🧍‍♂️ Biography

I received my B.S. degree in 2023 from the Department of Statistics and Information Science at Fu Jen Catholic University (FJCU), Taiwan, where I was advised by Prof. Hao-Chiang Shao. I recently completed my M.S. degree at National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), where I conducted research at the Advanced Computer Vision Laboratory (ACVLAB) under the mentorship of Prof. Chih-Chung Hsu. During my time there, I benefited greatly from Prof. Hsu’s guidance and continue to collaborate closely with him after graduation.

While awaiting my mandatory military service, I am currently a research assistant at the Computational Photography Laboratory at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (NYCU), working with Prof. Yu-Lun Liu. I will be pursuing my Ph.D. at the University at Albany, State University of New York (SUNY), where I will continue my research collaboration with Prof. Ming-Ching Chang.

Find my resume here (last updated Mar 24, 2025).

My research interests include:

• Low-level computer vision problems
• Multimedia information security

I am also exploring other computer vision-related fields which are interested to me, such as 3D reconstruction and Efficient AI.

🔥 News

• 2025/11/17:  🎉🎉 One paper is accepted by IJCV 2025!
• 2025/11/14:  🎉🎉 One paper is accepted by WACV 2026. See you in Arizona!
• 2025/10/23:  🎉🎉 I receive the Best Master Thesis Award in IEEE Tainan Section 2025. Link
• 2025/09/19:  🎉🎉 I receive the Future Tech Awards (2025 未來科技獎) (Top-3%).
• 2025/08/20:  🎉🎉 I receive the Excellent Master Thesis Award in IPPR 2025. Link
• 2025/08/20:  🎉🎉 I receive the Best paper Awards in CVGIP 2025.
• 2025/7/24:  🎉🎉 One paper is accepted by ICCVW 2025.
• 2025/7/19:  🎉🎉 Three paper is accepted by ACMMM 2025.
• 2025/7/15::  🎉🎉 I receive the 1st performance in ACMMM 2025, SoccerTrack Challenge@MMSports.
• 2025/7/7::  🎉🎉 I have successfully defended my Master’s Thesis in NCKU!
• 2025/7/6::  🎉🎉 I receive the 1st performance in ICCV 2025, Multi-source COV19 Detection Challenge.
• 2025/6/18:  🎉🎉 I receive the top2% ranking in ACMMM 2025, Social Media Popularity Prediction Challenge.
• 2025/5/30:  🎉🎉 I receive the 1st performance in ICRA 2025, TreeScope Tree Diameter Estimation Challenge.
• 2025/3/24:  🎉🎉 I receive the 3rd performance in CVPR 2025 (NTIRE Workshop, Image Shadow Removal Challenge).
• 2025/3/24:  🎉🎉 I receive the top3% ranking in CVPR 2025 (NTIRE Workshop, Image Reflection Removal Challenge).
• 2025/3/15:  🎉🎉 Four paper are accepted by IGARSS 2025.
• 2024/12/24:  🎉🎉 I receive the runner-up in USV-based Embedded Obstacle Segmentation, in conjuncted with WACV 2025.
• 2024/09/19:  🎉🎉 I receive the Future Tech Awards (2024 未來科技獎). Link

📝 Selected Publications

IJCV25

UMCL: Unimodal-generated Multimodal Constrative Learning for Cross-compression-rate Deepfake Detection

Ching-Yi Lai, Chih-Yu Jian, Pei-Cheng Chuang, Chia-Ming Lee, Chih-Chung Hsu, Chiou-Ting Hsu, Chia-Wen Lin

Keywords

• Constrative Learning
• Multimodality Learning

• Robust DeepFake Detection

  arxiv

WACV26

WWE-UIE: A Wavelet & White Balance Efficient Network for Underwater Image Enhancement

Ching-Heng Cheng, Jen-Wei Lee, Chia-Ming Lee, Chih-Chung Hsu

Keywords

• Under-water Image Enhancement
• Color Correction
  arxiv

ACMMM25

DenseSR: Image Shadow Removal as Dense Prediction

Yu-Fan Lin, Chia-Ming Lee, Chih-Chung Hsu

Keywords

• Single Image Shadow Removal

  arxiv

Submitted to TPAMI2025

Towards Robust DeepFake Detection: Adaptive Sparse Graph Embedding with Order-Free Representation and Explicit Laplacian Smoothing

Chih-Chung Hsu, Shao-Ning Chen, Mei-Hsuan Wu, Chia-Ming Lee, Yi-Fang Wang, Yi-Shiuan Chou

Keywords

• Adversarial Attack
• Robust DeepFake Detection

• Graph Convolution Network

  arxiv

IGARSS25

Robust Hyperspectral Image Pansharpening via Sparse Spatial-Spectral Representation

Chia-Ming Lee, Yu-Fan Lin, Li-Wei Kang, Chih-Chung Hsu

Keywords

• Hyperspectral Image Pansharpening

• Sparse Representation

  arxiv

Submitted to AAAI2026

FracQuant: Fractal Complexity Assessment for Content-aware Image Super-resolution Network Quantization

Chia-Ming Lee, Jen-Wei Lee, Fu-En Yang, Yu-Chiang Frank Wang, Chih-Chung Hsu

Keywords

• Efficient Image Super-Resolution
• Fractal Coding for Image Compression

• Network Compression and Quantization

  arxiv

Submitted to TGRS25

PromptHSI: Universal Hyperspectral Image Restoration with Vision-Language Modulated Frequency Adaptation

