Research Publications

DocPure: Prompt-Free Unified Document Restoration via Degradation-Aware Structure-Guided Wavelet Modulation

Lingming Su, Wanglong Lu, Tao Wang, Kaihao Zhang, Nan Zhang, Liyan An, Hanli Zhao

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, 2026 · Co-first author

A prompt-free unified document restoration framework that adapts to diverse degradations through structure-aware routing and wavelet-domain feature interaction.

Tuning-Free Latent Diffusion Models for Ultrahigh-Resolution Image Editing

Wanglong Lu, Lingming Su, Kaijie Shi, Minglun Gong, Xiaogang Jin, Hanli Zhao, Xianta Jiang

IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, 1-15, 2026 · First author

UltraDiffEdit extends off-the-shelf latent diffusion models to tuning-free real-image editing up to 8K resolution.

UHDRes: Ultra-High-Definition Image Restoration via Dual-Domain Decoupled Spectral Modulation

Shihao Zhao, Wanglong Lu, Binhao Wang, Tao Wang, Kaihao Zhang, Hanli Zhao

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, 2026

A lightweight UHD restoration framework using dual-domain decoupled spectral modulation with only 400K parameters.

Simulation-Driven Imitation Learning for Biosignals-Free Shared-Autonomy Prosthetic Grasping

Kaijie Shi, Wanglong Lu, Han Chen, Vinicius Prado da Fonseca, Ting Zou, Hanli Zhao, Xianta Jiang

arXiv preprint arXiv:2606.07389, 2026

A simulation-driven imitation learning method for biosignals-free shared-autonomy prosthetic grasping.

EchoSR: Efficient Context Harnessing for Lightweight Image Super-Resolution

Hanli Zhao, Binhao Wang, Shihao Zhao, Tao Wang, Kaihao Zhang, Wanglong Lu∗

Information Fusion 135, 104471, 2026 · Corresponding author (sixth author)

An efficient context-harnessing framework for lightweight image super-resolution with local, multi-scale, and global modeling.

AdaMSS: Adaptive Multi-Subspace Approach for Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning

Jingjing Zheng, Wanglong Lu, Yiming Dong, Chaojie Ji, Yankai Cao, Zhouchen Lin

NeurIPS 2025 · Second author

An adaptive multi-subspace parameter-efficient fine-tuning method for expressive incremental updates, integrated into Hugging Face PEFT.

GRIG: Data-Efficient Generative Residual Image Inpainting

Wanglong Lu, Xianta Jiang, Xiaogang Jin, Yong-Liang Yang, Minglun Gong, Kaijie Shi, Tao Wang, Hanli Zhao

Computational Visual Media 11(6), 1329-1361, 2025 · First author

StDDPM: Sequential Financial Synthetic Data Generation using T-distribution based Diffusion Model

Omid Tarkhaneh, Hamideh Mehri, Wanglong Lu, Farzaneh Shoeleh, Vinicius Veloso de Melo

Research Square preprint, 2025 · Submitted

Sequential synthetic financial data generation with a Student t-distribution based diffusion model.

Toward Biosignals-Free Autonomous Prosthetic Hand Control via Imitation Learning

Kaijie Shi, Wanglong Lu, Hanli Zhao, Vinicius Prado da Fonseca, Ting Zou, Xianta Jiang

IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering 33, 3544-3554, 2025

A biosignals-free autonomous prosthetic grasping framework that learns hand control through simulation-driven imitation learning.

Real-time dual-eye collaborative eyeblink detection with contrastive learning

Hanli Zhao, Yu Wang , Wanglong Lu, Zili Yi, Jun Liu∗, Minglun Gong

Pattern Recognition, 2025

Visual style prompt learning using diffusion models for blind face restoration

Wanglong Lu, Jikai Wang, Tao Wang, Kaihao Zhang, Xianta Jiang, Hanli Zhao*

Pattern Recognition 161, 111312, 2025 · First author

A diffusion-guided blind face restoration method that learns visual style prompts in pretrained generative latent space.

Degradation-Aware Frequency-Separated Transformer for Blind Super-Resolution

Hanli Zhao, Binhao Wang, Wanglong Lu*, Juncong Lin

International Conference on Computational Visual Media, 2025

TextDoctor: Unified Document Image Inpainting via Patch Pyramid Diffusion Models

Wanglong Lu, Lingming Su, Jingjing Zheng, Vinícius Veloso de Melo, Farzaneh Shoeleh, John Hawkin, Terrence Tricco, Hanli Zhao, Xianta Jiang

arXiv preprint, 2025 · First author · Submitted to Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence (EAAI)

A unified document image inpainting framework for restoring damaged and high-resolution document regions.

