Biography:

Dr. YAN Tao is an associate professor with the School of Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science, Jiangnan University, China. He received dual Ph.D. degrees in computer science from University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in Dec. 2013 and City University of Hong Kong in Feb. 2014. He once worked as a senior research engineer at Baidu Inc.

His research interests inclue computer vision, light field image processing, image restoration, target detection, deep learning and Vision Foundation Models. He also focuses on AI for Healthcare, and AI for industrial applications, such as video surveillance. He has published more than 40 papers on IEEE TPAMI/TIP/TCSVT/TCI/TCE/TFS, IJCV, KBS, Critical Care, etc.

He has served as a reviewer for IEEE TPAMI/TIP/TCSVT/TMM/TNNLS/TCI/TCE/TVCG/TITS/, IJCV, KBS, CVPR, ICCV, AAAI, etc. He is a member of IEEE, CCF, CAAI and CSIG.

   





Email: yantao@jiangnan.edu.cn or yantao.ustc@gmail.com.  Google Scholar, ORCID, Web of Science.  Official-personal homepage.

Selected Publications:

  1. Guanxu Jiang, Jiawei Ma, Hao Xu, Zigang Zhu, Yi Xie, Shenhui Ji, Tao Yan*, Liang Luo*, "Application progress of machine learning in patient-ventilator asynchrony during mechanical ventilation: A systematic review," Critical Care, 29:295, July 2025, doi: 10.1186/s13054-025-05523-3.
  2. Xiaoxue Wu, Tao Yan*, Yiwei Lu, Hao Huang, "Retinex-Guided Wavelet Diffusion for Low-Light Image Enhancement," The 8th Chinese Conference on Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision (PRCV), Shanghai, China, Oct. 2025. [paper].
  3. Xianglong Chen, Tao Yan*, Chenglong Wang, Jinsheng Liu, Zhineng Zhang, Weilong Huang, "DDYOLO: Efficient Rainy Scene Object Detection with Deraining Guidance," International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), Rome, Italy, July 2025. [paper].
  4. Jinsheng Liu, Tao Yan*, Xianglong Chen, Zhineng Zhang, Chenglong Wang, Weilong Huang, "GCGP-YOLO: Global-Local and Channel Grouping Perception Network for Small Object Detection based on YOLOv8," International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), Rome, Italy, July 2025. [paper].
  5. Zhineng Zhang, Tao Yan*, Chenglong Wang, Xianglong Chen, Jinsheng Liu and Weilong Huang, "Multi-Scale Attention and Adaptive Self-Attention for Occlusion-Aware Depth Estimation in Light Field," Computer Graphics International (CGI), Hong Kong, July 2025.
  6. Chenglong Wang, Tao Yan*, Weilong Huang, Xianglong Chen, Ke Xu, Xiaojun Chang, "APANet: Asymmetrical Parallax Attention Network For Efficient Stereo Image Deraining," IEEE Trans. on Computational Imaging (TCI), Jan. 2025, doi:10.1109/TCI.2025.3527142. [paper] [project] CAAI-B
  7. Tao Yan*, Jiahui Gao, Ke Xu*, Xiangjie Zhu, Hao Huang, Helong Li, Benjamin Wah, Rynson W.H. Lau*, "GhostingNet: a Novel Approach for Glass Surface Detection with Ghosting Cues," IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), vol:47, issue:1, pp.323–337, Jan. 2025, doi: 10.1109/TPAMI.2024.3463490. [paper] [project] [News] [link]. CCF-A, TOP
  8. Tao Yan*, Xiangjie Zhu, Xianglong Chen, Weijiang He, Chenglong Wang, Yang Yang, Yinghui Wang and Xiaojun Chang*, "GLGFN: Global-Local Grafting Fusion Network for High-Resolution Image Deraining," IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT), June 2024, doi:10.1080/10447318.2024.2375799. [code] [link] CCF-B, TOP
  9. Chao Sun, Yinghui Wang*, Tao Yan, Jinlong Yang, Liangyi Huang, "Constructing Interpretable Belief Rule Bases Using a Model-Agnostic Statistical Approach," IEEE Trans. on Fuzzy Systems (TFS), June. 2024, doi:10.1109/TFUZZ.2024.3416448. CCF-B, TOP
  10. Anlei Zhu, Yinghui Wang*, Jinlong Yang, Tao Yan, Haomiao Ma, Wei Li*, "YOWOv3: A Lightweight Spatio-Temporal Joint Network for Video Action Detection," IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT), Apr. 2024, doi: 10.1109/TCSVT.2024.3387933. CCF-B, TOP
  11. Hui Ren*, Tao Yan, Xianglong Chen, Ruimin Lyu, Yuan Liu*, "Intelligent Chinese Typesetting Model Based on Information Importance Can Enhance Text Readability," International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction (IJHCI), June. 2024, doi: 10.1080/10447318.2024.2375799. CCF-B
