Res. Asst. Prof. - Xihua SHENG

Research Interests

image/video/point cloud coding and processing

Honors & Awards

• 2025 ACM SIGMM Award for Outstanding PhD Thesis
• 2024 The President's Excellence Award of Chinese Academy of Sciences
• Top Performance Award in the End-to-end Track of ISCAS 2023 Grand Challenge on Neural Network-based Video Coding
• First Prize Winner of the VCIP 2023 Practical End-to-End Video Compression Challenge
• Second Prize Winner in the Speed Track of VCIP 2022 Practical End-to-End Image Compression Challenge
• Second Prize Winner in the Speed Track of VCIP 2023 Practical End-to-End Image Compression Challenge

Selected Publications

Xihua Sheng, Lingyu Zhu, Tianyu Zhang, Dong Liu, Shiqi Wang, Jing Wang, CADC: Content Adaptive Diffusion-Based Generative Image Compression, The IEEE / CVF Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR), 2026

Xihua Sheng, Li Li, Dong Liu, Houqiang Li, VNVC: A Versatile Neural Video Coding Framework for Efficient Human-Machine Vision, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), 2024

Xihua Sheng, Li Li, Dong Liu, Houqiang Li, Prediction and Reference Quality Adaptation for Learned Video Compression, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP), 2025

Xihua Sheng, Peilin Chen, Meng Wang, Li Zhang, Shiqi Wang, Dapeng Oliver Wu, Fine-Grained Motion Compression and Selective Temporal Fusion for Neural B-Frame Video Coding, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM), 2026

Xihua Sheng, Li Li, Dong Liu, Shiqi Wang, Bi-Directional Deep Contextual Video Compression, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM), 2025