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Yuning Cui

Technical University of Munich

Informatics 6 - Chair of Robotics, Artificial Intelligence and Real-time Systems (Prof. Knoll)

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  • Office hours: By appointment
  • Room: 5607.03.059
  • E-mail: yuning.cui(at)tum.de

Curriculum Vitae

I am a Ph.D. candidate under the supervision of Prof. Knoll since 2021. 

I mainly focus on low-level vision tasks, such as image dehazing, desnowing, deblurring, etc.

Google Scholar

Education background:

2012.09-2016.06Central South University, Changsha, ChinaBachelor
2016.09-2018.12National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, ChinaMaster
2019.03-2021.07National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, ChinaPhD (Incomplete)
2021.10-PresentTechnical University of Munich 

Professional Activities

Conference Reviewer:

CVPR, ECCV, NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, ICCV IJCAI, ACMMM, ECAI, ACCV, IROS, IJCNN

Journal Reviewer:

  • IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
  • International Journal of Computer Vision
  • IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
  • IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
  • IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems
  • IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
  • IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology
  • IEEE Transactions on Computational Imaging
  • IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics
  • Pattern Recognition
  • Information Fusion
  • Neurocomputing
  • Knowledge-Based Systems

Resources

WorkCode
Focal network for image restoration (achieves efficient dual-domain learning)Code
Exploring the potential of channel interactions for image restoration (explores efficient channel interactions)Code
Revitalizing convolutional network for image restoration (achieves top performance with an efficient convolutional network)Code
AdaIR: Adaptive All-in-One Image Restoration via Frequency Mining and Modulation (improves all-in-one tasks with frequency priors)Code
Omni-kernel modulation for universal image restoration (performs well on general-purpose and all-in-one tasks with strategic multi-scale learning)Code
Dual-domain strip attention for image restoration (implements an efficient strip attention)Code
Exploring the Potential of Pooling Techniques for Universal Image Restoration (performs well on general and all-in-one tasks primarily by primarily using pooling)Code

The provided links also include visual results and pre-trained models.

