Lei Fan

About Me

I am currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing (CHeBA), UNSW. I received my PhD from UNSW Sydney in 2024, specializing in computer vision and machine learning.

My Research Interests:

Medical Image Analysis
Computer Vision Applications
Generative Models

Special Issues & Announcements

[2025–10]

We are launching a Special Issue on Algorithms (IF: 2.1): AI-Powered Biomedical Image Analysis

[2025–10]

We are launching a Special Issue on Frontiers in Radiology (IF: 2.3): Agentic AI and Large Language Models for Radiology

[2025–08]

We are launching a Workshop in ACM MM Asia 2025: Multimodal Multiethnic Talking-Head Video Generation

[2025–06]

We are launching a Special Issue on Frontiers in Medicine: Unveiling Complex Medical Interdependencies Through High-Order Correlation Mining

News

[2026–4]

1 paper (as First Author) has been accepted for Medical Image Analysis (MedIA) (IF: 11.8).

[2026–4]

1 paper has been accepted for ICML 2026.

[2026–3]

1 paper has been accepted for PR (IF: 7.5) .

[2026–2]

2 papers have been accepted for CVPR 2026.

[2026–1]

1 paper (as Co-Corr*) has been accepted for CVIU (IF: 3.5, CCF-B) .

[2026–1]

1 paper (as Co-First*) has been accepted for ICLR 2026.

[2026–1]

1 paper (as Corr*) has been accepted for PR (IF: 7.5) .

[2026–1]

1 paper (as Corr*) has been accepted for ACM TOMM (IF: 5.2, CCF-B) .

[2026–1]

1 paper (as Corr*) has been accepted for ICASSP 2026 (CCF-B).

[2025–12]

1 paper (as Co-Corr*) has been accepted for ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (IF: 12.2) .

[2025–12]

1 paper has been accepted for Imaging Neuroscience.

[2025–11]

1 paper has been accepted for AAAI 2026.

[2025–10]

1 paper (as Co-Corr*) has been accepted for IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (TGRS) (IF: 8.6).

[2025–10]

1 paper (as Co-Corr*) has been accepted for Medical Image Analysis (MedIA) (IF: 11.8).

[2025–07]

2 papers (as Corr* and Corr*) have been accepted for ACM MM2025.

[2025–06]

2 papers (as First and Co+) have been accepted for ICCV2025.

[2025–06]

3 papers (as two Corr* and one Equa+) have been accepted for MICCAI2025 ( two papers Early Accept!).

[2025–04]

1 paper (as Corr*) has been accepted for IJCAI2025.

[2025–03]

1 paper (as Corr*) has been accepted for PR (IF: 7.5).

[2025–02]

3 papers (as one First, two Equa+) have been accepted for CVPR2025.

[2024–12]

1 paper (as First) has been accepted for IEEE TII (IF: 11.7).

[2024–12]

1 paper has been accepted for AAAI2025.

[2024–10]

1 paper (as Corr*) has been accepted for BIBM2024.

[2023–12]

1 paper (as First) has been accepted for ICASSP2024.

[2023–11]

1 paper (as First) has been accepted for IEEE RA-L (IF: 5.2).

[2023–11]

1 paper (as First) has been accepted for Scientific Data (IF: 9.8).

[2023–07]

1 paper (as First) has been accepted for ECAI2023.

[2022–10]

1 paper (as First) has been accepted for IEEE TMI (IF: 10.6).

[2022–05]

1 paper (as First) has been accepted for MICCAI2022.

[2022–05]

1 paper (as First) has been accepted for CVPR2022.

[2021–05]

1 paper (as First) has been accepted for MICCAI2021 (Early Accept!).

