I am currently a final-year Ph.D. candidate at Intelligent Media Analysis Group (IMAG Lab), School of Computer Science and Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology (NJUST), under the supervision of Prof.  Jinshan Pan. I also serve as the founder and CEO of EntroVision (熵视科技). My research interests include image processing and computer vision, mainly focusing on image deraining and low-level vision problems. If you are interested in my research, please feel free to contact me (any question / suggestion / collaboration). 
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 Towards Unified Deep Image Deraining: A Survey and A New Benchmark 
Xiang Chen, Jinshan Pan*, Jiangxin Dong, Jinhui Tang 
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), 2025. 
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 FoundIR: Unleashing Million-scale Training Data to Advance Foundation Models for Image Restoration 
Hao Li^, Xiang Chen^, Jiangxin Dong, Jinhui Tang, Jinshan Pan*  
IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2025. 
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 Rethinking Nighttime Image Deraining via Learnable Color Space Transformation 
Qiyuan Guan^, Xiang Chen^, Jiyu Jin*, Guiyue Jin, Shumin Fan, Tianyu Song, Jinshan Pan  
Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2025. 
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 Towards Ultra-High-Definition Image Deraining: A Benchmark and An Efficient Method 
Hongming Chen^, Xiang Chen^, Chen Wu, Zhuoran Zheng, Jinshan Pan, Xianping Fu* 
IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM), 2025. 
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 DeRainGS: Gaussian Splatting for Enhanced Scene Reconstruction in Rainy Environments 
Shuhong Liu, Xiang Chen, Hongming Chen, Quanfeng Xu, Mingrui Li* 
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2025. 
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 Collaborative Feedback Discriminative Propagation for Video Super-Resolution 
Hao Li, Xiang Chen, Jiangxin Dong, Jinhui Tang, Jinshan Pan*  
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), 2025 (Minor Revision). 
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 WeatherBench: A Real-World Benchmark Dataset for All-in-One Adverse Weather Image Restoration 
Qiyuan Guan^, Qianfeng Yang^, Xiang Chen^, Tianyu Song, Guiyue Jin, Jiyu Jin*  
ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM), 2025 (Datasets Track). 
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 DeLiVR: Differential Spatiotemporal Lie Bias for Efficient Video Deraining 
Shuning Sun, Jialang Lu, Xiang Chen, Jichao Wang, Dianjie Lu, Guijuan Zhang, Guangwei Gao, Zhuoran Zheng*  
arXiv:2509.21719 (arXiv), 2025. 
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 Depth-Centric Dehazing and Depth-Estimation from Real-World Hazy Driving Video 
Junkai Fan, Kun Wang, Zhiqiang Yan, Xiang Chen, Shangbing Gao, Jun Li*, Jian Yang* 
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2025. 
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 SmokeBench: A Real-World Dataset for Surveillance Image Desmoking in Early-Stage Fire Scenes 
Wenzhuo Jin^, Qianfeng Yang^, Xianhao Wu^, Hongming Chen, Pengpeng Li, Xiang Chen*  
ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM), 2025 (Datasets Track). 
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 Bidirectional Multi-Scale Implicit Neural Representations for Image Deraining 
Xiang Chen, Jinshan Pan*, Jiangxin Dong 
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024. 
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 Rethinking Multi-Scale Representations in Deep Deraining Transformer 
Hongming Chen, Xiang Chen*, Jiyang Lu, Yufeng Li* 
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2024. 
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 Learning A Spiking Neural Network for Efficient Image Deraining 
Tianyu Song, Guiyue Jin, Pengpeng Li, Kui Jiang, Xiang Chen, Jiyu Jin* 
International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2024. 
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 Learning A Sparse Transformer Network for Effective Image Deraining 
Xiang Chen, Hao Li, Mingqiang Li, Jinshan Pan* 
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2023. 
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 Hybrid CNN-Transformer Feature Fusion for Single Image Deraining 
Xiang Chen, Jinshan Pan*, Jiyang Lu, Zhentao Fan, Hao Li 
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2023. 
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 Unpaired Deep Image Deraining Using Dual Contrastive Learning 
Xiang Chen, Jinshan Pan, Kui Jiang, Yufeng Li*, Yufeng Huang, Caihua Kong, Longgang Dai, Zhentao Fan 
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2022. 
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 Unpaired Deep Image Dehazing Using Contrastive Disentanglement Learning 
Xiang Chen^, Zhentao Fan^, Pengpeng Li, Longgang Dai, Caihua Kong, Zhuoran Zheng, Yufeng Huang, Yufeng Li* 
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2022. 
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Selected Honors
2022.09-Present (Nanjing University of Science and Technology): 
    
2019.09-2022.06 (Shenyang Aerospace University): 
    
Competition Awards
Fundings 
-  China Association for Science and Technology Youth Talent Support Engineering Doctoral Program   [首批中国科协青年人才托举工程博士生专项计划] 
 
Invited Talks
 
Professional Services
Area Chair:  
 
- ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM 2025) 
 
- International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2025)
 
Organizer:  
 
  
Journal Reviewer:  
 
- IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI)
 
- IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP)
 
- IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (TNNLS) 
 
- IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM) 
 
- IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT) 
 
- IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (TGRS) 
 
- IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) 
 
- IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (TII) 
 
- IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing (JSTSP) 
 
- Pattern Recognition (PR) 
 
- Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence (EAAI) 
 
- Science China Information Sciences (SCIS) 
 
- Machine Intelligence Research (MIR) 
 
- Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU) 
 
- IEEE Signal Processing Letters (SPL) 
 
- IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters (GRSL) 
 
- Scientific Reports 
 
- International Journal of Digital Earth (IJDE) 
 
- Multimedia Systems 
 
- npj Heritage Science
 
- The Visual Computer (TVCJ) 
 
- The Journal of Supercomputing 
 
- Neural Processing Letters (NPL) 
 
- Machine Vision and Applications
 
- Optics Communication (Opt Commun)
 
- Expert Systems with Applications (ESWA) 
 
- Signal, Image and Video Processing (SIVP) 
 
- Journal of Electronic Imaging (JEI) 
 
- Journal of Applied Remote Sensing (JARS) 
 
- Journal of Circuits, Systems, and Computers (JCSC) 
 
- KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems 
 
Conference Reviewer: 
 
- IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2022-2026) 
 
- IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV 2023, 2025) 
 
- European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2022, 2024) 
 
- International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2024-2025) 
 
- Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2023-2025) 
 
- International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2024-2025)
 
- AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2023-2026) 
 
- International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2023-2025) 
 
- ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM 2022-2024) 
 
- Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI 2023-2025) 
 
- European Conference on Artifical Intelligence (ECAI 2024-2025)
 
- Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV 2022, 2024) 
 
- IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV 2023-2026)
 
- International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS 2025-2026)
 
- Chinese Conference on Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision (PRCV 2025)