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) 

Educational experience 

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 

Incumbent 

Professor, Faculty of Data Science, City University of Macau 

Courses taught 

Data mining 

Artificial Intelligence 

Research direction 

Machine learning, Computer vision, Embodied Intelligence, Robotics, Environmental remote sensing, Smart tourism

Research project

1. Science and Technology Development Fund, Macao SAR: AI Interaction Technologies on Digital Twins for Cultural Tourism Experiences (Grant No. 0006/2024/RIA1), Sep. 2024-Aug. 2027(PI) 2M MOP

Research and publishing

1. 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, 2025
2. 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
3. Xueyu Han, Xin Sun, Susanto Rahardja, Fast tone mapping operator for high dynamic range image using prior information, Signal Processing: Image Communication, V. 139, 2025, 117395
4. 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, 2025
5. 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
6. Haohan Shi, Fei Zhou, Xin Sun*, Jungong Han. Rethinking the Upsampling Layer in Hyperspectral Image Super Resolution, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 2025
7. 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
8. Wengang Guo, Wei Ye, Chunchun Chen, Xin Sun,  Christian Böhm, Claudia Plant, Susanto Rahardja, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 2025
9. 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.
10. Fei Zhou, Xin Sun*, Chengze Sun, Junyu Dong and Xiao Xiang Zhu. Adaptive Morphology Filter: A Lightweight Module for Deep Hyperspectral Image Classification, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 61, pp. 1-16, 2023.
11. Fei Zhou, Xin Sun, Junyu Dong, Xiao Xiang Zhu. SurroundNet: towards effective low-light image enhancement, Pattern Recognition 141, 109602, 2023
12. Xin Sun, Zenghui Song, Yongbo Yu, Junyu Dong, Claudia Plant, Christian Böhm. Network Embedding via Deep Prediction Model, in IEEE Transactions on Big Data, vol.9, no.2, 2023.
13. Haoran Zhao, Xin Sun*, Junyu Dong, Hui Yu, Gaige Wang, Multi-instance semantic similarity transferring for knowledge distillation, Knowledge-Based Systems, Vol. 256, 2022, 109832.
14. Xin Sun, Changrui Chen, Xiaorui Wang, Junyu Dong, Huiyu Zhou, Sheng Chen. Gaussian Dynamic Convolution for Efficient Single-Image Segmentation, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol. 32, no. 5, pp. 2937-2948, May 2022.
15. Qingxuan Lv, Xin Sun*, Changrui Chen, Junyu Dong, Huiyu Zhou. Parallel Complement Network for Real-Time Semantic Segmentation of Road Scenes, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, vol. 23, no. 5, pp. 4432-4444, May 2022.
16. Haoran Zhao, Xin Sun*, Junyu Dong, Changrui Chen and Zihe Dong, Highlight Every Step: Knowledge Distillation via Collaborative Teaching, in IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, vol. 52, no. 4, pp. 2070-2081, April 2022.
17. Qingxuan Lv, Mingzhe Feng, Xin Sun*, Junyu Dong, Changrui Chen, Yu Zhang. Embedded Attention Network for Semantic Segmentation, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 326-333, Jan. 2022.
18. Yu Zhang, Xin Sun*, Junyu Dong, Changrui Chen, Qingxuan Lv. GPNet: Gated pyramid network for semantic segmentation, Pattern Recognition, Vo.115, 2021, 107940.
19. Xin Sun, Meng Zhang, Junyu Dong, Redouane Lguensat, Yuting Yang, Xirong Lu. A Deep Framework for Eddy Detection and Tracking from Satellite Sea Surface Height Data, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 59(9): 7224-7234, Sept. 2021.
20. Xin Sun, Hongwei Xv, Junyu Dong, Huiyu Zhou, Qiong Li, Changrui Chen. Few-shot Learning for Domain-specfic Fine-grained Image Classification, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 68(4): 3588-3598, April 2021, doi: 10.1109/TIE.2020.2977553.