Selected Publications

VideoSketcher: A Training-Free Approach for Coherent Video Sketch Transfer
Huining Li1,2, Bangzhen Liu1,4, Rui Yang3, Yang Zhou1,5, Chenshu Xu1, Xufang Pang6, Shengfeng He5,*
1Singapore Management University; 2 Baidu Inc; 3 Huaqiao University; 4 City University of Hong Kong;
5 South China University of Technology; 6 Shenzhen Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics for Society
WACV 2026 Oral Paper
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Stroke2Sketch: Harnessing Stroke Attributes for Training-Free Sketch Generation
Rui Yang1,3, Huining Li4,5, Yiyi Long2,5, Xiaojun Wu3,*, Shengfeng He5,*
1 Huaqiao University; 2 South China University of Technology; 3 Shaanxi Normal University;
4 Beihang University; 5 Singapore Management University
* Corresponding authors: Xiaojun Wu and Shengfeng He
ICCV 2025
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Ref2sketch-SA: One-Shot Reference-based Structure-Aware Image to Sketch Synthesis
Rui Yang1,2, Honghong Yang1, Qin Lei3, Kaoru Ota2, Mianxiong Dong2, Xiaojun Wu1
1 Shaanxi Normal University; 2 Muroran Institute of Technology; 3 Chongqing University
AAAI 2025
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MixSA: Training-free Reference-based Sketch Extraction via Mixture-of-Self-Attention
Rui Yang1, Xiaojun Wu1, Shengfeng He2
1 Shaanxi Normal University; 2 Singapore Management University
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
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Semantic layout-guided diffusion model for high-fidelity image synthesis in ‘The Thousand Li of Rivers and Mountains’
Rui Yanga,b,c, Kaoru Otab, Mianxiong Dongb, Xiaojun Wua,b,c,*
a Key Laboratory of Intelligent Computing and Service Technology for Folk Song, Ministry of Culture and Tourism, China
b Muroran Institute of Technology, Muroran, Hokkaido, 0508585, Japan
c School of Computer Science, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an, 710119, China
* Corresponding author: Xiaojun Wu (xjwu@snnu.edu.cn)
Expert Systems with Applications
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HFA-GTNet: Hierarchical Fusion Adaptive Graph Transformer network for dance action recognition
Ru Jia, Li Zhao, Rui Yang, Honghong Yang, Xiaojun Wu,
Yumei Zhang, Peng Li, Yuping Su
Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation
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Expanding Crack Segmentation Dataset with Crack Growth Simulation and Feature Space Diversity
Qin Lei, Rui Yang, Jiang Zhong, Rongzhen Li, Muyang He, Mianxiong Dong, Kaoru Ota
2024 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), Oral Paper
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Special perceptual parsing for Chinese landscape painting scene understanding: a semantic segmentation approach
Rui Yang, Honghong Yang, Min Zhao, Ru Jia, Xiaojun Wu, Yumei Zhang
Neural Computing and Applications
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