(1.)Basic Information

Hongbin Sun, Professor

School of Electrical and Information Engineering

Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China

Email:  hsun@mail.xjtu.edu.cn 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hongbin Sun is currently a Professor in the School of Electrical and Information Egnieering at Xi'an Jiaotong University. He received the B.S. and Ph.D degrees in electrical engineering from the Xi'an Jiaotong University, China in 2003 and 2009, respectively. He worked as a Visiting Scholar at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute during 2007-2008. He worked as a Post-doc at Xi'an Jiaotong University during 2009-2011. He joined the faculty of Xi'an Jiaotong University as an associate professor in 2011, and became a full professor in 2017.

He is a senior member of IEEE (elevated in 2019). His current research interests are integrated circuit and system for computing, memory and video signal processing.  

(5.)Scientific Research

Journal Papers:

Embedded computer vision

  1. Changfeng Sun, Jingwei Sun, Xuchong Zhang*, Yitong Li, Qicheng Bai and Hongbin Sun*, Physical Strip Attack for Object Detection in Optical Remote Sensing. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. https://doi.org/10.1109/TG RS.2024.3434430,2024.
  2. Changfeng Sun, Xuchong Zhang*, Haoliang Han, and Hongbin Sun*. Targeted context attack for object detection. Neurocomputing, vol. 601 pp. 128208, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neucom.2024.128208，2024.
  3. Cheng Cheng, Wang Hang, Hongbin Sun*, et al. "CPNet: Continuity Preservation Network for infrared video colorization[J]." Computer Vision and Image Understanding, 2023, 237: 103816.
  4. Zeyu Hao, Hang Wang, Xuchong Zhang, Yuhai Li, Hongbin Sun*, "Efficient multi-stage network with pixel-wise degradation prediction for real-time motion deblurring," Computer Vision and Image Understanding, Volume 233, 2023, 103693, ISSN 1077-3142, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cviu.2023.103693.
  5. Hang Wang, Zhenyu Ding, Cheng Cheng, Yuhai Li, Hongbin Sun*. "MDC-Net: Multi-Domain Constrained Kernel Estimation Network for Blind Image Super Resolution[J]." Computer Vision and Image Understanding, 2023. Accepted.
  6. Xuchong Zhang, Han Zhai, Jiaxing Liu, Zhiping Wang, Hongbin Sun*. "Real-time infrared and visible image fusion network using adaptive pixel weighting strategy, " Information Fusion, vol. 99, pp.1-14, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inffus. 2023.101863.
  7. Xuchong Zhang, Yongli Zhao, Hang Wang, Han Zhai, Hongbin Sun*, Nanning Zheng. "End-to-end learning of self-rectification and self-supervised disparity prediction for stereo vision, " Neurocomputing, vol. 494, pp. 308-319, 2022.
  8. He Dai, Xuchong Zhang, Yongli Zhao, Hongbin Sun*, Nanning Zheng. "Adaptive Disparity Candidates Prediction Network for Efficient Real-Time Stereo Matching, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol.32, no. 5, pp. 3099-3110, 2022.
  9. Wenxuan Hou, Longjun Liu*, Haonan Zhang, Hongbin Sun, Nanning Zheng, "DFSNet: Dividing-Fuse Deep Neural Networks with Searching Strategy for Distributed DNN Architecture, " ELSEVIER Journal Neurocomputing, 2021, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neucom.2021.08.144.
  10. Xuchong Zhang, He Dai, Hongbin Sun* and Nanning Zheng. "Algorithm and VLSI architecture co-design on efficient semi-global stereo matching,"IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol. 30, no. 11, pp.4390-4403, Nov 2020.
  11. Xuchong Zhang, Hongbin Sun*, Shiqiang Chen, Lin Song and Nanning Zheng. "NIPM-sWMF: Toward efficient FPGA design for high-definition large-disparity stereo matching,"IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol. 29, no. 5, pp.1530-1543, May 2019.

