I am currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Computer Technology at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), affiliated with the Visual Geometry Group (USTC-VGG) research group at the National Engineering Laboratory for Brain-inspired Intelligence Technology and Application (NEL-BITA). My advisor is Prof. Xuejin Chen. During my master’s studies (2024-2026), I was jointly trained with Prof. Meng Wang (IEEE/IAPR Fellow)’s team at the Institute of Artificial Intelligence, Hefei Comprehensive National Science Center, and supervised by Assoc. Prof. Jinyang Huang and Prof. Dan Guo. I received my Bachelor’s degree in Microelectronics from Hefei University of Technology in 2024.

My primary research areas are 3D vision, multimodal foundation models, and wireless sensing. My research interests center on developing brain-inspired perceptual and cognitive systems, with a focus on designing efficient, trustworthy, and personalized intelligent interactive systems.

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Selected Publications

Robust Representation Learning for Fine-grained Vision Understanding

Developing distributionally robust representation learning methods for fine-grained visual behavior understanding tasks including facial expressions, handwriting style, and scene classification.

ACM MM 2025

Learning from Heterogeneity: Generalizing Dynamic Facial Expression Recognition via Distributionally Robust Optimization Feng-Qi Cui, Anyang Tong, Jinyang Huang, Jie Zhang, Dan Guo, Zhi Liu, Meng Wang

IEEE ICME 2026

Dual-Path Learning based on Frequency Structural Decoupling and Regional-Aware Fusion for Low-Light Image Super-Resolution Ji-Xuan He, Jia-Cheng Zhao, Feng-Qi Cui (Corresponding author), Jinyang Huang, Yang Liu, Sirui Zhao, Meng Li, Zhi Liu

IEEE T-GRS 2026

Dual-Branch CNN with Enhanced Bidirectional Multiscale Sparse Cross-Attention for Remote Sensing Scene Classification Xinyuan Wu, Zhiguo Ma, Feng-Qi Cui, Huasen He, Yunpeng Hou, Jian Yang

ISPA 2025

MICACL: Multi-Instance Category-Aware Contrastive Learning for Long-Tailed Dynamic Facial Expression Recognition Feng-Qi Cui, Zhen Lin, Xinlong Rao, Anyang Tong, Shiyao Li, Fei Wang, Changlin Chen, Bin Liu

arXiv 2026

ReMA: A Training-Free Plug-and-Play Mixing Augmentation for Video Behavior Recognition Feng-Qi Cui, Jinyang Huang, Sirui Zhao, Jinglong Guo, Qifan Cai, Xin Yan, Zhi Liu

arXiv 2025

Robust Low-Rank Sparse Framework for Video-Based Affective Computing Feng-Qi Cui, Jinyang Huang, Sirui Zhao, Xinyu Li, Xin Yan, Ziyu Jia, Xiaokang Zhou

Trustworthy Affective Computing and Health-oriented Perceptual Intelligence

Applying causal disentangled learning and multimodal fusion techniques in healthcare applications including depression diagnosis and auditory attention decoding.

IEEE T-IFS 2026

Towards Trustworthy Dynamic Facial Expression Recognition via Information Bottleneck Modeling
Feng-Qi Cui, Anyang Tong, Jinyang Huang, Jie Zhang, Meng Li, Xin Yan, Linsheng Huang, Dan Guo, Meng Wang

IEEE T-AFFC 2025

CausalSymptom: Learning Causal Disentangled Representation for Depression Severity Estimation on Transcribed Clinical Interviews Mingzheng Li, Xiao Sun, Xinke Wang, Feng-Qi Cui, Xun Yang

arXiv 2026

Towards Trustworthy Depression Estimation via Disentangled Evidential Learning Fangyuan Liu, Sirui Zhao, Zeyu Zhang, Jinyang Huang, Feng-Qi Cui, Bin Luo, Tong Xu, Meng Li, Enhong Chen

arXiv 2026

A New Paradigm for Trusted Respiratory Monitoring Via Consumer Electronics-grade Radar Signals Xinyu Li, Jinyang Huang, Feng-Qi Cui, Meng Wang, Peng Zhao, Meng Li, Dan Guo

CogSci 2026

Band-Gated Identity-Disentangled Training for Cross-Subject Auditory Attention Decoding
Siying Tao, Jingjing Hu, Jinyang Huang, Feng-Qi Cui, Xueliang Liu, Dan Guo

计算机应用 2024

基于通用手环的睡眠呼吸暂停检测 黄锦阳, 崔丰麒, 马长秀, 樊文东, 李萌, 李经宇, 孙晓, 黄林生, 刘志

Multimodal Foundation Models and Embodied Cognitive Intelligence

Exploring applications of multimodal foundation models in 3D scene understanding, tactile perception, and object detection.

