👋 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 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.

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🔥 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

2025.08: 🎉🎉 Funded by the Young Scientists Fund of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (国家自然科学基金青年基金项目C类)!
2025.07: 🎉🎉 Awarded with Shuimu Tsinghua Scholar (清华大学水木学者)!
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