Lingyan Ran

Lingyan Ran 冉令燕


PhD, Professor
School of Computer Science,
Northwestern Polytechnical University (NWPU)

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Mailing address: PO Box 886, School of Computer Science, Chang'an Campus, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, P.R. China, 710129

News

Remote Sensing We are organizing a special issue on Remote Sensing with "Artificial Intelligence Remote Sensing Change Detection: Development and Challenges (Second Edition)". We welcome original research articles, reviews, and perspective papers that align with these themes. Join us in shaping the future of intelligent Earth observation systems. DDL: Feb 28, 2027.


Intelligence & Robotics We are organizing a special issue on Intelligence & Robotics with "Large Models for Aerial Robotics: Perception, Reasoning, and Edge Computing". We welcome original research articles, reviews, and perspective papers that align with these themes. DDL: April 15, 2027.

About Me

Lingyan Ran received his B.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Northwestern Polytechnical University (NWPU), Xi'an, China, in 2011 and 2018. Earlier, he was a visiting scholar at Stevens Institute of Technology (SIT), Hoboken, NJ, from 2013 to 2015. He is currently a Professor with the School of Computer Science, NWPU. His research focuses on aerospace intelligent computing for Earth observation, including remote sensing image interpretation (semantic segmentation and change detection), low-altitude UAV perception in open and cross-domain environments, label-efficient and continual learning, and efficient perception models and agents for resource-constrained aerial and on-board platforms, including domestic computing hardware. He serves as a Guest Editor of Remote Sensing and a Young Editorial Board Member of Intelligence & Robotics. He is a member of China Computer Federation (CCF), China Society of Image and Graphics (CSIG), and Chinese Association of Automation (CAA).