Chia-Ming Lee, Ching-Heng Cheng, Yu-Fan Lin, Yi-Ching Cheng, Wo-Ting Liao, Chih-Chung Hsu, Fu-En Yang, Yu-Chiang Frank Wang

Keywords

• Hyperspectral Image Restoration
• All-in-One Image Restoration

• Text-Prompt Learning

  arxiv

Submitted to TGRS

AuroraHSI: An End-to-End Hyperspectral Image Fusion Method for Degraded Imagery

Chia-Ming Lee, Cheng-Jun Kang, Ching-Heng Cheng, Yu-Fan Lin, Yi-Shiuan Chou, Chih-Chung Hsu, Fu-En Yang, Yu-Chiang Frank Wang

Keywords

• Hyperspectral Image Restoration

• Robust Hyperspectral Image Fusion

  arxiv

CVPRW2024

DRCT: Saving Image Super-Resolution away from Information Bottleneck

Chih-Chung Hsu, Chia-Ming Lee, Yi-Shiuan Chou

Keywords

• Image Super-resolution
• Information Bottleneck
  PDF arxiv Github Project page Poster Slide

TGRS2024

Real-Time Compressed Sensing for Joint Hyperspectral Image Transmission and Restoration for CubeSat

Chih-Chung Hsu, Chih-Yu Jian, Eng-Shen Tu, Chia-Ming Lee, Guan-Lin Chen

Keywords

• Hypersepctral Image
• Compression and Sensing

• Image Restoration

  IEEE Xplore Github

🎖 Honors and Awards

• 2025.10: Best Master Thesis Award, IEEE Tainan Section 2025.
• 2025.09: Future Tech Awards (2025 未來科技獎) (Top-3%).
• 2025.08: Excellent Master Thesis Award, IPPR 2025.
• 2025.07: Winner, SoccerTrack Challenge, Multimedia Content Analysis in Sports, ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACMMM).
• 2025.07: Winner, Multi-source COV19 Detection Challenge, PHAROS Adaptation, Fairness, Explainability in AI Medical Imaging Workshop, IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV).
• 2025.06: 5th place (5/486), Social Media Popularity Prediction Challenge, ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACMMM).
• 2025.05: Winner, TreeScope Tree Diameter Estimation Challenge, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA).
• 2025.03: 6th place (6/244), NTIRE 2025 Single Image Reflection Removal in the Wild Challenge, IEEE/CVF Computer Vision & Pattern Recognition (CVPR).
• 2025.03: 3rd place (3/306), NTIRE 2025 Single Image Shadow Removal Challenge, IEEE/CVF Computer Vision & Pattern Recognition (CVPR).
• 2024.12: Runner-up (2/700), USV-based Embedded Obstacle Segmentation Challenge, Maritime Computer Vision Workshop, IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV).
• 2024.12: Shanghai Commercial and Savings Bank Foundation Scholarship.
• 2024.09: Future Tech Awards (2024 未來科技獎).
• 2024.07: Winner, Beyond Visible Spectrum: AI for Agriculture Challenge, International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR).
• 2024.05: Top Performance Award, Socia Media Popularity Prediction Challenge, ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACMMM).
• 2024.03: 9th place (9/288), AI City Challenge Track 4: Road Object Detection in Fish-Eye Cameras, IEEE Computer Vision & Pattern Recognition (CVPR).
• 2024.03: 6th place (6/195), NTIRE 2024 Image Super-Resolution (x4), IEEE/CVF Computer Vision & Pattern Recognition (CVPR).
• 2024.03: 3rd place (3/21), COVID-19 Detection Challange, Domain adaptation, Explainability and Fairness in AI for Medical Image Analysis, IEEE/CVF Computer Vision & Pattern Recognition (CVPR).
• 2024.03: Runner-up (2/1200+), Auto-WCEBleedGen Challenge Version V2, IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP).
• 2024.01: (?/8) Ministry of Education Presidential Education Award Candicate in NCKU.
• 2024.01: 6th place (6/195), SeaDroneSee Multi-Object Tracking and Re-Identification Challenge, IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), Workshop on Maritime Computer Vision (MaCVi).
• 2023.12: 2nd place (2/129), Embedded AI Object Detection Model Design, PAIR-LITEON Competition, ACM International Conference on Multimedia Asia (MMAsia).
• 2023.11: Gold Medal Award (1/150+), SAS Hackathon, [Reported by 6+ domsetic media].
• 2023.10: Top Paper Award (3/700+) , Socia Media Popularity Prediction Challenge, ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACMMM).
• 2023.10: Jury Prize (1/176), Visual Inductive Priors Workshop on Instance Segmentation Challenge, IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV).
• 2023.06: Winner (1/18), COV19 Detection Challenge, AI-enabled Medical Image Analysis Workshop in IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, & Signal Processing (ICASSP).

🚀 Academic Services

📝 Reviewer

• Conference Papers: CVPR’24, ICLR’25, CVPR’25, ICCV’25, ACMMM’25, MMAsia’25, AAAI’26, CVPR’26
• Journal Papers: TMM, TIFS, TGRS, GRSL, IJPRAI