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Introduction
The vision4robotics group is a multidisciplinary research group at Tongji University. Our research interests focus on intelligent vision and control technologies for robotics.
Recruit
Looking for new students/engineers to work on exciting AI-driven vision-based research and projects (with a limited quota). Candidates with research experience in vision-based Deep Learning, Object Tracking/ Detection/ Segmentation/ Recognition will be considered with higher priority. Please send your CV and a 3-slide PPT describing your previous research experience via changhongfu@tongji.edu.cn if you have an interest. For PhD/PostDoc application, please also attach one of your best papers. （备注：针对硕士与博士（后）申请，为更有效地开展前沿研究工作，原则上优先考虑已具备计算机视觉研究基础与较好python/C++编程经验的申请，亦欢迎已获得省部级及其以上科技竞（比）赛奖励的申请。针对研究生阶段表现优异者，将派去世界名校/研究所、著名AI企业等访问/实习。）
News
2025-12: Best Paper in AI in Robotics Award!
Our paper “Why not DeepSeek for Any-Scale Thermal Super-Resolution?” is awarded the Best Paper in AI in Robotics Award of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (IEEE ROBIO 2025)!
Congratulations!
Ziang Cao is awarded with 2025 Google PhD Fellowship! Congratulations!2025-10: 2025 Google PhD Fellowship!
Our project “Edge-AI Powered Snake Robot for Cross-Domain Operations” is awarded the University Exhibition Innovation Award of China International Industry Fair (CIIF)! Congratulations!2025-09: CIIF University Exhibition Innovation Award!
Changhong Fu is ranked on the World's Top 2% Scientists 2025 by Stanford University and Elsevier. Congratulations!2025-09: World's Top 2% Scientists 2025 by Stanford University and Elsevier!
Our papers “Lattice Boltzmann Model for Learning Real-World Pixel Dynamicity” is accepted by NeurIPS 2025 in San Diego, USA!2025-09: One paper accepted by NeurIPS 2025!
Our papers “AnyTSR: Any-Scale Thermal Super-Resolution for UAV”, “EdgeSpotter: Multi-Scale Dense Text Spotting for Industrial Panel Monitoring”, “EdgeSR: Reparameterization-Driven Fast Thermal Super-Resolution for Edge Electro-Optical Device”, and “U-Snake: A Small-Sized Smart Underwater Snake Robot”, are accepted by IROS 2025 in Hangzhou, China!2025-07: Four papers accepted by IROS 2025!
Liangliang Yao is awarded the National Scholarship of China for Graduate Students. Congratulations!2024-11: National Scholarship of China!
Changhong Fu is ranked on the World's Top 2% Scientists 2024 by Stanford University and Elsevier. Congratulations!2024-09: World's Top 2% Scientists 2024 by Stanford University and Elsevier!
Our paper “SAM-DA: UAV Tracks Anything at Night with SAM-Powered Domain Adaptation” is awarded the Toshio Fukuda Best Paper Award in Mechatronics of ICARM 2024! Congratulations!2024-07: Toshio Fukuda Best Paper Award in Mechatronics!
Junjie Ye is awarded with 2024 Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship! Congratulations!2024-05: 2024 Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship!
Our papers “NetTrack: Tracking Highly Dynamic Objects with a Net” is accepted by CVPR 2024 in Seattle WA, USA, 2024!2024-04: One paper accepted by CVPR 2024!
2024-04: Outstanding Graduate Awards!
Congratulations!
The graduation thesis of Junjie Ye is selected into the 2023 Chinese Institute of Electronics master’s degree thesis incentive program. Congratulations!2024-01: 2023 Chinese Institute of Electronics master’s degree thesis incentive program!
Yiming Li is awarded with $60,000 NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship Awards. Congratulations!2023-12: $60,000 NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship Awards!
Changhong Fu is ranked on the second prize in the 2023 Youth Teachers’ Teaching Competition at Tongji University. Congratulations!2023-12: Youth Teachers’ Teaching Competition!
Our paper “All-Day Object Tracking for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle” achieves prominence as a highly cited paper. Congratulations!2023-10: One highly cited paper!
Changhong Fu is ranked on the 2023 Stanford University Top 2% Scientists list. Congratulations!2023-10: 2023 Stanford University Top 2% Scientists List!
Junjie Ye is awarded outstanding thesis award for the graduation thesis. Congratulations!2023-10: Outstanding thesis award!
Kunhan Lu is awarded the National Scholarship of China for Graduate Students. Congratulations!2023-10: National Scholarship of China!
Our paper “Towards Real-World Visual Tracking with Temporal Contexts” is accepted by TPAMI!2023-08: One paper accepted by IEEE TPAMI!
Our paper “PVT++: A Simple End-to-End Latency-Aware Visual Tracking Framework” is accepted by ICCV 2023!2023-07: One paper accepted by ICCV 2023!
