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香港科技大学工学院老师教师导师介绍简介-Ming LIU

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Ming LIU
劉明
PhD in Mechanical and Process Engineering
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, 2013

Acting Head
Robotics & Autonomous Systems Thrust, HKUST (Guangzhou)

Associate Professor
Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering
Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Director of Intelligent Autonomous Driving Center



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2021 44

A Novel Coding Scheme for Large-Scale Point Cloud Sequences Based on Clustering and Registration
IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, June 2021, p. 1-13
Sun, Xuebin; Sun, Yuxiang; Zuo, Weixun; Cheng, Shing Shin; Liu, Ming Article
A Novel Inertial-Aided Visible Light Positioning System Using Modulated LEDs and Unmodulated Lights as Landmarks
IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, August 2021
Liang, Qing; Sun, Yuxiang; Wang, Lujia; Liu, Ming Article
An Improved Invariant Kalman Filter for Lie Groups Attitude Dynamics with Heavy-Tailed Process Noise
Machines, v. 9, (9), August 2021, article number 182
Wang, Jiaolong; Zhang, Chengxi; Wu, Jin; Liu, Ming Article
Analysis of communication reliability in NarrowBand-IoT oriented wireless sensor networks
IET Communications, v. 15, (1), January 2021, p. 33-42
He, Xingyu; Liang, Tingting; Zhang, Zhao; Yang, Guisong; Kong, Linghe; Liu, Ming Article
Consensus-Based Cooperative Formation Guidance Strategy For Multiparafoil Airdrop Systems
IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, v. 18, (4), October 2021, p. 2175-2184
Chen, Qi; Sun, Yuxiang; Zhao, Min; Liu, Ming Article
DiTNet: End-To-End 3D Object Detection and Track ID Assignment in Spatio-Temporal World
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, v. 6, (2), Apeil 2021, article number 9362208, p. 3397-3404
Wang, Sukai; Cai, Peide; Wang, Lujia; Liu, Ming Article
Dynamic Fusion Module Evolves Drivable Area and Road Anomaly Detection: A Benchmark and Algorithms
IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, 24 March 2021, p. 1-11
Wang, Hengli; Fan, Rui; Sun, Yuxiang; Liu, Ming Article
Foot Placement Compensator Design for Humanoid Walking Based on Discrete Control Lyapunov Function
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics-Systems, v. 51, (4), April 2021, article number 8708932, p. 2332-2341
Liu, Chengju; Zhang, Tong; Zhang, Changzhu; Liu, Ming; Chen, Qijun Article
FuseSeg: Semantic Segmentation of Urban Scenes Based on RGB and Thermal Data Fusion
IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, v. 18, (3), July 2021, article number 9108585, p. 1000-1011
Sun, Yuxiang; Zuo, Weixun; Yun, Peng; Wang, Heng Li; Liu, Ming Article
Geomagnetic orbit determination: EKF or UKF?
Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology, 26 July 2021
Wu, Jin; Liu, Ming; Zhang, Chengxi; Huang, Yulong; Zhou, Zebo Article
Globally Optimal Symbolic Hand-Eye Calibration
IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, v. 26, (3), June 2021, article number 9177352, p. 1369-1379
Wu, Jin; Liu, Ming; Zhu, Yilong; Zou, Zuhao; Dai, Ming-Zhe; Zhang, Chengxi; Jiang, Yi; Li, Chong Article
Graph Attention Layer Evolves Semantic Segmentation for Road Pothole Detection: A Benchmark and Algorithms
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, v. 30, 24 September 2021, p. 8144-8154
Fan, Rui; Wang, Hengli; Wang, Yuan; Liu, Ming; Pitas, Ioannis Article
Ground-aware Monocular 3D Object Detection for Autonomous Driving
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, v. 6, (2), April 2021, article number 9327478, p. 919-926
Liu, Yuxuan; Yuan, Yixuan; Liu, Ming Article
Humanoid adaptive locomotion control through a bioinspired CPG-based controller
Robotica, 22 June 2021, p. 1-18
Yao, Chenpeng; Liu, Chengju; Xia, Li; Liu, Ming; Chen, Qijun Article
Hybrid Geomagnetic Attitude and Orbit Estimation Using Time-Differential Feedback
Transactions of the Japan Society for Aeronautical and Space Sciences, v. 64, (3), 2021, p. 174-180
Wu, Jin; Zhang, Chengxi; Liu, Ming Article
iCurb: Imitation Learning-based Detection of Road Curbs using Aerial Images for Autonomous Driving
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, v. 6, (2), April 2021, article number 9345473, p. 1097-1104
Xu, Zhenhua; Sun, Yuxiang; Liu, Ming Article
In Defense of Knowledge Distillation for Task Incremental Learning and its Application in 3D Object Detection
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, v. 6, (2), April 2021, article number 9359344, p. 2012-2019
Yun, Peng; Liu, Yuxuan; Liu, Ming Article
Incorporating Learnt Local And Global Embeddings Into Monocular Visual SLAM
Autonomous Robots, v. 45, (6), 5 August 2021, p. 789-803
Huang, Huaiyang; Ye, Haoyang; Sun, Yuxiang; Wang, Lujia; Liu, Ming Article
Learning Collision-Free Space Detection from Stereo Images: Homography Matrix Brings Better Data Augmentation
IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, 22 February 2021
Fan, Rui; Wang, Hengli; Cai, Peide; Wu, Jin; Bocus, J. Mohammud; Qiao, Lei; Liu, Ming Article
Navigation in Multi-Agent System With Side Preference Path Optimizer
IEEE Access, v. 9, August 2021, p. 113944-113953
Yao, Chenpeng; Liu, Chengju; Liu, Ming; Chen, Qijun Article
On Bundle Adjustment For Multiview Point Cloud Registration
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, v. 6, (4), October 2021, article number 9516900, p. 8269-8276
Huang, Huaiyang; Sun, Yuxiang; Wu, Jin; Jiao, Jianhao; Hu, Xiangcheng; Zheng, Linwei; Wang, Lujia; Liu, Ming Article
PointMoSeg: Sparse Tensor-Based End-to-End Moving-Obstacle Segmentation in 3-D Lidar Point Clouds for Autonomous Driving
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, v. 6, (2), April 2021, article number 9309360, p. 510-517
Sun, Yuxiang; Zuo, Weixun; Huang, Huaiyang; Cai, Peide; Liu, Ming Article
Profile-Free and Real-Time Task Recommendation in Mobile Crowdsensing
IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems, April 2021, article number 9419374, p. 1-12
Yang, Guisong; Li, Yanting; He, Xingyu; Song, Yan; Wang, Jiangtao; Liu, Ming Article
PVStereo: Pyramid Voting Module for End-to-End Self-Supervised Stereo Matching
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, v. 6, (3), July 2021, article number 9384157, p. 4353-4360
Wang, Hengli; Fan, Rui; Cai, Peide; Liu, Ming Article
Rethinking Road Surface 3-D Reconstruction and Pothole Detection: From Perspective Transformation to Disparity Map Segmentation
IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, 24 March 2021, p. 1-10
Fan, Rui; Ozgunalp, Umar; Wang, Yuan; Liu, Ming; Pitas, Ioannis Article
Robust Odometry and Mapping for Multi-LiDAR Systems With Online Extrinsic Calibration
IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 28 May 2021, p. 1-10
Jiao, Jianhao; Ye, Haoyang; Zhu, Yilong; Liu, Ming Article
Robustification of Learning Observers to Uncertainty Identification via Time-varying Learning Intensity
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs, 2021
Zhang, Chengxi; Ahn, Choon Ki; Wu, Jin; He, Wei; Jiang, Y.; Liu, Ming Article
Task allocation through fuzzy logic based participant density analysis in mobile crowd sensing
Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications, v. 14, (2), March 2021, p. 763-780
Yang, Guisong; Zhang, Yanglin; Wang, Buye; He, Xingyu; Wang, Jiangtao; Liu, Ming Article
The Role of the Hercules Autonomous Vehicle During the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Autonomous Logistic Vehicle for Contactless Goods Transportation
IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine, v. 28, (1), March 2021, article number 9340284, p. 48-58
Liu, Tianyu; Liao, Qinghai; Gan, Lu; Ma, Fulong; Cheng, Jie; Xie, Xupeng; Wang, Zhe; Chen, Yingbing; Zhu, Yilong; Zhang, Shuyang; Chen, Zhengyong; Liu, Yang; Xie, Meng; Yu, Yang; Guo, Zitong; Li, Guang; Yuan, Peidong; Han, Dong; Chen, Yuying; Ye, Haoyang; Jiao, Jianhao; Yun, Peng; Xu, Zhenhua; Wang, Hengli; Huang, Huaiyang; Wang, Sukai; Cai, Peide; Sun, Yuxiang; Liu, Yandong; Wang, Lujia; Liu, Ming Article
Three-Filters-to-Normal: An Accurate and Ultrafast Surface Normal Estimator
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, v. 6, (3), July 2021, article number 9381580, p. 5405-5412
Fan, Rui; Wang, Hengli; Xue, Bohuan; Huang, Huaiyang; Wang, Yuan; Liu, Ming; Pitas, Ioannis Article
Topo-boundary: A Benchmark Dataset on Topological Road-boundary Detection Using Aerial Images for Autonomous Driving
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, v. 6, (4), October 2021, article number 9488209, p. 7248-7255
Xu, Zhenhua; Sun, Yuxiang; Liu, Ming Article
Trust-Region Solver of A Nonlinear Magnetometer Disturbance Estimation Problem
IEEE Sensors Journal, v. 21, (20), 25 June 2021, p. 22569-22577
Wu, Jin; Li, Chong; Zhang, Chengxi; Jiang, Yi; Huang, Yulong; Wang, Lujia; Liu, Ming Article
Using Eye Gaze to Enhance Generalization of Imitation Networks to Unseen Environments
IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, v. 32, (5), May 2021, article number 9104858, p. 2066-2074
Liu, Congcong; Chen, Yuying; Liu, Ming; Shi, Bertram Emil Article
Vision-Based Autonomous Car Racing Using Deep Imitative Reinforcement Learning
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, v. 6, (4), October 2021, article number 9488179, p. 7262-7269
Cai, Peide; Wang, Heng Li; Huang, Huaiyang; Liu, Yuxuan; Liu, Ming Article
VTGNet: A Vision-based Trajectory Generation Network for Autonomous Vehicles in Urban Environments
IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles, v. 6, (3), September 2021, p. 419-429
Cai, Peide; Sun, Yuxiang; Wang, Hengli; Liu, Ming Article
Activate or not: learning customized activation
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2021), Online, 19-25 June 2021
Ma, Ningning; Zhang, Xiangyu; Liu, Ming; Sun, Jian Conference paper
Comparing Representations in Tracking for Event Camera-Based SLAM
IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops, June 2021, p. 1369-1376
Jiao, Jianhao; Huang, Huaiyang; Li, Liang; He, Zhijian; Zhu, Yilong; Liu, Ming Conference paper
Co-Teaching: An Ark to Unsupervised Stereo Matching
IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP, v. 2021, August 2021, p. 3328-3332
Wang, Hengli; Fan, Rui; Liu, Ming Conference paper
End-to-End Interactive Prediction and Planning with Optical Flow Distillation for Autonomous Driving
IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops, June 2021, p. 2229-2238
Wang, Hengli; Cai, Peide; Fan, Rui; Sun, Yuxiang; Liu, Ming Conference paper
FedCM: A Real-time Contribution Measurement Method for Participants in Federated Learning
Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, v. 2021-July, July 2021
Yan, Bingjie; Liu, Boyi; Wang, Lujia; Zhou, Yize; Liang, Zhixuan; Liu, Ming; Xu, Cheng-Zhong Conference paper
Lasso Wahba's Problem and Its Analytical Solution for Spacecraft Attitude Determination
IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, v. 2021-August, August 2021, p. 1040-1046
Wu, Jin; Zhou, Zebo; Fourati, Hassen; Liu, Ming Conference paper
MLOD: Awareness of Extrinsic Perturbation in Multi-LiDAR 3D Object Detection for Autonomous Driving
IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), v. 2020, January 2021, article number 9341254, p. 10556-10563
Jiao, Jianhao; Yun, Peng; Tai, Lei; Liu, Ming Conference paper
Robust Pedestrian Tracking in Crowd Scenarios Using an Adaptive GMM-based Framework
IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), v. 2020, January 2021, article number 9341463, p. 9992-9998
Zhang, Shuyang; Wang, Di; Ma, Fulong; Qin, Chao; Chen, Zhengyong; Liu, Ming Conference paper
SCV-Stereo: Learning Stereo Matching from a Sparse Cost Volume
IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 2021), Anchorage, AK, USA, 19-22 September 2021
Wang, Hengli; Fan, Rui; Liu, Ming Conference paper

2020 41

A Novel Coding Architecture for LiDAR Point Cloud Sequence
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, v. 5, (4), October 2020, article number 9143432, p. 5637-5644
Sun, Xuebin; Wang, Sukai; Wang, Miaohui; Wang, Zheng; Liu, Ming Article
A Novel Coding Architecture for Multi-Line LiDAR Point Clouds Based on Clustering and Convolutional LSTM Network
IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 10 November 2020
Sun, Xuebin; Wang, Sukai; Liu, Ming Article
A Novel Labour Division Strategy Based on Fixed Response Threshold Model for Warehouse Systems
International Journal of Robotics and Automation, v. 35, (2), February 2020, p. 132-139
Liu, Yandong; Wang, Lujia; Liu, Ming; Xu, Cheng Zhong Article
A Tightly Coupled VLC-Inertial Localization System by EKF
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, v. 5, (2), April 2020, article number 9006919, p. 3129-3136
Liang, Qing; Liu, Ming Article
Active Balance Control of Humanoid Locomotion Based on Foot Position Compensation
Journal of Bionic Engineering, v. 17, (1), January 2020, p. 134-147
Liu, Chengju; Zhang, Tong; Liu, Ming; Chen, Qijun Article
An Automatic Site Survey Approach for Indoor Localization using a Smartphone
IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, v. 17, (1), January 2020, p. 191-206
Liang, Qing; Liu, Ming Article
Circuit Synthesis of 3-D Rotation Orthonormalization
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs, v. 68, (4), April 2021, article number 9209154, p. 1502-1506
Wu, Jin; Jiang, Yi; Li, Chong; Sun, Ran; Zhang, Chengxi; Yu, Yang; Zhu, Yilong; Liu, Ming Article
Compliant Control and Compensation for A Compact Cable-Driven Robotic Manipulator
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, v. 5, (4), October 2020, article number 9134878, p. 5417-5424
Li, Jing; Lam, James; Liu, Ming; Wang, Zheng Article
Content-Aware Rate Control Scheme for HEVC Based on Static and Dynamic Saliency Detection
Neurocomputing, v. 411, 21 October 2020, p. 393-405
Sun, Xuebin; Yang, Xiao Fei; Wang, Sukai; Liu, Ming Article
Correspondence Matching and Time Delay Estimation for Hand-Eye Calibration
IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, v. 69, (10), 13 April 2020, article number 9064824, p. 8304-8313
Wu, Jin; Liu, Ming; Zhang, Chengxi; Zhou, Zebo Article
Fast Symbolic 3-D Registration Solution
IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, v. 17, (2), April 2020, p. 761-770
Wu, Jin; Liu, Ming; Zhou, Zebo; Li, Rui Article
Federated Imitation Learning: A Novel Framework for Cloud Robotic Systems With Heterogeneous Sensor Data
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, v. 5, (2), April 2020, article number 9013081, p. 3509-3516
Liu, Boyi; Wang, Lujia; Liu, Ming; Xu, Cheng-Zhong Article
Flexible and fully implantable upconversion device for wireless optogenetic stimulation of the spinal cord in behaving animals
Nanoscale, v. 12, (4), January 2020, p. 2406-2414
Wang, Ying; Xie, Kai; Yue, Haibing; Chen, Xian; Luo, Xuan; Liao, Qinghai; Liu, Ming; Wang, Feng; Shi, Peng Article
GMMLoc: Structure Consistent Visual Localization With Gaussian Mixture Models
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, v. 5, (4), October 2020, article number 9126150, p. 5043-5050
Huang, Huaiyang; Ye, Haoyang; Sun, Yuxiang; Liu, Ming Article
Hand-Eye Calibration: 4-D Procrustes Analysis Approach
IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, v. 69, (6), June 2020, article number 8788685, p. 2966-2981
Wu, Jin; Sun, Yuxiang; Wang, Miaomiao; Liu, Ming Article
High-Speed Autonomous Drifting With Deep Reinforcement Learning
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, v. 5, (2), April 2020, article number 8961997, p. 1247-1254
Cai, Peide; Mei, Xiaodong; Tai, Lei; Sun, Yuxiang; Liu, Ming Article
Linear geometric algebra rotor estimator for efficient mesh deformation
IET Cyber-Systems and Robotics, v. 2, (2), June 2020, p. 88-95
Wu, Jin; Lopez, Mauricio; Liu, Ming; Zhu, Yilong Article
Loop-box: Multiagent direct slam triggered by single loop closure for large-scale mapping
IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, 6 November 2020
Bhutta, Muhammad Usman Maqbool; Kuse, Manohar Prakash; Fan, Rui; Liu, Yanan; Liu, Ming Article
PointTrackNet: An End-to-End Network for 3-D Object Detection and Tracking from Point Clouds
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, v. 5, (2), April 2020, article number 9000527, p. 3206-3212
Wang, Sukai; Sun, Yuxiang; Liu, Chengju; Liu, Ming Article
Pothole Detection Based on Disparity Transformation and Road Surface Modeling
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, v. 29, 2020, article number 8809907, p. 897-908
Fan, Rui; Ozgunalp, Umar; Hosking, Brett; Liu, Ming; Pitas, Ioannis Csd Auth Gr Article
Prediction, Planning, and Coordination of Thousand-Warehousing-Robot Networks With Motion and Communication Uncertainties
IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, v. 18, (4), 19 August 2020, p. 1705-1717
Liu, Zhe; Wang, Hesheng; Wei, Huanshu; Liu, Ming; Liu, Yun-Hui Article
Probabilistic End-to-End Vehicle Navigation in Complex Dynamic Environments with Multimodal Sensor Fusion
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, v. 5, (3), July 2020, article number 9091334, p. 4218-4224
Cai, Peide; Wang, Sukai; Sun, Yuxiang; Liu, Ming Article
Road Damage Detection Based on Unsupervised Disparity Map Segmentation
IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, v. 21, (11), November 2020, article number 8890001, p. 4906-4911
Fan, Rui; Liu, Ming Article
RoboSeg: Real-Time Semantic Segmentation on Computationally Constrained Robots
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, 16 November 2020
Yan, Qingqing; Li, Shu; Liu, Chengju; Liu, Ming; Chen, Qijun Article
Robot Navigation in Crowds by Graph Convolutional Networks With Attention Learned From Human Gaze
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, v. 5, (2), April 2020, article number 8990034, p. 2754-2761
Chen, Yuying; Liu, Congcong; Shi, Bertram Emil; Liu, Ming Article
Robust Control of Semi-passive Biped Dynamic Locomotion based on a Discrete Control Lyapunov Function
Robotica, v. 38, (8), August 2020, p. 1345-1358
Liu, Chengju; Yang, Jing; An, Kang; Liu, Ming; Chen, Qijun Article
SE(n)++: An Efficient Solution to Multiple Pose Estimation Problems
IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, 2 September 2020, article number 9185008
Wu, Jin; Liu, Ming; Huang, Yulong; Jin, Chi; Wu, Yuanxin; Yu, Changbin Article
See the Future: A Semantic Segmentation Network Predicting Ego-Vehicle Trajectory With a Single Monocular Camera
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, v. 5, (2), April 2020, article number 9004469, p. 3066-3073
Sun, Yuxiang; Zuo, Weixun; Liu, Ming Article
Spatiotemporal opportunistic transmission for mobile crowd sensing networks
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 11 August 2020
He, Xingyu; Liu, Ming; Yang, Guisong Article
Workspace Trajectory Generation Method for Humanoid Adaptive Walking With Dynamic Motion Primitives
IEEE Access, v. 8, 2020, article number 9007745, p. 54652-54662
Liu, Chengju; Geng, Wandong; Liu, Ming; Chen, Qijun Article
A Real-Time Recommendation Algorithm for Task Allocation in Mobile Crowd Sensing
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, v. 12384 LNCS, 2020, p. 640-652
Yang, Guisong; Li, Yanting; Song, Yan; Li, Jun; He, Xingyu; Kong, Linghe; Liu, Ming Conference paper
An Advanced LiDAR Point Cloud Sequence Coding Scheme for Autonomous Driving
MM '20: Proceedings of the 28th ACM International Conference on Multimedia / Association for Computing Machinery. New York : Association for Computing Machinery, 2020, p. 2793-2801
Sun, Xuebin; Wang, Sukai; Wang, Miaohui; Cheng, Shingshin; Liu, Ming Conference paper
Applying Surface Normal Information in Drivable Area and Road Anomaly Detection for Ground Mobile Robots
IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), v. 2020, January 2021, article number 9341340, p. 2706-2711
Wang, Hengli; Fan, Rui; Sun, Yuxiang; Liu, Ming Conference paper
ATG-PVD: Ticketing Parking Violations on a Drone
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), v. 12538 LNCS, 2020, p. 541-557
Wang, Hengli; Liu, Yuxuan; Huang, Huaiyang; Pan, Yuheng; Yu, Wenbin; Jiang, Jialin; Lyu, Dianbin; Bocus, J. Mohammud; Liu, Ming; Pitas, Ioannis; Fan, Rui Conference paper
CoMoGCN: Coherent Motion Aware Trajectory Prediction with Graph Representation
The 31st British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC 2020), Virtual Conference, 7-10 Sepember 2020
Chen, Yuying; Liu, Congcong; Shi, Bertram Emil; Liu, Ming Conference paper
LINS: A Lidar-Inertial State Estimator for Robust and Efficient Navigation
Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 15 September 2020, article number 9197567, p. 8899-8905
Qin, Chao; Ye, Haoyang; Pranata, Christian Edwin; Han, Jun; Zhang, Shuyang; Liu, Ming Conference paper
Monocular Direct Sparse Localization in a Prior 3D Surfel Map
Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 15 September 2020, article number 9197022, p. 8892-8898
Ye, Haoyang; Huang, Huaiyang; Liu, Ming Conference paper
Monocular Visual Odometry using Learned Repeatability and Description
Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 15 September 2020, article number 9197406, p. 8913-8919
Huang, Huaiyang; Ye, Haoyang; Sun, Yuxiang; Liu, Ming Conference paper
Smart-Inspect: Micro Scale Localization and Classification of Smartphone Glass Defects for Industrial Automation
IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, October 2020, article number 9341509, p. 2860-2865
Bhutta, Muhammad Usman Maqbool; Aslam, Shoaib; Yun, Peng; Jiao, Jianhao; Liu, Ming Conference paper
SNE-RoadSeg: Incorporating Surface Normal Information into Semantic Segmentation for Accurate Freespace Detection
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), v. 12375, 2020, p. 340-350
Fan, Rui; Wang, Hengli; Cai, Peide; Liu, Ming Conference paper
We Learn Better Road Pothole Detection: From Attention Aggregation to Adversarial Domain Adaptation
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), v. 12538 LNCS, 2020, p. 285-300
Fan, Rui; Wang, Hengli; Bocus, J. Mohammud; Liu, Ming Conference paper

