Yuli Wu

Currently

Jul 2021 - now Institute of Imaging & Computer Vision (LfB) of RWTH Aachen

I am a PhD Student and expect to graduate in 2025.

My work focuses on Computer Vision & Biomedical Image Processing with Deep Learning.

I am member of DFG program InnoRetVision , dealing with Image Processing in Retinal Neuroprosthetics.

Education

Oct 2018 - Mar 2021 RWTH Aachen University

M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, Information Technology and Computer Engineering

with Specialization of Computer Engineering

Oct 2015 - Sep 2018 RWTH Aachen University

B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, Information Technology and Computer Engineering

with Specialization of Computer Engineering

Work Experiences

Sep 2020 - Mar 2021 SAP

Intern at SAP Innovation Center Network

Jul 2019 - Apr 2020 Institute of Imaging & Computer Vision (LfB) of RWTH Aachen

Student Assistant, Research Assistant, Annotation, Software Development

Teaching Assistant of Project MATLAB meets LEGO Mindstorms

Oct 2017 - Mar 2019 Nuance Communications (acquired by Microsoft)

Working Student, Translation and Test for in-car Voice-Control-System

Apr 2017 - Jul 2018 Institute of High Voltage Engineering (IFHT) of RWTH Aachen

Teaching Assistant of Practice Electrical Laboratory for 2 Semesters, and

Teaching Assistant of Practice Metrological Laboratory for 1 Semester

Projects & Theses

Oct 2019 - Jun 2020 Master Thesis, Institute of Imaging & Computer Vision (LfB) of RWTH Aachen

“Instance Segmentation of Dense Objects via Deep Pixel Embedding”

Supervisor: Long Chen

Links: Thesis ~20MB    Slides ~100MB

Jun 2020 Ranked #1 in Leaf Segmentation Challenge Leaderboard (ECCV2020 Workshop)

By submission due. Results are w.r.t. BestDice with Username LfB.

Link: Codalab

Apr 2018 - Oct 2018 Bachelor Thesis, Institute of Imaging & Computer Vision (LfB) of RWTH Aachen

“Contour Refinement of Leukocyte Segmentations in Scans of Stained Bone Marrow”

Supervisor: Philipp Gräbel

Links: Thesis ~20MB    Slides ~100MB

Publications (excerpt)

Full list: Google Scholar

2024 Optimizing Retinal Prosthetic Stimuli with Conditional Invertible Neural Networks

Yuli Wu, Julian Wittmann, Peter Walter, Johannes Stegmaier

arXiv preprint  [Paper]

2024 Retinal OCT Synthesis with Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models for Layer Segmentation

Yuli Wu, Weidong He, Dennis Eschweiler et al.

IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging  Oral  [Paper]

2024 SasWOT: Real-Time Semantic Segmentation Architecture Search WithOut Training

Chendi Zhu, Lujun Li, Yuli Wu, Zhengxing Sun

AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence  [Paper]

2022 Improving Pixel Embedding Learning through Intermediate Distance Regression Supervision for Instance Segmentation

Long Chen, Yuli Wu, Dorit Merhof

British Machine Vision Conference  Spotlight  [Paper]

2021 Improving Pixel Embedding Learning through Intermediate Distance Regression Supervision for Instance Segmentation

Yuli Wu, Yucheng Hu, Suting Miao

Document Analysis and Recognition – ICDAR Workshops  [Internal Talk]  [Paper]

2020 Improving Pixel Embedding Learning through Intermediate Distance Regression Supervision for Instance Segmentation

Yuli Wu, Long Chen, Dorit Merhof

ECCV Workshop on Computer Vision Problems in Plant Phenotyping  [Best Paper Honorable Mention]  [Paper]

Language

中文 Chinese Native

English English Fluent

Deutsch German Fluent, DSH-III (sehr gut)

Français French Amateur

Driving License

Apr 2016 German Driving License AM/B/L

Sep 2016 Chinese Driving License C1

Hobbies

Piano pieces on BiliBili (a chinese video platform); keyboard of the rock band the wittekind ; logogram design.

I shoot with analog films and own a second-hand Leica M6 made in 1985.