Yuxiang Cai is an assistant professor affiliated with School of Software Technology at Zhejiang University. He obtained the PhD degree in computer science and technology from Zhejiang University in 2023, supervised by Prof. Jianwei Yin. His research interests lie in Crossover Service, Model Transfer and VLM. In particular, he is actively working on intelligent interpretation of multimodal data (video, 2D/3D image, …), transfer learning (UDA, TTA, …), AI+X (remote sensing, medicine, …) and space–air–ground integrated computing.

For students who are interested in joining our research group (Master/Intern), please contact me via caiyuxiang AT zju.edu.cn.

🔥 News

2026.02: 🎉 One paper is accepted by CVPR 2026
2026.02: I was Invited to serve as a reviewer for ACMMM 2026
2026.02: I was Invited to serve as a reviewer for ICML 2026
2026.01: 🎉 One paper is accepted by ICLR 2026
2026.01: 🎉 One paper is accepted by ICASSP 2026
2025.12: I was Invited to serve as a reviewer for IJCAI-ECAI 2026
2025.11: I was Invited to serve as a reviewer for CVPR 2026
2025.09: 🎉 One United States Patent is granted
2025.09: 🎉 One Patent is granted by State Intellectual Property Office of China
2025.08: I was Invited to serve as a reviewer for AAAI 2026
2025.05: 🎉 One paper is accepted by IEEE GRSM(IF=16.4)
2025.04: 🎉 One Patent is granted by State Intellectual Property Office of China
2025.03: 🎉 One paper is accepted by ICME 2025
2025.02: I was Invited to serve as a reviewer for ACMMM 2025
2025.01: I was Invited to serve as a reviewer for IJCAI 2025
2024.07: 🎉 One paper is accepted by ACMMM 2024
2024.01: Join the School of Software Technology at Zhejiang University as an Assistant Professor
2023.11: 🎉 One Patent is granted by State Intellectual Property Office of China
2023.07: 🎉 One paper is accepted by ACMMM 2023
2023.05: I was Invited to serve as a reviewer for IEEE TGRS
2023.02: I was Invited to serve as a reviewer for NPL
2022.12: 🎉 One paper is accepted by IEEE TGRS
2022.09: I was Invited to serve as a reviewer for TJSC
2022.08: 🎉 One paper is accepted by IEEE TGRS

📝 Selective Publications

CVPR 2026

IBISAgent: Reinforcing Pixel-Level Visual Reasoning in MLLMs for Universal Biomedical Object Referring and Segmentation

Yankai Jiang, Qiaoru Li, Binlu Xu, Haoran Sun, Chao Ding, Junting Dong, Yuxiang Cai*, Xuhong Zhang, Jianwei Yin.

This work proposes a novel agentic MLLM, named IBISAgent, that reformulates segmentation as a vision-centric, multi-step decision-making process. IBISAgent enables MLLMs to generate interleaved reasoning and text-based click actions, invoke segmentation tools, and produce high-quality masks without architectural modifications.

ACMMM 2024

MultiDAN: Unsupervised, Multistage, Multisource and Multitarget Domain Adaptation for Semantic Segmentation of Remote Sensing Images

Yuxiang Cai, Yongheng Shang, Jianwei Yin*

This work proposes a novel multistage, multisource and multitarget unsupervised domain adaptation network called MultiDAN for remotely sensed semantic segmentation.

ACMMM 2023

Exploring High-Correlation Source Domain Information for Multi-Source Domain Adaptation in Semantic Segmentation

Yuxiang Cai, Meng Xi*, Yongheng Shang, Jianwei Yin

This work proposes a novel multi-source domain adaptation method for semantic segmentation to maximally exploit the high-correlation source domains and source pixels for target domain.

TGRS 2023

DASRSNet: Multitask Domain Adaptation for Super-Resolution-Aided Semantic Segmentation of Remote Sensing Images

Yuxiang Cai, Yingchun Yang, Yongheng Shang, Zhengwei Shen, Jianwei Yin*

This work proposes DASRSNet, a novel multitask domain adaptation network for cross-domain semantic segmentation of low-resolution remote sensing images.

TGRS 2022

IterDANet: Iterative Intra-domain Adaptation for Semantic Segmentation of Remote Sensing Images

Yuxiang Cai, Yingchun Yang, Yongheng Shang, Zhenqian Chen, Zhengwei Shen, Jianwei Yin*

This work proposes IterDANet, an iterative intra-domain adaptation network for semantic segmentation of remote sensing images.

