Haofeng Hu

Now accepting doctoral candidates in Marine Environment, Marine Technology, and Optical Engineering; and accepting Masters in Marine Technology and Optical Engineering.

Polarization imaging, ocean optics, and ocean acousto-optic detection

Postdoctoral Researcher, Institute of Optics，CNRS，2011-2013

Ph.D. in Optical Engineering, Nankai University, 2006-2011

Bachelor of Engineering in Optics, Nankai University, 2002-2006

Professor, School of Marine Science and Technology, Tianjin University, 2020-present

Associate Professor, School of Precision Instrument and Optoelectronics Engineering, Tianjin University, 2014-2020

The Technology and Application of Modern Ocean Exploration, New Photoelectric Material and Device, Signals and Systems in Optics, Physics B

1) National Key Research and Development Program for Young Scientists, Predictive Early Warning and Trend Analysis of Typical Hazard-causing Organisms in the Sea Area Adjacent to Nuclear Power Plants, 2024.01-2027.12, Chief Scientist

2) National High-level Young Talents Program, 2023.7-2026.6, responsible person

3) University-Enterprise Cooperation Program of Sansheng Group, Basic Research on Marine Economy Technology, 2023.7-2026.7, responsible person

4) State-level project, 2022.10-2024.10, responsible person

5) State-level key project topic, 2021.05-2023.12, person in charge

6) State-level key project topics, 2019.08-2021.12, responsible person

7) National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), Research on Microlight Polarization Imaging Technology Based on Physically Embedded Deep Neural Networks, 2021.01-2024.12, responsible person

8) National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), Research on multi-parameter image characterization method of polarization imaging technology in strong scattering environment, 2018.01-2021.12, responsible person

9) Director's Fund of Qingdao National Laboratory for Ocean Science and Technology, Ocean-oriented Fiber Optic Force Thermal Magnetic Multi-Parameter Composite Sensing Technology, 2017.12-2019.12, Responsible person

10) Guangxi Science and Technology Major Special Project, Research and Development of New Underwater Detection Technology and Equipment, 2021.01-2023.12, responsible person

11) China Association for Science and Technology Young Talent Support Project, 2017.12-2020.06, responsible person

12) National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) Youth Project, Research on Contrast Enhancement and Optimization Techniques for Polarization Imaging Scalar Images, 2015.01-2017.12, responsible person

[1] Haofeng Hu, Huifeng Jin, Hedong Liu, Xiaobo Li*, Zhenzhou Cheng, Tiegen Liu, Jingsheng Zhai, “Polarimetric image denoising on small datasets using deep transfer learning,” Optics & Laser Technology, 166, 109632(2023).

[2] Hedong Liu, Xiaobo Li, Zhenzhou Cheng, Tiegen Liu, Jingsheng Zhai, Haofeng Hu*, “Pol2Pol: self-supervised polarimetric image denoising,” Optics Letters 48(18), 4821-4824 (2023).

[3] Weihong Zhang, Xiaobo Li, Shuping Xu, Xujin Li, Yiguang Yang, Degang Xu, Tiegen Liu, Haofeng Hu*, “Underwater Image Restoration via Adaptive Color Correction and Contrast Enhancement Fusion,” Remote Sensing 15(19), 4699 (2023)

[4] Haofeng Hu, Shuping Xu, Yazhuo Zhao, Hongyi Chen, Shiyao Yang, Hedong Liu, Jingsheng Zhai, Xiaobo Li*, “Enhancing Underwater Image via Color-Cast Correction and Luminance Fusion,” IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering (2023).

[5] Hedong Liu, Xiaobo Li, Zhenzhou Cheng, Tiegen Liu, Jingsheng Zhai, Haofeng Hu*, “Polarization Maintaining 3-D Convolutional Neural Network for Color Polarimetric Images Denoising,” IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement 72, 1-9 (2023).

[6] Xiaobo Li, Lei Yan*, Pengfei Qi, Liping Zhang, François Goudail*, Tiegen Liu, Jingsheng Zhai, Haofeng Hu*, “Polarimetric Imaging via Deep Learning: A Review,” Remote Sensing 15(6), 1540 (2023).

[7] Haofeng Hu, Shiyao Yang, Xiaobo Li*, Zhenzhou Cheng, Tiegen Liu, Jingsheng Zhai, “Polarized image super-resolution via a deep convolutional neural network,” Optics Express 31(5), 8535-8547 (2023).

