Dr. Jun XU
Associate Professor
School of Statistics and Data Science
Nankai University
Tianjin, China
Office: Room 345, Fansun Building
Email: csjunxu [at] nankai [dot] edu [dot] cn

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News

  • 2025.12.25: One paper is accepted by IEEE Transactions on Multimedia.
  • 2025.12.24: One paper is accepted by IEEE Transactions on Image Processing.
  • 2025.07.16: One paper is accepted by IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging.
  • 2025.03.31: One paper is accepted by CVIU.
  • 2025.01.11: One paper is accepted by Neural Networks.
  • 2024.12.31: One paper is accepted by IEEE Transactions on Image Processing.
  • 2024.12.04: One paper is accepted by IEEE Transactions on Image Processing.
  • 2024.07.12: One paper is accepted by IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging.
  • 2024.07.04: One paper is accepted by ECAI 2024.
  • 2024.05.02: One paper is accepted by ICML 2024.
  • 2024.02.15: One paper is accepted by IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging.
  • 2024.01.15: One paper is accepted by Insights into Imaging.
  • 2023.10.24: Two papers are accepted by WACV 2024.
  • 2023.08.30: One paper is accepted by IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics.
  • 2023.08.23: One paper is accepted by Infectious Disease Modelling.
  • 2023.05.28: One paper is accepted by IEEE TMM.
  • 2023.03.22: One paper is published on Journal of Biosafety and Biosecurity.
  • 2023.02.28: One paper is accepted by CVPR 2023 as a Highlight paper.
  • 2023.01.20: One paper is accepted by IEEE TIP.

    • Current Research Interests

  • Machine Learning: efficient AI
  • Computer Vision: face/natural/medical image restoration, editing, and generation

    • Work Experience

  • 2021.12--Now: Associate Professor, School of Statistics and Data Science, Nankai University, Tianjin, China.
  • 2021.1--2021.12: Assistant Professor, School of Statistics and Data Science, Nankai University, Tianjin, China.
  • 2019.10--2020.12: Assistant Professor, College of Computer Science, Nankai University, Tianjin, China.
  • 2018.09--2019.10: Research Scientist, Inception Institute of Artificial Intelligence, Abu Dhabi, UAE.
  • 2018.06--2018.09: Post-Doc with Yasu, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada.

    • Education

  • 2018.05--2018.06: Visiting Student, Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School, Shenzhen, China.
  • 2014.07--2018.09: Ph.D. of Lei Zhang and David Zhang, Department of Computing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
  • 2011.09--2014.06: M.Sc., School of Mathematics Science, Nankai University.
  • 2007.09--2011.06: B.Sc., School of Mathematics Science, Nankai University.

    • Recently accepted

    Diagnosing and Improving Vector-Quantization Based Blind Image Restoration
    Hongyu Li#, Tianyi Xu#, Zengyou Wang#, Xiantong Zhen*, Ran Gu*, David Zhang, Jun Xu*
    IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, accept, 2026.
    [Paper] [Github]


    Rethinking the Role of Vector Quantization for Blind Image Restoration
    Zhaolin Zheng#, Liqi Xue#, Linghao Li#, Chenwei Gong, Xiantong Zhen*, Jun Xu*
    IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, accept, 2026.
    [Paper] [Github]


    Coupled Diffusion Models for Metal Artifact Reduction of Clinical Dental CBCT Images
    Zhouzhuo Zhang, Juncheng Yan, Yuxuan Shi, Zhiming Cui, Jun Xu*, Dinggang Shen*
    IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, accept, 2025.
    [Paper] [Github]

    Current Members and Visitors

  • Juncheng Yan, Ph.D. student in Nankai University, 2024-2028, M.Sc. in Nankai University
  • Hongyu Li, Ph.D. student in Nankai University, 2025-2029, M.Sc. in Northeast University
  • Zengyou Wang, Ph.D. student in Nankai University, 2025-2029, M.Sc. in Santa Clara University
  • Ao Shen, M.Sc. student in Nankai University (co-supervised with Prof. Shiwang Ma), 2024-2027, B.Sc. in Nankai University
  • Zhouzhuo Zhang, M.Sc. student in Nankai University, 2023-2026, B.Sc. in Lanzhou University
  • Chao Li, M.Sc. student in Nankai University, 2023-2026, B.Sc. in Nankai University.
  • Liqi Xue, M.Sc. student in Nankai University, 2023-2026, B.Sc. in Shanghai University
  • Zhaolin Zheng, M.Sc. student in Nankai University, 2024-2027, B.Sc. in University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
  • Junhao Long, M.Sc. student in Nankai University, 2024-2027, B.Sc. in Nankai University
  • Chenwei Gong, M.Sc. student in Nankai University, 2024-2026, B.Sc. in Nankai University
  • Xingyu Hao, M.Sc. student in Nankai University, 2024-2026, B.Sc. in Northeast University
  • Fengrun Guo, M.Sc. student in Nankai University, 2024-2026, B.Sc. in Shandong University

    • Graduated Members and Long-term Visitors (with first work after graduation)

  • Shaocong Zheng, M.Sc. in Nankai University, 2021-2023, B.Sc. in Taiyuan University of Technology, now China Minsheng Bank Corp. (Beijing)
  • Xiaotao Hu, M.Sc. in Nankai University (co-supervised with Prof. Ming-Ming Cheng), 2021-2024, B.Sc. in Dalian University of Technology, now Ph.D student of Prof. Ping Tan in HKUST
  • Yuxuan Shi, M.Sc. in Nankai University, 2021-2024, B.Sc. in Wuhan University, now AI engineer in Research Institute of United Imaging Intelligence, Beijing.
  • Yan Gao, Part-time M.Sc. in Nankai University, 2022-2024, B.Sc. in Beijing Jiaotong University
  • Yue Yang, Part-time M.Sc. in Nankai University, 2022-2024, B.Sc. in Northwest University
  • Yuchen Yang, M.Sc. in Nankai University, 2022-2025, B.Sc. in Nankai University, now Ph.D. student in Westlake University
  • Zeya Song, M.Sc. in Nankai University (co-supervised with Prof. Changliang Zou), 2022-2025, B.Sc. in Beijing University of Technology, now work in Institute 706, The Second Academy China Aerospace Science & Industry Corp., Beijing
  • Yijie Zhou, M.Sc. in Nankai University, 2023-2025, B.Sc. in Beijing Normal University, now work in Tencent
  • Fengwei Yang, M.Sc. in Nankai University (co-supervised with Prof. Hui Lei), 2023-2025, B.Sc. in Beijing University of Technology, now work in China National Pharmaceutical Group Corporation, Beijing
  • Qiujia He, M.Sc. in Nankai University(co-supervised with Prof. Lei Yu), 2023-2025, B.Sc. in Nankai University, now work in Postal Savings Bank of China (Head Office), Tianjin
  • Wei Si, M.Sc. in Nankai University, 2023-2025, B.Sc. in Shandong University, now work in ICBC (Head Office), Tianjin
  • Shiji Ao, M.Sc. in Nankai University, 2023-2025, B.Sc. in Tianjin University, now work in Agricultural Bank of China (Head Office), Beijing
  • Zhiyi Cui, M.Sc. in Nankai University (co-supervised with Prof. Long Feng), 2023-2025, B.Sc. in Shandong University, now work in Liaoning Provincial Bureau of Statistics, Shenyang

    • All things are difficult before they are easy.
    — Thomas Fuller