Tianxiao Zhang

Assistant Professor

Dr. Tianxiao Zhang is an assistant professor at College of Staten Island, City University of New York. His research mainly focuses on Image and Video Understanding, Machine Learning and Deep Learning, Generative AI, Multimodal LLMs and VLMs, Foundation Models, 3D Vision, Medical Image Analysis, Autonomous Driving and Robotics.

Degrees

Ph.D., University of Kansas

M.S., University of Southern California

B.S., Hebei University

Scholarship and Publications

 Selected Publications

  • Zhang, T., Xu, W., Luo, B. and Wang, G., 2025. Depth-Wise Convolutions in Vision Transformers for efficient training on small datasets. Neurocomputing, 617, p.128998.
  • Li, K., Zhang, T., Peng, K.C. and Wang, G., 2025. PF3Det: A Prompted Foundation Feature Assisted Visual LiDAR 3D Detector. In Proceedings of the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (pp. 3778-3787).
  • Li, K., Zhang, T., Zhong, C., Zhang, Z. and Wang, G., 2025. Robust 3D point clouds classification based on declarative defenders. Neural Computing and Applications, 37(3), pp.1209-1221.
  • Rahman, R., Indris, C., Bramesfeld, G., Zhang, T., Li, K., Chen, X., Grijalva, I., McCornack, B., Flippo, D., Sharda, A. and Wang, G., 2024. A new dataset and comparative study for aphid cluster detection and segmentation in sorghum fields. Journal of Imaging, 10(5), p.114.
  • Bur, A.M., Zhang, T., Chen, X., Kavookjian, H., Kraft, S., Karadaghy, O., Farrokhian, N., Mussatto, C., Penn, J. and Wang, G., 2023. Interpretable computer vision to detect and classify structural laryngeal lesions in digital flexible laryngoscopic images. Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery, 169(6), pp.1564-1572.
  • Zhang, T., Li, K., Chen, X., Zhong, C., Luo, B., Grijalva, I., McCornack, B., Flippo, D., Sharda, A. and Wang, G., 2023. Aphid cluster recognition and detection in the wild using deep learning models. Scientific Reports, 13(1), p.13410.
  • Zhang, T., Bur, A.M., Kraft, S., Kavookjian, H., Renslo, B., Chen, X., Luo, B. and Wang, G., 2023. Gender, smoking history, and age prediction from laryngeal images. Journal of imaging, 9(6), p.109.
  • Rahman, R., Indris, C., Zhang, T., Li, K., McCornack, B., Flippo, D., Sharda, A. and Wang, G., 2023. On the real-time semantic segmentation of aphid clusters in the wild. In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (pp. 6299-6306).
  • Zhang, T., Luo, B., Sharda, A. and Wang, G., 2022. Dynamic label assignment for object detection by combining predicted ious and anchor ious. Journal of Imaging, 8(7), p.193.
  • Yang, Y., Zhang, T., Li, G., Kim, T. and Wang, G., 2022. An unsupervised domain adaptation model based on dual-module adversarial training. Neurocomputing, 475, pp.102-111.
  • Li, K., Fathan, M.I., Patel, K., Zhang, T., Zhong, C., Bansal, A., Rastogi, A., Wang, J.S. and Wang, G., 2021. Colonoscopy polyp detection and classification: Dataset creation and comparative evaluations. Plos one, 16(8), p.e0255809.
  • Zhang, T., Ma, W. and Wang, G., 2021, August. Six-channel image representation for cross-domain object detection. In International Conference on Image and Graphics (pp. 171-184). Cham: Springer International Publishing.
  • Zhang, X., Zhang, T., Yang, Y., Wang, Z. and Wang, G., 2020, October. Real-time golf ball detection and tracking based on convolutional neural networks. In 2020 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC) (pp. 2808-2813). IEEE.
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Contact Information

Office: Building 1N Room 205
Office Hours

Tuesday 11:00 am - 12:00 pm

Thursday 10:00 am - 12:00 pm