Autonomous Intelligent System

  1. Weihuang Chen, Yuwei Chen, Shen'ao Wang, FanJie Kong, Xuchong Zhang, Hongbin Sun*, "Motion Planning using Feasible and Smooth Tree for Autonomous Driving," in IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, doi: 10.1109/TVT.2023.3343694.
  2. Xiao Wang, Linhai Xu, Hongbin Sun, Jingmin Xin and Nanning Zheng. "On-road vehicle detection and tracking using MMW radar and monovision fusion," IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, vol. 17, no. 7, pp. 2075-2084, Jul. 2016.

AI Chip Design

  1. Baoting Li, Danqing Zhang, Pengfei Zhao, Hang Wang, Xuchong Zhang, Hongbin Sun*. Nanning Zheng , DQ-STP: An Efficient Sparse On-Device Training Processor Based on Low-Rank Decomposition and Quantization for DNN, " IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers ( Early Access ), vol. 71, pp. 1665-1678, https://doi.org/10.1109/TCSI.2024.3364093, 2024.
  2. He Dai, Hang Wang, Xuchong Zhang, Hongbin Sun*. "Memory-Efficient Batch Normalization By One-Pass Computation for On-Device Training, " IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs, vol. 71,pp. 3186 – 3190, https://10.1109/TCSII.2024.3354738 , 2024.
  3. Baoting Li, Hang Wang, Xuchong Zhang, Hongbin Sun*, et al. "Dynamic Dataflow Scheduling and Computation Mapping Techniques for Efficient Depthwise Separable Convolution Acceleration, " IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-I: Regular Papers (TCAS-I), vol. 68, no. 8, pp. 3279-3292, August 2021.
  4. Shaofei Yang, Longjun Liu, Yingxiang Li, Xinxin Li, Hongbin Sun*, and Nanning Zheng. "Lane Shared Bit-Pragmatic Deep Neural Network Computing Architecture and Circuit," IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II-Express Briefs, vol.68, no.1, pp.486-490, Jul 2021.
  5. Hang Wang, Xuchong Zhang, Tiancheng Wang, Wenchang Li, Qiubo Chen, Pengju Ren, Xiaogang Wu, Hongbin Sun*, et al. "A 4Kx2K@60fps multifunctional video display processor for high perceptual image quality," IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-I: Regular Papers, vol. 67, no. 2, pp.451-463, Feb 2020.
  6. Hang Wang, Tiancheng Wang, Longjun Liu, Hongbin Sun* and Nanning Zheng. "Efficient compression-based line buffer design for image/video processing circuits, "IEEE Transctions on Very Large Scale Integration Systems, vol. 27, no. 10, pp.2423-2433, Oct 2019.
  7. Xiaoqing Zhao, Hongbin Sun*, Longjun Liu, Yang Yang, Liangliang Dai, Xiulong Wu, Ruizhi Zhang, Jianxiao Wang and Nanning Zheng. "Architectural exploration to address the reliability challenges for ReRAM-based buffer in SSD," IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems - I Regular Papers, vol. 66, no. 1, pp. 226-238, Jan 2019.
  8. Qiubo Chen, Hongbin Sun* and Nanning Zheng. "Worst-case driven display frame compression for energy-efficient ultra-HD display processing,"IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, vol. 20, no. 5, May 2018.
  9. Xuchong Zhang, Hongbin Sun*, Shiqiang Chen and Nanning Zheng. "VLSI architecture exploration of guided image filtering for 1080P@60Hz video processing,"IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol. 28, no. 1, Jan. 2018.
  10. Pengju Ren, Xin Zhang, Hongwei Bi, Longjun Liu, Hongbin Sun and Nanning Zheng "Towards an efficient multiview display processing architecture for 3DTV," IEEE Transactions on Circuit and Systems - II, vol. 64, no. 6, pp.705-709, Jun 2017.