[8] Haofeng Hu, Yizhao Huang, Xiaobo Li*, Liubing Jiang, Li Che, Tiegen Liu, Jingsheng Zhai, “UCRNet: Underwater color image restoration via a polarization-guided convolutional neural network,” Frontiers in Marine Science 9, 1-11 (2022)

[9] Xiaobo Li, Liping Zhang, Pengfei Qi, Zhiwei Zhu, Jianuo Xu, Tiegen Liu, Jingsheng Zhai, Haofeng Hu*, “Are Indices of Polarimetric Purity Excellent Metrics for Object Identification in Scattering Media?” Remote Sensing 14(17), 4148 (2022).

[10] Haofeng Hu, Yilin Han, Xiaobo Li, Liubing Jiang, Li Che, Tiegen Liu, and Jingsheng Zhai*, “Physics-informed neural network for polarimetric underwater imaging,” Optics Express 30(13), 22512-22522 (2022).

[11] Pengfei Qi, Xiaobo Li, Yilin Han, Liping Zhang, Jianuo Xu, Zhenzhou Cheng, Tiegen Liu, Jingsheng Zhai, Haofeng Hu*, “U2R-pGAN: Unpaired underwater-image recovery with polarimetric generative adversarial network,” Optics and Lasers in Engineering 157, 107112 (2022).

[12] Hedong Liu, Yizhu Zhang, Zhengzhou Chen, Jingsheng Zhai, Haofeng Hu*, “Attention based neutral network for polarimetric image denoising,” Optics Letters 47(11), 2726-2729 (2022).

[13] Xiaobo Li, Yilin Han, Hongyuan Wang, Tiegen Liu, Shih-Chi Chen*, Haofeng Hu*, “Polarimetric Imaging Through Scattering Media: A Review,” Frontiers in Physics 10, 815296 (2022).

[14] Hongyuan Wang, Haofeng Hu*, Junfeng Jiang*, Xiaobo Li, Weihong Zhang, Zhenzhou Cheng, and Tiegen Liu, “Automatic underwater polarization imaging without background region or any prior,” Optics Express 29(20), 31283-31295 (2021).

[15] Hedong Liu, Yizhu Zhang*, Tiegen Liu, Haofeng Hu*, “Frequency interferometric localization microscopy,” Optics Letters 46(16), 3973-3976 (2021).

[16] Hongyuan Wang, Haofeng Hu*, Junfeng Jiang*, Jiaqi Li, Xiaobo Li, Weihong Zhang, Zhenzhou Cheng, Tiegen Liu, “Polarization differential imaging in turbid water via Mueller matrix and illumination modulation,” Optics Communications 499(15), 127274 (2021).

[17] Hongyuan Wang, Jiaqi Li, Haofeng Hu*, Junfeng Jiang*, Xiaobo Li, Kan Zhao, Zhenzhou Cheng, Mei Sang, Tiegen Liu, “Underwater imaging by suppressing the backscattered light based on Mueller matrix,” IEEE Photonics Journal 13(4), 7800106 (2021).

[18] Xiaobo Li, François Goudail*, Pengfei Qi, Tiegen Liu, Haofeng Hu*, “Integration time optimization and starting angle autocalibration of full Stokes imagers based on rotating retarder,” Optics Express 29 (6), 9494-9512 (2021).

[19] Haofeng Hu, Pengfei Qi, Xiaobo Li*, Zhenzhou Cheng, Tiegen Liu*, “Underwater imaging enhancement based on a polarization filter and histogram attenuation prior,” Journal of Physics D: Appl. Phys. 54 (17), 175102 (2021).

[20] Haofeng Hu, Yang Lin, Xiaobo Li*, Pengfei Qi, Tiegen Liu, “IPLNet: a neural network for intensity-polarization imaging in low light,” Optics Letters 45 (22), 6162-6165 (2020).

[21] Xiaobo Li, Haiyu Li, Yang Lin, Jianhua Guo, Jingyu Yang, Huanjing Yue, Kun Li, Chuan Li, Zhenzhou Cheng, Haofeng Hu*, Tiegen Liu, “Learning-based denoising for polarimetric images,” Optics Express 28 (11), 16309-16321 (2020).

[22] Xiaobo Li, Benjamin Le Teurnier, Matthieu Boffety, Tiegen Liu, Haofeng Hu*, François Goudail*, “Theory of autocalibration feasibility and precision in full Stokes polarization imagers,” Optics Express 28 (10), 15268-15283 (2020).