  12. Tao Yan*, Shufan Xu, Hao Huang, Helong Li, Lu Tan, Xiaojun Chang and Rynson W. H. Lau, "NRGlassNet: Glass Surface Detection From Visible and Near-infrared Image Pairs," Knowledge-Based Systems (KBS), Apr. 2024, doi: 10.1016/j.knosys.2024.111722. [project] CAAI-B, TOP
  13. Tao Yan*, Helong Li, Jiahui Gao, Zhengtian Wu and Rynson W. H. Lau, "Single Image Reflection Removal From Glass Surfaces Via Multi-scale Reflection Detection," IEEE Trans. on Consumer Electronics (TCE), vol. 69, issue 4, pp. 1164-1176, Nov. 2023, doi: 10.1109/TCE.2023.3303475. [code]
  14. Wuyang Ye, Tao Yan*, Jiahui Gao and Yang Yang, "LFIENet: Light Field Image Enhancement Network by Fusing Exposures of LF-DSLR Image Pairs," IEEE Trans. on Computation Imaging (TCI), vol. 9, pp. 620-635, 2023, doi: 10.1109/TCI.2023.3288300. [code] CAAI-B
  15. Yang Yang*, Lianxiong Wu, Lanling Zeng, Tao Yan and Yongzhao Zhan , "Joint Upsampling for Refocusing Light Fields Derived With Hybrid Lenses," IEEE Trans. on Instrumentation and Measurement (TIM), vol. 72, pp. 1-12, 2023, doi: 10.1109/TIM.2023.3253880.
  16. Tao Yan*, Mingyue Li, Bin Li, Yang Yang and Rynson W H. Lau, "Rain Removal From Light Field Images With 4D Convolution and Multi-Scale Gaussian Process," IEEE Trans. on Image Processing (TIP), vol. 32, pp. 921-936, 2023, doi: 10.1109/TIP.2023.3234692. [project] CCF-A, TOP
  17. Yang Yang, Hongjun Hui, Lanling Zeng, Yan Zhao, Yongzhao Zhan and Tao Yan, "Edge-Preserving Image Filtering Based on Soft Clustering," IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT), vol. 32, no. 7, pp. 4150-4162, July 2022, doi: 10.1109/TCSVT.2021.3124291. CCF-B, TOP
  18. Yuyang Ding, Mingyue Li, Tao Yan*, Fan Zhang, Yuan Liu and Rynson W. H. Lau, "Rain Streak Removal From Light Field Images," IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT), vol. 32, no. 2, pp. 467-482, Feb. 2022, doi: 10.1109/TCSVT.2021.3063853. [project] CCF-B, TOP
  19. Tao Yan*, Jianbo Jiao, Wenxi Liu and Rynson W. H. Lau, "Stereoscopic Image Generation From Light Field With Disparity Scaling and Super-Resolution," IEEE Trans. on Image Processing (TIP), vol. 29, pp. 1827-1842, 2020, doi: 10.1109/TIP.2019.2944519. CCF-A, TOP
  20. Tao Yan*, Yiming Mao, Jianming Wang, Wenxi Liu, Xiaohua Qian and Rynson W. H. Lau, "Generating Stereoscopic Images With Convergence Control Ability From a Light Field Image Pair," IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT), vol. 30, no. 5, pp. 1435-1450, May 2020, doi: 10.1109/TCSVT.2019.2903556. CCF-B, TOP
  21. Wenxi Liu, Yibing Song, DengSheng Chen, Shengfeng He, Yuanlong Yu, Tao Yan, Gehard P. Hancke, and Rynson W. Lau. "Deformable object tracking with gated fusion," IEEE Trans. on Image Processing (TIP), vol. 28, no. 8, pp. 3766-3777, Aug. 2019, doi: 10.1109/TIP.2019.2902784. CCF-A, TOP
  22. Yan, Tao*, Yuyang Ding, Fan Zhang, Ningyu Xie, Wenxi Liu, Zhengtian Wu, and Yuan Liu. "Snow removal from light field images," IEEE Access, 7: 164203-164215, Nov. 2019, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2951917.
  23. Yan, Tao*, Fan Zhang, Yiming Mao, Hongbin Yu, Xiaohua Qian, and Rynson WH Lau. "Depth estimation from a light field image pair with a generative model," IEEE Access, 7: 12768-12778, Jan. 2019, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2893354.
  24. Tao Yan, Zhe Huang, Rynson W.H. Lau, Yun Xu, "Seamless stitching of stereo images for generating infinite panoramas," Proc. the 19th ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST'13), 2013, dio:10.1145/2502081.2502177.
  25. Tao Yan, Shengfeng. He, Rynson W.H. Lau, Yun Xu, "Consistent stereo image editing," Proc. the ACM Multimedia (ACM MM), 2013, dio:10.1145/2503713.2503729.
  26. Tao Yan, Rynson W.H. Lau, Yun Xu, Liusheng Huang, "Depth Mapping for Stereoscopic Videos," International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), 102, 293–307, 2013, dio:10.1007/s11263-012-0593-9. CCF-A, TOP
  27. Tao Yan, Rynson WH Lau, Zhifeng Xie, Yun Xu, Liusheng Huang, Lizhuang Ma, "Geometric Transformation for Image Resizing," accepted by IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME) 2011. [paper].

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Students' Information:

Computer Science, CityU of Hong Kong.   
Computer Science and Technology, USTC.   
Artifical Intellignece and Computer Science, JNU.
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