAM and coordinate encoding procedure and its application to area calculation. Frontiers of Computer Science, 2014, 8(5): 763-772.  [SCI，JCR Q3]

  7.  Yunping Zheng, Dilong Wen, Mudar Sarem. A Novel NAM-based image segmentation using Hierarchical Density-Based Spatial Clustering. IET Image Processing, 2024, 18(5): 1245–1257. [SCI，JCR Q3]

  8.  Yunping Zheng, Bowen Yang, Sarem Mudar. FNRegion: A Fast NAM-based Region Extraction Algorithm. IET Image Processing, 2023, 17(14): 4076-4088. [SCI，JCR Q3]

  9.  Zheng Yunping, Chang Yibin. A novel fast moment calculation algorithm for greyscale images. Journal of Computers, 2017, 40(11): 2619-2634. (in Chinese) [EI indexed, Leading Academic Journals in China]

  10.  Zheng Yunping, Chen Chuanbo. A colour image representation method based on asymmetric inverse layout models. Journal of Software, 2007, 18(11): 2932-2941. (in Chinese) [EI indexed, Leading Academic Journals in China]

  11.  Zheng Yunping, Chen Chuanbo. Research on a Novel Greyscale Image Representation Algorithm. Journal of Computers, 2010, 33(12): 2397-2406. (in Chinese) [EI indexed, Leading Academic Journals in China]

  12.  Zheng Yunping, Chen Chuanbo, Li Zujia. An Overlapping RNAM-Based Greyscale Image Representation Algorithm. Journal of Software, 2012, 23(12): 3221-3232. (in Chinese) [EI indexed, Leading Academic Journals in China]


Textbooks :

C++ Programming Tutorial, Tsinghua University Press, August 2025


Awards：

  1.  In 2025: Awarded the title of ‘Outstanding Undergraduate Class Tutor’ for the 2024-2025 academic year at South China University of Technology.

  2.  In 2025: Awarded the Teaching Excellence Award under South China University of Technology's 2023 ‘Teaching Honor System’.

  3.  In 2025: Awarded Second Prize in the 2024-2025 Academic Year Undergraduate Classroom Teaching Competition (Teaching Innovation Contest) at South China University of Technology.

  4.  In 2023: Awarded the title of ‘Outstanding Undergraduate Class Tutor’ for the 2022-2023 academic year by South China University of Technology.  

  5.  In 2023: Teaching case study ‘The Five-in-One C++ Teaching Innovation Model’ recognized as an Outstanding Educational Reform Case Study for 2023 by the Guangdong Higher Education Teaching Management Association.

  6.  In 2023: Awarded the title of ‘Outstanding Individual in Combating the COVID-19 Pandemic’ by South China University of Technology.

  7.  In 2022: Awarded Second Prize in the 2022-2023 Academic Year Undergraduate Classroom Teaching Competition (Teaching Innovation Contest) at South China University of Technology.

  8.  In 2021: Awarded Third Prize in the 2021 Excellence University Alliance Higher Education Institution Teachers' Teaching Innovation Contest.  

  9.  In 2021: Honored as an ‘Outstanding Communist Party Member’ by South China University of Technology during the Party's centenary commendation campaign.

  10.  In 2019: Awarded the South China University of Technology Undergraduate Teaching Excellence Award (Special Recognition for Outstanding Supervisor of 2019 Undergraduate Graduation Projects/Theses).

  11.  In 2017: Awarded the South China University of Technology Undergraduate Teaching Excellence Award (Special Award for Outstanding Supervisors of Undergraduate Graduation Projects/Theses, Class of 2017).

  12.  In 2014: Awarded the South China University of Technology Undergraduate Teaching Excellence Award (Special Award for Outstanding Supervisors of Undergraduate Graduation Projects/Theses, Class of 2014).

  13.  In 2014: Teaching Research Paper ‘A Novel Teaching Reform and Exploration of Algorithm Design and Analysis Based on ACM/ICPC’ awarded First Prize in the Teaching Research Paper Special Category of South China University of Technology's 2012-2013 Undergraduate Teaching Excellence Awards.

  14.  In 2014: Awarded First Prize in South China University of Technology's 2012-2013 Academic Year Undergraduate Teaching Excellence Awards.

  15.  In 2013: Awarded the South China University of Technology 2013 Undergraduate Graduation Project (Thesis) Outstanding Supervisor Award.

  16.  In 2013: Awarded the title of Outstanding Undergraduate Class Tutor for the 2012 academic year at South China University of Technology.

  17.  In 2013: Awarded the Nanguang Prize, the highest distinction for undergraduate teaching excellence for the 2011-2012 academic year at South China University of Technology.