Yuli Wu
Currently
Jul 2021 - Dec 2025
Institute of Imaging & Computer Vision (LfB) of RWTH Aachen
I am a Doctoral Researcher focusing on Computer Vision & Biomedical Image Processing with Deep Learning.
I was a member of DFG program InnoRetVision , dealing with Image Processing in Retinal Neuroprosthetics.
Education
Jul 2021 - Nov 2025
RWTH Aachen University
Dr.-Ing. (summa cum laude)
Oct 2018 - Mar 2021
RWTH Aachen University
M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, Information Technology and Computer Engineering
with Specialization of Computer Engineering
Oct 2015 - Sep 2018
RWTH Aachen University
B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, Information Technology and Computer Engineering
with Specialization of Computer Engineering
Work Experiences
Jul 2021 - Dec 2025
Institute of Imaging & Computer Vision (LfB) of RWTH Aachen
Research Scientist (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter)
Sep 2020 - Mar 2021
SAP
Intern at SAP Innovation Center Network
Jul 2019 - Apr 2020
Institute of Imaging & Computer Vision (LfB) of RWTH Aachen
Student Assistant, Research Assistant, Annotation, Software Development
Teaching Assistant of Project MATLAB meets LEGO Mindstorms
Oct 2017 - Mar 2019
Nuance Communications (acquired by Microsoft)
Working Student, Translation and Test for in-car Voice-Control-System
Apr 2017 - Jul 2018
Institute of High Voltage Engineering (IFHT) of RWTH Aachen
Teaching Assistant of Practice Electrical Laboratory for 2 Semesters, and
Teaching Assistant of Practice Metrological Laboratory for 1 Semester
Projects & Theses
Nov 2025
PhD Thesis, Institute of Imaging & Computer Vision (LfB) of RWTH Aachen
“Enhancing Artificial Vision by Integrating Machine Learning in Retinal Prosthetics”
Supervisors: Prof. Johannes Stegmaier, Prof. Peter Walter
Links: Thesis ~50MB Slides ~500MB
Oct 2019 - Jun 2020
Master Thesis, Institute of Imaging & Computer Vision (LfB) of RWTH Aachen
“Instance Segmentation of Dense Objects via Deep Pixel Embedding”
Supervisor: Long Chen
Links: Thesis ~20MB Slides ~100MB
Jun 2020
Ranked #1 in Leaf Segmentation Challenge Leaderboard (ECCV2020 Workshop)
By submission due. Results are w.r.t. BestDice with Username LfB.
Link: Codalab
Apr 2018 - Oct 2018
Bachelor Thesis, Institute of Imaging & Computer Vision (LfB) of RWTH Aachen
“Contour Refinement of Leukocyte Segmentations in Scans of Stained Bone Marrow”
Supervisor: Philipp Gräbel
Links: Thesis ~20MB Slides ~100MB
Publications (excerpt)
Full list: Google Scholar
2025
A Pragmatic Note on Evaluating Generative Models with Fréchet Inception Distance for Retinal Image Synthesis
Yuli Wu, Fucheng Liu, Rüveyda Yilmaz et al.
arXiv preprint [Paper]
2025
Visual Fixation-Based Retinal Prosthetic Simulation
Yuli Wu, Do Dinh Tan Nguyen, Henning Konermann et al.
IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging Oral [Paper]
2024
Optimizing Retinal Prosthetic Stimuli with Conditional Invertible Neural Networks
Yuli Wu, Julian Wittmann, Peter Walter, Johannes Stegmaier
arXiv preprint [Paper]
2024
Retinal OCT Synthesis with Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models for Layer Segmentation
Yuli Wu, Weidong He, Dennis Eschweiler et al.
IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging Oral [Paper]
2024
SasWOT: Real-Time Semantic Segmentation Architecture Search WithOut Training
Chendi Zhu, Lujun Li, Yuli Wu, Zhengxing Sun
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence [Paper]
2022
Instance Segmentation of Dense and Overlapping Objects via Layering
Long Chen, Yuli Wu, Dorit Merhof
British Machine Vision Conference Spotlight [Paper]
2021
Object Detection Based Handwriting Localization
Yuli Wu, Yucheng Hu, Suting Miao
Document Analysis and Recognition – ICDAR Workshops [Internal Talk] [Paper]
2020
Improving Pixel Embedding Learning through Intermediate Distance Regression Supervision for Instance Segmentation
Yuli Wu, Long Chen, Dorit Merhof
ECCV Workshop on Computer Vision Problems in Plant Phenotyping [Best Paper Honorable Mention] [Paper]
Language
中文 Chinese Native
English English Fluent
Deutsch German Fluent, DSH-III (sehr gut)
Français French Amateur
Driving License
Apr 2016
German Driving License
Sep 2016
Chinese Driving License
Hobbies
Piano pieces on YouTube; keyboard of the rock band the wittekind ; logogram design.
I shoot with analog films on a second-hand Leica M6 made in 1985.