About me

Welcome! I am a Ph.D. student at Computer Vision for Human-Computer Interaction Lab (CV:HCI), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany, under the supervision of Prof. Rainer Stiefelhagen. I also work closely with Prof. Marc Pollefeys at CVG at ETH Zurich. Before my Ph.D. journey, I received my M.Sc. degree from KIT and B.Sc. degree from Guangdong University of Technology (GDUT).

Education

  • 🎓 Ph.D. in Computer Science, 2026
    KIT, Germany
  • 🎓 Visiting Ph.D. in Computer Science, 2025
    ETH Zurich, Switzerland
  • 🎓 M.Sc. in Mechatronics, 2022
    KIT, Germany
  • 🎓 B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering, 2016
    GDUT, China

Experience

Interest

  • Visual Localization
  • Scene Understanding
  • Autonomous Driving
  • Assistive Technology

🔥 News

[Oct 2025] I will join CVG at ETH Zurich as a visiting Ph.D. student, working closely with Prof. Marc Pollefeys.
[Sep 2025] Two papers (HopaDIFF, Situat3DChange) have been accepted by NeurIPS2025.
[Jun 2025] We are organizing the 1st iCARE Workshop at CoRL2025.
[Feb 2025] Two papers (SPR, SAMBLE) have been accepted by CVPR2025.
[Jan 2025] A paper (GraphDoc) has been accepted by ICLR2025.
[Nov 2024] A paper (OneBev) has been selected as Best Paper Finalist by ACCV2024.
[Oct 2024] A paper (@Bench) has been accepted by WACV2025.
[Jul 2024] Two papers (OPS, RAVAR) have been accepted by ECCV2024.
[Jun 2024] A paper (NoiseEraSAR) has been accepted by IROS2024.
[Apr 2024] A paper (MATERobot) has been selected as Best Paper Finalist on Human-Robot Interaction by ICRA2024.
[Feb 2024] A paper (RoDLA) has been accepted by CVPR2024.
[Jan 2024] A paper (MATERobot) has been accepted by ICRA2024.
[Dec 2023] A paper (OS-SAR) has been accepted by AAAI2024.
[Mar 2023] A paper (APES) has been selected as Highlight by CVPR2023.
[Feb 2023] A paper (APES) has been accepted by CVPR2023.

🎉 Services

  • Workshop Co-organizer
    1st iCARE@CoRL2025
  • Journal Reviewer
    IJCV, RA-L, Robot Learning, ESWA
  • Conference Reviewer
    CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, ICLR, AAAI, NeurIPS, ACMMM, WACV, ICRA, IROS, IV

📖 Selected Publications
(* Equal contribution, Corresponding author)
My full publication list is available on Google Scholar.

Situat3DChange: Situated 3D Change Understanding Dataset for Multimodal Large Language Model
R. Liu, J. Zheng, Y. Chen, Z. Wang, K. Peng, K. Yang, J. Zhang, M. Pollefeys, R. Stiefelhagen
NeurIPS'25 Paper Code Dataset Video
Scene-agnostic Pose Regression for Visual Localization
J. Zheng, R. Liu, Y. Chen, Z. Chen, K. Yang, J. Zhang, R. Stiefelhagen
CVPR'25 Homepage Paper Code Dataset Video
SAMBLE: Shape-Specific Point Cloud Sampling for an Optimal Trade-Off Between Local Detail and Global Uniformity
C. Wu, Y. Wan*, H. Fu*, J. Pfrommer, Z. Zhong, J. Zheng, J. Zhang, J. Beyerer
CVPR'25 Homepage Paper Code Video
@BENCH: Benchmarking Vision-Language Models for Human-centered Assistive Technology
X. Jiang*, J. Zheng*, R. Liu, J. Li, S. Matthiesen, J. Zhang, R. Stiefelhagen
WACV'25 Homepage Paper Code
OneBEV: Using One Panoramic Image for Bird’s-Eye-View Semantic Mapping
J. Wei, J. Zheng, R. Liu, J. Hu, J. Zhang, R. Stiefelhagen
ACCV'24 ( Best paper finalist) Paper Code
Open Panoramic Segmentation
J. Zheng, R. Liu, Y. Chen, K. Peng, C. Wu, K. Yang, J. Zhang, R. Stiefelhagen
ECCV'24 Homepage Paper Code Video
MateRobot: Material Recognition in Wearable Robotics for People with Visual Impairments
J. Zheng*, J. Zhang*, K. Yang, K. Peng, R. Stiefelhagen
ICRA'24 ( Best paper finalist on HRI) Homepage Paper Code Video
Attention-Based Point Cloud Edge Sampling
C. Wu, J. Zheng, J. Pfrommer, J. Beyerer
CVPR'23 ( Highlight, Top 10%) Homepage Paper Code Video