Selected Publications

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Multi-level Collaborative Distillation Meets Global Workspace Model: A Unified Framework for OCIL
Multi-level Collaborative Distillation Meets Global Workspace Model: A Unified Framework for OCIL
Shibin Su, Guoqiang Liang, De Cheng, Shizhou Zhang, Lingyan Ran.
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 2026
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Look and check: A multi-label classification pipeline via multi-agent cooperation
Look and check: A multi-label classification pipeline via multi-agent cooperation
Mingyu Fu, Wei Suo, Yukun Li, Lingyan Ran*, Peng Wang.
② Neurocomputing, 2026.
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Flow-CDNet: A Novel Network for Detecting Both Slow and Fast Changes in Bitemporal Images
Flow-CDNet: A Novel Network for Detecting Both Slow and Fast Changes in Bitemporal Images
Haoxuan Li, Chenxu Wei, Haodong Wang, Xiaomeng Hu, Boyuan An, Lingyan Ran, etc.
① IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 2026.
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Better matching, less forgetting: a quality-guided matcher for transformer-based incremental object detection
Better matching, less forgetting: a quality-guided matcher for transformer-based incremental object detection
Qirui Wu, Shizhou Zhang, De Cheng, Yinghui Xing, Lingyan Ran, Dahu Shi, Peng Wang.
① Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2026.
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An Active Learning Method based on the Label Diversity of Nearest Neighbors
An Active Learning Method based on the Label Diversity of Nearest Neighbors
Guoqiang Liang, Guanghui Han, Shuailong Zhang and Lingyan Ran.
IEEE 6th International Conference on Computer, Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, 2025.
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Refractive neural rendering of underwater scenes via complex refractive surface reconstruction
Refractive neural rendering of underwater scenes via complex refractive surface reconstruction
Xiaoqiang Zhang, Zhixin Zhang, Lingyan Ran, etc.
The 8th Chinese Conference on Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision, 2025.
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Dam deformation monitoring via dam segmentation and fast and slow change detection
Dam deformation monitoring via dam segmentation and fast and slow change detection
Chenxu Wei, Haoxuan Li, Boyuan An, Lingyan Ran, Baosen Zhang, Junrui Liu, Xiuwei Zhang.
Proceedings of 2025 5th International Joint Conference on Robotics and Artificial Intelligence.
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River Ice Fine-grained Segmentation: A GF-2 Satellite Image Dataset and Deep Learning Benchmark
River Ice Fine-grained Segmentation: A GF-2 Satellite Image Dataset and Deep Learning Benchmark
Chenxu Wei, Haoxuan Li, Liang Chen, Haohao Zhou, Omirzhan Taukebayev, Wencong Wu, Amirkhan Temirbayev, Lin Han, Lingyan Ran, etc.
⑦ IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 63, pp. 1-15, 2025, Art no. 5615814, DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2025.3604644.
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Enhancing SAR Image Generation Quality via Laplacian Pyramid-Enhanced VAE with Frequency Domain Loss
Enhancing SAR Image Generation Quality via Laplacian Pyramid-Enhanced VAE with Frequency Domain Loss
Luowei Tan, Shizhou Zhang, Yinghui Xing, Lingyan Ran, Peng Wang, Yanning Zhang.
International Joint Conference on Robotics and Artificial Intelligence (IJCRAI), 2025.
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E2SAM: Edge-Enhanced SAM with FFC Adapter for Few-Shot Infrared Small Target Detection
E2SAM: Edge-Enhanced SAM with FFC Adapter for Few-Shot Infrared Small Target Detection
Ziyi Li, Yinghui Xing, Feng Sang, Shizhou Zhang, Lingyan Ran and Yanning Zhang.
International Joint Conference on Robotics and Artificial Intelligence (IJCRAI), 2025.
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Adaptive Spatial Augmentation for Semi-supervised Semantic Segmentation
Adaptive Spatial Augmentation for Semi-supervised Semantic Segmentation
Lingyan Ran, Yali Li, Tao Zhuo, Shizhou Zhang, Yanning Zhang.
arXiv:2505.23438, 2025.
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Pseudo Labeling Methods for Semi-Supervised Semantic Segmentation: A Review and Future Perspectives
Pseudo Labeling Methods for Semi-Supervised Semantic Segmentation: A Review and Future Perspectives
Lingyan Ran, Yali Li, Guoqiang Liang, Yanning Zhang.
① IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, 2025, 35(4): 3054–3080.
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DiffV2IR: Visible-to-Infrared Diffusion Model via Vision-Language Understanding
DiffV2IR: Visible-to-Infrared Diffusion Model via Vision-Language Understanding
Lingyan Ran, Lidong Wang, Guangcong Wang, Peng Wang, Yanning Zhang.
arxiv, 2025
Project Page Paper Code Demo
AdaSemiCD: An Adaptive Semi-Supervised Change Detection Method Based on Pseudo-Label Evaluation
AdaSemiCD: An Adaptive Semi-Supervised Change Detection Method Based on Pseudo-Label Evaluation
Lingyan Ran, Dongcheng Wen, Tao Zhuo, Shizhou Zhang, Xiuwei Zhang, Yanning Zhang.
⑥ IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 63, pp. 1-14, 2025, Art no. 5615814, doi: 10.1109/TGRS.2025.3551504.
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Frequency-guided spatial adaptation for camouflaged object detection
Frequency-guided spatial adaptation for camouflaged object detection