2019 53

A Novel Point Cloud Compression Algorithm Based on Clustering
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, v. 4, (2), April 2019, article number 8648155, p. 2132-2139
Sun, Xuebin; Ma, Han; Sun, Yuxiang; Liu, Ming Article
A Rail Fault Diagnosis Method Based on Quartic C2 Hermite Improved Empirical Mode Decomposition Algorithm
Sensors, v. 19, (15), July 2019, article number 3300
Liu, Hanzhong; Qin, C.; Liu, Ming Article
A virtual structure formation guidance strategy for multi-parafoil systems
IEEE Access, v. 7, 2019, p. 123592-123603
Chen, Qi; Sun, Yuxiang; Zhao, Min; Liu, Ming Article
Active Perception for Foreground Segmentation: An RGB-D Data-based Background Modelling Method
IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, v. 16, (4), October 2019, article number 8641464, p. 1596-1609
Sun, Yuxiang; Liu, Ming; Meng, Max Q.-H. Article
Computationally Efficient Robust Algorithm for Generalized Sensor Calibration Problem AR = RB
IEEE Sensors Journal, v. 19, (20), October 2019, article number 8744621, p. 9512-9521
Wu, Jin; Liu, Ming; Qi, Yuhua Article
Focal Loss in 3D Object Detection
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, v. 4, (2), April 2019, article number 8624385, p. 1263-1270
Yun, Peng; Tai, Lei; Wang, Yuan; Liu, Chengju; Liu, Ming Article
Generalized Linear Quaternion Complementary Filter for Attitude Estimation From Multisensor Observations: An Optimization Approach
IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, v. 16, (3), July 2019, article number 8606139, p. 1330-1343
Wu, Jin; Zhou, Zebo; Fourati, Hassen; Li, Rui; Liu, Ming Article
Lifelong Federated Reinforcement Learning: A Learning Architecture for Navigation in Cloud Robotic Systems
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, v. 4, (4), October 2019, article number 8772088, p. 4555-4562
Liu, Boyi; Wang, Lujia; Liu, Ming Article
Perceptual-Based HEVC Intra Coding Optimization Using Deep Convolution Networks
IEEE Access, v. 7, 2019, article number 8705300, p. 56308-56316
Sun, Xuebin; Ma, Han; Zuo, Weixun; Liu, Ming Article
Point-Cloud-Based Place Recognition Using CNN Feature Extraction
IEEE Sensors Journal, v. 19, (24), December 2019, article number 8815832, p. 12175-12186
Sun, Ting; Liu, Ming; Ye, Haoyang; Yeung, Dit Yan Article
Robot Trajectory Tracking Control Using Learning from Demonstration Method
Neurocomputing, v. 338, April 2019, p. 249-261
Xu, Sheng; Ou, Yongsheng; Duan, Jianghua; Wu, Xinyu; Feng, Wei; Liu, Ming Article
RTFNet: RGB-Thermal Fusion Network for Semantic Segmentation of Urban Scenes
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, v. 4, (3), July 2019, article number 8666745, p. 2576-2583
Sun, Yuxiang; Zuo, Weixun; Liu, Ming Article
Self-Supervised Drivable Area and Road Anomaly Segmentation Using RGB-D Data for Robotic Wheelchairs
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, v. 4, (4), October 2019, article number 8786197, p. 4386-4393
Wang, Heng Li; Sun, Yuxiang; Liu, Ming Article
Sequential Learning Unification Controller From Human Demonstrations for Robotic Compliant Manipulation
Neurocomputing, v. 366, November 2019, p. 35-45
Duan, Jianghua; Ou, Yongsheng; Xu, Sheng; Liu, Ming Article
VR-Goggles for Robots: Real-to-sim Domain Adaptation for Visual Control
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, v. 4, (2), April 2019, article number 8620258, p. 1148-1155
Zhang, Jingwei; Tai, Lei; Yun, Peng; Xiong, Yufeng; Liu, Ming; Boedecker, Joschka; Burgard, Wolfram Article
A Gaze Model Improves Autonomous Driving
ETRA '19: Proceedings of the 11th ACM Symposium on Eye Tracking Research & Applications, article number 33
Liu, Congcong; Chen, Yuying; Tai, Lei; Ye, Haoyang; Liu, Ming; Shi, Bertram Emil Conference paper
A GPS-aided omnidirectional visual-inertial state estimator in ubiquitous environments
IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), November 2019, article number 8968519, p. 7750-7755
Yu, Yang; Gao, Wenliang; Liu, Chengju; Shen, Shaojie; Liu, Ming Conference paper
A Novel Dual-Lidar Calibration Algorithm Using Planar Surfaces
IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium, Proceedings, v. 2019-June, June 2019, article number 8814136, p. 1499-1504
Jiao, Jianhao; Liao, Qinghai; Liu, Tianyu; Zhu, Yilong; Yu, Yang; Fan, Rui; Wang, Lujia; Liu, Ming Conference paper
A Robust Pavement Mapping System Based on Normal-Constrained Stereo Visual Odometry
IEEE International Conference on Imaging Systems and Techniques, Proceedings, December 2019, article number 9010439
Huang, Huaiyang; Fan, Rui; Zhu, Yilong; Liu, Ming; Pitas, Ioannis Conference paper
A robust roll angle estimation algorithm based on gradient descent
European Signal Processing Conference, v. 2019, 2019
Fan, Rui; Wang, Lujia; Liu, Ming; Pitas, Ioannis Conference paper
A triangle feature based map-to-map matching and loop closure for 2D graph SLAM
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, ROBIO, v. 2019, December 2019, article number 8961777, p. 2719-2725
Jiang, Binqian; Zhu, Yilong; Liu, Ming Conference paper
Accurate lane detection with atrous convolution and spatial pyramid pooling for autonomous driving
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, ROBIO, v. 2019, December 2019, article number 8961705, p. 642-647
Sun, Yuxiang; Wang, Lujia; Chen, Yongquan; Liu, Ming Conference paper
Automatic Calibration of Dual-LiDARs Using Two Poles Stickered with Retro-Reflective Tape
IEEE International Conference on Imaging Systems and Techniques, Proceedings, December 2019, article number 9010134
Xue, Bohuan; Jiao, Jianhao; Zhu, Yilong; Han, Dong; Liu, Ming; Fan, Rui Conference paper
Automatic Calibration of Multiple 3D LiDARs in Urban Environments
IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, November 2019, article number 8967797, p. 15-20
Jiao, Jianhao; Yu, Yang; Liao, Qinghai; Ye, Haoyang; Fan, Rui; Liu, Ming Conference paper
Autonomous UAV Landing System Based on Visual Navigation
IEEE International Conference on Imaging Systems and Techniques, Proceedings, December 2019, article number 9010264
Wu, Zhixin; Han, Peng; Yao, Ruiwen; Qiao, Lei; Zhang, Weidong; Shen, Tielong; Sun, Min; Zhu, Yilong; Liu, Ming; Fan, Rui Conference paper
Convexity analysis of optimization framework of attitude determination from vector observations
2019 6th International Conference on Control, Decision and Information Technologies, CoDIT 2019, April 2019, article number 8820652, p. 440-445
Wu, Jin; Zhou, Zebo.; Song, Min.; Fourati, Hassen.; Liu, Ming Conference paper
Extrinsic calibration of 3D range finder and camera without auxiliary object or human intervention
2019 IEEE International Conference on Real-Time Computing and Robotics, RCAR 2019 / IEEE. Piscataway, NJ : IEEE, 2019, p. 42-47
Liao, Qinghai; Liu, Ming Conference paper
Extrinsic Calibration of Lidar and Camera with Polygon
2018 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, ROBIO 2018, December 2018, article number 8665256, p. 200-205
Liao, Qinghai; Chen, Zhenyong; Liu, Yang; Wang, Zhe; Liu, Ming Conference paper
Focal Loss in 3D Object Detection
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA 2019, Montreal, Canada, 20-24 May 2019
Yun, Peng; Tai, Lei; Wang, Yuan; Liu, Chengju; Liu, Ming Conference paper
Gaze Training by Modulated Dropout Improves Imitation Learning
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), November 2019, article number 8967843, p. 7756-7761
Chen, Yuying; Liu, Congcong; Tai, Lei; Liu, Ming; Shi, Bertram Emil Conference paper
Image Detector Based Automatic 3D Data Labeling and Training for Vehicle Detection on Point Cloud
IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium, Proceedings, June 2019, article number 8813818, p. 1408-1413
Chen, Zhengyong; Liao, Qinghai; Wang, Zhe; Liu, Yang; Liu, Ming Conference paper
Improved object segmentation technique in digital fringe projection
Proceedings of the World Congress on Intelligent Control and Automation (WCICA), v. 2018-July, January 2019, article number 8630418, p. 290-295
Xiao, Yi; Li, Youfu; Liu, Ming Conference paper
Lifelong Federated Reinforcement Learning: A Learning Architecture for Navigation in Cloud Robotic Systems
IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, November 2019, article number 8967908, p. 1688-1695
Liu, Boyi; Wang, Lujia; Liu, Ming Conference paper
Mobile Robot Localisation and Navigation Using LEGO NXT and Ultrasonic Sensor
2018 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, ROBIO 2018, March 2019, article number 8665350, p. 1088-1093
Liu, Yanan; Fan, Rui; Yu, Bin; Liu, Ming; Bocus, M. Junaid; Ni, Hepeng; Fan, Jiahe; Mao, Shixin Conference paper
PCR-Pro: 3D Sparse and Different Scale Point Clouds Registration and Robust Estimation of Information Matrix for Pose Graph SLAM
8th Annual IEEE International Conference on Cyber Technology in Automation, Control and Intelligent Systems, CYBER 2018, April 2019, article number 8688177, p. 354-359
Bhutta, Muhammad Usman Maqbool; Liu, Ming Conference paper
Real Time Probabilistic Mapping for Sonar Sensor by Optimization
2018 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetrics (ROBIO) / IEEE. New York, NY, USA : IEEE, 2018, p. 838-843, Article no.: 8665164
Liu, Yuxuan; Wang, Lujia; Liu, Ming Conference paper
Real-Time Binocular Vision Implementation on an SoC TMS320C6678 DSP
International Conference on Computer Vision Systems, 2019, p. 13-23, Part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series (LNCS, volume 11754)
Fan, Rui; Duanmu, Sicheng; Liu, Yanan; Zhu, Yilong; Jiao, Jianhao; Bocus, Mohammud Junaid; Yu, Yang; Wang, Lujia; Liu, Ming Conference paper
Real-time dense stereo embedded in a UAV for road inspection
The 3rd International Workshop on Computer Vision for UAVs (UAVision 2019), Long Beach, California, 17-18 June 2019
Fan, Rui; Jiao, Jianhao; Pan, Jie; Huang, Huaiyang; Shen, Shaojie; Liu, Ming Conference paper
Real-Time Dense Stereo Embedded in A UAV for Road Inspection
IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops, v. 2019-June, June 2019, article number 9025600, p. 535-543
Fan, Rui; Jiao, Jianhao; Pan, Jie; Huang, Huaiyang; Shen, Shaojie; Liu, Ming Conference paper
Real-Time, Environmentally-Robust 3D LiDAR Localization
IEEE International Conference on Imaging Systems and Techniques, IST, December 2019, article number 9010305
Zhu, Yilong; Xue, Bohuan; Zheng, Linwei; Huang, Huaiyang; Liu, Ming; Fan, Rui Conference paper
Reference-Free Adaptive Attitude Determination Method Using Low-Cost MARG Sensors
International Conference on Computer Vision Systems, 2019, p. 35-48, Part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series (LNCS, volume 11754)
Ding, Jian; Wu, Jin; Deng, Mingsen; Liu, Ming Conference paper
Reliable Monocular Ego-Motion Estimation System in Rainy Urban Environments
2019 IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference, ITSC 2019, October 2019, article number 8916977, p. 1290-1297
Huang, Huaiyang; Sun, Yuxiang; Liu, Ming Conference paper
Road Crack Detection Using Deep Convolutional Neural Network and Adaptive Thresholding
IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium, Proceedings, June 2019, article number 8814000, p. 474-479
Fan, Rui; Bocus, Mohammud Junaid; Zhu, Yilong; Jiao, Jianhao; Wang, Li; Ma, Fulong; Cheng, Shanshan; Liu, Ming Conference paper
Road Curb Detection Using A Novel Tensor Voting Algorithm
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, ROBIO, v. 2019, December 2019, article number 8961544, p. 590-595
Zhu, Yilong; Han, Dong; Xue, Bohuan; Jiao, Jianhao; Zou, Zuhao; Liu, Ming; Fan, Rui Conference paper
Robust lane marking detection algorithm using drivable area segmentation and extended SLT
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, ROBIO, v. 2019, December 2019, article number 8961686, p. 2625-2629
Ozgunalp, Umar; Fan, Rui; Cheng, Shanshan; Sun, Yuxiang; Zuo, Weixun; Zhu, Yilong; Xue, Bohuan; Zheng, Linwei; Liang, Qing; Liu, Ming Conference paper
Robust Rotation Interpolation Based on SO(n) Geodesic Distance
International Conference on Computer Vision Systems, 2019, p. 126-132, Part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series (LNCS, volume 11754)
Wu, Jin; Liu, Ming; Ding, Jian; Deng, Mingsen Conference paper
Semi-semantic Line-Cluster Assisted Monocular SLAM for Indoor Environments
International Conference on Computer Vision Systems, 2019, p. 63-74, Part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series (LNCS, volume 11754)
Sun, Ting; Song, Dezhen; Yeung, Dit Yan; Liu, Ming Conference paper
Tightly Coupled 3D Lidar Inertial Odometry and Mapping
Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, v. 2019-May, May 2019, article number 8793511, p. 3144-3150
Ye, Haoyang; Chen, Yuying; Liu, Ming Conference paper
Towards robust visible light positioning under led shortage by visual-inertial fusion
2019 International Conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation, IPIN 2019, September 2019, article number 8911760
Liang, Qing; Lin, Jiahui; Liu, Ming Conference paper
Using DP Towards A Shortest Path Problem-Related Application
Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, v. 2019-May, May 2019, article number 8793603, p. 8669-8675
Jiao, Jianhao; Fan, Rui; Ma, Han; Liu, Ming Conference paper
Utilizing Eye Gaze to Enhance the Generalization of Imitation Network to Unseen Environments
ICML 2019 Workshop: Understanding and Improving Generalization in Deep Learning, California, USA, 9-15 June 2019
Liu, Congcong; Chen, Yuying; Tai, Lei; Liu, Ming; Shi, Bertram Emil Conference paper
Vision-Based Trajectory Planning via Imitation Learning for Autonomous Vehicles
2019 IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference, ITSC 2019, October 2019, article number 8917149, p. 2736-2742
Cai, Peide; Sun, Yuxiang; Chen, Yuying; Liu, Ming Conference paper
Visual-based Autonomous Driving Deployment from a Stochastic and Uncertainty-aware Perspective
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), November 2019, article number 8968307, p. 2622-2628
Tai, Lei; Yun, Peng; Chen, Yuying; Liu, Congcong; Ye, Haoyang; Liu, Ming Conference paper

