About me

I will begin my Ph.D. in Computer Science at Nankai University, supervised by Prof. Yun Liu. Previously, I studied Geodesy and Geoinformation in the M.Sc. program at Technical University of Munich and received my Bachelor’s degree from Wuhan University in 2023.

My research interests include robotic perception, multi-modal localization and efficient AI.

News

[2026.03] Our paper VLM-Loc was accepted to CVPR 2026.
[2026.01] I graduated from TUM, receiving a grade of 1.0 for my master’s thesis.
[2025.08] Our paper OPAL was accepted to CoRL 2025.

Technical University of Munich
Oct. 2023 – Jan. 2026
M.Sc. in Geodesy and Geoinformation

Wuhan University
Sep. 2019 – Jun. 2023
B.Eng. in Geodesy and Geomatics

Notes: Joint first authors are indicated using * and corresponding authors are indicated using ^†.

VLM-Loc: Localization in Point Cloud Maps via Vision-Language Models
Shuhao Kang, Youqi Liao,Peijie Wang, Wenlong Liao, Qilin Zhang, Xieyuanli Chen^†, Yun Liu^†;
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2026
[arXiv] [Code] [Official Version]

OPAL: Visibility-aware LiDAR-to-OpenStreetMap Place Recognition via Adaptive Radial Fusion
Shuhao Kang^*, Youqi Liao^*, Yan Xia^†, Olaf Wysocki, Boris Jutzi, Daniel Cremers;
Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), 2025
[arXiv] [Code] [Official Version]

CoFiI2P: Coarse-to-Fine Correspondences-Based Image to Point Cloud Registration
Shuhao Kang^*, Youqi Liao^*, Jianping Li^†, Fuxun Liang, Yuhao Li, XiangHong Zou, Fangning Li, Xieyuanli Chen, Zhen Dong, Bisheng Yang;
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), 2024
[arXiv] [Code] [Official Version]
Mobile-Seed: Joint Semantic Segmentation and Boundary Detection for Mobile Robots
Youqi Liao, Shuhao Kang, Jianping Li^†, Yang Liu, Yun Liu, Zhen Dong, Bisheng Yang, Xieyuanli Chen;
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), 2024
[arXiv] [Code] [Official Version]

SE-Calib: Semantic Edges based LiDAR-Camera Boresight Online Calibration in Urban Scenes
Youqi Liao, Jianping Li^†, Shuhao Kang, Qiang Li, Guifang Zhu, Shenghai Yuan, Zhen Dong, Bisheng Yang;
IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (TGRS), 2023
[arXiv] [Code] [Official Version]