Zhi Gao
Zhi Gao Professor（高智 教授）
School of Remote Sensing and Information Engineering, Wuhan University
武汉大学遥感信息工程学院
Deputy Dean, National College for Excellent Engineers, Wuhan University
武汉大学国家卓越工程师学院副院长
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Biography (个人简介)

He is a recipient of the National Overseas High-Level Talent Program, Distinguished Professor of the Chutian Scholars Program of Hubei Province, and an Outstanding Young Scientist of Hubei Province, as well as a principal investigator of a Major Project of the National Natural Science Foundation of China. His research focuses on core problems in artificial intelligence, computer vision, and intelligent unmanned systems, and their applications in photogrammetry and remote sensing. He worked at the National University of Singapore for 11 years, successively serving as Postdoctoral Fellow, Research Fellow, Research Scientist, and independent Principal Investigator. He has led more than 20 government-funded projects from China and Singapore and 6 industry–academia collaborative projects with multinational companies. He has received over ten major awards, including the Outstanding Young Scientist Award of the Asian Conference on Artificial Intelligence (NAAI), the Second Prize of the Military Science and Technology Progress Award, the Second Prize of the Shaanxi Provincial Science and Technology Progress Award, the First Prize of the Guangdong Emergency and Safety Science and Technology Progress Award, the First Prize of the China Geomatics Science and Technology Progress Award, the Silver Medal of the International Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva, and the Second Prize of the Innovation Award of the China Invention Association. He has published over 110 papers, including 68 SCI-indexed articles in leading journals and conferences such as IEEE TPAMI, IJCV, IEEE TIP, ISPRS JPRS, IEEE TGRS, IEEE ITS, CVPR, ECCV, ICRA, and IROS. He has supervised 4 postdoctoral fellows, 12 Ph.D. students, and 33 master’s students, whose teams have won world championships three times, more than 50 national competition awards, and over ten other major prizes. He has also served as an associate editor or editorial board member for two journals, an editor or program committee member and session chair for three international conferences, and has been invited to give more than ten keynote or invited talks. He maintains extensive international collaborations with leading research institutions worldwide.

国家海外高层次人才计划获得者，湖北省楚天学者特聘教授，湖北省杰出青年科学基金获得者，国家自然科学基金委重大项目课题负责人。长期从事人工智能、计算机视觉与智能无人系统核心问题及其在测绘遥感领域应用研究。曾在新加坡国立大学工作11年，历任博士后、博士后研究员、研究员及独立PI。主持中国、新加坡政府科研项目20余项及跨国公司合作项目6项，获NAAI亚洲人工智能大会卓越青年科学家奖、军事科学技术进步二等奖、陕西省科学技术进步二等奖、广东省应急与安全科技进步一等奖、中国地理信息科技进步一等奖、瑞士日内瓦国际发明展银奖、中国发明协会发明创业奖创新奖二等奖等10余项科技奖励。发表学术论文110余篇，其中SCI论文68篇，发表于IEEE TPAMI、IJCV、IEEE TIP、ISPRS JPRS、IEEE TGRS、IEEE ITS、CVPR、ECCV、ICRA、IROS等国际顶级期刊与会议。培养博士后4人、博士生12人、硕士生33人，指导学生获得世界级大赛冠军3次、国内赛事奖项50余次及其他重要奖项10余次。曾担任2个期刊编委、3个国际会议的编辑、程序委员会成员及分论坛主席，受邀作大会或特邀报告10余次，并与国内外多家科研机构保持长期稳定的合作关系。

Professional Experience (工作经历)

Latest News (最新动态)

Professional Services (学术服务)

Highlight Projects (代表性项目)

Teaching Highlights (教学课程)

Student Awards (指导学生获奖)

Highlight Publications (亮点论文)

Unmanned Systems (无人系统)

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Enhancing the Utilization of Color Information in Point Cloud Semantic Segmentation

