publications

2026

1. ICML

   Is Task-Specific Training Necessary for Anomaly Detection?

   Xingwu Zhang, Guanxuan Li, Paul Henderson, Gerardo Aragon-Camarasa, and Zijun Long

   In International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) , 2026

   Corresponding author: Zijun Long.

   arXiv Bib HTML Code

   @inproceedings{zhang2026rad,
     title = {{Is Task-Specific Training Necessary for Anomaly Detection?}},
     author = {Zhang, Xingwu and Li, Guanxuan and Henderson, Paul and Aragon-Camarasa, Gerardo and Long, Zijun},
     booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)},
     year = {2026},
     pages = {156406--156436},
     volume = {306},
     series = {Proceedings of Machine Learning Research},
     publisher = {PMLR},
     note = {Corresponding author: Zijun Long.},
   }

2. SIGIR

   ADaFuSE: Adaptive Diffusion-generated Image and Text Fusion for Interactive Text-to-Image Retrieval

   Zhuocheng Zhang, Xingwu Zhang, Kangheng Liang, Guanxuan Li, Richard McCreadie, and Zijun Long

   In International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR) , 2026

   Corresponding author: Zijun Long.

   arXiv Bib HTML Code

   @inproceedings{zhang2026adafuse,
     title = {{ADaFuSE: Adaptive Diffusion-generated Image and Text Fusion for Interactive Text-to-Image Retrieval}},
     author = {Zhang, Zhuocheng and Zhang, Xingwu and Liang, Kangheng and Li, Guanxuan and McCreadie, Richard and Long, Zijun},
     booktitle = {International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR)},
     year = {2026},
     pages = {4349--4354},
     doi = {10.1145/3805712.3809836},
     note = {Corresponding author: Zijun Long.},
   }

3. ICRA

   RoboEye: Enhancing 2D Robotic Object Identification with Selective 3D Geometric Keypoint Matching

   Xingwu Zhang, Guanxuan Li, Zhuocheng Zhang, and Zijun Long

   In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) , 2026

   Corresponding author: Zijun Long.

   arXiv Bib HTML Code

   @inproceedings{zhang2026roboeye,
     title = {{RoboEye: Enhancing 2D Robotic Object Identification with Selective 3D Geometric Keypoint Matching}},
     author = {Zhang, Xingwu and Li, Guanxuan and Zhang, Zhuocheng and Long, Zijun},
     booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)},
     year = {2026},
     note = {Corresponding author: Zijun Long.},
   }

4. TIE

   Regionally Routed Attention U-Net With Latent Fading Kalman Filtering for Real-Time EIT

   Tianyi Deng, Zhaosheng Teng, Shin Takahashi, Bojun Liu, Qiu Tang, and Zijun Long

   IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics (TIE), 2026

   Corresponding author: Zijun Long.

   Bib HTML

   @article{deng2026eit,
     title = {{Regionally Routed Attention U-Net With Latent Fading Kalman Filtering for Real-Time EIT}},
     author = {Deng, Tianyi and Teng, Zhaosheng and Takahashi, Shin and Liu, Bojun and Tang, Qiu and Long, Zijun},
     journal = {IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics (TIE)},
     year = {2026},
     volume = {73},
     number = {9},
     pages = {13972--13984},
     doi = {10.1109/TIE.2026.3675106},
     note = {Corresponding author: Zijun Long.},
   }

2025

1. SIGIR

   Diffusion Augmented Retrieval: A Training-Free Approach to Interactive Text-to-Image Retrieval

   Zijun Long, Kangheng Liang, Gerardo Aragon Camarasa, Richard McCreadie, and Paul Henderson

   In International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR) , 2025

   Bib HTML Code

   @inproceedings{long2025dar,
     title = {{Diffusion Augmented Retrieval: A Training-Free Approach to Interactive Text-to-Image Retrieval}},
     author = {Long, Zijun and Liang, Kangheng and Aragon Camarasa, Gerardo and McCreadie, Richard and Henderson, Paul},
     booktitle = {International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR)},
     year = {2025},
     pages = {823--832},
     doi = {10.1145/3726302.3729950},
   }

2. TORS

   Enhancing Recommender Systems: Deep Modality Alignment with Large Multi-Modal Encoders

   Zixuan Yi, Zijun Long, Iadh Ounis, Craig Macdonald, and Richard McCreadie

   ACM Transactions on Recommender Systems (TORS), 2025

   Co-first authors: Zixuan Yi and Zijun Long.

   Bib HTML

   @article{yi2023large,
     title = {{Enhancing Recommender Systems: Deep Modality Alignment with Large Multi-Modal Encoders}},
     author = {Yi, Zixuan and Long, Zijun and Ounis, Iadh and Macdonald, Craig and McCreadie, Richard},
     journal = {ACM Transactions on Recommender Systems (TORS)},
     year = {2025},
     volume = {3},
     number = {4},
     pages = {1--25},
     doi = {10.1145/3718099},
     note = {Co-first authors: Zixuan Yi and Zijun Long.},
   }

2024

1. ECCV

   Understanding and Mitigating Human-Labelling Errors in Supervised Contrastive Learning

   Zijun Long, Lipeng Zhuang, George Killick, Richard McCreadie, Gerardo Aragon Camarasa, and Paul Henderson

   In European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) , 2024

   Corresponding author: Zijun Long.