 
Datasets 
GOPRO (deblurring)Link
RESIDE (dehazing)Link

Publications

  • Liu, Mingyu; Cui, Yuning; Ren, Wenqi; Zhou, Juxiang; Knoll, Alois C: LIEDNet: A Lightweight Network for Low-light Enhancement and Deblurring. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, 2025 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
  • Cui, Yuning; Zamir, Syed Waqas; Khan, Salman; Knoll, Alois; Shah, Mubarak; Khan, Fahad Shahbaz: AdaIR: Adaptive All-in-One Image Restoration via Frequency Mining and Modulation. The Thirteenth International Conference on Learning Representations, 2025 more… BibTeX
  • Liu, Mingyu; Cui, Yuning; Strand, Leah; Zhou, Xingcheng; Zhang, Jiajie; Knoll, C. Alois: MambaSFLNet: A Mamba-Based Model for Low-Light Image Enhancement with Spatial and Frequency Features. 2025 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2025 more… BibTeX
  • Su, Xiongfei; Li, Siyuan; Cui, Yuning; Cao, Miao; Zhang, Yulun; Chen, Zheng; Wu, Zongliang; Wang, Zedong; Zhang, Yuanlong; Yuan, Xin: Prior-guided Hierarchical Harmonization Network for Efficient Image Dehazing. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2025 more… BibTeX
  • Liu, Mingyu; Yang, Zhijie; Yurtsever, Ekim; Cui, Yuning; Knoll, C. Alois: DepthCNE: Contrastive Neighbor Embedding in Self-Supervised Learning for Point Clouds. 2025 IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), 2025 more… BibTeX
  • Cui, Yuning; Liu, Mingyu; Ren, Wenqi; Knoll, Alois: Modumer: Modulating Transformer for Image Restoration. IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, 2025 more… BibTeX Full text (mediaTUM)
  • Cui, Yuning; Knoll, Alois: Dual-domain strip attention for image restoration. Neural Networks 171, 2024, 429-439 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
  • Cui, Yuning; Wang, Qiang; Li, Chaopeng; Ren, Wenqi; Knoll, Alois: EENet: An effective and efficient network for single image dehazing. Pattern Recognition, 2024, 111074 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
  • Cui, Yuning; Knoll, Alois: Enhancing Local–Global Representation Learning for Image Restoration. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics 20 (4), 2024, 6522-6530 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
  • Cui, Yuning; Ren, Wenqi; Cao, Xiaochun; Knoll, Alois: Revitalizing Convolutional Network for Image Restoration. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 2024, 1-16 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
  • Liu, Mingyu; Yurtsever, Ekim; Fossaert, Jonathan; Zhou, Xingcheng; Zimmer, Walter; Cui, Yuning; Zagar, Bare Luka; Knoll, Alois C.: A Survey on Autonomous Driving Datasets: Statistics, Annotation Quality, and a Future Outlook. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles, 2024, 1-29 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
  • Cui, Yuning; Ren, Wenqi; Knoll, Alois: Omni-Kernel Network for Image Restoration. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2024 more… BibTeX
  • Wang, Jiangang; Cui, Yuning; Li, Yawen; Ren, Wenqi; Cao, Xiaochun: Omnidirectional Image Super-Resolution via Bi-Projection Fusion. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2024 more… BibTeX
  • Wang, Qiang; Cui, Yuning; Li, Yawen; Ruan, Yaping; Zhu, Ben; Ren, Wenqi: RFFNet: Towards Robust and Flexible Fusion for Low-Light Image Denoising. ACM International Conference on Multimedia, 2024 more… BibTeX
  • Liu, Mingyu; Yurtsever, Ekim; Brede, Marc; Meng, Jun; Zimmer, Walter; Zhou, Xingcheng; Zagar, Bare Luka; Cui, Yuning; Knoll, C. Alois: GraphRelate3D: Context-Dependent 3D Object Detection with Inter-Object Relationship Graphs. 2024 IEEE International Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference (ITSC), 2024 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
  • Cui, Yuning; Liu, Mingyu; Ren, Wenqi; Knoll, Alois: Hybrid frequency modulation network for image restoration. International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2024 more… BibTeX
  • Cui, Yuning; Ren, Wenqi; Knoll, Alois: Omni-Kernel Modulation for Universal Image Restoration. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, 2024, 1-1 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI ) Full text (mediaTUM)
  • Cui, Yuning; Knoll, Alois: Exploring the Potential of Channel Interactions for Image Restoration. Knowledge-Based Systems, 2023 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
  • Cui, Yuning; Ren, Wenqi; Cao, Xiaochun; Knoll, Alois: Image Restoration via Frequency Selection. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 2023 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
  • Cui, Yuning; Knoll, Alois: PSNet: Towards Efficient Image Restoration with Self-Attention. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2023 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI ) Full text (mediaTUM)
  • Cui, Yuning; Ren, Wenqi; Cao, Xiaochun; Knoll, Alois: Focal Network for Image Restoration. Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision, 2023 more… BibTeX Full text (mediaTUM)
  • Cui, Yuning; Tao, Yi; Ren, Wenqi; Knoll, Alois: Dual-domain attention for image deblurring. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2023 more… BibTeX Full text (mediaTUM)
  • Cui, Yuning; Tao, Yi; Bing, Zhenshan; Ren, Wenqi; Gao, Xinwei; Cao, Xiaochun; Huang, Kai; Knoll, Alois: Selective Frequency Network for Image Restoration. The Eleventh International Conference on Learning Representations, 2023 more… BibTeX Full text (mediaTUM)
  • Cui, Yuning; Tao, Yi; Jing, Luoxi; Knoll, Alois: Strip Attention for Image Restoration. International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI, 2023 more… BibTeX Full text (mediaTUM)
  • Cui, Yuning; Ren, Wenqi; Yang, Sining; Cao, Xiaochun; Knoll, Alois: IRNeXt: Rethinking Convolutional Network Design for Image Restoration. International Conference on Machine Learning, 2023 more… BibTeX Full text (mediaTUM)
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