Shizhou Zhang, Dexuan Kong, Yinghui Xing, Yue Lu, Lingyan Ran, Guoqiang Liang, Hexu Wang, Yanning Zhang.
① IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 2025, 27: 72-83.
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DDF: A Novel Dual-Domain Image Fusion Strategy for Remote Sensing Image Semantic Segmentation with Unsupervised Domain Adaptation
DDF: A Novel Dual-Domain Image Fusion Strategy for Remote Sensing Image Semantic Segmentation with Unsupervised Domain Adaptation
Lingyan Ran, Lushuang Wang, Tao Zhuo, Yinghui Xing, Yanning Zhang.
⑤ IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 2024.
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Neural rendering of underwater scenes under flat refractive geometry
Neural rendering of underwater scenes under flat refractive geometry
Ting Bai, Xiaoqiang Zhang, Caiyu Xiong, Zhixin Zhang, Lingyan Ran, Hongyu Chu, Hu Deng.
15th International Conference on Information Optics and Photonics (CIOP2024), 2024, Xi’an, China
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Cross-Platform Video Person ReID: A New Benchmark Dataset and Adaptation Approach
Cross-Platform Video Person ReID: A New Benchmark Dataset and Adaptation Approach
Shizhou Zhang, Wenlong Luo, De Cheng, Qingchun Yang, Lingyan Ran, Yinghui Xing, Yanning Zhang.
② European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2024.
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Remote Sensing Image Semantic Change Detection Boosted by Semi-supervised Contrastive Learning of Semantic Segmentation
Remote Sensing Image Semantic Change Detection Boosted by Semi-supervised Contrastive Learning of Semantic Segmentation
Xiuwei Zhang, Yizhe Yang, Lingyan Ran*, Liang Chen, Kangwei Wang, Lei Yu, Peng Wang, Yanning Zhang.
④ IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 2024.
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Improving Reliability of Heterogeneous Change Detection by Sample Synthesis and Knowledge Transfer
Improving Reliability of Heterogeneous Change Detection by Sample Synthesis and Knowledge Transfer
Yinghui Xing, Qi Zhang, Lingyan Ran*, Xiuwei Zhang, Hanlin Yin, Yanning Zhang.
③ IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 2024.
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Hierarchical Shared Architecture Search for Real-time Semantic Segmentation of Remote Sensing Images
Hierarchical Shared Architecture Search for Real-time Semantic Segmentation of Remote Sensing Images
Wenna Wang^, Lingyan Ran^, Hanlin Yin, Mingjun Sun, Xiuwei Zhang, and Yanning Zhang.
② IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 2024, 62: 1-13.
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DTFSeg: A Dynamic Threshold Filtering Method for Semi-Supervised Semantic Segmentation
DTFSeg: A Dynamic Threshold Filtering Method for Semi-Supervised Semantic Segmentation
Lingyan Ran, Weiqi Zhan, Yali Li, Xiaoqiang Zhang, Shizhou Zhang.
2023 China Automation Congress (CAC).
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Optimal Policy Replay: A Simple Method to Reduce Catastrophic Forgetting in Target Incremental Visual Navigation
Optimal Policy Replay: A Simple Method to Reduce Catastrophic Forgetting in Target Incremental Visual Navigation
Xinting Li, Shizhou Zhang, LU Yue, Kerry Dang, Lingyan Ran, Peng Wang, Yanning Zhang.
2023 China Automation Congress (CAC).
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Pre-train, Adapt and Detect: Multi-Task Adapter Tuning for Camouflaged Object Detection
Pre-train, Adapt and Detect: Multi-Task Adapter Tuning for Camouflaged Object Detection
Yinghui Xing, Dexuan Kong, Shizhou Zhang, Geng Chen, Lingyan Ran, Peng Wang, Yanning Zhang.
arXiv:2307.10685, 2023.
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Progressive Modality-Alignment for Unsupervised Heterogeneous Change Detection
Progressive Modality-Alignment for Unsupervised Heterogeneous Change Detection
Yinghui Xing, Qi Zhang, Lingyan Ran*, Hanlin Yin, Yanning Zhang.
① IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 2023, 61: 1-12.
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FastICENet: A Real-time and Accurate Semantic Segmentation Model for Aerial Remote Sensing River Ice Image
FastICENet: A Real-time and Accurate Semantic Segmentation Model for Aerial Remote Sensing River Ice Image
Xiuwei Zhang, Ziu Zhao, Lingyan Ran*, Yinghui Xing, Wenan Wang, Zeze Lan, Hanlin Yin, Houjun He, Qixing Liu, Baosen Zhang, and Yanning Zhang.
Signal Processing, 2023.
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DSC-GraspNet: A Lightweight Convolutional Neural Network for Robotic Grasp Detection
DSC-GraspNet: A Lightweight Convolutional Neural Network for Robotic Grasp Detection
Zhiyang Zhou, Xiaoqiang Zhang, Lingyan Ran, Yamin Han and Hongyu Chu
② ICVR, 2023.
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Visual SLAM for Dynamic Environments based on Static Key-points Detection
Visual SLAM for Dynamic Environments based on Static Key-points Detection
Liangtao Zhong, Xiaoqiang Zhang, Lingyan Ran, Yamin Han and Hongyu Chu
① ICVR, 2023.
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An Unsupervised Domain Adaption Framework for Aerial Image Semantic Segmentation Based on Curriculum Learning
An Unsupervised Domain Adaption Framework for Aerial Image Semantic Segmentation Based on Curriculum Learning
Lingyan Ran, Cheng Ji, Shizhou Zhang, Xiaoqiang Zhang, Yanning Zhang.
2022 7th International Conference on Image, Vision and Computing (ICIVC), Xi’an, China, 2022, pp. 354-359.
