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2026

ICML

Position: Universal Aesthetic Alignment Narrows Artistic Expression

Wenqi Marshall Guo, Qingyun Qian, Khalad Hasan, Shan Du. International Conference on Machine Learning, Position Track.

BibTeX citation
@InProceedings{Guo_2026_AestheticAlignment,
  author    = {Guo, Wenqi Marshall and Qian, Qingyun and Hasan, Khalad and Du, Shan},
  title     = {Position: Universal Aesthetic Alignment Narrows Artistic Expression},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning},
  year      = {2026},
  note      = {Position Track Spotlight},
  url       = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=1gQ4zc1Q8I}
}

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ICLR

VSF: Simple, Efficient, and Effective Negative Guidance in Few-Step Image Generation Models By Value Sign Flip

Wenqi Guo, Shan Du. International Conference on Learning Representations.

BibTeX citation
@InProceedings{Guo_2026_VSF,
  author    = {Guo, Wenqi and Du, Shan},
  title     = {{VSF}: Simple, Efficient, and Effective Negative Guidance in Few-Step Image Generation Models By Value Sign Flip},
  booktitle = {The Fourteenth International Conference on Learning Representations},
  year      = {2026},
  url       = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=W2NINfoVtN}
}

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WACV

ArchitectHead: Continuous Level of Detail Control for 3D Gaussian Head Avatars

Peizhi Yan, Rabab Ward, Qiang Tang, Shan Du. Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision, 1632–1642.

BibTeX citation
@InProceedings{Yan_2026_WACV,
  author    = {Yan, Peizhi and Ward, Rabab and Tang, Qiang and Du, Shan},
  title     = {ArchitectHead: Continuous Level of Detail Control for 3D Gaussian Head Avatars},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV)},
  month     = {March},
  year      = {2026},
  pages     = {1632--1642}
}

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CVPR

TriSim: Tri-Dimensional Similarity Modeling with Extreme Value Theory for False-Negative Mitigation in Remote Sensing Image-Text Retrieval

Chengyu Zheng, Hanzhang Lu, Jie Nie, Shan Du. Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 23944–23954.

BibTeX citation
@InProceedings{Zheng_2026_CVPR,
  author    = {Zheng, Chengyu and Lu, Hanzhang and Nie, Jie and Du, Shan},
  title     = {TriSim: Tri-Dimensional Similarity Modeling with Extreme Value Theory for False-Negative Mitigation in Remote Sensing Image-Text Retrieval},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)},
  month     = {June},
  year      = {2026},
  pages     = {23944--23954}
}

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TVC

JVLGS: Joint Vision–Language Gas Leak Segmentation

Xinlong Zhao, Qixiang Pang, Shan Du. The Visual Computer, Article 428.

BibTeX citation
@Article{Zhao_2026_JVLGS,
  author  = {Zhao, Xinlong and Pang, Qixiang and Du, Shan},
  title   = {JVLGS: Joint Vision--Language Gas Leak Segmentation},
  journal = {The Visual Computer},
  year    = {2026},
  volume  = {42},
  number  = {10},
  article = {428},
  doi     = {10.1007/s00371-026-04591-y}
}

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2025

CVPRW

LangGas: Introducing Language in Selective Zero-Shot Background Subtraction for Semi-Transparent Gas Leak Detection with a New Dataset

Wenqi Guo, Yiyang Du, Shan Du. Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops, 4529–4539.

BibTeX citation
@InProceedings{Guo_2025_CVPR,
  author    = {Guo, Wenqi and Du, Yiyang and Du, Shan},
  title     = {LangGas: Introducing Language in Selective Zero-Shot Background Subtraction for Semi-Transparent Gas Leak Detection with a New Dataset},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops},
  month     = {June},
  year      = {2025},
  pages     = {4529--4539}
}

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TVCG

Neural 3D Face Shape Stylization Based on Single Style Template via Weakly Supervised Learning

Peizhi Yan, Rabab K. Ward, Qiang Tang, Shan Du. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 9522–9529.

BibTeX citation
@Article{Yan_2025_FaceStylization,
  author  = {Yan, Peizhi and Ward, Rabab K. and Tang, Qiang and Du, Shan},
  title   = {Neural 3D Face Shape Stylization Based on Single Style Template via Weakly Supervised Learning},
  journal = {IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics},
  year    = {2025},
  volume  = {31},
  number  = {10},
  pages   = {9522--9529},
  doi     = {10.1109/TVCG.2025.3573690}
}

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Neurocomputing

StyleMorpheus: Learning a StyleGAN-Based 3D-Aware Morphable Face Model with a Disentangled Style Space

Peizhi Yan, Rabab K. Ward, Dan Wang, Qiang Tang, Shan Du. Neurocomputing, Article 131329.

