Yan Wang (王龑)

Dr. Yan Wang will be a Research Professor (Zijiang Young Scholar) with School of Data Science and Engineering, East China Normal University in May 2025. He received the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science and Technology from Fudan University in Jan. 2023, and then then continued to work as a postdoctoral fellow at the Fudan University , both with Prof. Wenqiang Zhang as the advisor. In the past 3 years, he has published 20+ papers [Google Scholar] as the first or corresponding author (co-author) in top conferences and journals such as CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, NeurIPS, AAAI, ACM MM, Information Fusion, and IEEE TII. He won the 2024 Information Fusion Best Survey Award (the only best review paper award in 2024, the only first author), Shanghai Super Postdoctoral Fellow, and the 2024 Fudan University "Top Ten Scientific and Technological Advances" Award (Guanghua No. 1 Humanoid Robot). His research interests include expression recognition and affective computing, embodied intelligence, ‌AIGC, multimedia information processing, machine vision and enhancement.

News and Olds

[2025-05] I will be Research Professor, Zijiang Young Scholar (equivalent to Pre-tenure Professor) with School of Data Science and Engineering, East China Normal University, China.
[2025-03] One paper has been accepted by Information Fusion 2025 (IF=14.8)
[2025-02] One paper has been accepted by CVPR 2025
[2025-01] One paper has been accepted by ICRA 2025
[2025-01] Congratulations. "Development and Industrialization of Embodied Universal Humanoid Robot (Fudan Guanghua No. 1) " was selected as "Top Ten Scientific and Technological Advances" of Fudan University in 2024
[2024-12] One paper has been accepted by AAAI 2025
[2024-11] Congratulations. "A Systematic Review on Affective Computing: Emotion Models, Databases, and Recent Advances" was selected as Information Fusion 2024 Best Survey Award
[2024-10] A Survey on RGB, 3D, and Multimodal Approaches for Unsupervised Industrial Anomaly Detection can be viewed from [Arxiv] [Github]
[2024-09] One paper has been accepted by NeurIPS 2024
[2024-08] A Survey on Facial Expression Recognition of Static and Dynamic Emotions can be viewed from [Arxiv] [Github]
[2024-08] One paper has been accepted by Information Sciences
[2024-07] Two papers ( One Oral ) have been accepted by ACMMM 2024
[2024-17] One paper has been accepted by ECCV 2024
[2024-04] One paper has been accepted by IJCAI 2024
[2024-03] Two papers have been accepted by CVPR 2024
[2024-02] We will release a Multi-Scene Unsupervised Anomaly Detection Dataset MSC-AD
[2024-02] We will release the IndSR dataset
[2024-01] One paper has been accepted by IEEE Trans. on Industrial Informatics (IF: 12.3)
[2023-12] One paper has been accepted by AAAI 2024
[2023-12] Two papers have been accepted by Computer Communications (IF: 6.0)
[2023-11] One paper has been accepted by IEEE Trans. on Industrial Informatics (IF: 12.3)
[2023-10] Three papers ( Best Paper Nomination ) has been accepted by INSAI 2023
[2023-12] Five papers ( Two Oral Papers ) have been accepted by ACMMM 2023
[2023-07] Two papers have been accepted by ICCV 2023
[2023-03] One paper has been accepted by IEEE Trans. on CSVT (IF=8.4)
[2022-06] Two paper have been accepted by ACMMM 2022
[2022-05] We release the FERV39k dataset
[2022-03] One paper has been accepted by Information Fusion (IF=18.6)
[2022-02] One paper has been accepted by CVPR 2022
[2021-11] One paper has been accepted by AAAI 2022
[2020-09] One paper has been accepted by IEEE Trans. on Broadcasting

Preprints/Manuscripts [Google Scholar]

A Survey on Facial Expression Recognition of Static and Dynamic Emotions
arXiv preprint, 2024
Yan Wang, Shaoqi Yan, Yang Liu, Wei Song, Jing Liu, Yang Chang, Xinji Mai, Xiping Hu, Wenqiang Zhang^✉, Zhongxue Gan^✉.
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Hi-EF: Benchmarking for Human-interaction-based Emotion Forecasting
arXiv preprint, 2024
Haoran Wang, Xinji Mai, Zeng Tao, Yan Wang, Yan Wang^✉, Jiawen Yu, Ziheng Zhou, Xuan Tong, Shaoqi Yan, Qing Zhao, Shuyong Gao, Wenqiang Zhang^✉.
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A3lign-DFER: Pioneering Comprehensive Dynamic Affective Alignment for Dynamic Facial Expression Recognition with CLIP
arXiv preprint, 2024
Zeng Tao, Yan Wang^✉, Junxiong Lin, Haoran Wang, Xinji Mai,... , Wenqiang Zhang^✉
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Selected Publications [Google Scholar]

(^✉ indicates corresponding author, and ^* indicates equal contribution)

