
Xinyu Liu 刘新宇
I am a Research Associate at iBUG Group, Imperial College London, working with Dr. Stavros Petridis and Prof. Maja Pantic. I got my Ph.D. degree in Department of Electronic Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, supervised by Prof. Yixuan Yuan. I was a visiting Ph.D. at CVL Group, ETH Zurich, supervised by Prof. Ender Konokoglu. I got my Msc and Bsc at Control Science and Engineering Department, Harbin Institute of Technology. I focus on Efficient Deep learning, Generative AI Models, and Medical Image Analysis.
News
ToothMaker is accepted by IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging. (IF. 10.048). Congrats to Weihao!
MedVSR, GaussianReg, and InfoBridge are accepted by ICCV 2025. Congrats to Weihao and Chenxin!
EndoGen and Steam are accepted by MICCAI 2025. Congrats to Yifan!
U-KAN is accepted by AAAI 2025.
PV-SSM is accepted by BIBM 2024, Congrats to Cheng!
GTP-4o and CLIFF are accepted by ECCV 2024, Congrats to Chenxin and Wuyang!
Four papers are accepted by MICCAI 2024, including medical video generation works Endora and VidMotion and semi-supervised works MOST and DiffRect.
GFBS is accepted by International Journal of Computer Vision. (IF. 13.369).
Decoupled-Unbiased-Teacher is accepted by IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems. (IF. 14.255).
EfficientViT is accepted by CVPR 2023.
FedInI and TEAR are accepted by MICCAI 2022 (One Oral).
SIGMA and NLTE are accepted by CVPR 2022 (One Oral).
SMPT++ is accepted by IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging. (IF. 10.048).
SCAN is accepted by AAAI 2022 (Oral).
Selected Publications (Full List at Google Scholar)
Conference Papers:

EfficientViT: Memory Efficient Vision Transformer with Cascaded Group Attention
Xinyu Liu, Houwen Peng, Ningxin Zheng, Yuqing Yang, Han Hu, Yixuan Yuan
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2023 [Top 50 most influential papers in CVPR 2023]

SIGMA: Semantic-complete Graph Matching for Domain Adaptive Object Detection
Wuyang Li, Xinyu Liu, Yixuan Yuan
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2022 [Oral, Best paper final list 33/8161]
Journal Papers:

Instruction-ViT: Multi-modal prompts for instruction learning in vision transformer
Zhenxiang Xiao, Yuzhong Chen, Junjie Yao, Lu Zhang, Zhengliang Liu, Zihao Wu, Xiaowei Yu, Yi Pan, Lin Zhao, Chong Ma, Xinyu Liu, Wei Liu, Xiang Li, Yixuan Yuan, Dinggang Shen, Dajiang Zhu, Dezhong Yao, Tianming Liu, Xi Jiang
Information Fusion, 2023

