Publications

Here are the SELECTED publications in the last 5 years and the full publication list can be found on Google Scholar. (# indicates equal contribution. * indicates corresponding author. )

2025 and preprint

  • Mamba4D: Efficient 4D Point Cloud Video Understanding with Disentangled Spatial-Temporal State Space Models
    J. Liu#, J. Han#, L. Liu, A. I Aviles-Rivero, C. Jiang, Z. Liu, H. Wang*
    2025 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)

  • SemAlign3D: Semantic Correspondence between RGB-Images through Aligning 3D Object-Class Representations
    K. Wandel, H. Wang*
    2025 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)

  • Foresee and Act Ahead: Task Prediction and Pre-Scheduling Enabled Efficient Robotic Warehousing
    B. Cao, Z. Liu, X. Han, S. Zhou, H. Zhang, H. Wang*
    2025 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)

  • Deformable Gaussian Splatting for Efficient and High-Fidelity Reconstruction of Surgical Scenes
    J. Shan, Z. CAI, C. Hsieh, S. S. Cheng, H. Wang*
    2025 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)

  • FreeDriveRF: Monocular RGB Dynamic NeRF without Poses for Autonomous Driving via Point-Level Dynamic-Static Decoupling
    Y. Wen, L. Song, Y. Liu, S. Zhu, Y. Miao, H. Wang*
    2025 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)

  • DVN-SLAM: Dynamic Visual Neural SLAM Based on Local-Global Encoding
    W. Wu, G. Wang, T. Deng, S. Aegidius, S. Shanks, V. Modugno, D. Kanoulas, H. Wang*
    2025 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)

  • RL-GSBridge: 3D Gaussian Splatting Based Real2Sim2Real Method for Robotic Manipulation Learning
    Y. Wu, L. Pan, W. Wu, G. Wang, Y. Miao, H. Wang*
    2025 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)

  • Unsupervised Learning of 3D Scene Flow with LiDAR Odometry Assistance
    G. Wang#, Z. Feng#, C. Jiang, J. Liu, H. Wang*
    IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (TITS)

  • Sample-efficient Deep Reinforcement Learning of Mobile Manipulation for 6-DOF Trajectory Following
    Y. Zhou, Q. Feng, Y. Zhou, J. Lin, Z. Liu, and H. Wang*
    IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (TASE)

  • Shared Control in pHRl: Integrating Local Trajectory Replanning and Cooperative Game Theory
    L. Han, J. Zhang, H. Wang*
    IEEE Transactions on Robotics (TRO)

  • Quasi-static Modeling and Controlling for Planar Pushing of Deformable Objects
    L. Han#, Y. Liu#, H. Wang*
    IEEE Transactions on Robotics (TRO)

2024

  • Memorize My Movement: Efficient Sensorimotor Navigation with Self-motion-based Spatial Cognition
    Q. Liu, D. Huang, Z. Liu, H. Wang*
    IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (TASE)

  • Small-Scale Soft Terrestrial Robot with Electrically Driven Multi-Modal Locomotion Capability
    J. Yang, J. Zhou, F. Xu, H. Wang*
    Soft Robotics

  • Toward Efficient Self-motion-based Memory Representation for Visuomotor Navigation of Embodied Robot
    Q. Liu, H. Xin, Z. Liu, H. Wang*
    IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence

  • Spherical Frustum Sparse Convolution Network for LiDAR Point Cloud Semantic Segmentation
    Y. Zheng#, G. Wang#, J. Liu, M. Pollefeys, H. Wang*
    Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 37 (NeurIPS 2024).

