Zhenan Sun received the B.S. degree in industrial automation from the Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China, in 1999, the M.S. degree in system engineering from the Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China, in 2002, and the Ph.D. degree in pattern recognition and intelligent systems from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, in 2006. Since 2006, he has been a Faculty Member with the National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, where he is currently a Professor. He has published more than 300 papers in international journals and conferences, including reputable international journals such as IEEE TPAMI, IJCV, IEEE TIP, IEEE TIFS, and prominent international conferences like CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, and NeurIPS. His current research interests include biometrics, pattern recognition, and computer vision.

Biometrics, pattern recognition and computer vision

Second Prize, Natural Science Award, China Society for Image and Graphics, 2025
IJCB2023 Best Student Paper, 2023
Second Prize, Beijing Science and Technology Award, 2022
First Prize, Natural Science Award, China Society for Image and Graphics, 2021
First Global Biometric Contribution Award, 2018
IAPR Best Biometrics Student Paper Award, 2016
CCBR2015 Best Paper Award, 2015
ACPR2013 Best Poster Award, 2013
GUCAS Lu Jiaxi Young Talent Award, 2011
The First Place of Noisy Iris Challenge Evaluation, Part II (NICE.II), 2010
The First Place of Noisy Iris Challenge Evaluation, Part I (NICE.I), 2009
The 11th China Patent Award (Outstanding Patent–Iris Recognition), 2009
IAPR/IEEE Best Biometrics Paper Award, 2007
National Award for Technological Invention 2nd Prize, 2005

Fellow, International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR)
Senior Member, IEEE
Vice President, IAPR Technical Committee on Biometrics
Chair, Biometric Recognition Committee, China Society for Image and Graphics
Vice-Chief Engineer, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Director, Tianjin Academy for Intelligent Recognition Technologies
Member, IEEE Signal Processing Society, IEEE Computer Society
Associate Editor, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INFORMATION FORENSICS AND SECURITY
Associate Editor, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON BIOMETRICS, BEHAVIOR, AND IDENTITY SCIENCE
Associate Editor, IEEE BIOMETRICS COMPENDIUM
Area Chair, CVPR, ICCV, ECCV

Journal Articles
1. Jianxin Sun, Qiyao Deng, Qi Li, Muyi Sun, Yunfan Liu, Zhenan Sun, AnyFace++: A unified framework for free-style text-to-face synthesis and manipulation, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (IEEE TPAMI), 47(11): 9438-9453, 2025.
2. Jie Gui, Tuo Chen, Jing Zhang, Qiong Cao, Zhenan Sun, Hao Luo, Dacheng Tao, A Survey on Self-Supervised Learning: Algorithms, Applications, and Future Trends, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (IEEE TPAMI), 46(12): 9052-9071, 2024.
3. Qi Li, Weining Wang, Chengzhong Xu, Zhenan Sun, Ming-Hsuan Yang, Learning Disentangled Representation for One-Shot Progressive Face Swapping, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (IEEE TPAMI), 46(12): 8348-8364, 2024.
4. Min Ren, Yunlong Wang, Yuhao Zhu, Yongzhen Huang, Zhenan Sun, Qi Li, Tieniu Tan, Artificial Immune System of Secure Face Recognition Against Adversarial Attacks, International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), 132(12): 5718-5740, 2024.
5. Fangling Jiang, Qi Li, Weining Wang, Min Ren, Wei Shen, Bing Liu, Zhenan Sun, Open-Set Single-Domain Generalization for Robust Face Anti-Spoofing, International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), 132(11): 5151-5172, 2024.
6. Kaiduo Zhang, Muyi Sun, Jianxin Sun, Kunbo Zhang, Zhenan Sun, Tieniu Tan, Open-Vocabulary Text-Driven Human Image Generation, International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), 132(10): 4379-4397, 2024.
7. Min Ren, Yunlong Wang, Yuhao Zhu, Kunbo Zhang, Zhenan Sun, Multiscale Dynamic Graph Representation for Biometric Recognition With Occlusions, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (IEEE TPAMI), 45(12): 15120-15136, 2023.
8. Yunfan Liu, Qi Li, Qiyao Deng, Zhenan Sun, Ming-Hsuan Yang, GAN-Based Facial Attribute Manipulation, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (IEEE TPAMI), 45(12): 14590-14610, 2023.
9. Hongwen Zhang, Yating Tian, Yuxiang Zhang, Mengcheng Li, Liang An, Zhenan Sun, Yebin Liu, PyMAF-X: Towards Well-Aligned Full-Body Model Regression From Monocular Images, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (IEEE TPAMI), 45(10): 12287-12303, 2023.
10. Fangling Jiang, Qi Li, Pengcheng Liu, Xiang-Dong Zhou, Zhenan Sun, Adversarial Learning Domain-Invariant Conditional Features for Robust Face Anti-spoofing, International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), 131(7): 1680-1703, 2023.
