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[2025.11] Check out our newly released Awesome-Spatial-VLMs github repo, a community-maintained companion resource to our survey paper: Spatial Intelligence in Vision-Language Models: A Comprehensive Survey !
[2025.11] 1 papers accepted by AAAI 2026!
[2025.09] We have 3 papers accepted by NeurIPS 2025!
[2025.08] 3 papers accepted by EMNLP 2025 (1 main track + 2 findings).
[2025.05] 1 paper accepted by ACL 2025.
[2025.05] We will organize The 12th IEEE International Workshop on Analysis and Modeling of Faces and Gestures (AMFG) at ICCV 2025.
[2025.02] Our paper "Blur-Aware Reconstruction of Dynamic Scenes via Gaussian Splatting" is accepted by CVPR 2025. Congratulations to Yiren!
[2024.12] 1 paper accepted by AAAI 2025.
[2024.11] Our paper on multi-agent argument generation has been accepted by COLING 2025.
[2024.09] Our paper Cracking the Code of Juxtaposition has been accepted by NeurIPS 2024 as an Oral!
[2024.09] We have 1 paper accepted by EMNLP 2024.
[2024.08] I recieved the Teaching Award from the Department of Computer and Data Sciences at CWRU.
[2024.07] One paper on 3D scene editing has been accepted by ACM MM 2024.
[2024.07] Our paper on argument generation has been accepted by INLG 2024 (Oral).
[2023.09] Our paper on deepfake detection has been accepted by ICDM 2023.
[2023.05] I will be joining the Department of Computer and Data Science at Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) as a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor from Fall 2023!
[2023.04] We will organize The 11th IEEE International Workshop on Analysis and Modeling of Faces and Gestures (AMFG) at ICCV 2023.
[2023.04] I received the Dissertation Completion Fellowship from Northeastern University.
[2023.02] One paper on 3D face animation ("NeRFInvertor") has been accepted by CVPR 2023.
Openings: I am continuously looking for highly-motivated Master students and Interns to work on computer vision and machine learning (e.g., 3D vision, VLM, VLA, generative models). Please send me your CV if interested.
Biography
I am a tenure-track assistant professor in the Department of Computer & Data Science at Case Western Reserve University. Before that I received my PH.D. degree in Computer Engineering from Northeastern University in Aug. 2023. During this time, I was under the guidance and supervision of Prof. Yun (Raymond) Fu in the SMILE Lab. I received my master degree in Electrical & Computer Engineering from Northeastern University in Dec. 2018, and B.E degree from School of Electronic Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology, China, in Jul. 2016. From Fall 2016, I was a member of the Augmented Cogniton (AClab), under the supervision of Prof. Sarah Ostadabbas. My research interest broadly includes visual synthesis and understanding, multi-modality fusion, and transfer learning. My recent research topics lie in unified representation learning, 3d modeling and animation, and a wide range of computer vision applications, including image synthesis, 3D novel-view synthesis, face restoration, forensics detection, 3D model generation and rendering, etc.
Education
- 01/2019 - 08/2023: Ph.D. in Computer Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, USA
- 09/2016 - 12/2018: M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, USA
- 09/2012 - 07/2016: B.E. in Electrical and Information Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, China
Teaching
- Deep Generative Models course (CSDS 570), Case Western Reserve University, USA, 2025 Spring
- Computer Vision course (CSDS 465), Case Western Reserve University, USA, 2024 Spring & Fall, 2025 Fall
- Special Topics on Generative Models course (CSDS 600), Case Western Reserve University, USA, 2023 Fall
- Data Visualization course (EECE 5642), Northeastern University, USA, 2021 Spring
Patents
- Yun Fu, Yu Yin, “Frontal Face Synthesis from Low-Resolution Images.” U.S. Patent Application No. 17/156,204.
- Yu Yin, Will A. Hutchcroft, Ivaylo Boyadzhiev, Sing Bing Kang, Yujie Li, Pierre Moulon, “Automated Identification And Use Of Building Floor Plan Information.” U.S. Patent Application No. 17/472,527.
