Oct 19, 2025
One paper is published: Zhao, J., Dong, J., Zhou, H. and Dong, X. ‘Boundary-aware shape recognition using dynamic graph convolutional networks’. Pattern Recognition (2026).DOI Link
Oct 19, 2025
One paper is published: Zhao, L., Yang, J., Li, K., Ding, W. and Zhou, H. ‘Double uncertainty-aware learning network for multi-modal cell image segmentation’. IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (2025).DOI Link
Oct 19, 2025
One paper is published: Zheng, J., Hou, W., Zhang, H., Lv, M. and Zhou, H. ‘A fast gray-box adversarial example generation algorithm based on FakeBob’. High-Confidence Computing (Accepted).DOI Link
Oct 19, 2025
One paper is published: Lyu, S., Zhao, Q., Bai, W. et al. ‘Unsupervised cross-domain semantic segmentation on multi-modality ovarian tumor ultrasound data’. Pattern Recognition (2026).DOI Link
Oct 19, 2025
One paper is published: Wang, Y., Zhang, Y., Chen, X. et al. ‘MICCAI 2023 STS Challenge: A retrospective study of semi-supervised learning approaches for teeth segmentation’. Pattern Recognition (2026).DOI Link
Oct 19, 2025
One paper is published: Song, S., Yu, S., Zhou, H. et al. ‘DiffClick: Click-differentiated enhancement network for interactive segmentation’. Pattern Recognition (2026).DOI Link
Oct 19, 2025
One paper is published: Huang, X., Zhang, T., Xu, Z. et al. ‘Multi-aspect fusion foundational large vision model for visible light medical imaging segmentation’. Information Fusion (2025).DOI Link
Oct 19, 2025
One paper is published: Shamsolmoali, P., Zarepoor, M., Zhou, H. et al. ‘From missing pieces to masterpieces: Image completion with context-adaptive diffusion’. IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (2025).DOI Link
Oct 19, 2025
One paper is published: Fennell, D.A., Hill, K., Zhang, M. et al. ‘Constitutive inflammation and epithelial-mesenchymal transition dictate sensitivity to nivolumab in CONFIRM: a placebo-controlled, randomised phase III trial’. Nature Communications (2025).DOI Link
Oct 19, 2025
One paper is published: Gao, F., Li, M., Wang, J. et al. ‘General sparse adversarial attack method for SAR images based on key points’. IEEE Trans. on Aerospace and Electronic Systems (2025).DOI Link
Oct 19, 2025
One paper is published: Alatrany, A.S., Lakhani, K., Cowley, A.C. et al. ‘The retina as a window into detecting subclinical cardiovascular disease in type 2 diabetes’. Scientific Reports (2025).DOI Link
Oct 19, 2025
One paper is published: Wang, X., Jiang, Y. and Zhou, H. ‘TBRNet: Two-branch reinforcement network for few-shot semantic segmentation in remote sensing images’. IEEE Trans. on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (2025).DOI Link
Oct 19, 2025
One paper is published: Li, Y., Liu, X., Ferreira, V. et al. ‘Surface water mapping from remote sensing in Egypt’s dry season using an improved U-Net model with multi-scale information and attention mechanism’. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation (2025).DOI Link
Oct 19, 2025
One paper is published: Liu, X., Zhou, H., Dong, J., Xiao, J. and Dong, X. ‘Single target tracking with contextual prompts in scene understanding’. IEEE Trans. on Artificial Intelligence (Accepted).DOI Link
Oct 19, 2025
One paper is published: Gao, F., Huang, H., Wang, J. et al. ‘A comprehensive framework for out-of-distribution detection and open-set recognition in SAR targets’. IEEE J of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing (2025).DOI Link
Oct 19, 2025
One paper is published: Zhao, A., Liu, Y., Yu, X., Xing, X. and Zhou, H. ‘Artificial intelligence-enabled detection and assessment of Parkinson’s disease using multimodal data: A survey’. Information Fusion (2025).DOI Link
Oct 19, 2025
One paper is published: Zhong, F., Gao, F., Liu, T., Wang, J., Sun, J. and Zhou, H. ‘Scattering characteristics guided network for ISAR space target component segmentation’. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters (2025).DOI Link
Oct 19, 2025
One paper is published: Wang, J., Dong, J, Zhou, H. and Dong X. ‘Population-based meta-heuristic optimization algorithm booster: An evolutionary and learning scheme’. Neurocomputing (2025).DOI Link
Oct 19, 2025