2018 15

An optical crack growth sensor using the digital sampling moiré method
Sensors, v. 18, (10), Oct 2018, article number 3466
Chen, Xinxing; Chang, Chih-chen; Xiang, Jiannan; Zhang, Chaobo; Liu, Ming Article
Core-Shell-Shell Upconversion Nanoparticles with Enhanced Emission for Wireless Optogenetic Inhibition
Nano Letters, v.18, (2), Febrary 2018, p. 948-956
Lin, Xudong; Chen, Xian; Zhang, Wenchong; Sun, Tianying; Fang, Peilin; Liao, Qinghai; Chen, Xi; He, Jufang; Liu, Ming; Wang, Feng; Shi, Peng Article
Individualized Gait Pattern Generation for Sharing Lower Limb Exoskeleton Robot
IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, v. 15, (4), October 2018, p. 1459-1470
Wu, Xinyu; Liu, Du-Xin; Liu, Ming; Chen, Chunjie; Guo, Huiwen Article
Motion removal for reliable RGB-D SLAM in dynamic environments
Robotics and Autonomous Systems, v. 108, October 2018, p. 115-128
Sun, Yuxiang; Liu, Ming; Meng, Max Q.H. Article
Recursive linear continuous quaternion attitude estimator from vector observations
IET Radar, Sonar and Navigation, v. 12, (11), November 2018, p. 1196-1207
Wu, Jin; Zhou, Zebo; Fourati, Hassen; Liu, Ming Article
A High-accuracy Image-based Crack Displacement Sensor
Journal of Physics: Conference Series, v. 1149, (1), December 2018, article number 012034
Chen, Xinxing; Xiang, Jiannan; Zhang, Chaobo; Chang, Chih-chen; Liu, Ming Conference paper
Characterization of a RS-LiDAR for 3D Perception
2018 IEEE 8th Annual International Conference on CYBER Technology in Automation, Control, and Intelligent Systems (CYBER) / IEEE. New York, NY, USA : IEEE, 2018, p. 564-569, Article no.: 8688235
Wang, Zhe; Liu, Yang; Liao, Qinghai; Ye, Haoyang; Liu, Ming; Wang, Lujia Conference paper
Curiosity-driven Exploration for Mapless Navigation with Deep Reinforcement Learning
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2018), Brisbane, Australia, 21-25 May 2018
Zhelo, Oleksii; Zhang, Jingwei; Tai, Lei; Liu, Ming; Burgard, Wolfram Conference paper
Estimation of Point Cloud Object Pose using Particle Swarm Optimization
ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, v. Part F137705, April 2018, p. 1-7, Code 137705
Yu, Ge; Liu, Ming; Liu, Tianyu; Guo, Lili Conference paper
Indoor Mapping and Localization for Pedestrians using Opportunistic Sensing with Smartphones
IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, December 2018, article number 8594254, p. 1649-1656
Liang, Qing; Wang, Lujia; Li, Youfu; Liu, Ming Conference paper
Multiple Lane Detection Algorithm Based on Optimised Dense Disparity Map Estimation
IST 2018 - IEEE International Conference on Imaging Systems and Techniques, Proceedings, 14 December 2018, article number 8577122, p. 281-285
Ma, Han; Ma, Yixin; Jiao, Jianhao; Bhutta, Muhammad Usman Maqbool; Bocus, Mohammud Junaid; Wang, Lujia; Liu, Ming; Fan, Rui Conference paper
Plugo: a Scalable Visible Light Communication System towards Low-cost Indoor Localization
IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, December 2018, article number 8594287, p. 3709-3714
Liang, Qing; Wang, Lujia; Li, Youfu; Liu, Ming Conference paper
Real-time subpixel fast bilateral stereo
2018 IEEE International Conference on Information and Automation, ICIA 2018, August 2018, article number 8812594, p. 1058-1065
Fan, Rui; Liu, Yanan; Bocus, Mohammud Junaid; Wang, Lujia; Liu, Ming Conference paper
RRT{*} Combined with GVO for Real-time Nonholonomic Robot Navigation in Dynamic Environment
Proceedings of 2018 IEEE International Conference on Real-time Computing and Robotics (IEEE RCAR), January 2019, article number 8621737, p. 479-484
Chen, Yuying; Liu, Ming; Wang, Lujia Conference paper
Socially Compliant Navigation through Raw Depth Inputs with Generative Adversarial Imitation Learning
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2018, p. 1111-1117
Tai, Lei; Zhang, Jingwei; Liu, Ming; Burgard, Wolfram Conference paper

2017 19

A Hierarchical Auction-Based Mechanism for Real-Time Resource Allocation in Cloud Robotic Systems
IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, v. 47, (2), February 2017, article number 7403967, p. 473-484
Wang, Lujia; Liu, Ming; Meng, Max Qing Hu Article
Autonomous Exploration of Mobile Robots Through Deep Neural Networks
International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems, v.14, (4), 25 July 2017, article number 1729881417703571, p. 1-9
Tai, Lei; Li, Shaohua; Liu, Ming Article
Improving RGB-D SLAM in Dynamic Environments: A Motion Removal Approach
Robotics and Autonomous Systems, v. 89, March 2017, p. 110-122
Sun, Yuxiang; Liu, Ming; Meng, Max Qing Hu Article
Tetherless Near-infrared Control of Brain Activity in Behaving Animals using Fully Implantable Upconversion Microdevices
Biomaterials, v. 142, October 2017, p. 136-148
Wang, Ying; Lin, Xudong; Chen, Xi; Chen, Xian; Xu, Zhen; Zhang, Wenchong; Liao, Qinghai; Duan, Xin; Wang, Xin; Liu, Ming; Wang, Feng; He, Jufang; Shi, Peng Article
Computer Vision Systems
Computer Vision Systems: 11th International Conference, ICVS 2017, Shenzhen, China, July 10-13, 2017, Revised Selected Papers / Edited by Liu, Ming, Chen, haoyao and Vincze, markus. Switzerland: Springer, Cham, 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, v. 10528.
Liu, Ming; Chen, haoyao; Vincze, markus Book
A Cloud-based Visual SLAM Framework for Low-cost Agents
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), v. 10528 LNCS, 2017, p. 471-484
Jiao, Jianhao; Yun, Peng; Liu, Ming Conference paper
A novel swarm robot simulation platform for warehousing logistics
2017 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, ROBIO 2017, v. 2018-January, March 2018, p. 2669-2674
Liu, Yandong; Wang, Lujia; Huang, Huaiyang; Liu, Ming; Xu, chengzhong Conference paper
A Personalized Limb Rehabilitation Training System for Stroke Patients
2016 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, ROBIO 2016, February 2017, article number 7866610, p. 1924-1929
Wu, Weibin; Wang, Deli; Wang, Tianyunyang; Liu, Ming Conference paper
A Robot Exploration Strategy Based on Q-learning Network
2016 IEEE International Conference on Real-time Computing and Robotics (RCAR 2016), February 2017, article number 7784001, p. 57-62
Tai, Lei; Liu, Ming Conference paper
A Unified Leader-Follower Scheme for Mobile Robots with Uncalibrated On-board Camera
Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, July 2017, article number 7989438, p. 3792-3797
Guo, Dejun; Wang, Hesheng; Chen, Weidong; Liu, Ming; Xia, Zeyang; Leang, Kam K. Conference paper
Dynamic Environments Localization via Dimensions Reduction of Deep Learning Features
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), v. 10528 LNCS, 2017, p. 239-253
Zhang, Hui; Wang, Xiangwei; Du, Xiaoguo; Liu, Ming; Chen, Qijun Conference paper
Invisibility: A moving-object removal approach for dynamic scene modelling using RGB-D camera
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, ROBIO 2017, v. 2018- January, 23 march 2018, p. 50-55
Sun, Yuxiang; Liu, Ming; Meng, Max Q.-H Conference paper
PCA-aided fully convolutional networks for semantic segmentation of multi-channel fMRI
2017 18th International Conference on Advanced Robotics, ICAR 2017, August 2017, article number 8023506, p. 124-130
Tai, Lei; Ye, Haoyang; Ye, qiong; Liu, Ming Conference paper
Point-cloud Compression Using Data Independent Method - A 3D Discrete Cosine Transform Approach
2017 IEEE International Conference on Information and Automation, ICIA 2017, Oct 2017, article number 8078873, p. 1-6
Wang, Lujia; Wang, Luyu; Luo, Yinting; Liu, Ming Conference paper
Simultaneous clustering classification and tracking on point clouds using Bayesian filter
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, ROBIO 2017, v. 2018-January, 23 March 2018, p. 2521-2526
Wang, Sukai; Huang, Huaiyang; Liu, Ming Conference paper
Towards a Cloud Robotics Platform for Distributed Visual SLAM
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), v. 10528 LNCS, 2017, p. 3-15
Yun, Peng; Liu, Ming; Jiao, Jianhao Conference paper
UAV-Based SLAM and 3D Reconstruction System
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, ROBIO 2017, 2018-January, March 2018, p. 2496-2501
Li, Tianwei; Hailes, Steve; Julier, Simon; Liu, Ming Conference paper
Virtual-to-real deep reinforcement learning: Continuous control of mobile robots for mapless navigation
IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, December 2017, article number 8202134, p. 31-36
Tai, Lei; Paolo, Giuseppe; Liu, Ming Conference paper
Visual Tracking and Servoing System for Experiment of Optogenetic Control of Brain Activity
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), v. 10528 LNCS, 2017, p. 543-552
Liao, Qinghai; Liu, Ming; Zhang,Wenchong; Shi, Peng Conference paper

2016 9

Let the Light Guide Us: VLC-Based Localization
IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine, v. 23, (4), December 2016, article number 7737037, p. 174-183
Qiu, Kejie; Zhang, Fangyi; Liu, Ming Article
Mobile Robots Exploration through CNN-Based Reinforcement Learning
Robotics and Biomimetics, v. 3, (24), 21 December 2016
Tai, Lei; Liu, Ming Article
Robotic Online Path Planning on Point Cloud
IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, v. 46, (5), May 2016, article number 7110581, p. 1217-1228
Liu, Ming Article
A Pricing Mechanism for Task Oriented Resource Allocation in Cloud Robotics
Robots and Sensor Clouds / Editors: Anis Koubaa, Elhadi Shakshuki. Switzerland : Springer International Publishing, 2016, p. 3-31, Part of the Studies in Systems, Decision and Control book series (SSDC, volume 36)
Wang, Lujia; Liu, Ming; Meng, Max Qing Hu Book chapter
A Deep-Network Solution Towards Model-Less Obstacle Avoidance
IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, v. 2016-November, November 2016, article number 7759428, p. 2759-2764
Tai, Lei; Li, Shaohua; Liu, Ming Conference paper
A Flexible Object Tracking System for Planary Motion
2016 IEEE International Conference on Real-Time Computing and Robotics, RCAR 2016, December 2016, article number 7784055, p. 362-367
Liao, Qinghai; Zhang, Wencong; Shi, Peng; Liu, Ming Conference paper
A Framework for Multi-robot Pose Graph SLAM
2016 IEEE International Conference on Real-Time Computing and Robotics, RCAR 2016, December 2016, article number 7784092, p. 567-572
Deutsch, Isaac; Liu, Ming; Siegwart, Roland Y. Conference paper
Facial Expression Recognition With PCA and LBP Features Extracting From Active Facial Patches
2016 IEEE International Conference on Real-Time Computing and Robotics, RCAR 2016, December 2016, article number 7784056, p. 368-373
Liu, Yanpeng; Cao, Yuwen; Li, Yibin; Liu, Ming; Song, Rui; Wang, Yafang; Xu, Zhigang; Ma, Xin Conference paper
Localization of inexpensive robots with low-bandwidth sensors
Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems, v. 6, 2018, p. 545-558, Book series: Springer Proceedings in Advanced Robotics
Wang, Shiling; Colas, Francis; Liu, Ming; Mondada, Francesco; Magnenat, Stéphane Conference paper

2015 14

Incremental Topological Segmentation for Semi-Structured Environments Using Discretized GVG
Autonomous Robots, v. 38, (2), 2014, p. 143-160
Liu, Ming; Colas, Francis; Oth, Luc; Siegwart, Roland Y. Article
Real-Time Multisensor Data Retrieval for Cloud Robotic Systems
IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, v. 12, (2), April 2015, article number 7060735, p. 507-518
Wang, Lujia; Liu, Ming; Meng, Max Qing Hu Article
A 6D-Pose Estimation Method for UAV using Known Lines
2015 IEEE International Conference on CYBER Technology in Automation, Control, and Intelligent Systems (CYBER 2015), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2015, p. 953-958
Liu, Wenxin; Yang, Shuo; Liu, Ming Conference paper
A Fast Multi-scale Convolutional Neural Network for Object Recognition
International Conference on Real-time Computing and Robotics (RCAR2015), Changsha, China, 23-26 June 2015
Li, Shaohua; Huang, Huimin; Zhang, Yue; Liu, Ming Conference paper
Asynchronous Blind Signal Decomposition Using Tiny-Length Code for Visible Light Communication-Based Indoor Localization
2015 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2015), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2015, p. 2800-2805
Zhang, Fangyi; Qiu, Kejie; Liu, Ming Conference paper
Environment Modeling-based Indoor Localization using Visible Light Communication
2015 IEEE International Conference on Real-time Computing and Robotics, Changsha, China, 24-26 June 2015
Qiu, Kejie; Zhang, Fangyi; Liu, Ming Conference paper
From Co-saliency Detection to Object Co-segmentation: A Unified Multi-stage Low-rank Matrix Recovery Approach
Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO), IEEE, 2015, p. 1602-1607
Chen, Hao; Wang, Panbing; Liu, Ming Conference paper
Human-Robot Teaming in Disaster Response - A User-Centric Approach
2015 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation: Workshop on Robotics & Automation Technologies for Humanitarian Applications: Where we are & Where we can be, Seattle, Washington, USA, 26-30 May 2015
Gianni, M.; Liu, Ming Conference paper
Motion Removal from Moving Platforms: An RGB-D Data-based Motion Detection, Tracking and Segmentation Approach
Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO), IEEE, 2015, p. 1377-1382
Sun, Yuxiang; Liu, Ming; Meng, Max Qing Hu Conference paper
Online Active Calibration for a Multi-LRF System
2015 IEEE 18th International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC 2015), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2015, p. 806-811
Xie, Guoyang; Xu, Tao; Isert, Carsten; Aeberhard, Michael; Li, Shaohua; Liu, Ming Conference paper
ROS for Multiple Robot Applications
International Conference on Real-time Computing and Robotics (RCAR 2015), Changsha, China, 23-26 June 2015
Liu, Ming Conference paper
Visible Light Communication-aided Real-time Indoor Localization
2015 International Conference on Real-time Computing and Robotics (RCAR 2015), Changsha, China, 23-26 June 2015
Liu, Ming; Qiu, Kejie; Zhang, Fangyi Conference paper
Visible Light Communication-based Indoor Environment Modeling and Metric-free Path Planning
2015 IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE): Automation for a Sustainable Future, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2015, p. 200-205
Qiu, Kejie; Zhang, Fangyi; Liu, Ming Conference paper
Visible Light Communication-based Indoor Localization using Gaussian Process
IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, September 2015, article number 7353809, p. 3125-3130
Qiu, Kejie; Zhang, Fangyi; Liu, Ming Conference paper

2014 10

Designing, Developing, and Deploying Systems to Support Human-Robot Teams in Disaster Response
Advanced Robotics, v. 28, (23), December 2014, p. 1547-1570
Kruijff, Geert Jan M.; Kruijff-Korbayová, Ivana; Keshavdas, Shanker; Larochelle, Benoit; Janí?ek, Miroslav; Colas, Francis; Liu, Ming; Pomerleau, Fran?ois; Siegwart, Roland; Neerincx, Mark A.; Looije, Rosemarijn; Smets, Nanja J.J.M.; Mioch, Tina; Van Diggelen, Jurriaan; Pirri, Fiora; Gianni, M.; Ferri, Federico; Menna, Matteo; Worst, Rainer; Linder, Thorsten; Tretyakov, Viatcheslav; Surmann, Hartmut; Svoboda, Tomá?; Rein?tein, Michal; Zimmermann, Karel; Pet?í?ek, Tomas; Hlavá?, Václav Article
Topological Mapping and Scene Recognition With Lightweight Color Descriptors for an Omnidirectional Camera
IEEE Transactions on Robotics, v. 30, (2), 2014, article number 6574288, p. 310-324
Liu, Ming; Siegwart, Roland Y. Article
A Resource Allocation Strategy in a Robotic Ad-Hoc Network
IEEE International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions ICARSC, 2014, article number 6849773, p. 122-127
Tan, Matthew; Wang, Lujia; Tardioli, Danilo; Liu, Ming Conference paper
Efficient Segmentation and Plane Modeling of Point-Cloud for Structured Environment by Normal Clustering and Tensor Voting
2014 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, April 2014, article number 7090597, p. 1805-1810
Liu, Ming Conference paper
Experience in System Design for Human-robot Teaming in Urban Search and Rescue
Field and Service Robotics: Results of the 8th International Conference, Editors: Kazuya Yoshida, Satoshi Tadokoro. Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer-Verlag, 2014, p. 111-125
Kruijff, Geert Jan M.; Janicek, Miroslav; Keshavdas, Shanker; Larochelle, Benoit; Zender, Hendrik; Smets, Nanja J.J.M.; Mioch, Tina; Neerincx, Mark A.; Diggelen, Jurriaan Van; Colas, Francis; Liu, Ming; Pomerleau, Francois; Siegwart, Roland Y.; Hlavac, Vaclav; Svoboda, Tomas; Petricek, Tomas; Reinstein, Michal; Zimmermann, Karel; Pirri, Fiora; Gianni, M.; Papadakis, Panagiotis; Sinha, Arnab S.C.; Balmer, Patrick; Tomatis, Nicola; Worst, Rainer; Linder, Thorsten; Surmann, Hartmut; Tretyakov, Viatcheslav; Corrao, Salvatore; Pratzler-wanczura, S.; Sulk, M. Conference paper
Hardware and Software Co-design of Visible Light Indoor Positioning Systems for Robotics
2014 International Conference on Advanced Control, Automation and Robotics, Hong Kong, 2014
Che, Fengyu; Hussain, Babar; Qiu, Kejie; Liu, Ming; Wu, Liang; Yue, Chik Patrick Conference paper
Hierarchical Auction-Based Mechanism for Real-Time Resource Retrieval in Cloud Mobile Robotic System
Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, September 2014, article number 6907157, p. 2164-2169
Wang, Lujia; Liu, Ming; Meng, Max Qing Hu Conference paper
Navigation on Point-Cloud-A Riemannian Metric Approach
Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 22 September 2014, Article number 6907453, p. 4088-4093
Liu, Ming; Siegwart, Roland Y. Conference paper
Towards Indoor Localization Using Visible Light Communication for Consumer Electronic Devices
2014 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2014), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2014, p. 143-148
Liu, Ming; Qiu, Kejie; Che, Fengyu; Li, Shaohua; Hussain, Babar; Wu, Liang; Yue, Patrick C. Conference paper
WiFi Signal Strength-Based Robot Indoor Localization
2014 IEEE International Conference on Information and Automation, ICIA 2014, October 2014, article number 6932662, p. 250-256
Sun, Yuxiang; Liu, Ming; Meng, Max Qing Hu Conference paper

