People
Dr Yakun Ju
Lecturer (Assistant Professor)
School/Department: Computing and Mathematical Sciences, School of
Email: yj174@leicester.ac.uk
Address: Room 611, Ken Edwards Building, School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester LE1 7RH
Web:
ORCID: 0000-0003-4065-4108
Personal webpage: https://juyakun.github.io/
Profile
Yakun Ju is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Computer Science at University of Leicester, School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences. Previously, he served as a Research Fellow at Nanyang Technological University, and as a Postdoctoral Fellow at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Yakun earned his Bachelor's degree from Sichuan University in 2016 and his Ph.D. from Ocean University of China in 2022. His research interests span 3D reconstruction, medical image processing, underwater information perception, computational imaging, and low-level vision. He has authored over 50 publications in top-ranked journals and conferences, including IEEE TPAMI, IJCV, IEEE TIP, IEEE TVCG, IEEE TCSVT, CVPR, NeurIPS, AAAI, and IJCAI, etc. Yakun also contributes as an associate editor for Applied Soft Computing (ASOC) and Neruocomputing, as well as an guest editor for Pattern Recognition (PR) and Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU).
Research
His general research interests mainly focus on the areas of computer vision, with the following research topics:
- 3D Reconstruction: Photometric Stereo, Structure from Motion, Binocular Stereo, Monocular Depth Estimation, Mesh Reconstruction, 3D Gaussian Splatting
- Medical Image Processing: Retina Reconstruction, Spine Segmentation, Brain Segmentation
- Underwater Information Perception: Underwater Objects Reconstruction, Sonar Reconstruction, Underwater Image Restoration, Sonar-Camera Fusion, Marine Remote Sensing
- Computational Imaging: CT/THZ/Hyperspectral Images Reconstruction, Image Super-resolution, Low-light Enhancement, Image Deraining/Denoising/Warping/Re-lighting, Image Rendering
- Deep Learning: Convolutional Neural Network, Transformer, Self-supervised Learning
Publications
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Revisiting One-stage Deep Uncalibrated Photometric Stereo via Fourier Embedding
Yakun Ju, Boxin Shi, Bihan Wen, Kin-Man Lam, Xudong Jiang, Alex C. Kot
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), 2025 [Paper]
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Deep Learning Methods for Calibrated Photometric Stereo and Beyond
Yakun Ju, Kin-Man Lam, Wuyuan Xie, Huiyu Zhou, Junyu Dong, Boxin Shi
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), 2024 [Paper]
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Normattention-PSN: A High-Frequency Region Enhanced Photometric Stereo Network with Normalized Attention
Yakun Ju, Boxin Shi, Muwei Jian, Lin Qi, Junyu Dong, Kin-Man Lam
International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), 2022 [Paper]
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Recovering Surface Normal and Arbitrary Images: A Dual Regression Network for Photometric Stereo
Yakun Ju, Junyu Dong, Sheng Chen
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP), 2021 [Paper]
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GR-PSN: Learning to Estimate Surface Normal and Reconstruct Photometric Stereo Images
Yakun Ju, Boxin Shi, Yang Chen, Huiyu Zhou, Junyu Dong, Kin-Man Lam
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), 2023 [Paper]
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Estimating Highresolution Surface Normals via Low-resolution Photometric Stereo Images
Yakun Ju, Muwei Jian, Cong Wang, Cong Zhang, Junyu Dong, Kin-Man Lam
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT), 2023 (ESI Highly Cited Paper) [Paper]
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Incorporating Lambertian Priors into Surface Normals Measurement
Yakun Ju, Muwei Jian, Shaoxiang Guo, Yingyu Wang, Huiyu Zhou, Junyu Dong
IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement (TIM), 2021 [Paper]
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Underwater Surface Normal Reconstruction via Cross-grained Photometric Stereo Transformer
Yakun Ju, Ling Li, Xian Zhong, Yuan Rao, Yanru Liu, Junyu Dong, Alex C. Kot
IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering (JOE), 2024 [Paper]
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Towards Marine Snow Removal with Fusing Fourier Information
Yakun Ju, Jun Xiao, Cong Zhang, Hao Xie, Anwei Luo, Huiyu Zhou, Alex C. Kot
Information Fusion (INFFUS), 2024 [Paper]
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Learning Conditional Photometric Stereo with High-resolution Features
Yakun Ju, Yuxin Peng, Muwei Jian, Feng Gao, Junyu Dong
Computational Visual Media (CVMJ), 2022 [Paper]
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A dual-cue network for multispectral photometric stereo
