Mingrui Zhu, Associate Professor, National Key Laboratory of Integrated Space-Ground-Air Information Networks - Intelligent Information Processing Team (IIP-XDU, PI: Professor Wang Nannan). He received his B.S. degree in Electronic Information Engineering from Guangxi University in June 2014, and his Ph.D. degree in Circuits and Systems from Xidian University in June 2020 (supervised by Professor Xinbo Gao, Professor Jie Li, and Professor Nannan Wang). He currently leads a General Program and a Youth Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China. He was selected for the Shaanxi Association for Science and Technology Youth Talent Support Program, and has received the CSIG Natural Science First Prize (as the fourth contributor), Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award of Shaanxi Province, ACM China Rising Star Award (Xi\'an Chapter), and ACM China Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award (Xi\'an Chapter).

He has published over thirty papers in international journals and conferences such as IJCV and ICCV, and has been granted over twenty invention patents. His research interests include computer vision, machine learning, and deep learning. His main research focus is on cross-domain image understanding and generation.

Selected Publications

Mingrui Zhu; Fengzhi Wang; Xin Wei*; Jun Wang; Nannan Wang*; Xinbo Gao; When Lines Meet Textures: Spatial-Frequency Aligned Diffusion Features for Cross-Sparsity Correspondence, IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2026, Accepted.

Mingrui Zhu; Fangzhou Wang; Xin Wei*; Nannan Wang*; Xinbo Gao; AdaAlign: A Unified Solution for Traditional and Modern Zero-Shot Sketch-Based Image Retrieval, Neural Networks, 2026, 198: 108586. 

Mingrui Zhu; Dongxin Chen; Xin Wei; Nannan Wang*; Xinbo Gao; Disentangle Before Anonymize: A Two-Stage Framework for Attribute-Preserved and Occlusion-Robust De-Identification, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (IEEE TIFS), 2025, 20: 13280-13295. 

Mingrui Zhu; Jianhang Chen; Xin Wei; Nannan Wang*; Xinbo Gao; Fine-Detailed Facial Sketch-to-Photo Synthesis with Detail-Enhanced Codebook Priors, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (IEEE TCSVT), 2025, 36(1): 1075-1088.

Mingrui Zhu; Jie Li; Nannan Wang*; Xinbo Gao*; Learning Deep Patch representation for Probabilistic Graphical Model-Based Face Sketch Synthesis, International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), 2021,129:1820-1836.

Mingrui Zhu; Xiao He; Nannan Wang*; Xinbo Gao; All-to-key Attention for Arbitrary Style Transfer, International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2023, 23109-23119.

Mingrui Zhu; Jie Li; Nannan Wang*; Xinbo Gao*; Knowledge Distillation for Face Photo-Sketch Synthesis, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (IEEE TNNLS), 2022, 33(2): 893-906.

Mingrui Zhu; Jie Li; Nannan Wang*; Xinbo Gao*; A Deep Collaborative Framework for Face Photo-Sketch Synthesis, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (IEEE TNNLS), 2019, 30(10): 3096-3108.

Mingrui Zhu; Zicheng Wu; Nannan Wang*; Heng Yang; Xinbo Gao; Dual Conditional Normalization Pyramid Network for Face Photo-Sketch Synthesis, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (IEEE TCSVT), 2023.

Mingrui Zhu; Changcheng Liang; Nannan Wang*; Xiaoyu Wang; Zhifeng Li; Xinbo Gao; A Sketch-Transformer Network for Face Photo-Sketch Synthesis, 30th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2021), Montreal, Canada, 2021.

Mingrui Zhu; Nannan Wang*; Xinbo Gao; Jie Li; Zhifeng Li; Face Photo-Sketch Synthesis via Knowledge Transfer, Twenty-Eighth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2019), Macao, China, 2019.

Mingrui Zhu; Nannan Wang*; Xinbo Gao; Jie Li; Deep Graphical Feature Learning for Face Sketch Synthesis, Twenty-Sixth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2017), Melbourne, Australia, 2017.

Mingrui zhu; Nannan Wang*; Data-Driven vs. Model-Driven: Fast Face Sketch Synthesis. International Conference on Internet Multimedia Computing and Service (ICIMCS). 2016.

Ruoyu Zhao, Mingrui Zhu*, Shiyin Dong, De Cheng, Nannan Wang*, Xinbo Gao. Catversion: Concatenating Embeddings for Diffusion-based Text-to-Image Personalization, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (IEEE TCSVT), 2025, 35(6): 6047-6058.

Shiyin Dong, Mingrui Zhu*, Kun Cheng, Nannan Wang*, Xinbo Gao. Bridging Generative and Discriminative Models for Unified Visual Perception with Diffusion Priors, Proceedings of the Thirty-Third International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2024, 740-748. (CCF A类 会议)

Changcheng Liang; Nannan Wang*; Mingrui Zhu*; Xi Yang; Jie Li; Xinbo Gao; Face Photo-Sketch Synthesis Based on Multi-scale Feature Fusion (in Chinese), SCIENTIA SINICA Informationis, 2021.

Xiao He; Mingrui Zhu*; Nannan Wang*; Xiaoyu Wang; Xinbo Gao. BiTGAN: Bilateral Generative Adversarial Networks for Chinese Ink Wash Painting Style Transfer, Science China Information Sciences, 2023, 66 (1): 1-2.

             Mingrui Zhu

            Associate Professor

       ISN State Key Laboratory

              Xidian University

           mrzhu@ynyjxx.cn