  11. Qiubo Chen, Hongbin Sun*, Xuchong Zhang, Huibin Tao, Jie Yang, Jizhong Zhao and Nanning Zheng. "Algorithm and VLSI architecture of edge-directed image upscaling for 4K display system," IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol. 26, no. 9, pp. 1758-1771, Sep 2016.
  12. Fujun Bai, Song Wang, Xuerong Jia, Yixin Guo, Bing Yu, Hang Wang, Cong Lai, Qiwei Ren, Hongbin Sun*. "A Low-Cost Reduced-Latency DRAM Architecture With Dynamic Reconfiguration of Row Decoder, " IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems, vol. 31, no. 1, pp. 128-141,2023.
  13. Minjie Lv, Hongbin Sun*, Jingmin Xin and Nanning Zheng. "Efficient repair analysis algorithm exploration for memory with redundancy and in-memory ECC, vol.70, no.5,pp 775-788"IEEE Transactions on Computers, May 2021.
  14. Hao Wang, Kai Zhao, Minjie Lv, Xuebin Zhang, Hongbin Sun and Tong Zhang. "Improving 3D DRAM fault tolerance through weak cell aware error correction," IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol. 66, no. 5, pp.820-833, May 2017.
  15. Hongbin Sun, Wenzhe Zhao, Minjie Lv, Guiqiang Dong, Nanning Zheng and Tong Zhang. "Exploiting intracell bit-error characteristics to improve min-sum LDPC decoding for MLC NAND Flash based storage in mobile device," IEEE Transaction on Very Large Scale Integration Systems (TVLSI), vol. 24, no. 8, pp. 2654-2664, Aug. 2016.
  16. Chengying Chen, Hongbin Sun, Haihua Shen and Feng Zhang, "A 128 Kb HfO2 ReRAM with novel double-reference and dynamic-tracking scheme for write yield improvement," IEICE Electronics Express, vol. 13, no. 6, pp. 1-9, Feb. 2016.
  17. Minjie Lv, Hongbin Sun*, Qiwei Ren, Bing Yu, Jingmin Xin and Nanning Zheng. "Logic-DRAM co-design to exploit the efficient repair technique for stacked DRAM," IEEE Transactions on Circuit and System - I Regular Papers, vol. 62, no. 5, pp. 1362-1371, May 2015.
  18. Wenzhe Zhao, Guiqiang Dong, Hongbin Sun*, Tong Zhang and Nanning Zeng. "Hybrid hard-/soft-decision LDPC decoding strategy for NAND flash memory," Chinese Science Bulletin, vol. 59, issue 28, pp. 3554-3561, Oct. 2014.
  19. Kalyana Sundaram Venkataraman, Yiran Li, Qi Wu, Ningde Xie, Hongbin Sun, Nanning Zheng and Tong Zhang. "Using planar embedded DRAM in memory intensive signal processing circuits: Case studies on LDPC decoding and motion estimation," Journal of Signal Processing Systems, vol. 73, pp. 11-24, 2013.
  20. Yangyang Pan, Yiran Li, Hongbin Sun, Wei Xu, Nanning Zheng and Tong Zhang. "Exploring the use of emerging non-volatile memory techniques in future FPGAs, " IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration Systems(TVLSI), vol. 21, issue 4, pp.771-775, 2013.
  21. Wenzhe Zhao, Guiqiang Dong, Hongbin Sun, Nanning Zheng and Tong Zhang. "Reducing latency overhead caused by using LDPC codes in NAND flash memory," EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, 2012.
  22. Hongbin Sun, Chuanyin Liu, Tai Min, Nanning Zheng and Tong Zhang. "Architectural exploration to enable sufficient MTJ device write margin for STT-RAM based cache, " IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, vol. 28, no. 8, pp. 2346-2351, Aug. 2012.
  23. Hongbin Sun, Chuanyin Liu, Wei Xu, Jizhong Zhao, Nanning Zheng and Tong Zhang. "Using Magnetic RAM to build the low power and soft error resilient L1 cache," IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration Systems (TVLSI), vol. 20, no. 1, pp. 19-28, Jan. 2012.
