LI XU

Chairman & CEO, SenseTime Group Limited


Email: xuli[at]sensetime.com

Google Scholar


Research Awards:

Test-of-Time Award, SIGGRAPH ASIA 2024

Li Xu, Qiong Yan, Yang Xia, Jiaya Jia, "Structure Extraction from Texture via Relative Total Variation", SIGGRAPH ASIA 2012

[project][paper][matlab code]

Test-of-Time Award, SIGGRAPH AISA 2023

Li Xu, Cewu Lu, Yi Xu, Jiaya Jia, "Image Smoothing via L0 Gradient Minimization", SIGGRAPH ASIA 2011

[project][paper][video]

[software (GPU enabled)][matlab code][edge adjustment tool]

Best Paper Award, NPAR 2012

Cewu Lu, Li Xu, Jiaya Jia, "Combining Sketch and Tone for Pencil Drawing Production", NPAR 2012

[project][paper][slides]


Research work included in OpenCV Library

very fast weightedMedianFilter (CVPR'14, included in OpenCV since version 3.2.0 )
[project][paper][code]
rollingGuidanceFilter (ECCV'14, included in OpenCV since version 3.1.0)
[project][paper][matlab code]
l0smooth (SIGGRAPH ASIA'11, included in OpenCV since version 3.1.0)
[project][paper][matlab code]
decolor (ICCP'12, included in OpenCV since version 3.0.0)
[project][paper][matlab code]

Other topics

Deep Learning for Complex Image Processing: "Deep Edge-Aware Filters"  ICML'15
[project][paper][code]
Natural Image Deblurring: "Unnatural L0 Sparse Representation for Natural Image Deblurring", CVPR'13
[project][paper][software]
Optical Flow: "Motion Detail Preserving Optical Flow Estimation", CVPR'10
[project][paper][software]