- Our project “Modular Biomimetic Snake-like Robot (including Visual Large-scale Model Base Design and Rapid Edge Deployment)” has been selected as a Key Project under “ Excellent Science and Innovation Education Program” at Tongji University! 2023-07: Excellent Science and Innovation Education Program!
- Junjie Ye, Haoyang Li, Haobo Zuo, and Liangliang Yao are awarded with Outstanding Graduate of Shanghai.2023-04: Outstanding Graduate Awards!
Congratulations!
Our papers “SGDViT: Saliency-Guided Dynamic Vision Transformer for UAV Tracking”, and “Continuity-Aware Latent Interframe Information Mining for Reliable UAV Tracking” are accepted by ICRA 2023 in ExCeL London!2023-01: Two papers accepted by ICRA 2023!
- Junjie Ye is awarded the Academic Pioneer of Tongji University (top 10 among all graduate students of Tongji).2022-11: Highest academic honor of Tongji!
Congratulations!
Fuling Lin are awarded outstanding thesis award for the graduation thesis. Congratulations!2022-10: Outstanding thesis award!
Junjie Ye is awarded the National Scholarship of China for Graduate Students. Congratulations!2022-10: National Scholarship of China!
Our papers “Siamese Object Tracking for Vision-Based UAM Approaching with Pairwise Scale-Channel Attention”, “Local Perception-Aware Transformer for Aerial Tracking”, “HighlightNet: Highlighting Low-Light Potential Features for Real-Time UAV Tracking”, and “End-to-End Feature Decontaminated Network for UAV Tracking”, are accepted by IROS 2022 in Kyoto, Japan!2022-06: Four papers accepted by IROS 2022!
Our program “Miles of paddy scent tell of a bumper crop year”: The intelligent identification and prevention solution for crops based on deep learning wins the First Prize at the 17th “Challenge Cup” China College Students’ Extracurricular Academic and Scientific Works Competition!2022-03: 17th “Challenge Cup” China College Students’ Extracurricular Academic and Scientific Works Competition!
Our papers “Unsupervised Domain Adaptation for Nighttime Aerial Tracking” and “TCTrack: Temporal Contexts for Aerial Tracking” are accepted by CVPR 2022 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA!2022-03: Two papers accepted by CVPR 2022!
Our papers “Tracker Meets Night: A Transformer Enhancer for UAV Tracking” (also for IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, RA-L) and “Ad2Attack: Adaptive Adversarial Attack on Real-Time UAV Tracking” are accepted by ICRA 2022 in Philadelphia (PA), USA!2022-02: Two papers accepted by ICRA 2022!
- Bowen Li is awarded the Academic Star Model of Tongji University (top 5 among all undergraduate students of Tongji).2021-11: Academic Stars of Tongji!
Congratulations!
- Fuling Lin is awarded the National Scholarship of China for Graduate Students.2021-10: National Scholarship of China!
Congratulations!
Our paper “HiFT: Hierarchical Feature Transformer for Aerial Tracking” is accepted by ICCV 2021!2021-07: One paper accepted by ICCV 2021!
Our papers “SiamAPN++: Siamese Attentional Aggregation Network for Real-Time UAV Tracking”, and “DarkLighter: Light up the Darkness for UAV Tracking” are accepted by IROS 2021 in Prague, Czech Republic!2021-07: Two papers accepted by IROS 2021!
We formulate a latency-aware benchmark with new metrics for a more realistic evaluation. A new predictive visual tracking baseline is developed to compensate for the latency stemming from the onboard computation. More details can be found here!2021-03: Latency-aware tracking benchmark
Our papers “Siamese Anchor Proposal Network for High-Speed Aerial Tracking”, “ADTrack: Target-Aware Dual Filter Learning for Real-Time Anti-Dark UAV Tracking”, “Online Recommendation-based Convolutional Features for Scale-Aware Visual Tracking”, and “Mutation Sensitive Correlation Filter for Real-Time UAV Tracking with Adaptive Hybrid Label”, are accepted by ICRA 2021 in Xi’an, China!2021-02: Four papers accepted by ICRA 2021!
Our paper “Correlation Filters for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle-Based Aerial Tracking: A Review and Experimental Evaluation” is awarded as the best review of object tracking in 2020! (See more)2021-02: The best review of object tracking in 2020
A pioneering UAV dark tracking benchmark consists of 135 videos with a variety of objects. (See more)2021-02: UAVDark135
Our papers “DR^2Track: Towards Real-Time Visual Tracking for UAV via Distractor Repressed Dynamic Regression”, “Augmented Memory for Correlation Filters in Real-Time UAV Tracking”, “Automatic Failure Recovery and Re-Initialization for Online UAV Tracking with Joint Scale and Aspect Ratio Optimization”, “Towards Robust Visual Tracking for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle with Tri-Attentional Correlation Filters”, and “Learning Consistency Pursued Correlation Filters for Real-Time UAV Tracking” are accepted by IROS 2020 in Las Vegas, USA!2020-07: Five papers accepted by IROS 2020!