Yakun Ju, Xinghui Dong, Yingyu Wang, Lin Qi, Junyu Dong
Pattern Recognition (PR), 2020 [Paper]
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Learning Conditional Photometric Stereo with High-resolution Features
Yakun Ju, Kin-Man Lam, Yang Chen, Lin Qi, Junyu Dong
International Conference on International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2020 [Paper]
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FNIN: A Fourier Neural Operator-based Numerical Integration Network for Surface-from-gradients
Jiaqi Leng, Yakun Ju*, Yuanxu Duan, JiangnanZhang, Qingxuan Lv, Zuxuan Wu, Hao Fan
Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2025 [Paper]
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A deep-shallow and global–local multi-feature fusion network for photometric stereo
Yanru Liu, Yakun Ju*, Muwei Jian, Feng Gao, Yuan Rao, Yeqi Hu, Junyu Dong
Image and Vision Computing (IVC), 2022 [Paper]
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A Structure-Affinity Dual Attention-based Network to Segment Spine for Scoliosis Assessment
Hao Xie, Zixun Huang, Frank H.F. Leung, Yakun Ju*, Yong-Ping Zheng, Sai Ho Ling
IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM), 2023 [Paper]
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Exposing Image Splicing Traces in Scientific Publications via Uncertainty-guided Refinement
Xun Lin, Wenzhong Tang, Haoran Wang, Yizhong Liu, Yakun Ju, Shuai Wang, Zitong Yu
Patterns - Cell Press, 2024 [Paper]
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Learning General Descriptors for Image Matching with Regression Feedback
Yuan Rao, Yakun Ju, Cong Li, Eric Rigall, Jian Yang, Hao Fan, Junyu Dong
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT), 2023 [Paper]
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Learning Enriched Feature Descriptor for Image Matching and Visual Measurement
Yuan Rao, Yakun Ju, Sen Wang, Hao Fan, Junyu Dong
IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement (TIM), 2023 [Paper]
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3D Hand Pose Estimation from Monocular RGB with Feature Interaction Module
Shaoxiang Guo, Eric Rigall, Yakun Ju, Junyu Dong
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT), 2022 [Paper]
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Efficient Inductive Vision Transformer for Oriented Object Detection in Remote Sensing Imagery
Cong Zhang, Jingran Su, Yakun Ju, Kin-Man Lam, Qi Wang
IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (TGRS), 2023 (ESI Highly Cited Paper) [Paper]
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Learning General Feature Descriptor for Visual Measurement With Hierarchical View Consistency
Yuan Rao, Jian Yang, Yakun Ju, Cong Li, Eric Rigall, Hao Fan, Junyu Dong
IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement (TIM), 2022 [Paper]
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Flow-Edge-Net: Video Saliency Detection Based on Optical Flow and Edge-Weighted Balance Loss
Muwei Jian, Xiangwei Lu, Xiaoyang Yu, Yakun Ju, Hui Yu, Kin-Man Lam
IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems (TCSS), 2023 [Paper]
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pmBQA: Projection-based Blind Point Cloud Quality Assessment via Multimodal Learning
Wuyuan Xie, Kaimin Wang, Yakun Ju, Miaohui Wang
ACM International Conference on Multimedia (MM), 2023 [Paper]
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Towards Progressive Multi-Frequency Representation for Image Warping
Jun Xiao, Zihang Lyu, Cong Zhang, Yakun Ju, Changjian Shui, Kin-Man Lam
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024 [Paper]
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Promptrestorer: A prompting image restoration method with degradation perception
Cong Wang, Jinshan Pan, Wei Wang, Jiangxin Dong, Mengzhu Wang, Yakun Ju, Junyang Chen
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2023 [Paper]
Supervision
Teaching
- CO4210/7210 Personal and Group Skills
- CO2302 Software Engineering Group Project
- CO7201 MSc Individual Project
Activities
- Associate Editor (Editorial Board) of Applied Soft Computing (ASOC)
- Associate Editor (Editorial Board) of Neurocomputing
- Associate Editor (Editorial Board) of Intelligent Marine Technology and Systems (IMTS)
- Associate Editor (Editorial Board) of Frontiers in Marine Science
- Associate Editor (Editorial Board) of Metaverse
- Guest Editor of Pattern Recognition (PR)
- Guest Editor of Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU)
- Conference Program Co-Chair of 2024 International Conference on Intelligent Data Analytics and Sustainable Systems (IDASS 2024)
- Conferecnce Workshop Chair of 2025 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME 2025)
- Conference Workshop Program Committee of 2025 2025 ACM Multimedia (MM 2025)
- Conference Workshop Program Committee of 2024 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 2024)