Hongliang Ren
Professor
Works on intelligent surgical robotics, continuum and soft robots, and learning-based control in image-guided procedures.
Hongliang Ren's lab at CUHK works on soft, surgical & micro robots and manipulation & robot learning. 133 papers since 2023, 48 at top venues, mostly ICRA and MICCAI. 18 PhD students and 1 master's student. 41 alumni. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 35/ year
- at T1 venues
- 36%
- PhD students
- 18
- MS students
- 1
- alumni listed
- 41
Papers by yearfrom DBLP, 2023–2026
- 20 papers2026 · T1 11 · collecting
- 45 papers2025 · T1 18
- 42 papers2024 · T1 11
- 26 papers2023 · T1 8
T1 venuesOtherVenues: ICRA, MICCAI, IROS, AAAI, ACM MM
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Soft, surgical & micro robots39 papers
- Manipulation & robot learning39 papers
- continuum9 papers
- image-guided0 papers
- soft robots0 papers
Paper list
From DBLP.
202620 papers
- IEEE CAA J. Autom. SinicaADAPT: A Model-Free Adaptive Optimal Control for Continuum Robots (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Trans. Ind. Electron.Asymmetric Cosine Jerk Trajectory Optimization for Robust Vibration Suppression (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)Bioinspired Kirigami Capsule Robot for Minimally Invasive Gastrointestinal Biopsy (opens in a new tab)
- AAAI (T1)Bridging Vision and Language for Robust Context-Aware Surgical Point Tracking: The VL-SurgPT Dataset and Benchmark (opens in a new tab)
- Adv. Intell. Syst.Centimeter-Scale Magneto-Reconfigurable Parallel Robots: A Grassmann Line Geometry Synthesis Framework for Multitask Adaptation Using Magneto-Connected Part Library (opens in a new tab)
- MICCAI (T1)CoGE: Sim-to-Real Online Geometric Estimation for Monocular Colonoscopy (opens in a new tab)
- Medical Image Anal.Comparative validation of surgical phase recognition, instrument keypoint estimation, and instrument instance segmentation in endoscopy: Results of the PhaKIR 2024 challenge (opens in a new tab)
- Medical Image Anal.EndoChat: Grounded multimodal large language model for endoscopic surgery (opens in a new tab)
- Adv. Eng. InformaticsEndoControlMag: Robust endoscopic vascular motion magnification with periodic reference resetting and hierarchical tissue-aware dual-mask control (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)EndoDDC: Learning Sparse to Dense Reconstruction for Endoscopic Robotic Navigation via Diffusion Depth Completion (opens in a new tab)
- MICCAI (T1)EndoGSim: Physics-Aware 4D Dynamic Endoscopic Scene Simulations via MLLM-Guided Gaussian Splatting (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)GeoLanG: Geometry-Aware Language-Guided Grasping with Unified RGB-D Multimodal Learning (opens in a new tab)
202545 papers
- IROS (T1)Adjusting Tissue Puncture Omnidirectionally In Situ with Pneumatic Rotatable Biopsy Mechanism and Hierarchical Airflow Management in Tortuous Luminal Pathways (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)Advancing Dense Endoscopic Reconstruction with Gaussian Splatting-Driven Surface Normal-Aware Tracking and Mapping (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Trans Autom. Sci. Eng.Air Shepherd: Trajectory Prediction-Based Target Localization and Circumnavigation in Cluttered Environments (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Trans. RoboticsAugment Laminar Jamming Variable Stiffness Through Electroadhesion and Vacuum Actuation (opens in a new tab)
- Adv. Intell. Syst.Automatic Virtual-to-real Calibration and Dynamic Registration of Deformable Tissue for Endoscopic Submucosal Dissection (opens in a new tab)
- IROS (T1)Body-Temperature-Responsive Balloon Actuator for Adaptive In-Ear Microneedle Electrode Deployment (opens in a new tab)
- Agentic AI/CREATE/Clinical MLLMs@MICCAICan DeepSeek Reason Like a Surgeon? An Empirical Evaluation for Vision-Language Understanding in Robotic-Assisted Surgery (opens in a new tab)
- IROS (T1)CapsDT: Diffusion-Transformer for Capsule Robot Manipulation (opens in a new tab)
- ROBIOContact-Aided Navigation of Flexible Robotic Endoscope Using Deep Reinforcement Learning in Dynamic Stomach (opens in a new tab)
- ACM MMCoPESD: A Multi-Level Surgical Motion Dataset for Training Large Vision-Language Models to Co-Pilot Endoscopic Submucosal Dissection (opens in a new tab)
