Publications

A selected collection of my research work. The complete list is available on Google Scholar. († indicates corresponding author.)

A training-free framework for text-to-image person re-identification via query-prototype matching

A training-free framework for text-to-image person re-identification via query-prototype matching

Hao Yang, Quan Zhang, Jian-Fang Hu, Jianhuang Lai

Pattern Recognition 2026

RDPA: A Concealed and Perilous Physical Adversarial Attack for Nighttime Traffic Signs Recognition

RDPA: A Concealed and Perilous Physical Adversarial Attack for Nighttime Traffic Signs Recognition

Hongfei Suo, Quan Zhang†, Shuhuai Gu, Hongbo Chen

Expert Systems with Applications 2026

Beyond Perceptual Shortcuts: Causal-Inspired Debiasing Optimization for Generalizable Video Reasoning in Lightweight MLLMs

Beyond Perceptual Shortcuts: Causal-Inspired Debiasing Optimization for Generalizable Video Reasoning in Lightweight MLLMs

Jingze Wu, Quan Zhang†, Hongfei Suo, Zeqiang Cai, Hongbo Chen

IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2026

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View-Aware Semantic Alignment for Aerial-Ground Person Re-Identification

View-Aware Semantic Alignment for Aerial-Ground Person Re-Identification

Quan Zhang, Zeqiang Cai, Peiming Zhao, Jingze Wu, Cailun Wu, Hongbo Chen, Jianhuang Lai

IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2026

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Hierarchical Decoupling Learning for Optimization Conflict in Text-to-Image Person Re-Identification

Hierarchical Decoupling Learning for Optimization Conflict in Text-to-Image Person Re-Identification

Quan Zhang, Qihua Ou, Hongbo Chen, Cailun Wu, Jianhuang Lai

IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo 2026

Spotlight Paper

Unsupervised group re-identification from aerial perspective via strategic member harmonization

Unsupervised group re-identification from aerial perspective via strategic member harmonization

Hongxu Chen, Quan Zhang, Xiaohua Xie, Jianhuang Lai

Pattern Recognition 2025

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Separable spatial-temporal residual graph for cloth-changing group re-identification

Separable spatial-temporal residual graph for cloth-changing group re-identification

Quan Zhang, Jianhuang Lai, Xiaohua Xie, Xiaofeng Jin, Sien Huang

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence 2024

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Uncertainty modeling for group re-identification

Uncertainty modeling for group re-identification

Quan Zhang, Jianhuang Lai, Zhanxiang Feng, Xiaohua Xie

International Journal of Computer Vision 2024

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View-decoupled transformer for person re-identification under aerial-ground camera network

View-decoupled transformer for person re-identification under aerial-ground camera network

Quan Zhang, Lei Wang, Vishal M Patel, Xiaohua Xie, Jianhaung Lai

IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2024

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Unsupervised group re-identification via adaptive clustering-driven progressive learning

Unsupervised group re-identification via adaptive clustering-driven progressive learning

Hongxu Chen, Quan Zhang, Jian-Huang Lai, Xiaohua Xie

AAAI conference on artificial intelligence 2024

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Rotation exploration transformer for aerial person re-identification

Rotation exploration transformer for aerial person re-identification

Lei Wang, Quan Zhang, Junyang Qiu, Jianhuang Lai

IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo 2024

Best Paper Candidate Award

Wavelet-guided promotion-suppression transformer for surface-defect detection

Wavelet-guided promotion-suppression transformer for surface-defect detection

Quan Zhang, Jianhuang Lai, Junyong Zhu, Xiaohua Xie

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing 2023

Uncertainty modeling with second-order transformer for group re-identification

Uncertainty modeling with second-order transformer for group re-identification

Quan Zhang, Jian-Huang Lai, Zhanxiang Feng, Xiaohua Xie

AAAI conference on artificial intelligence 2022

Modeling 3D layout for group re-identification

Modeling 3D layout for group re-identification

Quan Zhang, Kaiheng Dang, Jian-Huang Lai, Zhanxiang Feng, Xiaohua Xie

IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2022

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Learning bi-directional feature propagation with latent layout modeling for group re-identification

Learning bi-directional feature propagation with latent layout modeling for group re-identification

Yuan Wang, Quan Zhang, Jianhuang Lai, Xiaohua Xie, Junhao Dong

International Conference on Pattern Recognition 2022

Learning modal-invariant angular metric by cyclic projection network for VIS-NIR person re-identification

Learning modal-invariant angular metric by cyclic projection network for VIS-NIR person re-identification

Quan Zhang, Jianhuang Lai, Xiaohua Xie

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing 2021

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Multi-modal face anti-spoofing based on a single image

Multi-modal face anti-spoofing based on a single image

Quan Zhang, Zexiang Liao, Yuezhen Huang, Jianhuang Lai

Chinese Conference on Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision 2021

Seeing like a human: Asynchronous learning with dynamic progressive refinement for person re-identification

Seeing like a human: Asynchronous learning with dynamic progressive refinement for person re-identification

Quan Zhang, Jianhuang Lai, Zhanxiang Feng, Xiaohua Xie

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing 2021