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[May 26, 2025] Awarded Best Ph.D. Thesis in EEE and was the only recipient of NTU’s Research Excellence Award in STEM! 🎉
[Jan 27, 2025] Finally, become a Dr.!
[Sep, 2024] Two papers are accepted by NeurIPS 2024!
[July, 2024] One ACM MM and two ECCV are accepted!
[May 31, 2024] A paper is accepted by IJCV 2024!
[May 2, 2024] Two papers are accepted by ICML 2024!
[Feb 27, 2024] Two papers are accepted by CVPR 2024!
[Feb'21, 2024] Ph.D. Thesis submitted! Expect to get the graduation certificate in early of 2025
Honors and Awards
The only recipient of the Research Excellence Award of NTU in STEM
The Best Ph.D. Thesis in EEE 2025
The National Scholarship (Top 2%)
Tang Lixin Scholarship (Top 0.2%)
SDSC Dissertation Research Fellowship 2022 (10 recipients in Singpaore)
Publications
Topics: All Topics / Computational Photography & Generative models / Compression / Robustness & Security / 3D vision
(* represents the equal contribution.)
Arxiv'25
SparC: Sparse Representation and Construction for High-Resolution 3D Shapes Modeling
Zhihao Li, Yufei Wang , Heliang Zheng, Yihao Luo, Bihan Wen
arXiv, 2025
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Arxiv'25
Training-Free Text-Guided Image Editing with Visual Autoregressive Model
Yufei Wang , Lanqing Guo, Zhihao Li, Jiaxing Huang, Pichao Wang, Bihan Wen, Jian Wan
Arxiv , 2025
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Arxiv'25
GuideSR: Rethinking Guidance for One-Step High-Fidelity Diffusion-Based Super-Resolution
Aditya Arora, Zhengzhong Tu*, Yufei Wang* , Ruizheng Bai, Jian Wang, Sizhuo Ma
Arxiv, 2025
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TPAMI'24
Robust and Transferable Backdoor Attacks Against Deep Image Compression With Selective Frequency Prior
Yi Yu, Yufei Wang , Wenhan
Yang, Lanqing Guo, Zhihao Li, Shijian Lu, Ling-Yu Duan, Yap-Peng Tan, Alex C. Kot
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI) , 2024
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NeurIPS'24
ContextGS: Compact 3D Gaussian Splatting with Anchor Level Context Mode
Yufei Wang , Zhihao Li, Lanqing Guo, Wenhan Yang, Alex C. Kot, Bihan Wen
Thirty-eighth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) , 2024
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NeurIPS'24
From Chaos to Clarity: 3DGS in the Dark
Zhihao Li*, Yufei Wang* , Alex C. Kot, Bihan Wen
Thirty-eighth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) , 2024
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Arxiv'24
DP-IQA: Utilizing Diffusion Prior for Blind Image Quality Assessment in the Wild
Honghao Fu*, Yufei Wang* , Wenhan Yang, Bihan Wen
Arxiv , 2024
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SPL'24
Light Can Hack Your Face! Black-box Backdoor
Attack on Face Recognition Systems
Yufei Wang* , Haoliang Li*, Liepiao Zhao, Yongjian Hu, Alex C. Kot
Signal Processing Letter , 2024
Preprint
ACM MM'24
Evolving Storytelling: Benchmarks and Methods for New Character Customization with Diffusion Models
Xiyu Wang, Yufei Wang , Satoshi Tsutsui, Weisi Lin, Bihan Wen, Alex C. Kot
ACM Multimedia (ACM MM) , 2024 (Oral Presentation 3.97%)
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IJCV'24
Beyond Learned Metadata-based Raw Image Reconstruction
Yufei Wang , Yi Yu, Wenhan Yang, Lanqing Guo, Lap-Pui Chau, Alex Kot, Bihan Wen
International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV) , 2024
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ECCV'24
Temporal As a Plugin: Unsupervised Video Denoising with Pre-Trained Image Denoisers
Zixuan Fu, Lanqing Guo, Chong Wang, Yufei Wang , Zhihao Li, Bihan Wen
The European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) , 2024
Paper coming soon
ECCV'24
Make a Cheap Scaling: A Self-Cascade Diffusion Model
for Higher-Resolution Adaptation
Lanqing Guo, Yingqing He, Haoxin Chen, Menghan Xia, Xiaodong Cun, Yufei Wang , Siyu Huang, Yong Zhang, Xintao Wang, Qifeng Chen, Ying Shan, Bihan Wen
The European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) , 2024
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ICML'24
Purify Unlearnable Examples via Rate-Constrained Variational Autoencoders
Yi Yu, Yufei Wang , Song Xia, Wenhan Yang, Shijian Lu, Yap-peng Tan, Alex C. Kot
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) , 2024
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ICML'24
Compress Clean Signal from Noisy Raw Image: A Self-Supervised Approach
Zhihao Li*, Yufei Wang* , Alex C. Kot, Bihan Wen
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) , 2024
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CVPR'24
SinSR: Diffusion-Based Image Super-Resolution in a Single Step
