Wei Zhang

Dr. Wei Zhang


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Academic Career Length

12Years (2015-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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20 May 2021 in IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
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ZLZhenglai Li
Zhenglai Li
CTChang Tang
Chang Tang
XLXinwang Liu
Xinwang Liu
XZXiao Zheng
Xiao Zheng
WZWei Zhang
Wei Zhang
EZEn Zhu
En Zhu
Multi-view clustering, which exploits the multi-view information to partition data into their clusters, has attracted intense attention. However, most existing methods directly learn a similarity graph from original multi-view features, which inevitably contain noises and redundancy information. The learned similarity graph is inaccurate and is insufficient to depict the underlying cluster structure of multi-view data. To address this issue, we propose a novel multi-view clustering method that is able to construct an essential similarity graph in a spectral embedding space instead of the original feature space. Concretely, we first obtain multiple spectral embedding matrices from the view-specific similarity graphs, and reorganize the gram matrices constructed by the inner product of the normalized spectral embedding matrices into a tensor. Then, we impose a weighted tensor nuclear norm constraint on the tensor to capture high-order consistent information among multiple views. Furthermore, we unify the spectral embedding and low rank tensor learning into a unified optimization framework to determine the spectral embedding matrices and tensor representation jointly. Finally, we obtain the consensus similarity graph from the gram matrices via an adaptive neighbor manner. An efficient optimization algorithm is designed to solve the resultant optimization problem. Extensive experiments on six benchmark datasets are conducted to verify the efficacy of the proposed method. The code is implemented by using MATLAB R2018a and MindSpore library [1] : https://github.com/guanyuezhen/CGL .

5 May 2022 in IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
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CTChang Tang
Chang Tang
ZLZhenglai Li
Zhenglai Li
JWJun Wang
Jun Wang
XLXinwang Liu
Xinwang Liu
WZWei Zhang
Wei Zhang
EZEn Zhu
En Zhu
Multi-view spectral clustering, which exploits the complementary information among graphs of diverse views to obtain superior clustering results, has attracted intensive attention recently. However, most existing multi-view spectral clustering methods obtain the clustering partitions in a two-step scheme, i.e., spectral embedding and subsequent $k$ -means. This two-step scheme inevitably seeks sub-optimal clustering results due to the information loss during the two-steps processes. Besides, existing multi-view spectral clustering methods do not jointly utilize the information of graphs and embedding matrices, which also degrades final clustering results. To solve these issues, we propose a unified one-step multi-view spectral clustering method, which integrates the spectral embedding and $k$ -means into a unified framework to obtain discrete clustering labels with a one-step strategy. Under the observation that the inner product of the embedding matrix is a low-rank approximation of the graph, we combine graphs and embedding matrices of different views to obtain a unified graph. Then, we directly capture the discrete clustering indicator matrix from the unified graph. Furthermore, we design an effective optimization algorithm to solve the resultant problem. Finally, a set of experiments on various datasets are conducted to verify the effectiveness of the proposed method. The demo code of this work is publicly available at r gb]0,0,1 https://github.com/guanyuezhen/UOMvSC .

5 January 2024 in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
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Hao HaoHao Hao
Hao Hao
Changqiao XuChangqiao Xu
Changqiao Xu
WZWei Zhang
Wei Zhang
Shujie YangShujie Yang
Shujie Yang
GMGabriel-Miro Muntean
Gabriel-Miro Muntean
Mobile edge computing (MEC) has emerged as a solution to address the demands of computation-intensive network services by providing computational capabilities at the network edge, thus reducing service delays. Due to the flexible deployment, wide coverage and reliable wireless communication, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been employed to assist MEC. This paper investigates the task offloading problem in a UAV-assisted MEC system with collaboration of multiple UAVs, highlighting task priorities and binary offloading mode. We defined the system gain based on energy consumption and task delay. The joint optimization of UAVs’ trajectory design, binary offloading decision, computation resources allocation, and communication resources management is formulated as a mixed integer programming problem with the goal of maximizing the long-term average system gain. Considering the discrete-continuous hybrid action space of this problem, we propose a novel deep reinforcement learning (DRL) algorithm based on the latent space to solve it. The evaluation results demonstrate that our proposed algorithm outperforms three state-of-the-art alternative solutions in terms of task delay and system gain.

