Wu Wang

Zhenqi Fu, Wu Wang, Yue Huang et al.

A main challenge faced in the deep learning-based Underwater Image Enhancement (UIE) is that the ground truth high-quality image is unavailable. Most of the existing methods first generate approximate reference maps and then train an enhancement network with certainty. This kind of method fails to handle the ambiguity of the reference map. In this paper, we resolve UIE into distribution estimation and consensus process. We present a novel probabilistic network to learn the enhancement distribution of degraded underwater images. Specifically, we combine conditional variational autoencoder with adaptive instance normalization to construct the enhancement distribution. After that, we adopt a consensus process to predict a deterministic result based on a set of samples from the distribution. By learning the enhancement distribution, our method can cope with the bias introduced in the reference map labeling to some extent. Additionally, the consensus process is useful to capture a robust and stable result. We examined the proposed method on two widely used real-world underwater image enhancement datasets. Experimental results demonstrate that our approach enables sampling possible enhancement predictions. Meanwhile, the consensus estimate yields competitive performance compared with state-of-the-art UIE methods. Code available at https://github.com/zhenqifu/PUIE-Net.

Wu Wang, Yuang Cheng, Fouzi Harrou et al.

Early and reliable detection of Alzheimer's disease (AD) is crucial for timely clinical intervention and improved patient management. It also supports the evaluation of emerging therapeutic strategies. In this paper, we propose a Low-Rank Mixture of Experts (LoRA-MoE) deep learning framework for Alzheimer's disease diagnosis based on handwriting analysis. Handwriting signals provide a non-invasive and scalable digital biomarker that captures subtle cognitive-motor impairments associated with early AD progression. The proposed architecture allows multiple experts to specialize in different handwriting patterns while sharing a common base network. This design enables efficient learning of general representations while reducing interference between experts. Each expert is equipped with lightweight low-rank adapters. This mechanism significantly reduces the number of trainable parameters compared with standard Mixture of Experts (MoE) models and improves training stability. The proposed framework is evaluated on the Diagnosis AlzheimeR WIth haNdwriting (DARWIN) dataset. Extensive experiments are conducted, including ablation studies on key architectural parameters such as hidden dimension size, number of experts, and LoRA rank. The method is compared with multilayer perceptron (MLP) and conventional MoE architectures. In addition, stacking ensemble strategies (StackMean and StackMax) are investigated to improve robustness and predictive performance. Experimental results show that the LoRA-MoE framework achieves powerful diagnostic performance while activating significantly fewer parameters during inference. These results highlight the potential of the proposed approach as an accurate and computationally efficient solution for handwriting-based Alzheimer's disease screening and digital health applications.

Wu Wang, Yue Huang, Xinhao Ding

Hyperspectral image fusion (HIF) is critical to a wide range of applications in remote sensing and many computer vision applications. Most traditional HIF methods assume that the observation model is predefined or known. However, in real applications, the observation model involved are often complicated and unknown, which leads to the serious performance drop of many advanced HIF methods. Also, deep learning methods can achieve outstanding performance, but they generally require a large number of image pairs for model training, which are difficult to obtain in realistic scenarios. Towards these issues, we proposed a self-regression learning method that alternatively reconstructs hyperspectral image (HSI) and estimate the observation model. In particular, we adopt an invertible neural network (INN) for restoring the HSI, and two fully-connected network (FCN) for estimating the observation model. Moreover, \emph{SoftMax} nonlinearity is applied to the FCN for satisfying the non-negative, sparsity and equality constraints. Besides, we proposed a local consistency loss function to constrain the observation model by exploring domain specific knowledge. Finally, we proposed an angular loss function to improve spectral reconstruction accuracy. Extensive experiments on both synthetic and real-world dataset show that our model can outperform the state-of-the-art methods

Zhenqi Fu, Xiaopeng Lin, Wu Wang et al.

We present a novel underwater image enhancement method termed SCNet to improve the image quality meanwhile cope with the degradation diversity caused by the water. SCNet is based on normalization schemes across both spatial and channel dimensions with the key idea of learning water type desensitized features. Specifically, we apply whitening to de-correlate activations across spatial dimensions for each instance in a mini-batch. We also eliminate channel-wise correlation by standardizing and re-injecting the first two moments of the activations across channels. The normalization schemes of spatial and channel dimensions are performed at each scale of the U-Net to obtain multi-scale representations. With such water type irrelevant encodings, the decoder can easily reconstruct the clean signal and be unaffected by the distortion types. Experimental results on two real-world underwater image datasets show that our approach can successfully enhance images with diverse water types, and achieves competitive performance in visual quality improvement.

Kun He, Wu Wang, Xiaosen Wang et al.

Separable Non-negative Matrix Factorization (SNMF) is an important method for topic modeling, where "separable" assumes every topic contains at least one anchor word, defined as a word that has non-zero probability only on that topic. SNMF focuses on the word co-occurrence patterns to reveal topics by two steps: anchor word selection and topic recovery. The quality of the anchor words strongly influences the quality of the extracted topics. Existing anchor word selection algorithm is to greedily find an approximate convex hull in a high-dimensional word co-occurrence space. In this work, we propose a new method for the anchor word selection by associating the word co-occurrence probability with the words similarity and assuming that the most different words on semantic are potential candidates for the anchor words. Therefore, if the similarity of a word-pair is very low, then the two words are very likely to be the anchor words. According to the statistical information of text corpora, we can get the similarity of all word-pairs. We build the word similarity graph where the nodes correspond to words and weights on edges stand for the word-pair similarity. Following this way, we design a greedy method to find a minimum edge-weight anchor clique of a given size in the graph for the anchor word selection. Extensive experiments on real-world corpus demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed anchor word selection method that outperforms the common convex hull-based methods on the revealed topic quality. Meanwhile, our method is much faster than typical SNMF based method.