  24. Hongbin Sun, Pengju Ren, Nanning Zheng, Tong Zhang and Tao Li. "Architecting high-performance energy-efficient soft error resilient cache under 3D integration technology, " Elsevier Journal of Microprocessors and Microsystems, vol. 5, no. 4. pp. 371-381, June 2011.
  25. Wei Xu, Hongbin Sun, Xiaobin Wang, Yiran Chen and Tong Zhang. "Design of last-level on-chip cache using spin-torque transfer RAM (STT RAM), " IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration Systems(TVLSI), vol. 19, no. 3, pp. 483-493, March. 2011.
  26. Hongbin Sun, Jibang Liu, Rakesh Anigundi, Nanning Zheng, Jian-Qiang Lu, Kenneth Rose and Tong Zhang. "3D DRAM design and application to 3D multi-core systems," IEEE Design and Test of Computers, vol. 26, no. 5, pp. 36-47, Sep/Oct. 2009.
  27. Hongbin Sun, Nanning Zheng and Tong Zhang. "Leveraging access locality for the efficient use of multi-bit error correcting codes in L2 cache," IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol. 58, no. 10, pp. 1297-1306, Oct. 2009.
  28. Anguo Zhu, Longjun Liu*, Wenxuan Hou, Hongbin Sun, Nanning Zheng, "HSC: Leveraging Horizontal Shortcut Connections for Improving Accuracy and Computational Efficiency of Lightweight CNN," ELSEVIER Journal Neurocomputing, vol. 457, pp. 141-154, 2021.
  29. Haonan Zhang, Longjun Liu*, Hengyi Zhou, Hongbin Sun, Nanning Zheng, "CMD: Controllable Matrix Decomposition with Global Optimization for Deep Neural Network Compression, " Springer Journal Machine Learning, 2021,accept.
  30. Chao Jing, Ping Wei*, Hongbin Sun, Nanning Zheng. "Spatiotemporal neural networks for action recognition based on joint loss,"Neural Computing and Applications (NCA), vol.32, no.9, pp.4293-4302, May 2020.
  31. Ping Wei, Hongbin Sun*, Nanning Zheng. "Learning composite latent structures for 3D human action representation and recognition,"IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, vol. 21, no. 9, pp.2195-2208, Sep 2019.
  32. Longjun Liu, Hongbin Sun*, Chao Li, Tao Li, Jingmin Xin, and Nanning Zheng. "Exploring highly dependable and efficient datacenter power system using hybrid and hierarchical energy buffers,"IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing, Dec 2018.
  33. Longjun Liu, Hongbin Sun, Chao Li, Yang Hu, Tao Li and Nanning Zheng. "Exploring customizable heterogeneous power distribution and management for datacenter,"IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, vol. 29, no. 12, pp.2798-2813, Dec 2018.
  34. Longjun Liu, Hongbin Sun*, Chao Li, Tao Li, Jingmin Xin and Nanning Zheng. "Managing battery aging for high energy availability in green datacenters," IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, vol. 28, no. 12, pp.3521-3536, Dec 2017.
  35. Linhai Xu, Yingzhou Wang, Hongbin Sun, Jingmin Xin, Nanning Zheng. "Integrated longitudinal and lateral control for Kuafu-II autonomous vehicle," IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, vol. 17, no. 7, pp. 2032-2041, Jul. 2016.
  36. Longjun Liu, Hongbin Sun*, Chao Li, Yang Hu, Jingmin Xin, Nanning Zheng and Tao Li. "RE-UPS: An adaptive distributed energy storage system for dynamically managing solar energy in green datacenters,"Journal of Supercomputing, vol. 72, issue 1, pp. 295-316, Jan. 2016.
  37. Longjun Liu, Chao Li, Hongbin Sun*, Yang Hu, Jingmin Xin, Nanning Zheng and Tao Li. "Leveraging heterogeneous power for improving datacenter efficiency and resiliency," IEEE Computer Architecture Letters, vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 41-45, Jun. 2015. (Best of CAL winners for 2015)

