Publications

@phdthesis{chen2025building,
  title  = {Building Human-Like Machine Intelligence: Advancing Attention by Modeling, Alignment, and Explainability},
  author = {Chen, Xianyu},
  school = {University of Minnesota},
  year   = {2025},
  month  = nov,
  url    = {https://hdl.handle.net/11299/279218}
}

@inproceedings{chen2024gazexplain,
  title     = {{GazeXplain}: Learning to Predict Natural Language Explanations of Visual Scanpaths},
  author    = {Chen, Xianyu and Jiang, Ming and Zhao, Qi},
  booktitle = {European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)},
  series    = {LNCS},
  volume    = {15066},
  pages     = {314--333},
  year      = {2024}
}

@article{chen2024every,
  title   = {Every Problem, Every Step, All in Focus: Learning to Solve Vision-Language Problems With Integrated Attention},
  author  = {Chen, Xianyu and Yang, Jinhui and Chen, Shi and Wang, Louis and Jiang, Ming and Zhao, Qi},
  journal = {IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence},
  volume  = {46},
  number  = {7},
  pages   = {4720--4735},
  year    = {2024},
  doi     = {10.1109/TPAMI.2024.3357631}
}

@inproceedings{chen2024beyond,
  title     = {Beyond Average: Individualized Visual Scanpath Prediction},
  author    = {Chen, Xianyu and Jiang, Ming and Zhao, Qi},
  booktitle = {IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)},
  pages     = {25420--25431},
  year      = {2024}
}

@inproceedings{yang2022visualhow,
  title     = {{VisualHow}: Multimodal Problem Solving},
  author    = {Yang, Jinhui and Chen, Xianyu and Jiang, Ming and Chen, Shi and Wang, Louis and Zhao, Qi},
  booktitle = {IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)},
  pages     = {15606--15616},
  year      = {2022}
}

@inproceedings{chen2021leveraging,
  title     = {Leveraging Human Attention in Novel Object Captioning},
  author    = {Chen, Xianyu and Jiang, Ming and Zhao, Qi},
  booktitle = {International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI)},
  pages     = {622--628},
  year      = {2021}
}

@inproceedings{chen2021predicting,
  title     = {Predicting Human Scanpaths in Visual Question Answering},
  author    = {Chen, Xianyu and Jiang, Ming and Zhao, Qi},
  booktitle = {IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)},
  pages     = {10871--10880},
  year      = {2021}
}

@article{lim2026sarm,
  title   = {{SARM}: Benchtop Evaluation of a Task-Driven Two-Stage Deep Learning Framework for Stimulation Artifact Removal in Peripheral Neural Decoding},
  author  = {Lim, Brian Z.H. and Drealan, Markus and Nguyen, Anh Tuan and Jeong, Byeongchan and Daneshyan, Maral and Chen, Xianyu and Zhao, Qi and Yang, Zhi},
  journal = {IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering},
  year    = {2026},
  note    = {Early access},
  doi     = {10.1109/TBME.2026.3737488}
}

@article{guo2026firre,
  title   = {A Two-Stage Feature Reduction ({FIRRE}) Framework for Improving Artificial Neural Network Predictions in Civil Engineering Applications},
  author  = {Guo, Yaohui and Xu, Ling and Chen, Xianyu and Zhao, Zifeng},
  journal = {Infrastructures},
  volume  = {11},
  number  = {1},
  note    = {Art. no. 29},
  year    = {2026},
  doi     = {10.3390/infrastructures11010029}
}

@inproceedings{chen2021self,
  title     = {Self-Distillation for Few-Shot Image Captioning},
  author    = {Chen, Xianyu and Jiang, Ming and Zhao, Qi},
  booktitle = {IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV)},
  pages     = {545--555},
  year      = {2021}
}

@article{chen2020did,
  title   = {{DID}: Disentangling-Imprinting-Distilling for Continuous Low-Shot Detection},
  author  = {Chen, Xianyu and Wang, Yali and Liu, Jianzhuang and Qiao, Yu},
  journal = {IEEE Transactions on Image Processing},
  volume  = {29},
  pages   = {7765--7778},
  year    = {2020},
  doi     = {10.1109/TIP.2020.3006397}
}

@misc{chen2020leveraging,
  title         = {Leveraging Bottom-Up and Top-Down Attention for Few-Shot Object Detection},
  author        = {Chen, Xianyu and Jiang, Ming and Zhao, Qi},
  year          = {2020},
  eprint        = {2007.12104},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv}
}

@inproceedings{yang2020context,
  title     = {{Context-Transformer}: Tackling Object Confusion for Few-Shot Detection},
  author    = {Yang, Ze and Wang, Yali and Chen, Xianyu and Liu, Jianzhuang and Qiao, Yu},
  booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)},
  volume    = {34},
  number    = {7},
  pages     = {12653--12660},
  year      = {2020},
  doi       = {10.1609/aaai.v34i07.6957}
}