Dr Aaron Zhang
BSc(Jiao Tong), MSc(Jiao Tong), PhD(Bristol)
Current positions
Senior Lecturer
School of Computer Science
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Research interests
- Deep Video Coding
- CVEGAN: A Perceptually-inspired GAN for Video Compression
- Learning-optimal Deep Visual Compression
- Video Compression with CNN-based Post Processing
- MFRNet: A New CNN Architecture for Video Compression
- ViSTRA: Video Compression based on Resolution Adaptation
- BVI-DVC: A Training Database for Deep Video Compression
- 5G Edge XR
- Reduced complexity architectures
- Video Quality Assessment
- BVI Databases for Video Compression and Quality Assessment
- FRQM: A Frame Rate Dependent Video Quality Metric
- What's on TV?
- Optimal Presentation Duration for Video Quality Assessment
- PVM: Perceptual Visual Quality Assessment
- Machine learning based quality metrics
- HVS property characterisation
- Crowd-sourced subjective testing
- Perceptual Video Coding
- Creative Technology
- A Simulation Environment for Drone Cinematography
- Drone Cinematography
- Video production workflows
- Immersive (HDR/HFR/HSR/360/volumetric) video
Projects and supervisions
Thesis supervisions
Publications
Recent publications
21/04/2026PocketDVDNet
ICASSP 2026
Prune Wisely, Reconstruct Sharply
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
SAM3-LiteText
ICMR '26: Proceedings of the 2026 International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval
Advances in artificial intelligence
Artificial Intelligence Review
ViVo
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology
