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Liyun Zhang
Specially-Appointed Researcher/Fellow
Intelligence and Sensing Lab (ISLab) |
Biography
I am currently a Specially-Appointed Researcher/Fellow at 
ISLab,
Osaka University.
I obtained my Ph.D. degree at 
Takemura Lab,
Osaka University,
advised by Prof. Haruo Takemura and Prof. Photchara Ratsamee.
I was a visiting scholar at 
Georgia Tech
advised by Prof. Animesh Garg.
I was a specially appointed researcher at 
Sysmex Corporation,
and embedded software engineer worked at 
Huawei,
ZTE Corporation, etc.
Research interests: Multimodal LLMs, Embodied AI, Cognitive Interaction, Robot Learning, Affective Computing, and Multi-Annotator Learning.
Openings: I am open to potential research positions from Universities, Research Institutes, or Corporation Research Departments.
• I look forward to receiving all kinds and forms of collaboration opportunities related to my research interests.
News
• 2025.2: One paper about Multi-Annotator Tendency Learning submitted to arXiv.
• 2024.11: One paper about Diffusion Policy submitted to arXiv.
• 2024.8: One paper about Multimodal Large Language Model accepted to MRAC’24 @ ACMMM.
• 2024.4: I start a new research career as a Specially-Appointed Researcher/Fellow at ISLab.
• 2023.6: One paper about Vision Enhancement accepted to TCSVT.
• 2023.2: I start a research collaboration with Georgia Tech advised by Prof. Animesh Garg.
• 2023.1: One paper about Image Translation accepted to WACV 2023.
• 2022.11: One paper about Robotic Perception accepted to SSRR 2022.
Publications
# Corresponding author; * Equal contribution|
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MicroEmo: Time-Sensitive Multimodal Emotion Recognition with Subtle Clue Dynamics in Video Dialogues
Liyun Zhang, Zhaojie Luo, Shuqiong Wu, Yuta Nakashima#. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Multimodal and Responsible Affective Computing (MRAC’24 @ ACMMM), 2024. [Paper] |
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Panoptic-Level Image-to-Image Translation for Object Recognition and Visual Odometry Enhancement
Liyun Zhang, Photchara Ratsamee#, Zhaojie Luo#, Yuki Uranishi, Manabu Higashida, Haruo Takemura. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT), 2023. [Paper] [Code,Data] |
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Panoptic-aware Image-to-Image Translation
Liyun Zhang, Photchara Ratsamee, Bowen Wang, Zhaojie Luo, Yuki Uranishi, Manabu Higashida, Haruo Takemura. IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), 2023. [Paper] [Code,Data] [DOI] |
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Thermal-to-Color Image Translation for Enhancing Visual Odometry of Thermal Vision
Liyun Zhang, Photchara Ratsamee, Yuki Uranishi, Manabu Higashida, Haruo Takemura. IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics (SSRR), 2022. [Paper] |
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Uneven Illumination Image Segmentation Based on Multi-threshold S-F
Liyun Zhang, Nanyan Liu, Yuanbin Hou, Xiaojian Liu. Opto-Electronic Engineering (OEE), 2014. [Paper] |
Teams
Embodied AI:
 Animesh Garg Assistant Professor (Georgia Tech) |
 Jason Orlosky Associate Professor (Augusta University & Osaka University) |
 Photchara Ratsamee Lecturer (Osaka Institute of Technology & Osaka University) |
 Masato Kobayashi Assistant Professor (Osaka University) |
Cognitive Interaction:
 Zheng Lian Associate Professor (Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences) |
 Zhaojie Luo Associate Professor (Southeast University) |
 Shuqiong Wu Assistant Professor (Osaka University) |
Student:
 Xuanmeng Sha PhD Student (Osaka University) |
Teaching & Working
| 2024.4-Current | Specially-Appointed Researcher/Fellow | Osaka University |
| 2023.2-2024.3 | Visiting Scholar | Georgia Tech |
| 2023.7-2024.2 | Research Assistant | Osaka University |
| 2021.5-2023.3 | Student Researcher | Sysmex |
| 2021.4-2021.9 | Teaching Assistant | Osaka University |
| 2020.10-2021.3 | Research Assistant | Osaka University |
| 2017.12-2018.9 | Embedded Software Engineer | ZTE |
| 2016.11-2017.3 | Software R&D Engineer | Huawei |
| 2015.7-2017.12 | Embedded Software Engineer |  Huaqin Tech |
Invited Talks
| In Progress |
Recent Community Services
Reviewer Service
| ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACMMM) | 2025 |
| International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) | 2025 |
| Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) | 2025 |
| Pattern Recognition (PR) | 2024 |
| IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT) | 2023 |
| IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) | 2023 |
| Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) | 2022 |
| European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) | 2022 |