Fusion Intelligence Laboratory

[09/2026] Dr. Xingchen Zhang has been elevated to IEEE Senior Member.

[09/2026] Welcome Zhenyue and Yuan to join FIL as PhD students!

[07/2026] A candidate has been awarded an University of Exeter - Paris-Saclay PhD scholarship and will join FIL later this year.

[06/2026] One undergraduate student from our lab has been awarded the Faculty Commendation A prize to recognise his contribution to the faculty.

[06/2026] Our paper “MultiTaskVIF: Segmentation-oriented visible and infrared image fusion via multi-task learning” has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Image Processing. Congratulations to Zixian!

[06/2026] Dr. Xingchen Zhang was awarded an UKRI AIRR Gateway project as the PI. This will give our lab access to the UK’s fastest artificial intelligence supercomputers (Isambard-AI).

[05/2026] A candidate has been awarded an Exeter-CSC PhD scholarship and will join FIL in September.

[05/2026] Our paper “SSVIF: Self-Supervised Segmentation-Oriented Visible and Infrared Image Fusion” has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Image Processing. Congratulations to Zixian!

[05/2026] Congratulations to Zixian Zhao, the first PhD student at FIL, on receiving the Dean of Postgraduate Research’s Commendation for Excellence in Academic Citizenship.

[05/2026] Dr. Xingchen Zhang has joined the DSIT/UKRI AIRR User Advisory Group (UAG) as a core member.

[03/2026] Dr. Xingchen Zhang was awarded an NVIDIA Academic Grant as PI.

[02/2026] A Marie Sklodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship application from FIL has been successfully awarded.

[01/2026] Our workshop proposal on pedestrian behavior prediction has been accepted by ICRA2026, which will be held in Vienna, Austria, on June 1-5, 2026.

[01/2026] Welcome Yanlong to join FIL as a PhD student! Yanlong is funded by a UQEX joint PhD studentship.

[12/2025] Dr. Xingchen Zhang was awarded an UKRI AIRR Gateway project as the PI. This will give our lab access to one of the UK’s fastest artificial intelligence supercomputers (Dawn).

[12/2025] Dr. Xingchen Zhang was awarded an Exeter–Université Paris-Saclay Seed Fund Grant as the PI.

[10/2025] FIL graduates Qinqing Li and Heegon Kim got their MSc degrees with distinction! Additionally, Qinqing was also awarded the Computer Science Prizes for MSc students (Faculty Commendations - A, which is awarded to students who have made a significant contribution to the faculty).

[10/2025] Dr. Xingchen Zhang’s new book, Intelligence of Fusion: Deep Learning-based Image Fusion, is now freely available for download. This book provides a systematic overview of deep learning-based image fusion methods and applications.

[09/2025] Our paper “More effort is needed to protect pedestrian privacy in the era of AI” has been accepted by NeurIPS2025 as an Oral paper (Position Paper Track, top 1.3%). [PDF]

[09/2025] Welcome Quangao to join FIL as a PhD student! Quangao received his Master degree from Chinese Academy of Science before joining FIL.

[09/2025] Our paper “Brain tumor segmentation using multimodal MRI” has been accepted by the DIFA 2025 workshop (BMVC2025). This paper resulted from my MSc student Qinqing Li’s final project.

[05/2025] FIL members attended the ESE Research Showcase to present our robot dog (Code-E) and our research. It was a great pleasure to introduce my work to the President and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Exeter, Prof. Lisa Roberts, and other members of the University Council. Exeter News 1 (internal only). Exeter News 2 (internal only).

[05/2025] Dr. Xingchen Zhang was awarded an Exeter-Fudan Fellowship to strengthen the collaboration between FIL and Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University.

[04/2025] Our paper “BGM: Demand Prediction for Expanding Bike-Sharing Systems with Dynamic Graph Modeling” has been accepted by IJCAI2025. This is a collaborative paper with colleagues at the University of Exeter and the University of Warwick. Congratulations to all co-authors!

[02/2025] Dr. Xingchen Zhang was awarded a Royal Society Research Grant as the PI. This grant will support FIL to conduct research in Embodied Intelligence.

[01/2025] Welcome Ning to join FIL as a PhD student!

[09/2024] Welcome Zixian to join FIL as a PhD student! Before joining FIL, Zixian obtained his MSc degree in Applied Machine Learning (with distinction) from Imperial College London. Zixian is fully funded by an Exeter PhD studentship.

[07/2024] Our paper “Predicting Spatio-temporal Traffic Flow: A Comprehensive End-to-end Approach from Surveillance Cameras “ has been accepted by Transportmetrica B: Transport Dynamics. This is a collaborative paper with the Transport Systems & Logistics Lab and Personal Robotics Lab at Imperial College London.

[06/2024] Our paper “3PFS: Protecting pedestrian privacy through face swapping” has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems. The video demo can be found in the ‘Research’ section.

[04/2024] Dr. Xingchen Zhang joined the University of Exeter as a Senior Lecturer and established the Fusion Intelligence Laboratory (FIL). The lab aims to use machine intelligence and multi-source information fusion to benefit humanity.