Lizhe Zhang

Dr. Lizhe Zhang

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Academic Career Length

7Years (2020-Present)

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

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9 July 2020 in Scientific Reports
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WLWei Li
Wei Li
KLKai Liu
Kai Liu
LZLizhe Zhang
Lizhe Zhang
FCFei Cheng
Fei Cheng
Object detection is an important component of computer vision. Most of the recent successful object detection methods are based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs). To improve the performance of these networks, researchers have designed many different architectures. They found that the CNN performance benefits from carefully increasing the depth and width of their structures with respect to the spatial dimension. Some researchers have exploited the cardinality dimension. Others have found that skip and dense connections were also of benefit to performance. Recently, attention mechanisms on the channel dimension have gained popularity with researchers. Global average pooling is used in SENet to generate the input feature vector of the channel-wise attention unit. In this work, we argue that channel-wise attention can benefit from both global average pooling and global max pooling. We designed three novel attention units, namely, an adaptive channel-wise attention unit, an adaptive spatial-wise attention unit and an adaptive domain attention unit, to improve the performance of a CNN. Instead of concatenating the output of the two attention vectors generated by the two channel-wise attention sub-units, we weight the two attention vectors based on the output data of the two channel-wise attention sub-units. We integrated the proposed mechanism with the YOLOv3 and MobileNetv2 framework and tested the proposed network on the KITTI and Pascal VOC datasets. The experimental results show that YOLOv3 with the proposed attention mechanism outperforms the original YOLOv3 by mAP values of 2.9 and 1.2% on the KITTI and Pascal VOC datasets, respectively. MobileNetv2 with the proposed attention mechanism outperforms the original MobileNetv2 by a mAP value of 1.7% on the Pascal VOC dataset.

5 December 2025 in Applied Sciences
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LZLizhe Zhang
Lizhe Zhang
QZQuan Zhou
Quan Zhou
RLR H L
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LHLang Huyan
Lang Huyan
JLJuanni Liu
Juanni Liu
YZYi Zhang
Yi Zhang
Deep learning-based image compression achieves remarkable average rate-distortion performance but is prone to failure on noisy, high-frequency, or high-entropy inputs. This work systematically investigates these failure cases and proposes a noise-aware hybrid compression framework to address them. A High-Frequency Vulnerability Index (HFVI) is proposed, integrating frequency energy, encoder Jacobian sensitivity, and texture entropy into a unified measure of degradation susceptibility. Guided by HFVI, the system incorporates a selective zero-shot denoising module (P2PA) and a lightweight hybrid codec selector that determines, for each image, whether P2PA is necessary and selecting the more reliable codec (a learning-based model or JPEG2000) accordingly, without retraining any compression backbones. Experiments span a 200,000-image cross-domain benchmark incorporating general datasets, synthetic noise (eight levels), and real-noise datasets demonstrate that the proposed pipeline improves PSNR by up to 1.28 dB, raises SSIM by 0.02, reduces LPIPS by roughly 0.05, and decreases the failure-case rate by 6.7% over the best baseline (Joint-IC). Additional intensity-profile and cross-validation analyses further validate the robustness and deployment readiness of the method, showing that the hybrid selector provides a practical path toward reliable, noise-adaptive deep image compression.

1 January 2026 in IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters
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LZLizhe Zhang
Lizhe Zhang
QZQuan Zhou
Quan Zhou
LHLang Huyan
Lang Huyan
RLRuihua Liu
Ruihua Liu