Title: Professor, Doctoral Supervisor

Email: zmcai@stu.edu.cn

Office: New Administrative Center Room 313, Sangpushan Campus

Intelligent image analysis, artificial intelligence

Numerical Analysis (Postgraduate), Matrix Theory, Digital Circuits, Microcomputer and Single-chip Microcomputer Systems and Applications

[1] Basic Research Project of Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area National Center for Applied Mathematics, 2026, Principal Investigator

[2] General Project of Guangdong Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation, No. 2026A1515011593, Principal Investigator

[3] General Project of National Natural Science Foundation of China, No. 61876104, Principal Investigator

[4] Young Scientists Fund of National Natural Science Foundation of China, No. 61203249, Principal Investigator

[5] General Project of Guangdong Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation, No. 2023A1515011449, Principal Investigator

[6] Key Field Special Project of Guangdong Higher Education Institutions (Natural Science), No. 2022ZDZX1009, Principal Investigator

[7] Guangdong Provincial Science and Technology Program Project, No. STKJ2021093, Principal Investigator

[8] General Project of Guangdong Provincial Natural Science Foundation, No. 2018A030307034, Principal Investigator

[9] Major Scientific Research Project of Guangdong Higher Education Institutions, No. 2016KTSCX039, Principal Investigator

[10] Guangdong Province “Yangfan Program” for High-level Talent Cultivation, Principal Investigator

[11] Provincial Higher Education Teaching Reform Project of Guangdong Province, Jun. 2015 – Jun. 2017, Principal Investigator

[12] General Project of Guangdong Provincial Natural Science Foundation, No. 2015A030313439, Principal Investigator

[13] Excellent Young Teachers Program of Guangdong Higher Education Institutions, Dec. 2014 – Dec. 2017, Principal Investigator

[14] Heat Transfer Analysis for Temperature-Sensitive-Coating Measurement, U.S. Air Force Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase II, Contract No. FA9101-17-C-0024, Participant

[15] Quantitative Global Heat Transfer in a Mach-6 Quiet Tunnel, NASA NRA NNX08AC97A, Participant

Tianshu Liu, Zemin Cai. Inverse problems in global flow diagnostics, 1st ed., Springer, 2023.

[1] Zemin Cai, Jiarui Luo, Jian-huang Lai, Fu Chen. RGShuffleNet: An efficient design for medical image segmentation on portable devices. IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, 2026. DOI: 10.1109/JBHI.2026.3663638.

[2] Guihan Xie, Shuheng Chen, Zemin Cai*. LOFEMECHO: Resource-efficient and scalable echocardiographic cardiac function assessment. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2026.

[3] Mingmeng Li, Yequn Chen, Zemin Cai, Xiangyuan Ma, Haifeng Wang. Computer simulations in left atrial appendage occlusion: Current applications and future potential. Brain & Heart, 2026. DOI: 10.36922/BH025410061.

[4] Zemin Cai, Jiahong Lin, Haifeng Wang, Fu Chen. A multi-level features modeling network for cardiac motion estimation. Biomedical Signal Processing and Control, 113: 109186, 2026. DOI: 10.1016/j.bspc.2025.109186.

[5] Zemin Cai, Zhengyuan Fan, Tianshu Liu, Kumaran Kannaiyan. Neural network model for predicting aerodynamic parameters of airfoils. Journal of Aircraft, 2025. DOI: 10.2514/1.C038462.

[6] Zemin Cai, Xiangqi Lin, Tianshu Liu. Physics-informed neural network for estimating surface heat flux from surface temperature measurements. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol. 253, 127580, 2025. DOI: 10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.

[7] Jun Chen, He Wang, Zhifeng Hao, Zemin Cai*, Ling Mei, Tianshu Liu. Flow visualization for complex fluid flows via a structure-enhanced motion estimator. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, 35(9): 8559-8573, 2025. DOI: 10.1109/TCSVT.2022.3219.

[8] Zemin Cai, Xiangqi Lin, Tianshu Liu, Fan Wu, Shizhao Wang, Yun Liu. Determining pressure from velocity via physics-informed neural network. European Journal of Mechanics - B/Fluids, 109(2025): 1-21. DOI: 10.1016/j.euromechflu.2024.08.007.

[9] Huiyi Zhang, Zemin Cai*. ConvNextUNet: A small-region attentioned model for cardiac MRI segmentation. Computers in Biology and Medicine, 177(2024): 108592. DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2024.108592.

[10] Zhengyuan Fan, Zemin Cai*. Random epipolar constraint loss functions for supervised optical flow estimation. Pattern Recognition, 148(2024): 110141, 2024. DOI: 10.1016/j.patcog.2023.110141.

