Intelligent perception for robotics

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2022

Jun 30, 2022: My work at LASA as second author accepted by IROS’22.
From last October, I have worked as Research Assistant at Learning Algorithms and Systems Laboratory (LASA), EPFL to help create a benchmark of mobile robot navigation around pedestrians from experimental data of a personal mobility device (Qolo robot) navigating autonomously around pedestrians.
As a result, the developed dataset and toolkit has been summarized as a paper named ‘Pedestrian-Robot Interaction on Crowd Navigation: Reactive Control Methods and Evaluation’, which is accepted by IROS’2022, Kyoto!

Apr 1, 2022: I am honored to be selected as summer research assistant at CCVL group @ JHU !
Starting in July, I will have the opportunity to be summer research assistant at CCVL (Computational Cognition, Vision, and Learning) research group, Johns Hopkins University directed by Prof. Alan L. Yuille.

Feb 21, 2022: I start work as a semester research student at Image Communication and Understanding Group, Computer Vision Lab (CVL), ETH Zürich !
Starting in late February, I am honored to be a semester research student at the Image Communication and Understanding Group, Computer Vision Lab (CVL) directed by Prof. Luc Van Gool. My main research topic focuses on exploiting dense correspondence network for visual object segmentation task, which is mainly supervised by Dr. Martin Danelljan and Prune Truong.

Jan 14, 2022: I will work as a Student Research Assistant (HiWi) in Robotics at RobotX Center, ETHZ in 2022 Spring Semester !
Starting in March 2022, I will join ETHZ RobotX Center as Student Research Assistant. I will work part time to support the development of robotic platforms (e.g., SuperMegaBot) and assist with the preparations and execution of the Robotics Summer School taking place from July 3 to July 8.

2021

Oct 11, 2021: I start work as a research assistant at Learning Algorithms and Systems Laboratory (LASA), EPFL !
Starting in mid October, I am honored to be a research assistant at the Learning Algorithms and Systems Laboratory directed by Prof. Aude Billard. My main research topic focuses on analyzing pedestrian navigation behavior for robot navigation in crowds, which is supervised by Dr. Diego Felipe Paez Granados.

Jul 9, 2021: Unforgettable week in ETH Zürich Robotics Summer School at Wangen an der Aare
From July 2 to 9, I got a valuable opportunity to participate in the 2021 ETH Zurich Robotics Summer School! During this short week, lecturers from ASL, RSL, and V4RL gave us a wealth of tutorials on state estimation, trajectory optimization, mapping, path planning, and artefact detection & tracking. Together with other participants from ETHz, Aalto and the University of Bologna, we finally programmed based on SuperMegaBot and successfully completed the robot challenge on Friday at the test site!

May 30, 2021: My third virtual conference–ICRA’21.
Our paper MULLS is presented virtually at ICRA’21 from May 30 to June 5 this year. For more info, please check our scheduled presentation from 12:00 to 12:15 on June 3, 2021 by my coauthor Yue Pan from ETH Zürich.

Feb 28, 2021: Our paper MULLS accepted by ICRA’21 with strong recommendation from reviewers.
My co-author paper MULLS: Versatile LiDAR SLAM via Multi-metric Linear Least Square is accepted by the 2021 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2020), Xi’an, China! Thanks for the successful collaboration with my friend Yue Pan from ETH Zürich and my summer intern supervisors Pengchuan Xiao, Zhenlei Shao, and Zesong Li from Hesai Tech.

Feb 22, 2021: I start work as a semester research student at Laboratory of Intelligent Systems (LIS), EPFL !
Starting in late February, I am honored to be a semester research student at the Laboratory of Intelligent Systems directed by Prof. Dario Floreano. My main research topic focuses on vision-based navigation for drone delivery, which is supervised by Valentin Wüest and Dr. Przemyslaw Mariusz Kornatowski.

2020

Oct 25, 2020: My second virtual conference–IROS’20.
Our paper TACF is presented virtually at IROS’20 from Oct 25 to Nov 25 this year. We are looking forward to having some fruitful discussions. For more info, please check our ~10min presentation video and paper.

Oct 13, 2020: I’ll be a graduate research assistant at VITA !
Starting in late October, I am honored to be a graduate research assistant at the lab of Visual Intelligence for Transportation supervised by Prof. Alexandre Alahi.

Sep 25, 2020: First birthday in Lausanne 🥳
I have arrived in Lausanne on Sep 9 and just started my first MSc semester @ EPFL. This year, the world, family, and I undergo earth-shaking changes; I am determined to keep moving and find something/one I love!

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Sep 07, 2020: Our paper TB-BiCF accepted by IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology.
Our paper Learning Temporary Block-Based Bidirectional Incongruity-Aware Correlation Filters for Efficient UAV Object Tracking, the extended & improved version of our ICRA’20 paper ‘BiCF’, is accepted by IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology!

Jul 01, 2020: Our paper TACF accepted by IROS’20.
My first-author paper Towards Robust Visual Tracking for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle with Tri-Attentional Correlation Filters is accepted by the 2020 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2020), Las Vegas, USA !

Jun 15, 2020: Awarded as Excellent Graduate of Shanghai.
Together with 11 other students from the School of Mechanical Engineering, it is my honor to be granted this highest honor for all undergraduates of all majors from more than ten universities in Shanghai this year.

May 31, 2020: My first virtual conference–ICRA’20.
Our paper BiCF is presented virtually at ICRA this year. We are open to discussions, and looking forward to having some fruitful discussions on our slack channel #moc08_3. You can also check our ~10min presentation video (if you want to peek at the qualitative results video click here).

Mar 30, 2020: Admission to MSc in Robotics @ EPFL.
In late March, I got the news about my admission to EPFL Master Program in Robotics. I will start my master study this coming fall and can’t wait to learn from talented professors and peers from all over the world !

Jan 21, 2020: Our paper BiCF accepted by ICRA’20.
Our paper BiCF: Learning Bidirectional Incongruity-Aware Correlation Filter for Efficient UAV Object Tracking is accepted by 2020 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Paris, France!

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Jan 07, 2020: Our paper MKCT accepted by Neural Computing and Applications.
Our paper Robust Multi-Kernelized Correlators for UAV Tracking with Adaptive Context Analysis and Dynamic Weighted Filters is accepted by the journal of Neural Computing and Applications!

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2019

Nov 04, 2019: Our paper SPCF won the Best Poster Award in the IROS Workshop.

Projects

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Implementations of efficient neural rendering pipeline to generate view-consistency images and pseudo-labels for replay-based continual learning for semantic segmentation

The focus will be to assess people navigation behavior around the robot by extracting trajectories and motions. I am working on a novel detecting, tracking, and motion profile extraction pipeline on lidar and camera data.

Implementation of a working, simple, monocular visual odometry (VO) pipeline in Matlab

Proposed a simplified pipeline of last-centimeter drone delivery towards window/balcony with vision-based fiducial marker detection and collision prevention under rigorous test

We programed based on Crazyflie 2.1 to find and precisely land on a platform with height of 10 cm by utilizing z reading from flow deck. Additionally, We also utilized sensor readings from multi-ranger deck to avoid the obstacles presented in the environment.

Implemented autonomous navigation with obstacle avoidance of the Thymio-II robot from simulation in Gazebo to real-world tests

Improved the existing trackers on overall performance in challenging UAV scenarios with high operational efficiency

Implemented 3D Segmentation on medical images and got A in deep learning elective course.

Built First leading 4WD Formula Student Racecar in China.

Implemented Outdoor SLAM @ Tongji Jiading Campus and Indoor Autonomous Navigation.

Designed robots to combat in RoboMaster.

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