  • Integrating Neural Radiance Fields End-to-End for Cognitive Visuomotor Navigation
    Q. Liu#, H. Xin#, Z. Liu, H. Wang*
    IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (T-PAMI)

  • Frontier-enhanced Topological Memory with Boosted Exploration Awareness for Visual Navigation
    X. Cui#, Q. Liu#, Z. Liu, H. Wang*
    2024 European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)

  • EMIE-MAP: Large-Scale Road Surface Reconstruction Based on Explicit Mesh and Implicit Encoding
    W. Wu, Q. Wang, G. Wang, J. Wang, T. Zhao, Y. Liu, D. Gao, Z. Liu* , H. Wang *
    2024 European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)

  • DVLO: Deep Visual-LiDAR Odometry with Local-to-Global Feature Fusion and Bi-Directional Structure Alignment
    J. Liu#, D. Zhuo#, Z. Feng, S. Zhu, C. Peng, Z. Liu, H. Wang*
    2024 European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)

  • Cooperative Path Planning for Four-Way Shuttle Vehicles in Storage and Retrieval Systems: A Hierarchically Dynamic Graph Based Approach
    X. Han#, Y. Tan#, S. Chen, Z. Liu* , H. Wang *
    2024 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)

  • DDS-SLAM: Dense Semantic Neural SLAM for Deforming Endoscopic Scenes
    J. Shan#, Y. Li#, L. Yang, Q. Feng, H. Wang*
    2024 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)

  • SoftNeRF: A self-modeling soft robot plugin for various tasks
    J. Shan#, Y. Li#, Q. Feng, H. Wang*
    2024 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)

  • DSLO: Deep Sequence LiDAR Odometry Based on Inconsistent Spatio-temporal Propagation
    H. Zhang#, G. Wang#, X. Wu, C. Xu, M. Ding, M. Tomizuka, W. Zhan, H. Wang*
    2024 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)

  • Enhancing Exploratory Capability of Visual Navigation Using Uncertainty of Implicit Scene Representation
    Y., Q. Liu, Z. Liu, H. Wang*
    2024 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)

  • Toward Universal and Scalable Road Graph Partitioning for Efficient Multi-Robot Path Planning
    X. Han, B. Cao, Z. Liu* , S. Zhou, H. Zhang, H. Wang *
    2024 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)

  • Visuomotor Navigation for Embodied Robots with Spatial Memory and Semantic Reasoning Cognition
    Q. Liu#, G. Wang#, Z. Liu, H. Wang*
    IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (T-NNLS)

  • DnFPlane For Efficient and High-Quality 4D Reconstruction of Deformable Tissues
    R. Bu#, C. Xu#, J. Shan, H. Li, G. Wang, Y. Miao* , H. Wang *
    2024 Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention(MICCAI)

  • SDFPlane: Explicit Neural Surface Reconstruction of Deformable Tissues
    H. Li#, J. Shan#, H. Wang*
    2024 Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention(MICCAI)

  • Boosting Explore-Exploit Behavior for Navigating Vehicle by Maintaining Informative Topological Frontier
    Q. Liu#, X. Cui#, Z. Liu, H. Wang*
    IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles (T-IV)

  • ENeRF-SLAM:A Dense Endoscopic SLAM with Neural Implicit Representation
    J.Shan#, Y.Li#, T.Xie, H.Wang*
    IEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics and Bionics (TMRB)

  • Biomimetic Morphing Quadrotor Inspired by Eagle Claw for Dynamic Grasping
    M. Xu#, Q. De#, D. Yu, H. An, Z. Liu, H. Wang*
    IEEE Transactions on Robotics (TRO)

  • Vision-Guided Contact Force Control of an Omnidirectional Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
    M. Xu, K. Li, H. Wang*
    IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems (TAES)

  • Toward Learning-Based Visuomotor Navigation with Neural Radiance Fields
    Q. Liu, N. Chen, Z. Liu, H. Wang*
    IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (TII)

  • Hybrid Visual Servoing Control of A Soft Robot with Compliant Obstacle Avoidance
    F. Xu, X. Kang, H. Wang*
    IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics (TMECH).

