Weicheng Xie (解为成)

Associate Professor

College of Computer Science and Software Engineering

Shenzhen University


Office: Room 936, Computer building, south campus of Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China, 518060
Phone: +86 (755) 2653 4310
Email: wcxie AT szu.edu.cn


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Short Biography

Weicheng Xie is currently an Associate Professor in College of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Shenzhen University. He received the B.E. degree in Statistics from Central China Normal University in June 2008, and the Ph.D. degree in Computational Mathematics from Wuhan University in June 2013. Before joining Shenzhen University, he was a Visiting Scholar in the School of Computer Science, The University of Nottingham, UK, and a Postdoctor in the Computer Vision group with Prof. Linlin Shen, Shenzhen University. He is now heading the Facial Expression Analysis research group in Shenzhen University. He is a member of IEEE, CCF, and CAAI.

 

Major Honors/Awards

  • 2017 Shenzhen Reserve Talents Award (深圳市后备级人才)
  • 2018 Shenzhen Nanshan District Pilot Talent Award (深圳市南山区“领航人才”)

 

Research Interests

Facial expression analysis, Deep learning, Deep metric learning, and Machine Learning

Openings: I’d like to work with both undergraduate and postgraduate students. Our lab also hires postdoctor to do research on deep learning, machine learning and face and facial expression analysis, medical image processing and analysis. Please feel free to contact me if you are interested.

[招新] 欢迎对我们工作感兴趣的研究生新生和本科生加入我们的研究小组。

[招聘] 深圳大学计算机视觉所招收博士后，欢迎咨询。

 

Recent News

  • 2025.06 - Our papers "SynFER: Towards Boosting Facial Expression Recognition with Synthetic Data" and "Enhancing Adversarial Transferability by Balancing Exploration and Exploitation with Gradient-Guided Sampling" have been accepted by ICCV'25. Congrats to Xilin and Zenghao.
  • 2025.03 - TETCI and PR papers have been accepted on TETCI'25 and PR'25. Congrats to Tao Zhong and Fan Yang.
  • 2024.12 - Three papers have been accepted by AAAI'25. Congrats to Hengde, Haijian, Xilin, Xiaole.
  • 2024.10 - Our paper "ReactFace: Online Multiple Appropriate Facial Reaction Generation in Dyadic Interactions" has been accepted by TVCG. Congrats to Cheng Luo.
  • 2024.09 - Our paper "Towards Combating Frequency Simplicity-biased Learning for Domain Generalization" has been accepted by NeurIPS'24. Congrats to Xilin.
  • 2024.08 - Our paper "Generative imperceptible attack with feature learning bias reduction and multi-scale variance regularization" has been accepted by T-IFS'24. Congrats to Zenghao Niu.
    • 2024.07 - We won The Second-Place Winner in Challenge: Automatic Recognition of Micro Expressions organized by The 4th Chinese Conference on Affective Computing in CCAC'2024. Congrats to Zihan Wang, Hang Xiao, Weijia Fan, Siyang Song, Weicheng Xie, Linlin Shen
  • 2024.07 - We won The Sixth-Place Winner in Challenge: Black-box Adversarial Attacks on Vision Foundation Models organized by The 4th Workshop of Adversarial Machine Learning on Computer Vision: Robustness of Foundation Models in CVPR'2024. Congrats to Zenghao Niu, Qinliang Lin, Xilin He, Cheng Luo, Weicheng Xie, Siyang Song, Linlin Shen
  • 2024.07 - Our paper "MTaDCS: Moving Trace and Feature Density-based Confidence Sample Selection under Label Noise" has been accepted by ECCV'24. Congrats to Qingzheng and Xilin.
  • 2024.02 - Our paper "Cross-layer Contrastive Learning of Latent Semantics for Facial Expression Recognition" has been accepted by TIP'24. Congrats to Zhibin Peng.
  • 2023.12 - Our paper "Network Characteristics Adaption and Hierarchical Feature Exploration for Robust Object Recognition" has been accepted by PR'24. Congrats to Cheng Luo.
  • 2023.12 - Our papers "GUIDED CIRCULAR DECOMPOSITION AND CROSS-MODAL RECOMBINATION FOR MULTIMODAL SENTIMENT ANALYSIS", "Scale-free and Task-generic Attack: Generating Photo-realistic Adversarial Patterns with Patch Quilting Generator" and "MERG: Multi-dimensional Edge Representation Generation Layer for Graph Neural Networks" have been accepted by ICASSP'24. Congrats to Haijian Liang, Xiangbo Gao, Yuxin Song.
  • 2023.12 - Our paper "Boosting Adversarial Transferability across Model Genus by Deformation-Constrained Warping" has been accepted by AAAI'24. Congrats to Qinliang Lin and Cheng Luo.
  • 2023.07 - Our paper "Shift from texture-bias to shape-bias: edge deformation-based augmentation for robust object recognition" has been accepted by ICCV'23. Congrats to Xilin He.
  • 2023.06 - Our paper "Consistency Preservation and Feature Entropy Regularization for GAN based Face Editing" has been accepted by TMM. Congrats to Wenya Lu.
  • 2022.04 - Our paper "Learning Multi-dimensional Edge Feature-based AU Relation Graph for Facial Action Unit Recognition" has been accepted by IJCAI. Congrats to Cheng Luo and Dr. Siyang Song.
  • 2022.03 - Our papers "Scene Consistency Representation Learning for Video Scene Segmentation" and "Frequency-driven Imperceptible Adversarial Attack on Semantic Similarity" have been accepted by CVPR. Congrats to Haoqian, Cheng Luo and Qinliang.
  • 2021.09 - Selected as the best reviewer of CCBR 2021.
  • 2021.07 - Our paper "Group-wise Inhibition based Feature Regularization for Robust Classification" has been accepted by ICCV. Congrats to Haozhe and Haoqian.