- Adv. Intell. Syst.Disentangling Contact Location for Stretchable Tactile Sensors from Soft Waveguide Ultrasonic Scatter Signals (opens in a new tab)
- RoboSoftElastoSight: Miniature Tactile Sensors for Multimodal Force and Geometry Estimation in Robotic Intraluminal Palpation (opens in a new tab)
202442 papers
- IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett.A Frequency-Modulated Tripedal Soft Magnetic Robot With Diverse Motion Modalities for Ingestible Applications (opens in a new tab)
- ISIC/iMIMIC/EARTH/DeCaF@MICCAIA Review of 3D Reconstruction Techniques for Deformable Tissues in Robotic Surgery (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Trans. Ind. Electron.A Six-Axis FBG Force/Moment Sensor With Nonlinear Decoupling and Fault Tolerance for Laparoscopic Instruments (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Trans. Ind. InformaticsA Wearable, Reconfigurable, and Modular Magnetic Tracking System for Wireless Capsule Robots (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Trans. Ind. InformaticsAn Efficient MLP-Based Point-Guided Segmentation Network for Ore Images With Ambiguous Boundary (opens in a new tab)
- IROS (T1)ASI-Seg: Audio-Driven Surgical Instrument Segmentation with Surgeon Intention Understanding (opens in a new tab)
- SASHIMI@MICCAIBenchmarking Robustness of Endoscopic Depth Estimation with Synthetically Corrupted Data (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)Chained Flexible Capsule Endoscope: Unraveling the Conundrum of Size Limitations and Functional Integration for Gastrointestinal Transitivity (opens in a new tab)
- ROBIOCharacterization of Video Capsule Endoscopy Manipulation Capabilities in Low-Viscosity Liquids Under a Highly Nonlinear Magnetic Field from a Single Magnet (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Trans Autom. Sci. Eng.Confidence-Aware Paced-Curriculum Learning by Label Smoothing for Surgical Scene Understanding (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Trans Autom. Sci. Eng.Curriculum-Based Augmented Fourier Domain Adaptation for Robust Medical Image Segmentation (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Trans. Ind. Electron.Data-Driven Adaptive Distributed Localization of Multi-Agent Systems With Sensor Failure (opens in a new tab)
202326 papers
- IEEE Trans. Ind. InformaticsAMagPoseNet: Real-Time Six-DoF Magnet Pose Estimation by Dual-Domain Few-Shot Learning From Prior Model (opens in a new tab)
- RoboticsAn Overhead Collapsible Origami-Based Mount for Medical Applications (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Trans. Instrum. Meas.An RNN-LSTM Enhanced Compact and Affordable Micro Force Sensing System for Interventional Continuum Robots With Interchangeable End-Effector Instruments (opens in a new tab)
- MICCAI (T1)CAT-ViL: Co-attention Gated Vision-Language Embedding for Visual Question Localized-Answering in Robotic Surgery (opens in a new tab)
- Medical Image Anal.CholecTriplet2021: A benchmark challenge for surgical action triplet recognition (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Trans. Instrum. Meas.Design of a Modular 3-D Force Sensor With Fiber Bragg Gratings for Continuum Surgical Robot (opens in a new tab)
- Medical Biol. Eng. Comput.Domain adaptive Sim-to-Real segmentation of oropharyngeal organs (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE J. Biomed. Health InformaticsFederated Semi-Supervised Learning for Medical Image Segmentation via Pseudo-Label Denoising (opens in a new tab)
- IROS (T1)Generalizing Surgical Instruments Segmentation to Unseen Domains with One-to-Many Synthesis (opens in a new tab)
- Inf. FusionInformation loss challenges in surgical navigation systems: From information fusion to AI-based approaches (opens in a new tab)
- MICCAI (T1)LLCaps: Learning to Illuminate Low-Light Capsule Endoscopy with Curved Wavelet Attention and Reverse Diffusion (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Trans. Intell. Transp. Syst.Magnetic Tracking With Real-Time Geomagnetic Vector Separation for Robotic Dockable Charging (opens in a new tab)
Where alumni went41 listed
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