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About Me

Hello! I am Xubo Luo, an incoming PhD student at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), supervised by Prof. Yang Gao.

I received my MPhil degree from the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2026, supervised by Prof. Xue Wan, and my bachelor's degree from Shanghai University of Finance and Economy in 2023, advised by Dr. Kwok. My research interests include space robotics, reinforcement learning, and robot learning.

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Recent News

[2026-07] Graduated from UCAS and will join HKUST as a PhD student, supervised by Prof. Yang Gao.
[2026-01] One paper accepted to ICRA 2026.
[2026-01] One paper accepted to T-FR.
[2025-12] One paper accepted to RA-L.
[2025-10] Awarded the National Scholarship.
[2025-10] Awarded the Second Prize and Innovation Prize in the RoboSense Challenge at IROS 2025.
[2025-08] One paper accepted to SPAICE 2025.
[2024-09] One paper accepted to CVIU.
[2024-06] One paper accepted to IROS 2024.
[2024-06] First Place in CVPR AI4Space Workshop Challenge.
[2023-06] Graduated with honors from SUFE.
[2022-12] One paper accepted to ICoSR 2022.

Education

The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Incoming PhD Student

Advisor: Prof. Yang Gao

2026 - Present

University of Chinese Academy of Sciences

MPhil Degree

Advisor: Prof. Xue Wan

2023 - 2026

Shanghai University of Finance and Economy

Bachelor's Degree

Advisor: Dr. Kwok

2019 - 2023

Experience

University of Chinese Academy of Sciences

Graduate Researcher

Advisor: Prof. Xue Wan

2023 - 2026

Shanghai University of Finance and Economy

Undergraduate Researcher

Advisor: Dr. Kwok

2022 - 2023

Projects

StepNav: Structured Trajectory Priors for Efficient and Multimodal Visual Navigation.

KANLoc: KAN-Based Pose Regression for Planetary Landing.

JointLoc: Source code of JointLoc.

IMU-Aided Odometry: Odometry trajectory recursion based on IMU integral interpolation.

FastMatch: Review the matching speed of various algorithms.

Publications

Locus: Probabilistic Monocular 3D Visual Grounding

Xubo Luo, Aodi Wu, Xue Wan, Wei Zhang

NeurIPS 2026

Paper (Under Review) / Code / Project
StepNav: Structured Trajectory Priors for Efficient and Multimodal Visual Navigation

Xubo Luo, Aodi Wu, Haodong Han, Xue Wan, Wei Zhang, Leizheng Shu

ICRA 2026

Paper / Code / Project
Learning to Anchor Visual Odometry: KAN-Based Pose Regression for Planetary Landing

Xubo Luo, Zhaojin Li, Xue Wan, Wei Zhang, Leizheng Shu

IEEE RA-L, 2025

Paper / Code / Project
DVD-MapAL: Deep Visual Feature-Driven Map-Assisted Localization

Xubo Luo, Zeyuan Zhao, Shengyang Zhang, Xue Wan, Wei Zhang, Leizheng Shu

IEEE T-FR, 2025

Paper / Code / Project
JointLoc: A Real-time Visual Localization Framework for Planetary UAVs Based on Joint Relative and Absolute Pose Estimation

Xubo Luo, Xue Wan, Yixing Gao, Yaolin Tian, Wei Zhang, Leizheng Shu

IROS 2024

Paper / Code / Project
HBANet: A Hybrid Boundary-Aware Attention Network for Infrared and Visible Image Fusion

Xubo Luo, Liping Wang, Jinshuo Zhang, Dongmei Niu

Computer Vision and Image Understanding, 2024

Paper / Code / Project
Deep Learning Based Cross-View Image Matching for UAV Geo-Localization

Xubo Luo, Yaolin Tian, Xue Wan, Jingzhong Zhang, Ke Tao

ICoSR 2022

Paper / Code / Project

Awards

National Scholarship (2025)

Merit Student, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (2025)

Second Prize and Innovation Prize, RoboSense Challenge at IROS 2025

First Place, CVPR AI4Space Workshop Challenge (2024)

Graduated with Honors from SUFE (2023)

Academic Service

Reviewer to:

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L 2024, 2025, 2026)
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT)
IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integrations (SII 2025, 2026)
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2025, 2026)
IEEE International Conference on Robotics & Automation (ICRA 2026)