Publications

(+ Equal Contribution, * Corresponding Author)

2026

Medical hierarchical image classification via dual-geometry image–text learning

Lei Fan(*Corr), Arcot Sowmya, Erik Meijering, Zhen Yu, Zongyuan Ge, Yang Song

Medical Image Analysis (MedIA), 2026

[Paper] [Code]

中科院一区 (IF:11.8, JCR:Q1)

Noise-Aware Cross Attention for Image Manipulation Localization

Hongshi Zhang, Tonghua Su, Zhou Liu, Fuxiang Yang, Donglin Di, Yang Song, Lei Fan(*Corr)

Pattern Recognition (PR), 2026

[Paper] [Code]

中科院一区 (IF:7.6, JCR:Q1)

Visual Prompt-Agnostic Evolution

Junze Wang⁺, Lei Fan⁺, Dezheng Zhang, Weipeng Jing, Donglin Di, Yang Song, Sidong Liu, Cong Cong*

International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2026

[Paper] [ArXiv] [Code]

non-CCF A* (Australian Core)

Flexible Concept Bottleneck Model

Xingbo Du, Qiantong Dou, Lei Fan, Rui Zhang

AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2026

[Paper] [ArXiv] [Code]

CCF-A A* (Australian Core)

2025

Learning Frequency-Domain Fusion for Multimodal Remote Sensing Semantic Segmentation

Guangsheng Chen, Fangyu Sun, Weipeng Jing, Weitao Zou(*Corr), Donglin Di, Yang Song, Lei Fan(*Corr)

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (TGRS), 2025

[Paper] [Code]

中科院一区 (IF:8.6, JCR:Q1)

M3Surv: Fusing Multi-slide and Multi-omics for Memory-Augmented Robust Survival Prediction

Mingcheng Qu, Guang Yang, Donglin Di, Yue Gao(*Corr), Yang Song, Lei Fan(*Corr)

Medical Image Analysis (MedIA), 2025

[Paper] [Code]

中科院一区 (IF:11.8, JCR:Q1)

SAGE: A Visual Language Model for Anomaly Detection via Fact Enhancement and Entropy-aware Alignment

Guoxin Zang, Xue Li, Donglin Di, Lanshun Nie, Dechen Zhan, Yang Song, Lei Fan*

ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM), 2025

[Paper] [ArXiv] [Code]

CCF-A A* (Australian Core)

LLaPa: A Vision-Language Model Framework for Counterfactual-Aware Procedural Planning

Shibo Sun, Xue Li*, Donglin Di, Mingjie Wei, Lanshun Nie, Weinan Zhang, Dechen Zhan, Yang Song, Lei Fan*

ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM), 2025

[Paper] [ArXiv] [Code]

CCF-A A* (Australian Core)

Salvaging the Overlooked: Leveraging Class-Aware Contrastive Learning for Multi-Class Anomaly Detection

Lei Fan*, Junjie Huang, Donglin Di, Anyang Su, Tianyou Song, Maurice Pagnucco, Yang Song

IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2025

[Paper] [ArXiv] [Project]

CCF-A A* (Australian Core)

DH-FaceVid-1K: A Large-Scale High-Quality Dataset for Face Video Generation

Donglin Di, He Feng, Wenzhang Sun, Yongjia Ma, Hao Li, Chen Wei, Lei Fan, Tonghua Su, Xun Yang

IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2025

[Paper] [ArXiv] [Project]

CCF-A A* (Australian Core)

Memory-Augmented Incomplete Multimodal Survival Prediction via Cross-Slide and Gene-Attentive Hypergraph Learning

Mingcheng Qu, Guang Yang, Donglin Di, Yue Gao, Tonghua Su, Yang Song, Lei Fan(*Corr)

Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), 2025

[Paper] [ArXiv] [Code]

CCF-B A (Australian Core)

(Early Accept) Spatially Gene Expression Prediction using Dual-Scale Contrastive Learning

Mingcheng Qu, Yuncong Wu, Donglin Di, Yue Gao, Tonghua Su, Yang Song, Lei Fan(*Corr)

Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), 2025

[Paper] [ArXiv] [Code]

CCF-B A (Australian Core)

(Early Accept) Hypergraph Tversky-Aware Domain Incremental Learning for Brain Tumor Segmentation with Missing Modalities

