Jixin Zhao

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
VC Lab
Hong Kong SAR

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About Me

I am currently a first-year Ph.D. student at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, working in the Visual Computing Lab (VC Lab), supervised by Prof. Lei Zhang. I obtained my M.S. degree in Signal Processing from Nanyang Technological University. During my master's, I interned at MMLab@NTU, where I worked with Prof. Chongyi Li. I then continued there as a Research Assistant, working closely with Prof. Chen Change Loy and Prof. Shangchen Zhou. Before this, I obtained my B.S. degree in Electronic Information Engineering from Tianjin University in 2022.

My current research mainly focuses on low-level vision. I am also broadly interested in computational photography and image editing.

Publications [Google Scholar]

ObjectClear: Precise Object and Effect Removal with Adaptive Target-Aware Attention
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR 2026  
Jixin Zhao*, Zhouxia Wang, Peiqing Yang, and Shangchen Zhou*.
[Paper] [Project Page] [Code] [Demo] [Dataset]

PixRestore: Unified Image Restoration via Pixel Diffusion Transformer
arXiv preprint, 2026  
Lingchen Sun, Rongyuan Wu, Xiangtao Kong, Jixin Zhao, Qiaosi Yi, Yujing Sun, Shuaizheng Liu, Zhengqiang Zhang, and Lei Zhang.
[Paper] [Project Page] [Code]

GGT-100K: Generative Ground Truth for Generalizable Real-World Image Restoration
arXiv preprint, 2026  
Xiangtao Kong*, Jixin Zhao*, Lingchen Sun, Rongyuan Wu, and Lei Zhang.
[Paper] [Project Page] [Code]

VOSR: A Vision-Only Generative Model for Image Super-Resolution
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR 2026  
Rongyuan Wu, Lingchen Sun, Zhengqiang Zhang, Xiangtao Kong, Jixin Zhao, Shihao Wang, and Lei Zhang.
[Paper] [Code]

MatAnyone: Stable Video Matting with Consistent Memory Propagation
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR 2025  
Peiqing Yang, Shangchen Zhou, Jixin Zhao, Qingyi Tao, and Chen Change Loy.
[Paper] [Project Page] [Code]

Adaptive Window Pruning for Local Motion Deblurring
The Twelfth International Conference on Learning Representations, ICLR 2024  
Haoying Li, Jixin Zhao, Shangchen Zhou, Huajun Feng, Chongyi Li, and Chen Change Loy.
[Paper] [Project Page] [Code]

BeautyREC: Robust, Efficient, and Content-preserving Makeup Transfer
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshop, CVPRW 2023  
Qixin Yan, Chunle Guo, Jixin Zhao, Yuekun Dai, Chen Change Loy, and Chongyi Li.
[Paper] [Project Page] [Code]

Experiences

Research Intern | OPPO
Time: Sep 2025 - Present. Advisor: Prof. Lei Zhang

Algorithm Intern | SenseTime
Time: Apr 2023 - Jan 2024. Advisor: Dr. Tao Qingyi