🧍‍♂️ Biography

Hello, My name is Yu-Fan (Van) Lin. I am a master’s student with the Advanced Computer Vision Laboratory (ACVLAB) at the Institute of Data Science, National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), Tainan, Taiwan. I actively participate in various competitions and research projects as part of the ACVLAB team.

Previously, I earned my bachelor’s degree from the Department of Applied Mathematics at National Chung Hsing University (NCHU), where I engaged in multiple projects during my undergraduate studies. You can find my resume here (last updated January 04, 2026).

My primary research interests include:

• Multimodal Learning
• Image/Video Processing

I am also enthusiastic about exploring other cutting-edge fields in artificial intelligence and data science. I actively seek opportunities for collaboration—let’s connect and share ideas to push boundaries together!

🔥 News

• 2025/12/17:  🎉🎉 I receive the 1st performance in WACV 2026, SkiTB Visual Tracking Challenge.
• 2025/12/03:  🎉🎉 I receive the 3rd performance in ICASSP 2026, Hyper-Object Challenge. See you in Barcelona.
• 2025/11/24:  🎉🎉 I receive the top 2% performance in BMVC 2025, Data-Centric Land Cover Classification Challenge.
• 2025/08/24:  🎉🎉 I won the CVGIP 2025 best paper award!
• 2025/07/25:  🎉🎉 Three papers were accepted by CVGIP 2025!
• 2025/07/24:  🎉🎉 One paper was accepted by ICCVW 2025. See you in Honolulu, Hawaii!
• 2025/07/19:  🎉🎉 Three papers were accepted by ACMMM 2025. See you in Dublin, Ireland!
• 2025/07/15:  🎉🎉 I receive the 1st performance in ACMMM 2025, SoccerTrack Challenge@MMSports. See you in Dublin, Ireland!
• 2025/07/06:  🎉🎉 I receive the 1st performance in ICCV 2025, Multi-source COV19 Detection Challenge. See you in Honolulu, Hawaii!
• 2025/07/05:  🎉🎉 One paper was accepted by ACMMM 2025, see you in Dublin, Ireland!
• 2025/06/09:  🎉🎉 I received 1st place in the ICRA 2025 TreeScope Tree Diameter Estimation Challenge!
• 2025/03/24:  🎉🎉 I received 3rd place in the CVPR 2025 NTIRE Workshop – Image Shadow Removal Challenge. See you in Nashville!
• 2025/03/24:  🎉🎉 I received 6th place in the CVPR 2025 NTIRE Workshop – Image Reflection Removal Challenge.
• 2025/03/15:  🎉🎉 Two paper were accepted by IGARSS 2025, see you in Brisbane!
• 2025/01/21:  🎉🎉 One paper was accepted by ICCT-Pacific 2025.
• 2024/12/10:  🎉🎉 I received the 8th Foxconn Scholarship!
• 2024/12/02:  🎉🎉 I received the Scholarship Nan Shan Life Insurance Company!
• 2024/07/21:  🎉🎉 I received the 1st performance in ICPR 2024 (Beyond Visible Spectrum: AI for Agriculture)!
• 2024/06/06:  🎉🎉 I received the Top Performance Award in ACMMM 2024 (Social Media Prediction Challenge)!
• 2024/05/15:  🎉🎉 I received the 3rd place in SMP Challenge in ACMMM 2024!
• 2024/03/06:  🎉🎉 I received the 2nd Position in the Auto-WCEBleedGen Challenge Version V2, in conjunted with ICIP 2024!
• 2021/10/22:  🎉🎉 I received the 2nd place in the Second XRun! Motion Sensing Technology Innovation Competition!
• 2021/08/19:  🎉🎉 I received the Titanium Medal Award in Green Idea Invention and Design Fair(best 10% teams)!
• 2020/12/26:  🎉🎉 I received the 4th Foxconn Scholarship as one of only 30 recipients in Taiwan!
• 2018/06/02:  🎉🎉 I received the 1st place in the Asian Robotic Athletic Competition!

📝 Selected Publications

ACMMM25

DenseSR: Image Shadow Removal as Dense Prediction

Yu-Fan Lin, Chia-Ming Lee, Chih-Chung Hsu

Keywords

• Single Image Shadow Removal

arXiv

Submitted to TGRS25

SSCNet: Factorized Spatial-Spectral Correlation for Efficient Hyperspectral Image Fusion

Chia-Ming Lee, Yo-Hao Ho, Yu-Fan Lin, Li-Wei Kang Chih-Chung Hsu

Keywords

• Efficient Hyperspectral Image Pansharpening

arXiv

Submitted to TGRS

S$^3$RNet: Sparse Spatial-Spectral Representation with Hybrid Knowledge Distillation for Efficient Hyperspectral Image Pansharpening

Chih-Chung Hsu, Chia-Ming Lee, Yu-Fan Lin, Li-Wei Kang

Keywords

• Efficient Hyperspectral Image Pansharpening
• Robustness and Sparse Representation
• Network Compression and Knowledge Distillation

arXiv

IGARSS25

Robust Hyperspectral Image Panshapring via Sparse Spatial-Spectral Representation

Chia-Ming Lee, Yu-Fan Lin, Li-Wei Kang, Chih-Chung Hsu

Keywords

• Hyperspectral Image Fusion
• Sparse Representation

arXiv

Submitted to ICCV25

PromptHSI: Universal Hyperspectral Image Restoration Framework for Composite Degradation