Do Inpainting Yourself: Generative Facial Inpainting Guided by Exemplars

Wanglong Lu, Hanli Zhao, Xianta Jiang, Xiaogang Jin, Yongliang Yang, Min Wang, Jiankai Lyu, and Kaijie Shi

Neurocomputing 617, 128996, 2025 · First author

An exemplar-guided facial inpainting framework that transfers exemplar-like facial attributes while preserving image quality.

Generative Models for Semantic Facial Image Editing: Multimodal Approaches

Wanglong Lu

PhD thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland, 2025

Doctoral thesis on generative models for semantic facial image editing and multimodal facial manipulation.

FACEMUG: A Multimodal Generative and Fusion Framework for Local Facial Editing

Wanglong Lu, Jikai Wang, Xiaogang Jin, Xianta Jiang, and Hanli Zhao∗

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 31(9), 5130-5145, 2025 (online 2024) · First author

A multimodal generative framework for globally consistent local facial editing with fine-grained semantic control.

Handling the Non-smooth Challenge in Tensor SVD: A Multi-objective Tensor Recovery Framework

Jingjing Zheng, Wanglong Lu, Wenzhe Wang, Yankai Cao*, Xiaoqin Zhang, and Xianta Jiang

ECCV, 2024

Promptrr: Diffusion models as prompt generators for single image reflection removal

Tao Wang, Wanglong Lu, Kaihao Zhang, Wenhan Luo, Tae-Kyun Kim, Tong Lu, Hongdong Li, Ming-Hsuan Yang

ArXiv, 2024

TEG: image theme recognition using text-embedding-guided few-shot adaptation

Jikai Wang, Wanglong Lu, Yu Wang, Kaijie Shi, Xianta Jiang, Hanli Zhao

Journal of Electronic Imaging 33(1), 013028, 2024

Restoring Vision in Hazy Weather with Hierarchical Contrastive Learning

Tao Wang, Guangpin Tao, Wanglong Lu, Kaihao Zhang, Wenhan Luo, Xiaoqin Zhang, Tong Lu.

Pattern Recognition Volume 145, January 2024, 109956

Detecting Blinks from Wearable Cameras using Spatial-Temporal-Aware Deep Network Learning

Yu Wang, Wanglong Lu, Hanli Zhao, Xianta Jiang∗, Bin Zheng, M. Stella Atkins.

ETRA 23, 2023

基于多尺度特征先验的图像拼接篡改检测

吕建凯, 卢望龙, 王敏, 刘影, 史开杭, 黄辉, 赵汉理

China Sciencepaper 17(11), 2022 · Second author

A Chinese journal article on image splicing tamper detection with multi-scale feature priors.

Generative image inpainting with enhanced gated convolution and Transformers

Min Wang, Wanglong Lu, Jiankai Lyu, Kaijie Shi, Hanli Zhao.

Displays 76, 102321, 2022

Efficient Generative Face Completion with Perceptual Deblurring

Hanli Zhao, Ying Liu, Wanglong Lu, Xiaogang Jin, Hui Huang, Kaijie Shi

Journal of Computer-Aided Design & Computer Graphics 34(9), 1420-1431, 2022

Efficient generative face completion with perceptual deblurring for higher-quality facial image restoration.

Probability-Based Channel Pruning for Depthwise Separable Convolutional Networks

Han-Li Zhao, Kai-Jie Shi, Xiaogang Jin, Ming-Liang Xu, Hui Huang, Wang-Long Lu, Ying Liu.

Journal of Computer Science and Technology 37, 584-600, 2022

Category-consistent deep network learning for accurate vehicle logo recognition

Wanglong Lu, Hanli Zhao, Qi He, Hui Huang, Xiaogang Jin.

Neurocomputing 463, 623-636, 2021 · First author

High‐quality retinal vessel segmentation using generative adversarial network with a large receptive field

Hanli Zhao, Xiaqing Qiu, Wanglong Lu, Hui Huang, Xiaogang Jin.

International Journal of Imaging Systems and Technology 30(3), 828-842, 2020