[23] Haofeng Hu, Yanbin Zhang, Xiaobo Li, Yang Lin, Zhenzhou Cheng, Tiegen Liu*, “Polarimetric underwater image recovery via deep learning,” Optics and Lasers in Engineering 133, 106152 (2020).

[24] Hongyuan Wang, Junfeng Jiang, Haofeng Hu*, Qun Han*, Zezhou Sun, Zheng Zheng, Zhenzhou Cheng, and Tiegen Liu “Temperature compensation of optical alternating magnetic field sensor via a novel method for on-line measuring,” Optics Express 28(9), 13682-13693 (2020).

[25] Xuezhi Zhang, Yuqing Li, Haofeng Hu*, Junfeng Jiang, Kun Liu, Xiaojun Fan, Ming Feng, Tiegen Liu, “Recovered HCN absorption spectrum based FBG demodulation method covering the whole C-band for temperature changing environment,” IEEE Access 8, 15039-15046 (2020).

[26] Tiegen Liu, Zijian Guan, Xiaobo Li, Zhenzhou Cheng, Yingdong Han, Jingyu Yang, Kun Li, Junying Zhao, and Haofeng Hu*, “Polarimetric underwater image recovery for color image with crosstalk compensation,” Optics and Lasers in Engineering 124, 105833 (2020).

[27] Haofeng Hu, Xiaowei Song, Qun Han*, Pengxiang Chang, Jiahang Zhang, Kun Liu, Yong Du, Hongyuan Wang, Tiegen Liu “High Sensitivity Fiber Optic SPR Refractive Index Sensor Based on Multimode-No-core-Multimode Structure,” IEEE Sensors Journal 20(6) 2967-2975 (2020).

[28] Xiaobo Li, Haofeng Hu*, Matthieu Boffety, Stéphane Roussel, Tiegen Liu, and François Goudail*, “Optimal tradeoff between precision and sampling rate in DoFP imaging polarimeters,” Optics Letters 44(24), 5900-5903 (2019).

[29] François Goudail*, Xiaobo Li, Matthieu Boffety, Stéphane Roussel, Tiegen Liu, and Haofeng Hu*, “Precision of retardance autocalibration in full-Stokes division-of-focal-plane imaging polarimeters,” Optics Letters 44(22), 5410-5413 (2019).

[30] Yong Du, Qun Han*, Haofeng Hu*, Mei Sang, Xueru Zhao, Xiaowei Song, Hongyuan Wang, Tiegen Liu, “High-sensitivity Refractive Index and Temperature Sensor Based on Cascading FBGs and Droplet-like Fiber Interferometer,” Sensors and Actuators A: Physical 299(1), 111631 (2019).

[31] Xiaobo Li, Haofeng Hu*, François Goudail*, Tiegen Liu, “Fundamental precision limits of full Stokes polarimeters based on DoFP polarization cameras for an arbitrary number of acquisitions,” Optics Express 27 (22), 31261-31272 (2019).

[32] Xiaobo Li, Haofeng Hu*, Lan Wu, Yin Yu, Tiegen Liu, “Impact of intensity integration time distribution on the measurement precision of Mueller polarimetry,” Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer 231, 22-27 (2019).

[33] Hui Wang, Haofeng Hu*, Xiaobo Li, Zijian Guan, Wanshan Zhu, Junfeng Jiang, Kun Liu, Tiegen Liu, “An Angle of Polarization (AoP) Visualization Method for DoFP Polarization Image Sensors Based on Three Dimensional HSI Color Space,” Sensors 19, 1713 (2019).

[34] Xiaobo Li, Haofeng Hu*, Hui Wang, Tiegen Liu, “Optimal Measurement Matrix of Partial Polarimeter for Measuring Ellipsometric Parameters With Eight Intensity Measurements,” IEEE Access 7(3), 1494-31500 (2019).

[35] Hui Wang, Haofeng Hu*, Xiaobo Li, Lin Zhao, Zijian Guan, Wanshan Zhu, Junfeng Jiang, Kun Liu, Zhenzhou Cheng, Tiegen Liu, “Joint Noise Reduction for Contrast Enhancement in Stokes Polarimetric Imaging,” IEEE Photonics Journal 11(2), 6901010 (2019).

[36] Xiaobo Li, Haofeng Hu*, Lin Zhao, Hui Wang, Qun Han, Zhenzhou Cheng, Tiegen Liu, “Pseudo-polarimetric method for dense haze removal,” IEEE Photonics Journal 11(1), 6900611 (2019).