Chia-Ming Lee, Ching-Heng Cheng, Yu-Fan Lin, Yi-Ching Cheng, Wo-Ting Liao, Chih-Chung Hsu, Fu-En Yang, Yu-Chiang Frank Wang

Keywords

• Hyperspectral Image Restoration
• All-in-One Image Restoration
• Text-Prompt Learning

arXiv

Submitted to ICCV25

AuroraHSI: Degradation-agnostic Hyperspectral Image Fusion Transformer via Mask-guided Information Sharing and Compensation

Chia-Ming Lee, Cheng-Jun Kang, Ching-Heng Cheng, Yu-Fan Lin, Yi-Shiuan Chou, Chih-Chung Hsu, Fu-En Yang, Yu-Chiang Frank Wang

Keywords

• Hyperspectral Image Restoration
• Robust Hyperspectral Image Fusion
• Graph Neural Network

arXiv

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ACMMM2024

Revisiting CLIP-Features for Learning Multi-Modal Representations from Social Posts

ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACMMM2024)

Chih-Chung Hsu, Chia-Ming Lee, Yu-Fan Lin, Yi-Shiuan Chou, Chih-Yu Jiang, Chi-Han Tsai

Keywords

• Vision-Language Model
• Social Media Analysis

arXiv

🔨 Projects

Developing an Automatic Prohibited Items Detection Model for Airport Luggage X ray Images Based on the Integration of Convolutional Neural Networks and Visual Transformers

Yu-Fan Lin, Chih-En Kuo

Keywords

• Deformable convolutions
• Contraband
• Object detection

Human Factors Biomedical System for Shooting Training

Yu-Fan Lin

Keywords

• System integration
• Microcontroller
• Shooting analysis

🎖 Honors and Awards

• 2025.12: Winner (1/16), SkiTB Visual Tracking Challenge, Winter Conference on Computer Vision (WACV).
• 2025.12: 3rd place (3/136), Hyper-Object Challenge, Spectral Reconstruction from Mosaic Images, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, & Signal Processing (ICASSP).
• 2025.12: 3rd place (3/274), Hyper-Object Challenge, Joint Spatial and Spectral Super-Resolution, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, & Signal Processing (ICASSP).
• 2025.11: 4th place (4/418), Data-Centric Land Cover Classification Challenge, British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC).
• 2025.07: Winner, SoccerTrack Challenge, Multimedia Content Analysis in Sports, ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACMMM).
• 2025.07: Winner, Multi-Source Covid-19 Detection Challenge, International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV).
• 2025.06: Winner, TreeScope Tree Diameter Estimation Challenge, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA).
• 2025.03: 3rd place (3/306, 0.9%), NTIRE 2025 Single Image Shadow Removal Challenge, IEEE/CVF Computer Vision & Pattern Recognition (CVPR).
• 2025.03: 6th place (6/244, 2.4%), NTIRE 2025 Single Image Reflection Removal in the Wild Challenge, IEEE/CVF Computer Vision & Pattern Recognition (CVPR).
• 2024.12: 8th Foxconn Scholarship recipient.
• 2024.12: Nan Shan Life Insurance Company Scholarship.
• 2024.07: Winner, Beyond Visible Spectrum: AI for Agriculture Challenge, International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR).
• 2024.05: Top Performance Award, Socia Media Popularity Prediction Challenge, ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACMMM).
• 2024.03: Runner-up (2/1200+), Auto-WCEBleedGen Challenge Version V2, IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP).
• 2024.03: Presidential Award, Department of Applied Mathematics (Data Science and Computing Program), National Chung Hsing University.
• 2023.10: Presidential Award, Department of Applied Mathematics (Data Science and Computing Program), National Chung Hsing University.
• 2021.10: Runner-up (2/30+), Second XRun! Motion Sensing Technology Innovation Competition.
• 2021.08: Titanium Medal Award (Top 10%), Green Idea Invention and Design Fair.
• 2020.12: 4th Foxconn Scholarship recipient.
• 2018.06: Winner (1/1500+), Asian Robotic Athletic Competition.

💼 Projects

• 2024.4~: Cybersecurity in distributed computing for remote sensing, NVIDIA Taiwan Research.
• 2024.7~2025.6: Brake system Defect Detection, Taiwan High Speed Rail.
• 2024.3~2025.4: Scenario understanding and augmented intelligence, Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI).
• 2023.2~2024.3: Developing an Automatic Prohibited Items Detection Model for Airport Luggage X ray Images Based on the Integration of Convolutional Neural Networks and Visual Transformers, National Science and Technology Council (NSTC).
• 2023.2~2024.3: Plant Disease Analysis System, National Chung Hsing University. (Joint-project with Institute of Agronomy, National Chung Hsing University)

📖 Educations

• 2024.07 - (Now), M.S. National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), the Institute of Data Science, Taiwan.
• 2022.02 - 2024.06, B.S. National Chung Hsing University (NCHU), the Deparement of Applied Mathematics, Taiwan.
• 2020.09 - 2022.02, B.S. National Kaohsiung University of Science and Technology (NKUST), the Department of Telecommunication Engineering, Taiwan.

💼 Academic Services

• 🔎 Reviewer
  • Conference: AAAI’25
  • Journal: TCSVT, TMM, IJPRAI

🌍 Global Collaborations