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Researcher

Jiayi Ma

Also known as 马佳义

Jiayi Ma is a computer-vision researcher whose work spans robust point matching and AI methods for image fusion. He earned undergraduate and doctoral degrees at Huazhong University of Science and Technology, then held research and faculty roles at Wuhan University. His work includes the 2014 Vector Field Consensus paper, the DDcGAN and SwinFusion image-fusion models, and the text-modulated diffusion framework Text-DiFuse. In 2025, he and four coauthors won the IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award for DDcGAN. As of October 2026, he is a full professor at Wuhan University’s Electronic Information School and co-editor-in-chief of Information Fusion and the Chinese Journal of Information Fusion.

Works
557
Citations
42,451
h-index
94

Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 15 October 2026.

Timeline

  1. 2008–2014

    Degrees at Huazhong University

    He earns a BS in Information and Computing Science in 2008 and a PhD in Control Science and Engineering in 2014 at Huazhong University of Science and Technology. From 2012 to 2013, he is an exchange student in UCLA’s Department of Statistics.

  2. 2014

    Vector Field Consensus

    He publishes “Robust Point Matching via Vector Field Consensus” in IEEE Transactions on Image Processing in 2014.

  3. 2014–2018

    Postdoc to full professor

    He works as a postdoctoral researcher in Wuhan University’s Electronic Information School from 2014 to 2016. The university promotes him to associate professor in 2016 and full professor in 2018.

  4. 2020

    DDcGAN image fusion

    In 2020, he and four collaborators publish DDcGAN, a dual-discriminator conditional GAN for multi-resolution image fusion.

  5. 2022

    SwinFusion image fusion

    In 2022, he and five coauthors publish SwinFusion, a Swin Transformer framework for general image fusion.

  6. 2024

    Text-DiFuse at NeurIPS

    At NeurIPS 2024, he coauthors Text-DiFuse, a multimodal image-fusion framework based on text-modulated diffusion. Its text control lets users guide fusion and highlight foreground objects.

  7. 2025

    A Signal Processing Society award

    The IEEE Signal Processing Society names him and four coauthors as winners of its 2025 Best Paper Award for DDcGAN, a 2020 paper.

  8. As of October 2026

    Professor and journal editor

    As of October 2026, he is a full professor at Wuhan University’s Electronic Information School and co-editor-in-chief of Information Fusion and the Chinese Journal of Information Fusion.

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  1. Jiayi Ma (马佳义), Professor sites.google.com. Checked 15 October 2026.
  2. GitHub - jiayi-ma/VFC: Robust Point Matching via Vector Field Consensus / Regularized Vector Field Learning with Sparse Approximation for Mismatch Removal · GitHub github.com. Checked 15 October 2026.
  3. Jiayi Ma - Publications sites.google.com. Checked 15 October 2026.
  4. SwinFusion: Cross-domain Long-range Learning for General Image Fusion via Swin Transformer ieee-jas.net. Checked 15 October 2026.
  5. Text-DiFuse: An Interactive Multi-Modal Image Fusion Framework based on Text-modulated Diffusion Model arxiv.org. Checked 15 October 2026.
  6. 2025 IEEE Signal Processing Society Awards Winners signalprocessingsociety.org. Checked 15 October 2026.