Dr. Xin Sun

Professor Supervisor/Master Supervisor 

Email：xinsun@cityu.edu.mo

Tel：(853)85902294

Office address: Room S501 A, Stanley Ho Building, City University of Macau (Taipa) 

Academic Qualifications

2013 Computer Application, Jilin University, China 

2010 Computer Application, Jilin University, China 

2007 Computer Science and Technology, Jilin University, China 

Scientific research experience 

Researcher at Technical University of Munich 

Postdoctoral fellow at the University of Munich 

Courses taught 

Data mining 

Artificial Intelligence 

Research Interests 

Machine learning

Computer vision

Embodied Intelligence

Robotics

Environmental remote sensing

Smart tourism

Research project

1. Science and Technology Development Fund (FDCT) and Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) National Key R&D Program of China (國家科技部重點研發計劃): Research on Key Technologies of Embodied Large Multimodal Models for Service Robots, 2026 - 2028 (PI)
2. Science and Technology Development Fund - International Collaborative Research, Macao SAR: Research on Key Technologies for Urban Intelligent Perception with Remote Sensing, Jan. 2026-Dec. 2028 (PI)
3. Science and Technology Development Fund - Basic Research, Macao SAR: AI Interaction Technologies on Digital Twins for Cultural Tourism Experiences, Sep. 2024-Aug. 2027 (PI)

Research and publishing

1. Jiayi Yang, Xing Wei, Chunchun Chen, Yi Feng, Wengang Guo, Rui Fan, Xiaofeng Cao, Xin Sun, Wei Ye. Fast Mixture of Curvature-Aware Experts for Diverse and Dynamic Graph Topologies, ICML 2026
2. Zhaoyv Yang, Haotian Yang, Jiawei Han, Xin Sun. Efficient Human Pose Estimation with Cross-Stage Fusion and Self-Distillation, The 20th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition FG 2026.
3. Chunchun Chen, Xing Wei, Jiayi Yang, Chenrun Wang, Yiwei Fu, Yuxing Zhang, Xin Sun, Rui Fan, Wei Ye. Edge Self-Adversarial Augmentation Enhances Graph Contrastive Learning Against Neighborhood Inconsistency. The 40th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, January 20 – 27, 2026, Singapore
4. Hanting Li, Fei Zhou, Xin Sun*, Yang Hua, Jungong Han, Liang-Jie Zhang. SAIGFormer: A Spatially-Adaptive Illumination-Guided Network for Low-Light Image Enhancement, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 2026
5. Shanwen Wang, Xin Sun*, Danfeng Hong, Fei Zhou. Vision-Language Model Purified Semi-Supervised Semantic Segmentation for Remote Sensing Images, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 2026
6. Haotian Yang, Xin Sun*, Zhile Yang, Huiyu Zhou. RealMotion: Controllable Human Animation with Spatiotemporally Consistent Body Rendering. IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, 2026
7. Jinlong Wang, Xingtao Yang, Haoran Zhao, Yuanyuan Zhang, Danfeng Hong, Xin Sun. ST-GLNet: A Spatiotemporal Graph Learning Network for Accurate Lightning Prediction Using Multimodal Meteorological Data. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 2026
8. Shanwen Wang, Xin Sun*, Sirui Wang, Xiaoxiang Zhu. RSGPNet: Geometric Prompting for Remote Sensing Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation. Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing. 2026
9. Shanwen Wang, Xin Sun*, Jungong Han, Xiaoxiang Zhu. RSCLIP for Training-Free Open-Vocabulary Remote Sensing Image Semantic Segmentation. Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing. 2026
10. Zhaopeng Deng, Zheng Zhou, Haoran Zhao, Gengshen Wu, Xin Sun. SSDMamba: A spectral–spatial dual-branch mamba for hyperspectral image classification, Neurocomputing, 132944, 2026
11. Jiayi Yang, Wei Ye, Xin Sun, Rui Fan, Jungong Han. Enhancing Graph Learning Interpretability through Modulating Cluster Information Flow, Pattern Recognition, 113178, 2026
12. Hanzhao Pan, Gengshen Wu, Xin Sun, Adaptive gradient-oriented sampling and dynamic-blended shadow generation for realistic face relighting, Neurocomputing, Volume 665, 2026, 132169
13. Haohan Shi, Fei Zhou, Xin Sun*, Jungong Han. Rethinking the Upsampling Layer in Hyperspectral Image Super Resolution, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, v. 28, pp. 2824-2836, 2026
14. Wei Ye, Wengang Guo, Shuhao Tang, Hao Tian, Xin Sun, Xiaofeng Cao, Heng Tao Shen. Distributional Shortest-Path Graph Kernels, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, vol. 37, no. 11, pp. 6367-6378, Nov. 2025
15. Shanwen Wang, Xin Sun*, Changrui Chen, Danfeng Hong, Jungong Han. Semi-supervised Semantic Segmentation for Remote Sensing Images via Multi-scale Uncertainty Consistency and Cross-Teacher-Student Attention. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 63, pp. 1-15, 2025, Art no. 5517115
16. Yinghao Xu, Hao Wang, Fei Zhou, Chunbo Luo, Xin Sun, Susanto Rahardja, Peng Ren. MambaHSISR: Mamba hyperspectral image super-resolution, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 2025
17. Zhaopeng Deng, Zheng Zhou, Haoran Zhao, Xiaolin Chen, Danfeng Hong, Xin Sun. Progressive Cluster-Guided Knowledge Distillation for Remote Sensing Image Scene Classification, Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 2025
18. Jinlong Wang, Xingtao Yang, Haoran Zhao, Yunting Wu, Xin Sun, Dynamic density adaptive clustering and blockchain integration for efficient federated learning, Pattern Recognition Letters, V. 197, 2025, pp 267-273
19. Wengang Guo, Wei Ye, Chunchun Chen, Xin Sun,  Christian Böhm, Claudia Plant, Susanto Rahardja, Bootstrap Deep Spectral Clustering with Optimal Transport, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 2025
20. Yuting Yang, Xin Sun, Junyu Dong, Kin-Man Lam, Xiao Xiang Zhu, Attention-ConvNet Network for Ocean Front Prediction via Remote Sensing SST Images, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 62, pp. 1-16, 2024, no. 4212516.