BibTeX citation
@Article{Yan_2025_StyleMorpheus,
  author  = {Yan, Peizhi and Ward, Rabab K. and Wang, Dan and Tang, Qiang and Du, Shan},
  title   = {StyleMorpheus: Learning a StyleGAN-Based 3D-Aware Morphable Face Model with a Disentangled Style Space},
  journal = {Neurocomputing},
  year    = {2025},
  volume  = {654},
  pages   = {131329},
  doi     = {10.1016/j.neucom.2025.131329}
}

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WACV

Gaussian Deja-vu: Creating Controllable 3D Gaussian Head-Avatars with Enhanced Generalization and Personalization Abilities

Peizhi Yan, Rabab Ward, Qiang Tang, Shan Du. Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision, 276–286.

BibTeX citation
@InProceedings{Yan_2025_WACV,
  author    = {Yan, Peizhi and Ward, Rabab and Tang, Qiang and Du, Shan},
  title     = {Gaussian Deja-vu: Creating Controllable 3D Gaussian Head-Avatars with Enhanced Generalization and Personalization Abilities},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV)},
  month     = {February},
  year      = {2025},
  pages     = {276--286}
}

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ICIP

Fine-Grained Spatial-Temporal Perception for Gas Leak Segmentation

Xinlong Zhao, Shan Du. IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, 869–874.

BibTeX citation
@InProceedings{Zhao_2025_FGSTP,
  author    = {Zhao, Xinlong and Du, Shan},
  title     = {Fine-Grained Spatial-Temporal Perception for Gas Leak Segmentation},
  booktitle = {2025 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP)},
  year      = {2025},
  pages     = {869--874},
  doi       = {10.1109/ICIP55913.2025.11084304}
}

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TMM

Cross-Modal Progressive Perspective Matching Network for Remote Sensing Image-Text Retrieval

Chengyu Zheng, Xiu Li, Xinyue Liang, Lei Huang, Shan Du, Jie Nie, Junyu Dong. IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 3966–3978.

BibTeX citation
@Article{Zheng_2025_CPPMN,
  author  = {Zheng, Chengyu and Li, Xiu and Liang, Xinyue and Huang, Lei and Du, Shan and Nie, Jie and Dong, Junyu},
  title   = {Cross-Modal Progressive Perspective Matching Network for Remote Sensing Image-Text Retrieval},
  journal = {IEEE Transactions on Multimedia},
  year    = {2025},
  volume  = {27},
  pages   = {3966--3978},
  doi     = {10.1109/TMM.2025.3535365}
}

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2024

Remote Sensing

First Investigation of Long-Term Methane Emissions from Wastewater Treatment Using Satellite Remote Sensing

Seyed Mostafa Mehrdad, Bo Zhang, Wenqi Guo, Shan Du, Ke Du. Remote Sensing, Article 4422.

BibTeX citation
@Article{Mehrdad_2024_SatelliteMethane,
  author         = {Mehrdad, Seyed Mostafa and Zhang, Bo and Guo, Wenqi and Du, Shan and Du, Ke},
  title          = {First Investigation of Long-Term Methane Emissions from Wastewater Treatment Using Satellite Remote Sensing},
  journal        = {Remote Sensing},
  year           = {2024},
  volume         = {16},
  number         = {23},
  article-number = {4422},
  doi            = {10.3390/rs16234422}
}

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2023

ICIP

Learning Disentangled Features for NeRF-Based Face Reconstruction

Peizhi Yan, Rabab Ward, Dan Wang, Qiang Tang, Shan Du. IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, 1135–1139.

BibTeX citation
@InProceedings{Yan_2023_HeadNeRF,
  author    = {Yan, Peizhi and Ward, Rabab and Wang, Dan and Tang, Qiang and Du, Shan},
  title     = {Learning Disentangled Features for NeRF-Based Face Reconstruction},
  booktitle = {2023 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP)},
  year      = {2023},
  pages     = {1135--1139},
  doi       = {10.1109/ICIP49359.2023.10222432}
}

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2022

ACCV

NEO-3DF: Novel Editing-Oriented 3D Face Creation and Reconstruction

Peizhi Yan, James Gregson, Qiang Tang, Rabab Ward, Zhan Xu, Shan Du. Proceedings of the Asian Conference on Computer Vision, 486–502.

BibTeX citation
@InProceedings{Yan_2022_NEO3DF,
  author    = {Yan, Peizhi and Gregson, James and Tang, Qiang and Ward, Rabab and Xu, Zhan and Du, Shan},
  title     = {NEO-3DF: Novel Editing-Oriented 3D Face Creation and Reconstruction},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV)},
  year      = {2022},
  pages     = {486--502}
}

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