Past Events in 2023

This page lists my news and events in 2023.

• [12/30/2023] We are happy to share that our proposal titled “Data-driven-assisted GNSS RTK/INS Navigation for Autonomous Systems in Urban Canyons” was granted by the PolyU Research Centres. This project aims to explore the potential of AI in improving GNSS positioning in urban canyons, in collaboration with Dr. Li Jing from the PolyU Department of Computing.

• [12/19/2023] It was great to attend the 美团机器人年会, where I was invited to give a short presentation titled “How Much We Can Trust on Your UAV?: Risk-aware Navigation and Control for UAV in Complex Urban Canyons” in Nanshan, Shenzhen.

• [12/11/2023] We are glad to share that our GLIO paper (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 now available in the IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles via the IEEE Link. The code is fully open-sourced in the 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” was granted by the Research Center of Deep Space Exploration (RC-DSE). This is a collaboration with Dr. Lidong Yang from PolyU ISE.

• [11/28/2023] We are happy to share that our proposal “Maximum Consensus Integration of GNSS and LiDAR for Urban Navigation” was granted by the Hong Kong UGC Germany/Hong Kong Joint Research Scheme. This project is a collaboration with Prof. Claus Brenner at the University of Hannover, Germany. Thank you very much to Jiachen for the contribution! 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) was accepted by the IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles. Congratulations to Peiyu and the co-authors! It was a nice collaboration with Dr. Lu’s team at HKU.

• [11/23/2023] We are glad 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) was accepted by the IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles. Congratulations to Darren and the co-authors! It was a nice collaboration with the team of Prof. Chaoqun Wang from Shandong University.

• [11/22/2023] It was great to host a visit from GODO at PolyU. We had a very nice discussion on the R&D of UAV systems for remote inspection. Looking forward to future collaboration on UAV-related applications.

• [11/13/2023] It was great to visit the “阳江海上风力发电实验室” and gain many new insights! Thanks to Prof. Ding Xiaoli and colleagues from PolyU RILS for organizing it.

• [10/27/2023] It was great to give a talk at Huawei Hong Kong on the topic of Trustworthy Satellite Navigation in Highly Urbanized Areas. Thanks to Yongliang and Liwei for the invitation, and thanks to Xikun, Xiaxiao, Xi and Penggao for their input!

• [10/20/2023] I am glad to share that I was included in the list of the top 2% scientists selected by Stanford University.

• [09/27/2023] The Second Workshop at IEEE ITSC 2023 was successfully held in Spain with fruitful discussions! More details can be found in the Blog.

• [09/26/2023] We are happy to share that our GLIO paper (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.) was accepted by the IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles. In this work, we proposed a 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 was great to host the visit of Wu Jin, Dr. Jiang, Xiangcheng Hu and Dr. Jianhao Jiao from HKUST at PolyU.

• [09/11/2023] It was great to join the 江苏产业技术交流会 at the invitation of PolyU RIO. I gained many new insights from the forum.

• [09/02/2023] We are happy and honoured to announce that we received a research fund from Tencent on the topic of “the multi-sensory integrated positioning for ground vehicles”. We will work on the challenges of urban GNSS positioning and its integration with visual positioning.

• [09/01/2023] I am happy to share that I started a new position as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Aeronautical and Aviation Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

• [07/22/2023] It was great to host the visit of PhD student Jeldrik Axmann from Leibniz Universität Hannover.

• [07/22/2023] It was great to host the visit of PhD student KOBAYASHI Kaito from Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology, Japan.

• [07/22/2023] It was great to host the visit of Dr. Chao-Chung Peng from the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, National Cheng Kung University.

• [07/22/2023] It was great to host the visit of Dr. Guoquan Huang from the University of Delaware (UD), U.S.

• [07/14/2023] We are happy to share that 5 papers were accepted at 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 systems) and Zhengxi (tightly-coupled line-based visual localization within the prior map)!

• [06/07/2023] It is 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] We are glad 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).” has finally been published online in NAVIGATION! This is one of our best works of the past years!

• [04/27/2023] We are happy to share that our research proposal entitled “Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Aided High Accuracy Additive Manufacturing for Carbon Fiber Reinforced Thermoplastic Composites Material” was successfully granted by the Research Institute for Advanced Manufacturing (RIAM). Thank you very much to RIAM for the support; we look forward to the findings of this project!

• [04/26/2023] It is 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] We are glad to share that our work (Safety-aware LiDAR Localization with a Prior Point Cloud Map for Autonomous Driving), first-authored by Dr. Jiachen Zhang, was presented by Dr. Li-Ta Hsu at Stanford University! Feel free to check the full video.

• [04/21/2023] It was great to join the Grand Opening Ceremony of the ASTRI Technovation Centre (ATC) cum ASTRI University Collaboration Sharing. Thank you very much to Dongzhe Su for the invitation!

• [04/13/2023] It was great to join the Official Launch of Smart Mobility Technology (C-V2X) Alliance cum Smart Mobility Forum organized by ASTRI. Thank you very much to Dongzhe Su for the invitation!

• [04/13/2023] It was great to join the Digital Economy Summit (DES) 2023. Looking forward to contributing to the Hong Kong smart city.

