Zhihao Zhan 展志昊

Mail: zhihao.zhan [at] smail [dot] nju [dot] edu [dot] cn

About Me

I am currently a Ph.D. student at the School of Electronic Science and Engineering, Nanjing University, under the supervision of Prof. Jie Yuan. Previously, I served as the Algorithm Team Lead at TopXGun (Nanjing) Robotics Co., Ltd. in China, where I led a small team focusing on SLAM, Perception, 3D Reconstruction, and Coverage Path Planning for UAV autopilot systems. Earlier, I received an M.Sc. in Multimedia Information Technology from the City University of Hong Kong, supervised by Prof. Ho Man Chan.

My research interests lie in Spatial Intelligence and Field Robotics, particularly in the following areas:

Multi-Sensor Fusion SLAM and Structure-from-Motion (SfM), aiming to achieve robust localization, mapping, and 3D reconstruction using LiDAR, camera, radar, IMU, and GNSS measurements.
Embodied Spatial AI, emphasizing 3D scene understanding, neural spatial representation, and geometry-aware spatial reasoning for robotic perception and interaction.
Multi-Modal Place Recognition (PR), addressing cross-modal scene retrieval, long-term localization, and robust loop closure in challenging real-world scenarios.

Jun, 2026 - One paper is accepted by IROS 2026.
Jun, 2026 - One paper is accepted by BDAI 2026.
Jun, 2026 - One paper is accepted by Signal, Image and Video Processing.
Jun, 2025 - One paper is accepted by ICSPS 2025.
Jun, 2025 - One paper is accepted by IROS 2025.
May, 2025 - One paper is accepted by ICIP 2025.

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*: co-first author; †: corresponding author

MAG-VLAQ: Multi-modal Aerial-Ground Query Aggregation for Cross-View Place Recognition
Zhengyi Xu^*, Yuhang Ming^*†, Zhihao Zhan^*, Hanyu Zhu, Javier Civera, Wanzeng Kong
arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.09418, 2026
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Terrain Perception for Agricultural UAVs in Complex Farmland via Rotating mmWave Radar
Zhihao Zhan, Le Tao, Shaobin Li, Chenxin Fang, Xingrui Yang, Liang Li, Rui Fan, Yuhang Ming^†
arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.01340, 2026
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DC-VLAQ: Query-Residual Aggregation for Robust Visual Place Recognition
Hanyu Zhu^*, Zhihao Zhan^*, Yuhang Ming^*†, Liang Li, Dibo Hou, Javier Civera, Wanzeng Kong
arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.12729, 2026
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AgriLiRa4D: A Multi-Sensor UAV Dataset for Robust SLAM in Challenging Agricultural Fields
Zhihao Zhan, Yuhang Ming^†, Shaobin Li, Jie Yuan^†
arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.01753, 2025
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TOM-GS: Robust Thermal Odometry and Mapping with Depth-Guided Gaussian Splatting
Tianhao Zhou, Shenqian Wang, Zhihao Zhan, Yuhang Ming, Jianzhu Huai^†
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2026
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Deep Radar Bird's-Eye View Localization via SE(2)-Consistent Data Augmentation and Spatial Pose Constraints
Zhi Zhang, Chenxin Fang, Teruki Toya, Zhihao Zhan, Wanzeng Kong, Kenji Ozawa^†
9th International Conference on Big Data and Artificial Intelligence (BDAI), 2026

High-Quality Spatial Reconstruction and Orthoimage Generation Using Efficient 2D Gaussian Splatting
Qian Wang^*, Zhihao Zhan^*, Jialei He, Zhituo Tu, Jie Yuan^†
Signal, Image and Video Processing, 2026
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Rethinking Video Super-Resolution: Towards Diffusion-Based Methods without Motion Alignment
Zhihao Zhan^*, Wang Pang^*, Xiang Zhu^*, Yechao Bai^†
17th International Conference on Signal Processing Systems (ICSPS), 2025
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A Multi-Sensor Fusion Approach for Rapid Orthoimage Generation in Large-Scale UAV Mapping
Jialei He^*, Zhihao Zhan^*, Zhituo Tu, Xiang Zhu^†, Jie Yuan^†
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2025
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Image Motion Blur Removal in the Temporal Dimension with Video Diffusion Models
Wang Pang^*, Zhihao Zhan^*, Xiang Zhu^*, Yechao Bai^†
IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 2025
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IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS): 2025, 2026
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA): 2026
ISPRS Congress: 2026
Geo-spatial Information Science