Yuchen Zhang
I am a Master’s student in Software Engineering at Xi’an Jiaotong University and a Research Intern at Tencent. I will soon begin my Ph.D. studies at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University under the supervision of Prof. Jiaxing Huang and Prof. Chengqi Zhang. My research focuses on computer vision and AI safety.
I received my bachelor’s degree from Northwest A&F University, where I worked with Prof. Rui Mao and Prof. Meili Wang on intelligent agriculture.
My master’s research is supervised by Prof. Li Zhu. I also collaborate with Prof. Yaxiong Wang and Prof. Zhedong Zheng on multimodal content understanding, particularly in misinformation detection and agent navigation.
Education 🧑🎓
M.Eng. in Software Engineering
Xi'an Jiaotong University
B.Eng. in Software Engineering
Northwest A&F University
Internship Experience 💼
Tencent
Research Intern at Weixin Group
China Telecom Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (TeleAI)
Research Intern at Visual Understanding Research and Development Center
News 🎉
Apr 2026 ACL 2026 My first-author paper, Process Over Outcome: Cultivating Forensic Reasoning for Generalizable Multimodal Manipulation Detection, was accepted to ACL 2026 (CCF-A main conference).
Mar 2026 ICME 2026 My co-first-author paper, GeoMag: Geometric-Aware Video Motion Magnification via State Space Model, was accepted to ICME 2026 Spotlight🌟 (CCF-B).
Feb 2026 CVPR 2026 My first-author paper, The Coherence Trap: When MLLM-Crafted Narratives Exploit Manipulated Visual Contexts, was accepted to CVPR 2026 (CCF-A main conference).
Mar 2025 Comput. Electron. Agric. My first-author paper, Unsupervised domain adaptation semantic segmentation method for wheat disease detection based on UAV multispectral images, was accepted by Computers and Electronics in Agriculture (CAS Q1 TOP).
Jan 2025 Comput. Electron. Agric. My third-author paper, Detecting wheat yellow dwarf disease by employing a Dual-Branch multiscale model from UAV multispectral images, was accepted by Computers and Electronics in Agriculture (CAS Q1 TOP).
Apr 2024 Precision Agriculture My co-first-author paper, DAE-Mask: a novel deep-learning-based automatic detection model for in-field wheat diseases, was accepted by Precision Agriculture (JCR Q1).
2022 EI Journal My second-author paper and first published academic work, Identification of Wheat Stripe Rust and Yellow Dwarf by Improved Faster-RCNN, was accepted by Transactions of the Chinese Society of Agricultural Engineering.
Preprints 📄
STEPGUARD: Guarding Web Navigation via Single-Step Calibration
Research Interests 🧐
Multimodal Content Understanding
Misinformation detection, multimodal reasoning, and trustworthy content analysis.
Intelligent Agriculture
AI-driven perception and analysis for agricultural monitoring and disease detection.
Computer Vision
Visual representation learning, forgery detection, and robust scene understanding.
Academic Service 📝
Awards 🏆
- Academic National Scholarship, Ministry of Education of China
- Academic Outstanding Graduate of Northwest A&F University
Class of 2024, Top 3% - Academic Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis of Northwest A&F University
2024, Top 1.9% - Sports 🏅Champion
2000m Rowing Relay Team Event
62nd XJTU Sports Meeting - Sports 🏅Champion
1000m Rowing Ergometer
40th XJTU Fitness Month - Sports 🥈Runner-up
1-Minute Timed Rowing Ergometer
40th XJTU Fitness Month - Sports 🥉Third Place
80kg Bench Press Repetition Event
Innovation Harbor-Oxen Competition - Leadership Multiple Honors
Including Outstanding Graduate Student Cadre, Outstanding Student Cadre, and Outstanding University Student
Sports Gallery 📸
