Zhirui Liu

Dr. Zhirui Liu


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Academic Career Length

2Years (2025-Present)

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

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21 November 2025 in IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
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ZLZhirui Liu
Zhirui Liu
SSShangquan Sun
Shangquan Sun
CLChaopeng Li
Chaopeng Li
SZSiying Zhu
Siying Zhu
XZXiaopeng Zhu
Xiaopeng Zhu
Wenqi RenWenqi Ren
Wenqi Ren
Recent advancements in deep learning, particularly through Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and Vision Transformers (ViTs), have led to significant progress in nighttime image deraining. However, current architectures still struggle to strike an optimal balance between computational efficiency and restoration performance. Moreover, existing methods often fail to fully exploit the intrinsic characteristics of low-light conditions and inadequately model the interaction between rain and illumination. To overcome these challenges, we propose NDMamba, a dual-prior-guided state-space model that addresses nighttime deraining by incorporating degradation cues related to both lighting and rain distribution. Inspired by the Retinex theory, which suggests that rain streak distribution is influenced by the reflectance component of a scene, we propose a Prior Extraction Module (PEM) to jointly model lighting conditions and rain degradation. Furthermore, we design a Prior-Guided Mamba Block (PGMB), which comprises a Lighting-Adaptive Vision State-Space Module (LVSSM) that incorporates illumination priors, and a Rain Distribution Guidance Module (RDGM) to enhance local features in a more refined manner. Extensive experiments demonstrate that NDMamba outperforms state-of-the-art methods on both synthetic and real-world benchmark datasets. Our code is publicly available at https://github.com/tandaily/NDMamba.

25 October 2026 in Electronics
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QMQingxia Meng
Qingxia Meng
CXChengming Xu
Chengming Xu
ZLZhirui Liu
Zhirui Liu
SYSheng-Zhi Yang
Sheng-Zhi Yang
QYQian Yu
Qian Yu
Wenqi RenWenqi Ren
Wenqi Ren
The development of diffusion models (DMs) has greatly enhanced text-to-image generation, outperforming previous methods like generative adversarial networks (GANs) in terms of image quality and text alignment. However, accurately generating human body images remains challenging, often resulting in disproportionate figures and anatomical errors, which limits their practical applications in areas such as portrait generation. While previous methods such as HcP have shown promising results, limitations, including the retention of noisy priors, limited understanding of human representation, and restriction of generalization power, still exist due to the specific design of fully supervised learning with only pose-related information. In this study, we introduce a novel method to enhance pretrained diffusion models for realistic human body generation by incorporating dual-level human prior knowledge. Our approach involves learning shape-level details with the human-related tokens in the original prompts, and learning pose-level priors by adding a learnable pose-aware token to each text prompt. We use a two-stage training strategy to rectify the cross-attentions with a bind-then-generalize process, leveraging multiple novel objectives along with adversarial training. Paired comparisons on SD1.5 and SDXL, under identical prompts and generation seeds, show more coherent human bodies than the pretrained models and a LoRA baseline trained on the same images. Image-level metrics improve on SDXL. Those metrics measure image quality, distributional similarity, and preference. The anatomical comparison is carried by the paired images and the attention maps.

9 January 2026
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ZLZhirui Liu
Zhirui Liu
SSShangquan Sun
Shangquan Sun
YCYuning Cui
Yuning Cui
DKDehong Kong
Dehong Kong
CZCong Zhang
Cong Zhang
KLKin-Man Lam
Kin-Man Lam