[11] Xiaoxin Liao, Zemin Cai*, Jun Chen, Tianshu Liu, Jian-huang Lai. Physics-based optical flow estimation under varying illumination conditions. Signal Processing: Image Communication, 117(2023): 117007. DOI: 10.1016/j.image.2023.117007.

[12] Cai Zemin, Liao Xiaoxin, Lai Jianhuang, Chen Jun. Robust optical flow estimation with structure-texture perception and its application in face biopsy. Journal of Image and Graphics, 28(5): 1445-1461, 2023.

[13] Jun Chen, Hui Duan, Yuanxin Song, Zemin Cai*, Guangguang Yang, Tianshu Liu. Motion estimation for complex fluid flows using Helmholtz decomposition. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, 33(5): 2129-2146, 2023. DOI: 10.1109/TCSVT.2022.3219438.

[14] Jun Chen, Hui Duan, Yuanxin Song, Zemin Cai*, Guangguang Yang. Optical flow computation for video under dynamic illumination. IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, Vol. 25: 6285–6300, 2023. DOI: 10.1109/TMM.2022.3207583.

[15] Zemin Cai, David M. Salazar, Tao Chen, Tianshu Liu. Determining surface pressure from skin friction. Experiments in Fluids, 63: 152, 2022. DOI: 10.1007/s00348-022-03500-y.

[16] Jun Chen, Jianhuang Lai, Zemin Cai, Xiaohua Xie, Zhigang Pan. Optical flow estimation based on frequency-domain regularization. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, 31(1): 217-230, 2021. DOI: 10.1109/TCSVT.2020.2974490.

[17] Zemin Cai, Yun Liu, Tao Chen, Tianshu Liu. Variational method for determining pressure from velocity in two dimensions. Experiments in Fluids, 61(5), May 2020. DOI: 10.1007/s00348-020-02954-2.

[18] Tianshu Liu, Javier Montefort, Scott Stanfield, Steve Palluconi, Jim Crafton, Zemin Cai. Inverse heat transfer methods for global heat flux measurements in aerothermodynamics testing. Progress in Aerospace Sciences, Vol. 107: 1-18, 2019. DOI: 10.1016/j.paerosci.2019.04.003.

[19] Jun Chen, Zemin Cai, Jianhuang Lai, Xiaohua Xie. Efficient segmentation-based PatchMatch for large displacement optical flow estimation. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, 29(12): 3595-3607, 2019. DOI: 10.1109/TCSVT.2018.2885246.

[20] Zemin Cai, Tianshu Liu, J. Montefort, S. Stanfield, S. Palluconi, J. Crafton. Numerical inverse method for calculating heat flux in temperature-sensitive-coating measurement on a finite base. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 127(2018): 1099-1113. DOI: 10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2018.06.094.

[21] Jun Chen, Zemin Cai, Jianhuang Lai, Xiaohua Xie. A filtering based framework for optical flow estimation. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, 29(5): 1350-1364, 2018. DOI: 10.1109/TCSVT.2018.2805101.

[22] Jun Chen, Zemin Cai, Jianhuang Lai, Xiaohua Xie. Fast optical flow estimation based on the Split Bregman method. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, 28(3): 664-678, 2018. DOI: 10.1109/TCSVT.2016.2615324.

[23] Tianshu Liu, Zemin Cai*. Inverse heat transfer methods for temperature-sensitive-paint measurements. The 1st Chinese Aerodynamics Conference, Mianyang, Sichuan, Aug. 15–19, 2018.

[24] Tianshu Liu, J. Montefort, S. Stanfield, S. Palluconi, J. Crafton, Zemin Cai. Analytical inverse heat transfer method for temperature-sensitive-coating measurement on a finite base. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 118(2018): 651-662. DOI: 10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2017.11.020.

[25] Bo Wang, Zemin Cai, Tianshu Liu, Lixin Shen. An analysis of physics-based optical flow. Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, Vol. 276: 62-80, 2015.

[26] Yan Liang, Jian-Huang Lai, P. C. Yuen, Wilman W. Zou, Zemin Cai. Face hallucination with imprecise-alignment using iterative sparse representation. Pattern Recognition, vol. 47, no. 4: 3327-3342, 2014. DOI: 10.1016/j.patcog.2014.03.027.

[27] Zemin Cai, Tianshu Liu, Jianhuang Lai, Justin Rubal, John P. Sullivan. Numerical inverse heat transfer analysis for temperature-sensitive-paint measurements in hypersonic tunnels. Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer, 25(1): 59-67, 2011. DOI: 10.2514/1.49217.

[28] Tianshu Liu, Zemin Cai, Jianhuang Lai, Justin Rubal, John P. Sullivan. Analytical method for determining heat flux from temperature-sensitive-paint measurements in hypersonic tunnels. Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer, 24(1): 85-94, 2010. DOI: 10.2514/1.43372.