Conferences:

Embedded computer vision

  1. Cheng Cheng, Lin Song, Ruoyi Xue, Hang Wang, Hongbin Sun*, "Meta-Adapter: An Online Few-shot Learner for Vision-Language Model," NeurIPS 2023.

  2. Jinrong Yang, Lin Song, Songtao Liu, Weixin Mao, Zeming Li, Xiaoping Li, Hongbin Sun*, Jian Sun, Nanning Zheng. "Dbq-ssd: Dynamic Ball Query for Efficient 3D Object Detection." ICLR 2023.

  3. Xuchong Zhang, Chong Min, Yijie Jia, Hongbin Sun*, et al."Boosting Lidar 3D Object Detection with Point Cloud Semantic Segmentation[C]. "IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2023.

  4. Lin Song, Songyang Zhang, Songtao Liu, Zeming Li, Xuming He, Hongbin Sun*, Jian Sun, Nanning Zheng, Dynamic Grained Encoder for Vision Transformers, 35th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), Sydney, Australia, 2021.

  5. Haonan Zhang, Longjun Liu*, Hengyi Zhou, Wenxuan Hou, Hongbin Sun, Nanning Zheng, AKECP : Adaptive Knowledge Extraction from Feature Maps for Fast and Efficient Channel Pruning, 29th ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM), Virtual Event, China, 2021:648-657, DOI 10.1145/3474085.3475228.

  6. Wenxuan Hou, Longjun Liu,*, Jinxia Gao*, Anguo Zhu, Keyang Pan, Hongbin Sun, Nanning Zheng, Exploring Effective DNN Models for Forensic Age Estimation based on Panoramic Radiograph Images , International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), Shenzhen, China , 2021, DOI: 10.1109/IJCNN52387.2021.9533672.

  7. Hang Wang*, Cheng Cheng, Zeyu Hao, and Hongbin Sun, High Quality Far Infrared Image Colorization Based on Generative Adversarial Network, 2021 IEEE Asia Pacific Conference on Circuit and Systems, Penang, Malaysia, 2021-11-22至2021-11-26.

  8. Cheng Li, Weihuang Chen, Xinkai Luo, Fangfang Wang*, Jingmin Zhang, Yanlong Yang and Hongbin Sun, Optimal Preview Distance Control Using Model Prediction for Autonomous Vehicle, the 5th CAA International Conference on Vehicular Control and Intelligence, CVCI, Virtual Event, China, 2021.

  9. Chenglong Qian, Zhaohong Xiang, Zhuoran Wu and Hongbin Sun*, RF-LIO: Removal-First Tightly-coupled Lidar Inertial Odometry in High Dynamic Environments, the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS, Virtual Event, China, 2021.

  10. Lin Song, Yanwei Li, Zhengkai Jiang, Zeming Li, Xiangyu Zhang, Hongbin Sun*, Jian Sun, Nanning Zheng. "Rethinking Learnable Tree Filter for Generic Feature Transform," Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), Dec. 2020.

  11. Lin Song, Yanwei Li, Zhengkai Jiang, Zeming Li, Hongbin Sun*, Jian Sun, Nanning Zheng. "Fine-Grained Dynamic Head for Object Detection," Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), Dec. 2020.

  12. Lin Song, Yanwei Li, Zeming Li, Gang Yu, Hongbin Sun*, Jian Sun and Nanning Zheng. "Learnable tree filter for structure-preserving feature transform,"Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), Dec 2019.

  13. Lin Song, Shiwei Zhang, Gang Yu and Hongbin Sun*. "TACNet: Transition-aware context network for spatio-temporal action detection," IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Jun 2019.

  14. Zhixiong Nan, Menghan Pan, Xiao Wang, Ping Wei*, Linhai Xu, Hongbin Sun, Jingmin Xin, Nanning Zheng. "Exploring the potential of using semantic context and common sense in on-road vehicle detection," Proceedings of IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium, Jun 2018.

  15. Juwang Shi, Wenxiu Wang, Xiao Wang, Hongbin Sun*, Xuguang Lan, Jingmin Xin and Nanning Zheng. "Leveraging spatio-temporal evidence and independent vision channel to improve multi-sensor fusion for vehicle environmental perception," Proceedings of IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium, Jun 2018.

  16. Shuai Yang, Zhaohong Xiang, Jin Wu, Xiao Wang, Hongbin Sun*, Jinming Xin and Nanning Zheng. "Efficient rectangle fitting of sparse laser data for robust on-road object detection," Proceedings of IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium, Jun 2018.

