Who am I?

research topics related to quality assessment for video streaming and conference.

Work Experience

• 2018.09 - Current, Senior Researcher, Tencent, Shenzhen
• 2018.01 - 2018.08, Project Office @ Multimedia and Interactive Computing Lab (MICL)

Education

• 2013.08 - 2018.04, Ph.D. in School Of Computer Science and Engineering,
  Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Supervisor: Weisi Lin
  
• 2009.09-2013.07, Bachelor in Electronic Information Engineering
  Honors School, Harbin Institute of Technology, China.

Publications

  Journal

1. A Two-stage Outlier Filtering Framework for City-Scale Localization using 3D SfM Point Clouds.
   Wentao Cheng, Kan Chen, Weisi Lin, Michael Goesele, Xinfeng Zhang, Yabin Zhang.
   TIP (2019).
2. Reduced-reference quality assessment of image super-resolution by energy change and texture variation.
   Yuming Fang, Jiaying Liu, Yabin Zhang, Weisi Lin, Zongming Guo.
   J. Visual Communication and Image Representation 60: 140-148 (2019)
3. Blind image quality assessment based on joint log-contrast statistics.
   Qiaohong Li, Weisi Lin, Ke Gu, Yabin Zhang, Yuming Fang.
   Neurocomputing 331: 189-198 (2019).
4. Multiple-Level Feature Based Metric for Retargeted Image Quality.
   Yabin Zhang, Weisi Lin, Qiaohong Li, Wentao Cheng, Xinfeng Zhang.
   Transaction on Image Processing (TIP), vol. 27, no. 1, pp. 451 - 463, (2018). [Matlab code]
5. Rate-Distortion Optimized Sparse Coding with Ordered Dictionary for Image Set Compression.
   Xinfeng Zhang, Weisi Lin. Yabin Zhang, Shiqi Wang, Siwei Ma, Lingyu Duan, Wen Gao.
   IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (T-CSVT).
6. High Efficiency Image Coding via Near-Optimal Filtering.
   Xinfeng Zhang, Shiqi Wang, Yabin Zhang, Weisi Lin, Siwei Ma, Wen Gao.
   IEEE Signal Process. Lett. 24(9): 1403-1407 (2017)
7. Backward Registration-Based Aspect Ratio Similarity for Image Retargeting Quality Assessment.
   Yabin Zhang, Yuming Fang, Weisi Lin, Xinfeng Zhang, Leida Li.
   Transaction on Image Processing (TIP), vol. 25, no. 9, pp. 4286 - 4297, 2016. [pdf] [Matlab code]
8. Sparse Representation-Based Image Quality Index With Adaptive Sub-Dictionaries.
   Leida Li, Hao Cai, Yabin Zhang, Weisi Lin, Alex Kot, Xingming Sun.
   Transaction on Image Processing (TIP), vol. 25, no. 8, pp. 3775 - 3786, 2016.

  Conference

1. No-reference image sharpness assessment based on rank learning.
   Yabin Zhang, Haiqiang Wang, Fengfeng Tan, Wenjun Chen, Zurong Wu.
   ICIP 2019.
2. No-reference image quality assessment based on local region statistics.
   Qiaohong Li, Weisi Lin, Yuming Fang, Xinfeng Zhang, Yabin Zhang.
   VCIP 2016: 1-4.
3. Quality assessment for image super-resolution based on energy change and texture variation.
   Yuming Fang, Jiaying Liu, Yabin Zhang, Weisi Lin, Zongming Guo.
   ICIP 2016: 2057-2061
4. Aspect Ratio Similarity (ARS) for Image Retargeting Quality Assessment.
   Yabin Zhang, Weisi Lin, Xinfeng Zhang, Yuming Fang, Leida Li.
   ICASSP 2016: 1080-1084. [pdf]
5. Dense Correspondence Based Prediction for Image Set Compression.
   Yabin Zhang, Weisi Lin, and Jianfei Cai.
   ICASSP 2015: 1240-1244.

Resources

  Links

• Image and Video Quality Resources: latest and comprehensive IQA/VQA dataset resource by Prof. Stefan Winkler
• MIT RetargetMe Database : A benchmark database for image retargeting subjective quality database (paired comparison) [2010].
• CUHK IRQA Database: A image retargeting subjective quality database (5-category scale rating) [2012]. [ download]

  Code

• SNS Matlab: A matlab implementation of "Optimized Scale-and-Stretch for Image Resizing" by Yu-Shuen Wang. [Matlab code]

Professional service

  Reviewer

• TIP, TMM, TCSVT, TNNLS, SPIC, EURASIP
• ICIP, ICASSP, QoMEX, ICME, VCIP

  Teaching assistant

• NTU SCSE CE1006 Computer Organization and Architecture (2017 Spring Semester)
• NTU SCSE CE1005 Digital Logic (2016 Autumn Semester)
• NTU SCSE CE2003 DIGITAL SYSTEMS DESIGN (2016 Spring Semester)

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