(^ refers to the students I have advised or co-advised, * indicates the corresponding author.)
Refereed Journal Papers
[TVCG] Cheng Luo, Siyang Song*, Weicheng Xie*, Micol Spitale, Zongyuan Ge, Linlin Shen and Hatice Gunes. "ReactFace: Online Multiple Appropriate Facial Reaction Generation in Dyadic Interactions", IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2024. (PDF)
[T-IFS] Weicheng Xie, Zenghao Niu, Qinliang Lin, Siyang Song, Linlin Shen*. "Generative imperceptible attack with feature learning bias reduction and multi-scale variance regularization", IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, 2024. (PDF)
[TIP] Weicheng Xie, Zhibin Peng^, Linlin Shen*, Wenya Lu^, Yang Zhang, Siyang Song. "Cross-layer Contrastive Learning of Latent Semantics for Facial Expression Recognition", IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 2024. (PDF, Code)
[PR] Weicheng Xie, Cheng Luo, Gui Wang, Linlin Shen*, Zhihui Lai, Siyang Song. "Network characteristics adaption and hierarchical feature exploration for robust object recognition", Pattern Recognition, 2024. (PDF)
[IEEE TMM] Weicheng Xie, Wenya Lu, Zhibin Peng, Linlin Shen*. "Consistency Preservation and Feature Entropy Regularization for GAN based Face Editing", IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, vol. 25, pp. 8892-8905, 2023. (PDF)
[IEEE TCSVT] Weicheng Xie, Haoqian Wu^, Yi Tian^, Mengchao Bai, Linlin Shen. "Triplet loss with multistage outlier suppression and class-pair margins for facial expression recognition", IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Vol. 32, No. 2, Pages 690-703, 2022. (PDF)
[IETCV] Junjun Fan, ZeQi Ma, Jiajun Wen, Zhihui Lai, Weicheng Xie, Wai Keung Wong. "Self‐inferring incomplete multi‐view clustering", IET-Computer Vision, online, 2022. (PDF)
[PR] Weicheng Xie, Wenting Chen, Linlin Shen, Jinming Duan, Meng Yang. "Surrogate Network-based Sparseness Hyper-parameter Optimization for Deep Expression Recognition", Pattern Recognition, Vol. 111, Pages 107701, March 2021. (PDF)
[IEEE TCYB] Weicheng Xie, Linlin Shen, Jinming Duan. "Adaptive Weighting of Hand-crafted Feature Losses for Facial Expression Recognition", IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, Vol. 51, No. 5, Pages 2787-2800, May 2021. (PDF)
[PR] Weicheng Xie, Xi Jia, Linlin Shen, Meng Yang. "Sparse deep feature learning for facial expression recognition", Pattern Recognition, Vol. 96, Pages 106966, December 2019. (PDF)
[PR] Guojun Lin, Meng Yang, Jian Yang, Linlin Shen, Weicheng Xie. "Robust, discriminative and comprehensive dictionary learning for face recognition", Pattern Recognition, Vol. 81, Pages 341–356, 2018. (PDF)
[MTA] Weicheng Xie, Linlin Shen, Meng Yang, Jianmin Jiang. "Facial expression synthesis with direction field preservation based mesh deformation and lighting fitting based wrinkle mapping", Multimedia Tools and Applications, Vol. 77, Pages 7565–7593, 2018. (PDF)
[IETCV] Weicheng Xie, Jinming Duan, Linlin Shen, Yuexiang Li, Meng Yang, Guojun Lin. "Open snake model based on global guidance field for embryo vessel location", IET Computer Vision, Volume 12, Pages 129-137, 2018. (PDF, Code)
[IEEE TMM] Weicheng Xie, Linlin Shen, Jianmin Jiang. "A Novel Transient Wrinkle Detection Algorithm and Its Application for Expression Synthesis", IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, Vol. 19, Pages 279-292, Feb. 2017. (PDF)
[Sensors] Weicheng Xie, Linlin Shen, Meng Yang, Zhihui Lai. "Active AU based patch weighting for facial expression recognition", Sensors, Volume 17, Pages 275, 2017. (PDF)