  17. Chao Jing, Ping Wei*, Hongbin Sun, Nanning Zheng. "Spatial-temporal neural networks for action recognition," International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations (AIAI), May 2018.

  18. Shiqiang Chen, Xuchong Zhang, Hongbin Sun* and Nanning Zheng. "sWMF: Separable weighted median filter for efficient large-disparity stereo matching," Proceedings of IEEE Internation Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), Jun 2017.

  19. Hongbin Sun*, Fengwei Zhang and Nanning Zheng. "An edge-based adaptive image interpolation and its VLSI architecture," Proceedings of  the Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference (APSIPA ASC), Oct 2012.

  20. Qiubo Chen, Hongbin Sun, Jie Yang and Nanning Zheng. "A robust film-mode detection approach for digital TV SoC design," Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Solid-State and Integrated Circuit Technology(ICSICT), Oct 2012.

Autonomous Intelligent System

  1. Song Guo, Shen'ao Wang, Junjie He, Liming Chen, Hang Wang*,  Hongbin Sun et al., Mars Planner: Improved Batch Spatio-Temporal Path Planning for Multi-Ackerman Robotic Systems[C]. IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC), 2024.

  2. Weihuang Chen, Fang Zheng, Liushuai Shi, Yongdong Zhu, Hongbin Sun*, Nanning Zheng. "Multiple Goals Network for Pedestrian Trajectory Prediction in Autonomous Driving[C]." IEEE 25th International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC), 2022: 717--722.

  3. Weihuang Chen, Fangfang Wang, Hongbin Sun*, S2TNet: Spatio-Temporal Transformer Networks for Trajectory Prediction in Autonomous Driving, Proceedings of The 13th Asian Conference on Machine Learning, PMLR, Virtual Event, China, 2021: 157:454-469.

  4. Xiao Wang, Jinqiang Wu, Yanlei Gu, Hongbin Sun*, Linhai Xu, Shunsuke Kamijo, Nanning Zheng. "Human-like maneuver decision using LSTM-CRF model for on-road self-driving," Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Nov 2018.

  5. Cong Lai, Wen Luo, Shiqiang Chen, Qinhua Li, Qingyu Yang, Hongbin Sun* and Nanning Zheng. "Zynq-based Full HD around view monitor system for intelligent vehicle," Proceedings of Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Submit and Conference (APSIPA ASC), Dec 2017.

  6. Linhai Xu, Yingzhou Wang, Hongbin Sun, Jingmin Xin and Nanning Zheng, "Design and Implementation of Driving Control System for Autonomous Vehicle," Proceedings of International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC), Oct 2014.

  7. Xiao Wang, Linhai Xu, Hongbin Sun, Jingmin Xin and Nanning Zheng, "Bionic Vision Inspired On-Road Obstacle Detection and Tracking Using Radar and Visual Information," Proceedings of International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC), Oct 2014.

AI Chip Design

  1. Danqing Zhang, Baoting Li, Hang Wang*, Hongbin Sun et al., An Efficient Sparse-Aware Summation Optimization Strategy for DNN Accelerator[C]. IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), 2024.

  2. Shaofei Yang, Longjun Liu*, Baoting Li, Hongbin Sun and Nanning Zheng. “Exploiting Variable Precision Computation Array for Scalable Neural Network Accelerators,” IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Circuits and Systems, Mar 2020.

  3. Baoting Li, Longjun Liu*, Yanming Jin, Peng Gao, Hongbin Sun, Nanning Zheng. "Designing Efficient Shortcut Architecture for Improving the Accuracy of Fully Quantized Neural Networks Accelerator," IEEE Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC), Jan 2020.

  4. Hang Wang, Tiancheng Wang, Yunqi Mi, Hongbin Sun* and Nanning Zheng. "A hardware-efficient post-processing algorithm for motion compensated frame rate up-conversion," Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, May 2019.

  5. Baoting Li, Longjun Liu*, Jiahua Liang, Hongbin Sun, Li Geng, Nanning Zheng. "Exploring resource-aware deep neural network accelerator and architecture design," Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Digital Signal Processing, Nov 2018.

