Postdoctoral Researcher | π Research Group, NKU, Tianjin, China
Time: Jul 2024 - Present. Working with Prof. Chongyi Li
I am currently a Postdoctoral Researcher in π Research Group@Nankai University, working with Prof. Chongyi Li. Before that, I obtained my PhD degree from Macau University of Science and Technology under the supervision of Prof. Zhanchuan Cai.
My research is rooted in Low-level Vision, with a particular focus on underwater images and scenes. Over time, my research has moved beyond restoring individual images to understanding and generating visual scenes. My current work mainly focuses on Underwater Vision, 3D Vision, AIGC, and Multimedia Security.
Postdoctoral Researcher | π Research Group, NKU, Tianjin, China
Time: Jul 2024 - Present. Working with Prof. Chongyi Li
PhD | Computer Technology and Applications, MUST, Macau, China
Time: Sep 2021 - Jun 2024. Supervised by Prof. Zhanchuan Cai
Master | Computer and Information Systems, MUST, Macau, China
Time: Sep 2019 - Jun 2021. Supervised by Prof. Zhanchuan Cai
Bachelor | Automation, ZHBIT, Zhuhai, China
Time: Sep 2015 - Jun 2019. Supervised by Prof. Kai Zhang
3D-USE: From Image-Level to Scene-Level Underwater Enhancement
3D-USE transfers image-level underwater enhancement knowledge into a persistent 3D Gaussian scene, enabling visibility-enhanced and cross-view-consistent novel-view rendering without applying a 2D enhancement model at inference.
3D-UIR: 3D Gaussian for Underwater 3D Scene Reconstruction via Physics Based Appearance-Medium Decoupling
3D-UIR is an underwater NVS method that tackles water medium interference and floating artifacts in underwater scene representation through physics-based appearance-medium decoupling. Disentangles object appearance from water medium effects using tailored Gaussian modeling with appearance embeddings and distance-guided optimization.
MarkCleaner: High-Fidelity Watermark Removal via Imperceptible Micro-Geometric Perturbation
MarkCleaner achieves high-fidelity watermark removal by exploiting the geometric vulnerability of semantic watermarks via micro-geometric perturbations and 2D Gaussian Splatting.
SLIM: Stable Latent Integration for Robust Watermark in Diffusion Model
SLIM embeds robust invisible watermarks into diffusion-generated images by integrating secret-conditioned latent perturbations through LoRA-adapted residuals during the final denoising steps, enabling reliable watermark recovery under common image distortions.
W2WDiff: Generalizing Underwater Diffusion Model via Unsupervised Underwater Conversion
W2WDiff is a diffusion-based underwater image enhancement (UIE) framework that integrates water-to-water domain aggregation with latent space operations to achieve superior generalization and enhancement performance. This design effectively addresses critical limitations of existing diffusion-based UIE methods, particularly their susceptibility to distribution shifts and semantic inconsistencies.
ViDA-UGC: Detailed Image Quality Analysis via Visual Distortion Assessment for UGC Images
ViDA-UGC introduces the first large-scale UGC distortion assessment dataset with distortion-oriented CoT annotations, together with ViDA-UGC-Bench for fine-grained, explainable quality analysis of UGC and AIGC images.
Underwater Scene Enhancement via Adaptive Color Analysis and Multi-Space Fusion
We propose CDEF, a reference-free multi-space pipeline that enhances underwater images by leveraging color discrimination and multi-scale fusion, achieving robust contrast, saturation, and sharpness improvements without artifacts or over-exposure.
Underwater Blurred Object Detection via Distraction Mining
UDMDet improves blurred underwater object detection without relying on image enhancement, mining target-background distractions through distraction-aware feature fusion and task-aligned heads to separate confusing features.
Multi-type Feature Perception and Refined Network for Spaceborne Infrared Ship Detection
MFPRN improves low-SNR infrared ship detection through dual-branch fusion of Fourier-based global perception and lightweight MLP long-range modeling, followed by cascaded proposal refinement to suppress background confusion and false alarms.
Real-World Underwater Image Texture Enhancement Based on Blurriness and Color Fusion
TEBCF restores real-world underwater texture through multi-scale fusion of RGB contrast dehazing and CIELAB morphological enhancement, recovering global and local details while improving contrast, saturation, and sharpness.
Underwater Image Vision Enhancement Based on Contour Bougie Morphology
CBM addresses underwater texture degradation caused by forward scattering through multi-step morphological operations with dual-sized contour structure elements, enhancing underwater image visibility without requiring scene priors.
* Equal contribution. # Corresponding author. ✨ Representative papers are highlighted
SLIM: Stable Latent Integration for Robust Watermark in Diffusion Model
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (IF=11.1, JCR Q1), 2026
Xiaoxi Kong, Pengdi Chen, Bin Li#, Jieyu Yuan, Zhanchuan Cai, Hao Wu, Lifeng Liang.
Overview and Prospects of Underwater Novel View Synthesis
Journal of Image and Graphics, 2026
Jieyu Yuan, Qianqian Zhao, Yujun Li, Yuanlin Zhang, Chunle Guo, Chongyi Li#.
A VLM-Driven Agentic System for Multi-Dimensional Pairwise Image Quality Comparison
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops, 2026
Wenjie Liao, Shuhao Han, Jieyu Yuan#, Chunle Guo, Chongyi Li.
Underwater Light Field Imaging: A Survey
CAAI Artificial Intelligence Research (IF=7.3, JCR Q1), 2025
Peixian Zhuang*#, Xinheng Zhang*, Junjie Tong, Chenyu Wang, Jieyu Yuan, Chongyi Li#.
Fourier Domain Diffusion Priors for Robust Underwater Image Enhancement
International Symposium on Machine Learning and Media Computing (MLMC) (Oral Presentation), 2025
Yuanlin Zhang, Jieyu Yuan#, Xiongxin Tang, Xiao Chen, Chunle Guo, Chongyi Li.
DCGF: Diffusion-Color Guided Framework for Underwater Image Enhancement
IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (IF=7.5, JCR Q1), 2024
Yuhan Zhang, Jieyu Yuan, Zhanchuan Cai#.
UGIF-Net: An Efficient Fully Guided Information Flow Network for Underwater Image Enhancement
IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (IF=7.5, JCR Q1), ESI Highly Cited Paper, 2023
Jingchun Zhou, Boshen Li, Dehuan Zhang, Jieyu Yuan, Weishi Zhang, Zhanchuan Cai#, Jinyu Shi.
ACCE: An Adaptive Color Compensation and Enhancement Algorithm for Underwater Image
IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (IF=7.5, JCR Q1), 2023
Yuyun Chen, Jieyu Yuan, Zhanchuan Cai#.
UIESC: An Underwater Image Enhancement Framework via Self-attention and Contrastive Learning
IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (IF=11.7, JCR Q1), 2023
Renzhang Chen, Zhanchuan Cai#, Jieyu Yuan.
Automatic SAR Ship Detection Based on Multifeature Fusion Network in Spatial and Frequency Domains
IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (IF=7.5, JCR Q1), 2023
Shiyu Wang, Zhanchuan Cai#, Jieyu Yuan.
A Novel Dense-Attention Network for Thick Cloud Removal by Reconstructing Semantic Information
IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing (IF=4.7, JCR Q1), 2023
Yuyun Chen, Zhanchuan Cai#, Jieyu Yuan, Lianghai Wu.