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Xin Li, Ph.D.

Senoir Scientist, AIQ

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Xin Li

Senior Scientist, AIQ

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Biography

He received the PhD degree in computer applied technology from University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), Chengdu, China, in 2018. He worked as a research scholar in the department of computer science, University of North Carolina and also in the department of Radiology and BRIC, University of North Carolina at chapel hill from 2018 to 2019. He was a research associate in IIAI. Now, He is a senior data scientist with AIQ (ADNOC-G42 joint venture). His research interests are in computer vision with the focus on dense correspondence, object detection/segmentation, and medical image analysis.

Research Interests

  • Image Segmentation

  • 3D Vision

  • Medical Image Analysis

  • Machine learning

Eudcation

  • PhD. student (September 2012--June 2018)
    School of Computer Science and Engineering,
    University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China.
    Advisor: Professor Hong Cheng & Professor Leiting Chen.

  • M.S. student (September 2010--June 2012)
    School of Computer Science and Engineering,
    University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China.
    Advisor: Professor Leiting Chen.

  • B.S. student (September 2006--June 2010)
    School of Computer Science,
    University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China.
    Major: Computer Science.

Research Experience

  • Senior Scientist (March 2020--Now)
    AIO, Abu Dhabi, UAE.

  • Research Associate (March 2019--March 2020)
    Inception Institute of Artificial Intelligence, Abu Dhabi, UAE.

  • Post Doctoral (August 2018--March 2019)
    IDEA Research Lab in the Department of Radiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC, USA.

Selected Publication

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TS-MTM: Temporal-Spectral Masked Time-Series Modeling for Forecasting
Pengcheng Zhang, Xiaocao Ouyang, Xin Li, Fan Yang, Wei Huang, Lingfei Ren, Ran Peng, Qiang Zhai and Huimin Fu.
In ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), 2026.
[PDF]

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Optical Flow Matching: Reframing Optical Flow as Continuous Transport Dynamics
Ao Luo, Xin Li, Fan Yang, Yuezun Li, Zhaoquan Yuan, Shan Zhao, Bing Su and Xiao Wu.
In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR Oral), 2026.
[PDF]

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GeneVAR: Causal MeanFlow for Autoregressive Gene-to-WSI Tile Synthesis
Jianwei Zhao, Fan Yang, Xin Li, Qiang Zhai, Ao Luo, Ziqi Ren, Zhicheng Jiao and Hong Cheng.
In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2026.
[PDF]

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HySeg: Learning Generative Priors for Structure-Aware Remote Sensing Segmentation
Jie Qiu, Xin Li, Fan Yang, Yan Wang, Dong Yu, Changying Wang, Linwei Dai, Yongxiang Chen, Youqin Chen and Jianzhang Chen.
In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2026.
[PDF]

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Beyond Euclidean Assumptions: Geometry-Aware Adaptive Routing for Remote Sensing Segmentation
Jie Qiu, Dizuo Cao, Linwei Dai, Xin Li, Fan Yang, Dong Yu, Changying Wang, Zongheng Wen, Youqin Chen and Jianzhang Chen.
In Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2026.
[PDF]

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MExD: An Expert-Infused Diffusion Model for Whole-Slide Image Classification
Jianwei Zhao, Xin Li, Fan Yang, Qiang Zhai, Ao Luo, Yang Zhao, Hong Cheng and Huazhu Fu.
In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2025.
[PDF] [Github]

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FocusDiffuser: Perceiving Local Disparities for Camouflaged Object Detection
Jianwei Zhao, Xin Li, Fan Yang, Qiang Zhai, Ao Luo, Zhicheng Jiao and Hong Cheng.
In European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2024.
[PDF] [Github]

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FlowDiffuser: Advancing Optical Flow Estimation with Diffusion Models
Ao Luo, Xin Li, Fan Yang, Jiangyu Liu, Haoqiang Fan and Shuaicheng Liu.
In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024.
[PDF] [Github]

