Dr. Yue Cao | Image Processing | Best Researcher Award

Dr. Yue Cao | Image Processing | Best Researcher Award

Doctorate at Harbin Institute of Technology, China

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📋 Summary

Yue Cao is a Ph.D. candidate at Harbin Institute of Technology, specializing in computational imaging. His work focuses on noise modeling and image enhancement in extreme low-light conditions, making significant strides in sensor technology and image processing.

Education

  • Ph.D., Computer Application Technology (Sep. 2020 – Present), Harbin Institute of Technology
  • M.S., Computer Software and Theory (Sep. 2017 – Aug. 2020), Shaanxi Normal University
  • B.S., Software Engineering (Sep. 2010 – Aug. 2014), Inner Mongolia University

💼 Internship Experience

  • Industry-Academia-Research Project Intern
    OPPO Research Institute, Shenzhen
    Feb. 2023 – Feb. 2024 (estimated)
    Engaged in noise modeling and parameter calibration of mobile phone sensors, as well as joint denoising, demosaicking, and super-resolution tasks in extremely low-light conditions related to smartphone sensor technology.

🏆 Selected Awards

  • 2020: Winner Award, NTIRE Real Image Denoising Challenge – rawRGB Track
  • 2020: 3rd Place Award, NTIRE Real Image Denoising Challenge – sRGB Track
  • 2014: Outstanding Graduate of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, P.R. China
  • 2012: Excellent Three Merit Student Award of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, P.R. China

🔬 Research Interests

Dr. Yue’s research interests include noise modeling, image denoising, demosaicking, super-resolution, and sensor technology, with a particular focus on improving imaging performance in challenging environments.

Publications

Physics-guided iso-dependent sensor noise modeling for extreme low-light photography

  • Authors: Yue Cao, Ming Liu, Shuai Liu, Xiaotao Wang, Lei Lei, Wangmeng Zuo
  • Year: 2023

Incorporating Semi-Supervised and Positive-Unlabeled Learning for Boosting Full Reference Image Quality Assessment

  • Authors: Yue Cao, Zhaolin Wan, Dongwei Ren, Zifei Yan, Wangmeng Zuo
  • Year: 2022

Pseudo-ISP: Learning Pseudo In-camera Signal Processing Pipeline from A Color Image Denoiser

  • Authors: Yue Cao, Xiaohe Wu, Shuran Qi, Xiao Liu, Zhongqin Wu, Wangmeng Zuo
  • Year: 2021

Unpaired learning of deep image denoising

  • Authors: Xiaohe Wu, Ming Liu, Yue Cao, Dongwei Ren, Wangmeng Zuo
  • Year: 2020

Ntire 2020 challenge on real image denoising: Dataset, methods and results

  • Authors: Abdelrahman Abdelhamed, Mahmoud Afifi, Radu Timofte, Michael S Brown
  • Year: 2020