☕️ About Me
I am currently a third-year Ph.D. student at Shanghai University, Shanghai, China, supervised by Prof. Ping An. Previously, I obtained my M.E. degree from Anqing Normal University, Anhui, China, under the guidance of Prof. Deyang Liu. I am also fortunate to work closely with Prof. Sanghoon Lee. My research interests focus on low-level tasks related to light field images. I am open to various forms of academic collaboration. Should you wish to connect or discuss potential cooperation, please feel free to reach me via email at maoyifan1998@sina.com or WeChat (ID: maoyifan1998).
🔥 News
- 2026.10: 🎉 I have been selected for the China Association for Science and Technology’s special program for the cultivation of young scientific and technological talent (Ph.D. student track) [中国科协青年科技人才培育工程博士生专项计划].
- 2026.10: 🎉 Two papers are accepted by IEEE VSIP 2026.
- 2026.10: 🎉 One cooperated paper is accepted by IEEE VSIP 2026. Congrats to ChangMei!
- 2026.09: 🎉 One paper is accepted by TMM 2026. Congrats to Hao Wu!
- 2026.09: 🎉 One cooperated paper is accepted by IEEE VCIP 2026. Congrats to Zhehao!
- 2026.08: 🎉 One paper is accepted by IEEE TCSVT 2026.
- 2026.07: 🎉 One paper IDNet for LFSASR has been newly selected as ESI Highly Cited Papers. Congrats to Shizheng!
- 2026.06: 🎉 One cooperated paper is accepted by IEEE TCSVT 2026. Congrats to Baoshuai!
- 2026.06: 🎉 One cooperated paper is accepted by IEEE TIP 2026. Congrats to Jimin!
- 2026.06: 🎉 I co-organized a Special Session on ‘AI-Driven Immersive Video and Image Processing: Techniques and Applications’ at VSIP 2026.
- 2026.06: 🎉 One paper IDNet for LFSASR has been newly selected as ESI Hot Paper. Congrats to Shizheng!
- 2026.03: 🎉 One paper is accepted by Qomex 2026. Congrats to Zichen!
- 2026.03: 🎉 One paper is accepted by Qomex 2026. Congrats to Xinran!
- 2026.03: 🎉 One paper is accepted by Qomex 2026. Congrats to Haonan!
- 2025.12: 🎉 One paper is accepted by IEEE TVCG 2026.
- 2025.09: 🎉 One paper is accepted by IEEE TIP 2025.
- 2025.09: 🎉 One cooperated paper is accepted by IEEE TCSVT 2025. Congrats to Shizheng!
- 2025.08: 🎉 One cooperated paper is accepted by IEEE ICUS 2025. Congrats to Shizheng!
📝 Publications
${*}$ Equal contribution, ${\dagger}$ Corresponding author
- IEEE VSIP 2026 Context-Adaptive Cross-Representation Network for Low-Light Light Field Enhancement
Hao Wu, Shizheng Li$^{*}$, Yuan Shi, Jiapei Zhao, Yifan Mao${\dagger}$, Deyang Liu$^{\dagger}$ - IEEE VSIP 2026 Learning Separation-Dependent Angular Responses for No-Reference Light Field Image Quality Assessment
Yifan Mao, Yanan Xia, Xinpeng Huang, Yilei Chen, Deyang Liu, Ping An${\dagger}$ - IEEE VSIP 2026 PRISM: Projection-Guided Representation Interface Supervision and Modulation for Multi-View 3D Object Detection
Chang Mei, Yifan Mao, Wenbo Zhang, Baojun Zhou, Yilei Chen, Ping An${\dagger}$ - IEEE TMM 2026 [PDF] Interaction-Selective Modeling for Low-Light Light Field Enhancement
Deyang Liu, Hao Wu, Yifan Mao${\dagger}$, Xiaofei Zhou, Hongbin Zha, Caifeng Shan, Yuming Fang${\dagger}$ - IEEE VCIP 2026 RealDynLFV: A Large-Parallax Benchmark for Real-World Dynamic Light Field Video
Zhehao Han, Yinfeng Zhang, Yifan Mao, Xianliang Wu, Xinpeng Huang${\dagger}$, Chao Yang, Ping An - IEEE TCSVT 2026 [PDF] State‑Aware Dependency Reasoning for Light Field Angular Super‑Resolution
Yifan Mao, Xinpeng Huang, Yilei Chen, Deyang Liu, Ping An${\dagger}$, Ce Zhu - IEEE TCSVT 2026 [PDF] S2-Net: Synergizing Spectral Compensation and Spatial Structure for Light Field Reconstruction
