Publications

Most of my papers listed below are published in top-tier international conferences and journals in the field of computer vision, machine learning, artificial intelligence and multimedia, which are very selective with an acceptance rate in general below 25%. As the first author, I have published 1 ICML, 1 CVPR, 1 SIGGRAPH Asia, 2 ACM MM, 1, SIGIR, 2 TMM, 2 WACV, 1 CIKM, 1 ICASSP and 1 ICIP.

2026

  1. TC
    LightHD: A Lightweight and High-performance HARDWARE Accelerator of CRYSTALS-Dilithium
    Ziying Ni, Ayesha Khalid, Zhaoyu Zhang, Yijun Cui, Weiqiang Liu, and Máire O’Neill
    IEEE Transactions on Computers, 2026
  2. TMM
    Enhancing Data-Efficient GANs Training via Adaptive Sample Selection from the Generator Perspective
    Zhaoyu Zhang, Yang Hua, Guanxiong Sun, Hui Wang, and Sean McLoone
    IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 2026

2025

  1. SIGIR
    OBELLA: Open the Book for Evaluating Long-Form Large Language Model Answers in Open-Domain Question Answering
    Tianyu Ren, Zhaoyu Zhang*, Hui Wang, and Karen Rafferty
    In Proceedings of the 48th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR), 2025
    * Equal Contribution
  2. CHES
    HRaccoon: A High-performance Configurable SCA Resilient Raccoon Hardware Accelerator
    Ziying Ni, Ayesha Khalid, Zhaoyu Zhang, Yijun Cui, Weiqiang Liu, and Máire O’Neill
    IACR Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems (CHES), 2025
  3. ICML
    Training Diffusion-based Generative Models with Limited Data
    Zhaoyu Zhang, Yang Hua, Guanxiong Sun, Hui Wang, and Seán McLoone
    In Proceedings of the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2025
  4. CVPR
    Improving the Training of Data Efficient GANs via Quality Aware Dynamic Discriminator Rejection Sampling
    Zhaoyu Zhang, Yang Hua, Guanxiong Sun, Hui Wang, and Seán McLoone
    In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2025

2024

  1. ACMMM
    Improving the Training of the GANs with Limited Data via Dual Adaptive Noise Injection
    Zhaoyu Zhang, Yang Hua, Guanxiong Sun, Hui Wang, and Seán McLoone
    In Proceedings of the ACM Multimedia Conference (ACMMM), 2024
  2. WACV
    Improving the Fairness of the Min-Max Game in GANs Training
    Zhaoyu Zhang, Yang Hua, Hui Wang, and Seán McLoone
    In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), 2024
    Oral
  3. WACV
    Improving the Leaking of Augmentations in Data-Efficient GANs via Adaptive Negative Data Augmentation
    Zhaoyu Zhang, Yang Hua, Guanxiong Sun, Hui Wang, and Seán McLoone
    In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), 2024

2023

  1. ICCV
    Spatio-temporal Prompting Network for Robust Video Feature Extraction
    Guanxiong Sun, Chi Wang, Zhaoyu Zhang, Jiankang Deng, Stefanos Zafeiriou, and Yang Hua
    In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2023

2022

  1. TMM
    TWGAN: Twin discriminator generative adversarial networks
    Zhaoyu Zhang, Mengyan Li, Haonian Xie, Jun Yu, Tongliang Liu, and Chang Wen Chen
    IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 2022

2021

  1. TMM
    Learning face image super-resolution through facial semantic attribute transformation and self-attentive structure enhancement
    Mengyan Li, Zhaoyu Zhang, Jun Yu, and Chang Wen Chen
    IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 2021

2020

  1. TOMM
    A deep learning approach for face hallucination guided by facial boundary responses
    Mengyan Li, Zhaoyu Zhang, Guochen Xie, and Jun Yu
    ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (TOMM), 2020

2019

  1. CIKM
    Towards the gradient vanishing, divergence mismatching and mode collapse of generative adversarial nets
    Zhaoyu Zhang, Changwei Luo, and Jun Yu
    In Proceedings of the 28th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), 2019
  2. ACMMM
    Stdgan: Resblock based generative adversarial nets using spectral normalization and two different discriminators
    Zhaoyu Zhang and Jun Yu
    In Proceedings of the 27th ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACMMM), 2019
  3. ICME
    Deep learning face hallucination via attributes transfer and enhancement
    Mengyan Li, Yuechuan Sun, Zhaoyu Zhang, Haonian Xie, and Jun Yu
    In 2019 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), 2019
  4. ICASSP
    D2PGGAN: two discriminators used in progressive growing of GANS
    Zhaoyu Zhang, Mengyan Li, and Jun Yu
    In ICASSP 2019-2019 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2019

2018

  1. SIGGRAPH Asia
    On the convergence and mode collapse of GAN
    Zhaoyu Zhang, Mengyan Li, and Jun Yu
    In SIGGRAPH Asia 2018, 2018
  2. ICIP
    A Cross-Layer Based Network for Faster Image Generation
    Zhaoyu Zhang, Yuechuan Sun, and Jun Yu
    In 2018 25th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 2018
  3. ICIP
    A coarse-to-fine face hallucination method by exploiting facial prior knowledge
    Mengyan Li, Yuechuan Sun, Zhaoyu Zhang, and Jun Yu
    In 2018 25th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 2018