activity
20242026
most citedCharacterizing visual cortical magnification with topological smoothing and optimal transportation

2 citations · 2 across the 18 of their papers we have counts for

collaborators

19 papers

cs.CV2026

Does Your ViT Still Need U-Net for Segmentation?

Xin Li, Wenhui Zhu, Xuanzhao Dong +6

Medical image segmentation is dominated by U-Net-style encoder-decoder architectures. Vision Transformers (ViTs) overcome the limited receptive field of convolutional networks thro…

cs.AI2026

S-SPPO: Semantic-Calibrated Self-Play Preference Optimization

Xiwen Chen, Wenhui Zhu, Jingjing Wang +13

Aligning Large Language Models (LLMs) with human preferences is often formulated via Direct Preference Optimization (DPO). However, the standard Bradley-Terry instantiation of DPO…

cs.CV2026

Mags-RL: Wearing Multimodal LLMs a Magnifying Glass via Agentic Reinforcement Learning For Complex Scene Reasoning

Xuanzhao Dong, Wenhui Zhu, Peijie Qiu +11

Despite their popularity and success, Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) often struggle to interpret images accurately, which limits their reasoning capability in complex sce…

cs.CV2026

OphIn-500K: Curating Web-Scale Visual Instructions for Scaling Ophthalmic Multimodal Large Language Models

Xuanzhao Dong, Wenhui Zhu, Xiwen Chen +13

The advancement of general medical Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) has shown great potential for building conversational assistants to support clinical diagnosis. However,…

cs.CV2026

Hierarchical Mesh Transformers with Topology-Guided Pretraining for Morphometric Analysis of Brain Structures

Yujian Xiong, Mohammad Farazi, Yanxi Chen +8

Representation learning on large-scale unstructured volumetric and surface meshes poses significant challenges in neuroimaging, especially when models must incorporate diverse vert…

cs.CV2026

Bridging Restoration and Diagnosis: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Retinal Fundus Enhancement

Xuanzhao Dong, Wenhui Zhu, Xiwen Chen +8

Over the past decade, generative models have demonstrated success in enhancing fundus images. However, the evaluation of these models remains a challenge. A benchmark for fundus im…

cs.CV2026

OTPrune: Distribution-Aligned Visual Token Pruning via Optimal Transport

Xiwen Chen, Wenhui Zhu, Gen Li +9

Multi-modal large language models (MLLMs) achieve strong visual-language reasoning but suffer from high inference cost due to redundant visual tokens. Recent work explores visual t…

cs.CV2026

SGW-GAN: Sliced Gromov-Wasserstein Guided GANs for Retinal Fundus Image Enhancement

Yujian Xiong, Xuanzhao Dong, Wenhui Zhu +3

Retinal fundus photography is indispensable for ophthalmic screening and diagnosis, yet image quality is often degraded by noise, artifacts, and uneven illumination. Recent GAN- an…

cs.SD2026

AHA: Aligning Large Audio-Language Models for Reasoning Hallucinations via Counterfactual Hard Negatives

Yanxi Chen, Wenhui Zhu, Xiwen Chen +9

Although Large Audio-Language Models (LALMs) deliver state-of-the-art (SOTA) performance, they frequently suffer from hallucinations, e.g. generating text not grounded in the audio…

q-bio.NC2025

Quantification of Planar Cortical Magnification with Optimal Transport and Topological Smoothing

Yujian Xiong, Negar Jalili Mallak, Yanshuai Tu +2

The human visual system exhibits non-uniform spatial resolution across the visual field, which is characterized by the cortical magnification factor (CMF) that reflects its anatomi…

cs.CV2025

nnMobileNet++: Towards Efficient Hybrid Networks for Retinal Image Analysis

Xin Li, Wenhui Zhu, Xuanzhao Dong +4

Retinal imaging is a critical, non-invasive modality for the early detection and monitoring of ocular and systemic diseases. Deep learning, particularly convolutional neural networ…

cs.CV2025

VAOT: Vessel-Aware Optimal Transport for Retinal Fundus Enhancement

Xuanzhao Dong, Wenhui Zhu, Yujian Xiong +8

Color fundus photography (CFP) is central to diagnosing and monitoring retinal disease, yet its acquisition variability (e.g., illumination changes) often degrades image quality, w…

cs.CV2025

Schrödinger Diffusion Driven Signal Recovery in 3T BOLD fMRI Using Unmatched 7T Observations

Yujian Xiong, Xuanzhao Dong, Sebastian Waz +4

Ultra-high-field (7 Tesla) BOLD fMRI offers exceptional detail in both spatial and temporal domains, along with robust signal-to-noise characteristics, making it a powerful modalit…

eess.IV2025

EyeBench: A Call for More Rigorous Evaluation of Retinal Image Enhancement

Wenhui Zhu, Xuanzhao Dong, Xin Li +8

Over the past decade, generative models have achieved significant success in enhancement fundus images.However, the evaluation of these models still presents a considerable challen…

cs.CV2024

Many-MobileNet: Multi-Model Augmentation for Robust Retinal Disease Classification

Hao Wang, Wenhui Zhu, Xuanzhao Dong +9

In this work, we propose Many-MobileNet, an efficient model fusion strategy for retinal disease classification using lightweight CNN architecture. Our method addresses key challeng…

eess.IV2024

CUNSB-RFIE: Context-aware Unpaired Neural Schrödinger Bridge in Retinal Fundus Image Enhancement

Xuanzhao Dong, Vamsi Krishna Vasa, Wenhui Zhu +7

Retinal fundus photography is significant in diagnosing and monitoring retinal diseases. However, systemic imperfections and operator/patient-related factors can hinder the acquisi…

eess.IV2024

Context-Aware Optimal Transport Learning for Retinal Fundus Image Enhancement

Vamsi Krishna Vasa, Peijie Qiu, Wenhui Zhu +3

Retinal fundus photography offers a non-invasive way to diagnose and monitor a variety of retinal diseases, but is prone to inherent quality glitches arising from systemic imperfec…

q-bio.NC2024★ 2 cited

Characterizing visual cortical magnification with topological smoothing and optimal transportation

Yujian Xiong, Yanshuai Tu, Zhong-Lin Lu +1

Human vision has different concentration on visual fields. Cortical magnification factor (CMF) is a popular measurement on visual acuity and cortex concentration. In order to achie…

cs.CV2024

Reconstructing Retinal Visual Images from 3T fMRI Data Enhanced by Unsupervised Learning

Yujian Xiong, Wenhui Zhu, Zhong-Lin Lu +1

The reconstruction of human visual inputs from brain activity, particularly through functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI), holds promising avenues for unraveling the mechani…