2013 8

Visual Homing From Scale With an Uncalibrated Omnidirectional Camera
IEEE Transactions on Robotics, v. 29, (6), 2013, article number 6573391, p. 1353-1365
Liu, Ming; Pradalier, Cedric; Siegwart, Roland Article
3D Path Planning and Execution for Search and Rescue Ground Robots
IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2013, article number 6696431, p. 722-727
Colas, Francis; Mahesh, Srivatsa; Pomerleau, Francois; Liu, Ming; Siegwart, Roland Y. Conference paper
A Hidden Markov Model Approach for Voronoi Localization
2013 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, ROBIO 2013, 2013, article number 6739502, p. 462-467
Song, Jie; Liu, Ming Conference paper
An Adaptive Descriptor for Uncalibrated Omnidirectional Images - Towards Scene Reconstruction by Trifocal Tensor
2013 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2013), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2013, p. 558-563
Liu, Ming; Alper, Bekir Tufan; Siegwart, Roland Y. Conference paper
An Auction-based Resource Allocation Strategy for Joint-surveillance using Networked Multi-Robot Systems
2013 IEEE International Conference on Information and Automation (ICIA 2013) / IEEE. New York, NY, USA : IEEE, 2013, p. 424-429, Article no.: 6720336
Wang, Lujia; Liu, Ming; Meng, Max Qing Hu Conference paper
An Experimental Evaluation of the RT-WMP Routing Protocol in an Indoor Environment
2013 IEEE International Conference on Information and Automation, ICIA 2013, 2013, article number 6720321, p. 344-349
Tan, Matthew; Liu, Ming; Siegwart, Roland Y. Conference paper
Feature Selection and Pose Estimation From Known Planar Objects Using Monocular Vision
2013 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, ROBIO 2013, 2013, article number 6739580, p. 922-927
Xu, Shengdong; Liu, Ming Conference paper
Information Theory based Validation for Point-cloud Segmentation aided by Tensor Voting
2013 IEEE International Conference on Information and Automation, ICIA 2013, 2013, article number 6720290, p. 168-173
Liu, Ming; Siegwart, Roland Y. Conference paper

2012 11

Challenging Data Sets for Point Cloud Registration Algorithms
The International Journal of Robotics Research, v. 31, (14), 2012, p. 1705-1711
Pomerleau, Francois; Liu, Ming; Colas, Francis; Siegwart, Roland Y. Article
A Markov Semi-supervised Clustering Approach and its Application in Topological Map Extraction
IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2012, Article number 6385683, p. 4743-4748
Liu, Ming; Colas, Francis; Pomerleau, Francois; Siegwart, Roland Y. Conference paper
DP-FACT: Towards Topological Mapping and Scene Recognition with Color for Omnidirectional Camera
IEEE International Conference on Robotics & Automation (ICRA), 2012, Article number 6225040, p. 3503-3508
Liu, Ming; Siegwart, Roland Y. Conference paper
DP-Fusion: A Generic Framework for Online Multi Sensor Recognition
2012 IEEE International Conference on Multisensor Fusion and Integration for Intelligent Systems / IEEE. New York, NY, USA : IEEE, 2012, p. 7-12, Article no.: 6343031
Liu, Ming; Wang, Lujia; Siegwart, Roland Y. Conference paper
Functional Mapping: Spatial Inferencing to Aid Human-robot Rescue Efforts in Unstructured Disaster Environments
AAAI Spring Symposium - Technical Report, v. SS-12-02, 2012, p. 34-39
Keshavdas, Shanker; Zender, Hendrik; Kruijff, Geert Jan M.; Liu, Ming; Colas, Francis Conference paper
Noise Characterization of Depth Sensors for Surface Inspections
2nd International Conference on Applied Robotics for the Power Industry (CARPI2012), Zurich, Switzerland, 11-13 September 2012
Pomerleau, Francois; Breitenmoser, Andreas; Liu, Ming; Colas, Francis; Siegwart, Roland Y. Conference paper
Normal Estimation for Pointcloud using GPU based Sparse Tensor Voting
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, ROBIO 2012 - Conference Digest, 11-14 December 2012, Article number 6490949, p. 91-96
Liu, Ming; Pomerleau, Francois; Colas, Francis; Siegwart, Roland Y. Conference paper
Scale-only Visual Homing From an Omnidirectional Camera
IEEE International Conference on Robotics & Automation (ICRA), 2012, Article number 6224900, p. 3944-3949
Liu, Ming; Pradalier, Cedric; Pomerleau, Francois; Siegwart, Roland Y. Conference paper
The Role of Homing in Visual Topological Navigation
IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2012, Article number 6385640, p. 567-572
Liu, Ming; Pradalier, Cedric; Pomerleau, Francois; Siegwart, Roland Y. Conference paper
Towards Cloud Robotic System: A Case Study of Online Co-localization for Fair Resource Competence
2012 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, ROBIO 2012 - Conference Digest / IEEE. New York, NY, USA : IEEE, 2012, p. 2132-2137, Article number 6491284
Wang, Lujia; Liu, Ming; Meng, Max Qing Hu Conference paper
Towards Real-time Multi-sensor Information Retrieval in Cloud Robotic System
2012 IEEE International Conference on Multisensor Fusion and Integration for Intelligent Systems / IEEE. New York, NY, USA : IEEE, 2012, p. 21-26, Article no.: 6343054
Wang, Lujia; Liu, Ming; Meng, Max Qing Hu; Siegwart, Roland Y. Conference paper

2011 4

A Unified Framework for Planning and Execution-Monitoring of Mobile Robots
AAAI Workshop - Technical Report, v. WS-11-09, 2011, p. 39-44
Gianni, M.; Papadakis, Panagiotis; Pirri, Fiora; Liu, Ming; Pomerleau, Francois; Colas, Francis; Zimmermann, Karel; Svoboda, Tomas; Petricek, Tomas; Kruijff, Geert Jan M.; Khambhaita, Harmish; Zender, Hendrik Conference paper
Dataset Acquisitions for USAR Environmentse
AAAI Fall Symposium - Technical Report, v. FS-11-05, 2011, p. 49-54
Pomerleau, Francois; Lescot, Benoit; Colas, Francis; Liu, Ming; Siegwart, Roland Y. Conference paper
Regional Topological Segmentation Based on Mutual Information Graphs
IEEE International Conference on Robotics & Automation (ICRA), 2011, Article number 5979672, p. 3269-3274
Liu, Ming; Colas, Francis; Siegwart, Roland Y. Conference paper
Tracking a Depth Camera: Parameter Exploration for Fast ICP
IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2011, Article number 6048545, p. 3824-3829
Pomerleau, Francois; Magnenat, Stephane; Colas, Francis; Liu, Ming; Siegwart, Roland Y. Conference paper

2010 1

A Bearing-only 2D/3D-homing Method Under a Visual Servoing Framework
Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2010, article number 5509441, p. 4062-4067
Liu, Ming; Pradalier, ?edric; Chen, Qijun; Siegwart, Roland Conference paper

2009 1

Scene Recognition with Omnidirectional Vision for Topological Map using Lightweight Adaptive Descriptors
2009 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS 2009, 11 December 2009, Article number 5354131, p. 116-121
Liu, Ming; Scaramuzza, Davide; Pradalier, Cedric; Siegwart, Roland Y.; Chen, Qijun Conference paper





Article 35

A Novel Coding Scheme for Large-Scale Point Cloud Sequences Based on Clustering and Registration
IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, June 2021, p. 1-13
Sun, Xuebin; Sun, Yuxiang; Zuo, Weixun; Cheng, Shing Shin; Liu, Ming
A Novel Inertial-Aided Visible Light Positioning System Using Modulated LEDs and Unmodulated Lights as Landmarks
IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, August 2021
Liang, Qing; Sun, Yuxiang; Wang, Lujia; Liu, Ming
An Improved Invariant Kalman Filter for Lie Groups Attitude Dynamics with Heavy-Tailed Process Noise
Machines, v. 9, (9), August 2021, article number 182
Wang, Jiaolong; Zhang, Chengxi; Wu, Jin; Liu, Ming
Analysis of communication reliability in NarrowBand-IoT oriented wireless sensor networks
IET Communications, v. 15, (1), January 2021, p. 33-42
He, Xingyu; Liang, Tingting; Zhang, Zhao; Yang, Guisong; Kong, Linghe; Liu, Ming
Consensus-Based Cooperative Formation Guidance Strategy For Multiparafoil Airdrop Systems
IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, v. 18, (4), October 2021, p. 2175-2184
Chen, Qi; Sun, Yuxiang; Zhao, Min; Liu, Ming
DiTNet: End-To-End 3D Object Detection and Track ID Assignment in Spatio-Temporal World
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, v. 6, (2), Apeil 2021, article number 9362208, p. 3397-3404
Wang, Sukai; Cai, Peide; Wang, Lujia; Liu, Ming
Dynamic Fusion Module Evolves Drivable Area and Road Anomaly Detection: A Benchmark and Algorithms
IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, 24 March 2021, p. 1-11
Wang, Hengli; Fan, Rui; Sun, Yuxiang; Liu, Ming
Foot Placement Compensator Design for Humanoid Walking Based on Discrete Control Lyapunov Function
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics-Systems, v. 51, (4), April 2021, article number 8708932, p. 2332-2341
Liu, Chengju; Zhang, Tong; Zhang, Changzhu; Liu, Ming; Chen, Qijun
FuseSeg: Semantic Segmentation of Urban Scenes Based on RGB and Thermal Data Fusion
IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, v. 18, (3), July 2021, article number 9108585, p. 1000-1011
Sun, Yuxiang; Zuo, Weixun; Yun, Peng; Wang, Heng Li; Liu, Ming
Geomagnetic orbit determination: EKF or UKF?
Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology, 26 July 2021
Wu, Jin; Liu, Ming; Zhang, Chengxi; Huang, Yulong; Zhou, Zebo
Globally Optimal Symbolic Hand-Eye Calibration
IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, v. 26, (3), June 2021, article number 9177352, p. 1369-1379
Wu, Jin; Liu, Ming; Zhu, Yilong; Zou, Zuhao; Dai, Ming-Zhe; Zhang, Chengxi; Jiang, Yi; Li, Chong
Graph Attention Layer Evolves Semantic Segmentation for Road Pothole Detection: A Benchmark and Algorithms
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, v. 30, 24 September 2021, p. 8144-8154
Fan, Rui; Wang, Hengli; Wang, Yuan; Liu, Ming; Pitas, Ioannis
Ground-aware Monocular 3D Object Detection for Autonomous Driving
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, v. 6, (2), April 2021, article number 9327478, p. 919-926
Liu, Yuxuan; Yuan, Yixuan; Liu, Ming
Humanoid adaptive locomotion control through a bioinspired CPG-based controller
Robotica, 22 June 2021, p. 1-18
Yao, Chenpeng; Liu, Chengju; Xia, Li; Liu, Ming; Chen, Qijun
Hybrid Geomagnetic Attitude and Orbit Estimation Using Time-Differential Feedback
Transactions of the Japan Society for Aeronautical and Space Sciences, v. 64, (3), 2021, p. 174-180
Wu, Jin; Zhang, Chengxi; Liu, Ming
iCurb: Imitation Learning-based Detection of Road Curbs using Aerial Images for Autonomous Driving
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, v. 6, (2), April 2021, article number 9345473, p. 1097-1104
Xu, Zhenhua; Sun, Yuxiang; Liu, Ming
In Defense of Knowledge Distillation for Task Incremental Learning and its Application in 3D Object Detection
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, v. 6, (2), April 2021, article number 9359344, p. 2012-2019
Yun, Peng; Liu, Yuxuan; Liu, Ming
Incorporating Learnt Local And Global Embeddings Into Monocular Visual SLAM
Autonomous Robots, v. 45, (6), 5 August 2021, p. 789-803
Huang, Huaiyang; Ye, Haoyang; Sun, Yuxiang; Wang, Lujia; Liu, Ming
Learning Collision-Free Space Detection from Stereo Images: Homography Matrix Brings Better Data Augmentation
IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, 22 February 2021
Fan, Rui; Wang, Hengli; Cai, Peide; Wu, Jin; Bocus, J. Mohammud; Qiao, Lei; Liu, Ming
Navigation in Multi-Agent System With Side Preference Path Optimizer
IEEE Access, v. 9, August 2021, p. 113944-113953
Yao, Chenpeng; Liu, Chengju; Liu, Ming; Chen, Qijun
On Bundle Adjustment For Multiview Point Cloud Registration
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, v. 6, (4), October 2021, article number 9516900, p. 8269-8276
Huang, Huaiyang; Sun, Yuxiang; Wu, Jin; Jiao, Jianhao; Hu, Xiangcheng; Zheng, Linwei; Wang, Lujia; Liu, Ming
PointMoSeg: Sparse Tensor-Based End-to-End Moving-Obstacle Segmentation in 3-D Lidar Point Clouds for Autonomous Driving
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, v. 6, (2), April 2021, article number 9309360, p. 510-517
Sun, Yuxiang; Zuo, Weixun; Huang, Huaiyang; Cai, Peide; Liu, Ming
Profile-Free and Real-Time Task Recommendation in Mobile Crowdsensing
IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems, April 2021, article number 9419374, p. 1-12
Yang, Guisong; Li, Yanting; He, Xingyu; Song, Yan; Wang, Jiangtao; Liu, Ming
PVStereo: Pyramid Voting Module for End-to-End Self-Supervised Stereo Matching
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, v. 6, (3), July 2021, article number 9384157, p. 4353-4360
Wang, Hengli; Fan, Rui; Cai, Peide; Liu, Ming
Rethinking Road Surface 3-D Reconstruction and Pothole Detection: From Perspective Transformation to Disparity Map Segmentation
IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, 24 March 2021, p. 1-10
Fan, Rui; Ozgunalp, Umar; Wang, Yuan; Liu, Ming; Pitas, Ioannis
Robust Odometry and Mapping for Multi-LiDAR Systems With Online Extrinsic Calibration
IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 28 May 2021, p. 1-10
Jiao, Jianhao; Ye, Haoyang; Zhu, Yilong; Liu, Ming
Robustification of Learning Observers to Uncertainty Identification via Time-varying Learning Intensity
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs, 2021
Zhang, Chengxi; Ahn, Choon Ki; Wu, Jin; He, Wei; Jiang, Y.; Liu, Ming
Task allocation through fuzzy logic based participant density analysis in mobile crowd sensing
Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications, v. 14, (2), March 2021, p. 763-780
Yang, Guisong; Zhang, Yanglin; Wang, Buye; He, Xingyu; Wang, Jiangtao; Liu, Ming
The Role of the Hercules Autonomous Vehicle During the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Autonomous Logistic Vehicle for Contactless Goods Transportation
IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine, v. 28, (1), March 2021, article number 9340284, p. 48-58
Liu, Tianyu; Liao, Qinghai; Gan, Lu; Ma, Fulong; Cheng, Jie; Xie, Xupeng; Wang, Zhe; Chen, Yingbing; Zhu, Yilong; Zhang, Shuyang; Chen, Zhengyong; Liu, Yang; Xie, Meng; Yu, Yang; Guo, Zitong; Li, Guang; Yuan, Peidong; Han, Dong; Chen, Yuying; Ye, Haoyang; Jiao, Jianhao; Yun, Peng; Xu, Zhenhua; Wang, Hengli; Huang, Huaiyang; Wang, Sukai; Cai, Peide; Sun, Yuxiang; Liu, Yandong; Wang, Lujia; Liu, Ming
Three-Filters-to-Normal: An Accurate and Ultrafast Surface Normal Estimator
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, v. 6, (3), July 2021, article number 9381580, p. 5405-5412
Fan, Rui; Wang, Hengli; Xue, Bohuan; Huang, Huaiyang; Wang, Yuan; Liu, Ming; Pitas, Ioannis
Topo-boundary: A Benchmark Dataset on Topological Road-boundary Detection Using Aerial Images for Autonomous Driving
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, v. 6, (4), October 2021, article number 9488209, p. 7248-7255
Xu, Zhenhua; Sun, Yuxiang; Liu, Ming
Trust-Region Solver of A Nonlinear Magnetometer Disturbance Estimation Problem
IEEE Sensors Journal, v. 21, (20), 25 June 2021, p. 22569-22577
Wu, Jin; Li, Chong; Zhang, Chengxi; Jiang, Yi; Huang, Yulong; Wang, Lujia; Liu, Ming
Using Eye Gaze to Enhance Generalization of Imitation Networks to Unseen Environments
IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, v. 32, (5), May 2021, article number 9104858, p. 2066-2074
Liu, Congcong; Chen, Yuying; Liu, Ming; Shi, Bertram Emil
Vision-Based Autonomous Car Racing Using Deep Imitative Reinforcement Learning
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, v. 6, (4), October 2021, article number 9488179, p. 7262-7269
Cai, Peide; Wang, Heng Li; Huang, Huaiyang; Liu, Yuxuan; Liu, Ming
VTGNet: A Vision-based Trajectory Generation Network for Autonomous Vehicles in Urban Environments
IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles, v. 6, (3), September 2021, p. 419-429
Cai, Peide; Sun, Yuxiang; Wang, Hengli; Liu, Ming

Conference paper 9

Activate or not: learning customized activation
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2021), Online, 19-25 June 2021
Ma, Ningning; Zhang, Xiangyu; Liu, Ming; Sun, Jian
Comparing Representations in Tracking for Event Camera-Based SLAM
IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops, June 2021, p. 1369-1376
Jiao, Jianhao; Huang, Huaiyang; Li, Liang; He, Zhijian; Zhu, Yilong; Liu, Ming
Co-Teaching: An Ark to Unsupervised Stereo Matching
IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP, v. 2021, August 2021, p. 3328-3332
Wang, Hengli; Fan, Rui; Liu, Ming
End-to-End Interactive Prediction and Planning with Optical Flow Distillation for Autonomous Driving
IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops, June 2021, p. 2229-2238
Wang, Hengli; Cai, Peide; Fan, Rui; Sun, Yuxiang; Liu, Ming
FedCM: A Real-time Contribution Measurement Method for Participants in Federated Learning
Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, v. 2021-July, July 2021
Yan, Bingjie; Liu, Boyi; Wang, Lujia; Zhou, Yize; Liang, Zhixuan; Liu, Ming; Xu, Cheng-Zhong
Lasso Wahba's Problem and Its Analytical Solution for Spacecraft Attitude Determination
IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, v. 2021-August, August 2021, p. 1040-1046
Wu, Jin; Zhou, Zebo; Fourati, Hassen; Liu, Ming
MLOD: Awareness of Extrinsic Perturbation in Multi-LiDAR 3D Object Detection for Autonomous Driving
IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), v. 2020, January 2021, article number 9341254, p. 10556-10563
Jiao, Jianhao; Yun, Peng; Tai, Lei; Liu, Ming
Robust Pedestrian Tracking in Crowd Scenarios Using an Adaptive GMM-based Framework
IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), v. 2020, January 2021, article number 9341463, p. 9992-9998
Zhang, Shuyang; Wang, Di; Ma, Fulong; Qin, Chao; Chen, Zhengyong; Liu, Ming
SCV-Stereo: Learning Stereo Matching from a Sparse Cost Volume
IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 2021), Anchorage, AK, USA, 19-22 September 2021
Wang, Hengli; Fan, Rui; Liu, Ming





