Publications (60)
LunarNav: Crater-based Localization for Long-range Autonomous Lunar Rover Navigation
Shreyansh Daftry, Zhanlin Chen, Yang Cheng +7
The Artemis program requires robotic and crewed lunar rovers for resource prospecting and exploitation, construction and maintenance of facilities, and human exploration. These rov…
Stereophotoclinometry Revisited
Travis Driver, Andrew Vaughan, Yang Cheng +3
Image-based surface reconstruction and characterization is crucial for missions to small celestial bodies, as it informs mission planning, navigation, and scientific analysis. Howe…
Data Governance and Data Management in Operations and Supply Chain: A Literature Review
Xuejiao Li, Yang Cheng, Xiaoning Xia +1
In the dynamic landscape of contemporary business, the wave in data and technological advancements has directed companies toward embracing data-driven decision-making processes. De…
Hawking Radiation of Vector Particles via Tunneling From 4-Dimensional And 5-Dimensional Black Holes
Zhongwen Feng, Yang Cheng, Xiaotao Zu
Using Proca equation and WKB approximation, we investigate Hawking radiation of vector particles via tunneling from 4-dimensional Kerr-de Sitter black hole and 5-dimensional Schwar…
V2I Work Zone Geometry Reconstruction with Pose-Conditioned UWB Range Denoising
Jiaxi Liu, Hangyu Li, Yang Cheng +7
Reliable work zone mapping is important for connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs) to navigate safely and smoothly through work zone areas. Cone-mounted ultra-wideband (UWB) road…
V2X-LLM: Enhancing V2X Integration and Understanding in Connected Vehicle Corridors
Keshu Wu, Pei Li, Yang Zhou +8
The advancement of Connected and Automated Vehicles (CAVs) and Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) offers significant potential for enhancing transportation safety, mobility, and sustainab…
Data governance: A Critical Foundation for Data Driven Decision-Making in Operations and Supply Chains
Xuejiao Li, Yang Cheng, Charles Møller
In the context of Industry 4.0, the manufacturing sector is increasingly facing the challenge of data usability, which is becoming a widespread phenomenon and a new contemporary co…
Emotion Recognition Using Convolutional Neural Networks
Shaoyuan Xu, Yang Cheng, Qian Lin +1
Emotion has an important role in daily life, as it helps people better communicate with and understand each other more efficiently. Facial expressions can be classified into 7 cate…
A Digital Twin Framework for Physical-Virtual Integration in V2X-Enabled Connected Vehicle Corridors
Keshu Wu, Pei Li, Yang Cheng +4
Transportation Cyber-Physical Systems (T-CPS) enhance safety and mobility by integrating cyber and physical transportation systems. A key component of T-CPS is the Digital Twin (DT…
Window Filtering Algorithm for Pulsed Light Coherent Combining of Low Repetition Frequency
Jiali Zhang, Jie Cao, Qun Hao +4
The multi-dithering method has been well verified in phase locking of polarization coherent combination experiment. However, it is hard to apply to low repetition frequency pulsed…
Virtual Reality based Learning Systems
Yang Cheng
This article is based on studies of the existing literature, focusing on the states-of-the-arts on virtual reality (VR) and its potential uses in learning. Different platforms have…
Pressure tunable quantum anomalous Hall states in a topological antiferromagnet
Su Kong Chong, Chao Lei, Jie Li +8
Mechanical modulation of the lattice parameter can modify the electronic structure and manipulate the magnetic coupling of a material without introducing impurities. Inspired by su…
Quick NAT: High performance NAT system on commodity platforms
Junfeng Li, Dan Li, Yukai Huang +2
NAT gateway is an important network system in today's IPv4 network when translating a private IPv4 address to a public address. However, traditional NAT system based on Linux Netfi…
Voltage-Controlled Magnetoelectric Devices for Neuromorphic Diffusion Process
Yang Cheng, Qingyuan Shu, Albert Lee +13
Stochastic diffusion processes are pervasive in nature, from the seemingly erratic Brownian motion to the complex interactions of synaptically-coupled spiking neurons. Recently, dr…
An Evaluation of Design-based Properties of Different Composite Estimators
Daniel Bonnéry, Yang Cheng, Partha Lahiri
For the last several decades, the US Census Bureau has been using the AK composite estimation method to produce statistics on employment from the Current Population Survey (CPS) da…
PL-UNeXt: Per-stage Edge Detail and Line Feature Guided Segmentation for Power Line Detection
