Zhang Xu
Senior Researcher at Tencent
Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China
Summary
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Top SchoolZhang Xu is a Senior Researcher specializing in computer vision with nine years of experience building vision systems for AR and autonomous driving. Based in Shenzhen, he currently develops deep learning solutions at Tencent XR Vision Lab for scene understanding, place recognition, road sign detection, mapping, and learning-based depth estimation. Previously a core member of EasyAR, he designed 6DoF vision–inertial sensor fusion and large-scale image-based localization used in smartphone AR platforms and the EasyAR SDK. His background blends rigorous academic training—a PhD from City University of Hong Kong—with hands-on product engineering at companies like Cheetah Mobile and Visionstar. Known for bridging research and production, he pairs state-of-the-art algorithms with practical system integration, and also brings an uncommon security-strategy perspective into vision projects.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Engineering Physics/Applied Physics, Master's degree, Engineering Physics/Applied Physics at Nanjing UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Mechanical Engineering, 4.30/4.30, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Mechanical Engineering, 4.30/4.30 at City University of Hong Kong
English
Github Skills (42)
dcgan10
generative-model10
generative-adversarial-network9
autoencoder9
image-translation9
mnist9
generative9
mutation8
julia8
counting8
mxnet8
portable8
dataflow7
chainer7
javascript7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
VCL-WHU/TrafficSignData
Jan 2017 - Mar 2018
Contributions:134 PRs, 157 pushes, 6 branches in 1 year 2 months
chinesesigndatasetmachine-learningtraining
VCL-WHU/TrafficSignData2
Apr 2017 - Mar 2018
Contributions:166 PRs, 166 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
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