[Neurocomputing] Yu Chen, Weicheng Xie, Xiufen Zou. "A binary differential evolution algorithm learning from explored solutions", Neurocomputing, Vol. 149, Pages 1038–1047, 2015. (PDF)
[CAD] Weicheng Xie, Xiufen Zou. "A triangulation-based hole patching method using differential evolution", Computer-Aided Design, Volume 45, Issue 12, Pages 1651-1664, December 2013. (PDF)
[SC] Weicheng Xie, Wei Yu, Xiufen Zou. "Diversity-maintained differential evolution embedded with gradient-based local search", Soft Computing, Volume 17, Pages 1511–1535, 2013. (PDF, Code)
[SEC] Yu Chen, Weicheng Xie, Xiufen Zou. "How can surrogates influence the convergence of evolutionary algorithms?", Swarm and Evolutionary Computation, Vol. 12, Pages 18–23, 2013. (PDF)
[CAD] Weicheng Xie, Xiufen Zou, Jiandong Yang, Jiebin Yang. "Iteration and optimization scheme for the reconstruction of 3D surfaces based on non-uniform rational B-splines", Computer-Aided Design, Volume 44, Issue 11, Pages 1127-1140, November 2012. (PDF)
[IS] Yu Chen, Xiufen Zou, Weicheng Xie. "Convergence of multi-objective evolutionary algorithms to a uniformly distributed representation of the Pareto front", Information Sciences, Vol. 181, Pages 3336–3355, 2011. (PDF)
Refereed Conference Papers
[WACV'25] Xilin He, Cheng Luo, Qinliang Lin, Weicheng Xie*, Muhammad Haris Khan, Siyang Song, Linlin Shen. "Towards Robust Training via Gradient-diversified Backpropagation", In IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision, 2025. (PDF )
[NeurIPS'24] Xilin He, Jingyu Hu, Qinliang Lin, Cheng Luo, Weicheng Xie*, Siyang Song, Muhammad Haris Khan, Linlin Shen. "Towards Combating Frequency Simplicity-biased Learning for Domain Generalization", In The Thirty-eighth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, 2024. (PDF)
[IJCB (MUG)'24] Junliang zhang, Xu Liu, yu liang, Xiaole Xian, Weicheng Xie, Linlin Shen, Siyang Song . "CLIP-Guided Bidirectional Prompt and Semantic Supervision for Dynamic Facial Expression Recognition ", In IEEE International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB) Multimodal Human Behavior Understanding & Generation , 2024. (PDF)
[ACM MM'24] Hengde Zhu, Xiangyu Kong, Weicheng Xie, Xin Huang, Linlin Shen, Lu Liu, Hatice Gunes, Siyang Song. "PerFRDiff: Personalised Weight Editing for Multiple Appropriate Facial Reaction Generation", In ACM International Conference on Multimedia, 2024. (PDF)
[ECCV'24] Kaishen Yuan, Zitong Yu, Xin Liu, Weicheng Xie, Huanjing Yue, Jingyu Yang. "Auformer: Vision transformers are parameter-efficient facial action unit detectors", In European Conference on Computer Vision, 2024. (PDF)
[ECCV'24] Qingzheng Huang#, Xilin He#, Xiaole Xian, Qinliang Lin, Weicheng Xie*, Siyang Song, Linlin Shen, Zitong Yu. "MTaDCS: Moving Trace and Feature Density-based Confidence Sample Selection under Label Noise", In European Conference on Computer Vision, 2024. (PDF)
[CVPR'24] Zihan Wang, Siyang Song, Cheng Luo, Songhe Deng, Weicheng Xie, Linlin Shen. "Multi-scale Dynamic and Hierarchical Relationship Modeling for Facial Action Units Recognition", In IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Seattle WA, USA, 2024. (PDF)
[FGR'24] Tao Zhong#^, Xiaole Xian#^, Zihan Wang, Weicheng Xie*, Linlin Shen. "Expression-aware Masking and Progressive Decoupling for Cross-database Facial Expression Recognition", In IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, 27-31 May 2024 SDKM, ITU Campus, Istanbul, Turkey, 2024. (PDF )
