Past Events in 2023

January 01, 2023

events

In 2023, the following events were held…

[12/30/2023] It is happy to share that our proposal titled “Data-driven-assisted GNSS RTK/INS Navigation for Autonomous Systems in Urban Canyons” is granted by PolyU Research Centres. This project aims to explore the potential of the AI in improving the GNSS positioning in urban canyons, with collaboration with Dr. Li Jing from PolyU Department of Computing.
[12/19/2023] It is great to attend the 美团机器人年会 where I was invited to make a short presentation titled “How Much We Can Trust on Your UAV?: Risk-aware Navigation and Control for UAV in Complex Urban Canyons” in Shenzhen, Nanshan.
[12/11/2023] It is great to share that our paper of GLIO (Liu, X., Wen, W. and Hsu, L.T., 2023. GLIO: Tightly-Coupled GNSS/LiDAR/IMU Integration for Continuous and Drift-free State Estimation of Intelligent Vehicles in Urban Areas. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles.) is available by the IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles by IEEE Link. The code is fully opensourced by Github repository!
[12/04/2023] It is great to share that our seed fund proposal titled “Multi-robot Collaborative Operations in Lunar Areas for Regolith Processing” is granted by Research Center of Deep Space Exploration (RC-DSE). This is a collaboration with Dr. Lidong Yang from PolyU ISE.
[11/28/2023] It is great to share that our proposal “Maximum Consensus Integration of GNSS and LiDAR for Urban Navigation” is granted by the Hong Kong UGC Germany/Hong Kong Joint Research Scheme. This project is the collaboration with Prof Claus Brenner at University of Hannover, Germany. Thank you very much for the contribution from Jiachen! Looking forward to working on this project!
[11/28/2023] It is great to share that our paper (ECMD: An Event-Centric Multisensory Driving Dataset for SLAM”, by CHEN, PEIYU; Guan, Weipeng; HUANG, Feng; Zhong, Yihan; wen, weisong; Hsu, Li-Ta; Lu, Peng) is accepted by the IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles. Congratulations to Peiyu., etc. Nice collaboration with the team from Dr. Lu’s team from HKU.
[11/23/2023] It is great to share that our paper (Dynamic Object-aware LiDAR Odometry Aided by Joint Weightings Estimation in Urban Areas”, by HUANG, Feng; wen, weisong; Zhang, Jiachen; Wang, Chaoqun; Hsu, Li-Ta) is accepted by the IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles. Congratulations to Darren., etc. Nice collaboration with the team from Prof. Chaoqun Wang from Shandong University.
[11/22/2023] It is great to host the visit from GODO at PolyU. We have a very nice discussion on the R&D of the UAV system for the remote inspection. Looking forward to the future collaboration in unlocking the UAV related applications.
[11/13/2023] It is great to visit the “阳江海上风力发电实验室” with quite a lot of new insights! Thanks for the organization from Prof. Ding Xiaoli and colleagues from PolyU RILS.
[10/27/2023] It is great to give a talk at Huawei Hong Kong on the topic of Trustworthy Satellite Navigation in Highly Urbanized Areas. Thanks for the invitation from Yongliang and Liwei! Thanks for the input from Xikun, Xiaxiao, Xi and Penggao!
[10/20/2023] It is great to share that I was in the list of the top 2% scientist which is selected by Stanford University.
[09/27/2023] The Second Workshop in IEEE ITSC 2023 is successfully held in Spain with fruitful discussion! More details can be found in the Blog.
[09/26/2023] It is great to share that our paper of the GLIO (Liu, X., Wen, W. and Hsu, L.T., 2023. GLIO: Tightly-Coupled GNSS/LiDAR/IMU Integration for Continuous and Drift-free State Estimation of Intelligent Vehicles in Urban Areas. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles.) is accepted by the IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles. In this work, we proposed an Tightly-Coupled GNSS/LiDAR/IMU Integration for Continuous and Drift-free State Estimation of Intelligent Vehicles in Urban Areas. The code will also be open-sourced soon!
[09/15/2023] It is great to host the visiting of Wu Jin Dr. Jiang, Xiangcheng Hu and Dr. Jianhao Jiao from HKUST at PolyU.
[09/11/2023] It is great to join the 江苏产业技术交流会 invited by PolyU RIO. Lots of new insights from the forum.
[09/02/2023] We are happy and feel very honoured to announce that we received an research fund from Tencent on topic of “the multi-sensory integrated positioning for ground vehicles”. We will working on the challenges of urban GNSS positioning and its integration with visual positioning.
[09/01/2023] I am happy to share I start a new position as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Aeronautical and Aviation Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
[07/22/2023] It is a great to host the visit of PhD student, Jeldrik Axmann, from Leibniz Universität Hannover.
[07/22/2023] It is a great to host the visit of PhD student, KOBAYASHI Kaito, from Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology, Japan.