Yang Cheng, Zhen Chen, Daming Liu
Power line detection is a critical inspection task for electricity companies and is also useful in avoiding drone obstacles. Accurately separating power lines from the surrounding…
Unidirectional Spin Hall Magnetoresistance in Antiferromagnetic Heterostructures
Yang Cheng, Junyu Tang, Justin J. Michel +4
Unidirectional spin Hall magnetoresistance (USMR) has been widely reported in the heavy metal / ferromagnet (HM/FM) bilayer systems. We observe the USMR in the Pt/α-Fe2O3 bilayers…
Emoji-based Fine-grained Attention Network for Sentiment Analysis in the Microblog Comments
Deng Yang, Liu Kejian, Yang Cheng +2
Microblogs have become a social platform for people to express their emotions in real-time, and it is a trend to analyze user emotional tendencies from the information on Microblog…
Rover Relocalization for Mars Sample Return by Virtual Template Synthesis and Matching
Tu-Hoa Pham, William Seto, Shreyansh Daftry +11
We consider the problem of rover relocalization in the context of the notional Mars Sample Return campaign. In this campaign, a rover (R1) needs to be capable of autonomously navig…
Ultrafast dynamics of wavelength-sensitive magnons in unconventional compensated semiconducting antiferromagnet
Hanshen Huang, Tao Qu, Yang Cheng +12
Antiferromagnet is a promising candidate for the next generation spintronic devices, benefiting from its ultrafast dynamics and spontaneous zero stray field. However, the understan…
A Rank-One Popularity Component in Dot-Product Recommender Scores:Population Theory and Prior-Separation Evidence
Yang Cheng
Representation anisotropy in recommender systems is often attributed to Transformer architectures. We identify a more general source in the conditional training distribution. For a…
High Performance and Scalable NAT System on Commodity Platforms
Junfeng Li, Dan Li, Yukai Huang +2
Quick network address translation (NAT) is proposed to improve the network performance of the NAT system on the commodity server by three ways. First, the quick NAT search algorith…
Third Harmonic Characterization of Antiferromagnetic Heterostructures
Yang Cheng, Egecan Cogulu, Rachel D. Resnick +4
Electrical switching of antiferromagnets is an exciting recent development in spintronics, which promises active antiferromagnetic devices with high speed and low energy cost. In t…
The Blessing and the Curse of the Noise behind Facial Landmark Annotations
Xiaoyu Xiang, Yang Cheng, Shaoyuan Xu +2
The evolving algorithms for 2D facial landmark detection empower people to recognize faces, analyze facial expressions, etc. However, existing methods still encounter problems of u…
Anomalous Nernst effect in compensated ferrimagnetic CoxGd1-x films
Ruihao Liu, Li Cai, Teng Xu +3
The anomalous Nernst effect (ANE) is one of the most intriguing thermoelectric phenomena which has attracted growing interest both for its underlying physics and potential applicat…
Perception-Inspired Color Space Design for Photo White Balance Editing
Yang Cheng, Ziteng Cui, Shenghan Su +2
White balance (WB) is a key step in the image signal processor (ISP) pipeline that mitigates color casts caused by varying illumination and restores the scene's true colors. Curren…
Optimal Pose Estimation and Covariance Analysis with Simultaneous Localization and Mapping Applications
Saeed Maleki, Adhiti Raman, Yang Cheng +2
This work provides a theoretical analysis for optimally solving the pose estimation problem using total least squares for vector observations from landmark features, which is centr…
Towards a Learner-Centered Explainable AI: Lessons from the learning sciences
Anna Kawakami, Luke Guerdan, Yang Cheng +8
In this short paper, we argue for a refocusing of XAI around human learning goals. Drawing upon approaches and theories from the learning sciences, we propose a framework for the l…
The Tenth NTIRE 2025 Efficient Super-Resolution Challenge Report
Bin Ren, Hang Guo, Lei Sun +143
This paper presents a comprehensive review of the NTIRE 2025 Challenge on Single-Image Efficient Super-Resolution (ESR). The challenge aimed to advance the development of deep mode…
Truck Parking Usage Prediction with Decomposed Graph Neural Networks
Rei Tamaru, Yang Cheng, Steven Parker +3
Truck parking on freight corridors faces the major challenge of insufficient parking spaces. This is exacerbated by the Hour-of-Service (HOS) regulations, which often result in una…
Rethinking Scientific Discovery in the Agentic Era
