About

I am a Ph.D. student at Wuhan University. My research focuses on robust perception, multi-sensor calibration, and SLAM in challenging environments, with particular interest in camera-LiDAR calibration and visual/LiDAR-inertial estimation for intelligent robotic systems.

News

• 2026/06🎉Our VLN work called Hi-Nav accepted to ECCV 2026.
• 2026/06🎉R3LIO accepted to ISRPS JPRS.
• 2026/05😄R3LIO received a Major Revision decision from ISPRS JPRS.
• 2026/04🎉EasyCalib accepted to IEEE TIM.
• 2026/04😄EasyCalib received a Minor Revision decision from IEEE TIM.
• 2026/02😄EasyCalib received a Reject and Resubmit decision from IEEE TIM.
• 2026/02🎉EasyColor accepted to IEEE RA-L.
• 2025/11🎉1st Prize, 16th International Micro Aerial Vehicle Competition.
• 2024/10😄Oral presentation at IEEE/RSJ IROS 2024.

First-Author Publications

Hi-Nav: Hierarchical Framework for Continuous Vision-Language Navigation via Map Guidance and Waypoint Reasoning

Zhiyu Zhou, Bin Guan, Wenbin Yang, Zhi Gao and Hao Fang. ECCV, 2026.

R3LIO: Robust Reflectivity-Assisted Rotating LiDAR-Inertial Odometry for Degenerate and Unstructured Environments

Zhiyu Zhou, Zhi Gao. ISPRS JPRS, 2026.

EasyCalib: A Novel Target for High-Accuracy Fully-Automatic Extrinsic Calibration of Camera and LiDAR

Zhiyu Zhou, Zhi Gao, et al. IEEE TIM, 2026.

EasyColor: Reflectivity Assisted Dense Point Cloud RGB Colorizing Without Accurate Time Synchronization and Extrinsic Calibration

Zhiyu Zhou, Zhi Gao, Yong Li, Hang Zhen. IEEE RA-L, 2026.

Tracking by Detection: Robust Indoor RGB-D Odometry Leveraging Key Local Manhattan World

Zhiyu Zhou, Zhi Gao, Jingzhong Xu. IEEE RA-L, 2024.

Co-Authored Publications

1. HSURE: Hierarchical Safety-Aware Exploration Guided by Unknown Regions Using Dynamic Sparse Graphs
   Wenbin Yang, Jingzhong Xu, Zhi Gao, Zhiyu Zhou, et al. ICCA, 2026.
2. CU-Fundamental: A Comprehensive Simulation Framework for Autonomous MAV
   Jialiang Wang, Yijun Huang, Yizhou Chen, Zongzhou Wu, Qigeng Duan, Zhiyu Zhou, et al. IMAV, 2025.
3. Extrinsic Calibration of LiDAR and Camera via Intensity-Aware Deep Line Registration
   Jingshi Wang, Zhipeng Lin, Zhiyu Zhou, et al. Electronics Letters, 2025.
4. Enhancing the Utilization of Color Information in Point Cloud Semantic Segmentation
   Xinyu Guo, Zhi Gao, Zhiyu Zhou, et al. IEEE ICRA, 2025.
5. Neural Radiance Fields for Multi-View Satellite Photogrammetry Leveraging Intrinsic Decomposition
   Wenbo Sun, Yao Lu, Yichen Zhang, Yuhan Zhu, Zhiyu Zhou, et al. IGARSS, 2024.
6. Accurate and Efficient Loop Closure Detection With Deep Binary Image Descriptor and Augmented Point Cloud Registration
   Jialiang Wang, Zhi Gao, Zhipeng Lin, Zhiyu Zhou, et al. IEEE/RSJ IROS, 2024.
7. A Robust and Efficient Visual-Inertial SLAM for Vision-Degraded Environments
   Xuhui Zhao, Zhi Gao, Jialiang Wang, Zhiyu Zhou, et al. ICCA, 2024.

Experience

Awards

Patents

1. 针对弱结构长隧道环境的激光惯性里程计算方法及系统
   Zhi Gao, Zhiyu Zhou. ZL 2025 1 0913162.2, CN 120411158 B. Granted: 2025-09-23.
2. 室外大场景激光雷达点云地图的生成方法及装置
   Zhi Gao, Zhiyu Zhou. ZL 2025 1 0301880.4, CN 119810360 B. Granted: 2025-07-22.
3. 基于机载建筑物LiDAR点云的立面线自动提取方法及设备
   Jingzhong Xu, Zhiyu Zhou, Xiangyun Hu, Chen Rao. ZL 2022 1 0379641.7, CN 114742843 B. Granted: 2024-11-22.

Talks

IROS 2024 oral presentation
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2024.