Article 30

A Novel Coding Architecture for LiDAR Point Cloud Sequence
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, v. 5, (4), October 2020, article number 9143432, p. 5637-5644
Sun, Xuebin; Wang, Sukai; Wang, Miaohui; Wang, Zheng; Liu, Ming
A Novel Coding Architecture for Multi-Line LiDAR Point Clouds Based on Clustering and Convolutional LSTM Network
IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 10 November 2020
Sun, Xuebin; Wang, Sukai; Liu, Ming
A Novel Labour Division Strategy Based on Fixed Response Threshold Model for Warehouse Systems
International Journal of Robotics and Automation, v. 35, (2), February 2020, p. 132-139
Liu, Yandong; Wang, Lujia; Liu, Ming; Xu, Cheng Zhong
A Tightly Coupled VLC-Inertial Localization System by EKF
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, v. 5, (2), April 2020, article number 9006919, p. 3129-3136
Liang, Qing; Liu, Ming
Active Balance Control of Humanoid Locomotion Based on Foot Position Compensation
Journal of Bionic Engineering, v. 17, (1), January 2020, p. 134-147
Liu, Chengju; Zhang, Tong; Liu, Ming; Chen, Qijun
An Automatic Site Survey Approach for Indoor Localization using a Smartphone
IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, v. 17, (1), January 2020, p. 191-206
Liang, Qing; Liu, Ming
Circuit Synthesis of 3-D Rotation Orthonormalization
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs, v. 68, (4), April 2021, article number 9209154, p. 1502-1506
Wu, Jin; Jiang, Yi; Li, Chong; Sun, Ran; Zhang, Chengxi; Yu, Yang; Zhu, Yilong; Liu, Ming
Compliant Control and Compensation for A Compact Cable-Driven Robotic Manipulator
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, v. 5, (4), October 2020, article number 9134878, p. 5417-5424
Li, Jing; Lam, James; Liu, Ming; Wang, Zheng
Content-Aware Rate Control Scheme for HEVC Based on Static and Dynamic Saliency Detection
Neurocomputing, v. 411, 21 October 2020, p. 393-405
Sun, Xuebin; Yang, Xiao Fei; Wang, Sukai; Liu, Ming
Correspondence Matching and Time Delay Estimation for Hand-Eye Calibration
IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, v. 69, (10), 13 April 2020, article number 9064824, p. 8304-8313
Wu, Jin; Liu, Ming; Zhang, Chengxi; Zhou, Zebo
Fast Symbolic 3-D Registration Solution
IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, v. 17, (2), April 2020, p. 761-770
Wu, Jin; Liu, Ming; Zhou, Zebo; Li, Rui
Federated Imitation Learning: A Novel Framework for Cloud Robotic Systems With Heterogeneous Sensor Data
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, v. 5, (2), April 2020, article number 9013081, p. 3509-3516
Liu, Boyi; Wang, Lujia; Liu, Ming; Xu, Cheng-Zhong
Flexible and fully implantable upconversion device for wireless optogenetic stimulation of the spinal cord in behaving animals
Nanoscale, v. 12, (4), January 2020, p. 2406-2414
Wang, Ying; Xie, Kai; Yue, Haibing; Chen, Xian; Luo, Xuan; Liao, Qinghai; Liu, Ming; Wang, Feng; Shi, Peng
GMMLoc: Structure Consistent Visual Localization With Gaussian Mixture Models
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, v. 5, (4), October 2020, article number 9126150, p. 5043-5050
Huang, Huaiyang; Ye, Haoyang; Sun, Yuxiang; Liu, Ming
Hand-Eye Calibration: 4-D Procrustes Analysis Approach
IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, v. 69, (6), June 2020, article number 8788685, p. 2966-2981
Wu, Jin; Sun, Yuxiang; Wang, Miaomiao; Liu, Ming
High-Speed Autonomous Drifting With Deep Reinforcement Learning
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, v. 5, (2), April 2020, article number 8961997, p. 1247-1254
Cai, Peide; Mei, Xiaodong; Tai, Lei; Sun, Yuxiang; Liu, Ming
Linear geometric algebra rotor estimator for efficient mesh deformation
IET Cyber-Systems and Robotics, v. 2, (2), June 2020, p. 88-95
Wu, Jin; Lopez, Mauricio; Liu, Ming; Zhu, Yilong
Loop-box: Multiagent direct slam triggered by single loop closure for large-scale mapping
IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, 6 November 2020
Bhutta, Muhammad Usman Maqbool; Kuse, Manohar Prakash; Fan, Rui; Liu, Yanan; Liu, Ming
PointTrackNet: An End-to-End Network for 3-D Object Detection and Tracking from Point Clouds
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, v. 5, (2), April 2020, article number 9000527, p. 3206-3212
Wang, Sukai; Sun, Yuxiang; Liu, Chengju; Liu, Ming
Pothole Detection Based on Disparity Transformation and Road Surface Modeling
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, v. 29, 2020, article number 8809907, p. 897-908
Fan, Rui; Ozgunalp, Umar; Hosking, Brett; Liu, Ming; Pitas, Ioannis Csd Auth Gr
Prediction, Planning, and Coordination of Thousand-Warehousing-Robot Networks With Motion and Communication Uncertainties
IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, v. 18, (4), 19 August 2020, p. 1705-1717
Liu, Zhe; Wang, Hesheng; Wei, Huanshu; Liu, Ming; Liu, Yun-Hui
Probabilistic End-to-End Vehicle Navigation in Complex Dynamic Environments with Multimodal Sensor Fusion
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, v. 5, (3), July 2020, article number 9091334, p. 4218-4224
Cai, Peide; Wang, Sukai; Sun, Yuxiang; Liu, Ming
Road Damage Detection Based on Unsupervised Disparity Map Segmentation
IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, v. 21, (11), November 2020, article number 8890001, p. 4906-4911
Fan, Rui; Liu, Ming
RoboSeg: Real-Time Semantic Segmentation on Computationally Constrained Robots
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, 16 November 2020
Yan, Qingqing; Li, Shu; Liu, Chengju; Liu, Ming; Chen, Qijun
Robot Navigation in Crowds by Graph Convolutional Networks With Attention Learned From Human Gaze
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, v. 5, (2), April 2020, article number 8990034, p. 2754-2761
Chen, Yuying; Liu, Congcong; Shi, Bertram Emil; Liu, Ming
Robust Control of Semi-passive Biped Dynamic Locomotion based on a Discrete Control Lyapunov Function
Robotica, v. 38, (8), August 2020, p. 1345-1358
Liu, Chengju; Yang, Jing; An, Kang; Liu, Ming; Chen, Qijun
SE(n)++: An Efficient Solution to Multiple Pose Estimation Problems
IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, 2 September 2020, article number 9185008
Wu, Jin; Liu, Ming; Huang, Yulong; Jin, Chi; Wu, Yuanxin; Yu, Changbin
See the Future: A Semantic Segmentation Network Predicting Ego-Vehicle Trajectory With a Single Monocular Camera
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, v. 5, (2), April 2020, article number 9004469, p. 3066-3073
Sun, Yuxiang; Zuo, Weixun; Liu, Ming
Spatiotemporal opportunistic transmission for mobile crowd sensing networks
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 11 August 2020
He, Xingyu; Liu, Ming; Yang, Guisong
Workspace Trajectory Generation Method for Humanoid Adaptive Walking With Dynamic Motion Primitives
IEEE Access, v. 8, 2020, article number 9007745, p. 54652-54662
Liu, Chengju; Geng, Wandong; Liu, Ming; Chen, Qijun

Conference paper 11

A Real-Time Recommendation Algorithm for Task Allocation in Mobile Crowd Sensing
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, v. 12384 LNCS, 2020, p. 640-652
Yang, Guisong; Li, Yanting; Song, Yan; Li, Jun; He, Xingyu; Kong, Linghe; Liu, Ming
An Advanced LiDAR Point Cloud Sequence Coding Scheme for Autonomous Driving
MM '20: Proceedings of the 28th ACM International Conference on Multimedia / Association for Computing Machinery. New York : Association for Computing Machinery, 2020, p. 2793-2801
Sun, Xuebin; Wang, Sukai; Wang, Miaohui; Cheng, Shingshin; Liu, Ming
Applying Surface Normal Information in Drivable Area and Road Anomaly Detection for Ground Mobile Robots
IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), v. 2020, January 2021, article number 9341340, p. 2706-2711
Wang, Hengli; Fan, Rui; Sun, Yuxiang; Liu, Ming
ATG-PVD: Ticketing Parking Violations on a Drone
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), v. 12538 LNCS, 2020, p. 541-557
Wang, Hengli; Liu, Yuxuan; Huang, Huaiyang; Pan, Yuheng; Yu, Wenbin; Jiang, Jialin; Lyu, Dianbin; Bocus, J. Mohammud; Liu, Ming; Pitas, Ioannis; Fan, Rui
CoMoGCN: Coherent Motion Aware Trajectory Prediction with Graph Representation
The 31st British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC 2020), Virtual Conference, 7-10 Sepember 2020
Chen, Yuying; Liu, Congcong; Shi, Bertram Emil; Liu, Ming
LINS: A Lidar-Inertial State Estimator for Robust and Efficient Navigation
Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 15 September 2020, article number 9197567, p. 8899-8905
Qin, Chao; Ye, Haoyang; Pranata, Christian Edwin; Han, Jun; Zhang, Shuyang; Liu, Ming
Monocular Direct Sparse Localization in a Prior 3D Surfel Map
Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 15 September 2020, article number 9197022, p. 8892-8898
Ye, Haoyang; Huang, Huaiyang; Liu, Ming
Monocular Visual Odometry using Learned Repeatability and Description
Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 15 September 2020, article number 9197406, p. 8913-8919
Huang, Huaiyang; Ye, Haoyang; Sun, Yuxiang; Liu, Ming
Smart-Inspect: Micro Scale Localization and Classification of Smartphone Glass Defects for Industrial Automation
IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, October 2020, article number 9341509, p. 2860-2865
Bhutta, Muhammad Usman Maqbool; Aslam, Shoaib; Yun, Peng; Jiao, Jianhao; Liu, Ming
SNE-RoadSeg: Incorporating Surface Normal Information into Semantic Segmentation for Accurate Freespace Detection
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), v. 12375, 2020, p. 340-350
Fan, Rui; Wang, Hengli; Cai, Peide; Liu, Ming
We Learn Better Road Pothole Detection: From Attention Aggregation to Adversarial Domain Adaptation
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), v. 12538 LNCS, 2020, p. 285-300
Fan, Rui; Wang, Hengli; Bocus, J. Mohammud; Liu, Ming





Article 15

A Novel Point Cloud Compression Algorithm Based on Clustering
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, v. 4, (2), April 2019, article number 8648155, p. 2132-2139
Sun, Xuebin; Ma, Han; Sun, Yuxiang; Liu, Ming
A Rail Fault Diagnosis Method Based on Quartic C2 Hermite Improved Empirical Mode Decomposition Algorithm
Sensors, v. 19, (15), July 2019, article number 3300
Liu, Hanzhong; Qin, C.; Liu, Ming
A virtual structure formation guidance strategy for multi-parafoil systems
IEEE Access, v. 7, 2019, p. 123592-123603
Chen, Qi; Sun, Yuxiang; Zhao, Min; Liu, Ming
Active Perception for Foreground Segmentation: An RGB-D Data-based Background Modelling Method
IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, v. 16, (4), October 2019, article number 8641464, p. 1596-1609
Sun, Yuxiang; Liu, Ming; Meng, Max Q.-H.
Computationally Efficient Robust Algorithm for Generalized Sensor Calibration Problem AR = RB
IEEE Sensors Journal, v. 19, (20), October 2019, article number 8744621, p. 9512-9521
Wu, Jin; Liu, Ming; Qi, Yuhua
Focal Loss in 3D Object Detection
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, v. 4, (2), April 2019, article number 8624385, p. 1263-1270
Yun, Peng; Tai, Lei; Wang, Yuan; Liu, Chengju; Liu, Ming
Generalized Linear Quaternion Complementary Filter for Attitude Estimation From Multisensor Observations: An Optimization Approach
IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, v. 16, (3), July 2019, article number 8606139, p. 1330-1343
Wu, Jin; Zhou, Zebo; Fourati, Hassen; Li, Rui; Liu, Ming
Lifelong Federated Reinforcement Learning: A Learning Architecture for Navigation in Cloud Robotic Systems
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, v. 4, (4), October 2019, article number 8772088, p. 4555-4562
Liu, Boyi; Wang, Lujia; Liu, Ming
Perceptual-Based HEVC Intra Coding Optimization Using Deep Convolution Networks
IEEE Access, v. 7, 2019, article number 8705300, p. 56308-56316
Sun, Xuebin; Ma, Han; Zuo, Weixun; Liu, Ming
Point-Cloud-Based Place Recognition Using CNN Feature Extraction
IEEE Sensors Journal, v. 19, (24), December 2019, article number 8815832, p. 12175-12186
Sun, Ting; Liu, Ming; Ye, Haoyang; Yeung, Dit Yan
Robot Trajectory Tracking Control Using Learning from Demonstration Method
Neurocomputing, v. 338, April 2019, p. 249-261
Xu, Sheng; Ou, Yongsheng; Duan, Jianghua; Wu, Xinyu; Feng, Wei; Liu, Ming
RTFNet: RGB-Thermal Fusion Network for Semantic Segmentation of Urban Scenes
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, v. 4, (3), July 2019, article number 8666745, p. 2576-2583
Sun, Yuxiang; Zuo, Weixun; Liu, Ming
Self-Supervised Drivable Area and Road Anomaly Segmentation Using RGB-D Data for Robotic Wheelchairs
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, v. 4, (4), October 2019, article number 8786197, p. 4386-4393
Wang, Heng Li; Sun, Yuxiang; Liu, Ming
Sequential Learning Unification Controller From Human Demonstrations for Robotic Compliant Manipulation
Neurocomputing, v. 366, November 2019, p. 35-45
Duan, Jianghua; Ou, Yongsheng; Xu, Sheng; Liu, Ming
VR-Goggles for Robots: Real-to-sim Domain Adaptation for Visual Control
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, v. 4, (2), April 2019, article number 8620258, p. 1148-1155
Zhang, Jingwei; Tai, Lei; Yun, Peng; Xiong, Yufeng; Liu, Ming; Boedecker, Joschka; Burgard, Wolfram

