Xingxing Zuo
Postdoc Research Associate at Caltech.

I’m a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Department of Computing + Mathematical Sciences, Caltech since January, 2024, working with Prof. Soon-Jo Chung. Prior to this, I worked at Google in USA as a full-time visiting faculty researcher (Scientist) in 2023. I was an Postdoc Researcher (2021 - 2023) at Technical University of Munich, Germany, working with Prof. Stefan Leutenegger. I was an academic guest (2019 - 2021) in the Computer Vision and Geometry Group (CVG), at ETH Zurich, Switzerland, working with Prof. Marc Pollefeys. I was also a visiting scholar (2018) in the Robot Perception and Navigation Group (RPNG) of Prof. Guoquan (Paul) Huang at University of Delaware, USA, and a visiting scholar (2017) in the UTS Robotics Institute, University of Technology Sydney, Australia, working with Prof. Teresa Vidal Calleja. I received my doctoral degree in 2021, from the Department of Control Science and Engineering at Zhejiang University, China, under the co-supervision of Prof. Guoquan (Paul) Huang and Prof. Yong liu, and graduated with honors. Previously, I graduated with honors and obtained my Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering at University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), Chengdu, China, in 2016.
I am going to join the Robotics Department at MBZUAI as an Assistant Professor soon. I am hiring highly motivated PhD students, research assistants, and visiting graduate students. Please check this page for more details! For application, please send an email to me via xingxingzuo@outlook.com with the subject “[Position]+[Name]+[Affiliation]”!

research interests
My research interests include robotics perception, 3D computer vision, multi-sensor fusion, state estimation, and embodied AI.
I’m conducting research on integrating the intelligence of the deep neural networks and the traditional probabilistic methods for real-time robotic perception tasks.
news
Jan 27, 2025 | Gaussian-LIC is accepted by ICRA 2025! |
---|---|
Jan 15, 2025 | Excited to give a talk about robotic perception at MIT! Many thanks to Prof. Luca Carlone’s group for hosting me! |
Jan 8, 2025 | Happy to announce that we are going to organize a workshop “Thermal Infrared in Robotics” at ICRA 2025! |
Jan 6, 2025 | Our paper about thermal depth prediction is accepted by RA-L! |
Sep 10, 2024 | Serving as an Associate Editor for ICRA 2025, my third consecutive year handling ICRA submissions! |
Jul 11, 2024 | A paper titled “RIDERS: Radar-Infrared Depth Estimation for Robust Sensing” is accepted by T-ITS! |
Jul 4, 2024 | “FMGS” is accepted by IJCV! |
Jul 1, 2024 | Two papers are accepted by ECCV 2024! |
Jun 12, 2024 | “NerfVO” is accepted by RA-L! |
Feb 27, 2024 | A paper titled “Dynamic LiDAR Re-simulation using Compositional Neural Fields” is accepted by CVPR 2024 (Highlight)! |
Jan 29, 2024 | A paper about “RadarCam-Depth: Radar-Camera Fusion for Depth Estimation with Learned Metric Scale” is accepted by ICRA! |
Jan 20, 2024 | I join Caltech as a Postdoc Research Associate in CMS department at Caltech, USA! |
Jan 16, 2024 | A paper about “M2-CLIP: A Multimodal, Multi-task Adapting Framework for Video Action Recognition” is accepted by AAAI and featured as Oral! |
Sep 10, 2023 | I join Google as a full-time Visiting Faculty Researcher (Scientist) in Mountain View, USA! |
Sep 4, 2023 | A paper about “Coco-LIC: LiDAR-Inertial-Camera Odometry Using Continuous-Time Non-Uniform B-spline” is accepted by RA-L! |
academic services
Associate Editor: IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L, since March 2022), IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS, 2022&2023&2024&2025), IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA, 2023&2024&2025).
Workshop Organizer: Thermal Infrared in Robotics in ICRA 2025.
Program Committee Member: IEEE MOST 2025.
Conference Session Chair: IROS 2023.
Guest Editor: Sensors [Special Issue 2023].
Journal Reviewer: IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO), The International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR), Journal of Field Robotics (J-FR), IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (T-PAMI), IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (T-ASE), IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (T-ITS), IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics (T-IE), Neurocomputing.
Conference Reviewer: ICRA, IROS, CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, IJCAI
representative talks
- 2025.03 A talk about “Spatial Intelligent Robots”. Virginia Tech (Blacksburg).
- 2025.03 A talk about “Spatial Intelligent Robots”. KAUST (Saudi Arabia).
- 2025.01 A talk about “Robust 3D Perception”. MIT (Boston).
- 2023.08 A talk about “Robust 3D Perception”. The Chinese University of Hong Kong (ShenZhen).
- 2023.05 A talk about “Robust 3D Perception”. Upenn Grasp Lab.
- 2022.06 “Robust 3D Perception with Multi-source Information Fusion”. ETH CVG group.
- 2022.03 Invited speaker at conference, “Towards the Era of Robust Pose Estimation for Robots”. UPLINLIBS 2022.
- 2022.03 “Towards the Era of Robust Spatial Perception”. Peking University.
selected publications
Find out my full publication list via Google Scholar.
* co-first author with equal contribution; # Corresponding author.
-
FMGS: Foundation Model Embedded 3D Gaussian Splatting for Holistic 3D Scene Understanding International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV) 2024 [Abs] [arXiv] [Webpage] [Code]
-
RadarCam-Depth: Radar-Camera Fusion for Depth Estimation with Learned Metric Scale IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2024 [Abs] [arXiv] [Video] [Code]
-
Coco-LIC: Continuous-Time Tightly-Coupled LiDAR-Inertial-Camera Odometry using Non-Uniform B-spline IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 2023 [Abs] [arXiv] [Video] [Code]
-
SimpleMapping: Real-Time Visual-Inertial Dense Mapping with Deep Multi-View Stereo IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR) 2023 [Abs] [arXiv] [Video] [Webpage]
-
Incremental Dense Reconstruction from Monocular Video with Guided Sparse Feature Volume Fusion IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 2023 [Abs] [arXiv] [Video]
-
Continuous-Time Fixed-Lag Smoothing for LiDAR-Inertial-Camera SLAM IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics 2023 [Abs] [arXiv] [Code]
-
Ctrl-VIO: Continuous-Time Visual-Inertial Odometry for Rolling Shutter Cameras IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 2022 [Abs] [arXiv] [Code]
-
Observability-Aware Intrinsic and Extrinsic Calibration of LiDAR-IMU Systems IEEE Transactions on Robotics 2022 [Abs] [arXiv] [Code]
-
Symmetry and Uncertainty-Aware Object SLAM for 6DoF Object Pose Estimation IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2022 [Abs] [arXiv] [Code]
-
CodeVIO: Visual-inertial odometry with learned optimizable dense depth Nominated for the "Best Paper Award in Robot Vision (Finalist) of ICRA 2021", IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2021 [Abs] [arXiv] [Video]