Chao Ren, an Associate Research Professor with the College of Electronics and Information Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China. Dr. Ren received the Ph.D. degree in Communication and Information System from Sichuan University, Chengdu, China, in 2017. His current research interests include inverse problems in image and video processing. Dr. Ren has published more than 70 papers in SCI journals and international conferences. Among them, over 30 high-level papers as the first or corresponding author were published in top-tier venues, including CVPR, ICCV, NeurIPS, ECCV, ACMMM, and IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP), IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics (TCYB), IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM), IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT), IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (TNNLS), and IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (TII). Dr. Ren has received the Huawei Spark Award and was selected for the National Post-Doctoral Program for Innovative Talents of China.
๐ฅ News
- 2025.07.12: ๐๐๐ One paper was accepted by TPAMI. Congratulations to Xin Lin ๐๐๐.
- 2025.06.24: ๐๐๐ One paper was accepted by TNNLS. Congratulations to Xiao Liu ๐๐๐.
- 2025.06.11: ๐๐๐ I am honored to be selected as an Outstanding Reviewer for CVPR 2025.
- 2025.05.12: ๐๐๐ One paper was accepted by TCSVT. Congratulations to Tianheng Zhen ๐๐๐.
- 2025.03.08: ๐๐๐ Three papers were accepted by CVPR. Congratulations to Guanglu Dong and Xiangpeng Tian ๐๐๐.
- 2025.02.25: ๐๐๐ One paper was accepted by TII. Congratulations to Xiao Liu ๐๐๐.
- 2024.10.28: ๐๐๐ One paper was accepted by WACV. Congratulations to Jingtong Yue ๐๐๐.
- 2024.10.25: ๐๐๐ One paper was accepted by TCSVT. Congratulations to Xin Lin ๐๐๐.
- 2024.07.01: ๐๐๐ One paper was accepted by ECCV. Congratulations to Xiangyu Liao ๐๐๐.
- 2024.02.27: ๐๐๐ One paper was accepted by CVPR. Congratulations to Lufei Chen ๐๐๐.
๐ Selected Publications
๐ค๐ค๐ค 2025 ๐ค๐ค๐ค
Re-boosting self-collaboration parallel prompt gan for unsupervised image restoration
Xin Lin, Yuyan Zhou, Jingtong Yue, Chao Renโ, Kelvin C.K. Chan, Lu Qi, and Ming-Hsuan Yang
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI 2025)
Channel Consistency Prior and Self-Reconstruction Strategy Based Unsupervised Image Deraining
Guanglu Dong, Tianheng Zheng, Yuanzhouhan Cao, Linbo Qing, Chao Renโ
In Proc. IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2025)
Guanglu Dong, Xiangyu Liao, Mingyang Li, Guihuan Guo, Chao Renโ
In Proc. IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2025)
Degradation-Aware Feature Perturbation for All-in-One Image Restoration
Xiangpeng Tian, Xiangyu Liao, Xiao Liu, Meng Li, Chao Renโ
In Proc. IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2025)
HQGS: High-Quality Novel View Synthesis with Gaussian Splatting in Degraded Scenes
Xin Lin, Shi Luo, Xiaojun Shan, Xiaoyu Zhou, Chao Ren, Lu Qi, Ming-Hsuan Yang, Nuno Vasconcelos
International Conference on Representation Learning 2025 (ICLR 2025)
Plug-and-Play General Image Registration for Misaligned Multi-Modal Image Fusion
Tianheng Zheng, Guanglu Dong, Pingping Zhang, Xiaohai He, Chao Renโ
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT 2025)
GBPG-Net: Global Background Prior-Guided Rain and Snow Image Restoration
Xiao Liu, Xiaofeng Wang, Shouyi Wang, Haosong Gou, Zhengyong Wang, Chao Renโ
IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (TNNLS 2025)
Transformer-Style Convolutional Network for Efficient Natural and Industrial Image Superresolution
Xiao Liu, Zhengyong Wang, Hong Yang, Xiaohai He, Haosong Gou, Chao Renโ
IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (TII 2025)
Dual-Representation Interaction Driven Image Quality Assessment with Restoration Assistance
Jingtong Yue, Xin Lin, Zijiu Yang, Chao Renโ
In Proc. IEEE/CVF Winter Conf. on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV 2025)
๐ค๐ค๐ค 2024 ๐ค๐ค๐ค
Unsupervised blind image deblurring based on self-enhancement
Lufei Chen, Xiangpeng Tian, Shuhua Xiong, Yinjie Lei, Chao Renโ
In Proc. IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2024)
Asymmetric Mask Scheme for Self-supervised Real Image Denoising
Xiangyu Liao, Tianheng Zheng, Jiayu Zhong, Pingping Zhang, Chao Renโ
