👀 Short Bio

Currently I am alive. My name is Xueqiang Fan (樊学强), I’m a 4^th-year PHD student at the School of Computer Science, Information and Communication Engineering, Hefei University of Technology, supervised by Prof. Zhongyi Guo.

My curriculum vitae (CV) can be downloaded here (English & Chinese).

🔎 Research

“All things are interconnected, this is the essence of nature.”

🌟 Now, my primary research interest is to design effective visual understanding models for visual systems, involving Artificial Intelligence, Pattern Recognition, and Polarization Vision.

Specifically, my recent endeavor is on Polarization Scattering Imaging, aiming to reconstruct objects hidden inside scattering media (e.g., turbid water and haze) from speckle pattern-carrying polarization information. I am also conducting research on Scene Confusing-Discovery, using Polarization Information to mine the Camouflaged/Confusing/Special yet meaningful object/region in the scene. These objects are very common in daily life scenes but can confuse the vision systems due to their inherently special properties. I am pursuing exploring useful cues based on Polarization and effective methods for accurate detection.

Additionally, my early work focused on Computational Biology, specifically identifying biochemical properties and functions of Proteins, RNA, and DNA, which are the cornerstone of providing more detailed information for Protein Drug Design and Molecular Diagnostics.

🔥 News

2024.11.06: 🎈🎈🎈I was honored with National Scholarship.
2024.09.23: I serve as a reviewer for BioData Mining.
2024.08.27: ✨✨✨ Our paper entitled "Transformer-based improved U-net for high-performance underwater polarization imaging" was accepted by Optics & Laser Technology (中科院2区 TOP, IF=4.60).
2024.06.24: ✨✨✨ One paper as the First Author entitled "Ense-i6mA: Identification of DNA N6-methyladenine Sites Using XGB-RFE Feature Selection and Ensemble Machine Learning" was accepted by IEEE/ACM Trans. Comput. Biol. Bioinf. ( CCF B , 中科院3区, IF=4.5). The work was accepted outright after close to two years of review with no major or minor revisions.
2024.03.27: 🚀🚀🚀 One paper as the First Author entitled "LMPC2D3DCNet: Infrared Polarization-Empowered Full-Time Road Detection via Lightweight Multi-Pathway Collaborative 2D/3D Convolutional Networks" was accepted by IEEE Trans. Intell. Transp. Syst. (CCF B, 中科院1区 TOP, IF=8.5).
2024.03.14: ✨✨✨ One paper as the First Author entitled "Improved Polarization Scattering Imaging Using Local-Global Context Polarization Feature Learning Framework" was accepted by Opt. Lasers Eng. (中科院2区, IF=4.6).
2023.12.12: ✨✨✨ Our paper entitled "Dynamic polarization fusion network (DPFN) for imaging in different scattering systems" was accepted by Opt. Express (中科院2区 TOP, IF=3.80).
2023.10.16: ✨✨✨ One paper as the First Author entitled "TSMPN-PSI: High-performance polarization scattering imaging based on three-stage multi-pipeline networks" was accepted by Opt. Express (中科院2区 TOP, IF=3.80).
2023.02.01: ✨✨✨ One paper as the First Author entitled "I-DNAN6mA: Accurate Identification of DNA N6-Methyladenine Sites Using the Base-Pairing Map and Deep Learning" was accepted by J. Chem. Inf. Model. (中科院2区 TOP, IF=6.16)
2022.12.16: ✨✨✨ Our paper entitled "Self-attention module in multi-scale improved U-net (SAM-MIU-net) motivating high-performance polarization scattering imaging" was accepted by Opt. Express (中科院2区 TOP, IF=3.83).
2022.05.10: 🎈🎈🎈 Congratulations, Xue-Qiang Fan successfully graduated from Zhejiang University of Technology, School of Information Engineering with the M.S. degree in Control Science and Engineering. From July 2019 to May 2022, he has got 2 SCI-indexed papers and 1 paper under review as the First Author, and 2 papers accepted as the Co-Author. Besides, he has received 8 patents, of which 4 have been authorized, and 4 software publications have been authorized, and won 1 First prize and 1 Second prize in an academic competition for university students. After that, he will continue to Hefei University of Technology to pursue his Ph.D. degree.
2021.08.29: ✨✨✨ One paper as the First Author entitled "Improved protein relative solvent accessibility prediction using deep multi-view feature learning framework" was accepted by Anal. Biochem. (中科院3区, IF=3.65)

