Baoqun Yin
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Baoqun Yin has a total of 68 co-authors. Here are the top co-authors by number of shared publications:
- Hongsheng Xi
Department of Automation, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230027, China
4 shared publications - Yu Kang
University of Science and Technology of China
4 shared publications - Aakash Kumar
School of Optoelectronic Engineering, Changchun University of Science and Technology, Changchun, China
3 shared publications - Jiang Qi
Department of Automation, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 230027, P. R. China
3 shared publications - Xiaonong Lu
University of Science and Technology of China
3 shared publications - Yun Li
University of Science and Technology China
3 shared publications
Latest Publications
- 2 February 2026
- Published by Elsevier in Neurocomputing
- Vol. 675
GCL: Group-shared continual learning fine-tuning for sparse LLMs
- 2 February 2026
- Published by Elsevier in Neurocomputing
- Vol. 675
GCL: Group-shared continual learning fine-tuning for sparse LLMs
- Open Access
CA-I2P: Channel-Adaptive Registration Network with Global Optimal Selection
Detection-free methods typically follow a coarse-to-fine pipeline, extracting image and point cloud features for patch-level matching and refining dense pixel-to-point correspondences. However, differences in feature channel attention between images and point clouds may lead to degraded matching results, ultimately impairing registration accuracy. Furthermore, similar structures in the scene could lead to redundant correspondences in cross-modal matching. To address these issues, we propose Channel Adaptive Adjustment Module (CAA) and Global Optimal Selection Module (GOS). CAA enhances intra-modal features and suppresses cross-modal sensitivity, while GOS replaces local selection with global optimization. Experiments on RGB-D Scenes V2 and 7-Scenes demonstrate the superiority of our method, achieving state-of-the-art performance in image-to-point cloud registration.
Open AccessCA-I2P: Channel-Adaptive Registration Network with Global Optimal Selection
Detection-free methods typically follow a coarse-to-fine pipeline, extracting image and point cloud features for patch-level matching and refining dense pixel-to-point correspondences. However, differences in feature channel attention between images and point clouds may lead to degraded matching results, ultimately impairing registration accuracy. Furthermore, similar structures in the scene could lead to redundant correspondences in cross-modal matching. To address these issues, we propose Channel Adaptive Adjustment Module (CAA) and Global Optimal Selection Module (GOS). CAA enhances intra-modal features and suppresses cross-modal sensitivity, while GOS replaces local selection with global optimization. Experiments on RGB-D Scenes V2 and 7-Scenes demonstrate the superiority of our method, achieving state-of-the-art performance in image-to-point cloud registration.
- 29 April 2025
- Published by Springer Nature in Pattern Analysis and Applications
- Vol. 28 (2) , 1-18
End-to-end model compression via pruning and knowledge distillation for lightweight image super resolution
- 29 April 2025
- Published by Springer Nature in Pattern Analysis and Applications
- Vol. 28 (2) , 1-18
End-to-end model compression via pruning and knowledge distillation for lightweight image super resolution
- Open Access
A Sparse Neural Network-Based Control Method for Saturated Nonlinear Affine Systems
Saturated nonlinear affine systems are widely encountered in many engineering fields. Currently, most control methods on saturated nonlinear affine systems are not specifically designed based on sparsity-based control methodologies, and they might require sparse identification at the beginning stage and applying tracking control afterwards. In this paper, a sparse neural network (SNN)-based control method from an lp-norm optimization perspective is proposed for saturated nonlinear affine systems by taking advantage of the nice properties of primal dual neural networks for optimization. In particular, when , a new alternative controller based on SNN is derived, encountering computational difficulties distinct from those of another solution set in the basic dual neural network. The convergence properties of such SNN-based controllers are investigated and analyzed to find a control solution. Five illustrative examples further are shown to demonstrate the efficiency of the proposed SNN-based control method for tracking the desired references of saturated nonlinear affine systems. In the practical application scenario involving the UR5 robot control, the trajectory’s average errors are consistently confined to a minimal magnitude of 10−4 m. These findings substantiate the efficacy of the SNN-based control approach proposed for precise tracking control in saturated nonlinear affine systems.Open AccessA Sparse Neural Network-Based Control Method for Saturated Nonlinear Affine Systems
Saturated nonlinear affine systems are widely encountered in many engineering fields. Currently, most control methods on saturated nonlinear affine systems are not specifically designed based on sparsity-based control methodologies, and they might require sparse identification at the beginning stage and applying tracking control afterwards. In this paper, a sparse neural network (SNN)-based control method from an lp-norm optimization perspective is proposed for saturated nonlinear affine systems by taking advantage of the nice properties of primal dual neural networks for optimization. In particular, when , a new alternative controller based on SNN is derived, encountering computational difficulties distinct from those of another solution set in the basic dual neural network. The convergence properties of such SNN-based controllers are investigated and analyzed to find a control solution. Five illustrative examples further are shown to demonstrate the efficiency of the proposed SNN-based control method for tracking the desired references of saturated nonlinear affine systems. In the practical application scenario involving the UR5 robot control, the trajectory’s average errors are consistently confined to a minimal magnitude of 10−4 m. These findings substantiate the efficacy of the SNN-based control approach proposed for precise tracking control in saturated nonlinear affine systems. - 28 December 2023
- Published by Springer Nature
- p. 290-301
HTNet: A Hybrid Model Boosted by Triple Self-attention for Crowd Counting
- 28 December 2023
- Published by Springer Nature
- p. 290-301
HTNet: A Hybrid Model Boosted by Triple Self-attention for Crowd Counting
- 14 October 2022
- Published by Springer Nature in Neural Computing and Applications
- Vol. 35 (4) , 3551-3569
