🥳 Welcome to My Homepage

  • I am a research scholar in Department of Computer Science at City University of Hong Kong. Previously, I served as a Researcher of Computer Vision with Shannon Laboratory at Tencent, Shenzhen, China, from 2021 to 2022. Meanwhile, from 2020 to 2021, I worked as a research intern at Youtu Laboratory, Tencent, Shanghai, China.
  • My research interests include image quality assessment, pattern recognition, computer vision, and artificial intelligence. I have published several publications at top-tier international conferences and journals in the field of computer vision with total .
  • I have also been a reviewer for several leading conferences and journals, including CVPR, ICCV, AAAI, ICPR, TIP, TMM, TCSVT, JAG, and et al.

📝 Selected Publications

IJON 2025
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Seeking the Optimal Accuracy-Rate Equilibrium in Face Recognition

  • Yu Tian, Fu-Zhao Ou, Shiqi Wang, Baoliang Chen, and Sam Kwong
  • Neurocomputing, Accepted.
  • JCR-Q1 | Paper and code will be available soon
CVPR 2024
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CLIB-FIQA: Face Image Quality Assessment with Confidence Calibration

  • Fu-Zhao Ou, Chongyi Li, Shiqi Wang, and Sam Kwong
  • In Proceedings of IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), pp. 1694-1704, 2024.
  • CCF-A | Paper | Github
TMM 2024
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Refining Uncertain Features with Self-Distillation for Face Recognition and Person Re-Identification

  • Fu-Zhao Ou, Xingyu Chen, Kai Zhao, Shiqi Wang, Yuan-Gen Wang, and Sam Kwong
  • IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM), vol. 26, pp. 6981-6995, 2024.
  • JCR-Q1 | Paper | Github
ICCV 2023
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Troubleshooting Ethnic Quality Bias with Curriculum Domain Adaptation for Face Image Quality Assessment

  • Fu-Zhao Ou, Baoliang Chen, Chongyi Li, Shiqi Wang, and Sam Kwong
  • In Proceedings of IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), pp. 20718-20729, 2023.
  • CCF-A | Paper | Github
CVPR 2021
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SDD-FIQA: Unsupervised Face Image Quality Assessment with Similarity Distribution Distance

  • Fu-Zhao Ou, Xingyu Chen, Ruixin Zhang, Yuge Huang, Shaoxin Li, Jilin Li, Yong Li, Liujuan Cao, and Yuan-Gen Wang
  • In Proceedings of IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), pp. 7670-7679, 2021.
  • CCF-A | Paper | Github
TMM 2022
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A Novel Rank Learning Based No-Reference Image Quality Assessment Method

  • Fu-Zhao Ou, Yuan-Gen Wang, Jin Li, Guopu Zhu, and Sam Kwong
  • IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM), vol. 24, pp. 4197-4211, 2022.
  • JCR-Q1 | Paper | Github
ICIP 2019
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A Novel Blind Image Quality Assessment Method based on Refined Natural Scene Statistics

  • Fu-Zhao Ou, Yuan-Gen Wang, and Guopu Zhu
  • In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), pp. 1004-1008, 2019.
  • CCF-C | Paper | Github

🤖 Patents

US Patents

  • Assessing Face Image Quality for Application of Facial Recognition, US Patent, App. 17/991,670, 2023.

International Exhibition of Inventions

  • AI-based Adaptive Visual Content Enhancement, International Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva (IEIG), Silver Medal, 2024.

💼 Working Experience

Jul. 2021 – Jul. 2022 - Tencent, Shannon Lab (Shenzhen)

  • Position: Researcher of Computer Vision

Mar. 2020 – Jun. 2021 - Tencent, YouTu Lab (Shanghai)

  • Position: Research Intern

💬 Invited Talks

Aug. 2024 - Online talk for Face Image Quality Assessment in the Deep Learning Era

  • Invited by Dr. Fan (Aaron) Zhang, the Visual Information Lab, University of Bristol, United Kingdom.

Nov. 2021 - Invited talk in the Workshop on Face Image Quality

  • Organized by the European Association for Biometrics (EAB), National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), European Union Agency for the Operational Management of Large-Scale IT Systems in the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice (eu-LISA), etc.

🕵🏼‍♂️ Professional Service

Journal Reviewer

  • IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP) | JCR-Q1, IF=10.8
  • IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM) | JCR-Q1, IF=8.4
  • IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT) | JCR-Q1, IF=8.3
  • IEEE Signal Processing Letters (SPL) | JCR-Q1, IF=3.2
  • International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation (JAG) | JCR-Q1, IF=7.6
  • Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence (EAAI) | JCR-Q1, IF=7.5
  • Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU) | JCR-Q1, IF=4.9
  • Electronics Letters (ELL) | JCR-Q3, IF=0.7

Conference Reviewer

  • IEEE/CVF Conference Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR) | CCF-A, h5-m=689
  • IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) | CCF-A, h5-m=484
  • AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) | CCF-A, h5-m=341
  • International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR) | CCF-C, h5-m=91
  • International Conference on Computational Visual Media (CVM) | CCF-C, h5-m=79

Campus Service

  • Member of College Graduate Studies Committee, College of Computing, CityU, Sep. 2024 - Present
  • Student Representative of Research Education Committee, Department of Computer Science (CS), CityU, Sep. 2023 - Present
  • Please feel free to contact me by email if you have any feedback on the graduate programme in our college or department, Thanks :)

🧑🏼‍🏫 Teaching Task

CS1302 - Introduction to Computer Programming

  • Teaching Assistant, Aug. 2022 – Jan. 2024 and Sep. 2024 – Present
  • Tutor, Jan. 2024 – May. 2024

🎖 Honors and Awards

  • Sep. 2024 - Institutional Research Tuition Scholarship
  • May 2021 - Tencent OTeam Contribution: Short-video Quality Assessment
  • Jan. 2021 - Tencent Micro Innovation Award: Efficient Video Enhancement Method for QoE
  • Oct. 2020 - First Prize Academic Scholarship
  • May 2020 - Tencent Micro Innovation Award: Face-scan for WeChat Pay
  • Oct. 2019 - First Prize Academic Scholarship