One paper is published: Qiu, J., Zhang, W., Xu, S. and Zhou, H. ‘DP-YOLO: A lightweight traffic sign detection model for small object detection’. Digital Signal Processing (2025).DOI Link
Oct 19, 2025
One paper is published: Meng, X., Sun, H., Liu, J., Liu, N. and Zhou, H. ‘Energy-based pseudo-label refining for source-free domain adaptation’. Pattern Recognition Letters (2025).DOI Link
Oct 19, 2025
One paper is published: Zhu, X., Zhang, X., Zhang, T. et al. ‘Temporal-feedback self-training for semi-supervised object detection in remote sensing images’. IEEE Trans. on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (2025).DOI Link
Oct 19, 2025
One paper is published: Zhao, L., Xu, Y., Xu, J. et al. ‘Deep content and contrastive perception learning for automatic fetal nuchal translucency image quality assessment’. Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence (2025).DOI Link
Oct 19, 2025
One paper is published: Ren, X., Zhou, W., Yuan, N., Li, F., Ruan, Y. and Zhou, H. ‘Prompt-based polyp segmentation during endoscopy’. Medical Image Analysis (2025).DOI Link
Oct 19, 2025
One paper is published: Wu, X., Fei, M., Zhou, W., Du, S., Fei, Z. and Zhou, H. ‘Binary Banyan tree growth optimization: A practical approach to high-dimensional feature selection’. Knowledge-Based Systems (2025).DOI Link
Oct 19, 2025
One paper is published: Lin, N., Zhang, L., Wu, T. et al. ‘Surface multiple object tracking: an accurate HAT-YOLOv8-ADT tracking model’. IEEE Internet of Things (2025).DOI Link
Oct 19, 2025
One paper is published: Zhou, F., Yang, X., Chen, F. et al. ‘Cross-skeleton interaction graph aggregation network for representation learning of mouse social behaviour’. IEEE Trans. on Image Processing (2025).DOI Link
Feb 4, 2025
Zhihua Liu has passed his viva today and will be awarded the PhD degree subject to minor amendments, congratulations!
Feb 3, 2025
One paper is published: Zhang, M., Bzura, A., Baitei, E.Y. et al. A gut microbiota rheostat forecasts responsiveness to PD-L1 and VEGF blockade in mesothelioma. Nat Commun 15, 7187 (2024).Accepted Version
Feb 3, 2025
One paper is published: Y. Ju, K. -M. Lam, W. Xie, H. Zhou, J. Dong and B. Shi, Deep Learning Methods for Calibrated Photometric Stereo and Beyond, in IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 46, no. 11, pp. 7154-7172, Nov. 2024.Accepted Version
Feb 3, 2025
One paper is published: F. Zhou, Z. Jiang, H. Zhou and X. Li, SMC-NCA: Semantic-Guided Multi-Level Contrast for Semi-Supervised Temporal Action Segmentation, in IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, vol. 26, pp. 11386-11401, 2024.Accepted Version
Feb 3, 2025
One paper is published: F. Chen, H. Balzter, P. Ren and H. Zhou, SRCNet: Seminal Image Representation Collaborative Network for Oil Spill Segmentation in SAR Imagery, in IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 62, pp. 1-18, 2024.Accepted Version
Feb 3, 2025
One paper is published: X. Jia, T. Yu, X. Luo, D. Wang and H. Zhou, Maximizing Contrast in XOR-Based Visual Cryptography Schemes, in IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol. 34, no. 12, pp. 12849-12861, Dec. 2024.Accepted Version
June, 2024
One paper is accepted by BMJ Public Health: Gong, Q., Gao, Z., Somerville, I., Steele, C., Wang, D. and Zhou, H. Communicating COVID-19 vaccine information to Chinese communities in the UK: a qualitative study of their knowledge, information sources and trust. BMJ Public Health. Accepted for publication.Accepted Version
June, 2024
One paper is accepted by Pattern Recognition: Chen, L., Li, T., Zhou, A., Wang, S., Dong, J. and Zhou, H. Underwater object detection in noisy imbalanced datasets. Pattern Recognition. Accepted for publication.Accepted Version
June, 2024
One paper is accepted by Neural Networks: Kang, C., Prokop, J., Tong, L., Zhou, H., Hu, Y. and Novak, D. InA: Inhibition adaption on pre-trained language models. Neural Networks. Accepted for publication.Accepted Version
June, 2024
One paper is accepted by International Journal of Medical Informatics: Zhang, S., Zhou, H. and Zhu, Y. Have we found a solution for health misinformation? A ten-year systematic review of health misinformation literature 2013-2022. International Journal of Medical Informatics. Accepted for publication.Accepted Version
