Xiaoqiang Lu (路小强)
Ph.D. Candidate at IPIU, School of Artificial Intelligence, Xidian University
Address: No.2,South Taibai Road, Hi-Tech Development Zone, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China
Email: luxiaoqiang5903@163.com, xqlu@stu.xidian.edu.cn



Biography

Xiaoqiang Lu is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree with the Key Laboratory of Intelligent Perception and Image Understanding of Ministry of Education, School of Artificial Intelligence, Xidian University, supervised by Prof. Licheng Jiao. Prior to this, he received his B.S. degree in Information Countermeasure Technique from Xidian University in 2020.

Xiaoqiang Lu's research interests include remote sensing data interpretation, computer vision, machine learning, multi-modal understanding, and foundation models.

Publications
RRSECS: Referring Remote Sensing Expression Comprehension and Segmentation
Xiaoqiang Lu, Long Sun, Lingling Li, Licheng Jiao, Yuting Yang, Zhongjian Huang, Jinming Chai, Xu Liu, Fang Liu, Wenping Ma, Shuyuan Yang
IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine (GRSM), 2025.
LSCF: Long-term Semantic-guidance ConvFormer for Referring Remote Sensing Image Segmentation
Qin Ma, Lingling Li, Xiaoqiang Lu, Licheng Jiao, Fang Liu, Wenping Ma, Xu Liu, Long Sun
IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (TGRS), 2025.
Uncertainty-aware Semi-supervised Learning Segmentation for Remote Sensing Images
Xiaoqiang Lu, Lingling Li, Licheng Jiao, Xu Liu, Fang Liu, Wenping Ma, Shuyuan Yang
IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM), 2025.
Self Pseudo Entropy Knowledge Distillation for Semi-Supervised Semantic Segmentation
Xiaoqiang Lu, Licheng Jiao, Lingling Li, Fang Liu, Xu Liu, Shuyuan Yang
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT), 2024.
Multimodal Segformer for Flood Rapid Mapping with Sentinel-2 Data
Xiaoqiang Lu, Tong Gou, Zhongjian Huang, Yuting Yang, Licheng Jiao, Lingling Li, Xu Liu, Fang Liu
In IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), Athens, Greece, 2024.
Brain-inspired Remote Sensing Foundation Models and Open Problems: A Comprehensive Survey
Licheng Jiao, Zhongjian Huang, Xiaoqiang Lu, Xu Liu, Yuting Yang, Jiaxuan Zhao, Jinyue Zhang, Biao Hou, Shuyuan Yang, Fang Liu, Wenping Ma, Lingling Li et al
IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing (JSTARS), 2023.
Large-Scale Fine-Grained Building Classification and Height Estimation for Semantic Urban Reconstruction: Outcome of the 2023 IEEE GRSS Data Fusion Contest
Guozhang Liu et al, Xiaoqiang Lu, Licheng Jiao et al, Xian Sun, Claudio Persello, Ronny Hänsch
IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing (JSTARS), 2023.
Trident Cooperation Network for Building Extraction and Height Estimation
Xiaoqiang Lu, Licheng Jiao, Qiong Liu, Lingling Li, Fang Liu, Xu Liu, Yuting Yang
In IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), California, USA, 2023.
A Strong Vision Transformer Adapter with Adaptive Thresholding for fine-Grained Building Classification
Xiaoqiang Lu, Licheng Jiao, Qiong Liu, Lingling Li, Fang Liu, Xu Liu, Yuting Yang
In IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), California, USA, 2023.
Weak-to-Strong Consistency Learning for Semisupervised Image Segmentation
Xiaoqiang Lu, Licheng Jiao, Lingling Li, Fang Liu, Xu Liu, Shuyuan Yang, Zhixi Feng, and Puhua Chen
IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (TGRS), 2023.
Simple and Efficient: A Semisupervised Learning Framework for Remote Sensing Image Semantic Segmentation
Xiaoqiang Lu, Licheng Jiao, Fang Liu, Shuyuan Yang, Xu Liu, Zhixi Feng, Lingling Li, and Puhua Chen
IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (TGRS), 2022.
Semi-Supervised Landcover Classification with Adaptive Pixel-Rebalancing Self-Training
Xiaoqiang Lu, Guojin Cao, Tong Gou
In IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2022.
Contests