bibtex / pdf
Underwater Light Field Camera Calibration Based on Multi-Layer Flat Refractive Model and Multi-Projection-Center Model
Underwater Light Field Camera Calibration Based on Multi-Layer Flat Refractive Model and Multi-Projection-Center Model
Xiaoqiang Zhang, Liangtao Zhong, Qiqi Leng, Lingyan Ran, Hongyu Chu.
Acta Optica Sinica, 2022, 42(12): 1215001.
bibtex / pdf
Metric Calibration of Aerial On-Board Multiple Non-overlapping Cameras Based on Visual and Inertial Measurement Data
Metric Calibration of Aerial On-Board Multiple Non-overlapping Cameras Based on Visual and Inertial Measurement Data
Xiaoqiang Zhang, Liangtao Zhong, Chao Liang, Hongyu Chu, Yanhua Shao, Lingyan Ran
In Chinese Conference on Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision (PRCV), pp. 16-28. Springer, Cham, 2021.
bibtex / pdf
Improving visible-thermal ReID with structural common space embedding and part models
Improving visible-thermal ReID with structural common space embedding and part models
Lingyan Ran, Yujun Hong, Shizhou Zhang*, Yifei Yang, Yanning Zhang
Pattern Recognition Letters 142 (2021): 25-31.
bibtex / pdf
An Adaptive Viewpoint Transformation Network for 3D Human Pose Estimation
An Adaptive Viewpoint Transformation Network for 3D Human Pose Estimation
Guoqiang Liang, Xiangping Zhong, Lingyan Ran*, Yanning Zhang
IEEE Access, 2020.
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EMS-Net: Ensemble of Multiscale Convolutional Neural Networks for Classification of Breast Cancer Histology Images
EMS-Net: Ensemble of Multiscale Convolutional Neural Networks for Classification of Breast Cancer Histology Images
Zhanbo Yang, Lingyan Ran, Shizhou Zhang, Yong Xia and Yanning Zhang
① Neurocomputing, 2019.
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MSA-Net: Multiscale Spatial Attention Network for the Classification of Breast Histology Images
MSA-Net: Multiscale Spatial Attention Network for the Classification of Breast Histology Images
Zhanbo Yang, Lingyan Ran, Yong Xia and Yanning Zhang
2019 International Conference on Brain-Inspired Cognitive Systems (BICS 2019), Guangzhou, China.
bibtex
A Hyperspectral Image Classification Framework with Spatial Pixel Pair Features
A Hyperspectral Image Classification Framework with Spatial Pixel Pair Features
Lingyan Ran, Yanning Zhang, Wei Wei and Qilin Zhang
③ Sensors 2017, 17, 2421.
Project page bibtex / pdf / Source code
Convolutional Neural Network-Based Robot Navigation Using Uncalibrated Spherical Images
Convolutional Neural Network-Based Robot Navigation Using Uncalibrated Spherical Images
Lingyan Ran, Yanning Zhang, Qilin Zhang and Tao Yang
② Sensors 2017, 17, 1341.
Project page bibtex / pdf / Source code
Autonomous Near Ground Quadrone Navigation with Uncalibrated Spherical Images Using Convolutional Neural Networks
Autonomous Near Ground Quadrone Navigation with Uncalibrated Spherical Images Using Convolutional Neural Networks
Lingyan Ran, Yanning Zhang and Tao Yang
Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Advances in Mobile Computing and Multimedia (MoMM), 2016.
Bands Sensitive Convolutional Network for Hyperspectral Image Classification
Bands Sensitive Convolutional Network for Hyperspectral Image Classification
Lingyan Ran, Yanning Zhang, Wei Wei and Tao Yang
Inter. Conf. on Internet Multimedia Computing and Service (ICIMCS), 2016.
Autonomous Wheeled Robot Navigation with Uncalibrated Spherical Images
Autonomous Wheeled Robot Navigation with Uncalibrated Spherical Images
Lingyan Ran, Yanning Zhang, Tao Yang and Peng Zhang
The 4th Chinese Conference on Intelligent Visual Surveillance (IVS), 2016.
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CANNET: Context Aware Nonlocal Convolutional Networks for Semantic Image Segmentation
CANNET: Context Aware Nonlocal Convolutional Networks for Semantic Image Segmentation
Lingyan Ran, Yanning Zhang and Gang Hua
International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 2015, Quebec City, Canada.
Compressive Tracking based on Superpixel Segmentation
Compressive Tracking based on Superpixel Segmentation
Ting Chen, Hichem Sahli, Yanning Zhang, Tao Yang and Lingyan Ran
Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Advances in Mobile Computing and Multimedia (MoMM), 2016.
Multiple-Layer Visibility Propagation-Based Synthetic Aperture Imaging through Occlusion
Multiple-Layer Visibility Propagation-Based Synthetic Aperture Imaging through Occlusion
Tao Yang, Jing Li, Jingyi Yu, Yanning Zhang, Wenguang Ma, Xiaomin Tong, Rui Yu and Lingyan Ran
① Sensors, 2015.
All-In-Focus Synthetic Aperture Imaging
All-In-Focus Synthetic Aperture Imaging
Tao Yang, Yanning Zhang, Jingyi Yu, Jing Li, Wenguang Ma, Xiaomin Tong, Rui Yu, and Lingyan Ran
① European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2014.
Simultaneous camera array focus plane estimation and occluded moving object imaging
Simultaneous camera array focus plane estimation and occluded moving object imaging
Tao Yang, Yanning Zhang, Rui Yu, Xiaoqiang Zhang, Ting Chen, Lingyan Ran and Zhengxi Song
Image and Vision Computing (IVC), 2014.
Camera Array Synthetic Aperture Focusing and Fusion based Hidden Object Imaging
Camera Array Synthetic Aperture Focusing and Fusion based Hidden Object Imaging
Tao Yang, Yanning Zhang, Rui Yu, Xiaoqiang Zhang, Ting Chen, Lingyan Ran and Zhengxi Song
Sino-foreign-interchange Workshop on Intelligence Science and Intelligent Data Engineering (ISciDE), 2011, Xi'an, China.

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