The IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 2025), “Imaging in the Age of GenAI”, took place from September 14 to 18, 2025, in Anchorage, Alaska, USA. ICIP this year features a robust program of keynote lectures, oral and poster presentations, and workshops covering the latest breakthroughs in signal and image processing. It places a strong focus on machine learning and its subfields as a core driving force in image and video processing. Biomedical imaging continues to be a major area of interest. The conference is interested in traditional medical imaging and medical image analysis, but also in emerging biological image analysis and biomedical signal processing methods. Another major thematic area is computational imaging and related hardware-algorithm co-design. Topics include sparse, low-rank, and low-dimensional modeling; optimization-based inverse problem methods; sensor fusion; novel acquisition modalities. There is also interest in methods that quantify uncertainty and performance in computational imaging. Image and video techniques of representation, processing, analysis, and retrieval are also broadly covered.

MCL members presented four works in ICIP 2025, including “MA-YOLO: Video Object Detection via Motion-assisted YOLO” (by Xinyu Wang), “A Green Learning Approach to LDCT Image Restoration” (by Wei Wang), “MXB: Multi-stage XGboost for Efficient Tree-based Gradient Boosting” (by Haiyi Li), “SHFE: Transparent and Green Image Classification via Supervised Hierarchical Feature Extraction” (by Jie-En Yao). The works we proposed involves the fundamental learning module study as well as approaches following the Green Learning scheme to important applications in image and video processing. The principle of our proposed methods mainly lies in mathematical transparency, competitive performance, and outstanding efficiency in space and time complexity.

In addition to pioneering academic presentations, ICIP also offered professional development and networking opportunities, such as technical tutorials, industry workshops, student job fair. We were also excited to have MCL alumni reunion at the conference (Photo 2, Prof. Jonghye Woo, Prof. Vasileios Magoulianitis, Dr. Wei Wang).

Photo list:

1. ICIP 2025 official banner.

2. MCL alumni speakers at special section “Application of Generative AI in Healthcare”, Prof. Jonghye Woo (middle, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School), Prof. Vasileios Magoulianitis (right, University of Southern California), Dr. Wei Wang (left, University of Southern California).

3. MCL member (Jie-En Yao) presentation.

4. MCL member (Xinyu Wang) with ICIP banner.