职称：教授
博士（中山大学）
电子邮箱：zmcai@stu.edu.cn
办公地址：新行政中心217
主要研究方向：
数字图像处理、计算机视觉、基于图像的测量技术。
开设的主要课程：
数值分析、矩阵论、数字电路、微机与单片机系统及应用
科研教研项目：
[1] 国家自然科学基金面上项目，61876104，主持
[2] 国家自然科学基金青年基金项目，61203249，主持
[3] 广东省自然科学基金面上项目，2023A1515011449，主持
[4] 广东省普通高校重点领域专项(自然科学)，2022ZDZX1009，主持
[5] 广东省科技计划项目，STKJ2021093，主持
[6] 广东省自然科学基金面上项目，2018A030307034，主持
[7] 广东高校省级重大科研项目，2016KTSCX039，主持
[8] 广东省“扬帆计划”培养高层次人才项目，主持
[9] 2015年度广东省高等教育教学改革项目(省级)，2015.06~2017.06，主持
[10] 广东省自然科学基金面上项目，2015A030313439，主持
[11] 广东省高等学校优秀青年教师培养计划项目，2014.12~2017.12，主持
[12] Heat Transfer Analysis for Temperature-Sensitive-Coating Mearsurement，The US Air Force Small Business Innovation Research(SBIR) Program Phase II : Contract No. FA9101-17-C-0024，参与
[13] Quantitative Global Heat Transfer in a Mach-6 Quiet Tunnel, NASA NRA NNX08AC97A，参与
英文专著：
Tianshu Liu, Zemin Cai, ‘Inverse problems in global flow diagnostics,’ 1st ed. 2023, Springer.
主要论文：
[1] J. Chen, H. Wang, Z. F. Hao, Z. M. Cai*, L. Mei, and T. S. Liu, “Flow visualization for complex fluid flows via a structure-enhanced motion estimator,” IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, 2025. DOI: 10.1109/TCSVT.2022.3219. (中科院一区Top)
[2] Z. M. Cai, X. Q. Lin, T. S. Liu*, F. Wu, S. Z. Wang, and Y. 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.
[3] H. Y. Zhang, Z. M. 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.
[4] Z. Y. Fan, Z. M. Cai*, “Random epipolar constraint loss functions for supervised optical flow estimation,” Pattern Recognition, 2024. DOI: 10.1016/j.patcog.2023.110141. (中科院一区Top)
[5] X. X. Liao, Z. M. Cai*, J. Chen, T. S. Liu, and J. H. Lai, “Physics-based optical flow estimation under varying illumination conditions,” Signal Processing : Image Communication, 117(2023):117007. DOI: 10.1016/j.image.2023.117007.
[6] 蔡泽民, 廖小鑫, 赖剑煌, 陈军, “结构纹理感知下的鲁棒光流估计及人脸活检应用,” 中国图象图形学报，28(5), 1445-1461, 2023.
[7] J. Chen, H. Duan, Y. X. Song, Z. M. Cai*, G. G. Yang, and T. S. Liu, “Motion estimation for complex fluid flows using Helmholtz decomposition,” IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, 33(5):2129-2146, 2023, DOI: 10.1109/TCSVT.2022.3219438.
[8] J. Chen, H. Duan, Y. X. Song, Z. M. Cai*, and G. G. Yang, “Optical flow computation for video under the dynamic illumination,” IEEE Trans. on Multimedia, Vol. 25, pp. 6285–6300, 2023. DOI: 10.1109/TMM.2022.3207583. (中科院一区Top)
[9] Z. M. Cai, D. M. Salazar, T. Chen, and T. S. Liu, “Determining surface pressure from skin friction,” Experiments in Fluids, (2022)63:152. DOI: 10.1007/s00348-022-03500-y. (中科院二区)
[10] X. X. Liao, J. Y. Yuan, Z. M. Cai*, and J. H. Lai, “An attention-based bidirectional GRU network for temporal action proposals generation,” The Journal of Supercomputing, 2022. DOI: 10.1007/s11227-022-04973-8.
[11] J. Chen, J. H. Lai, Z. M. Cai, X. H. Xie, and Z. Pan, “Optical flow estimation based on frequency-domain regularization,” IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, 31(1): 217-230, 2021. DOI: 10.1109/TCSVT.2020.2974490.
[12] Z. M. Cai, Y. Liu, T. Chen, and T. S. 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.
[13] T. S. Liu, J. Montefort, S. Stanfield, S. Palluconi, J. Crafton, and Z. M. Cai, “Inverse heat transfer methods for global heat flux measurements in aerothermodynamics testing,” Progress in Aerospace Sciences, Vol. 107, pp. 1-18, 2019. DOI: 10.1016/j.paerosci.2019.04.003. (中科院一区Top)
[14] J. Chen, Z. M. Cai, J. H. Lai, and X. H. Xie, “Efficient segmentation-based PatchMatch for large displacement optical flow estimation,” IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, 29(12): 3595-3607, 2019. DOI: 10.1109/TCSVT.2018.2885246.
[15] Z. M. Cai, T. S. Liu, J. Montefort, S. Stanfield, S. Palluconi, and 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. (中科院一区Top)
[16] J. Chen, Z. M. Cai, J. H. Lai, and X. H. Xie, “A filtering based framework for optical flow estimation,” IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, 29(5): 1350-1364, 2018. DOI: 10.1109/TCSVT.2018.2805101.
[17] J. Chen, Z. M. Cai, J. H. Lai, and X. H. Xie, “Fast optical flow estimation based on the Split Bregman method”, IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, 28(3):664-678, 2018. DOI: 10.1109/TCSVT.2016.2615324.
[18] T. S. Liu, and Z. M. Cai, “Inverse heat transfer methods for temperature-sensitive-paint measurements,” 首届中国空气动力学大会, 四川绵阳, 2018.
[19] T. S. Liu, J. Montefort, S. Stanfield, S. Palluconi, J. Crafton, and Z. M. 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.
[20] B. Wang, Z. M. Cai, T. S. Liu, and L. X. Shen, “An analysis of physics-based optical flow,” Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, 2015. (中科院二区Top)
[21] Y. Liang, J. H. Lai, P. C. Yuen, Wilman W. Zou, and Z. M. Cai, “Face hallucination with imprecise-alignment using iterative sparse representation,” Pattern Recognition, 47(4): 3327-3342, 2014. DOI: 10.1016/j.patcog.2014.03.027.
[22] Z. M. Cai, T. S. Liu, J. H. Lai, J. Rubal, and J. 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.
[23] T. S. Liu, Z. M. Cai, J. H. Lai, J. Rubal, and J. 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: 10.2514/1.43372.2011.
