Yijie Li

Graduate Student
MSc in Artificial Intelligence
McCormick School of Engineering
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL

I am a graduate student majoring in Artificial Intelligence at Northwestern University. I received my Bachelor’s degree (Software Engineering, dual degree program) from University College Dublin (UCD) and Beijing University of Technology (BJUT) in July 2023.

I was a research intern at Tsinghua University in 2022~2023, focusing on generative adversarial networks (GAN), advised by Professor Yongjin Liu. Before that, I was working on several topics related to computer vision, supervised by Dr. Soumyabrata Dev and Professor Shaofan Wang at UCD and BJUT.

My current research focuses on accurate real-time salient object detection (SOD), application of computer vision in meteorology, and generative models. My research interests lie in remote sensensing, efficient segmentation and detection algorithms, image generation, image attribute manipulation, etc.

news

Jul 31, 2024	Our new paper CPDR: Towards Highly-Efficient Salient Object Detection via Crossed Post-decoder Refinement is accepted by he British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC) 2024.
Jun 18, 2024	Visiting researcher at Robotics Institute (RI), Carnegie Mellon University, supervised by Prof. László A. Jeni.
Oct 16, 2022	Our paper SYGNet: A SVD-YOLO based GhostNet for Real-time Driving Scene Parsing is accepted by 2022 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP).
Jun 6, 2022	Our paper AMDCNet: An attentional multi-directional convolutional network for stereo matching is accepted by Displays.
Jan 1, 2022	Online research intern at Tsinghua University for GAN and image attribute manipulation, advised by Professor Yongjin Liu.
Mar 22, 2021	I will be working on several topics about computer vision, advised by Dr. Soumyabrata Dev.

selected publications

BMVC

CPDR: Towards Highly-Efficient Salient Object Detection via Crossed Post-decoder Refinement

Yijie Li, Hewei Wang, and Aggelos Katsaggelos

In 35th British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), 2024

Bib PDF

@inproceedings{li2024cpdr,
  author = {Li, Yijie and Wang, Hewei and Katsaggelos, Aggelos},
  booktitle = {35th British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC)},
  year = {2024},
  organization = {BMVA},
}

UCloudNet: A Residual U-Net with Deep Supervision for Cloud Image Segmentation

Yijie Li, Hewei Wang, Shaofan Wang, and 3 more authors

In IGARSS 2024-2024 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2024

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@inproceedings{li2024ucloudnet,
  title = {UCloudNet: A Residual U-Net with Deep Supervision for Cloud Image Segmentation},
  author = {Li, Yijie and Wang, Hewei and Wang, Shaofan and Lee, Yee Hui and Pathan, Muhammad Salman and Dev, Soumyabrata},
  booktitle = {IGARSS 2024-2024 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium},
  pages = {5553--5557},
  year = {2024},
  organization = {IEEE},
}

DAANet: Dual Attention Aggregating Network for Salient Object Detection

Yijie Li, Hewei Wang, Zhenqi Li, and 3 more authors

In 2023 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO), 2023

Bib PDF Code

@inproceedings{li2023daanet,
  title = {DAANet: Dual Attention Aggregating Network for Salient Object Detection},
  author = {Li, Yijie and Wang, Hewei and Li, Zhenqi and Wang, Shaofan and Dev, Soumyabrata and Zuo, Guoyu},
  booktitle = {2023 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO)},
  pages = {1--7},
  year = {2023},
  organization = {IEEE},
}

VGRISys: A Vision-Guided Robotic Intelligent System for Autonomous Instrument Calibration

Zhenqi Li, Hewei Wang, Yijie Li, and 2 more authors

In 2023 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO), 2023

Bib PDF

@inproceedings{li2023vgrisys,
  title = {VGRISys: A Vision-Guided Robotic Intelligent System for Autonomous Instrument Calibration},
  author = {Li, Zhenqi and Wang, Hewei and Li, Yijie and Dev, Soumyabrata and Zuo, Guoyu},
  booktitle = {2023 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO)},
  pages = {1--6},
  year = {2023},
  organization = {IEEE},
}

MFCSNet: A Musician-Follower Complex Social Network for measuring musical influence

Hewei Wang, Yijie Li, Kaiwen Gong, and 4 more authors

Entertainment Computing, 2024

Bib PDF Code

@article{wang2023mfcsnet,
  title = {MFCSNet: A Musician-Follower Complex Social Network for measuring musical influence},
  author = {Wang, Hewei and Li, Yijie and Gong, Kaiwen and Pathan, Muhammad Salman and Zhu, Bolun and Wen, Ziyuan and Dev, Soumyabrata},
  journal = {Entertainment Computing},
  volume = {48},
  pages = {100601},
  year = {2024},
  publisher = {Elsevier},
}

AMDCNet: An attentional multi-directional convolutional network for stereo matching

Hewei Wang, Yijie Li, Shijia Xi, and 3 more authors

Displays, 2022

Bib PDF Code

@article{wang2022amdcnet,
  title = {AMDCNet: An attentional multi-directional convolutional network for stereo matching},
  author = {Wang, Hewei and Li, Yijie and Xi, Shijia and Wang, Shaofan and Pathan, Muhammad Salman and Dev, Soumyabrata},
  journal = {Displays},
  volume = {74},
  pages = {102243},
  year = {2022},
  publisher = {Elsevier},
}

ICIP

SYGNet: A SVD-YOLO based GhostNet for Real-time Driving Scene Parsing

Hewei Wang, Bolun Zhu, Yijie Li, and 4 more authors

In 2022 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 2022

Bib PDF Code

@inproceedings{wang2022sygnet,
  title = {SYGNet: A SVD-YOLO based GhostNet for Real-time Driving Scene Parsing},
  author = {Wang, Hewei and Zhu, Bolun and Li, Yijie and Gong, Kaiwen and Wen, Ziyuan and Wang, Shaofan and Dev, Soumyabrata},
  booktitle = {2022 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP)},
  pages = {2701--2705},
  year = {2022},
  organization = {IEEE},
}