Chengliang Liu

Dr. Chengliang Liu

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Academic Career Length

5Years (2022-Present)

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

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27 July 2022 in IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
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Chengliang LiuChengliang Liu
Chengliang Liu
ZWZhihao Wu
Zhihao Wu
Jie WenJie Wen
Jie Wen
YXYong Xu
Yong Xu
Chao HuangChao Huang
Chao Huang
Incomplete multi-view clustering, which aims to solve the clustering problem on the incomplete multi-view data with partial view missing, has received more and more attention in recent years. Although numerous methods have been developed, most of the methods either cannot flexibly handle the incomplete multi-view data with arbitrary missing views or do not consider the negative factor of information imbalance among views. Moreover, some methods do not fully explore the local structure of all incomplete views. To tackle these problems, this paper proposes a simple but effective method, named localized sparse incomplete multi-view clustering (LSIMVC). Different from the existing methods, LSIMVC intends to learn a sparse and structured consensus latent representation from the incomplete multi-view data by optimizing a sparse regularized and novel graph embedded multi-view matrix factorization model. Specifically, in such a novel model based on the matrix factorization, a $l_{1}$ norm based sparse constraint is introduced to obtain the sparse low-dimensional individual representations and the sparse consensus representation. Moreover, a novel local graph embedding term is introduced to learn the structured consensus representation. Different from the existing works, our local graph embedding term aggregates the graph embedding task and consensus representation learning task into a concise term. Furthermore, to reduce the imbalance factor of incomplete multi-view learning, an adaptive weighted learning scheme is introduced to LSIMVC. Finally, an efficient optimization strategy is given to solve the optimization problem of our proposed model. Comprehensive experimental results performed on six incomplete multi-view databases verify that the performance of our LSIMVC is superior to the state-of-the-art IMC approaches. The code is available in https://github.com/justsmart/LSIMVC .

29 March 2023 in IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems
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Jie WenJie Wen
Jie Wen
Chengliang LiuChengliang Liu
Chengliang Liu
SDShijie Deng
Shijie Deng
YLYicheng Liu
Yicheng Liu
LFLunke Fei
Lunke Fei
YXYong Xu
Yong Xu
View missing and label missing are two challenging problems in the applications of multi-view multi-label classification scenery. In the past years, many efforts have been made to address the incomplete multi-view learning or incomplete multi-label learning problem. However, few works can simultaneously handle the challenging case with both the incomplete issues. In this article, we propose a new incomplete multi-view multi-label learning network to address this challenging issue. The proposed method is composed of four major parts: view-specific deep feature extraction network, weighted representation fusion module, classification module, and view-specific deep decoder network. By, respectively, integrating the view missing information and label missing information into the weighted fusion module and classification module, the proposed method can effectively reduce the negative influence caused by two such incomplete issues and sufficiently explore the available data and label information to obtain the most discriminative feature extractor and classifier. Furthermore, our method can be trained in both supervised and semi-supervised manners, which has important implications for flexible deployment. Experimental results on five benchmarks in supervised and semi-supervised cases demonstrate that the proposed method can greatly enhance the classification performance on the difficult incomplete multi-view multi-label classification tasks with missing labels and missing views.

28 June 2023 in IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems
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Chengliang LiuChengliang Liu
Chengliang Liu
Jie WenJie Wen
Jie Wen
ZWZhihao Wu
Zhihao Wu
XLXiaoling Luo
Xiaoling Luo
Chao HuangChao Huang
Chao Huang
YXYong Xu
Yong Xu
Incomplete multiview clustering (IMC) is a hot and emerging topic. It is well known that unavoidable data incompleteness greatly weakens the effective information of multiview data. To date, existing IMC methods usually bypass unavailable views according to prior missing information, which is considered a second-best scheme based on evasion. Other methods that attempt to recover missing information are mostly applicable to specific two-view datasets. To handle these problems, in this article, we propose an information-recovery-driven-deep IMC network, termed as RecFormer. Concretely, a two-stage autoencoder network with self-attention structure is built to synchronously extract high-level semantic representations of multiple views and recover the missing data. Besides, we develop a recurrent graph reconstruction mechanism that cleverly leverages the restored views to promote representation learning and further data reconstruction. Visualization of recovery results are given and sufficient experimental results confirm that our RecFormer has obvious advantages over other top methods.

