Xiang Chen (陈 翔)

  Associate Professor

 School of Computer Science and Engineering
 Nanjing University of Science and Technology

 Email: chenxiang@njust.edu.cn
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FoundIR-v2: Optimizing Pre-Training Data Mixtures for Image Restoration Foundation Model

Xiang Chen, Jinshan Pan*, Jiangxin Dong, Jian Yang, Jinhui Tang
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2026.
[Paper] [Code]

Collaborative Feedback Discriminative Propagation for Video Super-Resolution

Hao Li, Xiang Chen, Jiangxin Dong, Jinhui Tang, Jinshan Pan*
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), 2026.
[Paper] [Code]

Rethinking Rainy 3D Scene Reconstruction via Perspective Transforming and Brightness Tuning

Qianfeng Yang^, Xiang Chen^, Pengpeng Li, Qiyuan Guan, Guiyue Jin, Jiyu Jin*
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2026.
[Paper] [Code]

UniRain: Unified Image Deraining with RAG-based Dataset Distillation and Multi-objective Reweighted Optimization

Qianfeng Yang, Qiyuan Guan, Xiang Chen, Jiyu Jin*, Guiyue Jin, Jiangxin Dong
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2026.
[Paper] [Code]

Unpaired Deep Image Deraining Using Reward-Guided Self-Reinforcement Learning

Yinghao Chen, Yeying Jin*, Xiang Chen, Yanyan Wei*, Ziyang Yan, Yaowen Fu
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2026.
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DeLiVR: Differential Spatiotemporal Lie Bias for Efficient Video Deraining

Shuning Sun, Jialang Lu, Xiang Chen, Jichao Wang, Dianjie Lu, Guijuan Zhang, Guangwei Gao, Zhuoran Zheng*
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2026.
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Cross-Scenario Deraining Adaptation with Unpaired Data: Superpixel Structural Priors and Multi-Stage Pseudo-Rain Synthesis

Kangbo Zhao, Miaoxin Guan, Xiang Chen, Yukai Shi*, Jinshan Pan
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT), 2026.
[Paper] [Code]

Haze Has Many Faces: Multi-Domain Haze Style Transfer for Diverse Haze Removal

Cunchuan Huang, Shuai Li, Xiang Chen, Jianlei Liu*, Dengwang Li*
Pattern Recognition (PR), 2026.
[Paper] [Code]

Dual Prompts Guided Cross-Domain Transformer for Unified Day-Night Image Dehazing

Jianlei Liu, Jiaming Niu, Xiang Chen, Yuting Pang, Shilong Wang*
Knowledge-Based Systems (KBS), 2026.
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Harmonizing Light and Darkness: Nighttime Image Deraining Using Color Space Transformation

Qiyuan Guan, Shuming Fan, Jiyu Jin*, Guiyue Jin*, Tianyu Song, Pengpeng Li, Xiang Chen, Kui Jiang
IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM), 2026.
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Towards Unified Deep Image Deraining: A Survey and A New Benchmark

Xiang Chen, Jinshan Pan*, Jiangxin Dong, Jinhui Tang
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), 2025.
[Paper] [Project] [Code]

FoundIR: Unleashing Million-scale Training Data to Advance Foundation Models for Image Restoration

Hao Li^, Xiang Chen^, Jiangxin Dong, Jinhui Tang, Jinshan Pan*
IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2025.
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Rethinking Nighttime Image Deraining via Learnable Color Space Transformation

Qiyuan Guan^, Xiang Chen^, Jiyu Jin*, Guiyue Jin*, Shumin Fan, Tianyu Song, Jinshan Pan
Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2025.
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Towards Ultra-High-Definition Image Deraining: A Benchmark and An Efficient Method

Hongming Chen^, Xiang Chen^, Chen Wu, Zhuoran Zheng, Jinshan Pan, Xianping Fu*
IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM), 2025.
[Paper] [Code]

DeRainGS: Gaussian Splatting for Enhanced Scene Reconstruction in Rainy Environments

Shuhong Liu, Xiang Chen, Hongming Chen, Quanfeng Xu, Mingrui Li*
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2025.
[Paper] [Project] [Code]

WeatherBench: A Real-World Benchmark Dataset for All-in-One Adverse Weather Image Restoration

Qiyuan Guan^, Qianfeng Yang^, Xiang Chen^, Tianyu Song, Guiyue Jin, Jiyu Jin*
ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM), 2025.
[Paper] [Code]

Depth-Centric Dehazing and Depth-Estimation from Real-World Hazy Driving Video

Junkai Fan, Kun Wang, Zhiqiang Yan, Xiang Chen, Shangbing Gao, Jun Li*, Jian Yang*
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2025.
[Paper] [Code]

NIINet: Towards Real-world Nighttime Deraining via Infrared Image Guidance

Yubo Wang, Kui Jiang*, Jinghua Wang, Xiang Chen, Laizhong Cui
IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM), 2025.
[Paper] [Code]

SmokeBench: A Real-World Dataset for Surveillance Image Desmoking in Early-Stage Fire Scenes

Wenzhuo Jin^, Qianfeng Yang^, Xianhao Wu^, Hongming Chen, Pengpeng Li, Xiang Chen*
ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM), 2025.
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Bidirectional Multi-Scale Implicit Neural Representations for Image Deraining

Xiang Chen, Jinshan Pan*, Jiangxin Dong
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024.
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Rethinking Multi-Scale Representations in Deep Deraining Transformer

Hongming Chen, Xiang Chen*, Jiyang Lu, Yufeng Li*
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2024.
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Learning A Spiking Neural Network for Efficient Image Deraining

Tianyu Song, Guiyue Jin, Pengpeng Li, Kui Jiang, Xiang Chen, Jiyu Jin*
International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2024.
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Learning A Sparse Transformer Network for Effective Image Deraining

Xiang Chen, Hao Li, Mingqiang Li, Jinshan Pan*
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2023.
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Hybrid CNN-Transformer Feature Fusion for Single Image Deraining

Xiang Chen, Jinshan Pan*, Jiyang Lu, Zhentao Fan, Hao Li
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2023.
[Paper] [Code]

Unpaired Deep Image Deraining Using Dual Contrastive Learning

Xiang Chen, Jinshan Pan, Kui Jiang, Yufeng Li*, Yufeng Huang, Caihua Kong, Longgang Dai, Zhentao Fan
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2022.
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Unpaired Deep Image Dehazing Using Contrastive Disentanglement Learning

Xiang Chen^, Zhentao Fan^, Pengpeng Li, Longgang Dai, Caihua Kong, Zhuoran Zheng, Yufeng Huang, Yufeng Li*
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2022.
[Paper] [Code]