[07/22/2023] It is a great to host the visit of Dr. Chao-Chung Peng, from Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, National Cheng Kung University.
[07/22/2023] It is a great to host the visit of Dr. Guoquan Huang from University of Delaware (UD), the U.S.
[07/14/2023] It is a great to share that 5 papers are accepted in IEEE ITSC 2023, 24-28 September 2023 Bilbao, Bizkaia, Spain. Congratulations to Darren (2 papers on V2X based mapping and navigation), Runzhi (vision and AI aided GNSS NLOS error correction), Peiwen (tightly-coupled positioning and model predictive control joint optimization for UAV system) and Zhengxi (Tightly-coupled line based visual localization within the prior map)!
[06/07/2023] It is a great to share that our paper “Zhang, L., Wen, W*., Zhang, T., and Hsu, L.T., 2023. An Improved Inertial Preintegration Model in Factor Graph Optimization for High Accuracy Positioning of Intelligent Vehicles” has been accepted for publication as a REGULAR PAPER in the IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles. Congratulations to Dr. Zhang Liang!
[05/21/2023] It is a great to share that our paper “Wen, W., Bai, X., & Hsu, L. T. (2023). 3D Vision Aided GNSS Real-Time Kinematic Positioning for Autonomous Systems in Urban Canyons. NAVIGATION: Journal of the Institute of Navigation, 70(3).” is published in the NAVIGATION online finally! This is one of our best work in the past years!
[04/27/2023] It is a great to share that our research proposal entitled “Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Aided High Accuracy Addictive Manufacturing for Carbon Fiber Reinforced Thermoplastic Composites Material” is successfully granted by the Research Institute for Advanced Manufacturing (RIAM). Thank you very much for the support from the RIAM and looking forward to the findings towards this proposal!
[04/26/2023] It is a great to share that our paper entitled “Integration of Vehicle Dynamic Model and System Identification Model for Extending the Navigation Service Under Sensor Failures”, by Yan, Penggao; Wen, Weisong; Hsu, Li-Ta, has been accepted for publication as a REGULAR PAPER in the IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles. Congratulations to Penggao!
[04/22/2023] It is a great to share that our work (Safety-aware LiDAR Localization with a Prior Point Cloud Map for Autonomous Driving) which is first-authored by Dr. Jiachen Zhang, is presented by Dr. Li-ta Hsu at Stanford univeristy! Feel free to check the full video.
[04/21/2023] It is a great to join the Grand Opening Ceremony of ASTRI Technovation Centre (ATC) cum ASTRI University Collaboration Sharing. Thank you very much for your invitation from Dongzhe Su!
[04/13/2023] It is a great to join the Official Launch of Smart Mobility Technology (C-V2X) Alliance cum Smart Mobility Forum organzied by ASTRI. Thank you very much for your invitation from Dongzhe Su!
[04/13/2023] It is a great to join the Digital Economy Summit (DES) 2023. Looking forward to make contribution to the Hong Kong smart city.
[04/12/2023] It is a great to share that we are interviewed by the 信报 in Hong Kong. The detail of the interview can be found by the Video here. In this interview, we share our views on the unmanned autonomous systems (UAS) and current bottleneck problem. We also share our progress in transfering our UAS technology to the industry. We argue that the Safety of UAS is of great importance for their massive production. Letting the user trust the UAS!
[04/08/2023] It is a great to share that Special Issue “Global Navigation Satellite System for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle” has been set up. I would work as the Guest Editor. Thank you very much for the invitation from Dr. Guohao Zhang.
[04/04/2023] It is a great to share that Kaito Kobayashi from the Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology supervised by Prof. Nobuaki Kubo joined us as a visiting PhD student. He will work with us in the coming 3 months on the topic of GNSS and machine learning!
[04/03/2023] It is a great to share that I was selected as the editorial board member of the Journal of Data Science and Intelligent Systems. Looking forward to making contributions to the Journal of Data Science and Intelligent Systems.
[04/03/2023] It is a great to share that Hongming Shen secured the PolyU postdoc matching fund from 3 Jul 2024 to 2 Jul 2025. Hongming will work with us in the coming 2 years!
[04/03/2023] It is a great to share that two of our papers(Smartphone Level Indoor/Outdoor Ubiquitous Pedestrian Positioning based on GNSS/VINS Integration Using Factor Graph Optimization and Multi-robot Collaborative LiDAR SLAM for Efficient Mapping in Urban Scenes) are accepted to the MMT 2023 in Padua (Italy), on May 24-26, 2023. Congratulations to Nikkie!
[03/26/2023] It is a great to join the 南科大首届新工科教育论坛 where we present our work in the Github based teaching pedagogy, titled “GitHub as a Supplementary Educational Tool to Improve Online Collaboration & Communication, Problem-solving, and Learning-to-learn Attributes: Methods and Preliminary Results at PolyU”. Thank you very much for the invitation from SUSTECH and the support from AAE!
