Data-efficient vision for real-world problems

I’m Yi Yu, a postdoctoral scholar at The Ohio State University. My research focuses on visual learning with limited supervision.

Yi Yu standing outdoors
Postdoctoral Scholar
The Ohio State University

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About

  1. Current

    Postdoctoral Scholar

    The Ohio State University
    Mentor · Yuan Xue

  2. 2025

    Postdoctoral Scholar

    Southeast University
    Mentor · Feipeng Da

  3. 2022

    Ph.D. Degree

    Southeast University
    Advisor · Feipeng Da

  4. 2016

    B.E. Degree

    Southeast University
    Major · Automation

Research topics

  • Data- and label-efficient learning
  • Object segmentation and detection
  • Vision-language models
  • 3D vision and point cloud learning

Applications

  • Biomedical data analysis
  • Aerial image interpretation
  • Advanced manufacturing

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Publications

2026

CVPR · 2026

Partial Weakly-Supervised Oriented Object Detection

Mingxin Liu, Peiyuan Zhang, Yuan Liu, Wei Zhang, Yue Zhou, Ning Liao, Ziyang Gong, Junwei Luo, Zhirui Wang, Yi Yu, Xue Yang

ECCV · 2026

Atlas is Your Perfect Context: One-Shot Customization for Generalizable Foundational Medical Image Segmentation

Ziyu Zhang*, Yi Yu*, Simeng Zhu, Ahmed Aly, Yunhe Gao, Ning Gu, Yuan Xue

IJCV · 2026

Exploiting Unlabeled Data with Multiple Expert Teachers for Open Vocabulary Aerial Object Detection and Its Orientation Adaptation

Yan Li, Weiwei Guo, Xue Yang, Ning Liao, Shaofeng Zhang, Yi Yu, Wenxian Yu, Junchi Yan

MICCAI · 2026

Automatic LV Localization and Short-Axis Plane Estimation from Arbitrary CMR Slice

Yi Yu, Yixuan Liu, Ziyu Zhang, Parker Martin, Zhenyu Bu, Yuchi Han, Yuan Xue

ISBI · 2026

Uncertainty-Aware Structured Data Extraction from Full CMR Reports via Distilled LLMs

Yi Yu, Parker Martin, Zhenyu Bu, Yixuan Liu, Yi-Yu Zheng, Orlando Simonetti, Yuchi Han, Yuan Xue

MIDL · 2026

Unlocking 2D Promptable Foundation Models for 3D Vessel Segmentation by Automatic Prompt Generation

Ziyu Zhang*, Yi Yu*, Yuan Xue

ICLR · 2026

Point2RBox-v3: Self-Bootstrapping from Point Annotations via Integrated Pseudo-Label Refinement and Utilization

Teng Zhang*, Ziqian Fan*, Mingxin Liu, Xin Zhang, Xudong Lu, Wentong Li, Yue Zhou, Yi Yu, Xiang Li, Junchi Yan, Xue Yang

Remote Sensing · 2026

Co-Training Vision-Language Models for Remote Sensing Multi-Task Learning

Qingyun Li*, Shuran Ma*, Junwei Luo*, Yi Yu*, Yue Zhou, Fengxiang Wang, Xudong Lu, Xiaoxing Wang, Xin He, Yushi Chen, Xue Yang, Junchi Yan

2025

CVPR Workshop · 2025

Rethinking RoI Strategy in Interactive 3D Segmentation for Medical Images

Ziyu Zhang*, Yi Yu*, Yuan Xue

Second place, CVPR 2025 Challenge on Foundation Models for Interactive 3D Biomedical Image Segmentation.

CVPR · 2025

Point2RBox-v2: Rethinking Point-Supervised Oriented Object Detection with Spatial Layout Among Instances

Yi Yu*, Botao Ren*, Peiyuan Zhang*, Mingxin Liu, Junwei Luo, Shaofeng Zhang, Feipeng Da, Junchi Yan, Xue Yang

TPAMI · 2025

Wholly-WOOD: Wholly Leveraging Diversified-Quality Labels for Weakly-Supervised Oriented Object Detection

Yi Yu*, Xue Yang*, Yansheng Li, Zhenjun Han, Feipeng Da, Junchi Yan

IJCV · 2025

PointOBB-v3: Expanding Performance Boundaries of Single Point-Supervised Oriented Object Detection

Peiyuan Zhang*, Junwei Luo*, Xue Yang*, Yi Yu, Qingyun Li, Yue Zhou, Xiaosong Jia, Xudong Lu, Jingdong Chen, Xiang Li, Junchi Yan, Yansheng Li