TanhExp: A Smooth Activation Function with High Convergence Speed for Lightweight Neural Networks
Xinyu Liu, Xiaoguang Di
IET Computer Vision (IET-CVI), 2021
Full Publications:
Legend: Journal Conference
2025
- [AAAI'25] Chenxin Li*, Xinyu Liu*, Wuyang Li*, Cheng Wang*, Hengyu Liu, Yifan Liu, Zhen Chen, Yixuan Yuan. "U-KAN Makes Strong Backbone for Medical Image Segmentation and Generation", AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2025. Paper · Code
- [MICCAI'25] Xinyu Liu, Hengyu Liu, Cheng Wang, Tianming Liu, Yixuan Yuan. "EndoGen: Conditional Autoregressive Endoscopic Video Generation", International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), 2025. Paper · Code
- [MedIA'25] Zhen Chen, Qing Xu, Xinyu Liu, Yixuan Yuan. "UN-SAM: Domain-adaptive Self-prompt Segmentation for Universal Nuclei Images", Medical Image Analysis (MedIA), 2025. Paper · Code
- [CVPR'25] Yuzhi Huang, Chenxin Li, Haitao Zhang, Zixu Lin, Yunlong Lin, Hengyu Liu, Wuyang Li, Xinyu Liu, Jiechao Gao, Yue Huang, Xinghao Ding, Yixuan Yuan. "Track Any Anomalous Object: A Granular Video Anomaly Detection Pipeline", IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2025.
- [TMI'25] Weihao Yu, Xiaoqing Guo, Wuyang Li, Xinyu Liu, Hui Chen, Yixuan Yuan. "ToothMaker: Realistic Panoramic Dental Radiograph Generation via Disentangled Control", IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging (TMI), 2025.
- [ICCV'25] Xinyu Liu, Guolei Sun, Cheng Wang, Yixuan Yuan, Ender Konukoglu. "MedVSR: Medical Video Super-Resolution with Cross State-Space Propagation", International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2025.
- [ICCV'25] Chenxin Li, Yifan Liu, Xinyu Liu, Wuyang Li, Hengyu Liu, Cheng Wang, Weihao Yu, Yunlong Lin, Yixuan Yuan. "InfoBridge: Balanced Multimodal Fusion by Maximizing Cross-modal Conditional Mutual Information", International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2025.
- [ICCV'25] Weihao Yu, Xiaoqing Guo, Xinyu Liu, Yifan Liu, Hao Zheng, Yawen Huang, Yixuan Yuan. "GaussianReg: Rapid 2D/3D Registration for Emergency Surgery via Explicit 3D Modeling with Gaussian Primitives", International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2025.
2024
- [ECCV'24] Wuyang Li, Xinyu Liu, Jiayi Ma, Yixuan Yuan. "CLIFF: Continual Latent Diffusion for Open-Vocabulary Object Detection", European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2024. Paper · Code
- [ECCV'24] Chenxin Li, Xinyu Liu*, Cheng Wang*, Yifan Liu, Weihao Yu, Jing Shao, Yixuan Yuan. "GTP-4o: Modality-prompted Heterogeneous Graph Learning for Omni-modal Biomedical Representation", European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2024. Paper · Code
- [MICCAI'24] Xinyu Liu*, Zhen Chen*. "MOST: Multi-Formation Soft Masking for Semi-Supervised Medical Image Segmentation", International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), 2024. Paper · Code
- [MICCAI'24] Xinyu Liu, Wuyang Li, Yixuan Yuan. "DiffRect: Latent Diffusion Label Rectification for Semi-supervised Medical Image Segmentation", International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), 2024. Paper · Code
- [MICCAI'24] Wuyang Li, Xinyu Liu, Qiushi Yang, Yixuan Yuan. "From Static to Dynamic Diagnostics: Boosting Medical Image Analysis via Motion-Informed Generative Videos", International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), 2024. Paper · Code
- [MICCAI'24] Chenxin Li*, Hengyu Liu*, Yifan Liu*, Brandon Y. Feng, Wuyang Li, Xinyu Liu, Zhen Chen, Jing Shao, Yixuan Yuan. "Endora: Video Generation Models as Endoscopy Simulators", International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), 2024. Paper · Code
- [TMI'24] Zhibin He, Wuyang Li, Yifan Liu, Xinyu Liu, Junwei Han, Tuo Zhang, Yixuan Yuan. "FM-APP: Foundation Model for Any Phenotype Prediction via fMRI to sMRI Knowledge Transfer", IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging (TMI), 2024. Paper · Code
- [BIBM'24] Cheng Wang*, Xinyu Liu*, Chenxin Li, Yifan Liu, Yixuan Yuan. "PV-SSM: Exploring Pure Visual State Space Model for High-dimensional Medical Data Analysis", IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM), 2024.
- [NeurIPS'24] Chenxin Li, Wuyang Li, Hengyu Liu, Xinyu Liu, Qing Xu, Zhen Chen, Yue Huang, Yixuan Yuan. "Flaws can be applause: Unleashing potential of segmenting ambiguous objects in SAM", Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2024.
- [ICONIP'24] Kunrong Li, Xinyu Liu, Zhen Chen. "Semantic consistency regularization with large language models for semi-supervised sentiment analysis", International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP), 2024.
- [JDR'24] Yifan Liu, Xinyu Liu, Chen Yang, Yanqi Yang, Hui Chen, Yixuan Yuan. "Geo-Net: Geometry-Guided Pretraining for Tooth Point Cloud Segmentation", Journal of Dental Research (JDR), 2024.
2023
