TongWang 王通

Ph.D Student

Computer Vision Department, 1B Building
Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence
Masdar City, Abu Dhabi
United Arab Emirates

Email: tong [DOT] wang [AT] mbzuai [DOT] ac [DOT] ae

🎈 Biography

I am currently a Ph.D student at the Key Laboratory of New Generation Artificial Intelligence Technology and Its Interdisciplinary Applications of Ministry of Education, School of Computer Science and Engineering, Southeast University. I am also a visiting Ph.D student at Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI).

Research Interests:

Multimodal Models: Vision-Language Models, LLM-based Visual Grounding Models
Generative AI: Autoregressive Models, Diffusion Models, Efficient Generative Models
Medical Image Analysis: Image Segmentation, Medical Video Analysis, Medical Image Representation Learning

👨‍💻 Experiences

Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence

Visiting Student | 2024 – Present

Mentor: Prof. Fahad Shahbaz Khan, Dr. Nian Liu and Dr. Yutong Xie

Research focus: Multimodal Models, Generative Model, Medical Image Analysis

Southeast University

Ph.D Student | 2022 – Present

PhD Advisor: Prof. Guanyu Yang

Research focus: Computer Vision, Medical Image Analysis

📝 Publications

Preprint Papers

Diversity Has Always Been There in Your Visual Autoregressive Models

Tong Wang, Guanyu Yang, Nian Liu, Kai Wang, Yaxing Wang, Abdelrahman M Shaker, Salman Khan, Fahad Shahbaz Khan, Senmao Li.

arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.17074

Preprint 2025 Paper Code Page

Composed Object Retrieval: Object-level Retrieval via Composed Expressions

Tong Wang, Guanyu Yang, Nian Liu, Zongyan Han, Jinxing Zhou, Salman Khan, Fahad Shahbaz Khan.

arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.04424

Preprint 2025 Paper Code

OpenSeg-R: Improving Open-Vocabulary Segmentation via Step-by-Step Visual Reasoning

Zongyan Han, Jiale Cao, Shuo Chen, Tong Wang, Jorma Laaksonen, Rao Muhammad Anwer.

arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.16974

Preprint 2025 Paper Code

Conference Papers

Think Before You Segment: An Object-aware Reasoning Agent for Referring Audio-Visual Segmentation

Jinxing Zhou, Yanghao Zhou, Mingfei Han, Tong Wang, Xiaojun Chang, Hisham Cholakkal, Rao Muhammad Anwer.

arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.04418

AAAI 2026 Paper Code

Energy-induced Explicit quantification for Multi-modality MRI fusion.

Xiaoming Qi, Yuan Zhang, Tong Wang, Guanyu Yang, Yueming Jin, Shuo Li.

European Conference on Computer Vision

ECCV 2024 Paper Code

Journal Papers

Polyp segmentation via semantic enhanced perceptual network.

Tong Wang, Xiaoming Qi, Guanyu Yang.

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology

IEEE TCSVT 2024 Paper Code

Neighborhood contrastive representation learning for attributed graph clustering.

Tong Wang, Junhua Wu, Yaolei Qi, Xiaoming Qi, Juwei Guan, Yuan Zhang, Guanyu Yang.

Neurocomputing

NeuroCom 2023 Paper Code

Multi-scale graph attention subspace clustering network.

Tong Wang, Junhua Wu, Zhenquan Zhang, Wen Zhou, Guang Chen, Shasha Liu.

Neurocomputing

NeuroCom 2021 Paper Code

🏅 Awards and Honors

2025, Outstanding Postgraduate, Southeast University.
2024, Outstanding Postgraduate, Southeast University.
2022, Outstanding Graduates, Nanjing Tech University.
2022, Outstanding Master’s Thesis, Nanjing Tech University.
2021, National Scholarship, Ministry of Education.
2018, National Scholarship, Ministry of Education.