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ORCIDDan Zhang 0003
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- affiliation: Robert Bosch GmbH, Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence, Renningen, Germany
- affiliation (2014 - 2017): TU Dresden, Germany
- affiliation (former): RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Other persons with the same name
- Dan Zhang — disambiguation page
- Dan Zhang 0001
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— Zhejiang University of Technology, Department of Automation, Zhejiang Provincial United Key Laboratory of Embedded Systems, Hangzhou, China - Dan Zhang 0002 — Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
- Dan Zhang 0004 — Google Inc: Mountain View, CA, USA (and 1 more)
- Dan Zhang 0005 — University of Colorado Boulder, CO, USA
- Dan Zhang 0006 — Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Hong Kong (and 4 more)
- Dan Zhang 0007 — Facebook, Menlo Park, CA, USA (and 2 more)
- Dan Zhang 0008 — Hong Kong Baptist University, China
- Dan Zhang 0009 — Sichuan University, Business School, Chengdu, China
- Dan Zhang 0010 — Rutgers University, North Brunswick, NJ, USA
- Dan Zhang 0011 — Chongqing University, China
- Dan Zhang 0012 — Nanjing University, School of Earth Sciences and Engineering, China
- Dan Zhang 0013 — University of Bergen, Department of Informatics, Norway
- Dan Zhang 0014 — Tsinghua University, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Beijing, China
- Dan Zhang 0015 — Shanghai Jiao Tong University, School of Electrical Information and Electrical Engineering, Shanghai, China
- Dan Zhang 0016 — Beijing Normal University, School of Artificial Intelligence, China
- Dan Zhang 0018 — Xi'an University of Technology, School of Science, China
- Dan Zhang 0019 — Beijing Jiaotong University, Institution of Electromagnetic Compatibility, School of Electronic and Information Engineering, China (and 2 more)
- Dan Zhang 0020 — Nanjing Forestry University, College of Information Science and Technology, China (and 1 more)
- Dan Zhang 0021 — State University of New York (SUNY) Korea, Department of Computer Science, Incheon, South Korea
- Dan Zhang 0022 — Xi'an Jiaotong University, School of Computer Science and Technology, MOE Key Laboratory for Intelligent Networks and Network Security, China
- Dan Zhang 0023 — South China Normal University, ZJU-SCNU Joint Research Center of Photonics, Guangzhou, China
- Dan Zhang 0024 — Nankai University, Department of Information Resources Management, Business School, Tianjin, China
- Dan Zhang 0025 — Megagon Labs, USA
- Dan Zhang 0026 — Ningbo University of Technology, School of Cyber Science and Engineering, China
Other persons with a similar name
- Zhang Dan
- Dan-Bo Zhang
- Dan-Ping Zhang
- Dan-Wei Zhang
- Dan-Xia Zhang
- Dan Hong Zhang
- Dandan Zhang (aka: Dan-dan Zhang) — disambiguation page
- Xiaodan Zhang (aka: Xiao-dan Zhang, Xiao-Dan Zhang) — disambiguation page
- Xiaodan Zhang 0010 (aka: Xiao-Dan Zhang 0010) — Beihua University, College of Electrical and Information Engineering, Jilin, China
- Xiaodan Zhang 0011 (aka: Xiao-Dan Zhang 0011) — Baoji University of Arts and Sciences, Institute of Physics and Optoelectronics Technology, Shaanxi, China
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2020 – today
- 2025
[c34]Yumeng Li, William H. Beluch, Margret Keuper, Dan Zhang, Anna Khoreva:
VSTAR: Generative Temporal Nursing for Longer Dynamic Video Synthesis. ICLR 2025- 2024
- [j20]Vadim Sushko, Dan Zhang, Juergen Gall, Anna Khoreva:
Generating novel scene compositions from single images and videos. Comput. Vis. Image Underst. 239: 103888 (2024) - [j19]Yumeng Li, Dan Zhang, Margret Keuper, Anna Khoreva:
Intra- & Extra-Source Exemplar-Based Style Synthesis for Improved Domain Generalization. Int. J. Comput. Vis. 132(2): 446-465 (2024) - [c33]Yumeng Li, Margret Keuper, Dan Zhang, Anna Khoreva:
Adversarial Supervision Makes Layout-to-Image Diffusion Models Thrive. ICLR 2024 - [i19]Yumeng Li, Margret Keuper, Dan Zhang, Anna Khoreva:
Adversarial Supervision Makes Layout-to-Image Diffusion Models Thrive. CoRR abs/2401.08815 (2024) - [i18]Yumeng Li, William Beluch, Margret Keuper, Dan Zhang, Anna Khoreva:
VSTAR: Generative Temporal Nursing for Longer Dynamic Video Synthesis. CoRR abs/2403.13501 (2024) - [i17]Ugur Ali Kaplan, Margret Keuper, Anna Khoreva, Dan Zhang, Yumeng Li:
Domain-Aware Fine-Tuning of Foundation Models. CoRR abs/2407.03482 (2024) - 2023
- [c32]Yumeng Li, Margret Keuper, Dan Zhang, Anna Khoreva:
Divide & Bind Your Attention for Improved Generative Semantic Nursing. BMVC 2023: 366 - [c31]Dan Zhang, Kaspar Sakmann, William Beluch, Robin Hutmacher, Yumeng Li:
Anomaly-Aware Semantic Segmentation via Style-Aligned OoD Augmentation. ICCV (Workshops) 2023: 4067-4075 - [c30]Yumeng Li, Dan Zhang, Margret Keuper, Anna Khoreva:
Intra-Source Style Augmentation for Improved Domain Generalization. WACV 2023: 509-519 - [c29]Vadim Sushko, Dan Zhang, Juergen Gall, Anna Khoreva:
One-Shot Synthesis of Images and Segmentation Masks. WACV 2023: 6274-6283 - [i16]Yumeng Li, Dan Zhang, Margret Keuper, Anna Khoreva:
Intra- & Extra-Source Exemplar-Based Style Synthesis for Improved Domain Generalization. CoRR abs/2307.00648 (2023) - [i15]Yumeng Li, Margret Keuper, Dan Zhang, Anna Khoreva:
Divide & Bind Your Attention for Improved Generative Semantic Nursing. CoRR abs/2307.10864 (2023) - [i14]Dan Zhang, Kaspar Sakmann, William Beluch, Robin Hutmacher, Yumeng Li:
Anomaly-Aware Semantic Segmentation via Style-Aligned OoD Augmentation. CoRR abs/2308.09965 (2023) - 2022
- [j18]Vadim Sushko, Edgar Schönfeld, Dan Zhang, Juergen Gall, Bernt Schiele, Anna Khoreva:
OASIS: Only Adversarial Supervision for Semantic Image Synthesis. Int. J. Comput. Vis. 130(12): 2903-2923 (2022) - [i13]Vadim Sushko, Dan Zhang, Juergen Gall, Anna Khoreva:
One-Shot Synthesis of Images and Segmentation Masks. CoRR abs/2209.07547 (2022) - [i12]Yumeng Li, Dan Zhang, Margret Keuper, Anna Khoreva:
Intra-Source Style Augmentation for Improved Domain Generalization. CoRR abs/2210.10175 (2022) - 2021
- [j17]Dan Zhang, Xiaohang Song, Wenjin Wang, Gerhard P. Fettweis, Xiqi Gao:
Unifying Message Passing Algorithms Under the Framework of Constrained Bethe Free Energy Minimization. IEEE Trans. Wirel. Commun. 20(7): 4144-4158 (2021) - [c28]Kanil Patel, William H. Beluch, Bin Yang, Michael Pfeiffer, Dan Zhang:
Multi-Class Uncertainty Calibration via Mutual Information Maximization-based Binning. ICLR 2021 - [c27]Edgar Schönfeld, Vadim Sushko, Dan Zhang, Juergen Gall, Bernt Schiele, Anna Khoreva:
You Only Need Adversarial Supervision for Semantic Image Synthesis. ICLR 2021 - 2020
- [c26]Vadim Sushko, Edgar Schönfeld, Dan Zhang, Jürgen Gall, Bernt Schiele, Anna Khoreva:
3D Noise and Adversarial Supervision Is All You Need for Multi-modal Semantic Image Synthesis. ECCV Workshops (6) 2020: 554-558 - [c25]Kanil Patel, William Beluch, Dan Zhang, Michael Pfeiffer, Bin Yang:
On-manifold Adversarial Data Augmentation Improves Uncertainty Calibration. ICPR 2020: 8029-8036 - [i11]Kanil Patel, William Beluch, Bin Yang, Michael Pfeiffer, Dan Zhang:
Multi-Class Uncertainty Calibration via Mutual Information Maximization-based Binning. CoRR abs/2006.13092 (2020) - [i10]Vadim Sushko, Edgar Schönfeld, Dan Zhang, Jürgen Gall, Bernt Schiele, Anna Khoreva:
You Only Need Adversarial Supervision for Semantic Image Synthesis. CoRR abs/2012.04781 (2020)
2010 – 2019
- 2019
- [c24]Chaithanya Kumar Mummadi, Tim Genewein, Dan Zhang, Thomas Brox, Volker Fischer:
Group Pruning Using a Bounded-ℓp Norm for Group Gating and Regularization. GCPR 2019: 139-155 - [c23]Dan Zhang, Anna Khoreva:
Progressive Augmentation of GANs. NeurIPS 2019: 6246-6256 - [i9]Dan Zhang, Anna Khoreva:
PA-GAN: Improving GAN Training by Progressive Augmentation. CoRR abs/1901.10422 (2019) - [i8]Chaithanya Kumar Mummadi, Tim Genewein, Dan Zhang, Thomas Brox, Volker Fischer:
Group Pruning using a Bounded-Lp norm for Group Gating and Regularization. CoRR abs/1908.03463 (2019) - [i7]Kanil Patel, William Beluch, Dan Zhang, Michael Pfeiffer, Bin Yang:
On-manifold Adversarial Data Augmentation Improves Uncertainty Calibration. CoRR abs/1912.07458 (2019) - 2018
- [j16]Roberto Bomfin, Dan Zhang, Maximilian Matthé, Gerhard P. Fettweis:
A Theoretical Framework for Optimizing Multicarrier Systems Under Time and/or Frequency-Selective Channels. IEEE Commun. Lett. 22(11): 2394-2397 (2018) - [j15]Maximilian Matthé, Dan Zhang, Gerhard P. Fettweis:
Low-Complexity Iterative MMSE-PIC Detection for MIMO-GFDM. IEEE Trans. Commun. 66(4): 1467-1480 (2018) - [c22]Martin Danneberg, Ahmad Nimr, Nicola Michailow, Shahab Ehsanfar, Maximilian Matthé, Ana Belen Martinez, Dan Zhang, Gerhard P. Fettweis:
Universal Waveforms Processor. EuCNC 2018: 357-362 - 2017
- [j14]Meryem Simsek, Dan Zhang, David Ohmann, Maximilian Matthé, Gerhard P. Fettweis:
On the Flexibility and Autonomy of 5G Wireless Networks. IEEE Access 5: 22823-22835 (2017) - [j13]Ahmad Nimr, Maximilian Matthé, Dan Zhang, Gerhard P. Fettweis:
Optimal Radix-2 FFT Compatible Filters for GFDM. IEEE Commun. Lett. 21(7): 1497-1500 (2017) - [j12]Jens Bartelt, Dan Zhang, Gerhard P. Fettweis:
Joint Uplink Radio Access and Fronthaul Reception Using MMSE Estimation. IEEE Trans. Commun. 65(3): 1366-1378 (2017) - [j11]Dan Zhang, Heinrich Meyr:
On the Performance Gap Between ML and Iterative Decoding of Finite-Length Turbo-Coded BICM in MIMO Systems. IEEE Trans. Commun. 65(8): 3201-3213 (2017) - [j10]Dan Zhang, Andreas Festag, Gerhard P. Fettweis:
Performance of Generalized Frequency Division Multiplexing Based Physical Layer in Vehicular Communications. IEEE Trans. Veh. Technol. 66(11): 9809-9824 (2017) - [j9]Dan Zhang, Maximilian Matthé, Luciano Leonel Mendes, Gerhard P. Fettweis:
A Study on the Link Level Performance of Advanced Multicarrier Waveforms Under MIMO Wireless Communication Channels. IEEE Trans. Wirel. Commun. 16(4): 2350-2365 (2017) - [c21]Ahmad Nimr, Dan Zhang, Ana Belen Martinez, Gerhard P. Fettweis:
A study on the physical layer performance of GFDM for high throughput wireless communication. EUSIPCO 2017: 638-642 - [c20]Shujing Chen, Wenjin Wang, Dan Zhang, Xiqi Gao:
Robust Approximate Message Passing Detection Based on Minimizing Bethe Free Energy for Massive MIMO Systems. VTC Fall 2017: 1-6 - [c19]Hao Fan, Wenjin Wang, Dan Zhang, Xiqi Gao:
Generalized Approximate Message Passing Detection with Row-Orthogonal Linear Preprocessing for Uplink Massive MIMO Systems. VTC Fall 2017: 1-6 - [c18]Shahab Ehsanfar, Maximilian Matthé, Dan Zhang, Gerhard P. Fettweis:
Interference-Free Pilots Insertion for MIMO-GFDM Channel Estimation. WCNC 2017: 1-6 - [i6]Dan Zhang, Wenjin Wang, Gerhard P. Fettweis, Xiqi Gao:
Unifying Message Passing Algorithms Under the Framework of Constrained Bethe Free Energy Minimization. CoRR abs/1703.10932 (2017) - 2016
- [j8]Maximilian Matthé, Luciano Leonel Mendes, Ivan Gaspar, Nicola Michailow, Dan Zhang, Gerhard P. Fettweis:
Precoded GFDM transceiver with low complexity time domain processing. EURASIP J. Wirel. Commun. Netw. 2016: 138 (2016) - [j7]Dan Zhang, Maximilian Matthé, Luciano Leonel Mendes, Gerhard P. Fettweis:
Message Passing Algorithms for Upper and Lower Bounding the Coded Modulation Capacity in a Large-Scale Linear System. IEEE Signal Process. Lett. 23(4): 537-540 (2016) - [j6]Dan Zhang, Luciano Leonel Mendes, Maximilian Matthé, Ivan Simoes Gaspar, Nicola Michailow, Gerhard P. Fettweis:
Expectation Propagation for Near-Optimum Detection of MIMO-GFDM Signals. IEEE Trans. Wirel. Commun. 15(2): 1045-1062 (2016) - [c17]Shahab Ehsanfar, Maximilian Matthé, Dan Zhang, Gerhard P. Fettweis:
Theoretical Analysis and CRLB Evaluation for Pilot-Aided Channel Estimation in GFDM. GLOBECOM 2016: 1-7 - [c16]Maximilian Matthé, Dan Zhang, Gerhard P. Fettweis:
Sphere-decoding aided SIC for MIMO-GFDM: Coded performance analysis. ISWCS 2016: 165-169 - [c15]Maximilian Matthé, Dan Zhang, Frank Schaich, Thorsten Wild, Rana Ahmed, Gerhard P. Fettweis:
A Reduced Complexity Time-Domain Transmitter for UF-OFDM. VTC Spring 2016: 1-5 - [c14]Shahab Ehsanfar, Maximilian Matthé, Dan Zhang, Gerhard P. Fettweis:
A Study of Pilot-Aided Channel Estimation in MIMO-GFDM Systems. WSA 2016: 1-8 - 2015
- [j5]Maximilian Matthé, Luciano Leonel Mendes, Ivan Gaspar, Nicola Michailow, Dan Zhang, Gerhard P. Fettweis:
Multi-user time-reversal STC-GFDMA for future wireless networks. EURASIP J. Wirel. Commun. Netw. 2015: 132 (2015) - [j4]Ivan Gaspar, Maximilian Matthé, Nicola Michailow, Luciano Leonel Mendes, Dan Zhang, Gerhard P. Fettweis:
Frequency-Shift Offset-QAM for GFDM. IEEE Commun. Lett. 19(8): 1454-1457 (2015) - [j3]Maximilian Matthé, Luciano Leonel Mendes, Nicola Michailow, Dan Zhang, Gerhard P. Fettweis:
Widely Linear Estimation for Space-Time-Coded GFDM in Low-Latency Applications. IEEE Trans. Commun. 63(11): 4501-4509 (2015) - [c13]Martin Danneberg, Nicola Michailow, Ivan Gaspar, Maximilian Matthé, Dan Zhang, Luciano Leonel Mendes, Gerhard P. Fettweis:
Implementation of a 2 by 2 MIMO-GFDM transceiver for robust 5G networks. ISWCS 2015: 236-240 - [c12]Dan Zhang, Maximilian Matthé, Luciano Leonel Mendes, Gerhard P. Fettweis:
A Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithm for near-optimum detection of MIMO-GFDM signals. PIMRC 2015: 281-286 - [c11]Martin Danneberg, Nicola Michailow, Ivan Gaspar, Dan Zhang, Gerhard P. Fettweis:
Flexible GFDM Implementation in FPGA with Support to Run-Time Reconfiguration. VTC Fall 2015: 1-2 - [c10]Maximilian Matthé, Ivan Gaspar, Dan Zhang, Gerhard P. Fettweis:
Near-ML Detection for MIMO-GFDM. VTC Fall 2015: 1-2 - [c9]Maximilian Matthé, Ivan Gaspar, Dan Zhang, Gerhard P. Fettweis:
Reduced Complexity Calculation of LMMSE Filter Coefficients for GFDM. VTC Fall 2015: 1-2 - [i5]Maximilian Matthé, Ivan Gaspar, Dan Zhang, Gerhard P. Fettweis:
Reduced Complexity Calculation of LMMSE Filter Coefficients for GFDM. CoRR abs/1503.02782 (2015) - [i4]Ivan Gaspar, Maximilian Matthé, Nicola Michailow, Luciano Leonel Mendes, Dan Zhang, Gerhard P. Fettweis:
GFDM Transceiver using Precoded Data and Low-complexity Multiplication in Time Domain. CoRR abs/1506.03350 (2015) - [i3]Ivan Gaspar, Luciano Leonel Mendes, Maximilian Matthé, Nicola Michailow, Dan Zhang, Antonio Albertiy, Gerhard P. Fettweis:
GFDM - A Framework for Virtual PHY Services in 5G Networks. CoRR abs/1507.04608 (2015) - [i2]Maximilian Matthé, Ivan Gaspar, Luciano Leonel Mendes, Dan Zhang:
Comparison between GFDM and VOFDM. CoRR abs/1507.06833 (2015) - 2014
- [b1]Dan Zhang:
Iterative algorithms in achieving near-ML decoding performance in concatenated coding systems. RWTH Aachen University, 2014 - 2012
- [c8]Dan Zhang, Gaojian Wang, Gerd Ascheid, Heinrich Meyr:
Searching for optimal scheduling of MIMO doubly iterative receivers: An ant colony optimization-based method. GLOBECOM 2012: 4658-4664 - 2011
- [c7]Dan Zhang, Gerd Ascheid:
Two Convergence Enhancements for BICM-ID Using the Max-Log-MAP Criterion in MIMO Systems with Non-Gray Mappings. GLOBECOM 2011: 1-6 - [c6]Dan Zhang, I-Wei Lai, Gerd Ascheid:
Tree Search Space Reduction for Soft-Input Soft-Output Sphere Decoding in MIMO Systems. VTC Spring 2011: 1-5 - 2010
- [j2]Konstantinos Nikitopoulos, Dan Zhang, I-Wei Lai, Gerd Ascheid:
Complexity-efficient enumeration techniques for soft-input, soft-output sphere decoding. IEEE Commun. Lett. 14(4): 312-314 (2010) - [j1]Lars Schmitt, Heinrich Meyr, Dan Zhang:
Systematic Design of Iterative ML Receivers for Flat Fading Channels. IEEE Trans. Commun. 58(7): 1897-1901 (2010) - [c5]Dan Zhang, Konstantinos Nikitopoulos, I-Wei Lai, Gerd Ascheid, Heinrich Meyr:
Iterative channel estimation control for MIMO-OFDM Systems. CISS 2010: 1-6 - [c4]Dan Zhang, I-Wei Lai, Konstantinos Nikitopoulos, Gerd Ascheid:
Informed message update for iterative MIMO demapping and turbo decoding. ISITA 2010: 873-878
2000 – 2009
- 2009
- [c3]I-Wei Lai, Chun-Hao Liao, Ernst Martin Witte, David Kammler, Filippo Borlenghi, Konstantinos Nikitopoulos, Venkatesh Ramakrishnan, Dan Zhang, Tzi-Dar Chiueh, Gerd Ascheid, Heinrich Meyr:
Searching in the Delta Lattice: An Efficient MIMO Detection for Iterative Receivers. GLOBECOM 2009: 1-6 - [c2]Chun-Hao Liao, I-Wei Lai, Konstantinos Nikitopoulos, Filippo Borlenghi, David Kammler, Ernst Martin Witte, Dan Zhang, Tzi-Dar Chiueh, Gerd Ascheid, Heinrich Meyr:
Combining orthogonalized partial metrics: Efficient enumeration for soft-input sphere decoder. PIMRC 2009: 1287-1291 - [i1]Konstantinos Nikitopoulos, Ernst Martin Witte, Dan Zhang, David Kammler, I-Wei Lai, Chun-Hao Liao, Filippo Borlenghi, Gerd Ascheid:
Complexity-Efficient Enumeration Techniques for Soft-Input, Soft-Output Sphere Decoding. CoRR abs/0906.3194 (2009) - 2008
- [c1]Dan Zhang, Meik Dörpinghaus, Gerd Ascheid:
Limited CSI feedback based on an adaptive codebook for temporally correlated MISO fading channels. ACSCC 2008: 1295-1299
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