21 February 2022 in IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
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ZLZhenglai Li
Zhenglai Li
CTChang Tang
Chang Tang
XZXiao Zheng
Xiao Zheng
XLXinwang Liu
Xinwang Liu
WZWei Zhang
Wei Zhang
EZEn Zhu
En Zhu
Incomplete multi-view clustering aims to exploit the information of multiple incomplete views to partition data into their clusters. Existing methods only utilize the pair-wise sample correlation and pair-wise view correlation to improve the clustering performance but neglect the high-order correlation of samples and that of views. To address this issue, we propose a high-order correlation preserved incomplete multi-view subspace clustering (HCP-IMSC) method which effectively recovers the missing views of samples and the subspace structure of incomplete multi-view data. Specifically, multiple affinity matrices constructed from the incomplete multi-view data are treated as a third-order low rank tensor with a tensor factorization regularization which preserves the high-order view correlation and sample correlation. Then, a unified affinity matrix can be obtained by fusing the view-specific affinity matrices in a self-weighted manner. A hypergraph is further constructed from the unified affinity matrix to preserve the high-order geometrical structure of the data with incomplete views. Then, the samples with missing views are restricted to be reconstructed by their neighbor samples under the hypergraph-induced hyper-Laplacian regularization. Furthermore, the learning of view-specific affinity matrices as well as the unified one, tensor factorization, and hyper-Laplacian regularization are integrated into a unified optimization framework. An iterative algorithm is designed to solve the resultant model. Experimental results on various benchmark datasets indicate the superiority of the proposed method. The code is implemented by using MATLAB R2018a and MindSpore library: https://github.com/ChangTang/HCP-IMSC

1 February 2023 in IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
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ZLZhenglai Li
Zhenglai Li
CTChang Tang
Chang Tang
XLXinwang Liu
Xinwang Liu
WZWei Zhang
Wei Zhang
JDJie Dou
Jie Dou
Albert ZomayaAlbert Zomaya
Albert Zomaya
Remote sensing change detection (RSCD) aims to explore surface changes from co-registered pair of images. However, the high cost of memory and computation in previous CNN-based methods prevent their successes from being applied to real-world applications. Therefore, we propose a novel lightweight network, which identifies changes based on the features extracted by mobile networks via progressive feature aggregation and supervised attention, termed as A2Net. Considering the less powerful representation capability of mobile networks, we design a neighbor aggregation module (NAM) to fuse features within nearby stages of the backbone to strengthen the representation capability of temporal features. Then, we propose a progressive change identifying module (PCIM) to extract temporal difference information from bi-temporal features. Besides, we design a supervised attention module (SAM) to re-weight features for effectively aggregating multi-level features from high levels to low levels. With NAM, PCIM and SAM incorporated, A2Net can achieve favorable results compared with state-of-the-art methods on three challenging RSCD datasets with fewer parameters (3.78M) and lower computation costs (6.02G). The demo code of this work is publicly available at https://github.com/guanyuezhen/ A2Net.

1 January 2021 in IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
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CTChang Tang
Chang Tang
XZXiao Zheng
Xiao Zheng
XLXinwang Liu
Xinwang Liu
WZWei Zhang
Wei Zhang
JZJing Zhang
Jing Zhang
Lizhe WangLizhe Wang
Lizhe Wang
Although demonstrating great success, previous multi-view unsupervised feature selection (MV-UFS) methods often construct a view-specific similarity graph and characterize the local structure of data within each single view. In such a way, the cross-view information could be ignored. In addition, they usually assume that different feature views are projected from a latent feature space while the diversity of different views cannot be fully captured. In this work, we resent a MV-UFS model via cross-view local structure preserved diversity and consensus learning, referred to as CvLP-DCL briefly. In order to exploit both the shared and distinguishing information across different views, we project each view into a label space, which consists of a consensus part and a view-specific part. Therefore, we regularize the fact that different views represent same samples. Meanwhile, a cross-view similarity graph learning term with matrix-induced regularization is embedded to preserve the local structure of data in the label space. By imposing the $l_{2,1}$ -norm on the feature projection matrices for constraining row sparsity, discriminative features can be selected from different views. An efficient algorithm is designed to solve the resultant optimization problem and extensive experiments on six publicly datasets are conducted to validate the effectiveness of the proposed CvLP-DCL.