Profile
I am a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at State Key Laboratory of Integrated Service Networks, Xidian University. Currently, I am focusing on research areas including video compression, video enhancement, and high dynamic range video generation.
Research and Publications
To date, I have authored over 10 scholarly articles and actively participate as a peer reviewer for top-tier journals and conferences such as T-CVST, T-NNLS, IJCV, AAAI, IJCAI, ACMMM, and so on. My work primarily explores the intersections of image processing and compression in digital media technologies.
Achievements
My research team, Kingslayer, secured third place in the Perceptual Metric Track at the 5th Workshop and Challenge on Learned Image Compression, Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2022.
🔥 News
- 2025.04: 🎉 Two papers are accepted by IJCAI
- 2024.07: 🎉 One paper is accepted by T-IV
- 2024.07: 🎉 One paper is accepted by ACMMM 2024
- 2024.06: 🎉 Completed my Ph.D. at Xidian University
- 2024.04: 🎉 One paper is accepted by IJCAI 2024
📝 Publications

[Unleashing the Potential of Transformer Flow for Photorealistic Face Restoration]
Kepeng Xu, Li Xu, Gang He, Wei Chen, Xianyun Wu, Wenxin Yu.
- Transformer Flow Matching Drive High-Quality Face Restoration

Beyond Feature Mapping GAP: Integrating Real HDRTV Priors for Superior SDRTV-to-HDRTV Conversion
Gang He, Kepeng Xu, Li Xu, Zhiqiang Zhang, Wenxin Yu, Shihao Wang, Dajiang Zhou, Yunsong Li.
[Project]
- A more generalizable real-world SDRTV to HDRTV conversion method


An End-to-End Real-World Camera Imaging Pipeline
Kepeng Xu, Zijia Ma, Li Xu,Gang He et al.
- End-to-end imaging pipeline for complex distortions

Beyond Alignment: Blind Video Face Restoration via Parsing-Guided Temporal-Coherent Transformer
Kepeng Xu, Li Xu, Gang He et al.
- Clearer and more consistent video face restoration.

SDRTV-to-HDRTV via Hierarchical Dynamic Context Feature Mapping
Gang He, Kepeng Xu, Li Xu, Chang Wu, Ming Sun, Xing Wen, Yu-Wing Tai.
- Provides better HDR conversion quality.

Transcoded Video Restoration by Temporal Spatial Auxiliary Network
Li Xu, Gang He, Jinjia Zhou, Jie Lei, Weiying Xie, Yunsong Li, Yu-Wing Tai.
- Provides better transcoded video quality.
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IJCAI 2025
Kepeng Xu, Li Xu, Gang He, Wei Chen, Xianyun Wu, Wenxin Yu. Unleashing the Potential of Transformer Flow for Photorealistic Face Restoration [C]. Proceedings of the Thirty-Fourth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Montreal, Canada, 2025. -
IJCAI 2025
Gang He, Kepeng Xu, Li Xu, Zhiqiang Zhang, Wenxin Yu, Shihao Wang, Dajiang Zhou, Yunsong Li. Beyond Feature Mapping GAP: Integrating Real HDRTV Priors for Superior SDRTV-to-HDRTV Conversion [C]. Proceedings of the Thirty-Fourth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Montreal, Canada, 2025. -
T-IV
Li Xu, Shaodi You, Gang He, Yunsong Li. Pedestrian-Vehicle Information Modulation for Pedestrian Crossing Intention Prediction [J]. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles. -
ACMMM 2024
Kepeng Xu, Zijia Ma, Li Xu, Gang He, Yunsong Li, Wenxin Yu, Taichu Han, Cheng Yang. An End-to-End Real-World Camera Imaging Pipeline, Melbourne, Australia, 2024. -
IJCAI 2024
Kepeng Xu, Li Xu, Gang He, Wenxin Yu, Yunsong Li. Beyond Alignment: Blind Video Face Restoration via Parsing-Guided Temporal-Coherent Transformer [C]. Proceedings of the Thirty-Third International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Jeju, Korea, 2024. -
NC
Gang He, Shaoyi Long, Li Xu, Chang Wu, Jinjia Zhou, Ming Sun, Yurong Dai. Global priors guided modulation network for joint super-resolution and SDRTV-to-HDRTV [J]. Neurocomputing 554 (2023): 126590. -
Arxiv
Kepeng Xu, Li Xu, Gang He, Wenxin Yu, Yunsong Li. Towards Robust SDRTV-to-HDRTV via Dual Inverse Degradation Network. 2023. -
AAAI 2022
Li Xu, Gang He, Jinjia Zhou, Jie Lei, Weiying Xie, Yunsong Li, Yu-Wing Tai. Transcoded Video Restoration by Temporal Spatial Auxiliary Network [C]. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 2022: Vol. 36. No. 3. 2022. -
DSP
Li Xu, Chang Wu, Linyi Huang, Shengyu Wei, Gang He, Yunsong Li. Towards coding for VoD application: An enhanced video compression system with a content-fitted recursive restoration network [J]. Digital Signal Processing 122 (2022): 103368. T-CSVT
Gang He, Li Xu, Jie Lei, Weiying Xie, Yunsong Li, Yibo Fan, Jinjia Zhou. Interlayer Restoration Deep Neural Network for Scalable High Efficiency Video Coding [J]. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol. 32, no. 5, pp. 3217-3234, May 2022.ACM MM 2022
Gang He, Kepeng Xu, Li Xu, Chang Wu, Ming Sun, Xing Wen, Yu-Wing Tai. SDRTV-to-HDRTV via Hierarchical Dynamic Context Feature Mapping [C]. Proceedings of the 30th ACM International Conference on Multimedia, Lisbon, Portugal, 2022. p. 2890-2898.CVPRW 2022
Gang He, Yong Wang, Li Xu, Wenli Zhang, Ming Sun, Xing Wen. Focused Feature Differentiation Network for Image Quality Assessment [C]. Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshop, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, 2022. p. 1800-1804.Arxiv
Kepeng Xu, Li Xu, Zijia Ma, Ming Sun, Yu-Wing Tai. Sdrtv-to-hdrtv conversion via spatial-temporal feature fusion. 2022.
🎖 Honors and Awards
- 2022 Chinese National Scholarship for Ph.D. Students
- 2022 The 5th Challenge on Learned Image Compression, CVPR workshop (3rd Place)
- 2020 Outstanding Graduate Student at Xidian University
📖 Educations
- 2020.03 - 2024.06, Ph.D. student in Information and Communication Engineering, Xidian University, Xi’an, China
- 2022.10 - 2024.01, Guest researcher in Faculty of Science, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
- 2018.09 - 2020.02, Master student in Information and Communication Engineering, Xidian University, Xi’an, China
- 2014.09 - 2018.06, B.S. in Communication Engineering, Chongqing University, China