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Publications & Research Projects

Publications

  • Fang Z, Xiang L, Cai X, Zhou K, Wen H. "FlexControl: Computation-Aware ControlNet with Differentiable Router for Text-to-Image Generation", International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2025.
  • Xiang L, Nguyen-Tri Q, Nguyen LC, Pham H, Than K, Tran-Thanh L, Wen H. "DPaI: Differentiable Pruning at Initialization with Node-Path Balance Principle", International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2025.

  • Wang J, Guan Y, Chen C, Zhou L, Yang LT, Gu S. "On Improving PPG-Based Sleep Staging: A Pilot Study", ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp), 2025.

  • Chen Y, Jiang Y, Zhou L, Cao J, Guan Y, Yang M, Guo Q. "Engage for All: Making Ordinary Image Descriptions Appealing Again!", International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2025.

  • Chen Y, Jia J, Lu J, Li S, Guan Y, Yang M, Guo Q. "VQAGuider: Guiding Multimodal Large Language Models to Answer Complex Video Questions", Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2025.

  • Han Y, Guo Q, Pan L, Liu L, Guan Y, Yang M. "Dynfocus: Dynamic cooperative network empowers llms with video understanding", Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR), 2025.

  • Abdallah B, Raza SE, Sanchez V. "Edge-guided monocular absolute depth estimation with diffusion-based refinement", IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 2025.

  • Leyva R, Shen G, Bahadir O, Sanchez V, Guha T. "Boosting Tiny Face Detection in Videos with an Integral Score Framework", IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG), 2025.

  • He H, Xie H, You H, Sanchez Silva V. "Semi-ViM: bidirectional state space model for mitigating label imbalance in semi-supervised learning", International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2025.

  • Xie H, He H, Fu B, Sanchez V. "GrDT: Towards Robust Deepfake Detection using Geometric Representation Distribution and Texture", Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), 2025.

  • He H, Xie H, Shen G, Fu B, You H, Sanchez Silva V. "4S-Classifier: empowering conservation through semi-supervised learning for rare and endangered species", IEEE Computer Society (CS), 2025.

  • Stamnas S, Sanchez V. "DiffFake: Exposing Deepfakes using Differential Anomaly Detection", Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), 2025.

  • Noolkar A, Sanchez V. "Simultaneous Multi-Object Multi-Camera Trajectory Forecasting (SMO-MCTF)", Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), 2025.

  • Weiler T, Paluch R, Kirschsieper D, Procter R, Ortega Roman DH, Syed HA, Tellioglu H, Hochwarter S, Lichtenegger K, Müller C. "Negotiating Extra Work: A Reflection on Participatory Research Practices in Healthcare", EUSSET Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (ECSCW), 2025.

  • Zhang M, Yu W. "UPPR+: Scaling Uncertain Personalised PageRank Computation on Billion-Sized Graphs with Mutually Exclusive Edges", International ACM Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR), 2025.

  • Yu W. "SimEdge: A Scalable Transitivity-Aware Graph-Theoretic Similarity Model for Capturing Edge-to-Edge Relationships", ACM on Web Conference (WWW), 2025.

  • Jiang J, Tang H, Jiang Z, Yu W, Wu D. "ARNet: Self-Supervised FG-SBIR with Unified Sample Feature Alignment and Multi-Scale Token Recycling", AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2025.

  • Sun Z, Li J, Pergola G, He Y. "Exddi: Explaining drug-drug interaction predictions with natural language", AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2025.

  • Bardal T, Brill M, McCune D, Peters J. "Proportional Representation in Practice: Quantifying Proportionality in Ordinal Elections", AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2025.

Research Projects

Title Duration P.I. Description
MRC - Population Health Agent-based Simulation nEtwork (PHASE)Link opens in a new window 2022-2023 N. Griffiths Modelling the spread of multiple behavioural risk factors for cardiovascular disease in social networks using an agent-based model
ESPRC / TRL - Industrial CASE scheme 2021-2025 N. Griffiths Improving Transparency of Intelligent Systems to Support Safety Assurance for Autonomy
EPSRC (EP/M012662/1 and EP/M012654/1), 2014-2018 N. Griffiths (Warwick PI) JASPR: Justified Assessments of Service Provider Reputation
Fudan-Warwick Joint seed fund 2025-2026 Y. Guan Developing Multimodal AI models for Automated Sleep Staging using Wearables
Warwick Interdisciplinary Research Spotlights Research Development Funding Award (IRDF) 2024-2025 Y. Guan Designing a Human-AI Interaction Platform for Scalable Co-speech Gesture Coding and Understanding in Business Pitches