Xinyu Guo; Zhi Gao; Zhiyu Zhou; Jingshi Wang; Luliang Tang; Min Cao
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2025: 13478-13485.
Accurate LiDAR-Camera Fused Odometry and RGB-Colored Mapping (RA-L 2024) cover

Accurate LiDAR-Camera Fused Odometry and RGB-Colored Mapping

Zhipeng Lin; Zhi Gao; Ben M. Chen; Jingwei Chen; Chenyang Li
IEEE ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION LETTERS, 9(3): 2495–2502 (2024).
waterformer

WaterFormer: A Global–Local Transformer for Underwater Image Enhancement With Environment Adaptor

Junjie Wen; Jinqiang Cui; Guidong Yang; Benyun Zhao; Yu Zhai; Zhi Gao
IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine, 31(1): 29-40 (2024).
SGCalib

SGCalib: A two-stage camera-LiDAR calibration method using semantic information and geometric features

Zhipeng Lin; Zhi Gao; Xinyi Liu; Jialiang Wang; Weiwei Song; Ben M. Chen
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2024: 14527-14533.
enyolo

EnYOLO: a real-time framework for domain-adaptive underwater object detection with image enhancement

Junjie Wen; Jinqiang Cui; Benyun Zhao; Bingxin Han; Xuchen Liu; Zhi Gao
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2024: 12613-12619.
loop_closure

Accurate and Efficient Loop Closure Detection With Deep Binary Image Descriptor and Augmented Point Cloud Registration

Jialiang Wang; Zhi Gao; Zhipeng Lin; Zhiyu Zhou; Xiaonan Wang; Jianhua Cheng
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2024: 12573-12580.
underwater_object_detection

Underwater object detection integrated with image enhancement

Junjie Wen; Jinqiang Cui; Guidong Yang; Benyun Zhao; Zhi Gao; Ben M. Chen
IEEE International Conference on Real-time Computing and Robotics, 2024: 160-165.
how_challenging

How challenging is a challenge? cems: a challenge evaluation module for slam visual perception

Xuhui Zhao, Zhi Gao, Hao Li, Hong Ji, Hong Yang, Chenyang Li, Hao Fang & Ben M. Chen
Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, 110(1): 42 (2024).

Earth surface anomaly (地表异常)

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Data Augmentation For Remote Sensing Semantic Segmentation Via Controllable Diffusion Models

Mengjie Xie; Jianya Gong; Zhi Gao; Min Cao
IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2025:6132-6136.
ESAD-GPT

ESAD-GPT: Earth’s Surface Anomaly Detection Using Large Vision-language Models

Xing-Ao Wang; Zhi Gao; Zhaohong Liao; Shuying Xia; Min Cao; Qiao Wang
IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2025: 1007-1011.

Representative Publications (代表性研究成果)

