Biography

I am currently a 3rd-year Ph.D. candidate in the Galaxy Cluster Group at the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, supervised by Prof. Shiyin Shen. Building on a foundation in probability theory and mathematical statistics, my research interests are astrophysics and computer vision, specifically transforming unstructured astronomical raw data into robust representations using low-level vision recognition. And my research interests also span 3D vision (NeRF, Gaussian Splatting), SLAM, and generative AI models. I hope to continuously update and expand my skill set within a dynamic R&D environment.

Selected Publications [Full paper] (^Co-first author; *Corresponding author)

 

Denoising the Deep Sky: Physics-Based CCD Noise Formation for Astronomical Imaging

Shuhong Liu, Xining Ge, Ziying Gu, Quanfeng Xu, Lin Gu, Ziteng Cui, Xuangeng Chu, Jun Liu, Dong Li, Tatsuya Harada
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2026.
[Paper] [Code]

 

Enhancing astrometric registration of Chinese historical Astronomical Digital Plates with deep learning

Quanfeng Xu, Zhengjun Shang, Shiyin Shen*, Yong Yu*, Meiting Yang*, Hao Luo, Zhenghong Tang, Jing Yang, Jianhai Zhao
Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics (RAA), 2026.
[Paper] [Project] [Code]

 

DeRainGS: Gaussian Splatting for Enhanced Scene Reconstruction in Rainy Environments

Shuhong Liu, Xiang Chen, Hongming Chen, Quanfeng Xu, Mingrui Li*
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2025.
[Paper] [Project] [Code]

 

Galmoss: A package for GPU-accelerated galaxy profile fitting

Mi Chen, Rafael S. de Souza*, Quanfeng Xu, Shiyin Shen*, Ana L. Chies-Santos, Renhao Ye, Marco A. Canossa-Gosteinski, Yanping Cong.
Astronomy and Computing (A&C), 2024.
[Paper] [Code]

 

From images to features: unbiased morphology classification via variational auto-encoders and domain adaptation

Quanfeng Xu, Shiyin Shen*, Rafael S. de Souza*, Mi Chen, Renhao Ye, Yumei She, Zhu Chen, Emille E. O. Ishida, Alberto Krone-Martins, Rupesh Durgesh
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS), 2023.
[Paper] [Code]

 

qrpca: A package for fast principal component analysis with GPU acceleration

Rafael S. de Souza^*, Quanfeng Xu^, Shiyin Shen, Chen Peng, Zihao Mu
Astronomy and Computing (A&C), 2022.
[Paper] [Code]

Projects

 

南极天目计划原型机数据查询与下载

Quanfeng Xu, Shiyin Shen*, Renhao Ye, Jing Zhong.
Need connect to the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory VPN , 2024.
[Website] [Code]

 

大场景变电站三维高斯重建

Work in 北京高比科技公司
技术顾问 , 2026.
白清寨变电站数据保密,数据已脱敏处理。

Honors and Awards

2023.09-Present (Shanghai Astronomical Observatory):

  • The First Prize Scholarship Award (Sep. 2025)
  • The First Prize Scholarship Award (Sep. 2024)
  • The First Prize Scholarship Award (Sep. 2023)

Competition Awards