Conference paper 38

A Gaze Model Improves Autonomous Driving
ETRA '19: Proceedings of the 11th ACM Symposium on Eye Tracking Research & Applications, article number 33
Liu, Congcong; Chen, Yuying; Tai, Lei; Ye, Haoyang; Liu, Ming; Shi, Bertram Emil
A GPS-aided omnidirectional visual-inertial state estimator in ubiquitous environments
IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), November 2019, article number 8968519, p. 7750-7755
Yu, Yang; Gao, Wenliang; Liu, Chengju; Shen, Shaojie; Liu, Ming
A Novel Dual-Lidar Calibration Algorithm Using Planar Surfaces
IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium, Proceedings, v. 2019-June, June 2019, article number 8814136, p. 1499-1504
Jiao, Jianhao; Liao, Qinghai; Liu, Tianyu; Zhu, Yilong; Yu, Yang; Fan, Rui; Wang, Lujia; Liu, Ming
A Robust Pavement Mapping System Based on Normal-Constrained Stereo Visual Odometry
IEEE International Conference on Imaging Systems and Techniques, Proceedings, December 2019, article number 9010439
Huang, Huaiyang; Fan, Rui; Zhu, Yilong; Liu, Ming; Pitas, Ioannis
A robust roll angle estimation algorithm based on gradient descent
European Signal Processing Conference, v. 2019, 2019
Fan, Rui; Wang, Lujia; Liu, Ming; Pitas, Ioannis
A triangle feature based map-to-map matching and loop closure for 2D graph SLAM
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, ROBIO, v. 2019, December 2019, article number 8961777, p. 2719-2725
Jiang, Binqian; Zhu, Yilong; Liu, Ming
Accurate lane detection with atrous convolution and spatial pyramid pooling for autonomous driving
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, ROBIO, v. 2019, December 2019, article number 8961705, p. 642-647
Sun, Yuxiang; Wang, Lujia; Chen, Yongquan; Liu, Ming
Automatic Calibration of Dual-LiDARs Using Two Poles Stickered with Retro-Reflective Tape
IEEE International Conference on Imaging Systems and Techniques, Proceedings, December 2019, article number 9010134
Xue, Bohuan; Jiao, Jianhao; Zhu, Yilong; Han, Dong; Liu, Ming; Fan, Rui
Automatic Calibration of Multiple 3D LiDARs in Urban Environments
IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, November 2019, article number 8967797, p. 15-20
Jiao, Jianhao; Yu, Yang; Liao, Qinghai; Ye, Haoyang; Fan, Rui; Liu, Ming
Autonomous UAV Landing System Based on Visual Navigation
IEEE International Conference on Imaging Systems and Techniques, Proceedings, December 2019, article number 9010264
Wu, Zhixin; Han, Peng; Yao, Ruiwen; Qiao, Lei; Zhang, Weidong; Shen, Tielong; Sun, Min; Zhu, Yilong; Liu, Ming; Fan, Rui
Convexity analysis of optimization framework of attitude determination from vector observations
2019 6th International Conference on Control, Decision and Information Technologies, CoDIT 2019, April 2019, article number 8820652, p. 440-445
Wu, Jin; Zhou, Zebo.; Song, Min.; Fourati, Hassen.; Liu, Ming
Extrinsic calibration of 3D range finder and camera without auxiliary object or human intervention
2019 IEEE International Conference on Real-Time Computing and Robotics, RCAR 2019 / IEEE. Piscataway, NJ : IEEE, 2019, p. 42-47
Liao, Qinghai; Liu, Ming
Extrinsic Calibration of Lidar and Camera with Polygon
2018 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, ROBIO 2018, December 2018, article number 8665256, p. 200-205
Liao, Qinghai; Chen, Zhenyong; Liu, Yang; Wang, Zhe; Liu, Ming
Focal Loss in 3D Object Detection
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA 2019, Montreal, Canada, 20-24 May 2019
Yun, Peng; Tai, Lei; Wang, Yuan; Liu, Chengju; Liu, Ming
Gaze Training by Modulated Dropout Improves Imitation Learning
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), November 2019, article number 8967843, p. 7756-7761
Chen, Yuying; Liu, Congcong; Tai, Lei; Liu, Ming; Shi, Bertram Emil
Image Detector Based Automatic 3D Data Labeling and Training for Vehicle Detection on Point Cloud
IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium, Proceedings, June 2019, article number 8813818, p. 1408-1413
Chen, Zhengyong; Liao, Qinghai; Wang, Zhe; Liu, Yang; Liu, Ming
Improved object segmentation technique in digital fringe projection
Proceedings of the World Congress on Intelligent Control and Automation (WCICA), v. 2018-July, January 2019, article number 8630418, p. 290-295
Xiao, Yi; Li, Youfu; Liu, Ming
Lifelong Federated Reinforcement Learning: A Learning Architecture for Navigation in Cloud Robotic Systems
IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, November 2019, article number 8967908, p. 1688-1695
Liu, Boyi; Wang, Lujia; Liu, Ming
Mobile Robot Localisation and Navigation Using LEGO NXT and Ultrasonic Sensor
2018 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, ROBIO 2018, March 2019, article number 8665350, p. 1088-1093
Liu, Yanan; Fan, Rui; Yu, Bin; Liu, Ming; Bocus, M. Junaid; Ni, Hepeng; Fan, Jiahe; Mao, Shixin
PCR-Pro: 3D Sparse and Different Scale Point Clouds Registration and Robust Estimation of Information Matrix for Pose Graph SLAM
8th Annual IEEE International Conference on Cyber Technology in Automation, Control and Intelligent Systems, CYBER 2018, April 2019, article number 8688177, p. 354-359
Bhutta, Muhammad Usman Maqbool; Liu, Ming
Real Time Probabilistic Mapping for Sonar Sensor by Optimization
2018 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetrics (ROBIO) / IEEE. New York, NY, USA : IEEE, 2018, p. 838-843, Article no.: 8665164
Liu, Yuxuan; Wang, Lujia; Liu, Ming
Real-Time Binocular Vision Implementation on an SoC TMS320C6678 DSP
International Conference on Computer Vision Systems, 2019, p. 13-23, Part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series (LNCS, volume 11754)
Fan, Rui; Duanmu, Sicheng; Liu, Yanan; Zhu, Yilong; Jiao, Jianhao; Bocus, Mohammud Junaid; Yu, Yang; Wang, Lujia; Liu, Ming
Real-time dense stereo embedded in a UAV for road inspection
The 3rd International Workshop on Computer Vision for UAVs (UAVision 2019), Long Beach, California, 17-18 June 2019
Fan, Rui; Jiao, Jianhao; Pan, Jie; Huang, Huaiyang; Shen, Shaojie; Liu, Ming
Real-Time Dense Stereo Embedded in A UAV for Road Inspection
IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops, v. 2019-June, June 2019, article number 9025600, p. 535-543
Fan, Rui; Jiao, Jianhao; Pan, Jie; Huang, Huaiyang; Shen, Shaojie; Liu, Ming
Real-Time, Environmentally-Robust 3D LiDAR Localization
IEEE International Conference on Imaging Systems and Techniques, IST, December 2019, article number 9010305
Zhu, Yilong; Xue, Bohuan; Zheng, Linwei; Huang, Huaiyang; Liu, Ming; Fan, Rui
Reference-Free Adaptive Attitude Determination Method Using Low-Cost MARG Sensors
International Conference on Computer Vision Systems, 2019, p. 35-48, Part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series (LNCS, volume 11754)
Ding, Jian; Wu, Jin; Deng, Mingsen; Liu, Ming
Reliable Monocular Ego-Motion Estimation System in Rainy Urban Environments
2019 IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference, ITSC 2019, October 2019, article number 8916977, p. 1290-1297
Huang, Huaiyang; Sun, Yuxiang; Liu, Ming
Road Crack Detection Using Deep Convolutional Neural Network and Adaptive Thresholding
IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium, Proceedings, June 2019, article number 8814000, p. 474-479
Fan, Rui; Bocus, Mohammud Junaid; Zhu, Yilong; Jiao, Jianhao; Wang, Li; Ma, Fulong; Cheng, Shanshan; Liu, Ming
Road Curb Detection Using A Novel Tensor Voting Algorithm
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, ROBIO, v. 2019, December 2019, article number 8961544, p. 590-595
Zhu, Yilong; Han, Dong; Xue, Bohuan; Jiao, Jianhao; Zou, Zuhao; Liu, Ming; Fan, Rui
Robust lane marking detection algorithm using drivable area segmentation and extended SLT
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, ROBIO, v. 2019, December 2019, article number 8961686, p. 2625-2629
Ozgunalp, Umar; Fan, Rui; Cheng, Shanshan; Sun, Yuxiang; Zuo, Weixun; Zhu, Yilong; Xue, Bohuan; Zheng, Linwei; Liang, Qing; Liu, Ming
Robust Rotation Interpolation Based on SO(n) Geodesic Distance
International Conference on Computer Vision Systems, 2019, p. 126-132, Part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series (LNCS, volume 11754)
Wu, Jin; Liu, Ming; Ding, Jian; Deng, Mingsen
Semi-semantic Line-Cluster Assisted Monocular SLAM for Indoor Environments
International Conference on Computer Vision Systems, 2019, p. 63-74, Part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series (LNCS, volume 11754)
Sun, Ting; Song, Dezhen; Yeung, Dit Yan; Liu, Ming
Tightly Coupled 3D Lidar Inertial Odometry and Mapping
Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, v. 2019-May, May 2019, article number 8793511, p. 3144-3150
Ye, Haoyang; Chen, Yuying; Liu, Ming
Towards robust visible light positioning under led shortage by visual-inertial fusion
2019 International Conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation, IPIN 2019, September 2019, article number 8911760
Liang, Qing; Lin, Jiahui; Liu, Ming
Using DP Towards A Shortest Path Problem-Related Application
Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, v. 2019-May, May 2019, article number 8793603, p. 8669-8675
Jiao, Jianhao; Fan, Rui; Ma, Han; Liu, Ming
Utilizing Eye Gaze to Enhance the Generalization of Imitation Network to Unseen Environments
ICML 2019 Workshop: Understanding and Improving Generalization in Deep Learning, California, USA, 9-15 June 2019
Liu, Congcong; Chen, Yuying; Tai, Lei; Liu, Ming; Shi, Bertram Emil
Vision-Based Trajectory Planning via Imitation Learning for Autonomous Vehicles
2019 IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference, ITSC 2019, October 2019, article number 8917149, p. 2736-2742
Cai, Peide; Sun, Yuxiang; Chen, Yuying; Liu, Ming
Visual-based Autonomous Driving Deployment from a Stochastic and Uncertainty-aware Perspective
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), November 2019, article number 8968307, p. 2622-2628
Tai, Lei; Yun, Peng; Chen, Yuying; Liu, Congcong; Ye, Haoyang; Liu, Ming





Article 5

An optical crack growth sensor using the digital sampling moiré method
Sensors, v. 18, (10), Oct 2018, article number 3466
Chen, Xinxing; Chang, Chih-chen; Xiang, Jiannan; Zhang, Chaobo; Liu, Ming
Core-Shell-Shell Upconversion Nanoparticles with Enhanced Emission for Wireless Optogenetic Inhibition
Nano Letters, v.18, (2), Febrary 2018, p. 948-956
Lin, Xudong; Chen, Xian; Zhang, Wenchong; Sun, Tianying; Fang, Peilin; Liao, Qinghai; Chen, Xi; He, Jufang; Liu, Ming; Wang, Feng; Shi, Peng
Individualized Gait Pattern Generation for Sharing Lower Limb Exoskeleton Robot
IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, v. 15, (4), October 2018, p. 1459-1470
Wu, Xinyu; Liu, Du-Xin; Liu, Ming; Chen, Chunjie; Guo, Huiwen
Motion removal for reliable RGB-D SLAM in dynamic environments
Robotics and Autonomous Systems, v. 108, October 2018, p. 115-128
Sun, Yuxiang; Liu, Ming; Meng, Max Q.H.
Recursive linear continuous quaternion attitude estimator from vector observations
IET Radar, Sonar and Navigation, v. 12, (11), November 2018, p. 1196-1207
Wu, Jin; Zhou, Zebo; Fourati, Hassen; Liu, Ming

Conference paper 10

A High-accuracy Image-based Crack Displacement Sensor
Journal of Physics: Conference Series, v. 1149, (1), December 2018, article number 012034
Chen, Xinxing; Xiang, Jiannan; Zhang, Chaobo; Chang, Chih-chen; Liu, Ming
Characterization of a RS-LiDAR for 3D Perception
2018 IEEE 8th Annual International Conference on CYBER Technology in Automation, Control, and Intelligent Systems (CYBER) / IEEE. New York, NY, USA : IEEE, 2018, p. 564-569, Article no.: 8688235
Wang, Zhe; Liu, Yang; Liao, Qinghai; Ye, Haoyang; Liu, Ming; Wang, Lujia
Curiosity-driven Exploration for Mapless Navigation with Deep Reinforcement Learning
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2018), Brisbane, Australia, 21-25 May 2018
Zhelo, Oleksii; Zhang, Jingwei; Tai, Lei; Liu, Ming; Burgard, Wolfram
Estimation of Point Cloud Object Pose using Particle Swarm Optimization
ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, v. Part F137705, April 2018, p. 1-7, Code 137705
Yu, Ge; Liu, Ming; Liu, Tianyu; Guo, Lili
Indoor Mapping and Localization for Pedestrians using Opportunistic Sensing with Smartphones
IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, December 2018, article number 8594254, p. 1649-1656
Liang, Qing; Wang, Lujia; Li, Youfu; Liu, Ming
Multiple Lane Detection Algorithm Based on Optimised Dense Disparity Map Estimation
IST 2018 - IEEE International Conference on Imaging Systems and Techniques, Proceedings, 14 December 2018, article number 8577122, p. 281-285
Ma, Han; Ma, Yixin; Jiao, Jianhao; Bhutta, Muhammad Usman Maqbool; Bocus, Mohammud Junaid; Wang, Lujia; Liu, Ming; Fan, Rui
Plugo: a Scalable Visible Light Communication System towards Low-cost Indoor Localization
IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, December 2018, article number 8594287, p. 3709-3714
Liang, Qing; Wang, Lujia; Li, Youfu; Liu, Ming
Real-time subpixel fast bilateral stereo
2018 IEEE International Conference on Information and Automation, ICIA 2018, August 2018, article number 8812594, p. 1058-1065
Fan, Rui; Liu, Yanan; Bocus, Mohammud Junaid; Wang, Lujia; Liu, Ming
RRT{*} Combined with GVO for Real-time Nonholonomic Robot Navigation in Dynamic Environment
Proceedings of 2018 IEEE International Conference on Real-time Computing and Robotics (IEEE RCAR), January 2019, article number 8621737, p. 479-484
Chen, Yuying; Liu, Ming; Wang, Lujia
Socially Compliant Navigation through Raw Depth Inputs with Generative Adversarial Imitation Learning
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2018, p. 1111-1117
Tai, Lei; Zhang, Jingwei; Liu, Ming; Burgard, Wolfram





Article 4

A Hierarchical Auction-Based Mechanism for Real-Time Resource Allocation in Cloud Robotic Systems
IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, v. 47, (2), February 2017, article number 7403967, p. 473-484
Wang, Lujia; Liu, Ming; Meng, Max Qing Hu
Autonomous Exploration of Mobile Robots Through Deep Neural Networks
International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems, v.14, (4), 25 July 2017, article number 1729881417703571, p. 1-9
Tai, Lei; Li, Shaohua; Liu, Ming
Improving RGB-D SLAM in Dynamic Environments: A Motion Removal Approach
Robotics and Autonomous Systems, v. 89, March 2017, p. 110-122
Sun, Yuxiang; Liu, Ming; Meng, Max Qing Hu
Tetherless Near-infrared Control of Brain Activity in Behaving Animals using Fully Implantable Upconversion Microdevices
Biomaterials, v. 142, October 2017, p. 136-148
Wang, Ying; Lin, Xudong; Chen, Xi; Chen, Xian; Xu, Zhen; Zhang, Wenchong; Liao, Qinghai; Duan, Xin; Wang, Xin; Liu, Ming; Wang, Feng; He, Jufang; Shi, Peng

Book 1

Computer Vision Systems
Computer Vision Systems: 11th International Conference, ICVS 2017, Shenzhen, China, July 10-13, 2017, Revised Selected Papers / Edited by Liu, Ming, Chen, haoyao and Vincze, markus. Switzerland: Springer, Cham, 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, v. 10528.
Liu, Ming; Chen, haoyao; Vincze, markus

Conference paper 14

A Cloud-based Visual SLAM Framework for Low-cost Agents
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), v. 10528 LNCS, 2017, p. 471-484
Jiao, Jianhao; Yun, Peng; Liu, Ming
A novel swarm robot simulation platform for warehousing logistics
2017 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, ROBIO 2017, v. 2018-January, March 2018, p. 2669-2674
Liu, Yandong; Wang, Lujia; Huang, Huaiyang; Liu, Ming; Xu, chengzhong
A Personalized Limb Rehabilitation Training System for Stroke Patients
2016 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, ROBIO 2016, February 2017, article number 7866610, p. 1924-1929
Wu, Weibin; Wang, Deli; Wang, Tianyunyang; Liu, Ming
A Robot Exploration Strategy Based on Q-learning Network
2016 IEEE International Conference on Real-time Computing and Robotics (RCAR 2016), February 2017, article number 7784001, p. 57-62
Tai, Lei; Liu, Ming
A Unified Leader-Follower Scheme for Mobile Robots with Uncalibrated On-board Camera
Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, July 2017, article number 7989438, p. 3792-3797
Guo, Dejun; Wang, Hesheng; Chen, Weidong; Liu, Ming; Xia, Zeyang; Leang, Kam K.
Dynamic Environments Localization via Dimensions Reduction of Deep Learning Features
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), v. 10528 LNCS, 2017, p. 239-253
Zhang, Hui; Wang, Xiangwei; Du, Xiaoguo; Liu, Ming; Chen, Qijun
Invisibility: A moving-object removal approach for dynamic scene modelling using RGB-D camera
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, ROBIO 2017, v. 2018- January, 23 march 2018, p. 50-55
Sun, Yuxiang; Liu, Ming; Meng, Max Q.-H
PCA-aided fully convolutional networks for semantic segmentation of multi-channel fMRI
2017 18th International Conference on Advanced Robotics, ICAR 2017, August 2017, article number 8023506, p. 124-130
Tai, Lei; Ye, Haoyang; Ye, qiong; Liu, Ming
Point-cloud Compression Using Data Independent Method - A 3D Discrete Cosine Transform Approach
2017 IEEE International Conference on Information and Automation, ICIA 2017, Oct 2017, article number 8078873, p. 1-6
Wang, Lujia; Wang, Luyu; Luo, Yinting; Liu, Ming
Simultaneous clustering classification and tracking on point clouds using Bayesian filter
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, ROBIO 2017, v. 2018-January, 23 March 2018, p. 2521-2526
Wang, Sukai; Huang, Huaiyang; Liu, Ming
Towards a Cloud Robotics Platform for Distributed Visual SLAM
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), v. 10528 LNCS, 2017, p. 3-15
Yun, Peng; Liu, Ming; Jiao, Jianhao
UAV-Based SLAM and 3D Reconstruction System
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, ROBIO 2017, 2018-January, March 2018, p. 2496-2501
Li, Tianwei; Hailes, Steve; Julier, Simon; Liu, Ming
Virtual-to-real deep reinforcement learning: Continuous control of mobile robots for mapless navigation
IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, December 2017, article number 8202134, p. 31-36
Tai, Lei; Paolo, Giuseppe; Liu, Ming
Visual Tracking and Servoing System for Experiment of Optogenetic Control of Brain Activity
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), v. 10528 LNCS, 2017, p. 543-552
Liao, Qinghai; Liu, Ming; Zhang,Wenchong; Shi, Peng





Article 3

Let the Light Guide Us: VLC-Based Localization
IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine, v. 23, (4), December 2016, article number 7737037, p. 174-183
Qiu, Kejie; Zhang, Fangyi; Liu, Ming
Mobile Robots Exploration through CNN-Based Reinforcement Learning
Robotics and Biomimetics, v. 3, (24), 21 December 2016
Tai, Lei; Liu, Ming
Robotic Online Path Planning on Point Cloud
IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, v. 46, (5), May 2016, article number 7110581, p. 1217-1228
Liu, Ming

Book chapter 1

A Pricing Mechanism for Task Oriented Resource Allocation in Cloud Robotics
Robots and Sensor Clouds / Editors: Anis Koubaa, Elhadi Shakshuki. Switzerland : Springer International Publishing, 2016, p. 3-31, Part of the Studies in Systems, Decision and Control book series (SSDC, volume 36)
Wang, Lujia; Liu, Ming; Meng, Max Qing Hu

Conference paper 5

A Deep-Network Solution Towards Model-Less Obstacle Avoidance
IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, v. 2016-November, November 2016, article number 7759428, p. 2759-2764
Tai, Lei; Li, Shaohua; Liu, Ming
A Flexible Object Tracking System for Planary Motion
2016 IEEE International Conference on Real-Time Computing and Robotics, RCAR 2016, December 2016, article number 7784055, p. 362-367
Liao, Qinghai; Zhang, Wencong; Shi, Peng; Liu, Ming
A Framework for Multi-robot Pose Graph SLAM
2016 IEEE International Conference on Real-Time Computing and Robotics, RCAR 2016, December 2016, article number 7784092, p. 567-572
Deutsch, Isaac; Liu, Ming; Siegwart, Roland Y.
Facial Expression Recognition With PCA and LBP Features Extracting From Active Facial Patches
2016 IEEE International Conference on Real-Time Computing and Robotics, RCAR 2016, December 2016, article number 7784056, p. 368-373
Liu, Yanpeng; Cao, Yuwen; Li, Yibin; Liu, Ming; Song, Rui; Wang, Yafang; Xu, Zhigang; Ma, Xin
Localization of inexpensive robots with low-bandwidth sensors
Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems, v. 6, 2018, p. 545-558, Book series: Springer Proceedings in Advanced Robotics
Wang, Shiling; Colas, Francis; Liu, Ming; Mondada, Francesco; Magnenat, Stéphane





Article 2

Incremental Topological Segmentation for Semi-Structured Environments Using Discretized GVG
Autonomous Robots, v. 38, (2), 2014, p. 143-160
Liu, Ming; Colas, Francis; Oth, Luc; Siegwart, Roland Y.
Real-Time Multisensor Data Retrieval for Cloud Robotic Systems
IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, v. 12, (2), April 2015, article number 7060735, p. 507-518
Wang, Lujia; Liu, Ming; Meng, Max Qing Hu

Conference paper 12

A 6D-Pose Estimation Method for UAV using Known Lines
2015 IEEE International Conference on CYBER Technology in Automation, Control, and Intelligent Systems (CYBER 2015), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2015, p. 953-958
Liu, Wenxin; Yang, Shuo; Liu, Ming
A Fast Multi-scale Convolutional Neural Network for Object Recognition
International Conference on Real-time Computing and Robotics (RCAR2015), Changsha, China, 23-26 June 2015
Li, Shaohua; Huang, Huimin; Zhang, Yue; Liu, Ming
Asynchronous Blind Signal Decomposition Using Tiny-Length Code for Visible Light Communication-Based Indoor Localization
2015 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2015), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2015, p. 2800-2805
Zhang, Fangyi; Qiu, Kejie; Liu, Ming
Environment Modeling-based Indoor Localization using Visible Light Communication
2015 IEEE International Conference on Real-time Computing and Robotics, Changsha, China, 24-26 June 2015
Qiu, Kejie; Zhang, Fangyi; Liu, Ming
From Co-saliency Detection to Object Co-segmentation: A Unified Multi-stage Low-rank Matrix Recovery Approach
Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO), IEEE, 2015, p. 1602-1607
Chen, Hao; Wang, Panbing; Liu, Ming
Human-Robot Teaming in Disaster Response - A User-Centric Approach
2015 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation: Workshop on Robotics & Automation Technologies for Humanitarian Applications: Where we are & Where we can be, Seattle, Washington, USA, 26-30 May 2015
Gianni, M.; Liu, Ming
Motion Removal from Moving Platforms: An RGB-D Data-based Motion Detection, Tracking and Segmentation Approach
Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO), IEEE, 2015, p. 1377-1382
Sun, Yuxiang; Liu, Ming; Meng, Max Qing Hu
Online Active Calibration for a Multi-LRF System
2015 IEEE 18th International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC 2015), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2015, p. 806-811
Xie, Guoyang; Xu, Tao; Isert, Carsten; Aeberhard, Michael; Li, Shaohua; Liu, Ming
ROS for Multiple Robot Applications
International Conference on Real-time Computing and Robotics (RCAR 2015), Changsha, China, 23-26 June 2015
Liu, Ming
Visible Light Communication-aided Real-time Indoor Localization
2015 International Conference on Real-time Computing and Robotics (RCAR 2015), Changsha, China, 23-26 June 2015
Liu, Ming; Qiu, Kejie; Zhang, Fangyi
Visible Light Communication-based Indoor Environment Modeling and Metric-free Path Planning
2015 IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE): Automation for a Sustainable Future, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2015, p. 200-205
Qiu, Kejie; Zhang, Fangyi; Liu, Ming
Visible Light Communication-based Indoor Localization using Gaussian Process
IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, September 2015, article number 7353809, p. 3125-3130
Qiu, Kejie; Zhang, Fangyi; Liu, Ming





Article 2

Designing, Developing, and Deploying Systems to Support Human-Robot Teams in Disaster Response
Advanced Robotics, v. 28, (23), December 2014, p. 1547-1570
Kruijff, Geert Jan M.; Kruijff-Korbayová, Ivana; Keshavdas, Shanker; Larochelle, Benoit; Janí?ek, Miroslav; Colas, Francis; Liu, Ming; Pomerleau, Fran?ois; Siegwart, Roland; Neerincx, Mark A.; Looije, Rosemarijn; Smets, Nanja J.J.M.; Mioch, Tina; Van Diggelen, Jurriaan; Pirri, Fiora; Gianni, M.; Ferri, Federico; Menna, Matteo; Worst, Rainer; Linder, Thorsten; Tretyakov, Viatcheslav; Surmann, Hartmut; Svoboda, Tomá?; Rein?tein, Michal; Zimmermann, Karel; Pet?í?ek, Tomas; Hlavá?, Václav
Topological Mapping and Scene Recognition With Lightweight Color Descriptors for an Omnidirectional Camera
IEEE Transactions on Robotics, v. 30, (2), 2014, article number 6574288, p. 310-324
Liu, Ming; Siegwart, Roland Y.

