Wenzhi Liao received the PhD Degree in Computer Science Engineering from Ghent University (Belgium) in 2012, and the PhD Degree in Engineering from South China University of Technology (China) in 2012. From 2012 to 2019, he had worked first as a postdoc and then FWO (Research Foundation Flanders) research fellow at Ghent University, Belgium. Since 2020, he has worked as a data scientist with the Sustainable Materials Management, Flemish Institute for Technological Research (VITO), Mol, Belgium. Wenzhi also works as the Guest Professor of Ghent University. His research interests include image processing, pattern recognition, and remote sensing. In particular, his interests include mathematical morphology, multitask feature learning, multisensor data fusion, and hyperspectral image restoration, AI for recycling.
In particular, Wenzhi has successfully applied signal processing and machine learning in the fields of optical hyperspectral image restoration and interpretation, data fusion and classification of multi-modal remote sensing imagery, food sorting and precision agriculture.
MDPI Remote Sensing--Special Issue: Image Processing and Spatial Neighbourhoods for Remote Sensing Data Analysis.
1. Recipient of the "Best Paper Challenge" award of the 2013 IEEE GRSS (Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society) Data Fusion Contest (matlab codes):
W. Liao, R. Bellens, S. Gautama, A. Pizurica, and W. Philips, "Graph-based feature fusion of hyperspectral and LiDAR remote sensing data using morphological features".
2. Recipient of the "Best Paper Challenge" award of the 2014 IEEE GRSS Data Fusion Contest (matlab codes):
W. Liao, F. Van Coillie, S. Gautama, A. Pizurica, and W. Philips, "Fusion of thermal infrared
hyperspectral and VIS RGB data using guided filtering and supervised fusion graph".
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Email: wenzhi.liao@ugent.be and wenzi.liao@gmail.com    
1. From May 30 to July 13, 2014: Visiting Researcher at Grenoble-Image-sPeech-Signal-Automatics Lab (GIPSA-Lab) (France).
2. From April 20 to June 10, 2015: Visiting Researcher at State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping, and Remote Sensing (Wuhan University) (China).
3. From May 5 to August 31, 2016: Visiting Scholar at Department of Mathematics, University of California, Los Angeles (USA).
4. From November 26 to December 27, 2016: Visiting Scientist at the Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth (RADI), Chinese Academy of Sciences.
2. Guest Editor: 1) IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, Special Issue “hyperspectral remote sensing and imaging spectroscopy”, Saurabh Prasad, Wenzhi Liao, Mingyi He, Jocelyn Chanussot, vol. 11, no. 4, April 2018. 2) Geo-Spatial Information Science, Special Issue “Information Extraction from Remote Sensing Imagery”, Xin Huang, Jiayi Li, Wenzhi Liao, Jocelyn Chanussot, vol. 20, no. 4, 2017. 3) IET Image Processing, Special Issue “Hyperspectral Imaging and Applications”, Jinchang Ren, Xiuping Jia, Wenzhi Liao, Lianru Gao, to appear in 2019.
3. Reviewer for IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IEEE IGARSS'2014-'2018), IEEE TIP, IEEE TGRS, IEEE JSTAR, IEEE GRSL, ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Neurocomputing, Remote Sensing, International Journal of Remote Sensing.