Yanlong Yang

Research

Publications & patents

Papers on autonomous-driving perception, generative models for inverse problems and multi-sensor sensing, plus patents from four years in industry. ★ marks first or co-first authorship; full list on Google Scholar.

Publications

2026Conference

★Self-Diffusion Driven Blind Imaging

Y. Yang, G. Luo

IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) · pp. 26711–26720

Zero-shot, self-supervised blind imaging: an iterative reverse self-diffusion process that starts from pure noise and jointly refines the sharp image and the unknown blur kernel — no pre-training.

PaperarXivProject
2025Preprint

Self-Diffusion for Solving Inverse Problems

G. Luo, S. Huang, Y. Yang

arXiv:2510.21417

Alternates noising and denoising with an untrained convolutional self-denoiser, adapting to arbitrary forward operators without pretrained priors.

arXivProject
2025Preprint

★Unsupervised Radar Point-Cloud Enhancement via Arbitrary LiDAR-Guided Diffusion Prior

Y. Yang, J. Liu, G. Luo, H. Li, E. Ahn, M. Rahimi Azghadi, T. Huang

arXiv:2505.09887

Enhances sparse, noisy radar point clouds toward LiDAR-like density with a diffusion prior learned from arbitrary, unpaired LiDAR data.

arXivCodeProject
2025Journal

★RaLiBEV: Radar and LiDAR BEV Fusion Learning for Anchor-Box-Free Object Detection Systems

Y. Yang*, J. Liu*, T. Huang, Q.-L. Han, G. Ma, B. Zhu

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology · 35(5):4130–4143 · *equal contribution

Fuses radar range–azimuth heatmaps with LiDAR in bird's-eye view for all-weather detection: +13.1% (clear) and +19.0% (fog) at IoU 0.8.

IEEEarXivCodeProject
2023Conference

SSP: Small Object Detection from Sparse Point Clouds of Roadside LiDAR for Vehicle-to-Infrastructure Cooperating Systems

H. Liang, Y. Yang, J. Li, Y. Deng

ITS World Congress

Detecting pedestrians, cyclists and other small objects in the sparse point clouds of roadside LiDAR for V2I perception.

Project
2022Journal

Fusion Reconstruction Method for 3D Temperature Fields on the Human Body Surface

Y. Yang, C. Xu

Infrared Technology

Fuses depth and thermal imaging to reconstruct textured 3D temperature fields of the human body surface.

Project
2020Journal

Observation of Phase Transitions of Ba0.6Sr0.4TiO3–Silicon Hybrid Metamaterial by THz Spectra

L. Wu, Y. Fu, N. Xu, Q. Sheng, X. Zhang, Y. Yang, et al.

ACS Applied Electronic Materials

THz-spectroscopy study of temperature-driven phase transitions in a BST–silicon hybrid metamaterial (undergraduate honours research).

Patents

9 granted · first inventor on 4

Granted Chinese invention patents, assignee Vanjee Technology (filing year shown). Plus 13 pending applications (2021–2023) on millimetre-wave radar signal processing, multi-sensor target detection and tracking, and point-cloud generation.

  1. 2022

    Method for Multiple-Target Detection and Related Product

    Y. Yang, J. Li, Y. Deng

    CN116863325B · granted

  2. 2021

    Assisted Parking Method, Device, Computer Equipment and Storage Medium

    M. Liu, Y. Yang, Y. Deng, Y. Fang

    CN114299146B · granted

  3. 2021

    Point-Cloud Data Enhancement Method, Device, Computer Equipment, System and Storage Medium

    Y. Yang, J. Li, F. Meng, Y. Deng, L. Wu

    CN116359908B · granted

  4. 2021

    Automatic Parking Method, Roadside Equipment, Vehicle and System

    K. Cao, Y. Yang, Y. Fang, Y. Deng

    CN113997932B · granted

  5. 2021

    Noise-Point Processing Method, Device, Equipment and Storage Medium

    D. Liu, J. Li, Y. Yang

    CN116047477B · granted

  6. 2021

    Method and Device for Generating Data, Electronic Equipment and Storage Medium

    Y. Yang, Y. Deng, J. Li, L. Wu

    CN116027288B · granted

  7. 2021

    Multi-Sensor Signal Fusion Method, Device, Electronic Equipment and Storage Medium

    Y. Deng, Y. Yang, J. Li, L. Wu

    CN116027318B · granted

  8. 2021

    Assisted-Driving Method for Vehicles in Parking Lots, Intelligent Terminal and Roadside Equipment

    Y. Yang, J. Li, K. Cao

    CN115731738B · granted

  9. 2021

    Target-Object Identification Method, Device, Electronic Equipment and Storage Medium

    L. Wu, Y. Yang

    CN113687358B · granted