Conference paper 8

A Resource Allocation Strategy in a Robotic Ad-Hoc Network
IEEE International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions ICARSC, 2014, article number 6849773, p. 122-127
Tan, Matthew; Wang, Lujia; Tardioli, Danilo; Liu, Ming
Efficient Segmentation and Plane Modeling of Point-Cloud for Structured Environment by Normal Clustering and Tensor Voting
2014 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, April 2014, article number 7090597, p. 1805-1810
Liu, Ming
Experience in System Design for Human-robot Teaming in Urban Search and Rescue
Field and Service Robotics: Results of the 8th International Conference, Editors: Kazuya Yoshida, Satoshi Tadokoro. Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer-Verlag, 2014, p. 111-125
Kruijff, Geert Jan M.; Janicek, Miroslav; Keshavdas, Shanker; Larochelle, Benoit; Zender, Hendrik; Smets, Nanja J.J.M.; Mioch, Tina; Neerincx, Mark A.; Diggelen, Jurriaan Van; Colas, Francis; Liu, Ming; Pomerleau, Francois; Siegwart, Roland Y.; Hlavac, Vaclav; Svoboda, Tomas; Petricek, Tomas; Reinstein, Michal; Zimmermann, Karel; Pirri, Fiora; Gianni, M.; Papadakis, Panagiotis; Sinha, Arnab S.C.; Balmer, Patrick; Tomatis, Nicola; Worst, Rainer; Linder, Thorsten; Surmann, Hartmut; Tretyakov, Viatcheslav; Corrao, Salvatore; Pratzler-wanczura, S.; Sulk, M.
Hardware and Software Co-design of Visible Light Indoor Positioning Systems for Robotics
2014 International Conference on Advanced Control, Automation and Robotics, Hong Kong, 2014
Che, Fengyu; Hussain, Babar; Qiu, Kejie; Liu, Ming; Wu, Liang; Yue, Chik Patrick
Hierarchical Auction-Based Mechanism for Real-Time Resource Retrieval in Cloud Mobile Robotic System
Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, September 2014, article number 6907157, p. 2164-2169
Wang, Lujia; Liu, Ming; Meng, Max Qing Hu
Navigation on Point-Cloud-A Riemannian Metric Approach
Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 22 September 2014, Article number 6907453, p. 4088-4093
Liu, Ming; Siegwart, Roland Y.
Towards Indoor Localization Using Visible Light Communication for Consumer Electronic Devices
2014 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2014), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2014, p. 143-148
Liu, Ming; Qiu, Kejie; Che, Fengyu; Li, Shaohua; Hussain, Babar; Wu, Liang; Yue, Patrick C.
WiFi Signal Strength-Based Robot Indoor Localization
2014 IEEE International Conference on Information and Automation, ICIA 2014, October 2014, article number 6932662, p. 250-256
Sun, Yuxiang; Liu, Ming; Meng, Max Qing Hu





Article 1

Visual Homing From Scale With an Uncalibrated Omnidirectional Camera
IEEE Transactions on Robotics, v. 29, (6), 2013, article number 6573391, p. 1353-1365
Liu, Ming; Pradalier, Cedric; Siegwart, Roland

Conference paper 7

3D Path Planning and Execution for Search and Rescue Ground Robots
IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2013, article number 6696431, p. 722-727
Colas, Francis; Mahesh, Srivatsa; Pomerleau, Francois; Liu, Ming; Siegwart, Roland Y.
A Hidden Markov Model Approach for Voronoi Localization
2013 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, ROBIO 2013, 2013, article number 6739502, p. 462-467
Song, Jie; Liu, Ming
An Adaptive Descriptor for Uncalibrated Omnidirectional Images - Towards Scene Reconstruction by Trifocal Tensor
2013 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2013), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2013, p. 558-563
Liu, Ming; Alper, Bekir Tufan; Siegwart, Roland Y.
An Auction-based Resource Allocation Strategy for Joint-surveillance using Networked Multi-Robot Systems
2013 IEEE International Conference on Information and Automation (ICIA 2013) / IEEE. New York, NY, USA : IEEE, 2013, p. 424-429, Article no.: 6720336
Wang, Lujia; Liu, Ming; Meng, Max Qing Hu
An Experimental Evaluation of the RT-WMP Routing Protocol in an Indoor Environment
2013 IEEE International Conference on Information and Automation, ICIA 2013, 2013, article number 6720321, p. 344-349
Tan, Matthew; Liu, Ming; Siegwart, Roland Y.
Feature Selection and Pose Estimation From Known Planar Objects Using Monocular Vision
2013 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, ROBIO 2013, 2013, article number 6739580, p. 922-927
Xu, Shengdong; Liu, Ming
Information Theory based Validation for Point-cloud Segmentation aided by Tensor Voting
2013 IEEE International Conference on Information and Automation, ICIA 2013, 2013, article number 6720290, p. 168-173
Liu, Ming; Siegwart, Roland Y.





Article 1

Challenging Data Sets for Point Cloud Registration Algorithms
The International Journal of Robotics Research, v. 31, (14), 2012, p. 1705-1711
Pomerleau, Francois; Liu, Ming; Colas, Francis; Siegwart, Roland Y.

Conference paper 10

A Markov Semi-supervised Clustering Approach and its Application in Topological Map Extraction
IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2012, Article number 6385683, p. 4743-4748
Liu, Ming; Colas, Francis; Pomerleau, Francois; Siegwart, Roland Y.
DP-FACT: Towards Topological Mapping and Scene Recognition with Color for Omnidirectional Camera
IEEE International Conference on Robotics & Automation (ICRA), 2012, Article number 6225040, p. 3503-3508
Liu, Ming; Siegwart, Roland Y.
DP-Fusion: A Generic Framework for Online Multi Sensor Recognition
2012 IEEE International Conference on Multisensor Fusion and Integration for Intelligent Systems / IEEE. New York, NY, USA : IEEE, 2012, p. 7-12, Article no.: 6343031
Liu, Ming; Wang, Lujia; Siegwart, Roland Y.
Functional Mapping: Spatial Inferencing to Aid Human-robot Rescue Efforts in Unstructured Disaster Environments
AAAI Spring Symposium - Technical Report, v. SS-12-02, 2012, p. 34-39
Keshavdas, Shanker; Zender, Hendrik; Kruijff, Geert Jan M.; Liu, Ming; Colas, Francis
Noise Characterization of Depth Sensors for Surface Inspections
2nd International Conference on Applied Robotics for the Power Industry (CARPI2012), Zurich, Switzerland, 11-13 September 2012
Pomerleau, Francois; Breitenmoser, Andreas; Liu, Ming; Colas, Francis; Siegwart, Roland Y.
Normal Estimation for Pointcloud using GPU based Sparse Tensor Voting
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, ROBIO 2012 - Conference Digest, 11-14 December 2012, Article number 6490949, p. 91-96
Liu, Ming; Pomerleau, Francois; Colas, Francis; Siegwart, Roland Y.
Scale-only Visual Homing From an Omnidirectional Camera
IEEE International Conference on Robotics & Automation (ICRA), 2012, Article number 6224900, p. 3944-3949
Liu, Ming; Pradalier, Cedric; Pomerleau, Francois; Siegwart, Roland Y.
The Role of Homing in Visual Topological Navigation
IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2012, Article number 6385640, p. 567-572
Liu, Ming; Pradalier, Cedric; Pomerleau, Francois; Siegwart, Roland Y.
Towards Cloud Robotic System: A Case Study of Online Co-localization for Fair Resource Competence
2012 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, ROBIO 2012 - Conference Digest / IEEE. New York, NY, USA : IEEE, 2012, p. 2132-2137, Article number 6491284
Wang, Lujia; Liu, Ming; Meng, Max Qing Hu
Towards Real-time Multi-sensor Information Retrieval in Cloud Robotic System
2012 IEEE International Conference on Multisensor Fusion and Integration for Intelligent Systems / IEEE. New York, NY, USA : IEEE, 2012, p. 21-26, Article no.: 6343054
Wang, Lujia; Liu, Ming; Meng, Max Qing Hu; Siegwart, Roland Y.





Conference paper 4

A Unified Framework for Planning and Execution-Monitoring of Mobile Robots
AAAI Workshop - Technical Report, v. WS-11-09, 2011, p. 39-44
Gianni, M.; Papadakis, Panagiotis; Pirri, Fiora; Liu, Ming; Pomerleau, Francois; Colas, Francis; Zimmermann, Karel; Svoboda, Tomas; Petricek, Tomas; Kruijff, Geert Jan M.; Khambhaita, Harmish; Zender, Hendrik
Dataset Acquisitions for USAR Environmentse
AAAI Fall Symposium - Technical Report, v. FS-11-05, 2011, p. 49-54
Pomerleau, Francois; Lescot, Benoit; Colas, Francis; Liu, Ming; Siegwart, Roland Y.
Regional Topological Segmentation Based on Mutual Information Graphs
IEEE International Conference on Robotics & Automation (ICRA), 2011, Article number 5979672, p. 3269-3274
Liu, Ming; Colas, Francis; Siegwart, Roland Y.
Tracking a Depth Camera: Parameter Exploration for Fast ICP
IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2011, Article number 6048545, p. 3824-3829
Pomerleau, Francois; Magnenat, Stephane; Colas, Francis; Liu, Ming; Siegwart, Roland Y.





Conference paper 1

A Bearing-only 2D/3D-homing Method Under a Visual Servoing Framework
Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2010, article number 5509441, p. 4062-4067
Liu, Ming; Pradalier, ?edric; Chen, Qijun; Siegwart, Roland





Conference paper 1

Scene Recognition with Omnidirectional Vision for Topological Map using Lightweight Adaptive Descriptors
2009 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS 2009, 11 December 2009, Article number 5354131, p. 116-121
Liu, Ming; Scaramuzza, Davide; Pradalier, Cedric; Siegwart, Roland Y.; Chen, Qijun





2016 9

Let the Light Guide Us: VLC-Based Localization
IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine, v. 23, (4), December 2016, article number 7737037, p. 174-183
Qiu, Kejie; Zhang, Fangyi; Liu, Ming Article
Mobile Robots Exploration through CNN-Based Reinforcement Learning
Robotics and Biomimetics, v. 3, (24), 21 December 2016
Tai, Lei; Liu, Ming Article
Robotic Online Path Planning on Point Cloud
IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, v. 46, (5), May 2016, article number 7110581, p. 1217-1228
Liu, Ming Article
A Pricing Mechanism for Task Oriented Resource Allocation in Cloud Robotics
Robots and Sensor Clouds / Editors: Anis Koubaa, Elhadi Shakshuki. Switzerland : Springer International Publishing, 2016, p. 3-31, Part of the Studies in Systems, Decision and Control book series (SSDC, volume 36)
Wang, Lujia; Liu, Ming; Meng, Max Qing Hu Book chapter
A Deep-Network Solution Towards Model-Less Obstacle Avoidance
IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, v. 2016-November, November 2016, article number 7759428, p. 2759-2764
Tai, Lei; Li, Shaohua; Liu, Ming Conference paper
A Flexible Object Tracking System for Planary Motion
2016 IEEE International Conference on Real-Time Computing and Robotics, RCAR 2016, December 2016, article number 7784055, p. 362-367
Liao, Qinghai; Zhang, Wencong; Shi, Peng; Liu, Ming Conference paper
A Framework for Multi-robot Pose Graph SLAM
2016 IEEE International Conference on Real-Time Computing and Robotics, RCAR 2016, December 2016, article number 7784092, p. 567-572
Deutsch, Isaac; Liu, Ming; Siegwart, Roland Y. Conference paper
Facial Expression Recognition With PCA and LBP Features Extracting From Active Facial Patches
2016 IEEE International Conference on Real-Time Computing and Robotics, RCAR 2016, December 2016, article number 7784056, p. 368-373
Liu, Yanpeng; Cao, Yuwen; Li, Yibin; Liu, Ming; Song, Rui; Wang, Yafang; Xu, Zhigang; Ma, Xin Conference paper
Localization of inexpensive robots with low-bandwidth sensors
Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems, v. 6, 2018, p. 545-558, Book series: Springer Proceedings in Advanced Robotics
Wang, Shiling; Colas, Francis; Liu, Ming; Mondada, Francesco; Magnenat, Stéphane Conference paper

2015 14

Incremental Topological Segmentation for Semi-Structured Environments Using Discretized GVG
Autonomous Robots, v. 38, (2), 2014, p. 143-160
Liu, Ming; Colas, Francis; Oth, Luc; Siegwart, Roland Y. Article
Real-Time Multisensor Data Retrieval for Cloud Robotic Systems
IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, v. 12, (2), April 2015, article number 7060735, p. 507-518
Wang, Lujia; Liu, Ming; Meng, Max Qing Hu Article
A 6D-Pose Estimation Method for UAV using Known Lines
2015 IEEE International Conference on CYBER Technology in Automation, Control, and Intelligent Systems (CYBER 2015), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2015, p. 953-958
Liu, Wenxin; Yang, Shuo; Liu, Ming Conference paper
A Fast Multi-scale Convolutional Neural Network for Object Recognition
International Conference on Real-time Computing and Robotics (RCAR2015), Changsha, China, 23-26 June 2015
Li, Shaohua; Huang, Huimin; Zhang, Yue; Liu, Ming Conference paper
Asynchronous Blind Signal Decomposition Using Tiny-Length Code for Visible Light Communication-Based Indoor Localization
2015 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2015), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2015, p. 2800-2805
Zhang, Fangyi; Qiu, Kejie; Liu, Ming Conference paper
Environment Modeling-based Indoor Localization using Visible Light Communication
2015 IEEE International Conference on Real-time Computing and Robotics, Changsha, China, 24-26 June 2015
Qiu, Kejie; Zhang, Fangyi; Liu, Ming Conference paper
From Co-saliency Detection to Object Co-segmentation: A Unified Multi-stage Low-rank Matrix Recovery Approach
Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO), IEEE, 2015, p. 1602-1607
Chen, Hao; Wang, Panbing; Liu, Ming Conference paper
Human-Robot Teaming in Disaster Response - A User-Centric Approach
2015 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation: Workshop on Robotics & Automation Technologies for Humanitarian Applications: Where we are & Where we can be, Seattle, Washington, USA, 26-30 May 2015
Gianni, M.; Liu, Ming Conference paper
Motion Removal from Moving Platforms: An RGB-D Data-based Motion Detection, Tracking and Segmentation Approach
Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO), IEEE, 2015, p. 1377-1382
Sun, Yuxiang; Liu, Ming; Meng, Max Qing Hu Conference paper
Online Active Calibration for a Multi-LRF System
2015 IEEE 18th International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC 2015), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2015, p. 806-811
Xie, Guoyang; Xu, Tao; Isert, Carsten; Aeberhard, Michael; Li, Shaohua; Liu, Ming Conference paper
ROS for Multiple Robot Applications
International Conference on Real-time Computing and Robotics (RCAR 2015), Changsha, China, 23-26 June 2015
Liu, Ming Conference paper
Visible Light Communication-aided Real-time Indoor Localization
2015 International Conference on Real-time Computing and Robotics (RCAR 2015), Changsha, China, 23-26 June 2015
Liu, Ming; Qiu, Kejie; Zhang, Fangyi Conference paper
Visible Light Communication-based Indoor Environment Modeling and Metric-free Path Planning
2015 IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE): Automation for a Sustainable Future, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2015, p. 200-205
Qiu, Kejie; Zhang, Fangyi; Liu, Ming Conference paper
Visible Light Communication-based Indoor Localization using Gaussian Process
IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, September 2015, article number 7353809, p. 3125-3130
Qiu, Kejie; Zhang, Fangyi; Liu, Ming Conference paper