CVPR 2025 Agriculture-Vision Prize Challenge
Track: Agricultural Pattern Recognition from Aerial Images
Xiaoqiang Lu, Chenyue Che, Xinyu Liu, et al
1st Place In Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops, 2025
CVPR 2024 PBDL Challenge
Track 3-1: Low-light Object Detection
Xiaoqiang Lu, Licheng Jiao, Fang Liu, et al
1st Place In Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops, 2024
CVPR 2024 PBDL Challenge
Track 3-2: Low-light Instance Segmentation
Xiaoqiang Lu, Licheng Jiao, Fang Liu, et al
1st Place In Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops, 2024
ICCV 2023 VisDrone Challenge
Track 1: Object Detection in Image
Xiaoqiang Lu, Licheng Jiao, Zhongjian Huang, Yuting Yang, et al
1st Place In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) Workshops, 2023
ICCV 2023 Visual Continual Learning Challenges
Track C: Robust RAW Object Detection
Xiaoqiang Lu, Licheng Jiao, et al
1st Place In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) Workshops, 2023
ICCV 2023 Computer Vision in Plant Phenotyping and Agriculture Challenges
Track 1: Hierarchical Panoptic Segmentation of Crops and Weeds
Xiaoqiang Lu, Licheng Jiao, et al
1st Place In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) Workshops, 2023
CVPR 2023 ACDC Challenge
Track 4: Normal-to-adverse Domain Adaptation of Object Detection
Xiaoqiang Lu, Licheng Jiao, et al
1st Place In Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops, 2023
CVPR 2023 VizWiz Grand Challenge
Track 1: Visual Question Answering
Xiaoqiang Lu, Licheng Jiao, et al
1st Place In Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops, 2023
ECCV 2022 Visual Inductive Priors for Data-Efficient Computer Vision Challenges
Track: Object Detection
Xiaoqiang Lu, Yuting Yang, Zhongjian Huang, et al
1st Place In Proceedings of the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) Workshops, 2022
ECCV 2022 ChaLearn Seasons in Drift Challenge
Track 1: Detection at Day Level
Xiaoqiang Lu, Tong Gou, Zhongjian Huang, Yuting Yang, et al
1st Place In Proceedings of the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) Workshops, 2022
ECCV 2022 ChaLearn Seasons in Drift Challenge
Track 2: Detection at Week Level
Xiaoqiang Lu, Tong Gou, Zhongjian Huang, Yuting Yang, et al
1st Place In Proceedings of the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) Workshops, 2022
ECCV 2022 ChaLearn Seasons in Drift Challenge
Track 3: Detection at Month Level
Xiaoqiang Lu, Tong Gou, Zhongjian Huang, Yuting Yang, et al
1st Place In Proceedings of the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) Workshops, 2022
CVPR 2022 Woodscape OmniCV Challenge
Track: Fisheye Object Detection for Autonomous Driving
Xiaoqiang Lu, et al
1st Place In Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops, 2022
IEEE GRSS 2022 Data Fusion Contest
Track SLM: Semi-supervised Learning for Land Cover Classification
Xiaoqiang Lu, Guojin Cao, Tong Gou
1st Place In IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2022
ICCV 2021 Visual Inductive Priors for Data-Efficient Computer Vision Challenges
Track: Object Detection
Xiaoqiang Lu, Guojin Cao, et al
1st Place In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) Workshops, 2021
CVPR 2021 FloodNet Challenge @ EARTHVISION 2021
Track 1: Semi-supervised Image Classification and Semantic Segmentation
Xiaoqiang Lu, Guojin Cao, Luyao Nie, Yuting Yang
1st Place In Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops, 2021
CVPR 2024 AVA: Accessibility, Vision, and Autonomy Meet Challenges
Track: Object Detection
Xiaoqiang Lu, Licheng Jiao, Xu Liu, et al
2nd Place In Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops, 2024
ICCV 2023 Visual Inductive Priors for Data-Efficient Computer Vision Challenges
Track: Object Detection
Xiaoqiang Lu, Jiaxuan Zhao, Yuting Yang, Zhongjian Huang, et al
2nd Place In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) Workshops, 2023
