Zhi Gao Ph.D

Professor and Ph.D. Supervisor

School of Remote Sensing and Information Engineering, Wuhan University
Discipline Leader in Remote Sensing
Deputy Dean, Academy of Engineering Excellence, Wuhan University

gaozhinus@gmail.com
gaozhinus@whu.edu.cn

Biography

• National High-Level Young Talent.
  国家高层次青年人才
• Distinguished Professor of the Chutian Scholars Program, Hubei Province.
  湖北省“楚天学者计划”特聘教授
• Hubei Provincial Outstanding Young Scientist.
  湖北省杰出青年科学基金获得者
• The Innovation Research Group Program of Hubei Provincial Natural Science Foundation.
  湖北省自然科学基金创新研究群体项目负责人
• The Innovation Research Group Program of China–ASEAN International Cooperation Projects.
  中国-东盟国际科技合作创新研究群体项目负责人
• The Founding Expert of the United Nations Global Big Data Center.
  联合国全球大数据中心创始专家

Professional Experience

• Research Scientist, Temasek Laboratories, National University of Singapore, Singapore (2014.03 — 2019.09)
  新加坡国立大学Temasek实验室，研究员（2014年3月 — 2019年9月）
• Postdoctoral researcher and team leader, Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore (2008.06 — 2014.02)
  新加坡国立大学电气与电子工程系，博士后研究员及团队负责人（2008年6月 — 2014年2月）
• Visiting scholar, University of Oxford, the United Kingdom (2014.11 — 2014.12)
  英国牛津大学，访问学者（2014年11月 — 2014年12月）
• Visiting scholar, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, United States of America (2012.07 — 2012.10)
  美国伊利诺伊大学香槟分校，访问学者（2012年7月 — 2012年10月）

Professional Services

• Advisory Board: Journal of Signal and Information Processing
  《信号与信息处理》期刊顾问委员会成员
• Program Committee, editor, Chairman of Sub-Forum: IEEE International Conference on Advanced Robotics and Mechatronics 2018 (Singapore)
  2018年IEEE国际机器人与机电一体化会议（新加坡）程序委员会、编辑及分论坛主席
• Editor, Chairman of Sub-Forum: 14th IEEE International Conference on Control and Automation 2018 (USA) and 15th IEEE International Conference on Control and Automation 2019 (UK)
  第14届IEEE国际控制与自动化会议（美国，2018）及第15届IEEE国际控制与自动化会议（英国，2019）分论坛主席与编辑
• Reviewer for leading conferences and journals including CVPR, ECCV, ACCV, BMVC, IEEE TIP, IEEE TGRS, ISPRS JPRS, IEEE T-ITS, IEEE T-CSVT, IEEE T-BME, IEEE T-SP, IEEE GRSL, and CVIU
  为CVPR、ECCV、ACCV、BMVC、IEEE TIP、IEEE TGRS、ISPRS JPRS、IEEE T-ITS、IEEE T-CSVT、IEEE T-BME、IEEE T-SP、IEEE GRSL、CVIU等顶级会议与期刊担任审稿人

Projects

• Key Technologies and Applications of Autonomous UAV-Based Highway Damage Inspection; Funding: 0.42 million RMB; Duration: 2024-12-01 – 2027-11-30; Status: Ongoing
  基于自主感知的高速公路病害智能巡检无人机系统关键技术及其应用； 经费：42 万元； 周期：2024-12-01 ～ 2027-11-30； 状态：在研
• On-Orbit Real-Time Diagnosis of Surface Anomalies via Remote Sensing; Funding: 3.70 million RMB (National Natural Science Foundation of China); Duration: 2022-01-01 – 2026-12-31; Status: Ongoing
  地表异常遥感在轨即时诊断； 经费：370 万元 （国家自然科学基金）； 周期：2022-01-01 ～ 2026-12-31； 状态：在研
• Deployment and Testing of Intelligent Processing Software for Ecological Environment Elements; Funding: 0.10 million RMB; Duration: 2022-11-24 – 2025-12-31; Status: Ongoing
  面向生态环境特定要素的智能处理软件部署及测试； 经费：10 万元； 周期：2022-11-24 ～ 2025-12-31； 状态：在研
• Customized Development of Autonomous Ground Unmanned Platforms; Funding: 0.35 million RMB; Duration: 2025-05-29 – 2025-12-31; Status: Ongoing
  地面自主无人平台定制开发； 经费：35 万元； 周期：2025-05-29 ～ 2025-12-31； 状态：在研
• Unmanned Swarm Abnormality Evaluation Technology; Funding: 3.60 million RMB; Duration: 2024-07-01 – 2025-12-31; Status: Ongoing
  无人集群异类评估技术； 经费：360 万元； 周期：2024-07-01 ～ 2025-12-31； 状态：在研
• AI-Based Mudslide Monitoring and Early-Warning System Development; Funding: 0.737 million RMB; Duration: 2023-09-11 – 2024-09-11; Status: Completed
  AI泥石流监测预警系统研发； 经费：73.7 万元； 周期：2023-09-11 ～ 2024-09-11； 状态：已结题
• High-Precision Spatial Calibration Technologies; Funding: 0.60 million RMB; Duration: 2023-12-01 – 2024-09-30; Status: Completed
  高精度空间标定技术； 经费：60 万元； 周期：2023-12-01 ～ 2024-09-30； 状态：已结题
• Hierarchical Game-Theoretic Multi-Agent Adversarial Techniques; Funding: 0.15 million RMB; Duration: 2023-01-01 – 2024-12-31; Status: Completed
  多智能体分层博弈对抗技术研究； 经费：15 万元； 周期：2023-01-01 ～ 2024-12-31； 状态：已结题
• Cooperative Perception, Planning and Localization for Lunar Mobile Platforms and Carrying Robots; Funding: 0.42 million RMB; Duration: 2023-08-25 – 2023-12-31; Status: Completed
  月面移动平台与携行机器人协同感知规划与定位技术研究； 经费：42 万元； 周期：2023-08-25 ～ 2023-12-31； 状态：已结题

Teaching Highlights

• Computer Vision
  计算机视觉

Group Members

• Hong Ji
• Ronghe Jin
• Wei Ao
• Xuhui Zhao

Former Ph.D. Students

• Hong Ji
• Xuhui Zhao
• Wei Ao

Latest News

• 11/2025 The CWT United team, formed by Professor Gao’s team and Professor Ben M. Chen's team from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, claimed the "Dual Champion" title in both indoor and outdoor tracks at the 16th IMAV 2025 in Mexico.
• 06/2025 Professor Zhi Gao's team won the Global Championship in the "Robust Anomaly Detection for Real-World Applications" track of the IEEE CVPR Visual Anomaly Detection Challenge.
• 05/2022 Professor Zhi Gao's team has published several papers in top robotics, automation, and industrial application journals and conferences.

Highlight Publications

Unmanned Systems

Enhancing the Utilization of Color Information in Point Cloud Semantic Segmentation

Xinyu Guo; Zhi Gao; Zhiyu Zhou; Jingshi Wang; Luliang Tang; Min Cao

IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2025: 13478-13485.

Accurate LiDAR-Camera Fused Odometry and RGB-Colored Mapping

Zhipeng Lin; Zhi Gao; Ben M. Chen; Jingwei Chen; Chenyang Li

IEEE ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION LETTERS, 9(3): 2495–2502 (2024).

WaterFormer: A Global–Local Transformer for Underwater Image Enhancement With Environment Adaptor

Junjie Wen; Jinqiang Cui; Guidong Yang; Benyun Zhao; Yu Zhai; Zhi Gao

IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine, 31(1): 29-40 (2024).

SGCalib: A two-stage camera-LiDAR calibration method using semantic information and geometric features

Zhipeng Lin; Zhi Gao; Xinyi Liu; Jialiang Wang; Weiwei Song; Ben M. Chen

IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2024: 14527-14533.

EnYOLO: a real-time framework for domain-adaptive underwater object detection with image enhancement

Junjie Wen; Jinqiang Cui; Benyun Zhao; Bingxin Han; Xuchen Liu; Zhi Gao

IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2024: 12613-12619.

Accurate and Efficient Loop Closure Detection With Deep Binary Image Descriptor and Augmented Point Cloud Registration

Jialiang Wang; Zhi Gao; Zhipeng Lin; Zhiyu Zhou; Xiaonan Wang; Jianhua Cheng

IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2024: 12573-12580.

Underwater object detection integrated with image enhancement

Junjie Wen; Jinqiang Cui; Guidong Yang; Benyun Zhao; Zhi Gao; Ben M. Chen

IEEE International Conference on Real-time Computing and Robotics, 2024: 160-165.

How challenging is a challenge? cems: a challenge evaluation module for slam visual perception

Xuhui Zhao, Zhi Gao, Hao Li, Hong Ji, Hong Yang, Chenyang Li, Hao Fang & Ben M. Chen

Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, 110(1): 42 (2024).

Remote Sensing for Ground Defect Detection

Data Augmentation For Remote Sensing Semantic Segmentation Via Controllable Diffusion Models

Mengjie Xie; Jianya Gong; Zhi Gao; Min Cao

IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2025:6132-6136.

ESAD-GPT: Earth’s Surface Anomaly Detection Using Large Vision-language Models

Xing-Ao Wang; Zhi Gao; Zhaohong Liao; Shuying Xia; Min Cao; Qiao Wang

IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2025: 1007-1011.

