Youqi Liao (Martin Y.Liao)   I am a third-year graduate student at the State Key Laboratory of information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing (LIESMARS), Wuhan University. Before that, I received my B.S. degree from Wuhan University in 2023. My research interests include place recognition, geo-localization and spatial reasoning.   E-MAIL               Google Scholar               GitHub

Selected Publications

Notes: Joint first authors are indicated using * and corresponding authors are indicated using ^†.

Preprints

• OSMLoc: Single Image-Based Visual Localization in OpenStreetMap with Fused Geometric and Semantic Guidance
  Youqi Liao^*, Xieyuanli Chen^*, Shuhao Kang, Jianping Li^†, Zhen Dong, Hongchao Fan, Bisheng Yang
  under review,2024
  [PDF] [Code] [Official Version]

• TOL: Textual Localization with OpenStreetMap
  Youqi Liao, Shuhao Kang, Jingyu Xu, Olaf Wysocki, Yan Xia, Jianping Li, Zhen Dong, Bisheng Yang, Xieyuanli Chen
  under review,2026
  [PDF] [Code] [Official Version]

2026

VLM-Loc: Localization in Point Cloud Maps via Vision-Language Models
Shuhao Kang, Youqi Liao, Peijie Wang, Wenlong Liao, Qilin Zhang, Benjamin Busam, Xieyuanli Chen, Yun Liu
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR),2026
[PDF] [Code] [Official Version]

2025

• OPAL: Visibility-aware LiDAR-to-OpenStreetMap Place Recognition via Adaptive Radial Fusion
  Shuhao Kang^*, Martin Y.Liao^*, Yan Xia^†, Olaf Wysocki, Boris Jutzi, Daniel Cremers
  Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL),2025
  [PDF] [Code] [Official Version]

2024

• CoFiI2P: Image-to-Point Cloud Registration with Coarse-to-Fine Correspondences for Intelligent Driving
  Shuhao Kang^*, Youqi Liao^*, Jianping Li^†, Fuxun Liang, Yuhao Li, Fangning Li, Xieyuanli Chen, Zhen Dong, Bisheng Yang
  IEEE Robotics and Automation Letter (RA-L), 2024
  [PDF] [Code] [Official Version]

• Mobile-Seed: Joint Semantic Segmentation and Boundary Detection for Mobile Robots
  Youqi Liao, Shuhao Kang, Jianping Li^†, Yang Liu, Yun Liu, Zhen Dong, Bisheng Yang, Xieyuanli Chen
  IEEE Robotics and Automation Letter (RA-L), 2024
  [PDF] [Code] [Official Version]

2023

• SE-Calib: Semantic Edges based LiDAR-Camera Boresight Online Calibration in Urban Scenes
  Youqi Liao, Jianping Li^†, Shuhao Kang, Qiang Li, Guifang Zhu, Shenghai Yuan, Zhen Dong, Bisheng Yang
  IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (TGRS), 2023
  [PDF] [code] [Official Version]

• Real-time automated forest field inventory using a compact low-cost helmet-based laser scanning
  Jianping Li,Bisheng Yang^†, Yandi Yang, Xin Zhao,Youqi Liao, Ningning Zhu, Wenxia Dai, Rundong Liu, Ruibo Chen, Zhen Dong
  International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation (JAG), 2023
  [PDF] [Code] [Official Version]

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