方向忠于1993年在上海科技大学获得硕士学位。现在他是上海交通大学电子工程系的一名教授。在1996年，他被选举为HDTV技术执行专家组的成员。方向忠教授在数字电视领域硕果累累，参与了数个上海市的重点项目。至今为止，他在数字电视和图像处理领域已发表100篇以上的论文。在2003年，他获得了国家科学进步奖二等奖和上海市科技进步一等奖。2006年获得上海市十大IT新锐称号。他的研究领域主要包括视频和图像处理，数字图像技术以及嵌入式系统。

1.       Li W, Guo D, Fang X. Multimodal Architecture for Video Captioning with Memory Networks and an Attention Mechanism[J]. Pattern Recognition Letters, 2017.

2.       Guo D, Li W, Fang X. Capturing Temporal Structures for Video Captioning by Spatio-temporal Contexts and Channel Attention Mechanism[J]. Neural Processing Letters, 2017: 1-16.

3.       Qingchun Lu, Yiqing Wang, and Xiangzhong Fang, “An Artifact Information based Motion Vector Processing Method for Motion Compensated Frame Interpolation,”IEEE/OSA Journal of Display Technology, vol. 10, pp. 775-784, Sept. 2014.

4.       Qingchun Lu, Xiangzhong Fang and Ci Wang, “Occlusion-adaptive bidirectional motion compensation for pixel-based motion vector field,” IET Electronics Letters, vol. 50, pp. 514-516, Mar. 2014

5.       Qingchun Lu, Xiangzhong Fang, “Joint trilateral motion vector filter for bidirectional motion compensation,” IET Electronics Letters, vol. 49, pp. 798-800, Jun. 2013

6.       Qingchun Lu, Xiangzhong Fang, Chong Xu and Yongzhe Wang, “Frame Rate Up-Conversion for Depth-Based 3D Video,” IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), pp. 598-603, Melbourne, Jul. 2012