Biography

Hi, I am Weiran Chen, a postgraduate student at School of Computer Science and Technology, Soochow University, supervised by Prof. Chunping Liu, Assoc.Prof. Yi Ji, Assoc.Prof. Ying Li and Lecturer. Guiqian Zhu. Before this, I obtained my Bachelor Degree (2019-2023, Artificial Intelligence) from Soochow University.

💡 Research Interests

Focusing on the frontiers of artificial intelligence (AI), I aim to develop efficient algorithms to advance the field of computer vision and pattern recognition, including:

• Multi-modality Data Analysis
• Document Analysis and Recognition
• Font Generation
• Image Quality Assessment

🔥 News

• [12/2025] Obtain the academic excellence scholarship in Soochow University.
• [11/2025] Obtain open-source scholarship in Soochow University.
• [07/2025] One paper on font generation was accepted by BMVC 2025.
• [07/2025] One paper on font generation was accepted by ACM MM 2025.
• [06/2025] One paper on image quality assessment was accepted by Multimedia Systems.
• [05/2025] One paper on medical visual question answering was accepted by ICIP 2025.
• [04/2025] One paper on medical visual question answering was accepted by ICIC 2025.
• [10/2024] Obtain National Scholarship in China, a new chapter starts!
• [06/2024] One paper on video generation was accepted by ICANN 2024.
• [06/2024] One paper on video-text retrieval was accpeted by PRCV 2024.
• [05/2024] One paper on image quality assessment was accepted by Multimedia Systems.
• [05/2024] Obtain one Jiangsu Province Scientific Research Practice Innovation Plan.
• [02/2024] One paper on visual storytelling was accepted by COLING 2024.
• [12/2023] One paper on visual storytelling was accepted by ICASSP 2024.
• [06/2023] Obtain Bachelor Degree of Artificial Intelligence from Soochow University, a brand new journey begins!
• [07/2022] One paper on font generation was accepted by ICANN 2022.

📝 Selected Publications

• Weiran Chen, Guiqian Zhu, Ying Li, Yi Ji, & Chunping Liu. GC-Font: Few-Shot Font Generation via Global Contextual Feature Modelling. (BMVC 2025) PDF Code
• Weiran Chen, Guiqian Zhu, Ying Li, Yi Ji, & Chunping Liu. DA-Font: Few-Shot Font Generation via Dual-Attention Hybrid Integration. (ACM MM 2025) PDF Code
• Weiran Chen, Guiqian Zhu, Ying Li, Yi Ji, & Chunping Liu. SiamHCC: a novel siamese network for quality evaluation of handwritten Chinese characters. (Multimedia Systems) PDF Code
• Hongyi Ren, Weiran Chen, Ying Li, Yi Ji, & Chunping Liu. MedKI: Knowledge Dual Injections for Medical Visual Question Answering. (ICIP 2025) PDF
• Hongyi Ren, Weiran Chen, Ying Li, Yi Ji, & Chunping Liu. MedMEN: Multi-granularity Encoding Network for Medical Visual Question Answering. (ICIC 2025) PDF
• Weiran Chen, Jiaqi Su, Weitao Song, Jialiang Xu, Guiqian Zhu, Ying Li, Yi Ji, & Chunping Liu. Quality evaluation methods of handwritten Chinese characters: a comprehensive survey. (Multimedia Systems) PDF
• Weiran Chen, Xin Li, Jiaqi Su, Guiqian Zhu, Ying Li, Yi Ji, & Chunping Liu. TARN-VIST: Topic Aware Reinforcement Network for Visual Storytelling. (COLING 2024) PDF
• Jialiang Xu, Weiran Chen, Lingbing Xu, Weitao Song, Yi Ji, Ying Li, & Chunping Liu. MAGIC: Multi-prompt Any Length Video Generation Model with Controllable Inter-frame Correlation and Low Barrier. (ICANN 2024) PDF
• Weitao Song, Weiran Chen, Jialiang Xu, Yi Ji, Ying Li, & Chunping Liu. Uncertainty-Aware with Negative Samples for Video-Text Retrieval. (PRCV 2024) PDF
• Jiaqi Su, Weiran Chen, Yi Ji, & Chunping Liu. Glocal Cascading Network for Topic Enhanced Visual Storytelling. (ICASSP 2024) PDF
• Weiran Chen, Yi Ji, & Chunping Liu. Chinese Character Style Transfer Model Based on Convolutional Neural Network. (ICANN 2022) PDF

📜 Open-Source Projects

• Weiran Chen, Guiqian Zhu, Ying Li, Yi Ji, & Chunping Liu. Advancements in Chinese font generation since deep learning era: A survey. (arXiv) PDF

📧 Journal & Conference Reviews and Services

• Computer Vision and Image Understanding
• Applied Intelligence
• Knowledge-Based Systems
• IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics
• IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME)
• International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (ICMR)
• International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN)
• IEEE Conference on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance (AVSS)

🎖 Honors and Awards

• Excellent graduate student of Soochow University (2025, 2024)
• National Scholarship in China (2024)
• Outstanding Volunteer of Soochow University Graduate Union (2024)
• The Huawei Smart Base Scholarship (2023)
• Soochow University Graduate Outstanding Scholarship (Rank 2nd) (2023)
• Outstanding undergraduate graduation project (2023)
• China Market Research and Analysis Competition - Third Prize (National Level) (2022)
• Soochow University Innovation and Entrepreneurship Scholarship (Rank 1st) (2022)
• The Jingwen Zhu Scholarship (2022)
• Soochow University Undergraduate Outstanding Scholarship (Rank 2nd) (2022, 2021)
• Soochow University Spiritual Civilization Scholarship (2022, 2021)

📖 Education

• 2023.09 - current, Third-year Master, School of Computer Science and Technology, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China.
• 2019.09 - 2023.06, Bachelor, School of Computer Science and Technology, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China.

🌈 Miscellaneous

I’m passionate about two things: reading books and sports! I believe life is about more than just work and study, it’s about pursuing what you love. Reading lets me explore new worlds, while sports keep me energized and stress-free. Whether it’s running or a casual game of badminton, I enjoy staying active. Besides, Sports also teach me valuable lessons in teamwork and communication, which help me excel in all areas of life. My passion for books and sports keeps me motivated and ready for any challenge.