Zhijian Qiao (乔志健) /ˈdʒiːdʒɛn ˈtʃaʊ/

I am a Ph.D. candidate at the Aerial Robotics Group at HKUST, advised by Prof. Shaojie Shen. Before that, I received my Master's degree from the IRMV Lab at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, supervised by Prof. Hesheng Wang.

My research interests lie in robotics and autonomous driving, with a focus on world models for autonomous driving, robust estimation, global localization, and long-term mapping.

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Zhijian Qiao (乔志健)

Publications

csm CSMapping: Scalable Crowdsourced Semantic Mapping and Topology Inference for Autonomous Driving
Zhijian Qiao, Zehuan Yu, Tong Li, Chih-Chung Chou, Wenchao Ding and Shaojie Shen
Under review.
arXiv
hpp SG-Reg: Generalizable and Efficient Scene Graph Registration
Chuhao Liu, Zhijian Qiao, Jieqi Shi, Ke Wang, Peize Liu and Shaojie Shen
IEEE Transactions on Robotics, March 2025.
IEEE T-RO | arXiv | video | bilibili | huggingface | code
hpp SLIM: Scalable and Lightweight LiDAR Mapping in Urban Environments
Zehuan Yu, Zhijian Qiao, Wenyi Liu, Huan Yin, Shaojie Shen
IEEE Transactions on Robotics, March 2025.
IEEE T-RO | arXiv | code | video
hpp SLABIM: A SLAM-BIM Coupled Dataset in HKUST Main Building in Urban Environments
Haoming Huang, Zhijian Qiao, Zehuan Yu, Chuhao Liu, Shaojie Shen, and Huan Yin
2025 IEEE International Conference on Robotics & Automation.
arXiv | dataset | video | code
hpp Speak the Same Language: Global LiDAR Registration on BIM Using Pose Hough Transform
Zhijian Qiao, Haoming Huang, Chuhao Liu, Shaojie Shen, Fumin Zhang, Huan Yin
IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, March 2025.
IEEE TASE | arXiv | code | video
hpp Less is More: Physical-enhanced Radar-Inertial Odometry
Qiucan Huang, Yuchen Liang, Zhijian Qiao, Shaojie Shen, and Huan Yin
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2024.
IEEE ICRA | code
hpp FM-Fusion: Instance-aware Semantic Mapping Boosted by Vision-Language Foundation Models
Chuhao Liu, Ke WANG, Jieqi Shi, Zhijian Qiao, Shaojie Shen
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 2024.
IEEE RA-L | code
hpp G3Reg: Pyramid Graph-based Global Registration using Gaussian Ellipsoid Model
Zhijian Qiao, Zehuan Yu, Binqian Jiang, Huan Yin, and Shaojie Shen
2024 IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (IEEE TASE).
IEEE TASE | arXiv | code
hpp Online Monocular Lane Mapping Using Catmull-Rom Spline
Zhijian Qiao, Zehuan Yu, Huan Yin and Shaojie Shen
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2023.
IEEE IROS | arXiv | youtube | code
hpp Pyramid Semantic Graph-based Global Point Cloud Registration with Low Overlap
Zhijian Qiao, Zehuan Yu, Huan Yin and Shaojie Shen
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2023.
IEEE IROS | arXiv | youtube | code
hpp SeasonDepth: Cross-Season Monocular Depth Prediction Dataset and Benchmark under Multiple Environments
Hanjiang Hu, Baoquan Yang, Zhijian Qiao (co-first), Jiacheng Zhu, Zuxin Liu, Wenhao Ding, Ding Zhao and Hesheng Wang
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2023.
IEEE IROS | arXiv | project | benchmark toolkit
hpp Multi-Session, Localization-oriented and Lightweight LiDAR Mapping Using Semantic Lines and Planes
Zehuan Yu, Zhijian Qiao, Liuyang Qiu, Huan Yin and Shaojie Shen
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2023.
IEEE IROS | arXiv | youtube
hpp Registration-aided 3D Point Cloud Learning for Large-Scale Place Recognition
Zhijian Qiao, Hanjiang Hu, Weiang Shi, Zhe Liu and Hesheng Wang
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2021.
arXiv | IEEE Xplore | code
hpp End-to-End 3D Point Cloud Learning for Registration Task Using Virtual Correspondences
Zhijian Qiao, Huanshu Wei, Zhe Liu, Chuanzhe Suo, Peng Yin, Yueling Shen, Haoang Li and Hesheng Wang
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2020
IEEE Xplore | arXiv | code
hpp PLReg3D: Learning 3D Local and Global Descriptors Jointly for Global Localization
Zhijian Qiao, Hanwen Wang, Yu Zhu and Hesheng Wang
The IEEE 27th International Conference on Mechatronics and Machine Vision in Practice (M2VIP 2021).
IEEE Xplore | code
hpp DASGIL: Domain Adaptation for Semantic and Geometric-Aware Image-Based Localization
Hanjiang Hu, Zhijian Qiao, Ming Cheng, Zhe Liu and Hesheng Wang
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (2019IF:9.34), Dec. 2020
IEEE TIP | code
hpp Map-Less Long-Term Localization in Complex Industrial Environments
Zhe Liu, Zhijian Qiao, Chuanzhe Suo, Yingtian Liu, and Kefan Jin
Assembly Automation, 2021.
Assembly Automation
hpp Deep Learning-Based Localization and Perception Systems: Approaches for Autonomous Cargo Transportation Vehicles in Large-Scale, Semiclosed Environments
Zhe Liu, Chuanzhe Suo, Yingtian Liu, Yueling Shen, Zhijian Qiao, Huanshu Wei, Shunbo Zhou, Haoang Li, Xinwu Liang, Hesheng Wang, Yun-Hui Liu
IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine, vol. 27, no. 2, pp. 139-150, June 2020
IEEE RAM
hpp Robust Simultaneous Tracking and Local Dense Structured Mapping at Scenes lack of Geometric Features
Yueling Shen, Zhijian Qiao, Xu Wang and Hesheng Wang
The IEEE 27th International Conference on Mechatronics and Machine Vision in Practice (M2VIP 2021).
IEEE Xplore
hpp Innovative design and realization of lightweight delta robot platform
Cong Dehong, Li Chengyao, Wang Ruchao, Song Chen, Tian Chang and Zhijian Qiao
Chinese Control And Decision Conference (CCDC), 2017
IEEE CCDC

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