Yankai Jiang, Qiaoru Li, Binlu Xu, Haoran Sun, Chao Ding, Junting Dong, Yuxiang Cai*, Xuhong Zhang, Jianwei Yin. IBISAgent: Reinforcing Pixel-Level Visual Reasoning in MLLMs for Universal Biomedical Object Referring and Segmentation. CVPR 2026. [CCF-A]
Yuxiang Cai, Yongheng Shang, Jianwei Yin*. MultiDAN: Unsupervised, Multistage, Multisource and Multitarget Domain Adaptation for Semantic Segmentation of Remote Sensing Images. ACMMM 2024. [CCF-A]
Yuxiang Cai, Meng Xi*, Yongheng Shang, Jianwei Yin. Exploring High-Correlation Source Domain Information for Multi-Source Domain Adaptation in Semantic Segmentation. ACMMM 2023. [CCF-A]
Yuxiang Cai, Yingchun Yang, Yongheng Shang, Zhengwei Shen, Jianwei Yin*. DASRSNet: Multitask Domain Adaptation for Super-Resolution-Aided Semantic Segmentation of Remote Sensing Images. TGRS 2023. [CCF-B, IF=8.6]
Yuxiang Cai, Yingchun Yang, Yongheng Shang, Zhenqian Chen, Zhengwei Shen, Jianwei Yin*. IterDANet: Iterative Intra-domain Adaptation for Semantic Segmentation of Remote Sensing Images. TGRS 2022. [CCF-B, IF=8.6]
Xu Jia, Bin Chen, Huaxiao Zhou, Xiaochu Chen, Lingxin Yu, Zilun Zhang, Yuxiang Cai*. TSAVD-CLIP: One Visual Encoder Learn Both Temporal and Spatial Feat. SOCA 2025. [CCF-C]
Yuxiang Cai, Yingchun Yang*, Qiyi Zheng, Zhengwei Shen, Yongheng Shang, Jianwei Yin, Zhongtian Shi. BiFDANet: Unsupervised Bidirectional Domain Adaptation for Semantic Segmentation of Remote Sensing Images. RS 2022. [IF=5.0]
Yuntai Bao, Xuhong Zhang, Jintao Chen, Ge Su, Yuxiang Cai, Hao Peng, Sun Bing, Haiqin Weng, Liu Yan, Jianwei Yin. Faithful Bi-Directional Model Steering via Distribution Matching and Distributed Interchange Interventions. ICLR 2026.
Xingyu Wu, Jintao Chen, Xuanye Zheng, Chenkai pan, Yuxiang Cai, Sun Bing, Ge Su, Shengye Pang, Xuhong Zhang. Adaptive Distillation for LM-GNN Alignment in Semi-Supervised Text-Attributed Graph Node Classification. ICASSP 2026. [CCF-B]
Zilun Zhang, Haozhan Shen, Tiancheng Zhao, Zian Guan, Bin Chen, Yuhao Wang, Xu Jia, Yuxiang Cai, Yongheng Shang, Jianwei Yin. Enhancing Ultra High Resolution Remote Sensing Imagery Analysis with ImageRAG. IEEE GRSM 2025 [IF=16.4]
Zhiqiang Shen, Qinfeng Li, Xuhong Zhang, Yuxiang Cai, Xiaochu Chen, Ping An, Haiqin Weng, Yan Liu. PatchSegDet: Attack-Agnostic Detection of Physical Adversarial Patches in Face Recognition Systems. ICME 2025. [CCF-B]
Zhenqian Chen, Yongheng Shang, Andre Python, Yuxiang Cai, Jianwei Yin*. DB-BlendMask: Decomposed Attention and Balanced BlendMask for Instance Segmentation of High-Resolution Remote Sensing Images. TGRS 2022. [CCF-B, IF=8.6]

* denotes Corresponding Author

📓 Selective Patents

US, “SEMANTIC SEGMENTATION METHOD FOR CROSS-DOMAIN REMOTE SENSING IMAGES BASED ON ITERATIVE INTRA-DOMAIN ADAPTATION”, US 12423825 B2.
CN, “基于多级领域相关度的多源领域自适应语义分割方法及装置”, ZL 2023 1 1119643.3.
CN, “基于迭代域内适应和自训练的跨域遥感图像语义分割方法”, ZL 2022 1 0402338.4.
CN, “基于双向无监督域适应融合的跨星遥感图像语义分割方法”, ZL 2021 1 1017498.9.
CN, “基于尺寸平衡FCOS的高分辨率遥感场景目标检测方法”, ZL 2021 1 1143539.9.

📚 Professional Activities

Reviewer for IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition(CVPR), International Conference on Machine Learning(ICML), ACM International Conference on Multimedia(ACMMM), AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence(AAAI), International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence(IJCAI), …
Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (TGRS), Neural Processing Letters (NPL), The Journal of SuperComputing (TJSC), …

🎓 Education

2018.09 - 2023.12, Ph.D., Computer Science and Technology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou.
2014.09 - 2018.06, B.E., Computer Science and Technology, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou.

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