👋 Biography [Google Scholar]

Yong-Qiang Mao is now an assistant researcher at the Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University. Yong-Qiang Mao received his Ph.D. degree in Aerospace Information Research Institute (Institute of Electronics), Chinese Academy of Sciences & School of Electronic, Electrical and Communication Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences. His research advisors are Prof. Kun Fu and Prof. Xian Sun. Yong-Qiang Mao received the B. E. degree from Electronic Information School, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China, in 2019.

Yong-Qiang Mao’s research interests include remote sensing and computer vision, with a focus on 3D Perception (Point Cloud and Reconstruction), Multimodal Remote Sensing (Semantic Segmentation and Object Detection), Cross-modal retrieval, Large Foundation Models, Few-shot Learning.

🔥 News

• 2025.05:  🎉🎉 I’m serving as a Guest Editor for Remote Sensing and warmly welcome submissions from researchers working in the field of remote sensing.
• 2025.03:  🎉🎉 One paper about Cross-modal Fine-grained Retrieval has been accepted by IEEE IGARSS 2025 Oral!
• 2025.02:  🎉🎉 One paper about ALS Point Cloud Segmentation has been accepted by ISPRS Journal Ph & RS!
• 2025.02:  🎉🎉 One paper about Fine-grained Retrieval has been accepted by IEEE JSTARS!
• 2024.09:  🎉🎉 One paper about Few-shot Segmantic Segmentation has been accepted by IEEE TPAMI!
• 2024.09:  🎉🎉 One paper about Few-shot Segmantic Segmentation has been accepted by IJCV!
• 2024.09:  🎉🎉 One paper about Few-shot Segmantic Segmentation has been accepted by IEEE GRSL!
• 2024.08:  🎉🎉 One paper about Multi-view Stereo has been accepted by IEEE TGRS!
• 2024.05:  🎉🎉 One paper about Video and Motion Joint Prediction has been accepted by IEEE TGRS!
• 2024.02:  🎉🎉 One paper about Fine-grained 3D Building Model has been accepted by RSE!
• 2023.10:  🎉🎉 One paper about Few-shot Segmantic Segmentation has been accepted by IEEE TGRS!
• 2023.05:  🎉🎉 One paper about Multi-task Learning has been accepted by IEEE IGARSS 2023!
• 2023.05:  🎉🎉 One paper about End-to-end Autonomous Driving has been released as Technical Report!
• 2023.05:  🎉🎉 One paper about UAV Object Detection has been accepted by ISPRS Journal Ph & RS!
• 2023.04:  🎉🎉 One paper about Building 3d Reconstruction has been accepted by IEEE TGRS!
• 2023.02:  🎉🎉 One paper about Few-shot Object Detection has been accepted by IEEE TGRS!
• 2023.02:  🎉🎉 One paper about Object Detection has been accepted by IEEE TGRS!
• 2023.01:  🎉🎉 We successfully held the 2023 IEEE GRSS Data Fusion Contest (DFC2023)!
• 2023.01:  🎉🎉 One paper about Semi-supervised Segmentation has been accepted by IEEE TGRS!
• 2022.12:  🎉🎉 One paper about Cross-modal Retrieval has been accepted by IJAG!
• 2022.12:  🎉🎉 One paper about Few-shot Object Detection has been accepted by AAAI 2023!
• 2022.09:  🎉🎉 One paper about Multi-modal Semantic Localization has been accepted by IEEE TGRS!
• 2022.07:  🎉🎉 One paper about Point Cloud Few-shot Segmentation has been accepted by IEEE 3DV Oral!
• 2022.04:  🎉🎉 One paper about ALS Point Cloud Segmentation has been accepted by ISPRS Journal Ph & RS!
• 2021.12:  🎉🎉 One paper about Point Cloud Segmentation has been accepted by DLG-AAAI 2022!