- Yiming Li, Weijiang Xiong, Junjie Ye and Yujie He are awarded with Outstanding Graduate of Shanghai.2020-07: Outstanding Graduate Awards
Congratulations!
Our paper “AutoTrack: Towards High-Performance Visual Tracking for UAV with Automatic Spatio-Temporal Regularization” is accepted by CVPR 2020 in Seattle, United States!2020-02: One paper accepted by CVPR 2020!
Our papers “BiCF: Learning Bidirectional Incongruity-Aware Correlation Filter for Efficient UAV Object Tracking”, “Training-set Distillation for Real-Time UAV Object Tracking“, and “Keyfilter-Aware Real-Time UAV Object Tracking”, are accepted by ICRA 2020 in Paris, France!2020-01: Three papers accepted by ICRA 2020!
The 2019 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2019) will be held on November 4 – 8, 2019 in Macau, China. Welcome to the Workshop on Fast Neural Perception and Learning for Intelligent Vehicles and Robotics !2019-11: IROS 2019
Our paper “Learning Aberrance Repressed Correlation Filters for Real-Time UAV Tracking” is accepted by ICCV 2019 in Seoul, Korea!2019-07: One paper accepted by ICCV 2019!
Our paper “Boundary Effect-Aware Visual Tracking for UAV with Online Enhanced Background Learning and Multi-Frame Consensus Verification” is accepted by IROS 2019 in Macau, China!2019-07: One paper accepted by IROS 2019!
-Yiyong Sun is awarded with Best Bachelor Thesis of Tongji University.2019-06: Best Bachelor Thesis Awards
Congratulations!
Review/Survey Papers
Siamese Object Tracking for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle: A Review and Comprehensive Analysis
Correlation Filters for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle-Based Aerial Tracking: A Review and Experimental Evaluation
Journal Papers
AnyTSR++: Prompt-Oriented Any-Scale Thermal Super-Resolution for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
LiVeDet: Lightweight Density-Guided Adaptive Transformer for Online On-Device Vessel Detection
Semantics-Aware Receding Horizon Planner for Object-Centric Active Mapping
Towards Real-World Visual Tracking with Temporal Contexts
Scale-Aware Domain Adaptation for Robust UAV Tracking
Conference Papers
Lattice Boltzmann Model for Learning Real-World Pixel Dynamicity
AnyTSR: Any-Scale Thermal Super-Resolution for UAV
EdgeSpotter: Multi-Scale Dense Text Spotting for Industrial Panel Monitoring
EdgeSR: Reparameterization-Driven Fast Thermal Super-Resolution for Edge Electro-Optical Device
U-Snake: A Small-Sized Smart Underwater Snake Robot
Benchmarks
SnakeNav3
SnakeNav2
SnakeNav
UUAV
NUT2024
NAT2021
DarkTrack2021
UAM Tracking Benchmark
PVT
UAVDark135
People
Principal investigator
PhD Students
Haowen Zheng
PhD in Mechanical Engineering
Intelligent state monitoring, Edge intelligence, Industrial camera
Mengyuan Li
PhD in Mechanical Engineering
Multi-modal fusion, Edge pan-tilt camera, Image enhancement
Shengchen Li
PhD in Mechanical Engineering
Underwater state monitoring, Edge intelligence, Behavior analysis
Yipeng Feng
PhD in Mechanical Engineering
Low-light enhancement, Edge pan-tilt Camera, Object tracking
Zijie Zhang
PhD in Mechanical Engineering
Water environment monitoring, Edge intelligence, Instance object analysis
Yikun Tao
PhD in Mechanical Engineering
Underwater UAV, Edge intelligence, Underwater state monitoring
Master students
Liangliang Yao
MSc in Mechanical Engineering
Low-light image enhancement, Visual object tracking, Computer vision
Mutian Cai
MSc in Mechanical Engineering
Low-light image enhancement, Visual object tracking, Machine learning
Haolin Dong
MSc in Mechanical Engineering
Low-light image enhancement, Machine learning, Deep learning
Hua lin
MSc in Mechanical Engineering
Object detection, Optical Character recognition, Edge intelligence
Maolin Ye
MSc in Mechanical Engineering
Underwater state monitoring, Edge intelligence, Behavior analysis
Zijin He
MSc in Mechanical Engineering
Underwater state monitoring, Edge intelligence, Behavior analysis
Engineers / U-E Cooperation
Hongxing Liu
Edge industrial camera, Intelligent state monitoring, Remote visual inspection
Liguo Zhang
Intelligent vision, Industrial inspection, Deep learning
Bachelor students
Yucheng Wang
BEng in Automation
Robotics, Computer vision, Visual object tracking, Unmanned aerial vehicle
Yiheng Wang
