Towards friendly AI: a comprehensive review and new perspectives on human-AI alignment.

Qiyang Sun

Qiyang Sun Yupei Li Emran Alturki Sunil Munthumoduku Krishna Murthy Björn W. Schuller Towards friendly AI: a comprehensive review and new perspectives on human-AI alignment. 2026 April 193 6 AI Ethics 2 https://doi.org/10.1007/s43681-026-01070-x db/journals/aiethics/aiethics6.html#SunLAMS26 streams/journals/aiethics

Tianrui Jia Haojie Zhang Hanhan Wu Qiyang Sun Xin Jing 0001 Boyang Meng Lin Shen Liang Wang Kun Qian 0003 Ye Zhang 0017 Bin Hu 0001 Tanja Schultz Björn W. Schuller Yoshiharu Yamamoto Breaking through data scarcity: A novel diffusion model approach for snoring sound augmentation and classification. 109449 2026 116 Biomed. Signal Process. Control. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bspc.2026.109449 db/journals/bspc/bspc116.html#JiaZWSJMSWQZHSSY26 streams/journals/bspc

Tianhao Yuan Xia Wang 0002 Qiyang Sun Yuyang Li PMFF-SRNet: A progressive multi-feature fusion network for hyperspectral image reconstruction. 123129 2026 739 Inf. Sci. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ins.2026.123129 db/journals/isci/isci739.html#YuanWSL26 streams/journals/isci

Michelle Schlicher Yupei Li Sunil Munthumoduku Krishna Murthy Qiyang Sun Björn W. Schuller Emotionally adaptive support: a narrative review of affective computing for mental health. 2025 7 Frontiers Digit. Health https://doi.org/10.3389/fdgth.2025.1657031 db/journals/fdgth/fdgth7.html#SchlicherLMSS25 streams/journals/fdgth

Qiyang Sun Alican Akman Björn W. Schuller Explainable Artificial Intelligence for Medical Applications: A Review. 17:1-17:31 2025 April 6 ACM Trans. Comput. Heal. 2 https://doi.org/10.1145/3709367 db/journals/health/health6.html#SunAS25 streams/journals/health

Qiyang Sun Xia Wang 0002 Changda Yan Xin Zhang 0088 Shiwei Xu An HVS-derived network for assessing the quality of camouflaged targets with feature fusion. 129016 2025 617 Neurocomputing https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neucom.2024.129016 db/journals/ijon/ijon617.html#SunWYZX25 streams/journals/ijon

Qiyang Sun Xin Zhang 0088 Xia Wang 0002 Shiwei Xu Yuyang Li Multi-Scale interaction and enhancement network for referring camouflaged objects image segmentation. 114883 2025 331 Knowl. Based Syst. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.knosys.2025.114883 db/journals/kbs/kbs331.html#SunZWXL25 streams/journals/kbs

Qiyang Sun Alican Akman Xin Jing 0001 Manuel Milling Björn W. Schuller Audio-Based Kinship Verification Using Age Domain Conversion. 301-305 2025 32 IEEE Signal Process. Lett. https://doi.org/10.1109/LSP.2024.3515811 db/journals/spl/spl32.html#SunAJMS25 streams/journals/spl

Alican Akman Qiyang Sun Björn W. Schuller Improving Audio Explanations Using Audio Language Models. 741-745 2025 32 IEEE Signal Process. Lett. https://doi.org/10.1109/LSP.2025.3532218 db/journals/spl/spl32.html#AkmanSS25 streams/journals/spl

Ben Fan Liqun Dai Xu Zhang 0073 Zhimin Liu Hongbo Bu Ruimeng Zhang Yao Yao Qiyang Sun Characterization, Selection, and Modeling of COTS and Standard CMOS Components at Cryogenic Temperatures. 1-12 2025 74 IEEE Trans. Instrum. Meas. https://doi.org/10.1109/TIM.2025.3570975 db/journals/tim/tim74.html#FanDZLBZYS25 streams/journals/tim

Alican Akman Qiyang Sun Björn W. Schuller Audio Explanation Synthesis with Generative Foundation Models. 1-5 2025 ICASSP https://doi.org/10.1109/ICASSP49660.2025.10890370 conf/icassp/2025 db/conf/icassp/icassp2025.html#AkmanSS25 Emran Y. Alturki Aydin Javadov Qiyang Sun Björn W. Schuller Adaptive Confidence-Weighted LLM Infusion for Financial Reinforcement Learning. 79-82 2025 IDS https://doi.org/10.1109/IDS66066.2025.00025 conf/ieeeids/2025 db/conf/ieeeids/ieeeids2025.html#AlturkiJSS25

Yupei Li Qiyang Sun Sunil Munthumoduku Krishna Murthy Emran Alturki Björn W. Schuller GatedxLSTM: A Multimodal Affective Computing Approach for Emotion Recognition in Conversations. 2025 March abs/2503.20919 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2503.20919 db/journals/corr/corr2503.html#abs-2503-20919 streams/journals/corr