  • SNI-SLAM: Semantic Neural Implicit SLAM
    S. Zhu#, G. Wang#, H. Blum, J. Liu, L. Song, M. Pollefeys, H. Wang*
    2024 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)

  • DifFlow3D: Toward Robust Uncertainty-Aware Scene Flow Estimation with Iterative Diffusion-Based Refinement
    J. Liu, G. Wang, W. Ye, C. Jiang, J. Han, Z. Liu, G. Zhang, D. Du, H. Wang*
    2024 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)

  • Cam4DOcc: Benchmark for Camera-Only 4D Occupancy Forecasting in Autonomous Driving Application
    J. Ma#, X. Chen#, J. Huang, J. Xu, Z. Luo, J. Xu, W. Gu, R. Ai, H. Wang*
    2024 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)

  • Cognitive Navigation for Intelligent Mobile Robots: A Learning-Based Approach with Topological Memory Configuration
    Q. Liu, X. Cui, Z. Liu, H. Wang*
    IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica

2023

  • Online Geometric Memory Generation and Maintenance for Visuomotor Navigation in Structural Dynamic Environments
    Q. Liu, N. Xu#, Z. Liu, H. Wang*
    IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (T-ASE)

  • Nonlinear Observer-Based Visual Servoing and Vibration Control of Flexible Robotic Manipulators With a Fixed Camera
    Kai Li, Han Zhang, Hesheng Wang*
    IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics.

  • Spatio-temporal Optimal Trajectory Planning for Safe Planar Manipulation of A Moving Object
    Y. Zhou, G. Sun, Y. Miao, Y. Zhang, X. Chen, H. Wang*
    IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics (TIE).

  • RegFormer: An Efficient Projection-Aware Transformer Network for Large-Scale Point Cloud Registration
    J. Liu#, G. Wang#, Z. Liu*, C. Jiang, M. Pollefeys, H. Wang**
    2023 IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV).

  • RLSAC: Reinforcement Learning enhanced Sample Consensus for End-to-End Robust Estimation
    C.Nie# ,G. Wang# ,Z. Liu,L. Cavalli,M. Pollefeys,H. Wang*
    2023 IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV).

  • Efficient Scene Flow Learning for Large-scale 3D Point Clouds
    C. Peng#, G. Wang#, X. Lo, X. Wu, C. Xu, M. Tomizuka, W. Zhan, H. Wang*
    2023 IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV).

  • Purely Image-based Dynamic Impedance Control of a Fully Actuated Aerial Vehicle
    A. Hu, Q. De, and H. Wang*
    IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics (TMECH).

  • Graph Relational Reinforcement Learning for Mobile Robot Navigation in Large-Scale Crowded Environments
    Z. Liu, Y. Zhai, J. Li, G. Wang, Y. Miao, and H. Wang*
    IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (TITS).

  • Visual Servoing of Rigid-Link Flexible-Joint Manipulators in the Presence of Unknown Camera Parameters and Boundary Output
    Z. Liu, K. Li, T. Hao, and H. Wang*
    IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems (TSMC).

  • Visual Servoing of Flexible Manipulators With Unknown Camera Intrinsic Parameters and Vibration States
    K. Li, F. Xu, H. Zhang, and H. Wang*
    IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics (TMECH).

  • Interactive Multi-Scale Fusion of 2D and 3D Features for Multi-Object Vehicle Tracking
    G. Wang#, C. Peng#, Y. Gu, J. Zhang, and H. Wang*
    IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (TITS).

  • Finite-Time Tracking of Moving Platform with Single Camera for Quadrotor Autonomous Landing
    A. Arif, H. Wang*, H. Castaneda, Y. Wang
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers (TCS).

  • Aerial Shooting Manipulator for Distant Grasping
    M. Xu, S. Huang, R. He, D. Yu and H. Wang*
    IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L).

  • Visual Impedance Based Human-Robot Co-Transportation With a Tethered Aerial Vehicle
    M. Xu, A. Hu and H. Wang*
    IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (TII)

2022

  • Cooperative Platoon Control of Automated Industrial Vehicles: A Synchronization Approach and Real-World Experiments
    Z. Liu, H. Wang, Y. Wang and H. Wang*
    IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics (TMECH).