📃 Publications

† Equal Contribution *Corresponding authors

📝 Manuscripts

: Joint intensity-spectral polarization hierarchical fusion guided efficient transparent object detection; Under Review

: LSTSM (Learning to See Through the Scattering Media): Towards a general-purpose framework for multi-modality polarization scattering imaging; Under Review

: Meta-DUNET-UPI: Improving polarization imaging through highly turbid underwater using a deformable network and meta-learning; Under Review

📝 Published

: Transformer-based improved U-net for high-performance underwater polarization imaging; Bing Lin, Weiyun Chen, Xueqiang Fan, Peng Peng, Zhongyi Guo *; Optics & Laser Technology 181 (2025) 111664. [中科院2区 TOP|JCR 1区|IF4.6]; PDF

: Ense-i6mA: Identification of DNA N6-methyladenine Sites Using XGB-RFE Feature Selection and Ensemble Machine Learning; Xueqiang Fan, Bing Lin, Jun Hu*, Zhongyi Guo*; IEEE/ACM Trans. Comput. Biol. Bioinf., 2024. [中科院3区 | CCF B|JCR 1区|IF4.5]; PDF | Code

: Infrared Polarization-Empowered Full-Time Road Detection via Lightweight Multi-Pathway Collaborative 2D/3D Convolutional Networks; Xueqiang Fan, Bing Lin, Zhongyi Guo*; IEEE Trans. Intell. Transp. Syst., 25(9), 12762-12775, 2024. [中科院1区 TOP | CCF B | JCR 1区 | IF8.5]; PDF | Code

: Improved Polarization Scattering Imaging Using Local-Global Context Polarization Feature Learning Framework; Xueqiang Fan, Weiyun Chen, Bing Lin, Peng Peng, Zhongyi Guo*; Opt. Lasers Eng. 2024;178:108194. [中科院2区|JCR 1区|IF4.6]; PDF

: Dynamic polarization fusion network (DPFN) for imaging in different scattering systems; Bing Lin, Xueqiang Fan, Peng Peng, Zhongyi Guo*; Opt. Express 32, 511-525 (2024). [中科院2区 TOP|JCR 2区|IF3.8]; PDF

: TSMPN-PSI: High-performance polarization scattering imaging based on three-stage multi-pipeline networks; Xueqiang Fan,Bing Lin, Kai Guo, Bingyi Liu, Zhongyi Guo*; Opt. Express 31, 38097-38113 (2023). [中科院2区|JCR 1区|IF4.6]; PDF

: I-DNAN6mA: Accurate Identification of DNA N6-Methyladenine Sites Using the Base-Pairing Map and Deep Learning; Xueqiang Fan,Bing Lin, Jun Hu*, Zhongyi Guo*; J. Chem. Inf. Model. 2023, 63, 3, 1076–1086. [中科院2区 TOP|JCR 1区|IF5.6]; PDF | Code | Project

IEEE Sensors Journal 2023 Real-time Defect Detection Scheme Based on Deep Learning for Laser Welding System, Peng Peng, Kui Fan, Xueqiang Fan, Hongping Zhou, Zhongyi Guo*, IEEE Sensors Journal, vol. 23, no. 15, pp. 17301-17309. [中科院2区 | JCR 1区 | IF4.3] PDF