• [04/12/2023] We are happy to share that we were interviewed by 信报 in Hong Kong. The interview can be found in the Video here. In this interview, we shared our views on unmanned autonomous systems (UAS) and their current bottleneck problems. We also shared our progress in transferring our UAS technology to industry. We argue that the Safety of UAS is of great importance for their mass production. Let users trust the UAS!

• [04/08/2023] I am glad to share that the Special Issue “Global Navigation Satellite System for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle” has been set up, and I will serve as the Guest Editor. Thank you very much to Dr. Guohao Zhang for the invitation.

• [04/04/2023] We are happy 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 for the next 3 months on the topic of GNSS and machine learning!

• [04/03/2023] I am glad to share that I was selected as an editorial board member of the Journal of Data Science and Intelligent Systems. Looking forward to contributing to the Journal of Data Science and Intelligent Systems.

• [04/03/2023] We are happy to share that Hongming Shen secured the PolyU postdoc matching fund from 3 Jul 2024 to 2 Jul 2025. Hongming will work with us for the next 2 years!

• [04/03/2023] It is 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) were accepted at MMT 2023 in Padua (Italy), on May 24-26, 2023. Congratulations to Nikkie!

• [03/26/2023] It was great to join the 南科大首届新工科教育论坛, where we presented our work on 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 to SUSTECH for the invitation and to AAE for the support!

• [03/24/2023] We are glad to share that our paper (3D LiDAR aided GNSS Positioning in Urban Canyons) was accepted at the PolyU Research Student Conference (PRSC) 2023 at PolyU, 8-9 May 2023. Congratulations to Xikun! Xikun will present his work on 3D LiDAR aided GNSS positioning in urban canyons.

• [03/23/2023] It is great to share that our paper (Cost-effective Camera Localization Aided by Prior Point Clouds Maps for Level 3 Autonomous Driving Vehicles) was accepted at MMT 2023 in Padua (Italy), on May 24-26, 2023. Congratulations to Nikkie!

• [03/23/2023] We are happy to share that our workshop proposal was accepted at IEEE ITSC 2023, which will be held on 24-28 September 2023 in Bilbao, Bizkaia, Spain. Looking forward to contributing to IEEE ITSC 2023! More information about our workshop can be found on the workshop web.

• [03/16/2023] It is a great pleasure to be selected as an Associate Editor of IEEE ITSC 2023, which will be held on 24-28 September 2023 in Bilbao, Bizkaia, Spain. Looking forward to contributing to 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 working in the area of GPS/GNSS systems. Prof. Kubo has had a career in GNSS for over 20 years. Details of the seminar talk can be found on the AAE website.

• [03/09/2023] It was a great pleasure to host a visit from the team of 广州软件技术研究院. We had a detailed discussion on research collaboration in the fields of adaptive navigation, led by Dr. Guohao Zhang, and safety reinforcement, led by Dr. Bing Xu. Looking forward to future collaboration. Thank you very much to Dongzhe, Darren and Jiachen for their assistance!

• [03/04/2023] It was a great pleasure to give a talk at SJTU. Thank you very much to Prof. Yafei Wang for the invitation. Looking forward to future collaboration with Prof. Wang on 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 navigation for autonomous driving systems. Thank you very much to Dr. Wang Di for the invitation. I am always keen to learn from industry to find 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.” was accepted by Navigation, Institute of Navigation. In this paper, vision is adopted to assist urban GNSS-RTK positioning, with GNSS NLOS exclusion using a sky-pointing camera and geometry improvement using virtual satellites. This is one of our best papers of the past years! Looking forward to the impact of this paper!

• [02/21/2023] It was great to have a nice discussion with the team of Dr. Jiang Kun from Tsinghua University. Dr. Jiang introduced the work done by their team in the past years.

• [02/17/2023] It was great to have a detailed discussion with Dr. Yuan Feng from the Institute of Software Application Technology, Guangzhou & Chinese Academy of Sciences. Many new scientific problems were identified during the insightful discussion. Thank you very much to Dr. Wu Hong and Miss Zhu Yixuan for hosting. Looking forward to the coming project collaborations.

• [02/16/2023] It was great to have a nice discussion with Zhang Haoming from IRT, RWTH Aachen on navigation and factor graph optimization.

• [02/15/2023] It was great to have a nice discussion with the research and development (R&D) team on navigation and maps from Tencent.

• [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 will present their work in the field of navigation for ground vehicles and aircraft.

• [02/04/2023] I am glad to announce the collaboration project with Meituan on the topic “Vision Aided GNSS-RTK Positioning for UAV System in Urban Canyons”. Thank you very much for the news coverage on the PolyU RIO Website and the PolyU AAE Website.

• [02/04/2023] I am glad to be invited to give a talk on “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 to Prof. Liu Yunhui and Prof. Chen Fei for the invitation.

• [02/04/2023] We are glad to invite Prof. Tan Ping to give a talk on “Towards Dense Visual SLAM with Deep Neural Networks”. Prof. Tan is an incoming Professor at HKUST and an expert in visual SLAM and deep learning. The venue is N001 at 16:00 - 17:00, 09 Feb 2023.