ICLR · 2025

PointOBB-v2: Towards Simpler, Faster, and Stronger Single Point Supervised Oriented Object Detection

Botao Ren*, Xue Yang*, Yi Yu*, Junwei Luo, Zhidong Deng

IGARSS · 2025

A Simple Aerial Detection Baseline of Multimodal Language Models

Qingyun Li, Yushi Chen, Xinya Shu, Dong Chen, Xin He, Yi Yu, Xue Yang

Measurement · 2025

PCBSSD: Self-Supervised Symmetry-Aware Detector for PCB Displacement and Orientation Inspection

Jingxuan Li, Feipeng Da, Yi Yu

TPAMI · 2025

STAR: A First-Ever Dataset and a Large-Scale Benchmark for Scene Graph Generation in Large-Size Satellite Imagery

Yansheng Li, Linlin Wang, Tingzhu Wang, Xue Yang, Junwei Luo, Qi Wang, Youming Deng, Wenbin Wang, Xian Sun, Haifeng Li, Bo Dang, Yongjun Zhang, Yi Yu, Junchi Yan

Earlier publications · 2019–2024

2024

TPAMI · 2024

On Boundary Discontinuity in Angle Regression Based Arbitrary Oriented Object Detection

Yi Yu, Feipeng Da

CVPR · 2024

Point2RBox: Combine Knowledge from Synthetic Visual Patterns for End-to-End Oriented Object Detection with Single Point Supervision

Yi Yu*, Xue Yang*, Qingyun Li, Feipeng Da, Jifeng Dai, Yu Qiao, Junchi Yan

CVPR · 2024

PointOBB: Learning Oriented Object Detection via Single Point Supervision

Junwei Luo, Xue Yang, Yi Yu, Qingyun Li, Junchi Yan, Yansheng Li

Applied Soft Computing · 2024

Momentum Accelerated Unfolding Network with Spectral–Spatial Prior for Computational Spectral Imaging

Zeyu Cai, Chunlu Li, Yi Yu, Chengqian Jin, Feipeng Da

2023

NeurIPS · 2023

H2RBox-v2: Incorporating Symmetry for Boosting Horizontal Box Supervised Oriented Object Detection

Yi Yu*, Xue Yang*, Qingyun Li, Yue Zhou, Feipeng Da, Junchi Yan

CVPR · 2023

Phase-Shifting Coder: Predicting Accurate Orientation in Oriented Object Detection

Yi Yu, Feipeng Da

Applied Intelligence · 2023

VGPCNet: Viewport Group Point Clouds Network for 3D Shape Recognition

Ziyu Zhang, Yi Yu, Feipeng Da

2019–2022

MTAP · 2022

Few-Data Guided Learning upon End-to-End Point Cloud Network for 3D Face Recognition

Yi Yu, Feipeng Da, Ziyu Zhang

Pattern Recognition · 2022

Learning Directly from Synthetic Point Clouds for “In-the-Wild” 3D Face Recognition

Ziyu Zhang, Feipeng Da, Yi Yu

RA-L · 2022

Partial-to-Partial Point Generation Network for Point Cloud Completion

Ziyu Zhang, Yi Yu, Feipeng Da

Optics Express · 2021

Defocused Projection Model for Phase-Shifting Profilometry with a Large Depth Range

Yi Yu, Feipeng Da

TCI · 2020

High-Speed Phase-Shifting 3D Profilometry on Human Face Assisted by Statistical Model

Yi Yu, Feipeng Da, Yifan Guo, Ziyu Zhang

TIFS · 2019

Sparse ICP with Resampling and Denoising for 3D Face Verification

Yi Yu, Feipeng Da, Yifan Guo

ICOPEN · 2019

Face Recognition on 3D Point Clouds

Ziyu Zhang, Feipeng Da, Chenxing Wang, Jian Yu, Yi Yu

* Equal contribution.

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Awards

  1. 2025 CVPR Challenge on Foundation Models for Interactive 3D Biomedical Image Segmentation — Honorable Mention Award
  2. 2023 Jiangsu Funding Program for Excellent Postdoctoral Talent
  3. 2022 Zhishan Postdoctoral Program, Southeast University
  4. 2015 National Undergraduate Electronic Design Contest (China) — First Prize
  5. 2015 “Challenge Cup” National College Student Academic Science and Technology Competition (China) — Second Prize
  6. 2014 “Freescale Cup” National College Student Smart Car Competition (Eastern China) — First Prize