Warwick RDF Science Development Award

2024-2025

Y. Guan (Co-I)

A Live Holographic Communication System for Telesurgery
EPSRC 2020-2025 Y. Guan (Co-I) Centre for Digital Citizens – Next Stage Digital Economy Centre
Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI) 2019-2024 Y. Guan (Co-I) IDEA-FAST: Identifying Digital Endpoints to Assess Fatigue, Sleep, and Activities of daily living in Neurodegenerative disorders and Immune-mediated inflammatory diseases
Newcastle-Cambridge Open Activity Collaboration 2021-2022 Y. Guan Newcastle-Cambridge Open Activity Collaboration
EPSRC 2020-2023 Y. Guan (Co-I) EnAble: Developing and Exploiting Intelligent Approaches for Turbulent Drag Reduction
Action Medical Research (AMR) 2019-2020 Y. Guan (Co-I) Can Wrist-worn accelerometers help Children with Hemiplegic CP increase the use of their affected upper limb in a naturalistic setting?
EPSRC 2015-2020 Y. Guan (Co-I) DERC: Digital Economy Research Centre
EPSRC 2015-2020 Y. Guan (Co-I) EPSRC Centre – Combatting Criminals in the Cloud
STAR funding by the NPCC 2025-2026 G. Pergola STARIST: Stalking Threat AI Recognition (and) Identification Support Tool
Forensics Capability Network (FCN) 2024-2025 G. Pergola AI-Driven Analysis of Digital Communications Enhancing the Analysis of Drug and VAWG Evidence
ESRC - Digital Good Research Fund

2024-2025

G. Pergola

(Co-PI)
Digitising Identity: Navigating the Digital Immigration System and Migrant Experiences
Policy Support Fund 2024 G. Pergola (Co-PI) A Case Study of the Application of Natural Language Processing for Information Extraction and Analysis in Policy Review
STAR funding 2023-2024 G. Pergola Development of an NLP model to detect threatening and abusive language used in communication with victims
RDF Science Development Award 2022-2023 G. Pergola An Event-Centric Dialogue System for Second Language Learners
National AI Strategy Fund 2022 G. Pergola METU: An Inclusive AI-Powered Framework Making Text Easier to Understand
RAI UK Keystone Programme 2024-2028 R. Procter (Co-I) Addressing socio-technical limitations of LLMs for medical and social computing
RAI UK 2023-2025 R. Procter (Co-I) RAKE (Responsible Innovation Advantage in Knowledge Exchange)
Warwick ESRC IAA 2023-2025 R. Procter Digitally Empowering Young People
Warwick Policy Support Fund 2024 R. Procter A case study of the application of Natural Language Processing for Information Extraction and Analysis in Policy Review.
H2020 2016-2018 R. Procter (Co-I) MEDI@4SEC: The emerging role of new social media in enhancing public security
Wellcome Trust 2015-2019 R. Procter (Co-I) Studies in Co-creating Assisted Living Solutions
ESRC 2014-2016 R. Procter (Co-I) Digital Wildfires: (Mis)information flows, propagation and responsible governance
ESRC/NCRM 2013-2015 R. Procter (Co-I) Social Media and Prediction: Crime Sensing, Data Integration and Statistical Modelling
ESRC/Google 2013-2014

R. Procter (Co-I)

'Hate' Speech and Social Media: Understanding Users, Networks and Information Flows
AHRC 2013 R. Procter (Co-I) Humanitarianism 2.0 (H20)
JISC 2012-2014 R. Procter Twitter mining workbench development
Technology Strategy Board 2011-2013 R. Procter (Co-I) ATHENE: Assistive Technologies for Healthy living in Elders: Needs assessment by Ethnography
National Institute for Health Research 2009-2013 R. Procter (Co-I) Negotiating the Organizational and Policy Context for Successful Technology Adoption in the NHS.
JISC 2012-2013 R. Procter VRE programme synthesis and evaluation.
JISC Research Data Management Programme 2011-2013 R. Procter (Co-I) MaDAM into Sustainable Service (MiSS).
JISC 2011 R. Procter Reading the Riots

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