  6. Hang Wang, Hongbin Sun*, Xuchong Zhang, Qiubo Chen, Pengju Ren, et al., "A 4K×2K@60fps multi-format multi-function display processor for high perceptual quality," Proceedings of IEEE Asia Pacific Conference on Circuits and Systems (APCCAS), Oct 2018.

  7. Zenghua Cheng, Xuchong Zhang, Huisheng Peng, Baolu Zhai, Hongbin Sun* and Nanning Zheng, "VLSI design of edge-preserving coding artifacts reduction for display processing," Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI (ISVLSI), Jul 2015.

  8. Hongbin Sun*, Longjun Liu, Qiubo Chen, Baolu Zhai and Nanning Zheng. "Design and implementation of a video display processing SoC for full HD LCD TV," Proceedings of International SoC Design Conference (ISOCC), Nov 2012.

  9. Longjun Liu, Hongbin Sun, Wenzhe Zhao, Zuoxun Hou, Jingmin Xin and Nanning Zheng. "A High Performance and Low Cost Video Processing SoC for Digital HDTV Systems," Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on ASIC (ASICON), Oct 2011 (Excellent Student Paper Award).

  10. Hongbin Sun*, Kalyana Sundram Venkataraman, Yiran Li and Tong Zhang."Energy and area efficient signal processing circuits using planar embedded DRAM," Proceedings of the Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference (APSIPA ASC), Oct 2011.

  11. Xiaowei Han, Qian Jia, Hongbin Sun, Longfei Wang, et al. "A 0.13μm 64Mb HfOx ReRAM using configurable ramped voltage write and low read-disturb sensing techniques for reliability improvement," Proceedings of IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), Apr 2017.

  12. Longfei Wang, Xiaoqing Zhao, Mengnan Wu, Pu Bai, Hongbin Sun*, Xiaowei Han, Bing Yu, Qiwei Ren and Nanning Zheng, "Zynq-based solid-state drive prototyping platform for emerging non-volatile memories," Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Solid-State and Integrated Circuit Technology (ICSICT), Oct 2016.

  13. Y. Li, H. Wang, X. Zhao, H. Sun, and T. Zhang. "Applying Software-based Memory Error Correction for In-Memory Key-Value Store: Case Studies on Memcached and RAMCloud," International Symposium on Memory Systems (MEMSYS), Oct 2016.

  14. H. Wang, Y. Li, X. Zhang, X. Zhao, H. Sun, and T. Zhang. "On the Use of DRAM with Unrepaired Weak Cells in Computing Systems," International Symposium on Memory Systems (MEMSYS), Oct 2016.

  15. Hengyu Zhao, Hongbin Sun*, Qiang Yang, Tai Min and Nanning Zheng. "Exploring the use of volatile STT-RAM for energy efficient video processing," Proceedings of International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED), Mar 2016. (Best Paper Candidate)

  16. Mengnan Wu, Yang Yang, Liangliang Dai, Xinxin Zhang, Hongbin Sun*, Ruizhi Zhang, Jianxiao Wang and Nanning Zheng, "An experimental study on the potential use of ReRAM as SSD buffer," Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on ASIC (ASICON), Nov 2015.

  17. Qiubo Chen, Hengyu Zhao, Hongbin Sun*, Nanning Zheng. "Exploiting bit-depth scaling for quality-scalable energy efficient display processing," Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), May 2015.

  18. Minjie Lv, Hongbin Sun*, Jingmin Xin and Nanning Zheng, "Logic-DRAM co-design to efficiently repair stacked DRAM with unused spares," Proceedings of 20th Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC), Jan 2015.

  19. Wenzhe Zhao, Hongbin Sun*, Minjie Lv, Guiqiang Dong, Nanning Zheng and Tong Zhang, "Improving Min-sum LDPC Decoding Throughput by Exploiting Intra-cell Bit Error Characteristic in MLC NAND Flash Memory," Proceedings of International Conference on Massive Storage Systems and Technology (MSST), Jun 2014.