IEEE ICASSP 2026

UniGeo: A Unified 3D Indoor Object Detection Framework Integrating Geometry-Aware Learning and Dynamic Channel Gating Xing Yi, Jinyang Huang, Feng-Qi Cui, Anyang Tong, Ruimin Wang, Liu Liu, Dan Guo

arXiv 2025

Embodied Intelligence: The Key to Unblocking Generalized Artificial Intelligence Jinhao Jiang, Changlin Chen, Shile Feng, Wanru Geng, Zesheng Zhou, Ni Wang, Shuai Li, Feng-Qi Cui, Erbao Dong

IJCAI 2026

PECHC: Robust Tactile Grasping Stabilization in Vision-Denied Peripersonal Space
Changlin Chen, Sisheng Chen, Hang Zhang, Xianglai Zhou, Zhen Tian, Weitao Liu, Feng-Qi Cui, Erbao Dong, Wenjing Chen

ICPADS 2025

Generalizing WiFi Gesture Recognition via Large-Model-Aware Semantic Distillation and Alignment Feng-Qi Cui, Yu-Tong Guo, Tianyue Zheng, Jinyang Huang

Trustworthy Intelligent Interaction System

Research on attack detection, privacy-robust behavior recognition, and reliable perception algorithms to build secure interaction systems.

IEEE T-DSC 2026

Identifying Who You Are No Matter What You Write through Abstracting Handwriting Style Jinyang Huang, Yuanhao Feng, Feng-Qi Cui (Equal contribution), Xiang Zhang, Zhi Liu, Xin Liu, Jianchun Liu, Fusang Zhang, Meng Li

arXiv 2026

Checkerboard: A Simple, Effective, Efficient and Learning-free Clean Label Backdoor Attack with Low Poisoning Budget Yi Yang, Jinyang Huang, Binbin Liu, Feng-Qi Cui, Xiaokang Zhou, Zhi Liu, Jie Zhang, Meng Li

AI for Science

Exploring innovative applications of AI technology across biomedical engineering, environmental science, and physical systems.

PNAS Nexus

Natural-selected plastics biodegradation species and enzymes in landfills Xiaoxing Lin, Rui Zhang, Feng-Qi Cui, Wenqing Hong, Shu Yang, Feng Ju, Chuanwu Xi, Xiao Sun, Liyan Song

Chaos Solitons & Fractals 2023

Theoretical analysis and experimental verification of fractional-order RC cobweb circuit network Yang Liu, Liping Chen, Xiaobo Wu, António M Lopes, Feng-Qi Cui, YangQuan Chen

Selected Honors and Awards

• IEEE Communications Society Multimedia Communications Technical Committee 2025 Technology Competition Silver Award.
  (Dan Guo, Jinyang Huang, Jing Zhang, Wei Qian , Zhangbin Li, Siying Tao, Feng-Qi Cui, Meng Wang) | [Link]
• Hefei University of Technology, one of the top ten outstanding students (only 10 in the entire university).
• CCF首届泛在智能感知技术创新应用大赛 二等奖.（排序2/5） | [Link]
• 第八届（2022）中国国际“互联网+”大学生创新创业大赛 国家银奖.（排序1/15；安徽省产业赛道唯一入围全国现场赛项目）| [Link1] | [Link2]

Academic Services

• Anhui Provincial Key Laboratory of Affective Computing and Advanced Intelligent Machines, Student Working Group Leader. | [Link]
• Anhui Provincial Artificial Intelligence Society, Emotional Computing Committee, Student Working Group Leader (2024.08 - 2025.03 ). | [Link]
• Reviewer: IEEE Trans. Affective Computing, IEEE Trans. Multimedia, IEEE Trans. Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, IEEE Open Journal of the Computer Society, IEEE Internet of Things Journal.
• Baidu PaddlePaddle Developers Experts (PPDE).| [Link]