[AAAI'24] Qinliang Lin#^, Cheng Luo#^, Zenghao Niu^, Xilin He^, Weicheng Xie*, Yuanbo Hou, Linlin Shen, Siyang Song. "Boosting Adversarial Transferability across Model Genus by Deformation-Constrained Warping", AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2024. (PDF, Code)
[ICASSP'24] Haijian Liang^, Weicheng Xie*, Xilin He, Siyang Song, Linlin Shen. "GUIDED CIRCULAR DECOMPOSITION AND CROSS-MODAL RECOMBINATION FOR MULTIMODAL SENTIMENT ANALYSIS", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, 2024. (PDF, Code)
[ICASSP'24] Xiangbo Gao, Qinliang Lin^, Cheng Luo^, Weicheng Xie*, Linlin Shen, Keerthy Kusumam, Siyang Song*. "Scale-free and Task-generic Attack: Generating Photo-realistic Adversarial Patterns with Patch Quilting Generator", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, 2024. (PDF, Code)
[ICASSP'24] Yuxin Song, Cheng Luo^, Aaron Jackson, Xi Jia, Weicheng Xie, Linlin Shen, Hatice Gunes, Siyang Song. "MERG: Multi-dimensional Edge Representation Generation Layer for Graph Neural Networks", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, 2024. (PDF, Code)
[ICCV'23] Xilin He^, Qinliang Lin^, Cheng Luo^, Weicheng Xie*, Siyang Song, Feng Liu, Linlin Shen. "Shift from texture-bias to shape-bias: edge deformation-based augmentation for robust object recognition", International Conference on Computer Vision, 2023, pp. 1526-1535. (PDF, Code)
[ICIP'23] Wenya Lu^, Zhibin Peng^, Cheng Luo^, Weicheng Xie*, Jiajun Wen, Zhihui Lai, Linlin Shen. "Multi task-based facial expression synthesis with supervision learning and feature disentanglement of image style", In ICIP, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, October, 2023, pp. 1005-1009. (PDF )
[Interspeech'23] Yuanbo Hou, Siyang Song, Cheng Luo^, Andrew Mitchell, Qiaoqiao Ren, Weicheng Xie, Jian Kang, Wenwu Wang, Dick Botteldooren. "Joint Prediction of Audio Event and Annoyance Rating in an Urban Soundscape by Hierarchical Graph Representation Learning", In Interspeech, 20th-24th August 2023 Dublin, Ireland, 2023. (PDF )
[CVPRW'23] Zihan Wang, Siyang Song, Cheng Luo, Yuzhi Zhou, Shiling Wu, Weicheng Xie, Linlin Shen. "Spatial-Temporal Graph-Based AU Relationship Learning for Facial Action Unit Detection", In IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW), Vancouver, BC, Canada, 2023, pp. 5899-5907. (PDF)
[ICVISP'23] Jingyu Hu, Tao Zhong, Xilin He, Weicheng Xie*, Siyang Song, Linlin Shen "AmpNorm: An Effective Style Normalization Method for Single Domain Generalization", In ICVISP, Dali, China, November 2023. (PDF)
[IJCAI'22] Cheng Luo#^, Siyang Song#, Weicheng Xie*, Linlin Shen, Hatice Gunes. "Learning Multi-dimensional Edge Feature-based AU Relation Graph for Facial Action Unit Recognition", The 31st International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2022, pp. 1239-1246. (PDF, Code)
[CVPR'22] Haoqian Wu#^, Keyu Chen#, Yanan Luo, Ruizhi Qiao, Bo Ren, Haozhe Liu, Weicheng Xie*, Linlin Shen. "Scene Consistency Representation Learning for Video Scene Segmentation", IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, New Orleans, LA, USA, 2022, pp. 14001-14010. (PDF)
[CVPR'22] Cheng Luo#^, Qinliang Lin#^, Weicheng Xie*, Bizhu Wu, Jinheng Xie, Linlin Shen. "Frequency-driven Imperceptible Adversarial Attack on Semantic Similarity", In IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, New Orleans, LA, USA, 2022, pp. 15294-15303. (PDF, Code)