Yining Zheng, Yuxin Wang, Jiahao Lu +27
Artificial intelligence has advanced scientific discovery, but most AI4Science systems remain fragmented tools that rely on humans to coordinate problem formulation, literature gro…
Lunar Rover Localization Using Craters as Landmarks
Larry Matthies, Shreyansh Daftry, Scott Tepsuporn +5
Onboard localization capabilities for planetary rovers to date have used relative navigation, by integrating combinations of wheel odometry, visual odometry, and inertial measureme…
Real-World Data Inspired Interactive Connected Traffic Scenario Generation
Junwei You, Pei Li, Yang Cheng +4
Simulation is a crucial step in ensuring accurate, efficient, and realistic Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAVs) testing and validation. As the adoption of CAV accelerates, the…
MegaScale-Infer: Serving Mixture-of-Experts at Scale with Disaggregated Expert Parallelism
Ruidong Zhu, Ziheng Jiang, Chao Jin +17
Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) showcases tremendous potential to scale large language models (LLMs) with enhanced performance and reduced computational complexity. However, its sparsely…
Ultralow loss hollow-core negative curvature fibers with nested elliptical antiresonance tubes
Jiali Zhang, Jie Cao, Boyi Yang +4
Hollow-core negative curvature fibers can confine light within air core and have small nonlinearity and dispersion and high damage threshold, thereby attracting a great deal of int…
EvoCurr: Self-evolving Curriculum with Behavior Code Generation for Complex Decision-making
Yang Cheng, Zilai Wang, Weiyu Ma +3
Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities across diverse domains, including programming, planning, and decision-making. However, their performance ofte…
Symmetry-breaking Actuation Mechanism for Soft Robotics and Active Metamaterials
Shuai Wu, Qiji Ze, Rundong Zhang +4
Magnetic-responsive composites that consist of soft matrix embedded with hard-magnetic particles have recently been demonstrated as robust soft active materials for fast-transformi…
Changes of Magnetism in a Magnetic Insulator due to Proximity to a Topological Insulator
Tao Liu, James Kally, Timothy Pillsbury +9
This letter reports the modification of magnetism in a magnetic insulator Y3Fe5O12 thin film by topological surface states (TSS) in an adjacent topological insulator Bi2Se3 thin fi…
Single- and Multimagnon Dynamics in Antiferromagnetic -FeO Thin Films
Jiemin Li, Yanhong Gu, Yoshihiro Takahashi +8
Understanding the spin dynamics in antiferromagnetic (AFM) thin films is fundamental for designing novel devices based on AFM magnon transport. Here, we study the magnon dynamics i…
Object Recognition by Using Multi-level Feature Point Extraction
Yang Cheng, Timeo Dubois
In this paper, we present a novel approach for object recognition in real-time by employing multilevel feature analysis and demonstrate the practicality of adapting feature extract…
WaDi: Weight Direction-aware Distillation for One-step Image Synthesis
Lei Wang, Yang Cheng, Senmao Li +3
Despite the impressive performance of diffusion models such as Stable Diffusion (SD) in image generation, their slow inference limits practical deployment. Recent works accelerate…
Current-induced switching of thin film -FeO devices imaged using a scanning single-spin microscope
Qiaochu Guo, Anthony D'Addario, Yang Cheng +6
Electrical switching of Néel order in an antiferromagnetic insulator is desirable as a basis for memory applications. Unlike electrically-driven switching of ferromagnetic order v…
Electrical Switching of Tristate Antiferromagnetic Néel Order in -FeO Epitaxial Films
Yang Cheng, Sisheng Yu, Menglin Zhu +2
The ability to manipulate antiferromagnetic (AF) moments is a key requirement for the emerging field of antiferromagnetic spintronics. Electrical switching of bi-state AF moments h…
Rega-Net:Retina Gabor Attention for Deep Convolutional Neural Networks
Chun Bao, Jie Cao, Yaqian Ning +2
Extensive research works demonstrate that the attention mechanism in convolutional neural networks (CNNs) effectively improves accuracy. Nevertheless, few works design attention me…
Spintronic Bayesian Hardware Driven by Stochastic Magnetic Domain Wall Dynamics
Tianyi Wang, Bingqian Dai, Kin Wong +7
As artificial intelligence (AI) advances into diverse applications, ensuring reliability of AI models is increasingly critical. Conventional neural networks offer strong predictive…
Keypoint-based Stereophotoclinometry for Characterizing and Navigating Small Bodies: A Factor Graph Approach
