YAN TAO's Biography:

YAN Tao is an associate professor with the School of Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science, Jiangnan University, China. He obtained dual Ph.D. degrees in computer science from the University of Science and Technology of China in 2013 and the City University of Hong Kong in 2014. He once worked as a senior research engineer at Baidu Map. He is a senior member of IEEE.

His research interests center on computer vision, inluding stereo vision, light field, image restoration, target detection, deep learning and vision foundation models. His work extends to AI for video surveillance, X-ray food inspection, and healthcare. He has authored over 40 papers in premier journals and conferences, including IEEE TPAMI, TIP, TCSVT, TCI, TCE, TOMM, IJCV, TMLR, ACMMM, AAAI.

He has served as a reviewer for IEEE TPAMI, TIP, TCSVT, TMM, TVCG, TNNLS, TCI, TCE, IJCV, TOMM, KBS, PR, CVPR, ICCV, AAAI, ACMMM, etc.

   





Email: yantao@jiangnan.edu.cn or yantao.ustc@gmail.com   ORCID iD icon https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9162-8551         personal homepage
Web of Science,   Google Scholar.   CCF, CAAI, CSIG, AAAI.

Selected Publications:

  1. Yiwei Lu, Ke Xu, Tao Yan, Xiaojun Chang, Radu Timofte, Rynson W. H. Lau "Glass Surface Detection Grounded in 3D Visual Geometry," Proc. ACM Multimedia 2026. [paper] [code] CCF-A
  2. Tao Yan, Yiwei Lu, Ke Xu, Hao Chen, Hui Li, Xiaojun Chang, Xiao-jun Wu, Rynson W. H. Lau, "When Glass Disappears at Night: A Novel NIR-RGB Multimodal Solution," Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR), May 2026. [paper][code]
  3. Yiwei Lu, Hao Huang (co-first author), Tao Yan, "MVGD-Net: A Novel Motion-aware Video Glass Surface Detection Method," Proc. AAAI 2026, 40(9), 7591-7599, Jan. [paper][code] CCF-A
  4. Yanxing Liang, Yinghui Wang, Tao Yan, Jinlong Yang, Wei Li, Liangyi Huang, Xiaojuan Ning, Temurbek Kuchkorov, "Textureless Surface Feature Point Detection via Micro-Geometry Reconstruction," IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), Apr. 2026. [paper] CCF-A
  5. Weilong Huang, Jiaxue Mei, Tao Yan, Yinghui Wang, Xiaojun Chang, "High-Resolution Image Deraining via Dual-Branch Features Interaction and Fusion," Neural Networks, vol:201, 108936, Sep. 2026, doi:10.1016/j.neunet.2026.108936. [paper][code] CCF-B
  6. Tao Yan, Weilong Huang, Weijiang He, Chenglong Wang, Cihang Wei, Yiwei Lu, Xiangjie Zhu, YingHui Wang, Rynson W.H. Lau, "MDeRainNet: An Efficient Macro-pixel Image Rain Removal Network," ACM Trans. on Multimedia Computing Communications and Applications (TOMM), vol.22(2), no.56, pp. 1-24, Feb. 2026, doi:10.1145/3775059. [paper][code] CCF-B
  7. Tao Yan*, Lu Tan, Yiwei Lu, Cihang Wei, Jinsheng Liu, Rynson W.H. Lau, "SANet: An End-to-End Anaglyph Image Separation Network," IEEE Trans. on Consumer Electronics (TCE), vol. 71, no. 4, pp. 9606-9616, Nov. 2025. doi:10.1109/TCE.2025.3610995. [paper][code]
  8. 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(1):295, July 2025, doi:10.1186/s13054-025-05523-3. [paper] TOP
  9. 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), vol. 11, pp. 101-115, Jan. 2025, doi:10.1109/TCI.2025.3527142. [paper] [code] CAAI-B
  10. 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, Sep. 2024, doi: 10.1109/TPAMI.2024.3463490. [paper] [project] [News] [link]. CCF-A, TOP
  11. 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), vol. 34, no. 11, pp. 10860-10873, Nov. 2024, doi:10.1109/TCSVT.2024.3411655. [code] [link] CCF-B, TOP
  12. 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
  13. 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), vol. 34, no. 9, pp. 8148-8160, Sept. 2024, doi: 10.1109/TCSVT.2024.3387933. CCF-B, TOP
  14. 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
  15. 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), vol.294, 111722, June 2024, doi: 10.1016/j.knosys.2024.111722. [project] CAAI-B, TOP
  16. 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. [project]
  17. 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
  18. 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.
  19. 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
  20. 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
  21. 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
  22. 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
  23. 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
  24. 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
  25. Tao Yan*, 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.
  26. Tao Yan*, 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.
  27. 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.
  28. Tao Yan, Shengfeng. He, Rynson W.H. Lau, Yun Xu, "Consistent stereo image editing," Proc. the ACM Multimedia, 2013, dio:10.1145/2503713.2503729.
  29. 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
  30. 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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Master Students:

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