[CCBR'22] Fan Yang, Weicheng Xie*, Tao Zhong, Jingyu Hu, Linlin Shen "Augmented Feature Representation with Parallel Convolution for Cross-domain Facial Expression Recognition", In CCBR, Shenzhen, China, November 2022. (PDF)
[ICCV'21] Haozhe Liu#, Haoqian Wu#^, Weicheng Xie*, Feng Liu*, Linlin Shen. "Group-wise Inhibition based Feature Regularization for Robust Classification", International Conference on Computer Vision, Montreal, QC, Canada, 2021, pp. 468-476. (Acceptance Rate: 25.9%) (PDF, Code)
[ICCPR'21] Rongdong Li#, Qinliang Lin#, Yinglong Fu,Weicheng Xie*, Linlin Shen "Imperceptible adversarial attack with entropy feature and segmentation-based constraint", In ICCPR, Shanghai, China, October 2021. (PDF)
[AAAI'20] Zhiwei Ke#^，Zhiwei Wen#^, Weicheng Xie*, Yi Wang*, Linlin Shen. "Group-Wise Dynamic Dropout Based on Latent Semantic Variation", In Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, New York, USA, February 2020, 34(07), pp. 11229-11236. (Acceptance Rate: 20.6%) (PDF)
[ECCV'20] Weizeng Lu, Xi Jia, Weicheng Xie, Linlin Shen, Yicong Zhou, Jinming Duan. "Geometry Constrained Weakly Supervised Object Localization", In ECCV, Online, August 2020. (Acceptance Rate: 26%) (PDF)
[ICIP'20] Yi Tian^, Zhiwei Wen^, Weicheng Xie*, Xi Zhang, Linlin Shen, Jinming Duan. "Outlier-suppressed triplet loss with adaptive class-aware margins for facial expression recognition", In IEEE ICIP, Taipei, Taiwan, Sept. 2019. (Oral) (PDF)
[ICPR'20] Zhiwei Wen^, Haoqian Wu^, Weicheng Xie*, Linlin Shen. "Group-wise Feature Orthogonalization and Suppression for GAN based Facial Attribute Translation", In IEEE ICPR, Online, January 2021. (PDF)
[IEEE IJCB'20] Xi Zhang, Junliang Chen, Weicheng Xie, Linlin Shen. "Feature map masking based single-stage face detection", In IEEE IJCB, Online, September 2020. (PDF)
[ACPR'19] Zhiwei Wen^, Zhiwei Ke^, Weicheng Xie*, Linlin Shen. "Clustering-based Adaptive Dropout for CNN-based Classification", In ACPR, Auckland, New Zealand, November 2019. (PDF)
[PRICAI'19] Mengchao Bai, Xi Jia, Weicheng Xie, Linlin Shen. "Adversarial Feature Distillation for Facial Expression Recognition", In PRICAI, Yanuca Island, Cuvu, Fiji, August 2018. (PDF)
[ICIP'19] Mengchao Bai, Weicheng Xie, Linlin Shen. "Disentangled feature based adversarial learning for facial expression recognition", In IEEE ICIP, Taipei, Taiwan, September 2019. (PDF)
[FG'18] Guohang Zeng, Jiancan Zhou, Xi Jia, Weicheng Xie*, Linlin Shen. "Hand-crafted feature guided deep learning for facial expression recognition", In IEEE FG, Xi'an, China, May, 2018. (PDF )
[IWSMI'18] Jinming Duan, Weicheng Xie, Ryan Wen Liu, Christopher Tench, Irene Gottlob, Frank Proudlock, Li Bai. "OCT segmentation: Integrating open parametric contour model of the retinal layers and shape constraint to the Mumford-Shah functional", In International Workshop on Shape in Medical Imaging, Granada, Spain, September 2018. (PDF)
[CCBR'16] Mian Li, Weicheng Xie, Linlin Shen. "Fusing 3D gabor and block-wise spatial features for hyperspectral palmprint recognition", In CCBR, Chengdu, China, October 2016. (PDF)
[CCBR'16] Guojun Lin, Meng Yang, Linlin Shen, Weicheng Xie, Zhonglong Zheng. "Sample Diversity, Discriminative and Comprehensive Dictionary Learning for Face Recognition", In CCBR, Chengdu, China, October 2016. (PDF)
[CISP'15] Weicheng Xie, Linlin Shen, Meng Yang, Qibin Hou. "Lighting difference based wrinkle mapping for expression synthesis", In CISP, Shenyang, China, October 2015. (PDF)