11. Hongwen Zhang, Jie Cao, Guo Lu, Wanli Ouyang, Zhenan Sun, Learning 3D Human Shape and Pose From Dense Body Parts, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (IEEE TPAMI), 44(5): 2610-2627, 2022.
12. Ran He, Jie Cao, Lingxiao Song, Zhenan Sun, Tieniu Tan, Adversarial Cross-Spectral Face Completion for NIR-VIS Face Recognition, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (IEEE TPAMI), 42(5): 1025-1037, 2020.
13. Qi Li, Zhenan Sun, Ran He, Tieniu Tan, A General Framework for Deep Supervised Discrete Hashing, International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), 128(8): 2204-2222, 2020.
14. Xiang Wu, Ran He, Yibo Hu, Zhenan Sun, Learning an Evolutionary Embedding via Massive Knowledge Distillation, International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), 128(8): 2089-2106, 2020. 1
5. Jie Cao, Yibo Hu, Hongwen Zhang, Ran He, Zhenan Sun, Towards High Fidelity Face Frontalization in the Wild, International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), 128(5): 1485-1504, 2020.
16. Ran He, Xiang Wu, Zhenan Sun, Tieniu Tan, Wasserstein CNN: Learning Invariant Features for NIR-VIS Face Recognition, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (IEEE TPAMI), 41(7): 1761-1773, 2019.
17. Jian Liang, Ran He, Zhenan Sun, Tieniu Tan, Aggregating Randomized Clustering-Promoting Invariant Projections for Domain Adaptation, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (IEEE TPAMI), 41(5): 1027-1042, 2019.
18. Huaibo Huang, Ran He, Zhenan Sun, Tieniu Tan, Wavelet Domain Generative Adversarial Network for Multi-scale Face Hallucination, International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), 127(6): 763-784, 2019.
19. Jie Gui, Tongliang Liu, Zhenan Sun, Dacheng Tao, Tieniu Tan, Fast Supervised Discrete Hashing, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (IEEE TPAMI), 40(2): 490-496, 2018.
20. Yunlian Sun, Man Zhang, Zhenan Sun, Tieniu Tan, Demographic Analysis from Biometric Data: Achievements, Challenges, and New Frontiers, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (IEEE TPAMI), 40(2): 332-351, 2018.
21. Zhenan Sun, Hui Zhang, Tieniu Tan, Jianyu Wang, Iris Image Classification Based on Hierarchical Visual Codebook, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (IEEE TPAMI), 36(6): 1120-1133, 2014.
22. Ran He, Wei-Shi Zheng, Tieniu Tan, Zhenan Sun, Half-Quadratic-Based Iterative Minimization for Robust Sparse Representation, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (IEEE TPAMI), 36(2): 261-275, 2013.
23. Wenbo Dong, Zhenan Sun, Tieniu Tan, Iris Matching Based on Personalized Weight Map, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (IEEE TPAMI), 33(9): 1744-1757, 2010.
24. Zhaofeng He, Tieniu Tan, Zhenan Sun, Xianchao Qiu, Toward Accurate and Fast Iris Segmentation for Iris Biometrics, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (IEEE TPAMI), 31(9): 1670-1684, 2008.
25. Zhenan Sun, Tieniu Tan, Ordinal Measures for Iris Recognition, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (IEEE TPAMI), 31(12): 2211-2226, 2008.

Conference Articles
1. Hongda Liu, Yunfan Liu, Min Ren, Hao Wang, Yunlong Wang, Zhenan Sun, Revealing Key Details to See Differences: A Novel Prototypical Perspective for Skeleton-based Action Recognition, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), pp. 29248-29257, 2025.
2. Yifan Wang, Jie Gui, Baosheng Yu, Qi Li, Zhenan Sun, Juho Kannala, Guoying Zhao, FingerVeinSyn-5M: A Million-Scale Dataset and Benchmark for Finger Vein Recognition, ACM Conference on Multimedia (MM), pp. 13038-13045, 2025.
3. Yizhi Hu, Zezhao Tian, Xingqun Qi, Chen Su, Bingkun Yang, Junhui Yin, Muyi Sun, Man Zhang, Zhenan Sun, ReMeREC: Relation-aware and Multi-entity Referring Expression Comprehension, ACM Conference on Multimedia (MM), pp. 4010-4019, 2025.
4. Haokun Lin, Haoli Bai, Zhili Liu, Lu Hou, Muyi Sun, Linqi Song, Ying Wei, Zhenan Sun, MoPE-CLIP: Structured Pruning for Efficient Vision-Language Models with Module-wise Pruning Error Metric, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), pp. 27370-27380, 2024.