  1. Zhi Gao*, L-F Cheong, Y-X Wang. Block-Sparse RPCA for Salient Motion Detection. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 36(10): 1975–1987 (2014).
  2. L-F Cheong, Zhi Gao*. Quasi-Parallax for Nearly Parallel Frontal Eyes – A Possible Role of Binocular Overlap During Rapid Locomotion. International Journal of Computer Vision, 101(1): 45–63 (2014).
  3. Zhi Gao*, R.F. Zhai, P.F. Wang, X. Yan, H. Qin, Y.Z. Tang, B. Ramesh. Synergizing Appearance and Motion with Low Rank Representation for Vehicle Counting and Traffic Flow Analysis. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 19(8): 2675–2685 (2018).
  4. Zhi Gao*, Q. Li, R.F. Zhai, M. Shan, F. Lin. Adaptive and Robust Sparse Coding for Laser Range Data Denoising and Inpainting. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, 26(12): 2165–2175 (2016).
  5. Y.J. Zhang*, F. Wen, Zhi Gao, X. Lin. A Coarse-to-Fine Framework for Cloud Removal in Remote Sensing Image Sequence. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 99(1): 1–12 (2019).
  6. Zhi Gao*, Q. Li, R.F. Zhai. Laser Range Data Denoising via Adaptive and Robust Dictionary Learning. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, 12(8): 1750–1754 (2015).
  7. Zhi Gao*, H. Ji. Transform Learning Based Sparse Coding for LiDAR Data Denoising. IEEE Signal Processing Letterss, 26(3): 480–484 (2019).
  8. Zhi Gao*, H. Ji, T.C. Mei, B. Ramesh. EOVNet: Earth-Observation Image Based Vehicle Detection Network. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, accepted (2019).
  9. Zhi Gao*, M. Lao, Y. Sang, F. Wen, B. Ramesh, R.F. Zhai. Fast Sparse Coding for Range Data Denoising with Sparse Ridges Constraint. Sensors, 18(5): 1449–1458 (2018).
  10. H. Ji, Zhi Gao*, T.C. Mei, Y.F. Li. Improved Faster R-CNN with Multiscale Feature Fusion and Homography Augmentation for Vehicle Detection in Remote Sensing Images. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, 99(1): 1–5 (2019).
  11. F. Wen, Y.J. Zhang, Zhi Gao*, X. Lin. Two-Pass Robust Component Analysis for Cloud Removal in Satellite Image Sequence. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, 15(7): 1090–1094 (2018).
  12. Zhi Gao*, H. Ji, T.C. Mei, B. Ramesh. Vehicle Detection in Remote Sensing Images Leveraging on Simultaneous Super-resolution. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, accepted (2019).
  13. Zhi Gao*, P. Wang, R.F. Zhai, Y. Tang. Lateral Placed Eyes vs Frontally Placed Eyes: Computational Comparison of Their Functions for Ego-motion Estimation. Journal of the Optical Society of America A, 33(4): 501–507 (2016).
  14. Zhi Gao*, B. Ramesh, W-Y. Lin, P. Wang, X. Yan, R.F. Zhai. Efficient Velocity Estimation for MAVs by Fusing Motion from Two Frontally Parallel Cameras. Journal of Real-Time Image Processing, 99(1): 1–12 (2018).
  15. Zhi Gao*, Q. Li, M. Shan. Painting Authentication via Adaptive and Robust Dictionary Learning. ACM Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage, 8(4): Article 22 (2015).
  16. Y. Tang, Zhi Gao*, F. Lin, Y.F. Li, F. Wen. Visual Adaptive Tracking for Monocular Omnidirectional Camera. Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, 55: 253–262 (2018).
  17. X. Zheng, B. Ramesh*, Zhi Gao, Y. Yang, C. Xiang. A Novel Framework for Robust Long-term Object Tracking in Real-time. Machine Vision and Applications, 30(3): 529–539 (2019).
  18. A. Lim, B. Ramesh*, Y. Yang, C. Xiang, Zhi Gao, F. Lin. Real-time Optical Flow-based Video Stabilization for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles. Journal of Real-Time Image Processing, 99(1): 1–12 (2017).
  19. B. Ramesh*, Z. Lim, L. Chen, C. Xiang, Zhi Gao. Scalable Scene Understanding via Saliency Consensus. Soft Computing, 23(7): 2429–2443 (2019).
  20. Zhi Gao*, L-F Cheong, M. Shan. Block-Sparse RPCA for Consistent Foreground Detection. ECCV, Springer: 690–703 (2012).
  21. Zhi Gao*, M. Shan, L-F Cheong, Q. Li. Adaptive and Robust Sparse Coding for Painting Style Analysis. ACCV, Springer: 168–184 (2014).
  22. B. Ramesh*, S. Zhang, Z. Lee, Zhi Gao, G. Orchard, C. Xiang. Long-term Object Tracking with a Moving Event Camera. BMVC: 241–252 (2018).
  23. X. Liu, Zhi Gao*, B. Ramesh, B.M. Chen. Conditional GAN for Underwater Image Color Correction. BMVC (2019).

Group Photographs (团队风采)

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