👋 Biography [Google Scholar] [Homepage]
Yong-Qiang Mao is now an Associate Professor at the College of Computer Science, Nankai University. Before that, Yong-Qiang Mao served as an assistant researcher in the Department of Electronic Engineering at Tsinghua University. His co-supervisor is You He (Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering). He 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. He received the B. E. degree from Wuhan University, Wuhan, China, in 2019. His research interests include multimodal data processing, remote sensing image processing, AI4Earth, and multimodal foundation models for remote sensing. He has published over 30 papers in top-tier journals and conferences.
毛永强，南开大学计算机学院百青副教授，博士生导师，入选南开大学百名青年学科带头人计划。研究方向为多模态数据处理，遥感图像处理，AI4Earth，遥感多模态基础模型。在人工智能顶级期刊IEEE TPAMI，遥感图像处理顶级期刊IEEE TGRS等顶级期刊和会议上发表30余篇学术论文，3篇论文入选ESI高被引论文，申请发明专利10余项。入选博士后创新人才支持计划（博新计划），清华大学水木学者（清华大学高层次青年人才培养计划）。曾获2025年全国十大雷达未来之星（全国仅10人），会议最佳论文，顶刊主编推荐论文等荣誉或奖项。主持国家自然科学基金青年科学基金项目[C类]，中国博士后科学基金面上资助等多项国家级/省部级纵向项目，作为核心技术骨干参与国家自然科学基金基础科学中心、国家重点研发计划等多项国家级/省部级重大课题。担任IEEE TIP、IEEE TGRS、ISPRS Journal Ph&RS等顶刊/顶会审稿人，多次担任Remote Sensing期刊专刊客座编辑。
非常欢迎对人工智能、遥感图像处理、基础模型、AI4Earth感兴趣的同学联系，招收学博、专博和学硕、专硕，请随时通过电子邮件与我联系：maoyq@nankai.edu.cn。同时，非常欢迎感兴趣的本科生或研究生联系我进行线下（南开大学津南校区、清华大学校本部）或线上的科研实习，本人将择优提供科研指导。
🔥 News
- 2026.01: 🎉🎉 One paper about Segment Anything Model for Remote Sensing Segmentation has been accepted by IEEE TGRS!
- 2025.12: 🎉🎉 One paper about Multi-Modal Foundation Models has been accepted by IEEE TPAMI!
- 2025.10: 🎉🎉 I’m serving as a Guest Editor for Remote Sensing and warmly welcome submissions from researchers working in the field of remote sensing.
- 2025.07: 🎉🎉 One paper about Multi-modal Aligned Remote Sensing Targets Dataset and Benchmark has been released on arXiv!
- 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.
📝 Publications (Selected)
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
- 2026.10 - now, Associate Professor, College of Computer Science, Nankai University.
- 2024.07 - 2026.09, Assistant Researcher, Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University.
- 2019.09 - 2024.06, Doctor of Engineering, Aerospace Information Research Institute, 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