Jian Kang (康健) is an Associate Professor with the School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Soochow University (Official website). His research interest includes signal processing and machine learning, especially their applications in remote sensing. From 2019 to 2020, he was the Postdoc researcher with the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, by Technische Universität Berlin. He received Dr.-Ing. at SiPEO by Technische Universität München, 2019, supervised by Prof.Dr.-Ing.habil.Xiaoxiang Zhu. From August to September of 2018, he was a guest researcher at Institute of Computer Graphics and Vision (ICG), TU Graz, Graz, Austria. He received M.Eng. and B.Eng. in Electronic and Information Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, 2015 and 2013, supervised by Prof.Yong Wang.

Activities

• [09/2022] Served as the Guest Editor of Frontiers in Remote Sensing Special Issue: Weakly Supervised Learning for Remote Sensing Image Interpretation.

• [09/2022] Served as the Guest Editor of Frontiers in Remote Sensing Special Issue: Advances in Deep Learning-Based Hyperspectral Data Processing and Applications.

• [06/2022] Served as the Guest Editor of IEEE JSTARS Special Issue: Remote Sensing Image Interpretation in Heterogeneous Scenarios.

• [04/2022] Served as the Leading Guest Editor of IEEE JSTARS special issue: Lightweight Deep Learning Models for Earth Observation

• [07/2021] Served as the Guest Editor of MDPI Remote Sensing Special Issue: Unsupervised and Supervised Image Classification in Remote Sensing.

• [05/2021] Our IEEE TNNLS paper “Learning convolutional sparse coding on complex domain for interferometric phase restoration” has been selected as ESI Highly Cited Paper!

• [04/2021] Our IEEE JSTARS special issue “Deep Learning-based Methods for Modeling Semantic Relations among Remote Sensing Data” is available online!

• [03/2021] Our paper “Building instance classification using street view images” is one of the most cited ISPRS P&RS paper since 2018.

• [12/2020] Served as the Guest Editor of MDPI Remote Sensing Special Issue: Big Remotely Sensed Data.

• [11/2020] 参加第三届“城市遥感”学术研讨会并做线上报告, 上海, 2020.

• [06/2020] Served as the Guest Editor of MDPI Remote Sensing Special Issue: Geospatial Intelligence in Remote Sensing: Scene Perception, Semantic Interpretation, and Sensor Fusion.

• [06/2020] Joint work “Sun Glint Removal of Hyperspectral Images via Texture-aware Total Variation” is selected as one of the 10 Student Paper Competition Finalists in IGARSS 2020.

• [09/2019] Successfully gave my PhD defense in TUM, with the title of “Object-based Multibaseline SAR Interferometry”.

• [06/2018] Obtained 1st place of best student paper award in EUSAR 2018, with the paper of “Low Rank Modeling-based Multipass InSAR Technique”