BEng in Intelligent Manufacturing Engineering
Computer vision, Deep learning, Visual object tracking
Zeyu Lin
BEng in Mechanical Engineering
Underwater state monitoring, Skeleton recognition, Behavior analysis
Haoxiang Wang
BEng in Mechanical Engineering
Underwater state monitoring, Image generation, High-density fish detection
Liyao Wang
BEng in Intelligent Manufacturing Engineering
Water environment monitoring, Vessel detection, Image defogging
Previous members
Guangze Zheng
PhD Candidate in Computer Science at HKU, China
Visual object tracking, Robotics, Machine learning
Haobo Zuo
PhD Candidate in Computer Science at HKU, China
Low-light image enhancement, Visual object tracking, Unmanned aerial vehicle, Computer vision
Yinqiang Zhang
MSc in Mechatronics and Information Technology at TUM, Germany
Visual object tracking, Computer vision
Ziang Cao
PhD Candidate in Computer Science at NTU, Singapore
Visual object tracking, Deep learning, Unmanned aerial vehicle
Ziyuan Huang
PhD Candidate in Mechanical Engineering at NUS, Singapore
Visual tracking for UAVs, Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Systems
Bowen Li
PhD Candidate in Robotics at CMU, USA
Visual object tracking, Unmanned aerial vehicle, Machine learning, Computer vision
Junjie Ye
PhD Candidate in Computer Science at USC, USA
Visual object tracking, Deep learning, Robotics
Kunhan Lu
PhD Candidate in Civil Engineering at HKUST, China
Visual object tracking, Deep learning, Computer vision
Sihang Li
PhD Candidate in Robotics at NYU, USA
Robotics, Adversarial machine learning, Computer vision
Teng Li
PhD Candidate in Electronic and Computer Engineering at HKUST, China
Visual object tracking, Machine learning, Robotics
Jilin Zhao
Engineer in CCTEG Beijing TianMa Intelligent Control Co., LTD
Visual object tracking, Deep learning, Computer vision
Weiyu Peng
Machine Learning Engineer in RoboSense, China
Deep learning, Robotics, Visual Object tracking
Fangqiang Ding
PhD Candidate in Robotics and Autonomous System at Edin., U.K.
Drone perception, Multi-modal fusion, Robotics
Fuling Lin
PhD Candidate in Mechanical Engineering at HKU, Hong Kong, China
Visual object tracking, Unmanned aerial vehicle, Machine learning
Xinnan Yuan
MSc in Artificial Intelligence at NTU, Singapore
Visual object tracking, Adversarial attack, Computer vision
Ran Duan
PhD Candidate at PolyU, Hong Kong, China
Image processing, Visual tracking, UAV visual navigation
Jin Jin
MSc in Management, Technology, and Economics at ETH, Zurich, Switzerland
Robotics, Visual object tracking, Machine learning, Unmanned aerial vehicle
Juntao Xu
PhD candidate in Mechanical Engineering at HKU, Hong Kong, China
Visual object tracking, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Automation
Changjing Liu
MSc in Instrument Science and Technology at SJTU, China
Robotics, Visual object tracking
Jianqiao Lu
PhD candidate in Computer Science at HKU, China.
Biorobotics, Unmanned aerial vehicle, Machine learning
Shaoqiu Xu
MSc in Mechanical Engineering, SJTU, China
Obejct tracking, Unmanned aerial vehicle, Pose estimation, Machine learning
Xiangpeng Zeng
Computer Engineer at Eastmoney Securities, China
Object detection, Deep learning, Unmanned aerial vehicle
Xiaogang Yu
Engineer in Shanghai Mitsubishi Elevator Company, China
Intelligent manipulator, Hardware design, Reinforcement learning
Xining Lu
MSc in Robotics at National University of Singapore (NUS)
Visual object tracking, Unmanned aerial vehicle, System automatization, Computer vision
Yicheng Kang
Msc in Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School
Robotics, Computer vision, 3D printing, Mechine design
Yihu Wang
Engineer in MCC Capital Engineering Technology Co., LTD
Visual object tracking, Deep learning, Robotics
Yiyong Sun
MSc in Mechanical Engineering at NUS, Singapore
Robotics, Visual object tracking, Unmanned aerial vehicle, Machine learning
Yufeng Liu
PhD in Eletronic Information and Electrical Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Object detection, Robotics, Computer vision
Yulin Li
MSc in Mechanical Engineering at UCSD, USA
Biorobotics, Unmanned aerial vehicle, Machine learning
Contact
- Kaiwu Building, Tongji University, No.4800 Cao’an Highway, Jiading District, Shanghai #201804, China
- changhongfu@tongji.edu.cn