Chunyang Cheng 程春阳

Status: Fourth year PhD student
Advisors: Xiao-Jun Wu & Josef Kittler
Research Interest: Image Fusion
Institution: Jiangnan University
Location: Wuxi, China
E-mail: chunyang_cheng@163.com

Experience

2016 ~ 2020 Bachelor Degree School of Computer and Information Engineering Henan University, Kaifeng, China

2020 ~ 2022 Master Student International Joint Laboratory on Artificial Intelligence of Jiangsu Province Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China

2022 ~ 2023 PhD Student International Joint Laboratory on Artificial Intelligence of Jiangsu Province Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China

2023 ~ 2024 Visiting Research PhD Student Centre for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing (CVSSP) University of Surrey, Guildford, UK

2024 ~ now PhD Student International Joint Laboratory on Artificial Intelligence of Jiangsu Province Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China

Publications

"SMLNet: A SPD Manifold Learning Network for Infrared and Visible Image Fusion." IJCV, 2025. [paper] [Code]
"Revisiting RGBT Tracking Benchmarks from the Perspective of Modality Validity: A New Benchmark, Problem, and Solution." IEEE TIP, 2025. [paper] [Code]
"S4Fusion: Saliency-aware Selective State Space Model for Infrared Visible Image Fusion." IEEE TIP, 2025. [paper] [Code]
"Serial Over Parallel: Learning Continual Unification for Multi-Modal Visual Object Tracking and Benchmarking." ACM MM, 2025. [paper(not available)]
"GrFormer: A Novel Transformer on Grassmann Manifold for Infrared and Visible Image Fusion." Information Fusion, 2025. [paper]
"One Model for ALL: Low-Level Task Interaction Is a Key to Task-Agnostic Image Fusion." CVPR, 2025. [paper] [Code]
"TextFusion: Unveiling the power of textual semantics for controllable image fusion." Information Fusion, 2025. [paper] [Code]
"FusionBooster: A Unified Image Fusion Boosting Paradigm." IJCV, 2025. [paper] [Code]
"Conti-Fuse: A novel continuous decomposition-based fusion framework for infrared and visible images." Information Fusion, 2025. [paper] [Code]
"SMFuse: Two-Stage Structural Map Aware Network for Multi-focus Image Fusion." ICPR, 2025. [paper]
"MMDRFuse: Distilled Mini-Model with Dynamic Refresh for Multi-Modality Image Fusion." ACM MM (oral), 2024. [paper] [Code]
"Learning Feature Restoration Transformer for Robust Dehazing Visual Object Tracking." IJCV, 2024. [paper]
"DePF: A novel fusion approach based on decomposition pooling for infrared and visible images." IEEE TIM, 2023. [paper] [code]
"LE2Fusion: A novel local edge enhancement module for infrared and visible image fusion." ICIG, 2023. [paper] [code]
"MUFusion: A general unsupervised image fusion network based on memory unit". Information Fusion, 2023. [paper] [Code]
"UNIFusion: A lightweight unified image fusion network". IEEE TIM, 2021. [paper] [Code]

Awards & Projects

2025 President's Special Award, Jiangnan University
2025 Top Ten Graduate Students, Jiangnan University
Chair, Completed, 2023 Postgraduate Research & Practice Innovation Program of Jiangsu Province
2021 National Scholarship for Graduate Students
Silver Medal, 2019 ACM/ICPC International College Programming Competition Regional
Silver Medal, 2018 China College Student Programming Competition (CCPC)