A Systematic Review on Affective Computing: Emotion Models, Databases, and Recent Advances
Information Fusion, 2022 [ESI Highly Cited Paper]
Yan Wang, Wei Song, Wei Tao, Dawei Yang, Antonio Liotta,Dawei Yang, Xinlei Li, Shuyong Gao, Yixuan Sun, Weifeng Ge, Wei Zhang, Wenqiang Zhang^✉.
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A Survey on RGB, 3D, and Multimodal Approaches for Unsupervised Industrial Anomaly Detection
Information Fusion, 2025
Yuxuan Lin,Yang Chang, Xuan Tong, Jiawen Yu, Antonio Liotta, Guofan Huang, Wei Song, Deyu Zeng, Zongze Wu, Yan Wang^✉, Wenqiang Zhang^✉.
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D2SP: Dynamic Dual-Stage Purification Framework for Dual Noise Mitigation in Vision-based Affective Recognition
CVPR, 2025
Haoran Wang, Xinji Mai, Zeng Tao, Xuan Tong, Junxiong Lin, Yan Wang^✉, Jiawen Yu, Shaoqi Yan, Ziheng Zhou, Wenqiang Zhang^✉.
PDF Project Page Github

OUS: Bridging Scene Context and Facial Features to Overcome the Rigid Cognitive Problem
AAAI, 2025
Xinji Mai, Haoran Wang, Zeng Tao, Junxiong Lin, Shaoqi Yan, Yan Wang^✉, Jiawen Yu, Xuan Tong, Yating Li, Wenqiang Zhang^✉.
PDF Project Page Github

ZhongJingGPT: An Expert Knowledge-Guided Language Model for Traditional Chinese Medicine
Tsinghua Science and Technology, 2025
Yanlan Kang, Yang Chang, ... ,Yan Wang^✉, Haofen Wang^✉ , William Cheng-Chung Chu^✉ , Wenqiang Zhang^✉.
PDF Project Page Github

Towards Advanced Emotional Care: Embodied Emotional Care System for Humanoid Robots
ICME, 2025
Yang Chang, Aoxing Li, Yuxuan Lin, ..., Yan Wang^✉, Wenqiang Zhang^✉.
PDF Project Page Github

MGR³Net: Multi-Granularity Region Relation Representation Network for Facial Expression Recognition in Affective Robots
IEEE Trans. on Industrial Informatics, 2024
Yan Wang, Shaoqi Yan, Wei Song, Antonio Liotta, Jing Liu, Dingkang Yang, Shuyong Gao, Wenqiang Zhang^✉.
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LCGen: Mining in Low-Certainty Generation for View-consistent Text-to-3D
NeurIPS, 2024
Zeng Tao, Tong Yang, Junxiong Lin, Xinji Mai, Haoran Wang, Beining Wang, Enyu Zhou, Yan Wang^✉, Wenqiang Zhang^✉.
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Adaptive Multi-modal Fusion of Spatially Variant Kernel Refinement with Diffusion Model for Blind Image Super-Resolution
ECCV, 2024
Junxiong Lin, Yan Wang^✉, Zeng Tao, Boyang Wang, Qing Zhao, Haorang Wang, Xuan Tong, Xinji Mai, Yuxuan Lin, ..., Wenqiang Zhang.
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All rivers run into the sea: Unified Modality Brain-like Emotional Central Mechanism
ACM MM, 2024 [Oral]
Xinji Mai, Junxiong Lin, Haoran Wang, Zeng Tao, Yan Wang^✉, Shaoqi Yan, Xuan Tong, Jiawen Yu, Boyang Wang, Ziheng Zhou, Qing Zhao, Shuyong Gao, Wenqiang Zhang.
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Observe Finer To Select Better: Learning Key Frame Extraction via Semantic Coherence for Dynamic Facial Expression Recognition in the Wild
Information Sciences, 2024
Shaoqi Yan, Yan Wang^✉, Xinji Mai , Zeng Tao, Wei Song , Qing Zhao, Boyang Wang, Haoran Wang, Shuyong Gao, Wenqiang Zhang^✉.
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A User-Friendly Framework for Generating Model-Preferred Prompts in Text-to-Image
AAAI, 2024
Nailei Hei, Qianyu Guo, Zihao Wang, Yan Wang^✉, Haofen Wang^✉, Wenqiang Zhang^✉.
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Suppressing Uncertainties in Degradation Estimation for Blind Super-Resolution
ACM MM, 2024
Junxiong Lin, Zeng Tao, Xuan Tong, Xinji Mai, Haoran Wang, Boyang Wang, Yan Wang^✉, Qing Zhao, Jiawen Yu, Yuxuan Lin, Shaoqi Yan, Shuyong Gao, Wenqiang Zhang^✉.
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FD-UAD: Unsupervised Anomaly Detection Platform Based on Defect Autonomous Imaging and Enhancement
IJCAI, 2024
Yang Chang, Yuxuan Lin, Boyang Wang, Qing Zhao, Yan Wang^✉, Wenqiang Zhang^✉.
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MSC-AD: A Multi-Scene Unsupervised Anomaly Detection Dataset for Small Defect Detection of Casting Surface
IEEE Trans. on Industrial Informatics, 2023
Qing Zhao, Yan Wang^✉, Boyang Wang, Junxiong Lin, Shaoqi Yan, Wei Song, Antonio Liotta, Jiawen Yu, Shuyong Gao, Wenqiang Zhang^✉.
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Freq-HD: an Interpretable Frequency-based High-Dynamics Affective Clip Selection Method for in-the-Wild Facial Expression Recognition in Videos
ACM MM, 2023 [Oral]
Zeng Tao, Yan Wang^✉, Zhaoyu Chen, Boyang Wang, Shaoqi Yan, Kaixun Jiang, Shuyong Gao, Wenqiang Zhang^✉.
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Efficient Decision-based Black-box Patch Attacks on Video Recognition
ICCV, 2023
Kaixun Jiang, Zhaoyu Chen, Tony Huang, Jiafeng Wang, Dingkang Yang, Bo Li, Yan Wang^✉, Wenqiang Zhang^✉
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Towards Decision-based Sparse Attacks on Video Recognition
ACM MM, 2023 [Oral]
Kaixun Jiang, Zhaoyu Chen, Xinyu Zhou, Jingyu Zhang, Lingyi Hong, JiaFeng Wang, Bo Li, Yan Wang^✉, Wenqiang Zhang^✉.
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Empower Smart Cities with Sampling-wise Dynamic Facial Expression Recognition via Frame-Sequence Contrastive Learning
INSAI 2023 --> Computer Communications, 2023
Shaoqi Yan, Yan Wang^✉, Xinji Mai, Qing Zhao, Wei Song, Jun Huang, Zeng Tao, Haoran Wang, Shuyong Gao, Wenqiang Zhang^✉.
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A Capture to Registration Framework for Realistic Image Super-Resolution in the Industry Environment
ACM MM, 2023
Boyang Wang, Yan Wang^✉, Qing Zhao, Junxiong Lin, ..., Shuyong Gao, Wenqiang Zhang^✉
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Mixed Noise-Guided Mutual Constraint Framework for Unsupervised Anomaly Detection in Smart Industries
INSAI 2023 --> Computer Communications, 2023
Qing Zhao, Yan Wang^✉,Yuxuan Lin, Shaoqi Yan, Wei Song, Boyang Wang, Jun Huang, Yang Chang, Lizhe Qi^✉, Wenqiang Zhang^✉.
PDF| Project Page| Github