ICCV 2023 Visual Inductive Priors for Data-Efficient Computer Vision Challenges
Track: Instance Segmentation
Xiaoqiang Lu, Yuting Yang, Zhongjian Huang, Jiaxuan Zhao, et al
2nd Place In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) Workshops, 2023
CVPR 2023 UG2+ Challenge
Track 1: Object Detection in Haze
Xiaoqiang Lu, Yuting Yang, Zhongjian Huang, et al
2nd Place In Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops, 2023
IEEE GRSS 2023 Data Fusion Contest
Track 1: Building Detection and Roof Type Classification
Xiaoqiang Lu, Licheng Jiao, Qiong Liu, et al
2nd Place In IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2023
IEEE GRSS 2023 Data Fusion Contest
Track 2: Multi-Task Learning of Joint Building Extraction and Height Estimation
Xiaoqiang Lu, Licheng Jiao, Qiong Liu, et al
2nd Place In IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2023
ECCV 2022 Visual Inductive Priors for Data-Efficient Computer Vision Challenges
Track: Image Classification
Xiaoqiang Lu, Zhongjian Huang, Yuting Yang, et al
2nd Place In Proceedings of the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) Workshops, 2022
ECCV 2022 Visual Inductive Priors for Data-Efficient Computer Vision Challenges
Track: Instance Segmentation
Xiaoqiang Lu, Yuting Yang, Zhongjian Huang
2nd Place In Proceedings of the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) Workshops, 2022
ECCV 2022 Self-supervised Learning for Next-Generation Industry-level Autonomous Driving Challenges
Track 1: 2D Object Detection
Xiaoqiang Lu, Yuting Yang, et al
2nd Place In Proceedings of the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) Workshops, 2022
ECCV 2022 Self-supervised Learning for Next-Generation Industry-level Autonomous Driving Challenges
Track 3: Corner Case Detection
Xiaoqiang Lu, Yuting Yang, et al
2nd Place In Proceedings of the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) Workshops, 2022
ICCV 2021 VisDrone Challenge
Track 1: Object Detection in Image
Xiaoqiang Lu, Guojin Cao, et al
2nd Place In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) Workshops, 2021
CVPR 2024 Agriculture-Vision Prize Challenge
Track: Agricultural Pattern Recognition from Aerial Images
Xiaoqiang Lu, Xu Liu, Lingling Liet al
3rd Place In Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops, 2024
IEEE GRSS 2024 Data Fusion Contest
Track 2: Flood Rapid Mapping with Optical Data
Xiaoqiang Lu, Tong Gou, Zhongjian Huang, et al
3rd Place In IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2024
CVPR 2022 VizWiz Grand Challenge
Track 1: Visual Question Answering
Xiaoqiang Lu, et al
3rd Place In Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops, 2022
ICCV 2021 Self-supervised Learning for Next-Generation Industry-level Autonomous Driving Challenges
Track 1: 2D Object Detection
Xiaoqiang Lu, Guojin Cao, et al
3rd Place In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) Workshops, 2021
🎓 Education

Ph.D. Student at IPIU, School of Artificial Intelligence, Xidian University, Xi'an, China
Sep. 2022 - Now, Supervised by Prof. Licheng Jiao

M.S. Student at IPIU, School of Artificial Intelligence, Xidian University, Xi'an, China
Sep. 2020 - July 2022, Supervised by Prof. Licheng Jiao

B.E. Student at School of Electronic Engineering, Xidian University, Xi'an, China
Sep. 2016 - July 2020
🎖 Awards
  •   • The Youth Talent Support Program of the China Association for Science and Technology for PhD Students, 2024
  •   • Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Support Funding of Xidian University, 2024
  •   • HUAWEI Scholarship, 1/3, 2024
  •   • Outstanding Graduate Student of Xidian University, 2023-2024
  •   • National Scholarship (For Ph.D. Students), Top-1 in SAI, 2023
  •   • Outstanding Graduate Student of Xidian University, 2022-2023
  •   • National Scholarship (For Master Students), Top-1 in GIT, 2021
  •   • Outstanding Graduate Student of Xidian University, 2020-2021