Chunyang Cheng 程春阳

Status: Postdoc Advisors: Xin Ma, Xiao-Jun Wu, Josef Kittler Research Interest: Image Fusion Institution: Jiangnan University Location: Wuxi, China E-mail: chunyang_cheng@jiangnan.edu.cn Google Scholar Code Repository

Experience

• 2025 ~ now   Postdoc   Translational Medicine Research Institute   Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China
• 2024 ~ 2025   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
• 2022 ~ 2023   PhD Student  International Joint Laboratory on Artificial Intelligence of Jiangsu Province   Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China
• 2020 ~ 2022   Master Student  International Joint Laboratory on Artificial Intelligence of Jiangsu Province   Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China
• 2016 ~ 2020   Bachelor Degree  School of Computer and Information Engineering   Henan University, Kaifeng, China

Publications

19. "EvaNet: Towards More Efficient and Consistent Infrared and Visible Image Fusion Assessment." IEEE TPAMI, 2026. [paper] [Code]
20. "Controllable Foundation Model for Visible and Infrared Image Fusion with All-in-One Bad Weather Removal." IEEE TMM, 2026.
21. "Depth-Nutrition: A Novel Food Nutrition Prediction Framework Guided by Deconstruction of Physical Features." IEEE TMM, 2025.
22. "SMLNet: A SPD Manifold Learning Network for Infrared and Visible Image Fusion." IJCV, 2025. [paper] [Code]
23. "Revisiting RGBT Tracking Benchmarks from the Perspective of Modality Validity: A New Benchmark, Problem, and Solution." IEEE TIP, 2025. [paper] [Code]
24. "S4Fusion: Saliency-aware Selective State Space Model for Infrared Visible Image Fusion." IEEE TIP, 2025. [paper] [Code]
25. "Serial Over Parallel: Learning Continual Unification for Multi-Modal Visual Object Tracking and Benchmarking." ACM MM, 2025. [paper] [Code]
26. "GrFormer: A Novel Transformer on Grassmann Manifold for Infrared and Visible Image Fusion." Information Fusion, 2025. [paper]
27. "One Model for ALL: Low-Level Task Interaction Is a Key to Task-Agnostic Image Fusion." CVPR, 2025. [paper] [Code]
28. "TextFusion: Unveiling the power of textual semantics for controllable image fusion." Information Fusion, 2025. [paper] [Code]
29. "FusionBooster: A Unified Image Fusion Boosting Paradigm." IJCV, 2025. [paper] [Code]
30. "Conti-Fuse: A novel continuous decomposition-based fusion framework for infrared and visible images." Information Fusion, 2025. [paper] [Code]
31. "SMFuse: Two-Stage Structural Map Aware Network for Multi-focus Image Fusion." ICPR, 2025. [paper]
32. "MMDRFuse: Distilled Mini-Model with Dynamic Refresh for Multi-Modality Image Fusion." ACM MM (oral), 2024. [paper] [Code]
33. "Learning Feature Restoration Transformer for Robust Dehazing Visual Object Tracking." IJCV, 2024. [paper]
34. "DePF: A novel fusion approach based on decomposition pooling for infrared and visible images." IEEE TIM, 2023. [paper] [code]
35. "LE2Fusion: A novel local edge enhancement module for infrared and visible image fusion." ICIG, 2023. [paper] [code]
36. "MUFusion: A general unsupervised image fusion network based on memory unit". Information Fusion, 2023. [paper] [Code]
37. "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)