In Proc. of the European Conf. on Computer Vision (ECCV 2024)
Dual Degradation Representation for Joint Deraining and Low-Light Enhancement in the Dark
Xin Lin, Jingtong Yue, Sixian Ding, Chao Renโ, Lu Qi, Ming-Hsuan Yang
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT 2025)
๐ค๐ค๐ค 2023 ๐ค๐ค๐ค
Xin Lin, Chao Renโ, Xiao Liu, Jie Huang, Yinjie Lei
In Proc. of the IEEE International Conf. on Computer Vision (ICCV 2023)
Random sub-samples generation for self-supervised real image denoising
Yizhong Pan, Xiao Liu, Xiangyu Liao, Yuanzhouhan Cao, Chao Renโ
In Proc. of the IEEE International Conf. on Computer Vision (ICCV 2023)
Geometry and uncertainty-aware 3d point cloud class-incremental semantic
Yuwei Yang, Munawar Hayat, Zhao Jin, Chao Ren, Yinjie Lei
In Proc. IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2023)
Xiao Liu, Xiuya Shi, Lufei Chen, Linbo Qing, Chao Renโ
In Proc. of the 31st ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM 2023)
Efficient information modulation network for image super-resolution
Xiao Liu, Xiangyu Liao, Xiuya Shi, Linbo Qing, Chao Renโ
In Proc. of European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2023)
Real image denoising via guided residual estimation and noise correction
Yizhong Pan, Chao Renโ, Xiaohong Wu, Jie Huang, Xiaohai He
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT 2023)
Blind image denoising via deep unfolding network with degradation information guidance
Man Qin, Chao Renโ, Hong Yang, Xiaohai He, Zhengyong Wang
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs (TCAS-II 2023)
Jie Huang, Xiao Liu, Yizhong Pan, Xiaohai He, Chao Renโ
IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (TII 2023)
๐ค๐ค๐ค 2022 ๐ค๐ค๐ค
A prior-guided deep network for real image denoising and its applications
Jie Huang, Zhibo Zhao, Chao Renโ, Qizhi Teng, Xiaohai He
Knowledge-Based Systems (KBS 2022)
An effective deep network using target vector update modules for image restoration
Sen Zhai, Chao Renโ, Zhengyong Wang, Xiaohai He, Linbo Qing
Pattern Recognition (PR 2022)
Real-world single image super-resolution: A brief review
Honggang Chen, Xiaohai He, Linbo Qing, Yuanyuan Wu, Chao Renโ, Ray E. Sheriff, Ce Zhu
Information Fusion (IF 2022)
CMAN: Learning global structure correlation for monocular 3D object detection
Yuanzhouhan Cao, Hui Zhang, Yidong Li, Chao Ren, Congyan Lang
IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (TITS 2022)
Enhanced latent space blind model for real image denoising via alternative optimization
Chao Renโ, Yizhong Pan, Jie Huang
In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2022)
๐ค๐ค๐ค 2021 ๐ค๐ค๐ค
Learning image profile enhancement and denoising statistics priors for single-image super-resolution
Chao Renโ, Xiaohai He, Yifei Pu, Truong Q. Nguyen
IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics (TCYB 2021)
Remote sensing image recovery via enhanced residual learning and dual-luminance scheme
Chao Renโ, Xiaohai He, Linbo Qing, Yuanyuan Wu, Yifei Pu
Knowledge-Based Systems (KBS 2021)
Compressed image restoration via deep deblocker driven unified framework
Chao Renโ, Qizhi Teng, Xiaohai He, Linbo Qing, Truong Q. Nguyen
Knowledge-Based Systems (KBS 2021)
Adaptive consistency prior based deep network for image denoising
Chao Renโ, Xiaohai He, Chuncheng Wang, Zhibo Zhao
In Proc. IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2021)
Deep deblocker driven adaptive iteration scheme for compressed image recovery
Chao Renโ, Xiaohai He, Linbo Qing, Yuanzhouhan Cao
In Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME 2021)
Learning structure affinity for video depth estimation
Yuanzhouhan Cao, Yidong Li, Haokui Zhang, Chao Ren, Yifan Liu
In Proc. of the 31st ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM 2021)
๐ค๐ค๐ค 2016-2019 ๐ค๐ค๐ค
Chao Renโ, Xiaohai He, Yifei Pu, Truong Q. Nguyen
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP 2019)
Adjusted non-local regression and directional smoothness for image restoration
Chao Renโ, Xiaohai He, Truong Q. Nguyen
IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM 2019)
Chao Renโ, Xiaohai He, Truong Q. Nguyen
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP 2017)
Single image super-resolution using local geometric duality and non-local similarity