[37] Zijian Guan, François Goudail, Mingxuan Yu, Xiaobo Li, Qun Han, Zhenzhou Cheng, Haofeng Hu*, Tiegen Liu, “Contrast optimization in broadband passive polarimetric imaging based on color camera,” Optics Express 27 (3), 2444-2454 (2019).

[38] Xiaobo Li, François Goudail, Haofeng Hu*, Qun Han, Zhenzhou Cheng, Tiegen Liu, “Optimal ellipsometric parameter measurement strategies based on four intensity measurements in presence of additive Gaussian and Poisson noise,” Optics Express 26(26), 34529-34546 (2018).

[39] Xiaobo Li, Haofeng Hu*, Hui Wang, Yin Yu, Lan Wu, Tiegen Liu, “Polarimetric image recovery method combining histogram stretching for underwater imaging,” Scientific Reports 8, 12430 (2018).

[40] Haofeng Hu, Lin Zhao, Xiaobo Li, Hui Wang, Jingyu Yang, Kun Li, Tiegen Liu*, “Polarimetric image recovery in turbid media employing circularly polarized light,” Optics Express 26(19), 25047-25059 (2018).

[41] Xiaobo Li, Haofeng Hu*, Hui Wang, Lan Wu, Tiegen Liu, “Influence of noise statistics on optimizing the distribution of integration time for degree of linear polarization polarimetry,” Optical Engineering 57(6), 064110 (2018).

[42] Haofeng Hu, Lin Zhao, Xiaobo Li, Hui Wang, Tiegen Liu*, “Underwater image recovery under the non-uniform optical field based on polarimetric imaging”, IEEE Photonics Journal 10(1), 6900309 (2018).

[43] Jiahui Han, Haofeng Hu*, Hui Wang, Bowen Zhang, Xiaowei Song, Zhenyang Ding, Xuezhi Zhang, Tiegen Liu, “Temperature-compensated Magnetostrictive Current Sensor Based on the Configuration of Dual Fiber Bragg Gratings,” Journal of Lightwave Technology 35(22), 4910-4915 (2017).

[44] Xiaobo Li, Haofeng Hu*, Lan Wu, Tiegen Liu, “Optimization of instrument matrix for Mueller matrix ellipsometry based on partial elements analysis of the Mueller matrix,” Optics Express 25(16), 18872-18884 (2017).

[45] Haofeng Hu, Lin Zhao, Bingjing Huang, Xiaobo Li, Hui Wang, Tiegen Liu*, “Enhancing visibility of polarimetric underwater image by transmittance correction”, IEEE Photonics Journal 9(3), 6802310 (2017).

[46] Mingxuan Yu, Hesong Huang, Haofeng Hu*, Lan Wu, Hongchen Zhai, Tiegen Liu, “Colorimetric discrimination for Stokes polarimetric imaging,” Optics Express 25(4), 3765-3773 (2017).

[47] Tiegen Liu, Jiahui Huan, Haofeng Hu*, “Optical Current Sensor With Dual-Wavelength Configuration for Improving Temperature Robustness,” IEEE Photonics Journal 9(1), 6800210 (2017).

[48] Mingxuan Yu, Tiegen Liu, Hesong Huang, Haofeng Hu*, Bingjing Huang, “Multispectral Stokes imaging polarimetry based on color CCD,” IEEE Photonics Journal 8(5), 6900910 (2016).

[49] Bingjing Huang, Tiegen Liu, Haofeng Hu*, Jiahui Han, Mingxuan Yu, “Underwater image recovery considering polarization effects of objects,” Optics Express 24(9), 9826-9838 (2016).

[50] Xiaobo Li, Haofeng Hu*, Tiegen Liu, Bingjing Huang, Zhanjie Song, “Optimal distribution of integration time for intensity measurements in degree of linear polarization polarimetry,” Optics Express 24(7), 7191-7200 (2016).

[51] Xiaobo Li, Tiegen Liu, Bingjing Huang, Zhanjie Song, Haofeng Hu*, “Optimal distribution of integration time for intensity measurements in Stokes polarimetry,” Optics Express 23(21), 27690-23699 (2015).

[52] Bingjing Huang, Tiegen Liu, Jiahui Han, Haofeng Hu*, “Polarimetric target detection under uneven illumination,” Optics Express 23(18), 23603-23612 (2015).