  • Fault Detection and Tolerant-control Method for Sensor-less Disposable Soft Manipulators
    H. Gu and H. Wang*
    IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics (TIE)

  • TransLO: A Window-based Masked Point Transformer Framework for Large-scale LiDAR Odometry
    J. Liu#, G. Wang#, C. Jiang, Z. Liu and H. Wang*
    Thirty-Seventh AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2023

  • 3D Hierarchical Refinement and Augmentation for Unsupervised Learning of Depth and Pose from Monocular Video
    G. Wang#, J. Zhong#, S. Zhao, W. Wu, Z Liu, and H. Wang*
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT)

  • Adaptive Visual Servoing Shape Control of A Soft Robot Manipulator Using Bézier Curve Features
    F. Xu, Y. Zhang, J. Sun and H. Wang*
    IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics (TMECH)

  • 3D Scene Flow Estimation on Pseudo-LiDAR: Bridging the Gap on Estimating Point Motion
    C. Jiang#, G. Wang#, Y. Miao* and H. Wang*
    IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (TII)

  • Efficient 3D Deep LiDAR Odometry
    G. Wang#, X. Wu#, S. Jiang, Z. Liu and H. Wang*
    IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI)

  • Learning of Long-Horizon Sparse-Reward Robotic Manipulator Tasks with Base Controllers
    G. Wang#, M. Xin#, W. Wu, Z. Liu and H. Wang*
    IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (TNNLS)

  • Vision-Based Hierarchical Impedance Control of an Aerial Manipulator
    A. Hu, M. Xu, H. Wang*, X. Liang and H. Castan͂eda
    IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics (TIE)

  • Motion Projection Consistency Based 3D Human Pose Estimation with Virtual Bones from Monocular Videos
    G. Wang#, H. Zeng#, Z. Wang#, Z. Liu and H. Wang*
    IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems (TCDS)

  • What Matters for 3D Scene Flow Network
    G. Wang#, Y. Hu#, Z. Liu, Y. Zhou, M. Tomizuka, W. Zhan, and H. Wang*
    European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2022

  • Hybrid Adaptive Vision-Force Control under the Bottleneck Constraint
    L. Han, Y. Zhang and H. Wang*
    IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology (TCST)

  • FusionNet: Coarse-to-Fine Extrinsic Calibration Network of LiDAR and Camera with Hierarchical Point-pixel Fusion
    G. Wang#, J. Qiu#, Y. Guo#, and H. Wang*
    2022 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)

  • Viewpoint-Invariant Loop Closure Detection using Step-wise Learning with Controlling Embeddings of Landmarks
    A. Rafique, Z. Liu and H. Wang*
    IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (TITS)

  • Vision-Based Impedance Control of an Aerial Manipulator Using a Nonlinear Observer
    A. Hu, M. Xu, H. Castañeda and H. Wang*
    IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (TASE)

  • 3D Scene Flow Learning with Context-Aware Feature Extraction
    G. Wang#, Y. Hu#, X. Wu and H. Wang*
    IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation & Measurement (TIM)

  • Image-based Visual Impedance Force Control for Contact Aerial Manipulation
    M. Xu, A. Hu and H. Wang*
    IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (TASE)

  • Vision-based Contact Point Selection for the Fully Non-fixed Contact Manipulation of Deformable Objects
    L. Han, Y. Zhang and H. Wang*
    IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RAL)

2021

  • Spherical Interpolated Convolutional Network with Distance-Feature Density for 3D Semantic Segmentation of Point Clouds
    G. Wang, Y. Yang, H. Zhang, Z. Liu, H. Wang
    IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics

  • Anchor-Based Spatio-Temporal Attention 3D Convolutional Networks for Dynamic 3D Point Cloud Sequences
    G. Wang, H. Liu, M. Chen, Y. Yang, Z. Liu, H. Wang*
    IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement (TIM)

  • Soft Manipulator Fault Detection and Identification Using ANC-based LSTM
    H. Gu, H. Hu, H. Wang*, W. Chen
    2021 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), code, demo

  • Toward State-Unsaturation Guaranteed Fault Detection Method in Visual Servoing of Soft Robot Manipulators
    H. Gu, H. Wang*, W. Chen
    2021 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)