Baoshuai Wang, Ping An${\dagger}$, Yifan Mao, Yilei Chen, Xinpeng Huang, Chao Yang, Ce Zhu - IEEE TIP 2026 [PDF] Probabilistic-based Learning for Joint Light Field Image Compression and Enhancement under Low-Light Conditions
Deyang Liu, Jimin Wang, Yifan Mao, Mounir Kaaniche, Xiaofei Zhou, Gangyi Jiang${\dagger}$, Caifeng Shan${\dagger}$ - IEEE Qomex 2026 [PDF] Blind Quality Assessment of Enhanced Low Light Images via Implicit Enhancement Gap Perception
Xiangxu Yu, Zichen Ren, Xinran Gu, Shaoxuan Ding, Hao Shen, Yifan Mao${\dagger}$, ping An - IEEE Qomex 2026 [PDF] ShotIq: Semantic-Sensitive Blind Image Quality Assessment for Enhanced Low-Light Images
Xiangxu Yu, Xinran Gu, Shaoxuan Ding, Zichen Ren, Jiyan Tong, Yifan Mao${\dagger}$ - IEEE Qomex 2026 [PDF] A Subjective Quality Database for Human-AI Co-Created Images
Xiangxu Yu, Haonan Chen, Jiyan Tong, Yifan Mao${\dagger}$, Chao Yang, Xinpeng Huang, Ping An - IEEE TVCG 2026 [PDF] Learning a Domain-Specialized Network for Light Field Spatial-Angular Super-Resolution
Yifan Mao, Xinpeng Huang, Yilei Chen, Deyang Liu, Ping An${\dagger}$, Sanghoon Lee - IEEE TIP 2025 [PDF] Deep Sparse-to-Dense Inbetweening for Multi-View Light Fields
Yifan Mao$^{*}$, Zeyu Xiao$^{*}$, Ping An${\dagger}$, Deyang Liu${\dagger}$, Caifeng Shan - IEEE TCSVT 2025 ESI Hot Paper/Highly Cited Papers [PDF] Learning Implicit and Detail-Enhanced Network for Light Field Image Spatial-Angular Super-Resolution
Deyang Liu, Shizheng Li, Yifan Mao, Xiaofei Zhou, Zeyu Xiao${\dagger}$, Caifeng Shan${\dagger}$ - IEEE ICUS 2025 [PDF] Low-Light Light Field Enhancement With Global-Local Learning and Geometric Calibration
Yuan Shi$^{*}$, Shizheng Li$^{*}$, Yifan Mao, Feng Wu, Zeyu Xiao, Deyang Liu${\dagger}$ - Opt. Lett 2025 [PDF] Structure-preserving light field reconstruction via spatial and implicit angular cues
Fengyin Cao, Yifan Mao, Xinpeng Huang, Ping An${\dagger} $, Chao Yang - IEEE TCI 2024 [PDF]Light Field Angular Super-Resolution Network Based on Convolutional Transformer and Deep Deblurring
Deyang Liu , Yifan Mao, Yifan Zuo, Ping An, Yuming Fang${\dagger}$ - PRCV 2024 Oral [PDF] Multiview Light Field Angular Super-Resolution Based on View Alignment and Frequency Attention
Deyang Liu , Yifan Mao, Yifan Zuo, Ping An, Yuming Fang${\dagger}$ - IEEE ICME 2023 [PDF] Learning a Multilevel Cooperative View Reconstruction Network for Light Field Angular Super-Resolution
Deyang Liu, Yifan Mao, Xiaofei Zhou, Ping An, Yuming Fang${\dagger}$ - SPIC 2023 [PDF] Optical flow-assisted multi-level fusion network for Light Field image angular reconstruction
Deyang Liu, Yifan Mao, Yan Huang, Liqun Cao, Yuanzhi Wang, Yuming Fang${\dagger}$ - IJACSA 2023 [PDF] Light Field Spatial Super-resolution via Multi-level
Perception and View Reorganization
Yifan Mao, Zaidong Tong, Xin Zheng, Xiaofei Zhou, Youzhi Zhang, Deyang Liu${\dagger}$ - Sci. Rep 2022 [PDF] Geometry-aware view reconstruction network for light field image compression
Youzhi Zhang, Lifei Wan, Yifan Mao, Xinpeng Huang, Deyang Liu${\dagger}$
🎖 Honors and Awards
- 2026 China Association for Science and Technology’s special program for the cultivation of young scientific and technological talent (Ph.D. student track) [中国科协青年科技人才培育工程博士生专项计划]
- 2024 Anhui Provincial Outstanding Graduate
- 2024 Anhui Provincial Computer Society Outstanding Master’s Degree Thesis
🧑🤝🧑 My Friends and Collaborators
- Assoc. Prof.Xinpeng Huang@SHU, Assoc. Prof.Gaosheng Liu@HNU, Assoc. Prof. Mengyao Li@DHU, Assoc. Prof.Xiangxu Yu@SHU,Dr. Zeyu Xiao@NUS, Dr. Gensheng Pei@SKKU, Dr. Yilei Chen@UTS, Dr. Yuankun Xu@HFUT, Dr. Yuxing Li@BNU.