[53] Haofeng Hu, Tiegen Liu*, Hongchen Zhai, “Comparison of femtosecond laser ablation of aluminum in water and in air by time-resolved optical diagnosis,” Optics Express 23(2), 628-635 (2015).

[54] Matthieu Boffety, Haofeng Hu*, François Goudail*, “Contrast optimization in broadband passive polarimetric imaging,” Optics Letters 39(23), 6759-6762 (2014).

[55] Haofeng Hu, Enric Garcia-Caurel, Guillaume Anna, Francois Goudai*l, “Simplified calibration procedure for Mueller polarimeter in transmission configuration,” Optics Letters 39(3), 418-421 (2014).

[56] Haofeng Hu, Guillaume Anna, Enric Garcia-Caurel, Francois Goudail*, “Maximum Likelihood method for calibration of Mueller polarimeters in reflection configuration,” Applied Optics 52(25), 6350-6358 (2013).

[57] Haofeng Hu, Guillaume Anna, Francois Goudail*, “On the performance of the physicality-constrained maximum-likelihood estimation of Stokes vector,” Applied Optics 52(27), 6636-6644 (2013).

[58] Haofeng Hu, Razvigor Ossikovski, Francois Goudail*, “Performance of Maximum Likelihood estimation of Mueller matrices taking into account physical realizability and Gaussian or Poisson noise statistics,” Optics Express, 21(4), 5117-5129 (2013).

[59] Haofeng Hu, Xiaolei Wang*, Hongchen Zhai, “Neutrals ejection in intense femtosecond laser ablation,” Optics Letters 36(2), 124-126 (2011).

[60] Haofeng Hu, Xiaolei Wang*, Hongchen Zhai*, “High-fluence femtosecond laser ablation of silica glass: effects of laser-induced pressure,” Journal of Physics D: Appl. Phys. 44(13), 135202 (2011).

[61] Haofeng Hu, Yang Ji, Yang Hu, Xiaoyan Ding, Xianwen Liu, Jinghui Guo, Xiaolei Wang*, and Hongchen Zhai, “Thermal analysis of intense femtosecond laser ablation of aluminum,” Chinese Physics B 20(4), 044204 (2011).

Books:

[1] Haofeng Hu, Tiegen Liu, Xiaobo Li, Measurement and Imaging Processing of Polarization Information, Science Press, (2022).

[2] Haofeng Hu, Jing Liu, Dan Zhang, Xiaopeng Yan, Jinsheng Xiao, Polarization Imaging and Deep Learning Technology Application, China Communication Press, (2021).

1) The National Youth Talent Support Program, 2023

2) Chief Young Scientist of National Key R&D Program, 2023

3) Top 2% of the world's top scientists (annual scientific impact ranking), 2023

4) Young Elite Scientists Sponsorship Program by CAST 2017

5) The first batch of "Young Talent Support Project" in Tianjin, 2018

6) "Jin Guofan Scholarship for Young Scholars", China Instrument Society, 2017

7) Tianjin Innovative Talent Promotion Program "Young Talents in Science and Technology", 2019

8) Fondation Franco-Chinoise Pour La Science Et Ses Applications (FFCSA) Postdoctoral Scholarship, 2011

9) China Optical Science and Technology Award Second Prize, 2018

10) Tianjin "131" Innovative Talents (Third Level), 2015

1) Member, Image Science and Engineering Society of China (2017-present)

2) Member, Specialized Committee on Holography and Optical Information Processing, Chinese Optical Society (2018-present)

3) Member, Specialized Committee on Computational Imaging, Chinese Society for Optical Engineering (2021-present)

4) Member, Tianjin Optical Society (2020-present)

5) Corresponding Reviewer, National Natural Science Foundation of China (2015-present)

6) Young Academic Member, Symposium on Polarimetry and Ellipsometry (2018-present)

7) Topic Editor of the international academic journal Frontiers in Physics (IF=3.560)

8) Member, IEEE (2019-present)

9) Member, OSA (2020-present)

10) Optical Society of America (OSA) journals (Optics Letters, Optics Express, etc.), American Institute of Physics (AIP) journals (Journal of Applied Physics, etc.), British Institute of Physics (IOP) journals (Journal of Physics D: Appl. Phys, Journal of Optics, etc.), IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, IEEE Photonics Journal, IEEE Access, Optics and Lasers in Engineering, Applied Surface Science, Applied Physics B, Journal of Modern Optics, Optics and Laser Technology, Optical Engineering, Physics Letters, Photonics Letters, Infrared and Laser Engineering.