Portrait of Jiaming Zhang

Jiaming Zhang

Professor

Hunan University (HNU)

I lead the Integrated Sensing and Assistive Intelligence (InSAI) Lab as a Professor at the School of AI and Robotics, Hunan University (HNU).

My research brings together computer vision, embodied intelligence and assistive technology to build systems that understand their surroundings and support people in everyday life, particularly people with visual impairments.

📣[News] We have several positions (start from 2026/2027) for Postdoc, PhD, Master Student, RA/TA, Visiting Scholar, and Internship, please email me and join us!

HNU — current affiliation KIT — education and previous position ETH Zurich — academic guest Oxford — visiting PhD student Shenzhen University — BSc

Academic Background

Research interests

  • Robotics
  • Computer Vision
  • Assistive Technology
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Multimodal Large Language Models
  • Document Understanding
  • Embodied Intelligence
  • Autonomous Driving

Experience

  • Professor, 2025–present
    School of AI and Robotics, HNU
  • Academic Guest, 2024–2025
    CVG, ETH Zurich
    Host: Prof. Marc Pollefeys
  • Postdoc, 2023–2025
    CV:HCI, KIT
  • Research Assistant, 2020–2023
    CV:HCI, KIT

Education

  • Ph.D. in Computer Science, 2023
    CV:HCI, KIT, Germany (summa cum laude)
    Supervisor: Prof. Rainer Stiefelhagen
  • Visiting Ph.D. Student, 2023
    TVG, University of Oxford, UK
    Supervisor: Prof. Philip Torr
  • M.Sc. in Computer Science, 2020
    CV:HCI, KIT, Germany
  • B.Sc. in Computer Science, 2015
    Shenzhen University, China

Recent News

  • Outstanding Area Chair at CVPR 2026.
  • Our first AAA workshop has been accepted by UbiComp/ISWC 2026.
  • Four papers accepted by NeurIPS 2026. Please check OccStress, VLAN, RPD, and VL-DocIR.
  • One paper accepted by IEEE T-PAMI 2026. Please check OneBEV++.
  • 🏆 One paper accepted by BMVC 2026 (Oral). Please check X²Localizer.
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  • I will serve as an Area Chair for ICLR 2027.
  • CSC Award for Outstanding Overseas Study Elite, 2025
  • One paper accepted by ICML 2026 (Spotlight). Please check Accessibility Alignment.
  • I will serve as an Area Chair for AAAI 2027.
  • I will serve as an Area Chair for WACV 2027.
  • Two papers accepted by CVPR 2026. Please check PanoVQA and RHO.
  • Gold Reviewer at ICML 2026.
  • I will serve as an Area Chair for ACCV 2026.
  • 📱 InSight App released!
  • 🏆 One paper accepted by AAAI 2026 (Oral). Please check HybriDLA.
  • Top Reviewer at NeurIPS 2025.
  • I will serve as an Associate Editor for ICRA 2026.
  • Two papers accepted by NeurIPS 2025. Please check Situat3DChange and mmWalk.
  • I will serve as an Area Chair for CVPR 2026.
  • I will serve as an Area Chair for ICLR 2026.
  • One paper accepted by ICCV 2025. Please check UNLOCK.
  • Our first iCARE workshop was accepted by CoRL 2025.
  • Two papers accepted by ICDAR 2025. Please check SFDLA and RefChartQA.
  • One paper accepted by IEEE T-ITS 2025. Please check OccFiner.
  • Two papers accepted by CVPR 2025. Please check SPR and SAMBLE.
  • One paper accepted by ICLR 2025. Please check GraphDoc.
  • 🏆 KIT Doctoral Award.
  • 🏆 Best Paper Finalist at ACCV 2024. Please check OneBEV.
  • 🏆 IEEE ITSS Germany Best PhD Dissertation Award (First Prize).
  • Three papers accepted by ECCV 2024. Please check OPS, OASS, and RAVAR.
  • One paper accepted by CVPR 2024. Please check RoDLA.
  • One paper accepted by IEEE T-PAMI 2024. Please check Trans4PASS+.
  • 🏆 IEEE ICRA 2024 HRI Best Paper Finalist. Please check MateRobot.
  • One paper accepted by CVPR 2023. Please check DELIVER.
  • Two papers accepted by IEEE T-ITS 2022. Please check Trans4Trans and MASS.
  • One paper accepted by CVPR 2022. Please check Trans4PASS.
  • Two papers accepted by IEEE T-ITS 2021. Please check DensePASS and EDCNet.
  • One paper accepted by IROS 2021. Please check ISSAFE.
  • One paper accepted by CVPR 2021. Please check WildPASS.

Research Feature

All publications →
OccStress: Stress-Testing the 4D Occupancy Forecasting Chain

MLLM

  • Multimodal Learning
  • Vision–Language Models
  • Multimodal Reasoning
  • Visual Question Answering
  • Document Understanding
  • Document Retrieval
  • Information Extraction
  • Visual Grounding
  • Robust Generalization
  • Datasets & Evaluation
MateRobot: Material Recognition in Wearable Robotics for People with Visual Impairments

Robotics

  • Robot Perception
  • Multi-Sensor Fusion
  • Visual Localization
  • Semantic Mapping
  • 3D Scene Understanding
  • Object Detection
  • Semantic Segmentation
  • Event-Based Vision
  • Traversability Estimation
  • Wearable Robotics
OneBEV++: Towards Unifying Bird’s-Eye-View Semantic Mapping with Panoramas

Embodied AI

  • Spatial Intelligence
  • Embodied Perception
  • Vision–Language Navigation
  • BEV Mapping
  • 3D Spatial Grounding
  • Occupancy Forecasting
  • World Models
  • Scene Change Understanding
  • Cross-View Reasoning
  • Navigation Planning
Position: Assistive Agents Need Accessibility Alignment

Assistive Agent

  • Accessibility
  • Assistive Technology
  • HCI
  • BCI
  • Human–AI Interaction
  • Wearable Computing
  • Accessible Navigation
  • Reading Assistance
  • Inclusive Design
  • User-Centered Evaluation

Awards

  • 2026Outstanding Area Chair at CVPR 2026
  • 2026Gold Reviewer at ICML 2026
  • 2025Top Reviewer at NeurIPS 2025
  • 2025CSC Award for Outstanding Overseas Study Elite
  • 2024IEEE ITSS Germany Best PhD Dissertation Award (First Prize)
  • 2024KIT Doctoral Award
  • 2024ACCV 2024 Best Paper Finalist
  • 2024KIT KHYS Research Travel Grant
  • 2024ICM Future Mobility Grant
  • 2024IEEE ICRA 2024 HRI Best Paper Finalist
  • 2023DAAD IFI Program Fellowship
  • 2021Best Practical Course Award, KIT Department of Informatics