  • Registration-aided 3D Point Cloud Learning for Large-Scale Place Recognition
    Z. Qiao, H. Hu, W. Shi, H. Wang*
    2021 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)

  • Visual Servoing Pushing Control of the Soft Robot with Active Pushing Force Regulation
    F. Xu, H. Wang*, Z. Liu, W. Chen, Y. Wang
    Soft Robotics

  • Hierarchical Attention Learning of Scene Flow in 3D Point Clouds
    G. Wang#, X. Wu#, Z. Liu, H. Wang
    IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP), PDF

  • Soft Robotics: Morphology and Morphology-inspired Motion Strategy
    F. Xu, H. Wang*
    IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica (JAS)

  • Visual Servoing of Flexible-Link Manipulators by Considering Vibration Suppression Without Deformation Measurements
    K. Li, H. Wang*, X. Liang, Y. Miao
    IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, doi: 10.1109/TCYB.2021.3072779

  • Fully Uncalibrated Image-based Visual Servoing of Planar Manipulators with a Fixed Camera
    X. Liang, H. Wang*, Y. Liu, B. You, Z. Liu and Z. Jing, W. Chen
    IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics

  • Adaptive Visual Servo Control Law for Finite-Time Tracking to Land Quadrotor on Moving Platform Using Virtual Reticle Algorithm
    A. Arif, H. Wang*, Z. Liu, H. Castaneda, Y. Wang
    Robotics and Autonomous Systems (RAS), doi: 10.1016/j.robot.2021.103764, PDF

  • PWCLO-Net: Deep LiDAR Odometry in 3D Point Clouds Using Hierarchical Embedding Mask Optimization
    G. Wang#, X. Wu#, Z. Liu, H. Wang*
    2021 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), PDF

  • Visual Servoing of a Cable-driven Soft Robot Manipulator with Shape Feature
    F. Xu, H.Wang*, W. Chen, Y. Miao
    IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L) with 2021 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) option

  • Distributed Rendezvous Control of Networked Uncertain Robotic Systems with Bearing Measurements
    J. Zhao, H. Hu, K. Zhu, X. Yu*, H. Wang
    2021 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), demo

  • Hybrid Vision/Force Control for Interaction with the Bottle-like Object
    L. Han, H. Wang*, W. Chen
    2021 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)

  • Towards Collision Detection, Localization and Force Estimation for a Soft Cable-driven Manipulator
    Y. Wang, H. Wang*, F. Xu, W. Chen, Y. Liu
    2021 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)

  • Unsupervised Learning of Scene Flow from Monocular Camera
    G. Wang#, X. Tian#, R.Ding, H. Wang*
    2021 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)

  • Visual Tracking Control of Deformable Objects with a FAT-based Controller
    L. Han, H. Wang*, Z. Liu, W. Chen, X. Zhang
    IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics (TIE), doi: 10.1109/TIE.2021.3062277, PDF

  • Unsupervised Monocular Visual Odometry based on Confidence Evaluation
    Y. Liu, H. Wang*, J. Wang and X. Wang
    IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (TITS), doi: 10.1109/TITS.2021.3053412, PDF

  • Domain-invariant Similarity Activation Map Metric Learning for Retrieval-based Long-term Visual Localization
    H. Hu, H. Wang*, Z. Liu, W. Chen
    IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica (JAS), doi: 10.1109/JAS.2021.1003907, PDF, code

  • Leader-Following Formation Control of Networked Mobile Robots With Unknown Leader’s Orientation
    J. Zhao, K. Zhu, H. Hu, X. Yu*, H. Wang
    IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering (TNSE) submission, demo

  • SeasonDepth: Cross-Season Monocular Depth Prediction Dataset and Benchmark under Multiple Environments
    H. Hu, B. Yang, Z. Qiao, D. Zhao, H. Wang
    arXiv preprint, PDF, code, demo

  • Achieving Sample-Efficient and Online-Training-Safe Deep Reinforcement Learning with Base Controllers
    M. Xin, G. Wang, Z. Liu, H. Wang
    arXiv preprint, PDF