Personal Profile
Zhou Zhiheng, Professor and Master's /Doctoral Supervisor at South China University of Technology. Currently serving as Member of the Youth Working Committee of the Central Committee of the China Democratic League; Deputy Director of the Youth Working Committee of the Guangdong Provincial Committee of the China Democratic League; Vice Chair of the South China University of Technology Branch of the China Democratic League; Deputy Director of the Guangdong Engineering Technology Research Center for Intelligent Network Communications and Computing; and Council Member of the Guangzhou Statistical Society.
Research interests include: (1) Image processing theory and applications: denoising, segmentation, inpainting, object detection and recognition, coding and decoding, medical image analysis; (2) Pattern recognition and artificial intelligence: transfer learning, few-shot learning; (3) Intelligent systems: video surveillance systems, Internet of Things (IoT), Industrial Internet, virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR), in-vehicle driver assistance devices, smart home/building systems.
Education Background
2002-2005, South China University of Technology (SCUT), Major in Communication and Information Systems, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)
2000–2002, South China University of Technology (SCUT), Major in Mathematical Statistics, Master's Degree, Directly admitted to the Ph.D. program (advanced standing)
1996–2000, South China University of Technology (SCUT), Department of Applied Mathematics, Bachelor's Degree
Work Experience
2007–Present, South China University of Technology, Professor
2005-2007, South China University of Technology, School of Automation, Postdoctoral Researcher
Research Projects
[1] National Key R&D Program of China: Research and Development and Application of ROV-Assisted Operation System Based on Virtual Reality (VR) Technology; Sub-project: Research on Target Recognition Technology Based on Information Fusion
[2] General Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China: Research on Nonparametric Statistical Active Contour Models
[3] Key Program of the Joint Fund of the National Natural Science Foundation of China and Guangdong Province: Research on Key Technologies of Multi-dimensional Visualization-assisted Diagnosis and Treatment Based on Multimodal Medical Image Processing
[4] General Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China: Research on Shape Patterns in Active Contour Models
[5] Youth Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China: Research on Active Contour Models under Variable-structure Vector Fields
Courses Taught
Awarded the title of "My Favorite Supervisor" at South China University of Technology (4th Edition) in 2012. Has taught five undergraduate courses, two master's level courses, and one doctoral course. Has supervised over 60 master's students and 10 doctoral students. One graduate was awarded the title of Outstanding Graduate of Guangdong Province in 2020.
Currently Teaching:
Doctoral Course: Intelligent Computing Methods
Undergraduate Courses: Principles of Digital Communication, Computer Networks
Flagship Achievements
Has published nearly 90 scientific and technological papers in domestic and international journals, been granted 33 invention patents, 3 utility model patents, and 15 software copyrights, and participated in the development of 2 group standards.
Awards:
[1] First Prize of Guangdong Science and Technology Award (Natural Science Category): Intelligent and Optimization Methods for Feedback Design and Identification in Dynamical Systems
[2] First Prize of Guangdong Science and Technology Award (Natural Science Category): Fundamental Theory of Blind Signal Separation and Neural Network Approaches
[3] Second Prize of Guangdong Scientific and Technological Progress Award: Key Technologies and Industrial Applications of Video Content Services for Complex Scenes
Papers:
[1]Zhou Zhiheng, Dai Ming, Guo Yongfan, Li Xiangwei. Global-to-local region-based indicator embedded in edge-based level set model for segmentation. DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING, Vol.114 DOI: 10.1016/j.dsp.2021.103061
[2]Chen Zhen, Zhou Zhiheng, Adnan Saifullah. Joint low-rank prior and difference of Gaussian filter for magnetic resonance image denoising. MEDICAL & BIOLOGICAL ENGINEERING & COMPUTING DOI: 10.1007/s11517-020-02312-8
[3]Chen Zengqun, Zhou Zhiheng, Huang Junchu, Zhang Pengyu, Li Bo. Frame-Guided Region-Aligned Representation for Video Person Re-identification, Vol 34 No 07: AAAI-20 Technical Tracks pp.10591-10598, 2020
[4] Delu Zeng, Zhiheng Zhou, and Shengli Xie. Image Segmentation Based on the Poincaré Map Method. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, VOL. 21, NO. 3, 946-957, MARCH 2012
[5]Zeng Delu. Zhou Zhiheng, Xie Shengli. Coarse-to-Fine Boundary Location With a SOM-Like Method. IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, 21(3):481-493,2010
