Xiaoming Zhang

Dr. Xiaoming Zhang


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Academic Career Length

18Years (2009-Present)

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

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20 October 2023 in Applied Sciences
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SZSichao Zhuo
Sichao Zhuo
XZXiaoming Zhang
Xiaoming Zhang
ZCZiyi Chen
Ziyi Chen
WWWei Wei
Wei Wei
Fang WangFang Wang
Fang Wang
YGYufan Guan
Yufan Guan
With the development of Industry 4.0, although some smart meters have appeared on the market, traditional mechanical meters are still widely used due to their long-standing presence and the difficulty of modifying or replacing them in large quantities. Most meter readings are still manually taken on-site, and some are even taken in high-risk locations such as hazardous chemical storage. However, existing methods often fail to provide real-time detections or result in misreadings due to the complex nature of natural environments. Thus, we propose a lightweight network called DAMP-YOLO. It combines the deformable CSP bottleneck (DCB) module, aggregated triplet attention (ATA) mechanism, meter data augmentation (MDA), and network pruning (NP) with the YOLOv8 model. In the meter reading recognition dataset, the model parameters decreased by 30.64% while mAP50:95 rose from 87.92% to 88.82%, with a short inference time of 129.6 ms for the Jetson TX1 intelligent car. In the VOC dataset, our model demonstrated improved performance, with mAP50:95 increasing from 41.03% to 45.64%. The experimental results show that the proposed model is competitive for general object detection tasks and possesses exceptional feature extraction capabilities. Additionally, we have devised and implemented a pipeline on the Jetson TX1 intelligent vehicle, facilitating real-time meter reading recognition in situations where manual interventions are inconvenient and hazardous, thereby confirming its feasibility for practical applications.

22 October 2009 in Journal of Computer Applications
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XZXiaoming Zhang
Xiaoming Zhang
ZYZhao-Yang Yu
Zhao-Yang Yu
WLWen-Zhi Li
Wen-Zhi Li

1 January 2022 in Frontiers in Educational Research
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WWWei Wei
Wei Wei
XZXiaoming Zhang
Xiaoming Zhang
Fang WangFang Wang
Fang Wang
JLJing Li
Jing Li
LZLili Zhang
Lili Zhang
NCNing Cui
Ning Cui
Ideological and political curriculum is the new requirement of the new era for colleges and universities to carry out the work of establishing morality and cultivating people, which is also the national and party's major plan. Relying on the concept of Outcome based Education, explore the establishment of teaching system integrating ideological, political and professional courses in colleges and universities. Take "Three Holds Education" as the way to realize the ideological and political education of the curriculum. Through the construction of objectives, content, mode and evaluation of teaching the construction of ideological and political teaching system under the theory of Outcome based Education can be achieved. It can lay a solid foundation for the ideological and political teaching and construction of the curriculum.

7 April 2026 in Preprints.org
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Precise Pillbox Detection in Complex Environments Using Lightweight Multi-Module Enhanced YOLOv11
XZXiaoming Zhang
Xiaoming Zhang
ZRZhuang Rundong
Zhuang Rundong
In unmanned pharmacy and home-care medicine management applications, reliable pillbox localization is a prerequisite for automated dispensing and grasping. However, existing detectors still perform poorly in complex environments where dense stacking, occlusion, weak illumination, and high inter-class similarity occur simultaneously. To address this problem, GSPM-YOLO is proposed as an improved detector built on the YOLOv11 framework for complex pillbox recognition, and four novel plug-and-play lightweight modules are developed: GSimConv, a lightweight dual-branch convolution module that incorporates the Attention Weight Calculation Algorithm in HardSAM for edge-preserving feature extraction, PSCAM for position-sensitive coordinate attention, MSAAM, a multi-scale strip-pooling module that integrates the Horizontal Context-Aware Attention weight calculation algorithm to strengthen occluded targets, and LGPFH for bidirectional ghost pyramid fusion. To simulate the complex operating environments of dispensing robots, we construct MBox-Complex, a dataset of 3{,}041 images with 8{,}153 annotations across 25 drug categories. Ablation experiments first validate the effectiveness of the four-module composition, with F1 rising from 0.641 to 0.714, and each module is then individually compared with advanced replacement schemes in dedicated substitution experiments to verify its own effectiveness. The integrated model is then benchmarked against advanced detectors and domain-specific methods on the self-constructed MBox-Complex dataset, achieving 0.727 mAP@50 and 0.427 mAP@50-95 with 3.8M parameters and surpassing YOLOv11 by 7.1 and 4.0 percentage points and YOLOv12 by 4.3 and 3.1 percentage points, respectively. Further cross-dataset evaluation on the VOC and Brain Tumor benchmark datasets verifies the transferability of the proposed model. Grad-CAM is adopted to visualize the detector's attention distribution, and the resulting heatmaps together with detection visualizations confirm that the proposed model focuses more precisely on stacked and occluded regions.

20 August 2020
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XZXiaoming Zhang
Xiaoming Zhang
JHJiakang He
Jiakang He
QSQing Shen
Qing Shen

14 April 2026 in Preprints.org
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XZXiaoming Zhang
Xiaoming Zhang
ZRZhuang Rundong
Zhuang Rundong
Reliable test-tube detection on clinical conveyor lines remains difficult when tubes are densely packed, placed irregularly, weakly illuminated, partially blurred by robot vibration, and contaminated by glare from glass or PET surfaces. These conditions erode the short-axis boundary cues and faint graduation marks that slender tubes depend on. We therefore build WDA-TNET on YOLOv11 and target the failure modes at four points of the pipeline. First, WGSR restores blurred regions selectively based on wavelet energy, avoiding over-sharpening specular areas. Second, GSCIM suppresses glare-dominated channel responses in the backbone through direction-aware pooling and cross-channel interaction, retaining weak structural cues like liquid-level edges. Third, DCPAF separates height and width encoding in the neck, dynamically balancing long-axis context and short-axis localization suitable for elongated targets. Finally, ATSS and MPDIoU stabilize supervision when positives are sparse and boxes overlap only weakly. We evaluated our model on the newly constructed Complex Test Tube (CTT) dataset containing 11,955 images and 81,044 instances. WDA-TNET achieves 94.1% precision and 79.1% mAP50:95, improving mAP50:95 by 3.6 percentage points over YOLOv11. On the transparent-container HeinSight4 dataset, the model attains 95.2% mAP50:95, proving robust cross-domain generalization.