• laixy@hust.edu.cn
  • 027-87543130
  • LU Hao

Personal Homepage:https://sites.google.com/site/poppinace/

Academic Focus: "Foundation Models + Cross-Disciplinary Applications"

My research centers onvisual dense prediction- fundamental computer vision tasks involving pixel-wise labeling, including:

• Object detection

• Semantic/instance segmentation

• Depth estimation

• Image matting

• Image denoising

• Image reconstruction


Recent Research Directions:

  1. Design and optimization of universal components

  2. Task-specific model architecture development

  3. Customized models for "AI+Smart Agriculture" applications


Representative Achievements:

✓Dynamic upsampling operators:

  • IndexNet, SAPA, FADE, A2U, DySample (task-agnostic feature upsampling solutions)

    ✓IndexNet Matting:

  • The earliest open-source deep image matting model (ranked #2 in citations among deep matting papers per Google Scholar)

  • Widely adopted as benchmark by researchers

    ✓TasselNet series:

  • Regression-based local counting models for plant phenotyping

  • Internationally recognized in plant science communities


Research Philosophy:

I pursue fundamental research that delivers simple, effective, and generalizable solutions with real-world impact.


Current Grants:

• PI: NSFC Young Scientists Fund (2022.1-2024.12, ongoing)

• Key Member:

  • NSFC General Program (2019.1-2022.12, completed)

  • MOST Key R&D Program Subproject (2022.10-2025.9, ongoing)

Academic Degrees

2018–2020 Postdoctoral Researcher

University of Adelaide, Australia

2016–2017 Visiting Ph.D. Student

University of Adelaide, Australia

2013–2018 Ph.D.

Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), China

2009–2013 B.Eng.

China University of Geosciences (CUG), Wuhan

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