Junze Wang⁺, Lei Fan(⁺ Equal), Weipeng Jing, Donglin Di, Yang Song, Sidong Liu, Cong Cong(*Corr)

Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), 2025

[Paper] [ArXiv] [Code]

CCF-B A (Australian Core)

Multimodal Cancer Survival Analysis via Hypergraph Learning with Cross-Modality Rebalance

Mingcheng Qu, Guang Yang, Donglin Di, Tonghua Su, Yue Gao, Yang Song, Lei Fan (*Corr)

International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2025

[Paper] [ArXiv] [Code]

CCF-A A* (Australian Core)

MANTA: A Large-Scale Multi-View and Visual-Text Anomaly Detection Dataset for Tiny Objects

Lei Fan(*Corr), Dongdong Fan, Zhiguang Hu, Yiwen Ding, Donglin Di, Kai Yi, Maurice Pagnucco, Yang Song

The IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2025

[Paper] [ArXiv] [Project]

CCF-A A* (Australian Core)

Prototype-Based Image Prompting for Weakly Supervised Histopathological Image Segmentation

Qingchen Tang⁺, Lei Fan(⁺Equal), Maurice Pagnucco, Yang Song

The IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2025

[Paper] [ArXiv] [Code]

CCF-A A* (Australian Core)

Interpretable Image Classification via Non-parametric Part Prototype Learning

Zhijie Zhu⁺, Lei Fan(⁺Equal), Maurice Pagnucco, Yang Song

The IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2025

[Paper] [ArXiv] [Code]

CCF-A A* (Australian Core)

Multi-Modal Hypergraph Contrastive Learning for Medical Image Segmentation

Weipeng Jing, Junze Wang, Donglin Di, Dandan Li, Yang Song, Lei Fan(*Corr)

Pattern Recognition (PR), 2025

[Paper] [Code]

中科院一区 (IF:7.5, JCR:Q1) CCF-B A* (Australian Core)

Before 2025 (12)

GRPose: Learning Graph Relations for Human Image Generation with Pose Priors

Xiangchen Yin, Donglin Di, Lei Fan, Hao Li, Chen Wei, Xiaofei Gou, Yang Song, Xiao Sun, Xun Yang

AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2025

[Paper] [ArXiv] [Code]

CCF-A A* (Australian Core)

Boundary-Guided Learning for Gene Expression Prediction in Spatial Transcriptomics

Mingcheng Qu, Yuncong Wu, Donglin Di, Anyang Su, Tonghua Su, Yang Song, Lei Fan(*Corr)

IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM), 2024

[Paper] [ArXiv] [Code]

CCF-B

GrainBrain: Multi-View Identification and Stratification of Defective Grain Kernels

Lei Fan(*Corr), Dongdong Fan, Yiwen Ding, Yong Wu, Donglin Di, Maurice Pagnucco, Yang Song

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (TII), 2024

[Paper] [Project] [Code]

中科院一区 (IF:11.7, JCR:Q1)

Identifying the Defective: Detecting Damaged Grains for Cereal Appearance Inspection

Lei Fan(*Corr), Yiwen Ding, Dongdong Fan, Yong Wu, Maurice Pagnucco, Yang Song

European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI), 2023

[Paper] [ArXiv] [Project]

CCF-B A (Australian Core)

AV4GAInsp: An Efficient Dual-Camera System for Identifying Defective Kernels of Cereal Grains

Lei Fan(*Corr), Dongdong Fan, Yiwen Ding, Yong Wu, Hongxia Chu, Maurice Pagnucco, Yang Song(*Corr)

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), 2023

[Paper] [Project]

中科院二区 (IF:5.2, JCR:Q1)

An annotated grain kernel image database for visual quality inspection

Lei Fan(*Corr)⁺, Yiwen Ding⁺, Dongdong Fan, Yong Wu, Hongxia Chu, Maurice Pagnucco, Yang Song(*Corr)

Scientific Data, 2023

[Paper] [Project]

中科院二区 (IF:9.8, JCR:Q1)

GrainSpace: A Large-scale Dataset for Fine-grained and Domain-adaptive Recognition of Cereal Grains

