Shing Shin Cheng
Associate Professor
Leads the Surgical Robotics and Instrumentation Laboratory, working on flexible surgical robots, image-guided surgical navigation and smart actuators.
Shing Shin Cheng's lab at CUHK works on soft, surgical & micro robots and embodied & active vision. 36 papers since 2023, 15 at top venues, mostly ICRA and IROS. 7 PhD students and 2 master's students. 2 alumni. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 9/ year
- at T1 venues
- 42%
- PhD students
- 7
- MS students
- 2
- alumni listed
- 2
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage and DBLP, 2023–2026
- 7 papers2026 · T1 3 · collecting
- 10 papers2025 · T1 6
- 7 papers2024 · T1 2
- 12 papers2023 · T1 4
T1 venuesOtherVenues: ICRA, IROS, MICCAI, TAC, CVPR
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Soft, surgical & micro robots7 papers
- surgical3 papers
- Embodied & active vision2 papers
- surgical robots0 papers
- image-guided0 papers
Paper list
From the lab homepage and DBLP.
20267 papers
- Medical Image Anal.4D monocular surgical reconstruction under arbitrary camera motions (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Trans. RoboticsA Single Hydraulic Bellows-Based MRI-Safe Robotic Needle Driver Capable of Independent and Coupled Needle Translation and Rotation (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)A Vision-Language-Action Model for Adaptive Ultrasound-Guided Needle Insertion and Needle Tracking (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE CAA J. Autom. SinicaADAPT: A Model-Free Adaptive Optimal Control for Continuum Robots (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett.Digital Twin-Assisted MR-Conditional Robotic System for Continuous Intracranial Laser Steering (opens in a new tab)
- MICCAI (T1)DreamReg: Belief-Driven World Model for 2D-3D Ultrasound Registration (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)Leveraging Geometric Prior Uncertainty and Complementary Constraints for High-Fidelity Neural Indoor Surface Reconstruction (opens in a new tab)
202510 papers
- IROS (T1)A Spatial Position-based Visual Servoing Obstacle-avoidable Shape Control Framework for An 11-DOF Hybrid Continuum Robot (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Trans. Aerosp. Electron. Syst.Centrally Synergistic Hybrid Feedback for Global Pose Tracking Using Dual Quaternions (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)Deformable Gaussian Splatting for Efficient and High-Fidelity Reconstruction of Surgical Scenes (opens in a new tab)
- TAC (T1)Global Coordinated Stabilization of Multiple Simple Mechanical Control Systems on a Class of Lie Groups (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett.MambaXCTrack: Mamba-Based Tracker With SSM Cross-Correlation and Motion Prompt for Ultrasound Needle Tracking (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)Motion-Guided Dual-Camera Tracker for Endoscope Tracking and Motion Analysis in a Mechanical Gastric Simulator (opens in a new tab)
- MICCAI (T1)MrTrack: Register Mamba for Needle Tracking with Rapid Reciprocating Motion During Ultrasound-Guided Aspiration Biopsy (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)Self-Sufficient 5-DoF Discrete Global Localization for Magnetically-Actuated Endoscope in Bronchoscopy (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Trans. Medical ImagingTask-Oriented Network Design for Visual Tracking and Motion Filtering of Needle Tip Under 2D Ultrasound (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Trans. Instrum. Meas.Theoretical Data-Driven MobilePosenet: Lightweight Neural Network for Accurate Calibration-Free 5-DOF Magnet Localization (opens in a new tab)
20247 papers
- IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett.A Cylindrical Halbach Array Magnetic Actuation System for Longitudinal Robot Actuation Across 2D Workplane (opens in a new tab)
- J. Medical Robotics Res.A Highly Distensible, Cable Loop-Driven Soft Robotic Gastric Simulator for Endoscopy Training (opens in a new tab)
- CVPR (T1)A Unified Framework for Microscopy Defocus Deblur with Multi-Pyramid Transformer and Contrastive Learning (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE J. Biomed. Health InformaticsMulti-Modal Multi-Slice Cooperative Dual-Domain Cascaded De-Aliasing Network for MR Imaging Reconstruction (opens in a new tab)
- Autom.Quaternion-based attitude stabilization using synergistic hybrid feedback with minimal potential functions (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Trans. Fuzzy Syst.Self-Learning Takagi-Sugeno Fuzzy Control With Application to Semicar Active Suspension Model (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)Simultaneous Estimation of Shape and Force along Highly Deformable Surgical Manipulators Using Sparse FBG Measurement (opens in a new tab)
202312 papers
- IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett.A Cross-Entropy Motion Planning Framework for Hybrid Continuum Robots (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Trans. Ind. InformaticsA Task-Driven Scene-Aware LiDAR Point Cloud Coding Framework for Autonomous Vehicles (opens in a new tab)
- 3 : 1256-1267Bioinspired Soft Wrist Based on Multicable Jamming With Hybrid Motion and Stiffness Control for Dexterous Manipulation
- IEEEDesign and Evaluation of a Flexible Sensorized Robotic OCT Neuroendoscope
- —Design and Experimental Validation of a Novel Hybrid Continuum Robot With Enhanced Dexterity and Manipulability in Confined Space
- IROS (T1)Dynamic Heart Simulator for Ultrasound-Guided Pericardiocentesis (opens in a new tab)
- TAC (T1)Global Stabilization of Antipodal Points on n-Sphere with Application to Attitude Tracking (opens in a new tab)
- Medical Image Anal.Learning-based needle tip tracking in 2D ultrasound by fusing visual tracking and motion prediction (opens in a new tab)
- Autom.Synergistic potential functions from single modified trace function on SO (3) (opens in a new tab)
- IROS (T1)Towards MR-Safe Concentric Bellows-Based Hydrostatic Linear Actuator for a Needle Driver (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Trans. Instrum. Meas.Uniting Attitude Estimation With Global Asymptotic Stability (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)Visual Tracking of Needle Tip in 2D Ultrasound based on Global Features in a Siamese Architecture (opens in a new tab)
Where alumni went2 listed
Apply to CUHKFall 2027
Computer Science and Engineering MPhil/PhD
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