Name：Feifei Zhang
Title：Professor
Type of tutor：Doctoral Supervisor, Master's Supervisor
Email：feifeizhang@email.tjut.edu.cn，feifeizhang1231@gmail.com
Address：1-305
National Young Talents Program Recipient, Tianjin Distinguished Young Scholar, and National Postdoctoral Innovative Talents Program Awardee. Authored/co-authored (as corresponding author or student-first author with the supervisor as second author) over 50 papers in top-tier journals and conferences, including IEEE TPAMI, IEEE TMM, IEEE TCSVT, CVPR, AAAI, and ACM MM. Served as Principal Investigator for research projects such as the National Natural Science Foundation of China (General Program), Fundamental Enhancement Program of the National Science and Technology Commission, U40 Cultivation Project, Sub-project of the Key Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, Young Scientists Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, and General Program of the Tianjin Natural Science Foundation. Currently serving as Associate Editor for ACM TOMM (CCF-B) and Associate Editor for the SCI journal Multimedia Systems.
Large Model Inference
Multimedia Analysis
Computer Vision
2026.01 – 2028.12 National Young Talents Support Program
2026.01 – 2030.12 Sub-project of the Key Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China
2024.10 – 2028.10 Tianjin Distinguished Young Scholar Fund
2024.10 – 2026.10 Domain Fund of the Basic Strengthening Program, National Science and Technology Commission
2024.01 – 2027.12 General Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China: "Incremental Retrieval for Cross-Modal Querying"
[1] Feifei Zhang, Zhihao Wang, Xi Zhang, Changsheng Xu. Overcoming Dual Drift for Continual Long-Tailed Visual Question Answering. International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) , 2026
[2] Haoliang Zhou, FeifeiZhang*, Changsheng Xu: Duplex Rewards Optimization for Test-Time Composed Image Retrieval. AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2026
[3] Haoliang Zhou, FeifeiZhang*, Changsheng Xu: Dual Uncertainty-Aware Correspondence Adapting and Retaining for Continual Composed Image Retrieval. IEEE Transactions Image Processing (TIP), 2025, 34: 7627-764.
[4] Feifei Zhang, Zhaoyi Zhang, Xi Zhang, Changsheng Xu. When Open-Vocabulary Visual Question Answering Meets Causal Adapter: Benchmark and Approach. Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). 2025
[5] Feifei Zhang, Sijia Qu, Xi Zhang, Changsheng Xu. Overcoming the Pitfalls of Vision-Language Model for Image-Text Retrieval. ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM). 2024, 2350-2359.
[6] Haoliang Zhou, Feifei Zhang*, Shucheng Huang, Changsheng Xu. CEPrompt: Cross-Modal Emotion-Aware Prompting for Facial Expression Recognition [J]. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT). 2024.
[7] Yuxiang Shao, Feifei Zhang*, Changsheng Xu. Text-Video Knowledge Guided Prompting for Weakly Supervised Temporal Action Localization [J]. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT). 2024.
[8] Xi Zhang, Feifei Zhang, Changsheng Xu. NExT-OOD: Overcoming Dual Multiple-choice VQA Biases [J]. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI). 2023.
[9] Xi Zhang, Feifei Zhang, Changsheng Xu. Multi-Level Counterfactual Contrast for Visual Commonsense Reasoning [C]. IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR). 2023.
[10] Xi Zhang, Feifei Zhang, Changsheng Xu. Reducing Vision-Answer Biases for Multiple-Choice VQA [J]. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP), 2023.
[11] Feifei Zhang, Ming Yan, Ji Zhang, Changsheng Xu. Comprehensive Relationship Reasoning for Composed Query Based Image Retrieval. ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM). 2022.
[12] Feifei Zhang, Mingliang Xu, Changsheng Xu. Weakly-Supervised Facial Expression Recognition in the Wild with Noisy Data [J]. IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM). 2021.
[13] Feifei Zhang, Mingliang Xu, Changsheng Xu. Geometry Sensitive Cross-Modal Reasoning for Composed Query Based Image Retrieval. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP). 2021.
[14] Xi Zhang, Feifei Zhang, Changsheng Xu. Joint Expression Synthesis and Representation Learning for Facial Expression Recognition [J]. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT), 2021,1-15.
[15] Xi Zhang, Feifei Zhang, Changsheng Xu. Explicit Cross-Modal Reasoning for Visual Commonsense Reasoning [C]. IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM). 2021.
Data Structures and Algorithms (Undergraduate)
Engineering Ethics (Graduate)
2025.10 National Young Talents Support Program
2024.11 Tianjin Distinguished Young Scholar
2019.07 National Postdoctoral Innovative Talents Program
2022.07 Best Paper Award, ChinaMM (China Multimedia Conference)
2019.12 Best Student Paper Runner Up, IEEE International Conference on Visual Communications and Image Processing (VCIP)
2020.12 Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award, Jiangsu Province
2025.3 Associate Editor, ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (ACM TOMM)
2025.1 Associate Editor, Multimedia Systems