  20. Wenzhe Zhao, Minjie Lv, Hongbin Sun, Nanning Zheng and Tong Zhang, "VLSI design of fuzzy-decision bit-fipping QC-LDPC decoder," Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on ASIC (ASICON), Oct 2013.

  21. K. Venkataraman, W. Zhao, H. Sun, N. Zheng, and T. Zhang, "Scheduling Algorithms for Handling Updates in Shingled Magnetic Recording," IEEE International Conference on Networking, Architecture, and Storage (NAS), July 2013.

  22. K. Zhao, W. Zhao, H. Sun, T. Zhang, X. Zhang, and N. Zheng, "LDPC-in-SSD: Making Advanced Error Correction Codes Work Effectively in Solid State Drives,"USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST), Feb 2013.

  23. Minjie Lv, Hongbin Sun*, Tai Min, Tong Zhang and Nanning Zheng. "A heterogeneous design methodology for STT-RAM memory system of mobile SoC,"Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Solid-State and Integrated Circuit Technology (ICSICT), Oct 2012.

  24. Hongbin Sun, Jizhong Zhao, Fei Wang, et al. "Cost-efficient built-in repair analysis for embedded memories with on-chip ECC," Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Access Space (ISAS), Jun 2011 (Best Paper Award).

  25. Hongbin Sun, Chuanyin Liu, Tai Min, Nanning Zheng and Tong Zhang. "Design techniques to improve the device write margin for MRAM-based cache memory," Proceedings of the ACM Great Lake Symposium on VLSI(GLSVLSI), May 2011.

  26. Hongbin Sun, Jibang Liu, Nanning Zheng, Jian-Qiang Lu, Kenneth Rose and Tong Zhang. "Multi-core computer memory hierarchy design using heterogeneous three-dimensional (3D) stacked DRAM," Workshop of 3D integration and interconnect-centric architectures in conjunction with IEEE International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), Feb 2009.

  27. Rakesh Anigundi, Hongbin Sun, Jian-Qiang Lu,  Kenneth Rose and Tong Zhang. "Architecture design exploration of three-dimensional (3D) integrated DRAM," Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED), Mar 2009.

  28. Hongbin Sun, Nanning Zheng and Tong Zhang. "Realization of L2 cache defect tolerance using multi-bit ECC," Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Defect and Fault Tolerance of VLSI Systems (DFTS), Oct 2008.

  29. Hongbin Sun, Yang Liu, Nanning Zheng and Tong Zhang. "Motion compensation aided motion adaptive de-interlacing for real-time video processing applications," Proceedings of the IEEE Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers (ACSSC), Oct 2008.

  30. Hongbin Sun, Nanning Zheng, Chenyang Ge, Dong Wang and Pengju Ren. "An efficient motion adaptive de-interlacing and its VLSI architecture design, " Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI (ISVLSI), Apr 2008.

  31. Longjun Liu, Hongbin Sun*, Peng Gao; Nanning Zheng; Tao Li ; REcache: Efficient sustainable energy management circuits and policies for computing systems, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Sapporo, Japan, 2019-5-26至2019-5-29.

  32. Longjun Liu, Hongbin Sun*, Chao Li, Yang Hu, Nanning Zheng and Tao Li. "Towards an adaptive multi-power-source datacenter," Proceedings of International Conference on Supercomputing (ICS), Jun 2016.

  33. Longjun Liu, Chao Li, Hongbin Sun*, Yang Hu, Juncheng Gu, Tao Li, Jingmin Xin and Nanning Zheng, "HEB: deploying and managing hybrid energy buffers for improving datacenter efficiency and economy," Proceedings of ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), Jun 2015.

  34. Longjun Liu, Chao Li, Hongbin Sun*, Yang Hu, Juncheng Gu, Jingmin Xin, Nanning Zheng and Tao Li, "BAAT: Towards dynamically managing battery aging in green datacenters," Proceedings of IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN),Jun 2015.

  35. Longjun Liu, Hongbin Sun, Yang Hu, Jingmin Xin, Nanning Zheng and Tao Li, "Leveraging Distributed UPS Energy for Managing Solar Energy Powered Data centers," Proceedings of International Green Computing Conference (IGCC), Nov 2014.