Donglai Wei

Assistant Professor of Computer Science

Boston College

Office: 245 Beacon St., Rm 528F

Email: donglai.wei [AT] bc.edu

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I spent memorable postdoc years with Hanspeter Pfister at Harvard University. I was fortunate to be supervised by William Freeman during my Ph.D. study at MIT CSAIL. I finished my undergraduate in Maths from Brown University (transferred from Tsinghua University), where I was privileged to work under Charles Lawrence, Erik Sudderth, Stuart Geman, and See-Chen Ying.

Publications

2023
	High-Throughput Microscopy Image Deblurring with Graph Reasoning Attention Network Yulun Zhang, Donglai Wei, Richard Schalek, Yuelong Wu, Stephen Turney, Jeff Lichtman, Hanspeter Pfister, Yun Fu ISBI 2023
	Learning Vector Quantized Shape Code for Amodal Blastomere Instance Segmentation Won-Dong Jang, Donglai Wei, Xingxuan Zhang, Brian Leahy, Helen Yang, James Tompkin, Dalit Ben-Yosef, Daniel Needleman, Hanspeter Pfister ISBI 2023
	Multi-task Curriculum Learning for Partially Labeled Data Won-Dong Jang, Stanislav Lukyanenko, Donglai Wei, Jiancheng Yang, Brian Leahy, Helen Yang, Dalit Ben-Yosef, Daniel Needleman, Hanspeter Pfister ISBI 2023
2022
	UnMICST: Deep Learning with Real Augmentation for Robust Segmentation of Highly Multiplexed Images of Human Tissues Clarence Yapp, Edward Novikov, Won-Dong Jang, Yu-An Chen, Marcelo Cicconet, Zoltan Maliga, Connor A. Jacobson, Donglai Wei, Sandro Santagata, Hanspeter Pfister, Peter K. Sorger Communications Biology 2022
	MedMNIST v2: A Large-Scale Lightweight Benchmark for 2D and 3D Biomedical Image Classification Jiancheng Yang, Rui Shi, Donglai Wei, Zequan Liu, Lin Zhao, Bilian Ke, Hanspeter Pfister, and Bingbing Ni Scientific Data 2022 [Website (code/data)]
	Edge-Colored Directed Subgraph Enumeration on the Connectome Brian Matejek, Donglai Wei, Tianyi Chen, Charalampos Tsourakakis, Michael Mitzenmacher, Hanspeter Pfister Scientific Reports 2022 [Website (code/data)]
	YouMVOS: An Actor-centric Multi-shot Video Object Segmentation Dataset Donglai Wei, Siddhant Kharbanda, Sarthak Arora, Roshan Roy, Nishant Jain, Akash Palrecha, Tanav Shah, Shray Mathur, Ritik Mathur, Abhijay Kemka, Anirudh Chakravarthy, Zudi Lin, Won-Dong Jang, Yansong Tang, Song Bai, James Tompkin, Philip H.S. Torr, Hanspeter Pfister CVPR 2022 [Website (code)]
	Texture-based Error Analysis for Image Super-Resolution Salma Abdel Magid, Zudi Lin, Donglai Wei, Yulun Zhang, Jinjin Gu, Hanspeter Pfister CVPR 2022 [Website (code)]
	Scalable Biologically-Aware Skeleton Generation for Connectomic Volumes Brian Matejek, Tim Franzmeyer, Donglai Wei, Xueying Wang, Jinglin Zhao, Kálmán Palágyi, Jeff W. Lichtman, Hanspeter Pfister TMI 2022 [Website (code/data)]
	Saturated reconstruction of living brain tissue Philipp Velicky, Eder Miguel, Julia M. Michalska, Donglai Wei, Zudi Lin, Jake F. Watson, Jakob Troidl, Johanna Beyer, Yoav Ben-Simon, Christoph Sommer, Wiebke Jahr, Alban Cenameri, Johannes Broichhagen, Seth G. N. Grant, Peter Jonas, Gaia Novarino, Hanspeter Pfister, Bernd Bickel, Johann G. Danzl biorxiv 2022
2021
	Learning to Generate Realistic Noisy Images via Pixel-level Noise-aware Adversarial Training Yuanhao Cai, Xiaowan Hu, Haoqian Wang, Yulun Zhang, Hanspeter Pfister, Donglai Wei NeurIPS 2021 [Website (code)]
	Dynamic High-Pass Filtering and Multi-Spectral Attention for Image Super-Resolution Salma Abdel Magid, Yulun Zhang, Donglai Wei, Won-Dong Jang, Zudi Lin, Yun Fu, Hanspeter Pfister ICCV 2021 [Website (code)]