   Bib HTML

   @inproceedings{long2024labelling,
     title = {{Understanding and Mitigating Human-Labelling Errors in Supervised Contrastive Learning}},
     author = {Long, Zijun and Zhuang, Lipeng and Killick, George and McCreadie, Richard and Aragon Camarasa, Gerardo and Henderson, Paul},
     booktitle = {European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)},
     year = {2024},
     pages = {435--454},
     doi = {10.1007/978-3-031-72949-2_25},
     note = {Corresponding author: Zijun Long.},
   }

2. SIGIR

   CFIR: Fast and Effective Long-Text To Image Retrieval for Large Corpora

   Zijun Long, Xuri Ge, Richard McCreadie, and Joemon M. Jose

   In International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR) , 2024

   Bib HTML

   @inproceedings{long2024cfir,
     title = {{CFIR: Fast and Effective Long-Text To Image Retrieval for Large Corpora}},
     author = {Long, Zijun and Ge, Xuri and McCreadie, Richard and Jose, Joemon M.},
     booktitle = {International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR)},
     year = {2024},
     pages = {2188--2198},
     doi = {10.1145/3626772.3657741},
   }

3. ICRA

   RoboLLM: Robotic Vision Tasks Grounded on Multimodal Large Language Models

   Zijun Long, George Killick, Richard McCreadie, and Gerardo Aragon Camarasa

   In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) , 2024

   arXiv Bib HTML Code

   @inproceedings{long2023robollm,
     title = {{RoboLLM: Robotic Vision Tasks Grounded on Multimodal Large Language Models}},
     author = {Long, Zijun and Killick, George and McCreadie, Richard and Aragon Camarasa, Gerardo},
     booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)},
     year = {2024},
     pages = {12428--12435},
     doi = {10.1109/ICRA57147.2024.10610797},
   }

4. ICASSP

   MultiWay-Adapter: Adapting Multimodal Large Language Models for Scalable Image-Text Retrieval

   Zijun Long, George Killick, Richard McCreadie, and Gerardo Aragon Camarasa

   In IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP) , 2024

   arXiv Bib HTML Code

   @inproceedings{long2023multiway,
     title = {{MultiWay-Adapter: Adapting Multimodal Large Language Models for Scalable Image-Text Retrieval}},
     author = {Long, Zijun and Killick, George and McCreadie, Richard and Aragon Camarasa, Gerardo},
     booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)},
     year = {2024},
     pages = {6580--6584},
     doi = {10.1109/ICASSP48485.2024.10446792},
   }

5. ICASSP

   LaCViT: A Label-aware Contrastive Fine-tuning Framework for Vision Transformers

   Zijun Long, Richard McCreadie, Gerardo Aragon Camarasa, and Zaiqiao Meng

   In IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP) , 2024

   Bib HTML Code

   @inproceedings{long2023lacvit,
     title = {{LaCViT: A Label-aware Contrastive Fine-tuning Framework for Vision Transformers}},
     author = {Long, Zijun and McCreadie, Richard and Aragon Camarasa, Gerardo and Meng, Zaiqiao},
     booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)},
     year = {2024},
     pages = {5275--5279},
     doi = {10.1109/ICASSP48485.2024.10447982},
   }

6. ECAI

   CLCE: An Approach to Refining Cross-Entropy and Contrastive Learning for Optimized Learning Fusion

   Zijun Long, Lipeng Zhuang, George Killick, Zaiqiao Meng, Richard McCreadie, and Gerardo Aragon-Camarasa

   In European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI) , 2024

   arXiv Bib HTML

   @inproceedings{long2023clce,
     title = {{CLCE: An Approach to Refining Cross-Entropy and Contrastive Learning for Optimized Learning Fusion}},
     author = {Long, Zijun and Zhuang, Lipeng and Killick, George and Meng, Zaiqiao and McCreadie, Richard and Aragon-Camarasa, Gerardo},
     booktitle = {European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI)},
     year = {2024},
     doi = {10.3233/FAIA240691},
   }

2023

1. ISCRAM

   CrisisViT: A Robust Vision Transformer for Crisis Image Classification

   Zijun Long, Richard McCreadie, and Muhammad Imran

   In International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM) , 2023

   Bib HTML Code

   @inproceedings{long2024crisisvit,
     title = {{CrisisViT: A Robust Vision Transformer for Crisis Image Classification}},
     author = {Long, Zijun and McCreadie, Richard and Imran, Muhammad},
     booktitle = {International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM)},
     year = {2023},
     doi = {10.59297/SDSM9194},
   }

2022

1. ISCRAM

   Is Multi-Modal Data Key for Crisis Content Categorization on Social Media?

   Zijun Long, and Richard McCreadie

   In International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM) , 2022

   Bib HTML

   @inproceedings{long2022multi,
     title = {{Is Multi-Modal Data Key for Crisis Content Categorization on Social Media?}},
     author = {Long, Zijun and McCreadie, Richard},
     booktitle = {International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM)},
     year = {2022},
   }

2021

1. ISCRAM

   Automated Crisis Content Categorization for COVID-19 Tweet Streams

   Zijun Long, and Richard McCreadie

   In International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM) , 2021

   Bib HTML

   @inproceedings{long2021automated,
     title = {{Automated Crisis Content Categorization for COVID-19 Tweet Streams}},
     author = {Long, Zijun and McCreadie, Richard},
     booktitle = {International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM)},
     year = {2021},
     pages = {667--678},
   }

2018

1. DATE

   Improving the Efficiency of Thermal Covert Channels in Multi-/Many-core Systems

   Zijun Long, Xiaohang Wang, Yingtao Jiang, Guofeng Cui, Li Zhang, and Terrence Mak

   In Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE) , 2018

   Bib HTML

   @inproceedings{long2018improving,
     title = {{Improving the Efficiency of Thermal Covert Channels in Multi-/Many-core Systems}},
     author = {Long, Zijun and Wang, Xiaohang and Jiang, Yingtao and Cui, Guofeng and Zhang, Li and Mak, Terrence},
     booktitle = {Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE)},
     year = {2018},
     pages = {1459--1464},
   }