March 07, 2024
One paper is accepted by Medical Image Analysis: Liu, Z., Yang, B., Shen, Y., Ni, X., Tsaftaris, S.A. and Zhou, H. Long-short diffeomorphism memory network for weakly-supervised ultrasound landmark tracking. Medical Image Analysis. Accepted for publication.Arxiv Version
Feb 29, 2024
One paper is accepted by IEEE Trans. Wireless Commun.: Xia, G., Xiao, P., Li, B., Zhang, Y., and Zhou, H. Joint beamforming and compressed sensing for uplink grant-free access. IEEE Trans. Wireless Commun. Accepted for publication.TechRxiv Version
Feb 25, 2024
One paper is accepted by Medical Image Analysis: Tong, L., Corrigan, A., Kumar, N.R., Hallbrook, K., Orme, J., Wang, Y. and Zhou, H. CLANet: A Comprehensive Framework for Cross-Batch Cell Line Identification Using Brightfield Images. Medical Image Analysis. Accepted for publication.Arxiv Version
Oct 30, 2023
One paper is accepted by IEEE Transactions on Communications: B. Li, D. Dupleich, G. Xia, H. Zhou et al. MDD-Enabled Two-Tier Terahertz Fronthaul in Indoor Industrial Cell-Free Massive MIMO. IEEE Transactions on Communications. Accepted for publication.Accepted Version
Jan 26, 2023
One paper is accepted by IEEE Trans. on Geoscience and Remote Sensing: Chen, F., Balzter, H., Zhou, F., Ren, P. and Zhou, H. DGNet: Distribution guided efficient learning for oil spill image segmentation. IEEE Trans. on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. Accepted for publication.Arxiv Version
Dec 10, 2022
Our fourth Winter AI Workshop was held at College Court, Leicester, 9th December 2022. Three keynote speakers (Profs. Edwin Hancock, Andrew Fitzgibbon, and Ivan Tyukin) were invited to present their recent research work. Over fifty researchers attended the workshop. We would like to thank the supports from all the attendees and the sponsors (The Royal Society, University of Leicester and Northwestern Polytechnical University).Look forward to seeing all of you in the next year.
Sept 9, 2022
Celebrating the Mid-Autumn Festival and the Teachers’ Day！
July 29, 2022
Four team members (Tong, L., Zhou, F., Liu, Z., Chen, F.) attended MIUA2022 which was held at Cambridge.
July 23, 2022
One Paper is accepted by Pattern Recognition: Chen, L., Zhou, F., Wang, S., Dong, J., Li, N., Ma, H., Wang, X. and Zhou, H. SWIPENET: Object detection in noisy underwater scenes. arxiv Version
June 17, 2022
Our team member Lei Tong has taken a two-weeks internship in Astrazenca and he worked with UKCCB group on cell line authentication.
May 23, 2022
One Paper is accepted by Nature Scientific Report: Tong, Lei, et al. An automated cell line authentication method for AstraZeneca global cell bank using deep neural networks on brightfield images. Scientific Reports 12.1 (2022): 1-11.. Accepted Version
Feb 4, 2022
One Paper is accepted by IEEE Trans. on Affective Computing: Tong, L., Liu, Z., Jiang, Z., Zhou, F., Chen, L., Lyu, J., Zhang, X., Zhang, Q., Sadka, A., Wang, Y., Li, L. and Zhou, H. Cost-sensitive boosting pruning trees for depression detection on Twitter, IEEE Trans. on Affective Computing. 2021, Vol. 16, 5239-5249. Accepted Version
Feb 4, 2022
One Paper is accepted by IEEE Trans. on Information Forensics & Security: Chen, Y., Dong, S., Li, T., Wang, Y. and Zhou, H. Dynamic multi-key FHE in asymmetric key setting from LWE, IEEE Trans. on Information Forensics & Security. 2021, Vol. 16, 5239-5249. Accepted Version
Dec 10, 2021
2nd Workshop for Sino-UK to Promote Development and Application of AI has been held at College Court, Leicester, on 10th December 2021. This workshop received huge supports from Royal Society, University of Leicester and Northwestern Polytechnical University. Around 50 participants physically attended the workshop and discussed lots of AI-related applications, spreading from IoT to design. The workshop features several invited talks from UK and China that well addressed the fast-growing areas in bioinformatics and machine learning. Many thanks to the organisers Honghui Du, Ben Cham and Feixiang Zhou and the participants.