	Context Reasoning Attention Network for Image Super-Resolution Yulun Zhang, Donglai Wei, Can Qin, Huan Wang, Hanspeter Pfister, Yun Fu ICCV 2021
	AxonEM Dataset: 3D Axon Instance Segmentation of Brain Cortical Regions Donglai Wei*, Kisuk Lee*, Hanyu Li, Ran Lu, J. Alexander Bae, Zequan Liu, Lifu Zhang, Márcia dos Santos, Zudi Lin, Thomas Uram, Xueying Wang, Ignacio Arganda-Carreras, Brian Matejek, Narayanan Kasthuri, Jeff Lichtman, Hanspeter Pfister MICCAI 2021 [Website (code/data)][Challenge]
	NucMM Dataset: 3D Neuronal Nuclei Instance Segmentation at Sub-Cubic Millimeter Scale Zudi Lin*, Donglai Wei*, Mariela Petkova, Yuelong Wu, Zergham Ahmed, Krishna Swaroop K, Silin Zou, Nils Wendt, Jonathan Boulanger-Weill, Xueying Wang, Nagaraju Dhanyasi, Ignacio Arganda-Carreras, Florian Engert, Jeff Lichtman, Hanspeter Pfister MICCAI 2021 (Student Travel Award) [Website (code/data)][Challenge]
	Developmental Stage Classification of Embryos Using Two-Stream Neural Network with Linear-Chain Conditional Random Field Stanislav Lukyanenko, Won-Dong Jang, Donglai Wei, Robbert Struyven, Yoon Kim, Brian Leahy, Helen Yang, Alexander Rush, Dalit Ben-Yosef, Daniel Needleman, Hanspeter Pfister MICCAI 2021 (nominated but ineligible for Student Travel Award) [Website (code)]
	RibSeg Dataset and Strong Point Cloud Baselines for Rib Segmentation from CT Scans Jiancheng Yang, Shixuan Gu, Bingbing Ni, Donglai Wei, Hanspeter Pfister MICCAI 2021 [Website (code/data)]
	Consistent Recurrent Neural Networks for 3D Neuron Segmentation Felix Gonda, Donglai Wei, Hanspeter Pfister ISBI 2021 [Code]
	The Wood Image Analysis and Dataset (WIAD): open-access visual analysis tools to advance the ecological data revolution Tim Rademacher, Bijan Seyednasrollah, David Basler, Jian Cheng, Tessa Mandra, Elise Miller, Zudi Lin, David A Orwig, Neil Pederson, Hanspeter Pfister, Andrew D Richardson, Donglai Wei, Li Yao Methods in Ecology and Evolution 2021
	A Connectomic Study of A Petascale Fragment of Human Cerebral Cortex Alexander Shapson-Coe, Michał Januszewski, Daniel Berger, Art Pope, Yuelong Wu, Tim Blakely, Richard Schalek, Peter Li, Shuohong Wang, Jeremy Maitin-Shepard, Neha Karlupia, Sven Dorkenwald, Evelina Sjostedt, Laramie Leavitt, Dongil Lee, Luke Bailey, Angerica Fitzmaurice, Rohin Kar, Benjamin Field, Hank Wu, Julian Wagner-Carena, David Aley, Joanna Lau, Zudi Lin, Donglai Wei, Hanspeter Pfister, Adi Peleg, Viren Jain, Jeff W. Lichtman biorxiv 2021 [Google AI blog][Gallery]
2020
	Pulse-driven robot: Motion via Solitary Waves Bolei Deng, Liyuan Chen, Donglai Wei, Vincent Tournat, Katia Bertoldi Science Advances 2020
	Two-Stream Active Query Suggestion for Large-Scale Object Detection in Connectomics Zudi Lin, Donglai Wei, Won-Dong Jang, Siyan Zhou, Xupeng Chen, Xueying Wang, Richard L. Schalek, Daniel R. Berger, Brian Matejek, Lee D. Kamentsky, Adi Peleg, Daniel Haehn, Thouis R. Jones, Toufiq Parag, Jeff Lichtman, Hanspeter Pfister ECCV 2020 [Website (code/data)][Supp]
	MitoEM Dataset: Large-scale 3D Mitochondria Instance Segmentation from EM Images Donglai Wei, Zudi Lin, Daniel Franco-Barranco, Nils Wendt, Xingyu Liu, Wenjie Yin, Xin Huang, Aarush Gupta, Won-Dong Jang, Xueying Wang, Ignacio Arganda-Carreras, Jeff Lichtman, Hanspeter Pfister MICCAI 2020 [Website (code/data)][Challenge]
