I am currently a Ph.D. student of School of Software in Shandong University, supervised by Prof. Xin-Shun Xu and Zhen-Duo Chen, and a member of MIMA Group, led by Prof. Xin-Shun Xu.

My research interest includes Incremental Learning, Few-Shot Learning, and Fine-Grained Image Analysis.

🔥 News

  • 2026.04:  🎉🎉 One paper is accepted by TMLR.
  • 2026.02:  🎉🎉 One paper is accepted by CVPR 2026.
  • 2026.02:  🎉🎉 One paper is accepted by SSI.
  • 2025.09:  🎉🎉 One paper is accepted by NeurIPS 2025.
  • 2025.02:  🎉🎉 One paper is accepted by CVPR 2025.
  • 2024.05:  🎉🎉 One paper is accepted by TIP.

📝 Publications

TMLR
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Hierarchical Filtering and Refinement Classification for Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning

Li-Jun Zhao, Zhen-Duo Chen, Xin Luo, Xin-Shun Xu.

Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR), 2026. (J2C Certification)

CVPR 2026
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From Few-way to Many-way: Rethinking Few-shot Fine-grained Image Classification

Li-Jun Zhao, Zhen-Duo Chen, Xin Luo, Xin-Shun Xu.

IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2026.

SSI 2026
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Progressively exploring and exploiting inference data to break fine-grained classification barriers

Li-Jun Zhao, Si-Yuan Zhang, Zhen-Duo Chen, Xin Luo, Xin-Shun Xu.

SCIENTIA SINICA Informationis (SSI) (In Chinese), 2026.

NeurIPS 2025
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Evolving and Regularizing Meta-Environment Learner for Fine-Grained Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning

Li-Jun Zhao, Zhen-Duo Chen, Yongxin Wang, Xin Luo, Xin-Shun Xu.

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2025.

CVPR 2025
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Attraction Diminishing and Distributing for Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning

Li-Jun Zhao, Zhen-Duo Chen, Yongxin Wang, Xin Luo, Xin-Shun Xu.

IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2025.

TIP
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Angular Isotonic Loss Guided Multi-Layer Integration for Few-shot Fine-grained Image Classification

Li-Jun Zhao, Zhen-Duo Chen, Zhen-Xiang Ma, Xin Luo, Xin-Shun Xu.

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP), 2024.

  • Characteristics Matching Based Hash Codes Generation for Efficient Fine-grained Image Retrieval.

    Zhen-Duo Chen, Li-Jun Zhao, Zi-Chao Zhang, Xin Luo, Xin-Shun Xu.

    IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024.

  • Bi-directional Task-Guided Network for Few-Shot Fine-Grained Image Classification.

    Zhen-Xiang Ma, Zhen-Duo Chen, Li-Jun Zhao, Zi-Chao Zhang, Tai Zheng, Xin Luo, Xin-Shun Xu.

    ACM International Conference on Multimedia (MM), 2024.

  • Cross-Layer and Cross-Sample Feature Optimization Network for Few-Shot Fine-Grained Image Classification.

    Zhen-Xiang Ma, Zhen-Duo Chen, Li-Jun Zhao, Zi-Chao Zhang, Xin Luo, Xin-Shun Xu.

    AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2024.

  • SSCD: Self-Supervised Coherence Discrimination Representation Learning for Scene Text Recognition.

    Zhi-Yuan Xue, Li-Jun Zhao, Jia-Ying Zhang, Xin Luo, Xin-Shun Xu.

    ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (ICMR), 2025.

  • DGPrompt: Dual-guidance prompts generation for vision-language models.

    Tai Zheng, Zhen-Duo Chen, Zi-Chao Zhang, Zhen-Xiang Ma, Li-Jun Zhao, Chong-Yu Zhang, Xin Luo, Xin-Shun Xu.

    Elsevier Journal of Neural Networks (NN), 2025.

🎖 Honors and Awards

  • 2025: BYD Scholarship, Shandong University.
  • 2020, 2021, 2022, 2024, 2025: First Class of Academic Scholarship, Shandong University.
  • 2024: Outstanding Award for Medium-term Evaluation, Shandong University.
  • 2022: Outstanding Graduate, Shandong Province.
  • 2020, 2021: Excellent Student Cadre, Shandong University.
  • 2020: National scholarship, China.
  • 2020: First Prize in the China Undergraduate Mathematical Contest in Modeling, Shandong Province.
  • 2019: First Prize in the National College Student Mathematics Competition, China.

📖 Educations

  • 2022.09-Present: Ph.D. in Software Engineering, Shandong University.
  • 2018.09-2022.06: B.E. in Software Engineering, Shandong University.

💻 Professional Activities

Conference Reviewer

  • Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)
  • International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)
  • European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)
  • IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
  • ACM International Conference on Multimedia (MM)

Journal Reviewer

  • IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT)
  • Elsevier Journal of Neural Networks (NN)
  • ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (TOMM)