I am a Ph.D. student at the National Key Laboratory of Human-Machine Hybrid Augmented Intelligence, Xi’an Jiaotong University (XJTU), under the supervision of Prof. Nanning Zheng. I received the B.E. degree in electronic and information engineering from Xi’an Jiaotong University. My research interests mainly include place recognition, SLAM, representation learning and autonomous vehicle. Now I am learning embodied AI. I have published several papers in T-PAMI, CVPR, RA-L, ICRA, IROS, and so on. I am lucky to have opportunities to work with Assoc. Prof. Sanping Zhou and Assist. Prof ShitaoChen.

I am lucky to have opportunities to work at Robotic Systems Lab (RSL) as a visiting Ph.D. student, supervised by Assoc. Prof. Marco Hutter, Dr. Cesar Cadena, and Dr. Olga Vysotska. RSL family members are sooooo nice. That’s what I’d like to call destiny.

CV_CN, CV_EN

🔥 News

• 2025.03 : One first-author paper is accepted by T-PAMI 2025.
• 2025.02 : One first-author paper is accepted by CVPR 2025 (highlight🌟, ~top 10%).
• 2024.11 : I was awarded the CMCC scholarship (Top 1%).
• 2024.01 : One paper is accepted by ICRA 2024.
• 2023.02 : One first-author paper is accepted by CVPR 2023.

📖 Educations

• Ph.D, Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, Xi’an Jiaotong University, 2019.09-2025.12
• Visiting Ph.D, Robotic Systems Lab, ETH Zurich, 2023.12-2024.12
• B.S., Electronic and Information Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, 2015.09-2019.06

📝 Selected Publications

T-PAMI 2025

StructVPR++: Distill Structural and Semantic Knowledge with Weighting Samples for Visual Place Recognition

Yanqing Shen , Sanping Zhou, Jingwen Fu, Ruotong Wang, Shitao Chen, Nanning Zheng*

[Paper]

CVPR 2025 highlight

ForestLPR: LiDAR Place Recognition in Forests Attentioning Multiple BEV Density Images

Yanqing Shen , Turcan Tuna, Cesar Cadena, Marco Hutter, Nanning Zheng*

In this work, we propose a robust LiDAR-based place recognition method for natural forests, ForestLPR. The cross-sectional images are represented by BEV density images of horizontal slices of the point cloud at different heights. Our approach utilizes a visual transformer as the shared backbone to produce sets of local descriptors and introduces a multi-BEV interaction module to attend to information at different heights adaptively.

[Paper] [Code] [中文解读]

CVPR 2023

StructVPR: Distill Structural Knowledge with Weighting Samples for Visual Place Recognition

Yanqing Shen , Sanping Zhou, Jingwen Fu, Ruotong Wang, Shitao Chen, Nanning Zheng*

[Paper] [中文解读]

CVPR 2022

TransVPR: Transformer-based Place Recognition with Multi-level Attention Aggregation

Ruotong Wang¹ , Yanqing Shen¹ , Weiliang Zuo, Sanping Zhou, Nanning Zheng*

[Paper]

🏅 Selected Honors and awards

• National Scholarship, Xi’an Jiaotong University, (2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2023)

  top1%, Issued by Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China

• CMCC Scholarship, top 1%, 2024
• Acedamic star of the AIAR, 2020
• Freshman Scholarship, Xi’an Jiaotong University, 2019
• Academic Scholarship, Xi’an Jiaotong University, 2019
• Outstanding Undergraduate Graduates in Xi’an Jiaotong University, 2019
• Outstanding Student, Xi’an Jiaotong University, (2016, 2017, 2018, 2020)

Hobbies

🏀Basketball (I am a big fan of Stephen Curry since 2015)