Selected Journal Articles

1. Yishi Li, Fanhong Zeng, Rui Lai*, et. al., "TinyFusionDet: Hardware-Efficient LiDAR-Camera Fusion Framework for 3D Object Detection at Edge," IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Early Access, DOI: 10.1109/TCSVT.2025.3556711, 2025.

2. Juntao Guan, Qinghui Guo, Huanan Li, Rui Lai*, et. al. "PIMSR: An Energy-Efficient Processing-in-Memory Accelerator for 60 FPS 4K Super-Resolution," IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems--II: Express Briefs, Vol.72, Issue 4, pp.623 - 627, 2025.

3. Yishi Li, Yuhao Zhang, Rui Lai*. "TinyPillarNet: Tiny Pillar-based Network for 3D Point Cloud Object Detection at Edge," IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Vol.34, Issue 3, pp.1772-1785, 2024.
4. Kunran Xu, Huawei Zhang, Yishi Li, Yuhao Zhang, Rui Lai*, et. al. "An Ultra-low Power TinyML System for Real-time Visual Processing at Edge," IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems--II: Express Briefs, Vol.70, Issue 7, pp.2640-2644, 2023.
5. Juntao Guan, Rui Lai*, Huanan Li, et. al. "DnRCNN: Deep Recurrent Convolutional Neural Network for HSI Destriping," IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, Vol.34, Issue 7, pp.3255-3268, 2023.
6. Kunran Xu, Rui Lai*, Lin Gu, Yishi Li, "Multiresolution Discriminative Mixup Network for Fine-Grained Visual Categorization," IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, Vol.34, Issue 7, pp.3488-3500, 2023. 
7. Juntao Guan, Rui Lai*, Yang Lu, Yangang Li, Huanan Li, Lichen Feng, Yintang Yang, Lin Gu. "Memory-Efficient Deformable Convolution based Joint Denoising and Demosaicing for UHD Images", IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Vol.32, Issue 11, pp.7346-7358, 2022.
8. Zesheng Liu, Rui Lai*, Juntao Guan, "Spatial and Transform Domain CNN for SAR Image Despeckling," IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, Vol.19,  pp. 4002005, 2022.  (ESI High Cited Paper)
9. Dong Wang, Rui Lai*, Juntao Guan, "Target Attention Deep Neural Network for Infrared Image Enhancement," Infrared Physics and Technology, Vol.115, pp.103690, 2021.
10. Juntao Guan, Rui Lai*, Ai Xiong, Zesheng Liu, Lin Gu, "Fixed Pattern Noise Reduction for Infrared Images Based on Cascade Residual Attention CNN", Neurocomputing, Vol.377, pp.301-313, 2020.
11. Juntao Guan, Rui Lai*, Ai Xiong, "Wavelet Deep Neural Network for Stripe Noise Removal," IEEE ACCESS, Vol.19, pp.44544-44554, 2019.
12. Lai Rui*, Yang Yin-tang, "Total variation Regularized Back-projection Method for Spatial Resolution Enhancement", IEEJ Transactions on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 10(S1):S55-S59, 2015.
13. R. Lai* and Y.T. Yang, "Accelerating non-local means algorithm with random projection," IET Electronics Letters, Vol.47, No.3, pp.182-183, 2011.   
14. Lai Rui*, Yang Yin-tang, Wang Bing-jian, et. al., “A Quantitative Measure Based Infrared Image Enhancement Algorithm Using Plateau Histogram”, Optics Communications, Volume283, Issue 21, Pages 4283-4288, 2010. 
15. Lai Rui*, Yang Yin-tang, Li Qing, et. al., “Improvement in Adaptive Nonuniformity Correction Method with Nonlinear Model for Infrared Focal Plane Arrays”, Optics Communications,  Volume282, Issue 17, Pages 3444-3447, 2009. 
16. Lai Rui*, Yang Yintang, Wang Bingjian, et. al., “S-Curve Model-Based Adaptive Algorithm for Non-uniformity Correction in Infrared Focal Plane Arrays”, Acta Optica Sinica, Vol.29, No.4, pp.927-931, 2009. (in Chinese)
17. Lai Rui*, YANG Yin-tang, “Novel Scene Adaptive Method for Non-uniformity Correctionin Infrared Focal Plane Arrays”, Joural of Xidian University, Vol.36, No.2, pp.228-232, 2009. (in Chinese)
18. LAI Rui*, YANG Yin-tang, "A new detail preserving image interpolation method based on linear space variant technique,"  Journal of Optoelectronics ·Laser, Vol.20, No.2, pp.257-259, 2009. (in Chinese)
19. Lai Rui*, Yang Yin-tang, Zhou Duan, “Improved Neural Network Based Scene-adaptive Nonuniformity Correction Method for Infrared Focal Plane Arrays”, Applied Optics (OSA), Vol.47, No.24, pp.4331-4335, 2008.

Selected Conference Articles

1. Rui Fan, Weidong Hao, Juntao Guan, Rui Lai*, et. al. "EventPillars: Pillar-based Efficient Representations for Event Data," AAAI, 2025.
2. Huanan Li, Juntao Guan, Rui Lai*, et. al. "TinyLUT: Tiny Look-Up Table for Efficient Image Restoration at the Edge," NeurIPS, 2024.
3. Huanan Li, Shicheng Jia, Juntao Guan, Rui Lai*, et. al. "An Energy-Efficient Look-up Table Framework for Super Resolution on FPGA," AICAS, 2024.
4. Juntao Guan, Gufeng Liu, Fanhong Zeng,   Rui Lai*, et. al. "Microarchitecture Aware Neural Architecture Search for TinyML Devices,"  AICAS, 2024.
5. Kunran Xu, Yishi Li, Huawei Zhang, Rui Lai*, Lin Gu, "EtinyNet: Extremely Tiny Network for TinyML," AAAI, 2022.
6. Yishi Li, Kunran Xu, Rui Lai*, Lin Gu, "Towards an Effective Orthogonal Dictionary Convolution Strategy," AAAI, 2022.
7. Kunran Xu, Rui Lai*, Yishi Li, Lin Gu, "Feature Normalized Knowledge Distillation for Image Classification," ECCV, 2020.
8. Lai Rui*, Yang Yin-tang, Zhou Hui-xin, et. al., “A Novel Non-Local Means Based Super- Resolution Algorithm with Back-Projection”, IEEE Wireless Communications Networking and Mobile Computing (WiCOM’10), Chengdu, China, Sep., 2010.
9. Lai Rui*, Dou Xuan-xuan, “Improved Non-local Means Filtering Algorithm for Image Denoising”, IEEE International Congress on Image and Signal Processing (CISP’10), Yantai, China, Oct., 2010.
10. Rui Lai*, Hui-xin Zhou, Han-lin Qin, Shang-qian Liu. “Drive & Test System for  288×4 TDI IRCCD”, IEEE IRMMW-THz’06, Shanghai, China, 2006.