Zengjie Song (宋增杰)

Assistant Professor
School of Mathematics and Statistics
Xi'an Jiaotong University
Mathematics Building, No.28 Xianning West Road, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710049, China

zengjie [dot] song [at] xjtu [dot] edu [dot] cn
zjsong [at] hotmail [dot] com
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Short Biography

I am an Assistant Professor with the School of Mathematics and Statistics at Xi'an Jiaotong University (XJTU). Prior to joining XJTU, I did a Postdoc at the Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CASIA), working with Prof. Tieniu Tan and Prof. Zhaoxiang Zhang. I received my PhD in Statistics and BS in Applied Mathematics from XJTU in 2020 and 2013, respectively, under the supervision of Prof. Jiangshe Zhang. I spent a wonderful year (Oct. 2017 – Oct. 2018) as a visiting PhD student with the Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where I was hosted by Prof. Oluwasanmi Koyejo.


Research

My research interests include predictive coding, multimodal learning, and generative model, with a particular emphasis on the intersection of computer vision and computational neuroscience.

Currently, I am fascinated by the Free Energy Principle proposed by Prof. Karl Friston. This theory describes with mathematical precision how the brain conserves energy by minimizing surprise, and has been successfully applied to account for many aspects of perception, learning, and action. The central goal of my research, inspired by these seminal works in computational neuroscience, lies in enabling machines to see and understand the world effectively and efficiently.


News

[08/2023] I was awarded funding from National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC).
[07/2023] Our work on accelerating training of spiking neural networks was accepted to ICCV 2023.
[06/2023] Our work on audio-visual sound source separation was accepted to IEEE T-NNLS.
[12/2022] Winning the Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Award of Shaanxi Province.
[03/2022] One paper on audio-visual sound source localization was accepted to CVPR 2022.
[11/2021] I was awarded funding from China Postdoctoral Science Foundation.
[11/2020] Our work on multi-view 3D object recognition was accepted to IEEE T-IP.
[06/2020] One paper on disentangled representation learning was accepted to IEEE T-CYB.
[03/2020] I have successfully defended my dissertation online!
[01/2020] My personal website was launched!


Publications & Preprints

SSF: Accelerating Training of Spiking Neural Networks with Stabilized Spiking Flow
Jingtao Wang, Zengjie Song, Yuxi Wang, Jun Xiao, Yuran Yang, Shuqi Mei, Zhaoxiang Zhang
IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2023
[PDF] [Bibtex]
Visually Guided Sound Source Separation with Audio-Visual Predictive Coding
Zengjie Song, Zhaoxiang Zhang
IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (T-NNLS), 2023
[PDF] [arXiv] [Code] [Bibtex]
Self-Supervised Predictive Learning: A Negative-Free Method for Sound Source Localization in Visual Scenes
Zengjie Song, Yuxi Wang, Junsong Fan, Tieniu Tan, Zhaoxiang Zhang
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2022
[PDF] [arXiv] [Code] [Bibtex]
DRCNN: Dynamic Routing Convolutional Neural Network for Multi-View 3D Object Recognition
Kai Sun, Jiangshe Zhang, Junmin Liu, Ruixuan Yu, Zengjie Song
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (T-IP), 2020
[PDF] [Bibtex]
Toward a Controllable Disentanglement Network
Zengjie Song, Oluwasanmi Koyejo, Jiangshe Zhang
IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics (T-CYB), 2020
[PDF] [arXiv] [Supplementary] [Code] [Bibtex]
Learning Controllable Disentangled Representations with Decorrelation Regularization
Zengjie Song, Oluwasanmi Koyejo, Jiangshe Zhang
In arXiv, 2019
[arXiv] [Supplementary] [Bibtex]
Fast Inference Predictive Coding: A Novel Model for Constructing Deep Neural Networks
Zengjie Song, Jiangshe Zhang, Guang Shi, Junmin Liu
IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (T-NNLS), 2018
[PDF] [Code] [Bibtex]
A Deep Neural Network Based on ELM for Semi-supervised Learning of Image Classification
Peiju Chang, Jiangshe Zhang, Junying Hu, Zengjie Song
Neural Processing Letters (NPL), 2017
[PDF] [Bibtex]
No-Reference Image Quality Assessment Using Image Saliency for JPEG Compressed Images
Zengjie Song, Jiangshe Zhang, Junmin Liu
Journal of Imaging Science and Technology, 2016
[PDF] [Bibtex]


Teaching

Higher Algebra and Analytic Geometry, XJTU
Teaching Assistant (TA)
Fall 2023

Undergraduate Thesis Design, XJTU
Teaching Assistant (TA)
Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2017

Advanced Mathematics, XJTU
Teaching Assistant (TA)
Fall 2014


Misc.




Many thanks to Richard Zhang for sharing his website template! Last updated Oct. 10 2023.