- [CVPR'23] Xinyu Liu, Houwen Peng, Ningxin Zheng, Yuqing Yang, Han Hu, Yixuan Yuan. "EfficientViT: Memory Efficient Vision Transformer with Cascaded Group Attention", IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2023. Paper · Code
- [IJCV'23] Xinyu Liu, Baopu Li, Zhen Chen, Yixuan Yuan. "Generalized Gradient Flow Based Saliency for Pruning Deep Convolutional Neural Networks", International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), 2023. Paper · Code
- [Information Fusion'23] Zhenxiang Xiao, Yuzhong Chen, Junjie Yao, Lu Zhang, Zhengliang Liu, Zihao Wu, Xiaowei Yu, Yi Pan, Lin Zhao, Chong Ma, Xinyu Liu, Wei Liu, Xiang Li, Yixuan Yuan, Dinggang Shen, Dajiang Zhu, Dezhong Yao, Tianming Liu, Xi Jiang. "Instruction-ViT: Multi-modal prompts for instruction learning in vision transformer", Information Fusion, 2023. Paper
- [TNNLS'23] Xinyu Liu, Wuyang Li, Yixuan Yuan. "Decoupled Unbiased Teacher for Source-Free Domain Adaptive Medical Object Detection", IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (TNNLS), 2023. Paper · Code
- [TPAMI'23] Wuyang Li, Xinyu Liu, Yixuan Yuan. "SIGMA++: Improved Semantic-complete Graph Matching for Domain Adaptive Object Detection", IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), 2023. Paper · Code
2022
- [MICCAI'22] Xinyu Liu, Wuyang Li, Yixuan Yuan. "Intervention & Interaction Federated Abnormality Detection with Noisy Clients", International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), 2022. Paper · Code
- [MICCAI'22] Qiushi Yang, Xinyu Liu, Zhen Chen, Bulat Ibragimov, Yixuan Yuan. "Semi-supervised Medical Image Classification with Temporal Knowledge-Aware Regularization", International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), 2022. Paper · Code
- [CVPR'22] Xinyu Liu, Wuyang Li, Qiushi Yang, Baopu Li, Yixuan Yuan. "Towards Robust Adaptive Object Detection under Noisy Annotations", IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2022. Paper · Code
- [CVPR'22] Wuyang Li, Xinyu Liu, Yixuan Yuan. "SIGMA: Semantic-complete Graph Matching for Domain Adaptive Object Detection", IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2022. Paper
- [TMI'22] Xinyu Liu, Yixuan Yuan. "A Source-free Domain Adaptive Polyp Detection Framework with Style Diversification Flow", IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging (TMI), 2022. Paper · Code
- [TMM'22] Wuyang Li, Xinyu Liu, Yixuan Yuan. "SCAN++: Enhanced Semantic Conditioned Adaptation for Domain Adaptive Object Detection", IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM), 2022. Paper · Code
- [AAAI'22] Wuyang Li, Xinyu Liu, Xiwen Yao, Yixuan Yuan. "SCAN: Cross Domain Object Detection with Semantic Conditioned Adaptation", AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2022. Paper · Code
2021
- [MedIA'21] Xinyu Liu, Xiaoqing Guo, Yajie Liu, Yixuan Yuan. "Consolidated domain adaptive detection and localization framework for cross-device colonoscopic images", Medical Image Analysis (MedIA), 2021. Paper · Code
- [ACM MM'21] Xinyu Liu, Baopu Li, Zhen Chen, Yixuan Yuan. "Exploring Gradient Flow Based Saliency for DNN Model Compression", ACM Multimedia (ACM MM), 2021. Paper · Code
- [IET-CVI'21] Xinyu Liu, Xiaoguang Di. "TanhExp: A Smooth Activation Function with High Convergence Speed for Lightweight Neural Networks", IET Computer Vision (IET-CVI), 2021. Paper
- [EndoCV'21] Wuyang Li, Chen Yang, Jie Liu, Xinyu Liu, Xiaoqing Guo, Yixuan Yuan. "Joint Polyp Detection and Segmentation with Heterogeneous Endoscopic Data", 3rd International Workshop and Challenge on Computer Vision in Endoscopy (EndoCV 2021), in conjunction with the 18th IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI 2021), 2021.
2020
- [GRSL'20] Xinyu Liu, Xiaoguang Di. "Global context parallel attention for anchor-free instance segmentation in remote sensing images", IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters (GRSL), 2020.
- [IJRS'20] Xinyu Liu, Xiaoguang Di, Junde Wu, Jiehao Huang. "Vector encoded bounding box regression for detecting remote-sensing objects with anchor-free methods", International Journal of Remote Sensing (IJRS), 2020.
Awards
2025
Postgraduate Research Output Award & Best Presentation Award, CUHK.
2022
Student Travel Award, MICCAI 2022.
2021
1st Place for Polyp Detection in EndoCV 2021.
2020
Outstanding Dissertation Defense Award, HIT.
Experience

ETH Zürich
2024Visiting PhD
Jul. 2024 - Oct. 2024
Advisor: Ender Konukoglu.

Microsoft Research Asia
2022Research Intern
May. 2022 - Sept. 2022
Advisor: Houwen Peng, Ningxin Zheng, Yuqing Yang, Han Hu.

Deepwise
2019Research Intern
May. 2019 - Jul. 2019
Advisor: Fandong Zhang, Yizhou Yu.
Services
Conference Reviewer:
- CVPR, ICCV, NeurIPS, ECCV, MICCAI, IJCAI, AAAI, WACV, 3DV, ACCV, IROS
Journal Reviewer:
- TPAMI, IJCV, TIP, TNNLS, TKDE, TMI, TAI, TCSVT, TGRS, TASE, ACM Computing Surveys, INFFUS, EAAI, NEUCOM, IMAVIS