Yufan Chen
Yufan Chen

Yufan Chen

Ph.D. Student and Research Assistant

I advance structured document intelligence at the intersection of vision, language, and geometry, developing systems that reconstruct latent page structure, reason over complex document relations, ground multimodal answers in verifiable visual evidence, and remain reliable under real-world distribution shifts.

During my Ph.D., I am supervised by Prof. Rainer Stiefelhagen at KIT, with close mentorship from Prof. Jiaming Zhang. During my research visit to Oxford VGG, I am supervised by Prof. Andrew Zisserman.

Education

  1. Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Ph.D. Student in Computer Vision and Document Analysis
  2. University of Stuttgart M.Sc. Electrical Engineering and Information Technology
  3. Beijing Jiaotong University B.Eng. Communication Engineering

Experience

  1. University of Oxford · VGG Visiting Researcher · DAAD IFI
  2. Karlsruhe Institute of Technology · CVHCI Research & Teaching Assistant
  3. Sony Electronics Research Intern

Research Interests

  1. Document AIDocument analysis, reasoning, understanding and multimodal intelligence
  2. Computer VisionRobust multimodal perception and visual reasoning
  3. Assistive Visual IntelligenceVision systems for visually impaired individuals

Recent News

All publications
  1. A paper (IMPACT) has been accepted by ACM MM 2026.
  2. Two papers (WanderDream, InterEdit) have been accepted by ECCV 2026.
  3. Two papers (RHO, PanoVQA) have been accepted by CVPR 2026.
  4. A paper (MICA) has been accepted by ICRA 2026.
  5. A paper (HybriDLA) has been selected as Oral by AAAI 2026.
  6. A paper (HybriDLA) has been accepted by AAAI 2026.

Selected Publications

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HybriDLA: Hybrid Generation for Document Layout Analysis

Yufan Chen, Omar Moured, Ruiping Liu, Junwei Zheng, Kunyu Peng, Jiaming Zhang, Rainer Stiefelhagen

AAAI 2026 · Oral · Paper

Graph-based Document Structure Analysis

Yufan Chen, Ruiping Liu, Junwei Zheng, Di Wen, Kunyu Peng, Jiaming Zhang, Rainer Stiefelhagen

ICLR 2025 · Paper · Code

SFDLA: Source-Free Document Layout Analysis

Sebastian Tewes, Yufan Chen, Omar Moured, Jiaming Zhang, Rainer Stiefelhagen

ICDAR 2025 · Paper · arXiv

RoDLA: Benchmarking the Robustness of Document Layout Analysis Models

Yufan Chen, Jiaming Zhang, Kunyu Peng, Junwei Zheng, Ruiping Liu, Philip Torr, Rainer Stiefelhagen

CVPR 2024 · Paper · Code