Lei Fan(*Corr)⁺, Yiwen Ding⁺, Dongdong Fan, Donglin Di, Maurice Pagnucco, Yang Song

IEEE/CVF Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR), 2022

[PDF] [ArXiv] [Project]

CCF-A A* (Australian Core)

Cancer Survival Prediction From Whole Slide Images With Self-Supervised Learning and Slide Consistency

Lei Fan(*Corr), Arcot Sowmya, Erik Meijering, Yang Song(*Corr)

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging (TMI), 2022

[PDF]

中科院一区 (IF:10.6, JCR:Q1) CCF-B A* (Australian Core)

Fast FF-to-FFPE Whole Slide Image Translation via Laplacian Pyramid and Contrastive Learning

Lei Fan(*Corr), Arcot Sowmya, Erik Meijering, Yang Song

International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), 2022

[PDF]

CCF-B A (Australian Core)

(Early Accept) Learning Visual Features by Colorization for Slide-Consistent Survival Prediction from Whole Slide Images

Lei Fan, Arcot Sowmya, Erik Meijering, Yang Song(*Corr)

International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), 2021

[PDF]

CCF-B A (Australian Core)

Activities

Serving as Area Chair:
- ICASSP26(20)
Serving as Guest Editor:
Serving as Reviewers:
- Conference:
  - CVPR26(3)/25(3)/24(2)/23(4), ICCV25(4)/23(3), NeurIPS25(2), ICML26(7), ECCV26(4)/24(4), AAAI26(6)
  - MICCAI25(5)/24(4)/23(6), ECAI23(2), BIBM25(8)/24(5), ICRA23(1), ICME26(5)/25(5), ICASSP26(18)/25(3)
  - ISBI26(9)/25(5)/24(1)/23(1), PRICAI23(3), IJCNN23(5), KR24(2)
  - ICAconf (6)
- Journal:
  - Alzheimer's & Dementia: Diagnosis, Assessment & Disease Monitoring (1)
  - Applied Soft Computing (1)
  - Briefings in Bioinformatics (1)
  - Biomedical Signal Processing and Control (1)
  - Chemical and Biological Technologies in Agriculture (1)
  - Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems (1)
  - Complex System Modeling and Simulation (2)
  - Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine Update (1)
  - Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence (8)
  - Expert Systems With Applications (5)
  - Electric Power Systems Research (1)
  - Frontiers in Radiology (1)
  - Frontiers In Digital Health (1)
  - IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (1)
  - IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (2)
  - IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics (1)
  - IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (2)
  - IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging (9)
  - IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (1)
  - IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (1)
  - IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (2)
  - IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics: Systems (3)
  - IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (3)
  - IEEE ACCESS (27)
  - IEEE Sensors Journal (1)
  - IET Image Processing (5)
  - Information Processing and Management (3)
  - Information Fusion (7)
  - Information Sciences (1)
  - International Journal of Computer Vision (1)
  - International Journal of Computer Applications in Technology (1)
  - International Dental Journal (1)
  - Journal of Biomedical Informatics (1)
  - Journal of Field Robotics (1)
  - Journal of King Saud University - Computer and Information Sciences (2)
  - Journal of Supercomputing (1)
  - Journal of Real-Time Image Processing (2)
  - Knowledge-based System (17)
  - Medical Image Analysis (1)
  - Measurement (2)
  - Neural Networks (4)
  - Neurocomputing (6)
  - Pattern Recognition (9)
  - PLOS One (1)
  - Results in Engineering (1)
  - Processes (1)
  - Rice Science (1)
  - Reliability Engineering & System Safety (1)
  - Scientific Reports (7)
  - Scientific Data (1)
  - Sensors (1)
  - The Visual Computer (2)
  - The European Physical Journal Plus (1)
  - Vietnam Journal of Science, Technology and Engineering (1)
  - Vicinagearth (1)
- IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging (TMI) Distinguished Reviewer 2024
- CVPR 2025 Outstanding Reviewer