10 February 2023 in IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems
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SDShijie Deng
Shijie Deng
Jie WenJie Wen
Jie Wen
Chengliang LiuChengliang Liu
Chengliang Liu
KYKe Yan
Ke Yan
GXGehui Xu
Gehui Xu
YXYong Xu
Yong Xu
Due to the rapid development of multimedia technology and sensor technology, multi-view clustering (MVC) has become a research hotspot in machine learning, data mining, and other fields and has been developed significantly in the past decades. Compared with single-view clustering, MVC improves clustering performance by exploiting complementary and consistent information among different views. Such methods are all based on the assumption of complete views, which means that all the views of all the samples exist. It limits the application of MVC, because there are always missing views in practical situations. In recent years, many methods have been proposed to solve the incomplete MVC (IMVC) problem and a kind of popular method is based on matrix factorization (MF). However, such methods generally cannot deal with new samples and do not take into account the imbalance of information between different views. To address these two issues, we propose a new IMVC method, in which a novel and simple graph regularized projective consensus representation learning model is formulated for incomplete multi-view data clustering task. Compared with the existing methods, our method not only can obtain a set of projections to handle new samples but also can explore information of multiple views in a balanced way by learning the consensus representation in a unified low-dimensional subspace. In addition, a graph constraint is imposed on the consensus representation to mine the structural information inside the data. Experimental results on four datasets show that our method successfully accomplishes the IMVC task and obtain the best clustering performance most of the time. Our implementation is available at https://github.com/Dshijie/PIMVC.

29 December 2022 in IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics
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Chao HuangChao Huang
Chao Huang
Chengliang LiuChengliang Liu
Chengliang Liu
Jie WenJie Wen
Jie Wen
LWLian Wu
Lian Wu
YXYong Xu
Yong Xu
YWYaowei Wang
Yaowei Wang
Weakly supervised video anomaly detection is generally formulated as a multiple instance learning (MIL) problem, where an anomaly detector learns to generate frame-level anomaly scores under the supervision of MIL-based video-level classification. However, most previous works suffer from two drawbacks: 1) they lack ability to model temporal relationships between video segments and 2) they cannot extract sufficient discriminative features to separate normal and anomalous snippets. In this article, we develop a weakly supervised temporal discriminative (WSTD) paradigm, that aims to leverage both temporal relation and feature discrimination to mitigate the above drawbacks. To this end, we propose a transformer-styled temporal feature aggregator (TTFA) and a self-guided discriminative feature encoder (SDFE). Specifically, TTFA captures multiple types of temporal relationships between video snippets from different feature subspaces, while SDFE enhances the discriminative powers of features by clustering normal snippets and maximizing the separability between anomalous snippets and normal centers in embedding space. Experimental results on three public benchmarks indicate that WSTD outperforms state-of-the-art unsupervised and weakly supervised methods, which verifies the superiority of the proposed method.

26 February 2025 in IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
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Chengliang LiuChengliang Liu
Chengliang Liu
Jie WenJie Wen
Jie Wen
YXYong Xu
Yong Xu
Bob ZhangBob Zhang
Bob Zhang
LNLiqiang Nie
Liqiang Nie
Min ZhangMin Zhang
Min Zhang
As a cross-topic of multi-view learning and multi-label classification, multi-view multi-label classification has gradually gained traction in recent years. The application of multi-view contrastive learning has further facilitated this process; however, the existing multi-view contrastive learning methods crudely separate the so-called negative pair, which largely results in the separation of samples belonging to the same category or similar ones. Besides, plenty of multi-view multi-label learning methods ignore the possible absence of views and labels. To address these issues, in this paper, we propose an incomplete multi-view missing multi-label classification network named RANK. In this network, a label-driven multi-view contrastive learning strategy is proposed to leverage supervised information to preserve the intra-view structure and perform the cross-view consistency alignment. Furthermore, we break through the view-level weights inherent in existing methods and propose a quality-aware subnetwork to dynamically assign quality scores to each view of each sample. The label correlation information is fully utilized in the final multi-label cross-entropy classification loss, effectively improving the discriminative power. Last but not least, our model is not only able to handle complete multi-view multi-label data, but also works on datasets with missing instances and labels. Extensive experiments confirm that our RANK outperforms existing state-of-the-art methods.