 

Selected Publications

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Grant

  • PI, General Project of National Natural Science Foundation of China, 2023. (国家自然科学委面上项目)
  • PI, Youth Project of National Natural Science Foundation of China, 2017. (国家自然科学委青年基金)
  • PI, China Postdoctoral Science Foundation, 2015. (博士后基金)
  • PI, Guangdong Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation, 2022. (广东省自然科学基金-面上项目)
  • PI, Guangdong Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation, 2019. (广东省自然科学基金-面上项目)
  • PI, Special Foundation for Basic Research of Shenzhen (Natural Science Foundation), 2019. (深圳市基础研究专项)
  • PI, Shenzhen Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, 2019. (深圳市人工智能与机器人研究院合作项目)
  • PI, Award of Tencent "Rhinoceros Birds" - Scientific Research Foundation for Young Teachers of Shenzhen University, 2018. (腾讯“犀牛鸟”-深圳大学青年教师科研基金项目)
  • PI, Natural Science Foundation of SZU, 2018. (深圳大学新引进教师科研启动项目)

 

Professional Services

    Reviewer for journals:

    • IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP); IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (TNNLS); IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing (TAFFC); IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM); IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video (TCSVT); IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging (TMI); Information Fusion; Pattern Recognition (PR); Neural Networks; Pattern Recognition Letters(PRL); IEEE Signal Processing Letters (SPL); Knowledge-Based Systems (KBS); Neurocomputing; Applied Intelligence; Signal Processing Image Communication; CAAI Transactions on Intelligence Technology; IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence; Expert Systems With Applications; Computer Vision and Image Understanding

    External reviewer for conferences:

    • NeurIPS (2025); PRCV (2025); ICIG (2025); ACM MM (2025); ICCV (2025); IJCAI (2025); ICME (2025); IJCNN (2025); CVPR (2025); ICASSP (2025); WACV (2025); AAAI (2025); BMVC (2024);PRCV (2024);CCBR (2024);ECCV (2024);IJCAI (2024);CVPR (2024);ICASSP (2023);CCBR (2023);PRCV (2023);ICCV (2023);IJCAI (2023);CICAI (2023);CICAI (2022);DSAA (2022);CVPR (2022);ECCV (2022)

    Conference Session Chair:

    • IJCB (MUG) (2024)

 

Teaching Experiences

  • Recent courses I teach at Shenzhen University:
    • Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence, 2023 - Now
    • Computer Vision, 2017 - Now
    • Pattern Recognition, 2017- Now
    • Introduction of deep learning technology, 2022- Now
    • Mobile Internet Programming, 2020 - Now
    • Internet Programming (in JAVA), 2017- Now
    • University Computer, 2017 - Now

 

Group Members

 

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