[03/24/2023] It is a great to share that our paper (3D LiDAR aided GNSS Positioning in Urban Canyons) is accepted to the PolyU Research Student Conference (PRSC) 2023 at PolyU, 8-9 May 2023. Congratulations to Xikun! Xikun will present his work on the 3D LiDAR aided GNSS positioning in urban canyons.
[03/23/2023] It is a great to share that our paper (Cost-effective Camera Localization Aided by Prior Point Clouds Maps for Level 3 Autonomous Driving Vehicles) is accepted to the MMT 2023 in Padua (Italy), on May 24-26, 2023. Congratulations to Nikkie!
[03/23/2023] It is a great to share that our workshop proposal is accepted at the IEEE ITSC 2023, which is going to be hed during 24-28 September 2023 Bilbao, Bizkaia, Spain. Looking forward to make contributions to the IEEE ITSC 2023! More information about our workshop can be find by workshop web.
[03/16/2023] It is a great pleasure to be selected as the Associate Editor of the IEEE ITSC 2023, which is going to be hed during 24-28 September 2023 Bilbao, Bizkaia, Spain. Looking forward to make contributions to the IEEE ITSC 2023!
[03/15/2023] We are glad to invite Prof. Nobuaki Kubo to give a talk titled “GNSS for Highly Reliable Applications”. Prof. Nobuaki Kubo is a Professor at the Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology in the area of GPS/GNSS systems. Prof. Kubo has enjoyed a career in GNSS for over 20 years. The details of the seminar talk could be find by the AAE website.
[03/09/2023] It is a great pleasure to host the visiting of the team from 广州软件技术研究院. We have a detailed disucssion on the research collaboration on the fields of the adaptive navigation by Dr. Guohao Zhang and safety reinforcement by Dr. Bing Xu. Looking forward to the future collaboration. Thank you very much for the assistant from Dongzhe, Darren and Jiachen!
[03/04/2023] It is a great pleasure to give a talk at SJTU. Thank you very much for the invitation from Prof. Yafei Wang. Looking forward to future collaboration with Prof. Wang on the V2X and smart cities.
[02/26/2023] I am going to give a talk at 智加科技 on 3rd Mar 2023 on the topic of the navigation for the autonomous driving ssytems. Thank you very much for the invitation from Dr. Wang Di. I am always keen to learn from idustry to seek the scientific problems!
[02/26/2023] Our paper “Wen, W.*, Bai, X., and Hsu, L.T., 2022. 3D Vision Aided GNSS Real-time Kinematic Positioning for Autonomous Systems in Urban Canyons, NAVIGATION: Journal of the Institute of Navigation.” is accepted by the Navigation, Institute of Navigation. In this paper, the vision is adopted to assist the urban GNSS-RTK positioning with GNSS NLOS exclusion using a sky-pointing camera and geometry improvement using the virtual satellites. This is one of our best paper in the past years! Looking forward to the impact of this paper!
[02/21/2023] it is great to have a nice disucssion with the team of Dr. Jiang Kun from Tsinghua University. Dr. Jiang introduce the work done by their team in the past years.
[02/17/2023] it is great to have a nice detailed discussion with Dr. Yuan Feng from Institute of Software application technology, Guangzhou & Chinese Academy of Science. Lots of new scientific problems are identified during the insightful disucssion. Thank you very much for the hosting from Dr. Wu Hong and Miss. Zhu Yixuan. Looking forward to the coming project collaborations.
[02/16/2023] it is great to have a nice disucssion with the Zhang Haoming from IRT, RWTH Aachen on navigation and factor graph optimization.
[02/15/2023] it is great to have a nice disucssion with the research and development (R&D) team on navigation and map from Tecent.
[02/14/2023] We are organizing a workshop with Dr. Dongyan Wei (魏东岩), Intelligent Perception, Navigation and Communication Lab, Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing. During the one-day workshop, the students present their work on the field of navigation for the ground vehicles and the aircrafts.
[02/04/2023] I am glad to announce the news of the collaboration project with Meituan on topic “Vision Aided GNSS-RTK Positioning for UAV System in Urban Canyons”. Thank you very much for the promotion news from PolyU RIO Website, PolyU AAE Website.
[02/04/2023] I am glad to be invited to give a talk on the “Research on 3D LiDAR Aided (3DLA) Urban GNSS Positioning for Robotics Navigation”. The venue is 香港科学园17W5楼510-519，香港物流机械人研究中心会议室 at 1:00pm - 2:00pm(GMT+8), 13 Feb 2023. Thank you very much for the invitation from Prof. Liu Yunhui and Prof. Chen Fei.
[02/04/2023] We are glad to invite Prof. Tan Ping to give a talk on the “Towards Dense Visual SLAM with Deep Neural Networks”. Prof. Tan is a coming Professor at HKUST and is an expert in visual SLAM and Deep Learning. The venue is N001 at 16:00 - 17:00, 09 Feb 2023.