Yuhao Liu

yuhao.liu [at] rice [dot] edu

I am currently a 5th-year Ph.D. student in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rice University, advised by Prof. Ashok Veeraraghavan and Prof. Guha Balakrishnan. I am part of the Computational Imaging Lab, Rice Visual Intelligence Group, and the Digital Health Institute.

My research aims to leverage modern computer vision and machine learning techniques to tackle pressing challenges at the intersection of environmental hazards and public health.

I worked as a research intern at the Mobile Processor Innovation Lab at Samsung Research America in 2024. Before coming to Rice, I graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a B.S. in Computer Science and Mathematics, where I worked with Prof. Andreas Velten on computational imaging systems, focusing on high dynamic range imaging using single-photon cameras.

News

Sep 29, 2025	Our paper Downscaling Extreme Precipitation with Wasserstein Regularized Diffusion was accepted by IEEE TGRS.

Selected publications

TRGS

Downscaling Extreme Precipitation with Wasserstein Regularized Diffusion

Yuhao Liu, James Doss-Gollin, Qiushi Dai, Ashok Veeraraghavan, and Guha Balakrishnan

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 2025

DOI arXiv BibTex Code Demo

@article{liu2025downscaling,
  title = {Downscaling Extreme Precipitation with Wasserstein Regularized Diffusion},
  author = {Liu, Yuhao and Doss-Gollin, James and Dai, Qiushi and Veeraraghavan, Ashok and Balakrishnan, Guha},
  journal = {IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing},
  year = {2025},
  publisher = {IEEE},
  doi = {10.1109/TGRS.2025.3611872},
  demo = {https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1A07CzPGE1imSnkaQtU34fNIVIYMRXIWV?usp=sharing}
}

Debris segmentation using post-hurricane aerial imagery

Kooshan Amini^*, Yuhao Liu^*, Jamie Ellen Padgett, Guha Balakrishnan, and Ashok Veeraraghavan

Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering, 2025

DOI BibTex Code Data Demo

@article{amini2025debris,
  title = {Debris segmentation using post-hurricane aerial imagery},
  author = {Amini, Kooshan and Liu, Yuhao and Padgett, Jamie Ellen and Balakrishnan, Guha and Veeraraghavan, Ashok},
  journal = {Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering},
  year = {2025},
  publisher = {Wiley Online Library},
  doi = {10.1111/mice.70033},
  data = {https://www.designsafe-ci.org/data/browser/public/designsafe.storage.published/PRJ-6029},
  demo = {https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1oMWaTxJeKPPEC9kHV3hbSnCY2CSD9qTg?usp=sharing}
}

WACV

Single-photon camera guided extreme dynamic range imaging

Yuhao Liu, Felipe Gutierrez-Barragan, Atul Ingle, Mohit Gupta, and Andreas Velten

In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision, 2022

BibTex PDF Code Website

@inproceedings{liu2022single,
  title = {Single-photon camera guided extreme dynamic range imaging},
  author = {Liu, Yuhao and Gutierrez-Barragan, Felipe and Ingle, Atul and Gupta, Mohit and Velten, Andreas},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision},
  pages = {1575--1585},
  year = {2022},
}