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 agentic reasoning, SLAM 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, Benjamin Busam, Xieyuanli Chen^†, Yun Liu^†;
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2026, Highlight
[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]