Publications List

1. Zhi Gao*, L-F Cheong, Y-X Wang. Block-Sparse RPCA for Salient Motion Detection. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 36(10): 1975–1987 (2014). IF: 9.455
2. L-F Cheong, Zhi Gao*. Quasi-Parallax for Nearly Parallel Frontal Eyes – A Possible Role of Binocular Overlap During Rapid Locomotion. International Journal of Computer Vision, 101(1): 45–63 (2014). IF: 11.541
3. Zhi Gao*, R.F. Zhai, P.F. Wang, X. Yan, H. Qin, Y.Z. Tang, B. Ramesh. Synergizing Appearance and Motion with Low Rank Representation for Vehicle Counting and Traffic Flow Analysis. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 19(8): 2675–2685 (2018). IF: 4.051
4. Zhi Gao*, Q. Li, R.F. Zhai, M. Shan, F. Lin. Adaptive and Robust Sparse Coding for Laser Range Data Denoising and Inpainting. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, 26(12): 2165–2175 (2016). IF: 3.558
5. Y.J. Zhang*, F. Wen, Zhi Gao, X. Lin. A Coarse-to-Fine Framework for Cloud Removal in Remote Sensing Image Sequence. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 99(1): 1–12 (2019). IF: 4.662
6. Zhi Gao*, Q. Li, R.F. Zhai. Laser Range Data Denoising via Adaptive and Robust Dictionary Learning. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, 12(8): 1750–1754 (2015). IF: 2.892
7. Zhi Gao*, H. Ji. Transform Learning Based Sparse Coding for LiDAR Data Denoising. IEEE Signal Processing Letterss, 26(3): 480–484 (2019). IF: 2.813
8. Zhi Gao*, H. Ji, T.C. Mei, B. Ramesh. EOVNet: Earth-Observation Image Based Vehicle Detection Network. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, accepted (2019). IF: 2.777
9. Zhi Gao*, M. Lao, Y. Sang, F. Wen, B. Ramesh, R.F. Zhai. Fast Sparse Coding for Range Data Denoising with Sparse Ridges Constraint. Sensors, 18(5): 1449–1458 (2018). IF: 2.475
10. H. Ji, Zhi Gao*, T.C. Mei, Y.F. Li. Improved Faster R-CNN with Multiscale Feature Fusion and Homography Augmentation for Vehicle Detection in Remote Sensing Images. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, 99(1): 1–5 (2019). IF: 2.892
11. F. Wen, Y.J. Zhang, Zhi Gao*, X. Lin. Two-Pass Robust Component Analysis for Cloud Removal in Satellite Image Sequence. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, 15(7): 1090–1094 (2018). IF: 2.892
12. Zhi Gao*, H. Ji, T.C. Mei, B. Ramesh. Vehicle Detection in Remote Sensing Images Leveraging on Simultaneous Super-resolution. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, accepted (2019). IF: 2.892
13. Zhi Gao*, P. Wang, R.F. Zhai, Y. Tang. Lateral Placed Eyes vs Frontally Placed Eyes: Computational Comparison of Their Functions for Ego-motion Estimation. Journal of the Optical Society of America A, 33(4): 501–507 (2016). IF: 1.566
14. Zhi Gao*, B. Ramesh, W-Y. Lin, P. Wang, X. Yan, R.F. Zhai. Efficient Velocity Estimation for MAVs by Fusing Motion from Two Frontally Parallel Cameras. Journal of Real-Time Image Processing, 99(1): 1–12 (2018). IF: 1.574
15. Zhi Gao*, Q. Li, M. Shan. Painting Authentication via Adaptive and Robust Dictionary Learning. ACM Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage, 8(4): Article 22 (2015). IF: 1.628
16. Y. Tang, Zhi Gao*, F. Lin, Y.F. Li, F. Wen. Visual Adaptive Tracking for Monocular Omnidirectional Camera. Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, 55: 253–262 (2018). IF: 1.836
17. X. Zheng, B. Ramesh*, Zhi Gao, Y. Yang, C. Xiang. A Novel Framework for Robust Long-term Object Tracking in Real-time. Machine Vision and Applications, 30(3): 529–539 (2019). IF: 1.306
18. A. Lim, B. Ramesh*, Y. Yang, C. Xiang, Zhi Gao, F. Lin. Real-time Optical Flow-based Video Stabilization for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles. Journal of Real-Time Image Processing, 99(1): 1–12 (2017). IF: 1.574
19. B. Ramesh*, Z. Lim, L. Chen, C. Xiang, Zhi Gao. Scalable Scene Understanding via Saliency Consensus. Soft Computing, 23(7): 2429–2443 (2019). IF: 2.367
20. Zhi Gao*, L-F Cheong, M. Shan. Block-Sparse RPCA for Consistent Foreground Detection. ECCV, Springer: 690–703 (2012).
21. Zhi Gao*, M. Shan, L-F Cheong, Q. Li. Adaptive and Robust Sparse Coding for Painting Style Analysis. ACCV, Springer: 168–184 (2014).
22. B. Ramesh*, S. Zhang, Z. Lee, Zhi Gao, G. Orchard, C. Xiang. Long-term Object Tracking with a Moving Event Camera. BMVC: 241–252 (2018).
23. X. Liu, Zhi Gao*, B. Ramesh, B.M. Chen. Conditional GAN for Underwater Image Color Correction. BMVC (2019).