Zitong Yu

Zitong Yu (余梓彤) | Great Bay University (湾大)
zitong.yu [at] ieee.org ; yuzitong [at] gbu.edu.cn

I am currently an assistant professor of computer science at Great Bay University, China, leading the YU Vision (YUV) Group. I was a Postdoctoral researcher at ROSE Lab, Nanyang Technological University, working with Prof. Alex Kot. I also serve as an advisor on rPPG-based healthcare for BioTrillion, USA. I received my PhD degree in CS at CMVS, University of Oulu in 2022 (supervised by Prof. Guoying Zhao). I was a visiting scholar at TVG, University of Oxford, from July to November 2021, supervised by Prof. Philip Torr. My research interests include computer vision, biometric security, and multimodal learning.

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I am recruiting PostDoc (more than 35W/year) and Research Assistant (PhD or excellent master candidates) to join my research team. For prospective collaborators, please email me with your CV and research plan. 每年招收湾大-深大联培硕士，湾大-哈工深联培博士若干

News:

[2024.03] One paper on multimodal face anti-spoofing is accepted by IJCV
[2024.02] One paper on multimodal face anti-spoofing is accepted by CVPR 2024 as Highlight!
[2024.02] A project on visual anomaly detection is granted by Guangdong Provincial Regional Joint Fund - Regional Cultivation Project
[2024.02] Promoted to IEEE Senior Member
[2024.01] One paper on unsupervised facial rPPG is accepted by IEEE TMM
[2024.01] One paper on joint face spoofing and forgery detection is accepted by IEEE TDSC
[2023.12] Our CCBR'23 paper is granted IAPR Best Student Paper Award, Congra. to Yingxin！
[2023.10] Elected among World's Top 2% Scientists 2023 by Stanford University (入选2023全球前2%顶尖科学家榜单)
[2023.10] One paper 'Detect Any Deepfake' is accepted by CCBR 2023 (Oral)
[2023.08] A project on facial rPPG is granted by Young Scientists Fund of the Natural Science Foundation of China
[2023.07] Two papers on face anti-spoofing and deception detection are accepted by ICCV 2023 (One as Oral!)
[2023.02] One paper on facial rPPG is accepted by CVPR 2023
[2023.02] One paper on facial rPPG is accepted by IJCV
[2023.01] Invited keynote talk for WACV2023 - Workshop on Manipulation, Adversarial, and Presentation Attacks in Biometrics

Publications:

( # equal contribution, * corresponding author)

Book Chapter:

[2] Zitong Yu, Chenxu Zhao and Zhen Lei. "Face Presentation Attack Detection". Handbook of Face Recognition (3rd Ed.), 2023
[1] Zitong Yu, Jukka Komulainen, Xiaobai Li, and Guoying Zhao. "Review of Face Presentation Attack Detection Competitions." Handbook of Biometric Anti-Spoofing (3rd Ed.), Springer, 2023

Journals:

[17] Daiyuan Li, Guo Chen, Xixian Wu, Zitong Yu* and Mingkui Tan*. "Cross-stage relation extraction and presentation attack material perception for face anti-spoofing". Neural Networks, 2024
[16] Zitong Yu, Rizhao Cai, Yawen Cui, Xin Liu, Yongjian Hu and Alex Kot. "Rethinking Vision Transformer and Masked Autoencoder in Multimodal Face Anti-Spoofing". International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), 2024
[15] Xin Liu, Yuting Zhang, Zitong Yu*, Hao Lu, Huanjing Yue and Jingyu Yang*. "rPPG-MAE: Self-supervised Pre-training with Masked Autoencoders for Remote Physiological Measurement". IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM), 2024
[14] Zitong Yu, Rizhao Cai, Zhi Li, Wenhan Yang, Jingang Shi, and Alex C Kot. "Benchmarking Joint Face Spoofing and Forgery Detection with Visual and Physiological Cues". IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC), 2024
[13] Zitong Yu, Yuming Shen, Jingang Shi, Hengshuang Zhao, Yawen Cui, Jiehua Zhang, Philip Torr and Guoying Zhao. "PhysFormer++: Facial Video-based Physiological Measurement with SlowFast Temporal Difference Transformer". International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), 2023
[12] Zezheng Wang#, Zitong Yu#, Xun Wang, Yunxiao Qin, Jiahong Li, Chenxu Zhao, Zhen Lei, Xin Liu, Size Li and Zhongyuan Wang. "Consistency Regularization for Deep Face Anti-Spoofing", IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS), 2022
[11] Zitong Yu, Yunxiao Qin, Xiaobai Li, Chenxu Zhao, Zhen Lei, and Guoying Zhao. "Deep Learning for Face Anti-Spoofing: A Survey", IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), 2022
[10] Ajian Liu#, Chenxu Zhao#, Zitong Yu#, Jun Wan, Anyang Su, Xing Liu, Zichang Tan, Sergio Escalera, Junliang Xing, Yanyan Liang, Guodong Guo, Zhen Lei, Stan Z Li, and Du Zhang. "Contrastive context-aware learning for 3d high-fidelity mask face presentation attack detection", IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS), 2022
[9] Mingxin Liu, Jiong Mu*, Zitong Yu*, Kun Ruan, Baiyi Shu, and Jie Yang. "Adversarial learning and decomposition-based domain generalization for face anti-spoofing." Pattern Recognition Letters (PRL), 2021
[8] Zitong Yu*, Xiaobai Li*, and Guoying Zhao. "Facial Video-based Physiological Signal Measurement: Recent Advances and Affective Applications." IEEE Signal Processing Magazine (SPM), 2021
[7] Yunxiao Qin, Zitong Yu, Longbin Yan, Zezheng Wang, Chenxu Zhao, and Zhen Lei. "Meta-Teacher For Face Anti-Spoofing." IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), 2021
[8] Dong Huang, Xiaoyi Feng, Haixi Zhang, Zitong Yu, Jinye Peng, Guoying Zhao, and Zhaoqiang Xia. "Spatio-Temporal Pain Estimation Network with Measuring Pseudo Heart Rate Gain." IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM), 2021
[6] Zitong Yu, Xiaobai Li, Pichao Wang, and Guoying Zhao. "TransRPPG: Remote Photoplethysmography Transformer for 3d Mask Face Presentation Attack Detection." IEEE Signal Processing Letters (SPL), 2021
[5] Zitong Yu#, Benjia Zhou#, Jun Wan, Pichao Wang, Haoyu Chen, Xin Liu, Stan Z Li, and Guoying Zhao. "Searching Multi-Rate and Multi-Modal Temporal Enhanced Networks for Gesture Recognition." IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP), 2021
[4] Zitong Yu, Xiaobai Li, Jingang Shi, Zhaoqiang Xia, and Guoying Zhao. "Revisiting Pixel-Wise Supervision for Face Anti-Spoofing." IEEE Transactions on Biometrics, Behavior, and Identity Science (TBIOM), 2021
[3] Zitong Yu, Jun Wan, Yunxiao Qin, Xiaobai Li, Stan Z. Li, and Guoying Zhao. "NAS-FAS: Static-Dynamic Central Difference Network Search for Face Anti-Spoofing." IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), 2020
[2] Zitong Yu, Xiaobai Li, Xuesong Niu, Jingang Shi, and Guoying Zhao. "AutoHR: A Strong End-to-end Baseline for Remote Heart Rate Measurement with Neural Searching." IEEE Signal Processing Letters, 2020
[1] Jingang Shi, Iman Alikhani, Xiaobai Li, Zitong Yu, Tapio Seppänen, and Guoying Zhao. "Atrial fibrillation detection from face videos by fusing subtle variations." IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT), 2019

Conferences:

[19] Xun Lin, Shuai Wang, Rizhao Cai, Yizhong Liu, Ying Fu, Zitong Yu*, Wenzhong Tang, Alex Kot. "Suppress and Balance: Towards Generalized Multi-Modal Face Anti-Spoofing", CVPR 2024 (Highlight)
[18] Rizhao Cai, Yawen Cui, Zhi Li, Zitong Yu*, Haoliang Li, Yongjian Hu, Alex Kot. "Rehearsal-Free Domain Continual Face Anti-Spoofing: Generalize More and Forget Less", ICCV 2023 (Oral)
[17] Xiaobao Guo, Nithish Muthuchamy Selvaraj, Zitong Yu*, Wai-Kin Adams Kong, Bingquan Shen, Alex Kot. "Audio-Visual Deception Detection: DOLOS Dataset and Parameter-Efficient Crossmodal Learning", ICCV 2023
[16] Hao Lu, Zitong Yu, Xuesong Niu, Ying-Cong Chen. "Neuron Structure Modeling for Generalized Remote Physiological Measurement", CVPR 2023
[15] Jianwei Li#, Zitong Yu#, Jingang Shi. "Learning Motion-Robust Remote Photoplethysmography through Arbitrary Resolution Videos", AAAI 2023
[14] Jingang Shi, Yusi Wang, Songlin Dong,Changxin Wang, Xiaopeng Hong, Zitong Yu *, Fei Wang, Yihong Gong. "IDPT: Interconnected Dual Pyramid Transformer for Face Super-Resolution", IJCAI 2022
[13] Zitong Yu, Yuming Shen, Jingang Shi, Hengshuang Zhao, Philip Torr, Guoying Zhao. "PhysFormer: Facial Video-based Physiological Measurement with Temporal Difference Transformer", CVPR 2022
[12] Zhuo Wang, Zezheng Wang, Zitong Yu, Weihong Deng, Jiahong Li, Tingting Gao, Zhongyuan Wang . "Domain Generalization via Shuffled Style Assembly for Face Anti-Spoofing", CVPR 2022
[11] Haoyu Chen, Hao Tang, Zitong Yu, Nicu Sebe, Guoying Zhao. "Geometry-Contrastive Transformer for Generalized 3D Pose Transfer", AAAI 2022
[10] Zhuo Su, Wenzhe Liu, Zitong Yu, Dewen Hu, Qing Liao, Qi Tian, Matti Pietikäinen, and Li Liu. "Pixel Difference Networks for Efficient Edge Detection", ICCV 2021 (Oral)
[9] Zitong Yu, Yunxiao Qin, Hengshuang Zhao, Xiaobai Li, and Guoying Zhao. "Dual-Cross Central Difference Network for Face Anti-Spoofing." IJCAI 2021
[8] Ruijing Yang, Ziyu Guan, Zitong Yu, Guoying Zhao, Xiaoyi Feng and Jinye Peng. "Non-contact Pain Recognition from Video Sequences with Remote Physiological Measurements Prediction." IJCAI 2021
[7] Xin Liu , Henglin Shi , Haoyu Chen, Zitong Yu, Xiaobai Li, and Guoying Zhao. "iMiGUE: An Identity-free Video Dataset for Micro-Gesture Understanding and Emotion Analysis." CVPR 2021
[6] Zitong Yu, Xiaobai Li, Xuesong Niu, Jingang Shi, and Guoying Zhao. "Face anti-spoofing with human material perception." ECCV 2020
[5] Xuesong Niu, Zitong Yu, Hu Han, Xiaobai Li, Shiguang Shan, and Guoying Zhao. "Video-based Remote Physiological Measurement via Cross-verified Feature Disentangling." ECCV 2020 (Oral)
[4] Zitong Yu, Chenxu Zhao, Zezheng Wang, Yunxiao Qin, Zhuo Su, Xiaobai Li, Feng Zhou, and Guoying Zhao. "Searching central difference convolutional networks for face anti-spoofing." CVPR 2020
[3] Zezheng Wang, Zitong Yu, Chenxu Zhao, Xiangyu Zhu, Yunxiao Qin, Qiusheng Zhou, Feng Zhou, and Zhen Lei. "Deep spatial gradient and temporal depth learning for face anti-spoofing." CVPR 2020 (Oral)
[2] Yunxiao Qin, Chenxu Zhao, Xiangyu Zhu, Zezheng Wang, Zitong Yu, Tianyu Fu, Feng Zhou, Jingping Shi, and Zhen Lei. "Learning meta model for zero-and few-shot face anti-spoofing." AAAI 2020 (Spotlight)
[1] Zitong Yu#, Wei Peng#, Xiaobai Li, Xiaopeng Hong, and Guoying Zhao. "Remote heart rate measurement from highly compressed facial videos: an end-to-end deep learning solution with video enhancement." ICCV 2019

