Chris Xiaoxuan Lu
Associate Professor In Robotics and AI
Scales foundation models for embodied AI, with work on robot perception using radar and other sensors.
Chris Xiaoxuan Lu's lab at UCL works on robot perception & SLAM, generative & foundation models and large language models. 31 papers since 2023, 17 at top venues, mostly IROS and ICRA. 6 PhD students. 8 alumni.
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 8/ year
- at T1 venues
- 55%
- PhD students
- 6
- MS students
- 0
- alumni listed
- 8
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 4 papers2026 · T1 2 · collecting
- 4 papers2025 · T1 3
- 10 papers2024 · T1 7
- 13 papers2023 · T1 5
T1 venuesOtherVenues: IROS, ICRA, ECCV, NeurIPS, AAAI
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- radar10 papers
- Large language models3 papers
- Robot perception & SLAM1 paper
- Generative & foundation models1 paper
- sensors0 papers
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
20264 papers
- IROS (T1)Attentive Feature Aggregation, Or: How Policies Learn to Stop Worrying about Robustness and Attend to Task-Relevant Visual Cues
- IEEE International Conference on Robotics & AutomationFast ECoT: Efficient Embodied Chain-of-Thought via Thoughts Reuse
- CVPR (T1)M4Human: A Large-Scale Multimodal mmWave Radar Benchmark for Human Mesh Reconstruction
- IEEE International Conference on Robotics & AutomationThe Temporal Trap: Entanglement in Pre-Trained Visual Representations for Visuomotor Policy Learning
20254 papers
- IEEE Trans. Neural Networks Learn. SystLearning Selective Sensor Fusion for State Estimation
- AAAI (T1)Risk Controlled Image Retrieval
- SenSys (T1)ThermoHands: A Benchmark for 3D Hand Pose Estimation from Egocentric Thermal Image
- IROS (T1)VISC: mmWave Radar Scene Flow Estimation using Pervasive Visual-Inertial Supervision
202410 papers
- Automation in ConstructionAutomated generation and semantic segmentation of roof orthophoto for digital twin-based monitoring of slated roofs
- IROS (T1)Click to Grasp: Zero-Shot Precise Manipulation via Visual Diffusion Descriptors
- Proceedings of the International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in ConstructionExtracting roof sub-components from orthophotos using deep-learning-based semantic segmentation
- Engineering Applications of Artificial IntelligenceForecasting Backdraft with Multimodal Method: Fusion of Fire Image and Sensor Data
- ECCV (T1)milliFlow: Scene Flow Estimation on mmWave Radar Point Cloud for Human Motion Sensing
- ICRA (T1)Moving Object Detection and Tracking with 4D Radar Point Cloud
- ICRA (T1)Multimodal Indoor Localization Using Crowdsourced Radio Maps
- NeurIPS (T1)RadarOcc: Robust 3D Occupancy Prediction with 4D Imaging Radar
- ICRA (T1)Robust 3D Object Detection from LiDAR-Radar Point Clouds via Cross-Modal Feature Augmentation
- ECCV (T1)Self-Adapting Large Visual-Language Models to Edge Devices across Visual Modalities
202313 papers
- IEEE Internet of Things JournalCubeLearn: End-to-end Learning for Human Motion Recognition from Raw mmWave Radar Signals
- TNNLS (T1)Deep Learning for Visual Localization and Mapping: A Survey
- IROS (T1)Feature-based Visual Odometry for Bronchoscopy: A Dataset and Benchmark
- IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition CVPR’23 HighlightHidden Gems: 4D Radar Scene Flow Learning Using Cross-Modal Supervision
- Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous TechnologiesHuman Parsing with Joint Learning for Dynamic mmWave Radar Point Cloud
- NDSS (T1)MetaWave: Attacking mmWave Sensing with Meta-material-enhanced Tags
- NeurIPS (T1)MM-Fi: Multi-Modal Non-Intrusive 4D Human Dataset for Versatile Wireless Sensing
- International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in ConstructionOcclusion-free Orthophoto Generation for Building Roofs Using UAV Photogrammetric Reconstruction and Digital Twin Data
- IROS (T1)RADA: Robust Adversarial Data Augmentation for Camera Localization in Challenging Weather
- International Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and NetworksRobust Human Detection under Visual Degradation via Thermal and mmWave Radar Fusion
- PatternsSenseFi: A library and benchmark on deep-learning-empowered WiFi human sensing
- RA-LUncertainty Estimation for 3D Dense Prediction via Cross-Point Embeddings
Where alumni went8 listed
Apply to UCLFall 2027
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Computer Science MPhil/PhD
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