Selected Journal Articles

1. Tong Wu, Juntao Guan, Rui Lai*, Changchun Chai, Zhangming Zhu. "TinyShareNet: Towards Extremely Tiny Network for Memory Efficient On-Chip Inference at the Edge," IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, DOI: 10.1109/TCSVT.2026.3716411, 2026.

2. 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, Vol.35, No.9, pp.8819-8834, 2025.

3. 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.

4. 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.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. 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. 
8. 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.
9. 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)
10. Dong Wang, Rui Lai*, Juntao Guan, "Target Attention Deep Neural Network for Infrared Image Enhancement," Infrared Physics and Technology, Vol.115, pp.103690, 2021.
11. 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.
12. Juntao Guan, Rui Lai*, Ai Xiong, "Wavelet Deep Neural Network for Stripe Noise Removal," IEEE ACCESS, Vol.19, pp.44544-44554, 2019.
13. 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.
14. 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.   
15. 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. 
16. 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. 

Selected Conference Articles

1. T. Wu, J. Zhang, J. Guan, Rui Lai*, et al. "Slim-DETR: Real-time Tiny Object Detection with Efficient Interaction and Gaussian Query," European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2026. (CCF-B)
2. F. Zeng, C. Li, R. Li, J. Guan, Rui Lai*, et al. "Neural Quantization-Aware Piecewise Linear Approximation for Nonlinear Functions on FPGA," IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), 2026.  (CCF-B, Oral Presentation)
3. R. Fan, W. Hao, J. Guan, Rui Lai*, et al. "SMV-EAR: Bring Spatiotemporal Multi-View Representation Learning into Efficient Event-Based Action Recognition," IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2026.  (CCF-A)
4. R. Fan, H. Li, J. Guan, Rui Lai*, et al. "EGTM: Event-guided Efficient Turbulence Mitigation," IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME). 2026. (CCF-B, Oral Presentation)
5. R. Fan R, Rui Lai*, J. Guan, et al. "Adaptive Single-Photon 3D Imaging via Recurrent Uncertainty Estimation," International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), 2026. (CCF-C)
6. W. Hao, R. Fan, J. Guan, Rui Lai*, "HoloEv-Net: Efficient Event-based Action Recognition via Holographic Spatial Embedding and Global Spectral Gating," International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), 2026. (CCF-C)
7. F. Zeng, H. Li, J. Guan, R. Fan, T. Wu, X. Wang, R. Lai*, et. al. "An Efficient Hybrid Vision Transformer for TinyML Applications," International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2025. (CCF-A)
8. Rui Fan, Weidong Hao, Juntao Guan, Rui Lai*, et. al. "EventPillars: Pillar-based Efficient Representations for Event Data," AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2025. (CCF-A)
9. Huanan Li, Juntao Guan, Rui Lai*, et. al. "TinyLUT: Tiny Look-Up Table for Efficient Image Restoration at the Edge," Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2024.  (CCF-A)
10. Huanan Li, Shicheng Jia, Juntao Guan, Rui Lai*, et. al. "An Energy-Efficient Look-up Table Framework for Super Resolution on FPGA," IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Circuits and Systems (AICAS), 2024.
11. Juntao Guan, Gufeng Liu, Fanhong Zeng,   Rui Lai*, et. al. "Microarchitecture Aware Neural Architecture Search for TinyML Devices,"  IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Circuits and Systems (AICAS), 2024.
12. Kunran Xu, Yishi Li, Huawei Zhang, Rui Lai*, Lin Gu, "EtinyNet: Extremely Tiny Network for TinyML,"AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2022.  (CCF-A)
13. Yishi Li, Kunran Xu, Rui Lai*, Lin Gu, "Towards an Effective Orthogonal Dictionary Convolution Strategy," AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2022.  (CCF-A)
14. Kunran Xu, Rui Lai*, Yishi Li, Lin Gu, "Feature Normalized Knowledge Distillation for Image Classification," European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2020. (CCF-B)