Sunil Munthumoduku Krishna Murthy Kumar T. Rajamani Srividya Tirunellai Rajamani Yupei Li Qiyang Sun Björn W. Schuller Automatic Contouring of Spinal Vertebrae on X-Ray using a Novel Sandwich U-Net Architecture. 2025 July abs/2507.09158 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2507.09158 db/journals/corr/corr2507.html#abs-2507-09158 streams/journals/corr

Yupei Li Qiyang Sun Michelle Schlicher Yee Wen Lim Björn W. Schuller Artificial Emotion: A Survey of Theories and Debates on Realising Emotion in Artificial Intelligence. 2025 August abs/2508.10286 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2508.10286 db/journals/corr/corr2508.html#abs-2508-10286 streams/journals/corr

Jiani Ding Qiyang Sun Alican Akman Björn W. Schuller Cross-Dialect Bird Species Recognition with Dialect-Calibrated Augmentation. 2025 September abs/2509.22317 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2509.22317 db/journals/corr/corr2509.html#abs-2509-22317 streams/journals/corr

Aydin Javadov Samir Garibov Tobias Hoesli Qiyang Sun Florian von Wangenheim Joseph Ollier Björn W. Schuller RAxSS: Retrieval-Augmented Sparse Sampling for Explainable Variable-Length Medical Time Series Classification. 2025 October abs/2510.02936 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2510.02936 db/journals/corr/corr2510.html#abs-2510-02936 streams/journals/corr

Shiwei Xu Xia Wang Qiyang Sun Kangjun Dong MWIRGas-YOLO: Gas Leakage Detection Based on Mid-Wave Infrared Imaging. 4345 2024 July 24 Sensors 13 https://doi.org/10.3390/s24134345 db/journals/sensors/sensors24.html#XuWSD24 streams/journals/sensors

Qiyang Sun L-SPADNet: a target detection and classification network for high-resolution synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery directed toward ships. 146-151 2024 EITCE https://doi.org/10.1145/3711129.3711156 conf/eitce/2024 db/conf/eitce/eitce2024.html#Sun24

Alican Akman Qiyang Sun Björn W. Schuller Audio Explanation Synthesis with Generative Foundation Models. 2024 abs/2410.07530 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2410.07530 db/journals/corr/corr2410.html#abs-2410-07530 streams/journals/corr

Qiyang Sun Alican Akman Xin Jing 0001 Manuel Milling Björn W. Schuller Audio-based Kinship Verification Using Age Domain Conversion. 2024 abs/2410.11120 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2410.11120 db/journals/corr/corr2410.html#abs-2410-11120 streams/journals/corr

Qiyang Sun Alican Akman Björn W. Schuller Explainable Artificial Intelligence for Medical Applications: A Review. 2024 abs/2412.01829 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2412.01829 db/journals/corr/corr2412.html#abs-2412-01829 streams/journals/corr

Yupei Li Qiyang Sun Hanqian Li Lucia Specia Björn W. Schuller Detecting Machine-Generated Music with Explainability - A Challenge and Early Benchmarks. 2024 abs/2412.13421 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2412.13421 db/journals/corr/corr2412.html#abs-2412-13421 streams/journals/corr

Qiyang Sun Yupei Li Emran Alturki Sunil Munthumoduku Krishna Murthy Björn W. Schuller Towards Friendly AI: A Comprehensive Review and New Perspectives on Human-AI Alignment. 2024 abs/2412.15114 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2412.15114 db/journals/corr/corr2412.html#abs-2412-15114 streams/journals/corr

Qiyang Sun Xia Wang 0002 Changda Yan Xin Zhang 0088 VQ-InfraTrans: A Unified Framework for RGB-IR Translation with Hybrid Transformer. 5661 2023 December 15 Remote. Sens. 24 https://doi.org/10.3390/rs15245661 db/journals/remotesensing/remotesensing15.html#SunWYZ23

Qiyang Sun CHS-GAN. 2022 December https://doi.org/10.21227/s12p-dz89 IEEE DataPort streams/repo/ieeedataport Qiyang Sun Neural Network Algorithm Strategy Based on Multi-factor Stock Selection. 295-300 2020 ATCI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-53980-1_44 conf/atci/2020 db/conf/atci/atci2020.html#Sun20a Alican Akman Emran AlturkiEmran Y. Alturki Hongbo Bu Liqun Dai Jiani Ding Kangjun Dong Ben Fan Samir Garibov Tobias Hoesli Bin Hu 0001 Aydin Javadov Tianrui Jia Xin Jing 0001 Hanqian Li Yupei Li Yuyang Li Yee Wen Lim Zhimin Liu Boyang Meng Manuel Milling Sunil Munthumoduku Krishna Murthy Joseph Ollier Kun Qian 0003 Kumar T. Rajamani Srividya Tirunellai Rajamani Michelle Schlicher Björn W. Schuller Tanja Schultz Lin Shen Lucia Specia Liang Wang Xia Wang Xia Wang 0002 Florian von Wangenheim Hanhan Wu Shiwei Xu Yoshiharu Yamamoto Changda Yan Yao Yao Tianhao Yuan Haojie Zhang Ruimeng Zhang Xin Zhang 0088 Xu Zhang 0073 Ye Zhang 0017