2014 10

Designing, Developing, and Deploying Systems to Support Human-Robot Teams in Disaster Response
Advanced Robotics, v. 28, (23), December 2014, p. 1547-1570
Kruijff, Geert Jan M.; Kruijff-Korbayová, Ivana; Keshavdas, Shanker; Larochelle, Benoit; Janí?ek, Miroslav; Colas, Francis; Liu, Ming; Pomerleau, Fran?ois; Siegwart, Roland; Neerincx, Mark A.; Looije, Rosemarijn; Smets, Nanja J.J.M.; Mioch, Tina; Van Diggelen, Jurriaan; Pirri, Fiora; Gianni, M.; Ferri, Federico; Menna, Matteo; Worst, Rainer; Linder, Thorsten; Tretyakov, Viatcheslav; Surmann, Hartmut; Svoboda, Tomá?; Rein?tein, Michal; Zimmermann, Karel; Pet?í?ek, Tomas; Hlavá?, Václav Article
Topological Mapping and Scene Recognition With Lightweight Color Descriptors for an Omnidirectional Camera
IEEE Transactions on Robotics, v. 30, (2), 2014, article number 6574288, p. 310-324
Liu, Ming; Siegwart, Roland Y. Article
A Resource Allocation Strategy in a Robotic Ad-Hoc Network
IEEE International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions ICARSC, 2014, article number 6849773, p. 122-127
Tan, Matthew; Wang, Lujia; Tardioli, Danilo; Liu, Ming Conference paper
Efficient Segmentation and Plane Modeling of Point-Cloud for Structured Environment by Normal Clustering and Tensor Voting
2014 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, April 2014, article number 7090597, p. 1805-1810
Liu, Ming Conference paper
Experience in System Design for Human-robot Teaming in Urban Search and Rescue
Field and Service Robotics: Results of the 8th International Conference, Editors: Kazuya Yoshida, Satoshi Tadokoro. Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer-Verlag, 2014, p. 111-125
Kruijff, Geert Jan M.; Janicek, Miroslav; Keshavdas, Shanker; Larochelle, Benoit; Zender, Hendrik; Smets, Nanja J.J.M.; Mioch, Tina; Neerincx, Mark A.; Diggelen, Jurriaan Van; Colas, Francis; Liu, Ming; Pomerleau, Francois; Siegwart, Roland Y.; Hlavac, Vaclav; Svoboda, Tomas; Petricek, Tomas; Reinstein, Michal; Zimmermann, Karel; Pirri, Fiora; Gianni, M.; Papadakis, Panagiotis; Sinha, Arnab S.C.; Balmer, Patrick; Tomatis, Nicola; Worst, Rainer; Linder, Thorsten; Surmann, Hartmut; Tretyakov, Viatcheslav; Corrao, Salvatore; Pratzler-wanczura, S.; Sulk, M. Conference paper
Hardware and Software Co-design of Visible Light Indoor Positioning Systems for Robotics
2014 International Conference on Advanced Control, Automation and Robotics, Hong Kong, 2014
Che, Fengyu; Hussain, Babar; Qiu, Kejie; Liu, Ming; Wu, Liang; Yue, Chik Patrick Conference paper
Hierarchical Auction-Based Mechanism for Real-Time Resource Retrieval in Cloud Mobile Robotic System
Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, September 2014, article number 6907157, p. 2164-2169
Wang, Lujia; Liu, Ming; Meng, Max Qing Hu Conference paper
Navigation on Point-Cloud-A Riemannian Metric Approach
Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 22 September 2014, Article number 6907453, p. 4088-4093
Liu, Ming; Siegwart, Roland Y. Conference paper
Towards Indoor Localization Using Visible Light Communication for Consumer Electronic Devices
2014 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2014), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2014, p. 143-148
Liu, Ming; Qiu, Kejie; Che, Fengyu; Li, Shaohua; Hussain, Babar; Wu, Liang; Yue, Patrick C. Conference paper
WiFi Signal Strength-Based Robot Indoor Localization
2014 IEEE International Conference on Information and Automation, ICIA 2014, October 2014, article number 6932662, p. 250-256
Sun, Yuxiang; Liu, Ming; Meng, Max Qing Hu Conference paper

2013 8

Visual Homing From Scale With an Uncalibrated Omnidirectional Camera
IEEE Transactions on Robotics, v. 29, (6), 2013, article number 6573391, p. 1353-1365
Liu, Ming; Pradalier, Cedric; Siegwart, Roland Article
3D Path Planning and Execution for Search and Rescue Ground Robots
IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2013, article number 6696431, p. 722-727
Colas, Francis; Mahesh, Srivatsa; Pomerleau, Francois; Liu, Ming; Siegwart, Roland Y. Conference paper
A Hidden Markov Model Approach for Voronoi Localization
2013 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, ROBIO 2013, 2013, article number 6739502, p. 462-467
Song, Jie; Liu, Ming Conference paper
An Adaptive Descriptor for Uncalibrated Omnidirectional Images - Towards Scene Reconstruction by Trifocal Tensor
2013 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2013), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2013, p. 558-563
Liu, Ming; Alper, Bekir Tufan; Siegwart, Roland Y. Conference paper
An Auction-based Resource Allocation Strategy for Joint-surveillance using Networked Multi-Robot Systems
2013 IEEE International Conference on Information and Automation (ICIA 2013) / IEEE. New York, NY, USA : IEEE, 2013, p. 424-429, Article no.: 6720336
Wang, Lujia; Liu, Ming; Meng, Max Qing Hu Conference paper
An Experimental Evaluation of the RT-WMP Routing Protocol in an Indoor Environment
2013 IEEE International Conference on Information and Automation, ICIA 2013, 2013, article number 6720321, p. 344-349
Tan, Matthew; Liu, Ming; Siegwart, Roland Y. Conference paper
Feature Selection and Pose Estimation From Known Planar Objects Using Monocular Vision
2013 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, ROBIO 2013, 2013, article number 6739580, p. 922-927
Xu, Shengdong; Liu, Ming Conference paper
Information Theory based Validation for Point-cloud Segmentation aided by Tensor Voting
2013 IEEE International Conference on Information and Automation, ICIA 2013, 2013, article number 6720290, p. 168-173
Liu, Ming; Siegwart, Roland Y. Conference paper

2012 11

Challenging Data Sets for Point Cloud Registration Algorithms
The International Journal of Robotics Research, v. 31, (14), 2012, p. 1705-1711
Pomerleau, Francois; Liu, Ming; Colas, Francis; Siegwart, Roland Y. Article
A Markov Semi-supervised Clustering Approach and its Application in Topological Map Extraction
IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2012, Article number 6385683, p. 4743-4748
Liu, Ming; Colas, Francis; Pomerleau, Francois; Siegwart, Roland Y. Conference paper
DP-FACT: Towards Topological Mapping and Scene Recognition with Color for Omnidirectional Camera
IEEE International Conference on Robotics & Automation (ICRA), 2012, Article number 6225040, p. 3503-3508
Liu, Ming; Siegwart, Roland Y. Conference paper
DP-Fusion: A Generic Framework for Online Multi Sensor Recognition
2012 IEEE International Conference on Multisensor Fusion and Integration for Intelligent Systems / IEEE. New York, NY, USA : IEEE, 2012, p. 7-12, Article no.: 6343031
Liu, Ming; Wang, Lujia; Siegwart, Roland Y. Conference paper
Functional Mapping: Spatial Inferencing to Aid Human-robot Rescue Efforts in Unstructured Disaster Environments
AAAI Spring Symposium - Technical Report, v. SS-12-02, 2012, p. 34-39
Keshavdas, Shanker; Zender, Hendrik; Kruijff, Geert Jan M.; Liu, Ming; Colas, Francis Conference paper
Noise Characterization of Depth Sensors for Surface Inspections
2nd International Conference on Applied Robotics for the Power Industry (CARPI2012), Zurich, Switzerland, 11-13 September 2012
Pomerleau, Francois; Breitenmoser, Andreas; Liu, Ming; Colas, Francis; Siegwart, Roland Y. Conference paper
Normal Estimation for Pointcloud using GPU based Sparse Tensor Voting
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, ROBIO 2012 - Conference Digest, 11-14 December 2012, Article number 6490949, p. 91-96
Liu, Ming; Pomerleau, Francois; Colas, Francis; Siegwart, Roland Y. Conference paper
Scale-only Visual Homing From an Omnidirectional Camera
IEEE International Conference on Robotics & Automation (ICRA), 2012, Article number 6224900, p. 3944-3949
Liu, Ming; Pradalier, Cedric; Pomerleau, Francois; Siegwart, Roland Y. Conference paper
The Role of Homing in Visual Topological Navigation
IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2012, Article number 6385640, p. 567-572
Liu, Ming; Pradalier, Cedric; Pomerleau, Francois; Siegwart, Roland Y. Conference paper
Towards Cloud Robotic System: A Case Study of Online Co-localization for Fair Resource Competence
2012 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, ROBIO 2012 - Conference Digest / IEEE. New York, NY, USA : IEEE, 2012, p. 2132-2137, Article number 6491284
Wang, Lujia; Liu, Ming; Meng, Max Qing Hu Conference paper
Towards Real-time Multi-sensor Information Retrieval in Cloud Robotic System
2012 IEEE International Conference on Multisensor Fusion and Integration for Intelligent Systems / IEEE. New York, NY, USA : IEEE, 2012, p. 21-26, Article no.: 6343054
Wang, Lujia; Liu, Ming; Meng, Max Qing Hu; Siegwart, Roland Y. Conference paper

2011 4

A Unified Framework for Planning and Execution-Monitoring of Mobile Robots
AAAI Workshop - Technical Report, v. WS-11-09, 2011, p. 39-44
Gianni, M.; Papadakis, Panagiotis; Pirri, Fiora; Liu, Ming; Pomerleau, Francois; Colas, Francis; Zimmermann, Karel; Svoboda, Tomas; Petricek, Tomas; Kruijff, Geert Jan M.; Khambhaita, Harmish; Zender, Hendrik Conference paper
Dataset Acquisitions for USAR Environmentse
AAAI Fall Symposium - Technical Report, v. FS-11-05, 2011, p. 49-54
Pomerleau, Francois; Lescot, Benoit; Colas, Francis; Liu, Ming; Siegwart, Roland Y. Conference paper
Regional Topological Segmentation Based on Mutual Information Graphs
IEEE International Conference on Robotics & Automation (ICRA), 2011, Article number 5979672, p. 3269-3274
Liu, Ming; Colas, Francis; Siegwart, Roland Y. Conference paper
Tracking a Depth Camera: Parameter Exploration for Fast ICP
IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2011, Article number 6048545, p. 3824-3829
Pomerleau, Francois; Magnenat, Stephane; Colas, Francis; Liu, Ming; Siegwart, Roland Y. Conference paper

2010 1

A Bearing-only 2D/3D-homing Method Under a Visual Servoing Framework
Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2010, article number 5509441, p. 4062-4067
Liu, Ming; Pradalier, ?edric; Chen, Qijun; Siegwart, Roland Conference paper

2009 1

Scene Recognition with Omnidirectional Vision for Topological Map using Lightweight Adaptive Descriptors
2009 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS 2009, 11 December 2009, Article number 5354131, p. 116-121
Liu, Ming; Scaramuzza, Davide; Pradalier, Cedric; Siegwart, Roland Y.; Chen, Qijun Conference paper


No Publications






Teaching Assignment
2021-22 Winter 0 2021-22 Fall 2 2020-21 Summer 0 2020-21 Spring 4 2020-21 Winter 0 2020-21 Fall 2


ROAS6000A Information Processing in Robotics
ROAS6800B Seminar in Robotics and Autonomous Systems


CPEG4911 Computer Engineering Final Year Project in ELEC
ELEC4900 Final Year Design Project
INTR6800A Seminar in Intelligent Transportation
ROAS6800A Seminar in Robotics and Autonomous Systems


CPEG4911 Computer Engineering Final Year Project in ELEC
ELEC3210 Machine Learning and Information Processing for Robotics


No Teaching Assignments


No Teaching Assignments


No Teaching Assignments






Research Postgraduate (RPG) Supervision From January 2019 to December 2022 (As of 30 January 2022)


All Supervisions Current RPGs Graduated RPGs




Current RPGs


Doctor of Philosophy HU, Tianshuai
Robotics and Autonomous Systems( 2021 - )

HU, Xiangcheng
Electronic and Computer Engineering( 2021 - )

JIANG, Haoxuan
Electronic and Computer Engineering( 2021 - )

LIU, Boyi
Electronic and Computer Engineering( 2021 - )

LIU, Tianyu
Electronic and Computer Engineering( 2021 - )

SUN, Ge
Robotics and Autonomous Systems( 2021 - )

WANG, Sheng
Robotics and Autonomous Systems( 2021 - )

WEI, Hexiang
Electronic and Computer Engineering( 2021 - )

XU, Tong (co-supervision)
Data Science and Analytics( 2021 - )

YU, Jingwen
Electronic and Computer Engineering( 2021 - )

CEN, Jun (co-supervision)
Robotics and Autonomous Systems( 2020 - )

CHEN, Zhili (co-supervision)
Robotics and Autonomous Systems( 2020 - )

CHENG, Jie
Electronic and Computer Engineering( 2020 - )

GAN, Lu
Robotics and Autonomous Systems( 2020 - )

GENG, Ruoyu
Robotics and Autonomous Systems( 2020 - )

LIU, Hongji
Robotics and Autonomous Systems( 2020 - )

MA, Fulong
Electronic and Computer Engineering( 2020 - )

TANG, Mingkai
Computer Science and Engineering( 2020 - )

WU, Jin
Electronic and Computer Engineering( 2020 - )

XIN, Ren
Intelligent Transportation( 2020 - )

ZHANG, Shuyang
Electronic and Computer Engineering( 2020 - )

ZHENG, Linwei
Electronic and Computer Engineering( 2020 - )

ZHU, Yilong
Electronic and Computer Engineering( 2020 - )

LIU, Yuxuan
Electronic and Computer Engineering( 2019 - )

XUE, Bohuan
Computer Science and Engineering( 2019 - )

YANG, Bowen
Electronic and Computer Engineering( 2019 - )

CAI, Peide
Electronic and Computer Engineering( 2018 - )

HUANG, Huaiyang
Computer Science and Engineering( 2018 - )

LIANG, Qing
Electronic and Computer Engineering( 2018 - )

LIU, Yang
Electronic and Computer Engineering( 2018 - )

MEI, Xiaodong
Computer Science and Engineering( 2018 - )

WANG, Heng Li
Electronic and Computer Engineering( 2018 - )

WANG, Sukai
Computer Science and Engineering( 2018 - )

XU, Zhenhua
Computer Science and Engineering( 2018 - )

YUN, Peng
Computer Science and Engineering( 2017 - )




Master of Philosophy LI, Hangyu (co-supervision)
Intelligent Transportation( 2021 - )

QI, Weiqing
Robotics and Autonomous Systems( 2021 - )

XIE, Xupeng
Electronic and Computer Engineering( 2020 - )

YU, Ho Nam
Electronic and Computer Engineering( 2020 - )

ZHANG, Qingwen
Robotics and Autonomous Systems( 2020 - )

CHEN, Feiyi
Electronic and Computer Engineering( 2019 - )

WANG, Yutong (co-supervision)
Electronic and Computer Engineering( 2019 - )





Graduated RPGs


Doctor of Philosophy BHUTTA, Muhammad Usman Maqbool
Electronic and Computer Engineering( Completed in 2021 )

JIAO, Jianhao
Electronic and Computer Engineering( Completed in 2021 )

LIAO, Qinghai
Electronic and Computer Engineering( Completed in 2021 )

YU, Yang
Electronic and Computer Engineering( Completed in 2021 )

CHEN, Yuying
Electronic and Computer Engineering( Completed in 2020 )

YE, Haoyang
Electronic and Computer Engineering( Completed in 2020 )

SUN, Ting
Electronic and Computer Engineering( Completed in 2019 )

TAI, Lei
Electronic and Computer Engineering( Completed in 2019 )




Master of Philosophy HUANG, Kan
Electronic and Computer Engineering( Completed in 2021 )









ProjectsFrom January 2020 to December 2022

All Projects 13 Leading Projects 5 Participating Projects 8


Research and Practice of Group Intelligent Transport Vehicle for Airport Baggage Transfer


面向機場行李轉運的群體智能托運車輛研究與實踐 Leading


Innovation and Technology Fund


Project Team (HKUST)
LIU Ming (Lead)


2022 -




Visible light communication and positioning system for the industrial Internet of Things: topic#1 Communication chip and collaborative positioning technology for intelligent industrial robots


用于工業物聯網的可見光通信與定位系統: 子課題#1 智能工業機器人通信芯片及協同定位技術 Participating


Nanhai People's Government of Foshan


Project Team (HKUST)
YUE Chik Patrick (Lead)
LIU Ming


2021 -




Visible light communication and positioning system for the industrial Internet of Things: topic#2 Visible light positioning algorithm and automated LED mapping technology for robots


用于工業物聯網的可見光通信與定位系統: 子課題#2 適用于機器人的可見光定位算法及自動化LED建圖技術 Participating


Nanhai People's Government of Foshan


Project Team (HKUST)
LIU Ming
YUE Chik Patrick


2021 -




Development and Industrialization of Low-speed autonomous driving systems for 5G+ Smart Parks


面向5G+智慧園區的低速無人駕駛系統研發及產業化 Leading


Department of Science and Technology of Guangdong Province


Project Team (HKUST)
LIU Ming (Lead)
WANG Michael Yu


2021 -




Hong Kong Center of AI, Robotics and Electronics (HK CARE) for Prefabricated Construction


N/A Participating


Innovation and Technology Fund


Project Team (HKUST)
LI Zexiang (Lead)
CHEN Kevin Jing
CHEN Lei
CHEN Qifeng
CHENG Jack Chin Pang
CHENG Tim Kwang-Ting
FAN Zhiyong
LEE Yi-Kuen
LEUNG Winnie Suk Wai
LIU Ming
QIU Li
QUAN Long
SEO Jungwon
SHEN Shaojie
WANG Michael Yu
WANG Yang
ZHANG Qian


2020 -




An Unmanned Security Patrol Car for Oil Fields and Other Large-scale Facilities


一種用於油田等大型設施的無人安防巡邏車 Leading


Innovation and Technology Fund


Project Team (HKUST)
LIU Ming (Lead)


2020 - 2021




A Robotic Wireless Capsule Endoscopic System for Automated Gastrointestinal Disease Diagnosis


一個用於腸胃道疾病自動診斷的無線膠囊內窺鏡機器人系統 Participating


RGC - Collaborative Research Fund


Project Team (HKUST)
LIU Ming


2019 -




Development of all-weather visual navigation robot system for terminal delivery service


面向終端配送服務的全天候視覺導航機器人系統研發 Participating


Department of Science and Technology of Guangdong Province


Project Team (HKUST)
LIU Ming


2019 -




Automated BIM Generation Based on UAV and Indoor 3D Laser Scanning Technologies


基於無人機及室內激光掃描之自動化建築信息建模 Participating


ATAL Engineering Limited, Innovation and Technology Fund


Project Team (HKUST)
CHENG Jack Chin Pang (Lead)
LIU Ming
WANG Michael Yu


2018 - 2021




Research on Key Technologies of MEMS Laser Sensor-based Autonomous Driving


基于MEMS激光傳感器的無人駕駛關鍵技術研究創新平臺 Participating


Department of Science and Technology of Guangdong Province


Project Team (HKUST)
LIU Ming


2018 - 2021




The generation mechanism of the adaptive walking and autonomous learning evolution mechanism for humanoid robots


仿人機器人適應性行走的生成機理及自主學習進化機制 Participating


National Natural Science Foundation of China


Project Team (HKUST)
LIU Ming


2018 - 2021




Development of a Semi-Autonomous Wheelchair and Its Prototyping


基於深度逆向強化學習的智能助殘輪椅半自動控制關鍵問題研究及原型系統 Leading


B-Free Technology Limited, Innovation and Technology Fund, UBTECH Robotics Limited


Project Team (HKUST)
LIU Ming (Lead)


2018 - 2020




Recurrent Deep Learning-aided Robust High-precision Long-term Localization in Dynamic Outdoor Environment with Heterogeneous Sensors


借助異構傳感器實現在動態室外環境下循環深度學習的高精度長時間定位 Leading


RGC - General Research Fund


Project Team (HKUST)
LIU Ming (Lead)


2018 - 2020






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