📝 Publications

Beyond single receptive field: A receptive field fusion-and-stratification network for airborne laser scanning point cloud classification [Paper Link]

Y. Mao, K. Chen, W. Diao, X. Sun, X. Lu, K. Fu, M. Weinmann

ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS Journal Ph & RS, Top, IF=12.2)

Twin deformable point convolutions for airborne laser scanning point cloud classification [Paper Link]

Y. Mao, H. Bi, X. Li, K. Chen, Z. Wang, X. Sun, K. Fu

ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS Journal Ph & RS, Top, IF=12.2)

Elevation Estimation-Driven Building 3D Reconstruction from Single-View Remote Sensing Imagery [Paper Link]

Y. Mao, K. Chen, L. Zhao, W. Chen, D. Tang, W. Liu, Z. Wang, W. Diao, X. Sun, K. Fu

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (IEEE TGRS, Top, IF=8.6)

SDL-MVS: View Space and Depth Deformable Learning Paradigm for Multi-View Stereo Reconstruction in Remote Sensing [Paper Link]

Y. Mao, H. Bi, L. Xu, K. Chen, Z. Wang, X. Sun, K. Fu

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (IEEE TGRS, Top, IF=8.6)

FRORS: An Effective Fine-Grained Retrieval Framework for Optical Remote Sensing Images [Paper Link]

Y. Mao, Z. Jiang, Y. Liu, Y. Zhang, K. Qi, H. Bi, Y. He

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing (IEEE JSTARS, Top, IF=5.3)

Body Joint Boundary Prototype Match for Few Shot Remote Sensing Semantic Segmentation [Paper Link]

Y. Mao, Z. Jiang, Y. Liu, Y. Zhang, Y. Li, C. Yan, B. Zhang

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters (IEEE GRSL, IF=4.4)

Bidirectional Feature Globalization for Few-shot Semantic Segmentation of 3D Point Cloud Scenes [Paper Link]

Y. Mao, Z. Guo, X. Lu, Z. Yuan, H. Guo

2022 International Conference on 3D Vision (IEEE 3DV 2022 Oral)

LIGHT: JOINT INDIVIDUAL BUILDING EXTRACTION AND HEIGHT ESTIMATION FROM SATELLITE IMAGES THROUGH A UNIFIED MULTITASK LEARNING NETWORK [Paper Link]

Y. Mao, X. Sun, X. Huang, K. Chen

IGARSS 2023-2023 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS 2023)

Semantic Segmentation for Point Cloud Scenes via Dilated Graph Feature Aggregation and Pyramid Decoders [Paper Link]

Y. Mao, X. Sun, W. Diao, K. Chen, Z. Guo, X. Lu, K. Fu

Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) Workshops 2022 (AAAI Workshops 2022)

Rethinking the Open-Loop Evaluation of End-to-End Autonomous Driving in nuScenes [Paper Link]

J. Zhai, Z. Feng, J. Du, Y. Mao, J. Liu, Z. Tan, Y. Zhang, X. Ye, J. Wang (Equal contribution)

Technical Report (Technical Report)

Prompt-and-Transfer: Dynamic Class-aware Enhancement for Few-shot Segmentation [Paper Link]

H. Bi, Y. Feng, W. Diao, P. Wang, Y. Mao, K. Fu, H. Wang, X. Sun

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (IEEE TPAMI, Top, IF=20.8)

GABLE: A first fine-grained 3D building model of China on a national scale from very high resolution satellite imagery [Paper Link]

X. Sun, X. Huang, Y. Mao, T. Sheng, J. Li, Z. Wang, X. Lu, X. Ma, D. Tang, K. Chen

Remote Sensing of Environment (RSE, Top, IF=11.1)

Breaking immutable: Information-coupled prototype elaboration for few-shot object detection [Paper Link]

X. Lu, W. Diao, Y. Mao, J. Li, P. Wang, X. Sun, K. Fu

Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) 2023 (AAAI 2023)

PICS: Paradigms integration and contrastive selection for semisupervised remote sensing images semantic segmentation [Paper Link]

X. Qi, Y. Mao, Y. Zhang, Y. Deng, H. Wei, L. Wang

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (IEEE TGRS, Top, IF=8.6)

TAFormer: A Unified Target-Aware Transformer for Video and Motion Joint Prediction in Aerial Scenes [Paper Link]