Chao Renโ, Xiaohai He, Qizhi Teng, Yuanyuan Wu, Truong Q. Nguyen
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP 2016)
๐๏ธ Honors and Awards
| Year | Award Name | Awarding Institution | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | CVPR Outstanding Reviewer Award | CVPR | - |
| 2025 | Sichuan University Annual Outstanding Individual | Sichuan University | - |
| 2024 | Sichuan University Outstanding Research TalentโAcademic Newcomer Award | Sichuan University | Only 10 recipients annually across all disciplines |
| 2024 | China Institute of Communications Science and Technology Award (Third Prize, Rank 3) | China Institute of Communications | - |
| 2023 | Huawei Spark Award | Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. | - |
| 2023 | Sichuan Provincial Science and Technology Progress Award (Third Prize, Rank 3) | Sichuan Provincial Peopleโs Government | - |
| 2023 | Sichuan University Hundred Talents Program | Sichuan University | - |
| 2023 | ICDT Novel Display Technology Competition, National First Prize (Advisor) | SID China Chapter, ICDT Organizing Committee, Huawei Device Co., Ltd. | The sole national first prize in this category |
| 2018, 2020, 2024 | Sichuan University Sanxin Teaching Award and Wuliangchun Outstanding Faculty Award (3 times) | Sichuan University | - |
| 2017 | National Postdoctoral Innovation Talent Support Program (Bo Xin Program) | Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, National Postdoctoral Management Committee | ย |
| 2017 | Elsevier Outstanding Reviewer Award (2 times) | Elsevier | - |
๐ Educations
- 2021.09 โ Present, Sichuan University, College of Electronic Information, Associate Researcher
- 2018.05 โ 2021.08, Sichuan University, College of Electronic Information, Associate Researcher (Full-time Research)
- 2017.07 โ 2018.04, Sichuan University, College of Electronic Information, Assistant Researcher
- 2012.09 โ 2017.06, Sichuan University, Communications and Information Systems, Ph.D.
- 2015.09 โ 2016.09, University of California, San Diego (UCSD), Joint Ph.D. Program (Supervisor: Prof. Truong Nguyen, IEEE Fellow)
- 2008.09 โ 2012.06, Sichuan University, Electronic Information Engineering, Bachelorโs Degree
๐ป Academic Communications
- Academic Journal Service:
- Guest Editor: Electronics, Applied Sciences โ Basel, Sensors, AI, etc.
- Youth Editorial Board Member๏ผ้ๅนด็ผๅง๏ผ: Journal of Engineering Science (ๅทฅ็จ็งๅญฆๅญฆๆฅ), Data Collection and Processing (ๆฐๆฎ้้ไธๅค็), Journal of Naval Aviation University (ๆตทๅ่ช็ฉบๅคงๅญฆๅญฆๆฅ).
- Executive Editorial Board Member๏ผๆง่ก็ผๅง๏ผ: Communication Technology (้ไฟกๆๆฏ).
- Reviewers: IEEE TPAMI, IEEE TIP, IJCV, IEEE TMM IEEE TCSVT, IEEE TCYB, IEEE TGRS, IEEE TAI, IEEE TITS, IEEE TNNLS, IEEE TII, IEEE Signal Processing, IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica, Optics Express, Advanced Engineering Informaticsโฆ
- Academic Conference Service:
- 2025, the 10th International Conference on Image, Vision and Computing (ICIVC 2025), Publication Chair and Conference Moderator
- 2025, the International Conference on Machine Vision, Image Processing and Imaging Technology (MVIPIT 2025), Publicity Chair
- 2025, the International Conference on Robotics, Artificial Intelligence and Intelligent Control (RAIIC 2025), Publicity Chair
- 2025, the ACM International Conference on Intelligent Perception and Pattern Recognition (IPPR 2025), Technical Committee Chair
- 2023, the International Conference on Image, Signal and Computing (ICISC 2023), Program Committee Member
- 2023, the International Conference on Optics and Image Processing (ICOIP 2023), Publication Chair
- 2023, the International Conference on Machine Vision, Image Processing and Imaging Technology (MVIPIT 2023), Publicity Chair
- 2023, the International Conference on Computer and Information Technology for Environmental Sciences (CITES 2023), Program Chair
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2018, IEEE International Conference on Computer and Communications (ICCC 2018), Session Chair
- Reviewers: CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, ACMMM, AAAI โฆ
- Academic organizations Service:
- CCF Multimedia Technology Committee, Executive Committee Member
- China Mobile Group Sichuan Company, Academic and Technical Advisor for the Postdoctoral Research Station