Phys. Scr. 2023 High-performance deep-learning based polarization computational ghost imaging with random patterns and orthonormalization, Chenxiang Xu, Dekui Li, Xueqiang Fan, Bing Lin, Kai Guo, Zhiping Yin, Zhongyi Guo*, Phys. Scr. 2023, Vol.98, Issue 6. [中科院3区 | JCR 2区 | IF2.9] PDF

Photonics 2023 High-Performance Polarization Imaging Reconstruction in Scattering System under Natural Light Conditions with an Improved U-Net, Bing Lin, Xueqiang Fan, Dekui Li, Zhongyi Guo*, Photonics 2023, 10, 204. [中科院3区 | JCR 3区 | IF2.4] PDF

: Self-attention module in multi-scale improved U-net (SAM-MIU-net) motivating high-performance polarization scattering imaging; Bing Lin, Xueqiang Fan, Zhongyi Guo*; Optics Express, Vol. 31, Issue 2, pp. 3046-3058 (2023). [中科院2区 TOP|JCR 1区|IF3.8]; PDF

Micromachines 2022 Influencing Effects of Fabrication Errors on Performances of the Dielectric Metalens, Guoqing Xu, Qianlong Kang, Xueqiang Fan, Guanghui Yang, Kai Guo, Zhongyi Guo*, Micromachines 13.12 (2022): 2098. [中科院3区 | JCR 2区 | IF3.4] PDF

Chinese Journal of Quantum Electronics 2022 Research Progress of imaging through scattering media based on the deep learning (In Chinese), Bing Lin, Xueqiang Fan, Dekui Li, Zhongyi Guo*, Chinese Journal of Quantum Electronics, 2022, 39(6): 880-898. PDF

Journal of Optics 2022 Full-space metasurface in mid-infrared based on phase change material of VO2, Xueqiang Fan, Qianlong Kang, Huifang Ai, Kai Guo *, Zhongyi Guo *, Journal of Optics 52.3 (2023): 1336-1344. PDF

Analytical Biochemistry 2022 Predicting RNA solvent accessibility from multi-scale context feature via multi-shot neural network, Xueqiang Fan, Jun Hu*, Yuxuan Tang, Dongjun Yu *, Guijun Zhang *, Analytical Biochemistry, 2022, 654: 114802. [中科院3区 | JCR 2区 | IF3.65] PDF

Computer Science 2022 Improving RNA Base Interactions Prediction Based on Transfer Learning and Multi-view Feature Fusion (In Chinese), Xiaofei Wang, Xueqiang Fan, Zhangwei Li*, Computer Science, 2023, 50(3): 164-172. PDF

: Improved protein relative solvent accessibility prediction using deep multi-view feature learning framework; Xueqiang Fan, Jun Hu*, Ningxin Jia, Dongjun Yu*, Guijun Zhang*; Analytical Biochemistry, 2021, 631: 114358. [中科院3区 TOP|JCR 2区|IF3.65]; PDF | Code | Web Server

Analytical Biochemistry 2020 Identification of ligand-binding residues using protein sequence profile alignment and query-specific support vector machine model, Jun Hu *, Liang Rao, Xueqiang Fan, Dong-Jun Yu *, Gui-Jun Zhang *, Analytical biochemistry, 2020, 604: 113799. [中科院3区 | JCR 2区 | IF3.65] PDF

🎡 Service

Journal Reviewer

Reviewer for BioData Mining

🎖 Scholarships and Honors

2024.11 National Scholarship (国家奖学金) (Award Rate: 0.2% nation-wide) Ministry of Education, China
2022-2024 The Scholarship for a Doctor’s degree, Awarded by Hefei University of Technology
2019-2022 The Scholarship for a Master’s degree, Awarded by Zhejiang University of Technology

📖 Educations

Jun. 2022 – Present, PHD student, School of Computer and Information, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei, China
Jul. 2019 – May. 2022, M.S. Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou, China
Sep. 2015 - Jun. 2019, B.S. Henan University of Urban Construction, Pingdingshan, China