Travis Driver, Andrew Vaughan, Yang Cheng +3
This paper proposes the incorporation of techniques from stereophotoclinometry (SPC) into a keypoint-based structure-from-motion (SfM) system to estimate the surface normal and alb…
Enhancing the Quality of 3D Lunar Maps Using JAXA's Kaguya Imagery
Yumi Iwashita, Haakon Moe, Yang Cheng +6
As global efforts to explore the Moon intensify, the need for high-quality 3D lunar maps becomes increasingly critical-particularly for long-distance missions such as NASA's Endura…
On Large Language Models' Hallucination with Regard to Known Facts
Che Jiang, Biqing Qi, Xiangyu Hong +6
Large language models are successful in answering factoid questions but are also prone to hallucination. We investigate the phenomenon of LLMs possessing correct answer knowledge y…
Anisotropic Magnetoresistance and Nontrivial Spin Hall Magnetoresistance in Pt/-FeO Bilayers
Yang Cheng, Sisheng Yu, Adam S. Ahmed +3
To date, magnetic proximity effect (MPE) has only been conclusively observed in ferromagnet (FM) based systems. We report the observation of anomalous Hall effect and anisotropic m…
Comparison of SCIPUFF Plume Prediction with Particle Filter Assimilated Prediction for Dipole Pride 26 Data
Gabriel Terejanu, Yang Cheng, Tarunraj Singh +1
This paper presents the application of a particle filter for data assimilation in the context of puff-based dispersion models. Particle filters provide estimates of the higher mome…
Tangent-Plane Evidential Uncertainty in Active Learning for Magnetic Interatomic Potentials
Yang Cheng, Hongyu Yu, Hongjun Xiang
Magnetic interatomic potentials need to account for coupled lattice and spin degrees of freedom, yet constructing reliable training sets remains costly because noncollinear first-p…
Enhancing Perpendicular Magnetic Anisotropy in Garnet Ferrimagnet by Interfacing with Few-Layer WTe2
Guanzhong Wu1, Dongying Wang, Nishchhal Verma +11
Engineering magnetic anisotropy in a ferro- or ferrimagnetic (FM) thin film is crucial in spintronic device. One way to modify the magnetic anisotropy is through the surface of the…
Direct Imaging of Electrical Switching of Antiferromagnetic Néel Order in -FeO Epitaxial Films
Egecan Cogulu, Nahuel N. Statuto, Yang Cheng +4
We report the direct observation of switching of the Néel vector of antiferromagnetic (AFM) domains in response to electrical pulses in micron-scale Pt/-FeO Hall bars…
Band Structure Engineering of Interfacial Semiconductors Based on Atomically Thin Lead Iodide Crystals
Yan Sun, Zhen Huang, Zishu Zhou +20
To explore new constituents in two-dimensional materials and to combine their best in van der Waals heterostructures, are in great demand as being unique platform to discover new p…
Error-Covariance Analysis of Monocular Pose Estimation Using Total Least Squares
Saeed Maleki, John Crassidis, Yang Cheng +1
This study presents a theoretical structure for the monocular pose estimation problem using the total least squares. The unit-vector line-of-sight observations of the features are…
Efficient construction of effective Hamiltonians with a hybrid machine learning method
Yang Cheng, Binhua Zhang, Xueyang Li +3
The effective Hamiltonian method is a powerful tool for simulating large-scale systems across a wide range of temperatures. However, previous methods for constructing effective Ham…
Untie the Knots: An Efficient Data Augmentation Strategy for Long-Context Pre-Training in Language Models
Junfeng Tian, Da Zheng, Yang Cheng +3
Large language models (LLM) have prioritized expanding the context window from which models can incorporate more information. However, training models to handle long contexts prese…
Total Least Squares for Optimal Pose Estimation
Saeed Maleki, Yang Cheng, John Crassidis +1
This work provides a theoretical framework for the pose estimation problem using total least squares for vector observations from landmark features. First, the optimization framewo…
Quantifying Spin-Orbit Torques in Antiferromagnet/Heavy Metal Heterostructures
Egecan Cogulu, Hantao Zhang, Nahuel N. Statuto +4
The effect of spin currents on the magnetic order of insulating antiferromagnets (AFMs) is of fundamental interest and can enable new applications. Toward this goal, characterizing…
The Eleventh NTIRE 2026 Efficient Super-Resolution Challenge Report
Bin Ren, Hang Guo, Yan Shu +60
This paper reviews the NTIRE 2026 challenge on efficient single-image super-resolution with a focus on the proposed solutions and results. The aim of this challenge is to devise a…