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GAFlow: Incorporating Gaussian Attention into Optical Flow
Ao Luo, Fan Yang, Xin Li, Lang Nie, Chunyu Lin, Haoqiang Fan and Shuaicheng Liu.
In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2023.
[PDF] [Github]

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Learning Optical Flow with Kernel Patch Attention
Ao Luo, Fan Yang, Xin Li and Shuaicheng Liu.
In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2022.
[PDF]

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Learning Optical Flow with Adaptive Graph Reasoning
Ao Luo, Fan Yang, Kunming Luo, Xin Li, Haoqiang Fan and Shuaicheng Liu.
In Proceedings of 36th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2022.
[PDF]

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Uncertainty-Guided Transformer Reasoning for Camouflaged Object Detection
Fan Yang*, Qiang Zhai*, Xin Li, Rui Huang, Ao Luo, Hong Cheng and Deng-Ping Fan.
In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2021.
[PDF] [Github]

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Mutual Graph Learning for Camouflaged Object Detection
Qiang Zhai*, Xin Li*, Fan Yang, Chenglizhao Chen, Hong Cheng and Deng-Ping Fan.
In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2021.
[PDF] [arXiv][Github]

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Probabilistic Model Distillation for Semantic Correspondence
Xin Li, Deng-Ping Fan, Fan Yang, Ao Luo, Hong Cheng, Zicheng Liu.
In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2021.
[PDF] [Github]

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Robust Scene Parsing by Mining Supportive Knowledge from Dataset
Ao Luo*, Fan Yang*, Xin Li, Yuezun Li, Zhicheng Jiao, Hong Cheng and Siwei Lyu.
IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (TNNLS), 2021.
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Exploring Graph-Structured Semantics for Cross-Modal Retrieval
Lei Zhang, Leiting Chen, Chuan Zhou, Fan Yang and Xin Li.
ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM), 2021.
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Reconstructing perceived images from brain activity by visually-guided cognitive representation and adversarial learning
Ziqi Ren, Jie Li, Xuetong Xue, Xin Li, Fan Yang, Zhicheng Jiao, Xinbo Gao.
NeuroImage, 2021.
[PDF] [arXiv]

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Cascade graph neural networks for rgb-d salient object detection
Ao Luo, Xin Li, Fan Yang, Zhicheng Jiao, Hong Cheng and Siwei Lyu.
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2020.
[PDF] [arXiv]

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Hybrid Graph Neural Networks for Crowd Counting
Ao Luo, Fan Yang, Xin Li, Dong Nie, Zhicheng Jiao, Shangchen Zhou and Hong Cheng.
Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2020.
[PDF] [arXiv]

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Decoding EEG by Visual-guided Deep Neural Networks
Zhicheng Jiao, Haoxuan You, Fan Yang, Xin Li, Han Zhang and Dinggang Shen.
International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2019.
[PDF]

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Contour Knowledge Transfer for Salient Object Detection
Xin Li, Fan Yang, Hong Cheng, Wei Liu and Dinggang Shen.
Proceedings of the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2018.
[PDF] [Github]

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Multi-Scale Bidirectional FCN for Object Skeleton Extraction
Fan Yang, Xin Li, Hong Cheng, Yuxiao Guo, Leiting Chen and Jianping Li.
Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2018.
[PDF] [Github]

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Multi-Scale Cascade Network for Salient Object Detection
Xin Li, Fan Yang, Hong Cheng, Junyu Chen, Yuxiao Guo and Leiting Chen.
Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM), 2017.
[PDF] [Github]

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Object-aware Dense Semantic Correspondence
Fan Yang, Xin Li, Hong Cheng, Jianping Li and Leiting Chen.
Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2017.
[PDF]

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Saliency Transfer: An Example-Based Method for Salient Object Detection
Xin Li, Fan Yang, Leiting Chen and Hongbin Cai.
Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2016.
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