Exploring density rectification and domain adaption method for crowd counting
Crowd counting has received increasing attention due to its important roles in multiple fields, such as social security, commercial applications, epidemic prevention and control. To this end, we explore two critical issues that seriously affect the performance of crowd counting including nonuniform crowd density distribution and cross-domain problems. Aiming at the nonuniform crowd density distribution issue, we propose a density rectifying network (DRNet) that consists of several dual-layer pyramid fusion modules (DPFM) and a density rectification map (DRmap) auxiliary learning module. The proposed DPFM is embedded into DRNet to integrate multi-scale crowd density features through dual-layer pyramid fusion. The devised DRmap auxiliary learning module further rectifies the incorrect crowd density estimation by adaptively weighting the initial crowd density maps. With respect to the cross-domain issue, we develop a domain adaptation method of randomly cutting mixed dual-domain images, which learns domain-invariance features and decreases the domain gap between the source domain and the target domain from global and local perspectives. Experimental results indicate that the devised DRNet achieves the best mean absolute error (MAE) and competitive mean squared error (MSE) compared with other excellent methods on four benchmark datasets. Additionally, a series of cross-domain experiments are conducted to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed domain adaption method. Significantly, when the A and B parts of the Shanghaitech dataset are the source domain and target domain respectively, the proposed domain adaption method decreases the MAE of DRNet by \(47.6\%\).- 14 October 2022
- Published by Springer Nature in Neural Computing and Applications
- Vol. 35 (4) , 3551-3569
Exploring density rectification and domain adaption method for crowd counting
Crowd counting has received increasing attention due to its important roles in multiple fields, such as social security, commercial applications, epidemic prevention and control. To this end, we explore two critical issues that seriously affect the performance of crowd counting including nonuniform crowd density distribution and cross-domain problems. Aiming at the nonuniform crowd density distribution issue, we propose a density rectifying network (DRNet) that consists of several dual-layer pyramid fusion modules (DPFM) and a density rectification map (DRmap) auxiliary learning module. The proposed DPFM is embedded into DRNet to integrate multi-scale crowd density features through dual-layer pyramid fusion. The devised DRmap auxiliary learning module further rectifies the incorrect crowd density estimation by adaptively weighting the initial crowd density maps. With respect to the cross-domain issue, we develop a domain adaptation method of randomly cutting mixed dual-domain images, which learns domain-invariance features and decreases the domain gap between the source domain and the target domain from global and local perspectives. Experimental results indicate that the devised DRNet achieves the best mean absolute error (MAE) and competitive mean squared error (MSE) compared with other excellent methods on four benchmark datasets. Additionally, a series of cross-domain experiments are conducted to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed domain adaption method. Significantly, when the A and B parts of the Shanghaitech dataset are the source domain and target domain respectively, the proposed domain adaption method decreases the MAE of DRNet by \(47.6\%\).- Open Access
Weight-dependent Gates for Network Pruning
In this paper, a simple yet effective network pruning framework is proposed to simultaneously address the problems of pruning indicator, pruning ratio, and efficiency constraint. This paper argues that the pruning decision should depend on the convolutional weights, and thus proposes novel weight-dependent gates (W-Gates) to learn the information from filter weights and obtain binary gates to prune or keep the filters automatically. To prune the network under efficiency constraints, a switchable Efficiency Module is constructed to predict the hardware latency or FLOPs of candidate pruned networks. Combined with the proposed Efficiency Module, W-Gates can perform filter pruning in an efficiency-aware manner and achieve a compact network with a better accuracy-efficiency trade-off. We have demonstrated the effectiveness of the proposed method on ResNet34, ResNet50, and MobileNet V2, respectively achieving up to 1.33/1.28/1.1 higher Top-1 accuracy with lower hardware latency on ImageNet. Compared with state-of-the-art methods, W-Gates also achieves superior performance.
Open AccessWeight-dependent Gates for Network Pruning
In this paper, a simple yet effective network pruning framework is proposed to simultaneously address the problems of pruning indicator, pruning ratio, and efficiency constraint. This paper argues that the pruning decision should depend on the convolutional weights, and thus proposes novel weight-dependent gates (W-Gates) to learn the information from filter weights and obtain binary gates to prune or keep the filters automatically. To prune the network under efficiency constraints, a switchable Efficiency Module is constructed to predict the hardware latency or FLOPs of candidate pruned networks. Combined with the proposed Efficiency Module, W-Gates can perform filter pruning in an efficiency-aware manner and achieve a compact network with a better accuracy-efficiency trade-off. We have demonstrated the effectiveness of the proposed method on ResNet34, ResNet50, and MobileNet V2, respectively achieving up to 1.33/1.28/1.1 higher Top-1 accuracy with lower hardware latency on ImageNet. Compared with state-of-the-art methods, W-Gates also achieves superior performance.
- 1 November 2021
- Published by Springer Nature
- p. 376-389
ARNet: Accurate and Real-Time Network for Crowd Counting
- 1 November 2021
- Published by Springer Nature
- p. 376-389
ARNet: Accurate and Real-Time Network for Crowd Counting
- 20 August 2021
- Published by Springer Nature in Pattern Analysis and Applications
- Vol. 24 (4) , 1777-1792
Depth and edge auxiliary learning for still image crowd density estimation
- 20 August 2021
- Published by Springer Nature in Pattern Analysis and Applications
- Vol. 24 (4) , 1777-1792
Depth and edge auxiliary learning for still image crowd density estimation
- 17 September 2020
- Published by Springer Nature in Applied Intelligence
- Vol. 51 (2) , 1152-1160
Pruning filters with L1-norm and capped L1-norm for CNN compression
- 17 September 2020
- Published by Springer Nature in Applied Intelligence
- Vol. 51 (2) , 1152-1160
Pruning filters with L1-norm and capped L1-norm for CNN compression