5. Haokun Lin, Haobo Xu, Yichen Wu, Jingzhi Cui, Yingtao Zhang, Linzhan Mou, Linqi Song, Zhenan Sun, Ying Wei, DuQuant: Distributing Outliers via Dual Transformation Makes Stronger Quantized LLMs, Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), pp. 87766-87800, 2024.
6. Junxing Hu, Hongwen Zhang, Zerui Chen, Mengcheng Li, Yunlong Wang, Yebin Liu, Zhenan Sun, Learning Explicit Contact for Implicit Reconstruction of Hand-Held Objects from Monocular Images, AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), pp. 2220-2228, 2024.
7. Yiwei Ru, Peipei Li, Muyi Sun, Yunlong Wang, Kunbo Zhang, Qi Li, Zhaofeng He, Zhenan Sun, Sensing Micro-Motion Human Patterns using Multimodal mmRadar and Video Signal for Affective and Psychological Intelligence, ACM Conference on Multimedia (MM), pp. 5935-5946, 2023.
8. Jianxin Sun, Qiyao Deng, Qi Li, Muyi Sun, Min Ren, Zhenan Sun, AnyFace: Free-Style Text-To-Face Synthesis and Manipulation, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), pp. 18687-18696, 2022.
9. Boqiang Xu, Jian Liang, Lingxiao He, Zhenan Sun, Mimic Embedding via Adaptive Aggregation: Learning Generalizable Person Re-identification, European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), pp. 372-388, 2022.
10. Zhengquan Luo, Yunlong Wang, Zilei Wang, Zhenan Sun, Tieniu Tan, Disentangled Federated Learning for Tackling Attributes Skew via Invariant Aggregation and Diversity Transferring, International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), pp. 14527-14541, 2022.
11. Jie Cao, Luanxuan Hou, Ming-Hsuan Yang, Ran He, Zhenan Sun, ReMix: Towards Image-to-Image Translation With Limited Data, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), pp. 15018-15027, 2021.
12. Yuhao Zhu, Qi Li, Jian Wang, Cheng-Zhong Xu, Zhenan Sun, One Shot Face Swapping on Megapixels, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), pp. 4834-4844, 2021.
13. Hongwen Zhang, Yating Tian, Xinchi Zhou, Wanli Ouyang, Yebin Liu, Limin Wang, Zhenan Sun, PyMAF: 3D Human Pose and Shape Regression With Pyramidal Mesh Alignment Feedback Loop, IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), pp. 11446-11456, 2021.
14. Jianxin Sun, Qi Li, Weining Wang, Jian Zhao, Zhenan Sun, Multi-caption Text-to-Face Synthesis: Dataset and Algorithm, ACM Conference on Multimedia (MM), pp. 2290-2298, 2021.
15. Wei Zhang, Lingxiao He, Peng Chen, Xingyu Liao, Wu Liu, Qi Li, Zhenan Sun, Boosting End-to-end Multi-Object Tracking and Person Search via Knowledge Distillation, ACM Conference on Multimedia (MM), pp. 1192-1201, 2021.
16. Jie Cao, Huaibo Huang, Yi Li, Ran He, Zhenan Sun, Informative Sample Mining Network for Multi-domain Image-to-Image Translation, European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), pp. 404-419, 2020.
17. Peipei Li, Huaibo Huang, Yibo Hu, Xiang Wu, Ran He, Zhenan Sun, Hierarchical Face Aging Through Disentangled Latent Characteristics, European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), pp. 86-101, 2020.
18. Qi Li, Yunfan Liu, Zhenan Sun, Age Progression and Regression with Spatial Attention Modules, AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), pp. 11378-11385, 2020.
19. Min Ren, Yunlong Wang, Zhenan Sun, Tieniu Tan, Dynamic Graph Representation for Occlusion Handling in Biometrics, AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), pp. 11940-11947, 2020.
20. Boqiang Xu, Lingxiao He, Xingyu Liao, Wu Liu, Zhenan Sun, Tao Mei, Black Re-ID: A Head-shoulder Descriptor for the Challenging Problem of Person Re-Identification, ACM Conference on Multimedia (MM), pp. 673-681, 2020.
21. Peipei Li, Yinglu Liu, Hailin Shi, Xiang Wu, Yibo Hu, Ran He, Zhenan Sun, Dual-Structure Disentangling Variational Generation for Data-Limited Face Parsing, ACM Conference on Multimedia (MM), pp. 556-564, 2020.
22. Qiyao Deng, Jie Cao, Yunfan Liu, Zhenhua Chai, Qi Li, Zhenan Sun, Reference-guided Face Component Editing, International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), pp. 502–508, 2020.
23. Yunfan Liu, Qi Li, Zhenan Sun, Attribute-Aware Face Aging With Wavelet-Based Generative Adversarial Networks, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), pp. 11877-11886, 2019.
