I am currently pursuing my Ph.D. in the School of Information and Communication Engineering (SICE) at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), under the joint supervision of Prof. Le Zhang and Prof. Ce Zhu. I earned my Master’s degree from Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications (CQUPT) and completed my Bachelor’s degree at Chongqing University (CQU). My research focuses on computer vision and deep learning, with particular interest in image restoration.

🔥 News

• 2025.09:  🎉🎉 One paper is accepted to Proceedings of the IEEE.
• 2025.08:  🎉🎉 One paper is accepted to IEEE TPAMI.
• 2025.07:  🎉🎉 One paper is accepted to ICCV.
• 2025.02:  🎉🎉 Two papers are accepted to CVPR.
• 2025.01:  🎉🎉 One paper is accepted to IEEE TPAMI.

Publications

• Deep Learning Empowered Super-Resolution: A Comprehensive Survey and Future Prospects, Le Zhang, Ao Li, Qibin Hou, Ce Zhu, Yonina C. Eldar, Proceedings of the IEEE, 2025.
• Towards Real Zero-Shot Camouflaged Object Segmentation without Camouflaged Annotations, Cheng Lei, Jie Fan, Xinran Li, Tianzhu Xiang, Ao Li, Ce Zhu, Le Zhang, IEEE TPAMI, 2025.
• MobileIE: An Extremely Lightweight and Effective ConvNet for Real-Time Image Enhancement on Mobile Devices, Hailong Yan, Ao Li, Xiangtao Zhang, Zhe Liu, Zenglin Shi, Ce Zhu, Le Zhang, ICCV, 2025.
• Subspace Constraint and Contribution Estimation for Heterogeneous Federated Learning, Xiangtao Zhang, Sheng Li, Ao Li, Yipeng Liu, Fan Zhang, Ce Zhu, Le Zhang, CVPR, 2025.
• Rethinking Token Reduction with Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning in ViT for Pixel-Level Tasks, Cheng Lei, Ao Li, Hu Yao, Ce Zhu, Le Zhang, CVPR, 2025.
• Exploring frequency-inspired optimization in transformer for efficient single image super-resolution, Ao Li, Le Zhang, Yun Liu, Ce Zhu, IEEE TPAMI, 2025.
• Feature modulation transformer: Cross-refinement of global representation via high-frequency prior for image super-resolution, Ao Li, Le Zhang, Yun Liu, Ce Zhu, ICCV, 2023.

Educations

• 2022.09 - Present, Ph.D., University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC).
• 2017.09 - 2020.06, M.S., Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications (CQUPT).
• 2013.09 - 2017.06, B.S., Chongqing University (CQU).

Experience

• 2021.09 - 2022.08, Research Assistant, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC).
• 2020.09 - 2021.08, Researcher, Sinovatio.

Academic Services

• Journals: TPAMI, TIP, TCSVT, TNNLS, TBC, NN, JSTSP, TETCI
• Conferences: CVPR, ICCV, AAAI, ICME, ICASSP