Research Grants:

Young Scientists Fund of the Natural Science Foundation of China (PI), 300k RMB, Grant No. 62306061, 2024-01 to 2026-12.
Open Project of National Engineering Laboratory for Big Data System Computing Technology, Shenzhen University, (PI), 50k RMB, Grant No. SZU-BDSC-OF2024-02, 2024-01 to 2025-12.
Guangdong Provincial Regional Joint Fund - Regional Cultivation Project (PI), 300k RMB, Grant No. 2023A1515140037, 2024-01 to 2026-12.

Honors & Awards:

Recipient of IAPR Best Student Paper Award of CCBR'23 (IAPR最佳学生论文奖)
Recipient of World's Top 2% Scientists 2023 (入选2023全球前2%顶尖科学家榜单 by 美国斯坦福大学)
Recipient of the second prize of the IEEE Finland Jt. Chapter SP/CAS Best Paper Award (2022)
Recipient of Chinese Government Award 2021 for Outstanding Self-financed Students Abroad (国家优秀自费留学生奖)
Recipient of IEEE Finland Section best student conference paper award 2020
1st Place in the ChaLearn multi-modal face anti-spoofing attack detection challenge @ CVPR 2020
2nd Place on Action Recognition Track of ECCV 2020 VIPriors Challenges
3rd Place on the "WIN THE FUTURE" 2021 Venture Contest for International Entrepreneurs (Finland Contest Area)
Master Program Scholarship of Pays de la Loire, France

Membership:

IEEE Senior Member, CCF/CSIG/CAAI/CAA Member
中国图象图形学会数字媒体取证与安全专委会委员，中国自动化学会模式识别与机器智能专业委员会委员

Organizing scientific activities:

Co-organizing 3D High-Fidelity Mask Face Presentation Attack Detection Challenge ICCV2021
Co-organizing the first Challenge on Remote Physiological Signal Sensing (RePSS) with CVPR 2020

Invited talks:

'Towards Trustworthy Face Physiological Sensing and Security Systems', WACV2023 - Workshop on Manipulation, Adversarial, and Presentation Attacks in Biometrics, 07.01.2023
'Towards Trustworthy Face Physiological Sensing and Security Systems', Valse Webinar, 14.12.2022
'Non-Contact Human Sensing and Biometric Security’, Hong Kong Baptist University, 02.11.2021
'Non-Contact Human Sensing and Biometric Security’, Southern University of Science and Technology, 08.11.2021
'Face Anti-Spoofing Attack Detection Techniques’, University of Jyväskylä, 28.03.2022

Invited Journal Reviewer:

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (since 2021)
International Journal of Computer Vision (since 2022)
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (since 2020)
IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (since 2021)
IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (since 2021)
IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (since 2021)
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (since 2020)
IEEE Transactions on Biometrics, Behavior, and Identity Science (since 2020)
Pattern Recognition & Pattern Recognition Letters (since 2020)
IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (since 2020)
IET Biometrics (since 2022)
Security and Communication Networks (since 2021)
Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation (since 2021)
ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications (TOMM) (since 2021)

Associate Editor:

Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence (IF=4.0)

Guest Editors:

Special Issue "Deep Learning Approach for Secure and Trustworthy Biometric System" on MDPI Electronics (IF=2.69)

Invited Conference Aera Chair:

ICME'23

Invited Conference Reviewer:

AAAI'24, ICLR'24, CVPR'24, IJCAI'24, ECCV'24, PRCV'24
AAAI'23, CVPR'23, IJCAI'23, ICCV'23, IJCB'23, NeurIPS'23, SIGGRAPH Asia'23, PRCV'23
AAAI'22, CVPR'22, ICME'22, IJCAI'22, ECCV'22, PRCV'22,
ICME'21, ICCV'21

Teaching:

Teaching assistant (TA) for Computer Graphics (521140S), University of Oulu, Spring 2020, 2021