Yufei Wang , Wenhan Yang, Xinyuan Chen, Yaohui Wang, Lanqing Guo, Lap-Pui Chau, Ziwei Liu, Yu Qiao, Alex C. Kot, Bihan Wen
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) , 2024
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CVPR'24
Progressive Divide-and-Conquer via Subsampling Decomposition for Accelerated MRI
Chong Wang, Lanqing Guo, Yufei Wang , Hao Cheng, Yi Yu, Bihan Wen
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) , 2024 (Highlight)
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ICCV'23
ExposureDiffusion: Learning to Expose for Low-light Image Enhancement
Yufei Wang , Yi Yu, Wenhan Yang, Lanqing Guo, Lap-Pui Chau, Alex Kot, Bihan Wen
International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) , 2023
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ICCV'23
Boundary-Aware Divide and Conquer: A Diffusion-based Solution for Unsupervised Shadow Removal
Lanqing Guo, Chong Wang, Wenhan Yang, Yufei Wang , Bihan Wen
International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) , 2023
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ISCAS'23
Removing Image Artifacts From Scratched Lens Protectorsl
Yufei Wang , Renjie Wan, Wenhan Yang, Bihan Wen, Lap-pui Chau, Alex C Kot
IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and System (ISCAS) , 2023
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CVPR'23
Raw Image Reconstruction with Learned Compact Metadata
Yufei Wang , Yi Yu, Wenhan Yang, Lanqing Guo, Lap-Pui Chau, Alex Kot, Bihan Wen
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) , 2023
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CVPR'23
Backdoor Attacks Against Deep Image Compression
via Adaptive Frequency Trigger
Yi Yu, Yufei Wang , Wenhan Yang, Shijian Lu, Yap-Peng Tan, Alex Kot
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) , 2023
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CVPR'23
ShadowDiffusion: When Degradation Prior Meets Diffusion Model for Shadow Removal
Lanqing Guo, Chong Wang, Wenhan Yang, Siyu Huang, Yufei Wang , Hanspeter Pfister, Bihan Wen
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) , 2023
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ICIP'23
Enhancing Low-Light Images using Infrared Encoded Images
Shulin Tian*, Yufei Wang* , Renjie Wan, Wenhan Yang, Alex C. Kot, Bihan Wen
International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP) , 2023
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TNNLS'23
Disentangled Feature Representation for Few-shot Image Classification
Hao Cheng, Yufei Wang , Haoliang Li, Alex C. Kot, Bihan Wen
Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (TNNLS) , 2023
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ICLR'23
Temporal Coherent Test Time Optimization for Robust Video Classification
Chenyu Yi, Siyuan Yang, Yufei Wang , Haoliang Li, Yap-peng Tan, Alex Kot
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) , 2023
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TKDE'23
Privacy-Preserving Constrained Domain Generalization via Gradient Alignment
Chris Xing Tian, Haoliang Li, Yufei Wang , Shiqi Wang
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE) , 2023
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AAAI'22
Low-Light Image Enhancement with Normalizing Flow
Yufei Wang , Renjie Wan, Wenhan Yang, Haoliang Li, Lap-pui Chau, and Alex C. Kot
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) , 2022 (Oral Presentation 5.5%)
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TMLR'22
Variational Disentanglement for Domain Generalization
Yufei Wang , Haoliang Li, Bihan Wen, Lap-pui Chau, and Alex C. Kot
Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR) , 2022
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ACM MM'22
Embracing the Dark Knowledge: Domain Generalization Using Regularized Knowledge Distillation
Yufei Wang , Haoliang Li, Lap-pui Chau, and Alex C. Kot
ACM Multimedia (ACM MM) , 2021
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NeurIPS'21
Domain Generalization for Medical Imaging Classification with Linear-Dependency Regularization
Haoliang Li, Yufei Wang , Renjie Wan, Tie-Qaing Li, Alex C. Kot
Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) , 2021
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ICASSP'20
Heterogeneous Domain Generalization via Domain Mixup
Yufei Wang , Haoliang Li, Alex C. Kot
IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) , 2020
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2025.02—Now: Snap Research , Research Scientist
New York, U.S.
2024.09—2024.12: AWS AI Lab , Research Intern
Bellevue, U.S.
2023.10—2024.01: Shanghai AI Lab , Research Intern
Shanghai, China
Professional Service
Journal reviewer: TPAMI, IJCV, TIP, TNNLS, TMM, TCSVT, etc
Conference reviewer: ICML, NeurIPS, ICLR, CVPR, AAAI, etc