	Automated Measurement of Key Morphological Features of Human Embryos for IVF Brian Leahy*, Won-Dong Jang*, Helen Yang*, Robbert Struyven, Donglai Wei, Zhe Sun, Kylie R. Lee, Charlotte Royston, Liz Cam, Yael Kalma, Foad Azem, Dalit Ben-Yosef, Hanspeter Pfister, Daniel Needleman MICCAI 2020 [Website (code)]
	Channel Embedding for Informative Protein Identification from Highly Multiplexed Images Salma A. Magid, Won-Dong Jang, Denis Schapiro, Donglai Wei, James Tompkin, Peter Sorger, Hanspeter Pfister MICCAI 2020 [Website (code)]
	Super-BPD: Super Boundary-to-Pixel Direction for Fast Image Segmentation Jianqiang Wan, Yang Liu, Donglai Wei, Xiang Bai, Yongchao Xu CVPR 2020 [Code]
	A Topological Nomenclature for 3D Shape Analysis in Connectomics Abhimanyu Talwar, Zudi Lin, Donglai Wei, Yuesong Wu, Bowen Zheng, Jinglin Zhao, Won-Don Jang, Xueying Wang, Jeff Lichtman, Hanspeter Pfister CVPR 2020 Workshop: Computer Vision for Microscopy Image Analysis [Code]
2019
	Video Enhancement with Task-Oriented Flow Tianfan Xue, Baian Chen, Jiajun Wu, Donglai Wei, William T. Freeman IJCV 2019 [Website]
	Synapse-Aware Skeleton Generation for Neural Circuits Brian Matejek, Donglai Wei, Xueying Wang, Jinglin Zhao, Kálmán Palágyi, Hanspeter Pfister MICCAI 2019 [Website (code)][Video]
	Biologically-Constrained Graphs for Global Connectomics Reconstruction Brian Matejek, Daniel Haehn, Haidong Zhu, Donglai Wei, Toufiq Parag, Hanspeter Pfister CVPR 2019 [Code)]
2018
	Learning and Using the Arrow of Time Donglai Wei, Joseph Lim, Andrew Zisserman, Wlliam T. Freeman CVPR 2018 [Website (code/data)][Extension]
	Parallel Separable 3D Convolution for Video and Volumetric Data Understanding Felix Gonda, Donglai Wei, Toufiq Parag, Hanspeter Pfister BMVC 2018 [Code]
	Detecting Synapse Location and Connectivity by Signed Proximity Estimation and Pruning with Deep Nets Toufiq Parag, Daniel Berger, Lee Kamentsky, Benedikt Staffler, Donglai Wei, Moritz Helmstaedter, Jeff W. Lichtman, Hanspeter Pfister ECCV 2018 Workshop: Bioimage Computing [Code]
Before 2018
	Motion Microscopy for Visualizing and Quantifying Small Motions Neal Wadhwa, Justin G. Chen, Jonathan B. Sellon, Donglai Wei, Michael Rubinstein, Roozbeh Ghaffari, Dennis M. Freeman, Oral. Büyüköztürk, Pai Wang, Sijie Sun, Sung Hoon Kang, Katia Bertoldi, Fredo Durand, William T. Freeman PNAS 2017 [Website (code)]
	Mining Visual Evolution in 21 Years of Web Design Ali Jahanian, Philip Isola, Donglai Wei CHI Extended Abstracts 2017
	Deviation Magnification: Revealing Departures from Ideal Geometries Neal Wadhwa, Tali Dekel, Donglai Wei, Fredo Durand, William T. Freeman SIGGRAPH Asia 2015 [Website]
	Understanding Intra-Class Knowledge inside CNN Donglai Wei, Bolei Zhou, Antonio Torralba, William T. Freeman arxiv 2015 [Website (code)][distill.pub]
	Seeing the Arrow of Time Lindsey Pickup, Zheng Pan, Donglai Wei, Yichang Shih, Changshui Zhang, Andrew Zisserman, Bernhard Schölkopf, William T. Freeman CVPR 2014 [Website]
	A Data-driven Regularization Model for Stereo and Flow Donglai Wei, Ce Liu, William T. Freeman 3DV 2014 [Oral] [Video]
	Video Representation Using Temporal Superpixels Jason Chang, Donglai Wei, John Fisher III CVPR 2013 [Code][Video]
	Learning Deformations with Parallel Transport Donglai Wei, Dahua Lin, John Fisher III ECCV 2012 [Video]
	RNAG: A New Gibbs Sampler for Predicting RNA Secondary Structure for Unaligned Sequences Donglai Wei, Lauren Alpert and Charles Lawrence Bioinformatics 2011 [Website (code)]

