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Biography
Zhijie (Professor of Visual Computing) has received a BEng degree on communication engineering from the Xi’an University of Science and Technology in 1991. After graduation, he has worked for one of the major Chinese Electrical and Machinery Companies - HH Yellow River Ltd for four years as an electronics engineer. He then traveled to the UK and spent a year working in a robotics lab in Derby. In 1996, he registered and became a postgraduate student at the University of Derby. His research topic is Virtual Reality for manufacturing simulations. In 2000, he has completed his PhD study and immediately been offered a tenured academic post at the University of Huddersfield.
Zhijie’s research in the last twenty years has mainly been focused on the areas of visual computing, vision systems, data science and machine learning. He has published over one hundred peer-reviewed journal and conference papers as well as editing 5 books in the relevant fields. He has supervised 11 postgraduate (including 8 PhD) students to completion and been continuously winning substantial research and development grants in his career to date. He is a member of the IEEE, IET, BCS, BMVA and a fellow of HEA. In addition, he has been serving as an editor, reviewer and chair for many prestigious academic journals and conferences.
Research Expertise and Interests
- Imaging, vision, and visualisation
- Virtual and Augmented Reality
- Simulation and systems control
- Web technology and applications
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Research Expertise and Interests
- computer vision, interaction and visualisation
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Research output
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Group Abnormal Behaviour Detection Algorithm Based on Global Optical Flow
Hao, Y., Liu, Y., Fan, J. & Xu, Z., 1 Sep 2021, In: Complexity. 2021, 12 p., 5543204.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Hierarchical visual localization for visually impaired people using multimodal images
Cheng, R., Hu, W., Chen, H., Fang, Y., Wang, K., Xu, Z. & Bai, J., 1 Mar 2021, In: Expert Systems with Applications. 165, 12 p., 113743.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Image Enhancement of Low Light UAV via Global Illumination Self-aware feature Estimation
Niu, J., Wang, D., Han, P., Fang, J., Ren, X., Qin, Y. & Xu, Z., 26 Mar 2021, Proceedings - 2021 3rd International Conference on Natural Language Processing, ICNLP 2021. O'Dell, M. (ed.). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., p. 225-231 7 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review
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Single image dehazing method via sky-regions segmentation and dark channel prior
Han, P., Yan, W., Wang, D., Qin, Y. & Xu, Z., 6 Sep 2021, Proceedings of 2021 4th International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems, ICoIAS 2021. O’Dell, M. (ed.). IEEE, p. 60-64 5 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review
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A Comparative Study in Real-time Scene Sonification for Visually Impaired People
Hu, W., Wang, K., Yang, K., Cheng, R., Ye, Y., Sun, L. & Xu, Z., 5 Jun 2020, In: Sensors. 20, 11, 17 p., 3222.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open Access5 Citations (Scopus)
Activities
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23rd International Conference on Automation and Computing
Zhijie Xu (Chair)
7 Sep 2017 → 8 Sep 2017Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participating in a conference, workshop, ...
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A Visualization Method for Understanding Forensic Statements
Zhijie Xu (Speaker) & Daniel McIntyre (Speaker)
23 Oct 2016 → 28 Oct 2016Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
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21st International Conference on Automation and Computing
Zhijie Xu (Member of programme committee)
11 Sep 2015 → 12 Sep 2015Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organising a conference, workshop, ...