Awards
- Teaching Award, Department of Computer and Data Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, USA, 2024
- PhD Spotlight, Northeastern University, USA, 2023
- Women Who Empower Innovator Awards semi-finalists, Northeastern University, USA, 2023
- Dissertation Fellowship, Northeastern University, USA, 2023
- NSF I-Corps Grant, 2022
- PhD Network Grant, Northeastern University, USA, 2019, 2023
- Conference Travel Grant: AAAI'20, SIG MM'22, CVPR'23
- Excellent Bachelor Thesis of Wuhan University of Technology, 2016
- Scholarship of Wuhan University of Technology, 2013, 2014, 2015
Activities
- Program Chair:
- Journal Reviewer
- IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI)
- IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP)
- IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (TNNLS)
- IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics (TCyber)
- IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT)
- IEEE Internet of Things (IoT)
- Information Sciences (Elsevier)
- Program Committee Member
- CVPR (2020-2025)
- ECCV / ICCV (2020-2025)
- NeurIPS (2024-2025)
- ICLR (2024-2025)
- ICML (2024-2025)
- ACL Rolling Review (ARR) (2024-2025)
- IJCAI (2019-2025)
- AAAI (2021-2026)
- ACM MM (2023-2025)
Publications
Preprints
- [Awesome-Spatial-VLMs] Spatial Intelligence in Vision-Language Models: A Comprehensive Survey
Disheng Liu, Tuo Liang, Zhe Hu, Jierui Peng, Yiren Lu, Yi Xu, Yun Fu, Yu Yin - Counterfactual Visual Explanation via Causally-Guided Adversarial Steering
- ResSVD: Residual Compensated SVD for Large Language Model Compression
- When 'YES' Meets 'BUT': Can Large Models Comprehend Contradictory Humor Through Comparative Reasoning?
- Causal3D: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Causal Learning from Visual Data Conferences & Journals 2025
- Segment then Splat: A Unified Approach for 3D Open-Vocabulary Segmentation based on Gaussian Splatting
Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2025
Yiren Lu, Yunlai Zhou, Yiran Qiao, Chaoda Song, Tuo Liang, Jing Ma, Huan Wang, Yu Yin - Praxis-VLM: Vision-Grounded Decision Making via Text-Driven Reinforcement Learning
Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2025
Zhe Hu, Jing Li, Zhongzhu Pu, Hou Pong Chan, Yu Yin - Fix False Transparency by Noise Guided Splatting
Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2025
Aly El Hakie, Yiren Lu, Yu Yin, Michael W. Jenkins, Yehe Liu - BARD-GS: Blur-Aware Reconstruction of Dynamic Scenes via Gaussian Splatting
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR), 2025
Yiren Lu, Yunlai Zhou, Disheng Liu, Tuo Liang, Yu Yin - Certified Causal Defense with Generalizable Robustness
The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2025
Yiran Qiao, Yu Yin, Chen Chen, Jing Ma - Debate-to-Write: A Persona-Driven Multi-Agent Framework for Diverse Argument Generation
International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING), 2025
Zhe Hu, Hou Pong Chan, Jing Li, and Yu Yin - Cautious Next Token Prediction
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2025
Yizhou Wang, Lingzhi Zhang, Yue Bai, Mang Tik Chiu, Zhengmian Hu, Mingyuan Zhang, Qihua Dong, Yu Yin, Sohrab Amirghodsi, Yun Fu - Quantized but Deceptive? A Multi-Dimensional Truthfulness Evaluation of Quantized LLMs
Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2025 (Main track)
Yao Fu, Xianxuan Long, Runchao Li, Haotian Yu, Mu Sheng, Xiaotian Han, Yu Yin, Pan Li - Pruning Weights but Not Truth: Safeguarding Truthfulness While Pruning LLMs
Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2025 (Findings track)
Yao Fu, Runchao Li, Xianxuan Long, Haotian Yu, Xiaotian Han, Yu Yin, Pan Li - Towards Open-set Face Anti-spoofing with Unseen Attack Synthesis
IEEE 19th International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG), 2025
Chang Liu, Yitian Zhang, Yu Yin, Yun Fu 2024 & before
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Cracking the Code of Juxtaposition: Can AI Models Understand the Humorous Contradictions Zhe Hu*, Tuo Liang*, Jing Li, Yiren Lu, Yunlai Zhou, Yiran Qiao, Jing Ma, and Yu Yin (*co-first author) Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2024 [Oral] Abstract Paper arXiv Webpage Code Dataset |
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VIVA: A Benchmark for Vision-Grounded Decision-Making with Human Values Zhe Hu, Yixiao Ren, Jing Li, and Yu Yin Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2024 Abstract Paper arXiv Webpage Code Dataset |
| Source Edited Your browser does not support the video tag. => Your browser does not support the video tag. | View-consistent Object Removal in Radiance Fields Yiren Lu, Jing Ma, and Yu Yin ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM), 2024 Abstract Paper arXiv Webpage |
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AMERICANO: Argument Generation with Discourse-driven Decomposition and Multi-agent Interaction Zhe Hu, Hou Pong Chan, and Yu Yin ACL International Natural Language Generation Conference (INLG), 2024 [Oral] Abstract Paper arXiv Slides |