Challenges/Workshops

	RnR-ExM: Robust Non-rigid Registration Challenge for Expansion Microscopy Volumes Emma Besier, Ruihan Zhang, Yosuke Bando, Yves Quéméner, Chaitanya Kapoor, Mansour Alawi, Malte Hoffmann, Adrian Dalca, Adrià Casamitjana, Ignacio Arganda-Carreras, Ed Boyden, Hanspeter Pfister, Donglai Wei ISBI Challenge 2023
	An Out-of-Domain Synapse Detection Challenge for Microwasp Brain Connectomes Jingpeng Wu, Yicong Li, Kazunori Shinomiya, Pat Gunn, Alexey Polilov, Hanspeter Pfister, Dmitri Chklovskii, Donglai Wei ISBI Challenge 2023
	XPRESS: Xray Projectomic Reconstruction (Extracting Segmentation with Skeletons) Mukul Narwani, Mark Larson, Tri Nguyen, Yicong Li, Hanspeter Pfister, Donglai Wei, Nir Shavit, Lu Mi, Alexandra Pacureanu, Wei-Chung Lee, Aaron Kuan ISBI Challenge 2023
	Neuroimage Informatics at the Microscale and Mesoscale Jingpeng Wu, Donglai Wei, Anan Li, Linqing Feng, Shang Mu Research Topics @ Frontiers in Neuroinformatics
	MitoEM Challenge: Large-scale 3D Mitochondria Instance Segmentation Donglai Wei, Zudi Lin, Daniel Franco-Barranco, Wenjie Yin, Won-Dong Jang, Xueying Wang, Ignacio Arganda-Carreras, Jeff Lichtman, Hanspeter Pfister ISBI Challenge 2021
	RibFrac Challenge: Rib Fracture Detection and Classification Jiancheng Yang, Xiaoyang Huang, Kaiming Kuang, Jiajun Chen, Liang Jin, Donglai Wei, Ming Li, Bingbing Ni MICCAI Challenge 2020

Patents

• US Patent App. 15/223,438 Neal Wadhwa, Tali Dekel, Donglai Wei, Fredo Durand, William T. Freeman: Deviation Magnification: Revealing Departures from Ideal Geometries.

Short Bio

	Born and grown up in China
	Gradually became lost, ignorant but arrogant
	Born again