FERV39k: A Large-Scale Multi-Scene Dataset for Facial Expression Recognition in Videos
CVPR, 2022
Yan Wang, Yixuan Sun, Yiwen Huang, Zhongying Liu, Shuyong Gao, Wei Zhang, Weifeng Ge^✉, Wenqiang Zhang^✉.
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DPCNet: Dual Path Multi-Excitation Collaborative Network for Facial Expression Representation Learning in Videos
ACM MM, 2022
Yan Wang, Yixuan Sun, Wei Song, Shuyong Gao, Yiwen Huang, Zhaoyu Chen, Weifeng Ge^✉, Wenqiang Zhang^✉.
PDF| Project Page| Github

Enhancement of Underwater Images with Statistical Model of Background Light and Optimization of Transmission Map
IEEE Trans. on Broadcasting, 2020 [ESI Highly Cited Paper]
Wei Song, Yan Wang^✉, Dongmei Huang^✉, Antonio Liotta, Cristian Perra.
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An Experimental-based Review of Image Enhancement and Image Restoration Methods for Underwater Imaging
IEEE, 2019
Yan Wang, Wei Song^✉, Giancarlo Fortino, Lizhe Qi, Wenqiang Zhang, Antonio Liotta.
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A Rapid Scene Depth Estimation Model Based on Underwater Light Attenuation Prior for Underwater Image Restoration
PCM, 2018 [3 Accept, Oral]
Wei Song^*, Yan Wang^*, Dongmei Huang, Dian Tjondronegoro.
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Honors & Awards:

In 2024, Information Fusion 2024 Best Survey Award

In 2024, Top Ten Scientific and Technological Advances" of Fudan University (Fudan Guanghua No. 1 Humanoid Robot)

In 2023, Outstanding graduate of Shanghai

In 2022, National Scholarship for Graduate Students

In 2021, first-class scholarship in Fudan University

In 2020, Dong Scholarship in Fudan University

In 2020, Outstanding Graduate student of Postgraduate backbone in Fudan University

In 2020, Excellent graduation thesis of Shanghai Ocean University

One paper is recognized as Featured article in IEEE.

In 2019, Alumni Liaison Ambassador of Shanghai Ocean University

In 2019, Outstanding graduate of Shanghai

In 2018, National Scholarship for Graduate Students

Professional Service:

Program Committee Member/Reviewer

CVPR: 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024

ICCV: 2021, 2023

ECCV: 2022, 2024

AAAI: 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025

ACM MM: 2022, 2023, 2024

Journal Reviewer

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI)

International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV)

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP)

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (TII)

IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (TNNLS)

IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM)

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT)

IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting (TBC)

Pattern Recognition

Knowledge-Based Systems

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News and Olds

Preprints/Manuscripts [Google Scholar]

Selected Publications [Google Scholar]

Honors & Awards:

Professional Service:

Yan Wang (王龑)