Nov 26, 2021
Dr Claire Wood from Department of English recently did an interview with the ‘Free Thinking programme’ on BBC Radio 3 about the AHRC funded Dickens Code project, where Huiyu Zhou is a research collaborator: Media link (in the final 15 minutes)
Nov 1, 2021
A new PhD studentship is available (application deadline is 9th Jan 2022): Developing biologically plausible models of eye movement control and visual processing in reading. Open to UK and non-UK applicants. [Eligibility]
Oct 11 2021
A new PhD studentship is available for application (closed now): Deep learning for imbalanced classification or findaphd. Open to UK and non-UK applicants, and funding includes a full overseas fee waiver.
July 23 2021
Online symposium: Decoding Dickens: Contexts, inspirations, approaches where Huiyu Zhou gave the talk entitled ‘Can machines crack the Dickens code?’ : during 2.00 pm - 6.30 pm (BST) on 23rd July 2021.
July 1 2021
IEEE RAS Prestigious Lecture: ‘Transform image understanding with artificial intelligence’: by Huiyu Zhou at 4.00 pm (BST) on 1st July 2021.
June 1 2021
Centenary inaugural lecture series:‘Dealing with uncertainty in image analysis’: by Huiyu Zhou at 5.30 pm (BST) on 1st June 2021.
May 21 2021
One of the Superstar 2021 Nominees, 21st May 2021.
Oct 27 2021
FSDM’21: ‘Artificial intelligence in health care’ (online), 15.25-16.15 pm (Seoul Time), 27th Oct, 2021, Seoul, Korea.
Sep 28 2021
Medical Image Computing Seminar (MICS): ‘Tackling challenges in machine learning based analysis of histopathological imagery’, 1 pm (BST) 28th September 2021.
Aug 27 2021
ICCEAI’21:‘Remote sensing and AI’, 27-29 Aug, 2021, Shanghai, China.
Aug 27 2021
ICETCI’21: ‘Artificial intelligence and its application in remote sensing’, 27-29 August, 2021, Changchun, China.
Aug 18 2021
ICGIP’21: ‘Dealing with uncertainty in image analysis’, 18-20 Aug, 2021, Kunming, China.
July 29 2021
AICS’21: ‘Remote sensing and AI’, 29-31 July, 2021, Beijing, China.
July 20 2021
BIBE’21:‘Mouse detection and tracking’, 20-22 July, 2021, Hangzhou, China.
July 2 2021
ABCP’21: ‘Depression detection on Twitter’, 2-3 July, 2021, UK/online.
Mar 12 2021
WABD’21: ‘Remote sensing and AI’, 12-14 March, 2021, Fuzhou, China (Talk is available here).
Jan 5 2021
CISE’21:‘Remote sensing and AI’, 5-7 Jan, 2021, Sanya, China.
Aug 31 2021
Frontiers in Neurorobotics, Research Topic ‘Intelligent Control and Applications for Robotics’: Abstract deadline: 31st August, 2021, and manuscript deadline: 31st December, 2021.
Jun 30 2021
IEEE Trans. on Industrial Informatics, special issue on ‘Medical data security solution for healthcare industries’: Deadline: 30th June, 2021. Closed now.
Sep 1 2021
Three Graduate Teaching Assistantships for September 2021 start are available. Please check out the project details on ‘PhD Projects for GTA Applications’: of the following link (closed now): https://le.ac.uk/study/research-degrees/funded-opportunities/informatics-gta-2021.
Sep 1 2021
A new PhD studentship is available for application (closed now): ‘Combat Parkinson’s disease - using artificial intelligence to monitor social behaviours of mice’.
Sep 1 2021
A RA post on cyber-security is now available (closed now): https://jobs.le.ac.uk/vacancies/1976/research-assistant–dominoes-project.html.