Danping Zou
Assistant professor
Builds real-time navigation systems for small drones, including visual SLAM and visual-inertial odometry such as StructVIO and CoSLAM.
Danping Zou's lab at SJTU works on autonomous vehicles & drones, robot perception & SLAM and embodied & active vision. 30 papers since 2023, 12 at top venues, mostly ICRA and AAAI. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 8/ year
- at T1 venues
- 40%
- PhD students
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- MS students
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- alumni listed
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Papers by yearfrom DBLP, 2023–2026
- 11 papers2026 · T1 4 · collecting
- 7 papers2025 · T1 4
- 8 papers2024 · T1 3
- 4 papers2023 · T1 1
T1 venuesOtherVenues: ICRA, AAAI, CVPR, IROS, NeurIPS
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Embodied & active vision6 papers
- Autonomous vehicles & drones4 papers
- Robot perception & SLAM3 papers
- small0 papers
- drones0 papers
Paper list
From DBLP.
202611 papers
- IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett.A Closed-Form 4-DoF Inter-Robot Pose Estimator Using Bearing-Only Measurements (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)AI-IO: An Aerodynamics-Inspired Real-Time Inertial Odometry for Quadrotors (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett.Autonomous FPV Flight With Translational Optical Flow and Uncertainty Mask (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett.AutoPath: Learning Transferable Goal-Conditioned Stochastic Path Prior for Safe Navigation Without Human Demonstrations (opens in a new tab)
- AAAI (T1)CoordAR: One-Reference 6D Pose Estimation of Novel Objects via Autoregressive Coordinate Map Generation (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)Curriculum Reinforcement Learning for Quadrotor Racing with Random Obstacles (opens in a new tab)
- AAAI (T1)Head-Aware KV Cache Compression for Efficient Visual Autoregressive Modeling (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett.Mastering Diverse, Unknown, and Cluttered Tracks for Robust Vision-Based Drone Racing (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett.Swooper: Learning High-Speed Aerial Grasping With a Simple Gripper (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett.Vector Field Augmented Differentiable Policy Learning for Vision-Based Drone Racing (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett.Vision-Based End-to-End Learning for UAV Traversal of Irregular Gaps via Differentiable Simulation (opens in a new tab)
20257 papers
- IROS (T1)Mapless Collision-Free Flight via MPC using Dual KD-Trees in Cluttered Environments (opens in a new tab)
- NeurIPS (T1)PlanarGS: High-Fidelity Indoor 3D Gaussian Splatting Guided by Vision-Language Planar Priors (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett.Seeing Through Pixel Motion: Learning Obstacle Avoidance From Optical Flow With One Camera (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Trans. Circuits Syst. Video Technol.Sparse-to-Dense Hint Guided Stereo-LiDAR Fusion (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)ThermoStereoRT: Thermal Stereo Matching in Real Time via Knowledge Distillation and Attention-Based Refinement (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)VisFly: An Efficient and Versatile Simulator for Training Vision-Based Flight (opens in a new tab)
- ICA3PPZQuery-LSM-Tree for ZNS SSD (opens in a new tab)
20248 papers
- VCIPAdaptive Hint Propagation for Iterative Stereo Matching (opens in a new tab)
- ISPADNZ-LSM-Tree for Hybrid Storage Systems (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Trans. Multim.EPM-Net: Efficient Feature Extraction, Point-Pair Feature Matching for Robust 6-D Pose Estimation (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)Ground-Fusion: A Low-cost Ground SLAM System Robust to Corner Cases (opens in a new tab)
- Geo spatial Inf. Sci.Sky-GVINS: a sky-segmentation aided GNSS-Visual-Inertial system for robust navigation in urban canyons (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)Stereo-LiDAR Depth Estimation with Deformable Propagation and Learned Disparity-Depth Conversion (opens in a new tab)
- TPAMI (T1)TextSLAM: Visual SLAM With Semantic Planar Text Features (opens in a new tab)
- Eng. Appl. Artif. Intell.Transformer framework for depth-assisted UDA semantic segmentation (opens in a new tab)
20234 papers
- CVPR (T1)FeatureBooster: Boosting Feature Descriptors with a Lightweight Neural Network (opens in a new tab)
- AIEELearning Visual Navigation System in Simulation for Autonomous Ground Vehicles in Real World (opens in a new tab)
- Robotics Auton. Syst.Near-optimal 3D trajectory design in presence of obstacles: A convolutional neural network approach (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote. Sens.UAV Navigation With Monocular Visual Inertial Odometry Under GNSS-Denied Environment (opens in a new tab)
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Apply to SJTUFall 2027
Computer Science PhD (international applicants)
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