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Chun-Le Guo is an associate professor at Nankai University. Before that, he was a postdoc working with Prof. Ming-Ming Cheng at Nankai University. He received his Ph.D. degree from Tianjin University in China under the supervision of Prof. Ji-Chang Guo. He conducted the Ph.D. research as a Visiting Student with the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Queen Mary University of London (QMUL), UK. Then he continued his research as a Research Associate with the Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong (CityU of HK).

郭春乐，南开大学副教授，博导，入选南开大学"百名青年学科带头人培养计划"，第十届中国科协青年托举计划，2023 OPEN100 开源贡献人才榜，2024、2025斯坦福全球前2%顶尖科学家榜，2024、2025爱思唯尔中国高被引学者。研究内容包括计算成像、图像增强与复原等。谷歌学术引用1.5万余次，其中一作单篇最高引用3000余次。主持国自然、天津市青年项目（B类）以及华为、三星等资助的项目。曾获山东计算机学会自然科学奖一等奖（第2完成人）、IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award（IEEE TIP期刊最佳论文奖）等奖项。参与组织2022-2026年VALSE大会，现/曾任VALSE EAC、IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering（SCI二区）编委、CVPR/AAAI/WACV/BMVC等国际会议领域主席。

Research interests lie in image processing, computer vision, and deep learning, particularly in:

  1. Image and video restoration and enhancement
  2. AI ISP, such as raw denoising
  3. MLLM image quality assessment
  4. Generative image restoration
  5. Multispectral color restoration
  6. Computational imaging

News

2026 Serving as AAAI 2027 Area Chair
2026 Serving as WACV 2027 Area Chair
2026 2 papers accepted at ECCV 2026
2026 4 papers accepted at CVPR 2026
2026 1 paper accepted at ICML 2026
2026 CVPR 2026 Outstanding Area Chair
2025 山东计算机学会自然科学奖一等奖（第2完成人）
2025 IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award（IEEE TIP期刊最佳论文奖）
2026 3 papers accepted at AAAI 2026
2026 Served as CVPR 2026 Area Chair
2025 2 papers accepted at NeurIPS 2025
2025 1 paper accepted at ACM MM 2025
2025 1 paper accepted at ICCV 2025
2025 3 papers accepted at CVPR 2025
2025 3 papers accepted at AAAI 2025
2024 1 paper accepted at NeurIPS 2024
2024 1 paper accepted at ECCV 2024
2024 1 paper accepted at CVPR 2024
2023 3 papers accepted at CVPR 2023
2023 1 paper accepted at AAAI 2023
2022 3 papers accepted at CVPR 2022

Selected Publications

Joint first authors are indicated using # and corresponding authors are indicated using *.

2026

DNF-SR

DNF-SR: Dual-Input and Negative-Aware Feature Fine-Tuning for Real-World Image Super-Resolution

IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2026

Shaohua Han, Wenjie Liao, Haoqiang Fan, Hang Dong, Ruimao Zhang, Chun-Le Guo, Chongyi Li

Time-Aware SR

Time-Aware One Step Diffusion Network for Real-World Image Super-Resolution

IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2026

Tianle Zhang, Zheng-Peng Duan, Chun-Le Guo, Peng Jiang, Bo Li, Ming-Ming Cheng, Chongyi Li

YOSE

YOSE: You Only Select Essential Tokens for Efficient DiT-based Video Object Removal

IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2026

Chenjian Wu, Lina Lei, Fanglong Li, Chun-Le Guo, Dapeng Kong, Xueqin Qin, Zhangchi Wang, Ming-Ming Cheng, Chongyi Li

Stand-In

Stand-In: A Lightweight and Plug-and-Play Identity Control for Video Generation

IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2026

Bingqing Xue, Zheng-Peng Duan, Qixin Yan, Wenxiu Wang, Hao Liu, Chun-Le Guo, Chongyi Li, Chen Li, Jian Lyu

[Code]

VTinker

VTinker: Guided Flow Upsampling and Texture Mapping for High-Resolution Video Frame Interpolation

AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2026

Chenjian Wu, Jiayi Fu, Chun-Le Guo, Chongyi Li

EvalMuse-40K

EvalMuse-40K: A Reliable and Fine-Grained Benchmark with Comprehensive Human Annotations for Text-to-Image Generation Model Evaluation

AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2026

Shaohua Han, Haoqiang Fan, Jiayi Fu, Liang Li, Tao Li, Jie Cui, Yingchun Wang, Ying Tai, Jian Sun, Chun-Le Guo, Chongyi Li

[Project]

PerTouch

PerTouch: VLM-Driven Agent for Personalized and Semantic Image Retouching

AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2026

Zhicheng Chang, Zheng-Peng Duan, Jinglong Zhang, Chun-Le Guo, Siyu Liu, Hyoungwon Chun, Hyunhee Park, Zikun Liu, Chongyi Li

2025

UltraLED

UltraLED: Learning to See Everything in Ultra-High Dynamic Range Scenes

Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2025

Yuang Meng#, Xin Jin#, Lina Lei, Chun-Le Guo*, Chongyi Li

[Paper] [Project] [Code]

Video Denoising

Classic Video Denoising in a Machine Learning World: Robust, Fast, and Controllable

IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2025

Xin Jin, Simon Niklaus, Zhoutong Zhang, Zhihao Xia, Chunle Guo*, Yuting Yang, Jiawen Chen, Chongyi Li

[Paper] [Project]

FaceMe

FaceMe: Robust blind face restoration with personal identification

AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2025

Siyu Liu#, Zheng-Peng Duan#, Jia OuYang, Jiayi Fu, Hyunhee Park, Zikun Liu, Chun-Le Guo*, Chongyi Li

[Paper] [Project] [Code]

2024

LAMP

LAMP: Learn A Motion Pattern for Few-Shot Video Generation

IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024

Ruiqi Wu, Liangyu Chen, Tong Yang, Chunle Guo*, Chongyi Li, Xiangyu Zhang

[Paper] [Project]

2023

DNF

DNF: Decouple and Feedback Network for Seeing in the Dark

IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2023 Highlight (2.5% acceptance rate)

Xin Jin, Linghao Han, Zhen Li, Zhi Chai, Chunle Guo*, Chongyi Li

[Paper] [Project]

RIDCP

RIDCP: Revitalizing Real Image Dehazing via High-Quality Codebook Priors

IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2023

Ruiqi Wu, Zhengpeng Duan, Chunle Guo*, Zhi Chai, Chongyi Li

[Paper] [Project]

AMT

AMT: All-Pairs Multi-Field Transforms for Efficient Frame Interpolation

IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2023

Zhen Li, Zuoliang Zhu, Linghao Han, Qibin Hou, Chunle Guo*, Ming-Ming Cheng

[Paper] [Code]

Underwater Ranker

Underwater Ranker: Learn Which Is Better and How to Be Better

AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2023

Chunle Guo#, Ruiqi Wu#, Xin Jin, Linghao Han, Zhi Chai, Weidong Zhang, Chongyi Li*

[PDF-arXiv] [Project]

2022

KnifeCut

KnifeCut: Refining Thin Part Segmentation with Cutting Lines

Proceedings of the 30th ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM), 2022

Zheng Lin, Zheng-Peng Duan, Zhao Zhang, Chunle Guo*, Ming-Ming Cheng

[Paper]

Image Dehazing Transformer with Transmission-Aware 3D Position Embedding

IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2022

Chunle Guo, Qixin Yan, Chongyi Li*, et al.

[Paper] [Project] [Code]

E2FGVI

Towards An End-to-End Framework for Flow-Guided Video Inpainting

IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2022

Zhen Li#, Chengze Lu#, Jianhua Qin, Chunle Guo*, Ming-Ming Cheng

[Paper] [Code]

2021

Zero-DCE++

Learning to Enhance Low-Light Image via Zero-Reference Deep Curve Estimation

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), 2021 ESI Highly Cited Paper & TPAMI Popular Articles

Chongyi Li#, Chunle Guo#, Chen Change Loy*

[PDF-arXiv] [PDF-Official] [Project]

Low-Light Survey

Low-Light Image and Video Enhancement Using Deep Learning: A Survey

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), 2021 ESI Highly Cited Paper & ESI Hot Paper

Chongyi Li#, Chunle Guo#, Linghao Han, et al.

[Paper] [Code]

2020

Zero-DCE

Zero-Reference Learning for Low-Light Image Enhancement

IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2020

Chunle Guo, Chongyi Li, Jichang Guo*, et al.

[Paper] [Project]

2019

UIEB

An Underwater Image Enhancement Benchmark Dataset and Beyond

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP), 2019

Chongyi Li, Chunle Guo, Wenqi Ren*, et al.

[Paper] [Project]