Ruifang Zhai-College of Informatics

Name

Ruifang Zhai

Title

Associate Professor

Institute

College of Informatics, Huazhong Agricultural University

Address

No.1 Shizishan Street, Hongshan District, Wuhan 430070, China

Email

rfzhai@mail.hzau.edu.cn

Fax

86+02787288509

Research Interest

My main interests lie in two aspects: 3D computer vision and plant phenomics.

1. In 3D computer vision, our group aims to develop novel algorithms with respect to 3D reconstruction for plants and point cloud data processing, including point cloud registration, filtering, segmentation, visualization, and deep learning-based methods as well.

2. In plant phenomics, our group aims to develop new methodologies and algorithms which can be used to measure plant growth and architecture at different scales through the use of images and point cloud data.

Academic activities

I have served as a reviewer for Sensors、ACTA Optica Sinica、Journal of Optoelectronics Laser and for the funding branch of the NSFC (China).

Education and research experience

01/2018-12/2018	Visiting Scholar, Lyles School of Civil Engineering, Purdue University, Indiana, USA.
07/2014-present	Associate Professor, College of Informatics, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China
01/2012-06/2014	Associate Professor, College of Science, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China
07/2009-12/2011	Lecturer, College of Science, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China
01/2007-10/2008	Post-doctoral fellow, Department of Geomatics Engineering, the University of Calgary, Canada.
07/2001-12/2006	PhD in Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
09/1997-06/2001	Bachelor in Information Engineering, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China

Grants (Government-funded)

01/2015-12/2017	The Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities grant: “Research on Phenotypic parameter measurement for rapeseed plant at maturity stage related to yield and mechanization” (RMB 240K, 2015.01-2017.12)
01/2012-12/2014	National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) grant: “Generation of complex building models by integrating stereo aerial imagery and LiDAR data” (RMB 230K, 2012.01-2014.12)
2014-2015	Hubei Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China grant: “Automatic recognition of phenological phase for rapeseed plant based on computer vision technology” (RMB 30K, 2014.01-2015.12)
01/2012-12/2014	The Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education (RFDP) grant: “Research on Visualization of rapeseed plant at different phenological phase” (RMB 40K, 2012.01-2014.12)

Representative publications（*for corresponding authors, # for first authors）

1. Yang L, Zhai R.,^* Yang X., Peng H., Tao S., Segmentation of point clouds into elementary units through super Voxel-based region growing Methodology, Computer Engineering and Applications, 2019，55(16) : 197-203.

2. Gao Z^*, Zhai R^*, Wang P, et al. Synergizing Appearance and Motion With Low Rank Representation for Vehicle Counting and Traffic Flow Analysis[J]. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2017:1-11.

3. Zhai Ruifang^*, Fang Yihang, Lin Chengda, Peng Hui, Liu Shanmei, Luo Jun, Segmentation of field rapeseed plant image based on Gaussian HI color algorithm, Transactions of the Chinese Society of Agricultural Engineering，2016，32(8) :142-147.

4. Gao Zhi^*, Li Qingquan, Zhai Rufiang^*, etc., Laser range data denoising via adaptive and robust dictionary learning, IEEE Geoscience and remote sensing Letters, 2015, 12(8):1750-1754.

5. Zhai Ruifang^#, Jing Xiu^*, Lin Chengda, Peng Hui, Luo Jun, , Modeling of rapeseed at maturity stage using 3D unorganized point clouds and digital images, African Journal of Agricultural Research, 2014, 9(24) : 1841-1848.