24. Jian Liang, Ran He, Zhenan Sun, Tieniu Tan, Distant Supervised Centroid Shift: A Simple and Efficient Approach to Visual Domain Adaptation, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), pp. 2975-2984, 2019.
25. Peipei Li, Xiang Wu, Yibo Hu, Ran He, Zhenan Sun, M2FPA: A Multi-Yaw Multi-Pitch High-Quality Dataset and Benchmark for Facial Pose Analysis, IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), pp. 10043-10051, 2019.
26. Lingxiao He, Yinggang Wang, Wu Liu, He Zhao, Zhenan Sun, Jiashi Feng, Foreground-Aware Pyramid Reconstruction for Alignment-Free Occluded Person Re-Identification, IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), pp. 8450-8459, 2019.
27. Xiang Wu, Huaibo Huang, Vishal M Patel, Ran He, Zhenan Sun, Disentangled Variational Representation for Heterogeneous Face Recognition, AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), pp. 9005-9012, 2019.
28. Hongwen Zhang, Jie Cao, Guo Lu, Wanli Ouyang, Zhenan Sun, DaNet: Decompose-and-aggregate Network for 3D Human Shape and Pose Estimation, ACM Conference on Multimedia (MM), pp. 935-944, 2019.
29. Yibo Hu, Xiang Wu, Bing Yu, Ran He, Zhenan Sun, Pose-Guided Photorealistic Face Rotation, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), pp. 8398-8406, 2018.
30. Lingxiao He, Jian Liang, Haiqing Li, Zhenan Sun, Deep Spatial Feature Reconstruction for Partial Person Re-Identification: Alignment-Free Approach, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), pp. 7073-7082, 2018.
31. Lingxiao He, Haiqing Li, Qi Zhang, Zhenan Sun, Dynamic Feature Learning for Partial Face Recognition, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), pp. 7054-7063, 2018.
32. Yunlong Wang, Fei Liu, Zilei Wang, Guangqi Hou, Zhenan Sun, Tieniu Tan, End-to-end View Synthesis for Light Field Imaging with Pseudo 4DCNN, European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), pp. 333-348, 2018.
33. Jie Cao, Yibo Hu, Hongwen Zhang, Ran He, Zhenan Sun, Learning a High Fidelity Pose Invariant Model for High-resolution Face Frontalization, Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), pp. 1-11, 2018.
34. Huaibo Huang, Ran He, Zhenan Sun, Tieniu Tan, IntroVAE: Introspective Variational Autoencoders for Photographic Image Synthesis, Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), pp. 1-12, 2018.
35. Lingxiao Song, Zhihe Lu, Ran He, Zhenan Sun, Tieniu Tan, Geometry Guided Adversarial Facial Expression Synthesis, ACM Conference on Multimedia (MM), pp. 627-635, 2018.
36. Huaibo Huang, Ran He, Zhenan Sun, Tieniu Tan, Wavelet-SRNet: A Wavelet-Based CNN for Multi-Scale Face Super Resolution, IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), pp. 1689-1697, 2017.
37. Qi Li, Zhenan Sun, Ran He, Tieniu Tan, Deep Supervised Discrete Hashing, Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), pp. 1-10, 2017. 38. Ran He, Xiang Wu, Zhenan Sun, Tieniu Tan, Learning Invariant Deep Representation for NIR-VIS Face Recognition, AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), pp. 1-7, 2017.
39. Man Zhang, Ran He, Dong Cao, Zhenan Sun, Tieniu Tan, Simultaneous Feature and Sample Reduction for Image-Set Classification, AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), pp. 1-7, 2016.
40. Yingya Zhang, Zhenan Sun, Ran He, Tieniu Tan, Robust Subspace Clustering via Half-Quadratic Minimization, IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), pp. 3096-3103, 2013.
41. Cheng Zhong, Zhenan Sun, Tieniu Tan, Zhaofeng He, Robust 3D Face Recognition in Uncontrolled Environments, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), pp. 1-8, 2008.
42. Zhaofeng He, Zhenan Sun, Tieniu Tan, Xianchao Qiu, Cheng Zhong, Wenbo Dong, Boosting Ordinal Features for Accurate and Fast Iris Recognition, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), pp. 1-8, 2008.
43. Rufeng Chu, Shengcai Liao, Yufei Han, Zhenan Sun, Stan Z Li, Tieniu Tan, Fusion of Face and Palmprint for Personal Identification Based on Ordinal Features, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), pp. 1-2, 2007.
44. Cheng Zhong, Zhenan Sun, Tieniu Tan, Robust 3D Face Recognition Using Learned Visual Codebook, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), pp. 1-6, 2007.
45. Zhenan Sun, Tieniu Tan, Yunhong Wang, Stan Z Li, Ordinal Palmprint Represention for Personal Identification, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), pp. 279-284, 2005.