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Concentric Ring Loss for Face Forgery Detection Yu Yin, Yue Bai, Yizhou Wang, and Yun Fu IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), 2023 Abstract Paper |
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NeRFInvertor: High Fidelity NeRF-GAN Inversion for Single-shot Real Image Animation Yu Yin, Kamran Ghasedi, HsiangTao Wu, Jiaolong Yang, Xin Tong, and Yun Fu IEEE/CVF Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR), 2023 Abstract Paper arXiv Webpage Demo Code |
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Expanding the Latent Space of StyleGAN for Real Face Editing Yu Yin, Kamran Ghasedi, HsiangTao Wu, Jiaolong Yang, Xin Tong, and Yun Fu Under review, 2022 Abstract arXiv |
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Multimodal In-bed 3D Pose and Shape Estimation under the Blankets Yu Yin, Joseph P. Robinson, and Yun Fu ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM), 2022 Abstract Paper |
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Generating Topological Structure of Floorplans from Room Attributes Yu Yin, Will Hutchcroft, Naji Khosravan, Ivaylo Boyadzhiev, Yun Fu, and Sing Bing Kang ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (ACM ICMR), 2022 Abstract Paper Presentation |
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Semi-supervised Domain Adaptive Structure Learning Can Qin, Lichen Wang, Qianqian Ma, Yu Yin, Huan Wang, and Yun Fu IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP), 2022 Abstract Paper Code |
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Human Motion Segmentation via Velocity-Sensitive Dual-Side Auto-Encoder Yue Bai, Lichen Wang, Yunyu Liu, Yu Yin, Hang Di, and Yun Fu IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP), 2022 Abstract Paper |
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Collaborative Attention Mechanism for Multi-Modal Time Series Classification Yue Bai, Zhiqiang Tao, Lichen Wang, Sheng Li, Yu Yin, and Yun Fu SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM), 2022 Abstract Paper |
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SuperFront: From Low-resolution Image to High-resolution Frontal Face Sythesis Yu Yin, Joseph P. Robinson, Songyao Jiang, Yue Bai, Can Qin, and Yun Fu ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM), 2021 Abstract Paper Code Supplements |
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Opposite Structure Learning for Semi-supervised Domain Adaptation Can Qin, Lichen Wang, Qianqian Ma, Yu Yin, Huan Wang, and Yun Fu SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM), 2021 Abstract Paper Code |
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Dual-Attention GAN for Large-Pose Face Frontalization Yu Yin, Songyao Jiang, Joseph P. Robinson, and Yun Fu IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG), 2020 Abstract Paper Paper Code Presentation |
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Joint Super-Resolution and Alignment of Tiny Faces Yu Yin, Joseph P. Robinson, Yulun Zhang, and Yun Fu AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2020 Abstract Paper Code |
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Dual-Side Auto-Encoder for High-Dimensional Time Series Segmentation Yue Bai, Lichen Wang, Yunyu Liu, Yu Yin, and Yun Fu IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), 2020 Abstract Paper |
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Facial Expression and Peripheral Physiology Fusion to Decode Individualized Affective Experience Yu Yin, Mohsen Nabian, Miolin Fan, ChunAn Chou, Maria Gendron, and Sarah Ostadabbas Affective Computing Workshop of the International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI Workshop), 2018 Abstract arXiv Code Demo Slides |
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A Biosignal-Specific Processing Tool for Machine Learning and Pattern Recognition Yu Yin*, Mohsen Nabian*, Athena Nouhi*, and Sarah Ostadabbas (* equal contribution) IEEE-NIH Special Topics Conference on Healthcare Innovations and Point-of-Care Technologies (HI-POCT), 2017 Abstract PDF Matlab Code Poster |
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In-Bed Pose Estimation: Deep Learning with Shallow Dataset Shuangjun Liu, Yu Yin, and Sarah Ostadabbas IEEE Journal of Translational Engineering in Health and Medicine (JTEHM), 2019 Abstract arXiv Code Project |
More previous publications:
- Analysis of Multimodal Physiological Signals Within and Across Individuals to Predict Psychological Threat vs. Challenge
Aya Khalaf, Mohsen Nabian, Miaolin Fan, Yu Yin, Jolie Wormwood, Erika Siegel, Karen S. Quigley, Lisa Feldman Barrett, Murat Akcakaya, Chun-An Chou, and Sarah Ostadabbas
Expert Systems With Applications (ESWA), vol. 140, Feb. 2020.
psyarXiv Abstract - An Open-Source Feature Extraction Tool for the Analysis of Peripheral Physiological Data
Mohsen Nabian, Yu Yin, Jolie Wormwood, Karen S. Quigley, Lisa F. Barrett, and Sarah Ostadabbas
IEEE Journal of Translational Engineering in Health and Medicine (JTEHM), vol. 6, Oct. 2019.
PDF Abstract Matlab Code
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