Zhefan Rao - RankMe

13 papers A* 4A 2Journal 7

Year	Rank	Type	Title / Venue / Authors
2025	J	`jnl`	Enhancing HDR Imaging with Joint Denoising and Deblurring. Int. J. Comput. Vis. Qiang Wen, Zhefan Rao, Chenyang Lei, Wenxiu Sun, Qiong Yan, Jing Li, Fei Lei, Qifeng Chen
2025	A*	`conf`	LDM-ISP: Enhancing Neural ISP for Low Light with Latent Diffusion Models. ICRA Qiang Wen, Zhefan Rao, Yazhou Xing, Qifeng Chen
2025	A	`conf`	Robust Portrait Image Matting and Depth-of-field Synthesis via Multiplane Images. WACV Zhefan Rao, Tianjia Zhang, Yuen-Fui Lau, Qifeng Chen
2025	J	`jnl`	VisionDirector: Vision-Language Guided Closed-Loop Refinement for Generative Image Synthesis. CoRR Meng Chu, Senqiao Yang, Haoxuan Che, Suiyun Zhang, Xichen Zhang, Shaozuo Yu, Haokun Gui, Zhefan Rao, Dandan Tu, Rui Liu, Jiaya Jia
2024	A*	`conf`	A Diffusion Model with State Estimation for Degradation-Blind Inverse Imaging. AAAI Liya Ji, Zhefan Rao, Sinno Jialin Pan, Chenyang Lei, Qifeng Chen
2024	A	`conf`	ENTED: Enhanced Neural Texture Extraction and Distribution for Reference-based Blind Face Restoration. WACV Yuen-Fui Lau, Tianjia Zhang, Zhefan Rao, Qifeng Chen
2024	J	`jnl`	ENTED: Enhanced Neural Texture Extraction and Distribution for Reference-based Blind Face Restoration. CoRR Yuen-Fui Lau, Tianjia Zhang, Zhefan Rao, Qifeng Chen
2024	J	`jnl`	ModelGrow: Continual Text-to-Video Pre-training with Model Expansion and Language Understanding Enhancement. CoRR Zhefan Rao, Liya Ji, Yazhou Xing, Runtao Liu, Zhaoyang Liu, Jiaxin Xie, Ziqiao Peng, Yingqing He, Qifeng Chen
2023	A*	`conf`	Neural Image Popularity Assessment with Retrieval-augmented Transformer. ACM Multimedia Liya Ji, Chan Ho Park, Zhefan Rao, Qifeng Chen
2023	J	`jnl`	Quantifying the Knowledge in a DNN to Explain Knowledge Distillation for Classification. IEEE Trans. Pattern Anal. Mach. Intell. Quanshi Zhang, Xu Cheng, Yilan Chen, Zhefan Rao
2022	J	`jnl`	Quantifying the Knowledge in a DNN to Explain Knowledge Distillation for Classification. CoRR Quanshi Zhang, Xu Cheng, Yilan Chen, Zhefan Rao
2020	A*	`conf`	Explaining Knowledge Distillation by Quantifying the Knowledge. CVPR Xu Cheng, Zhefan Rao, Yilan Chen, Quanshi Zhang
2020	J	`jnl`	Explaining Knowledge Distillation by Quantifying the Knowledge. CoRR Xu Cheng, Zhefan Rao, Yilan Chen, Quanshi Zhang

Nicolò Altamura is a security engineer and computer science researcher specializing in software protection, reverse engineering, program analysis, and binary deobfuscation. He holds a master's degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Verona, graduating with honors, and works at emproof, focusing on software protection and the challenges of analyzing and understanding compiled software.

His research explores the relationship between program analysis and code obfuscation, with particular emphasis on how software transformations affect the ability of automated tools to recover program behavior. His interests span static analysis, binary analysis, decompilation, reverse engineering, and techniques for analyzing and simplifying obfuscated code.

Beyond academic research, Nicolò develops and contributes to tools for reverse engineering and software analysis. His projects include obfuscation_analysis, a Binary Ninja plugin for analyzing and simplifying obfuscated code; Pocket, an obfuscator for mixed Boolean-arithmetic expressions; and ptxNinja, a tool for reverse engineering NVIDIA GPU code represented in the PTX virtual instruction set.

His research also extends to binary datasets and software evolution. In 2026, he co-authored ASSEMBLAGE-DEEPHISTORY: A Cross-Build Binary Dataset with Temporal Coverage, a research work addressing the availability of binary data across multiple software builds and points in time, supporting research into binary analysis and changes between program versions.

Across his research, engineering work, and open-source contributions, Nicolò focuses on advancing the understanding, analysis, and protection of software against increasingly sophisticated obfuscation and reverse-engineering challenges.

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