L. Xu, W. Lu, H. Yu, Y. Mao, H. Bi, C. Liu, X. Sun, K. Fu

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (IEEE TGRS, Top, IF=8.6)

Few-shot object detection in aerial imagery guided by text-modal knowledge [Paper Link]

X. Lu, X. Sun, W. Diao, Y. Mao, J. Li, Y. Zhang, P. Wang, K. Fu

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (IEEE TGRS, Top, IF=8.6)

Bridging the Gap Between Cumbersome and Light Detectors via Layer-Calibration and Task-Disentangle Distillation in Remote Sensing Imagery [Paper Link]

H. Bi, Y. Feng, Z. Yan, Y. Mao, W. Diao, H. Wang, X. Sun

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (IEEE TGRS, Top, IF=8.6)

Learning to evaluate performance of multi-modal semantic localization [Paper Link]

Z. Yuan, W. Zhang, C. Li, Z. Pan, Y. Mao, J. Chen, S. Li, H. Wang, X. Sun

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (IEEE TGRS, Top, IF=8.6)

Bridging the Gap Between Cumbersome and Light Detectors via Layer-Calibration and Task-Disentangle Distillation in Remote Sensing Imagery [Paper Link]

Y. Zhang, Z. Yan, X. Sun, X. Lu, J. Li, Y. Mao, L. Wang

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (IEEE TGRS, Top, IF=8.6)

MCRN: A Multi-source Cross-modal Retrieval Network for remote sensing [Paper Link]

Z. Yuan, W. Zhang, C. Tian, Y. Mao, R. Zhou, H. Wang, K. Fu, X. Sun

International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation (IJAG, Top, IF=7.5)

🚀 Projects

2023 IEEE GRSS Data Fusion Contest [Website]

• 2024.01 - 2024.4, Student Leader
• Organization: Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Universität der Bundeswehr München; GEOVIS Earth Technology; IEEE GRSS
• Baseline Code

Large-scale Urban Building Reconstruction

• 2023.01 - 2023.08, Student Leader
• Cooperate with GEOVIS Earth Technology
• Y. Mao, K. Chen, X. Huang, X. Sun, and GEOVIS Earth Technology

🎖 Honors and Awards

• 2025.06:  🎉🎉 Awarded with General Fund of China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (博士后科学基金面上资助)!
• 2025.06:  🎉🎉 Awarded with China National Postdoctoral Program for Innovative Talents (2025年度博士后创新人才支持计划, 博新计划)!
• 2025.05:  🎉🎉 Awarded with 2025 Rising Star of Radar (2025年度雷达未来之星)!
• 2022.12:  🎉🎉 Awarded with ‘Editor’s Article Choice of the Year 2022’ of ISPRS Journal Ph & RS!
• 2022.02:  🎉🎉 Awarded with ‘Best Student Paper Award’ of DLG-AAAI 2022!
• 2019.06:  🎉🎉 Awarded with Outstanding Bachelor’s Thesis！
• 2018.05:  🎉🎉 Awarded with American Mathematical Contest In Modeling (MCM) Finalist (TOP 0.17%)！

📖 Educations

• 2024.07 - now, Assistant Researcher, Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University.
• 2019.09 - 2024.06, Doctor of Engineering, Institute of Aerospace Information Innovation, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
• 2015.09 - 2019.06, Bachelor of Engineering, Electronic Information School, Wuhan University

✍️ Reviewer Services

• IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
• IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)
• European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)
• International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR)
• IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)
• ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS Journal Ph & RS)
• IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (IEEE TIP)
• IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (IEEE TGRS)
• IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (IEEE TCSVT)
• IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing (IEEE JSTARS)
• International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation (IJAG)
• IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters (IEEE GRSL)
• IEEE Signal Processing Letters (IEEE SPL)
• Information Fusion
• Pattern Recognition (PR)
• Remote Sensing
• ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing Communications and Applications (ACM TOMM)
• International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV)
• Pattern Recognition Letters (PRL)
• Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU)
• Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence (EAAI)
• Neural Networks (NN)
• International Journal of Digital Earth (IJDE)
• Information Sciences
• Scientific Reports
• Multimedia Systems