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Biography

I am now a Senior Researcher in the Computer Vision Group at Technical University of Munich (TUM) working with Prof. Daniel Cremers. I am also a research scientist at Munich Center for Machine Learning. I obtained my phd degree from TUM supervised by Prof. Uwe Stilla and Prof. Daniel Cremers, and was a visiting phd student in the Visual Geometry Group (VGG) at University of Oxford working with Dr. João Henriques. My research interests focus on 3D Vision, Localization and Navigation, Robotics, and Autonomous Driving.

I am looking for highly self-motivated and talented Bachelor, Master and PhD students. Feel free to get in touch with me via email If you're interested in collaborating.

News

• 03 / 2025: Our work 'SparseAlign: A Fully Sparse Framework for Cooperative Object Detection' is accepted by CVPR 2025!
• 03 / 2025: Our work 'Localizing Events in Videos with Multimodal Queries' is accepted by CVPR 2025!
• 03 / 2025: Our work 'MonoCT: Overcoming Monocular 3D Detection Domain Shift with Consistent Teacher Models' is accepted by ICRA 2025!
• 12 / 2024: Our work 'L4DR: LiDAR-4DRadar Fusion for Weather-Robust 3D Object Detection' is accepted by AAAI 2025!
• 11 / 2024: Our work 'VXP: Voxel-Cross-Pixel Large-scale Camera-LiDAR Place Recognition' is accepted by 3DV 2025!
• 11 / 2024: Our work 'ZAHA: Introducing the Level of Facade Generalization and the Large-Scale Point Cloud Facade Semantic Segmentation Benchmark Dataset' is accepted by WACV 2025!
• 07 / 2024: Our work 'Boosting 3D Single Object Tracking with 2D Matching Distillation and 3D Pre-training' is accepted by ECCV 2024!
• 07 / 2024: Our work 'Embracing Events and Frames with Hierarchical Feature Refinement Network for Object Detection' is accepted by ECCV 2024!
• 04 / 2024: Our work 'Bridging LiDAR Gaps: A Multi-LiDARs Domain Adaptation Dataset for 3D Semantic Segmentation' is accepted by IJCAI 2024!
• 03 / 2024: Our work 'Text2Loc: 3D Point Cloud Localization from Natural Language' is accepted by CVPR 2024!
• 01 / 2024: Our work 'OPOCA: One Point One Class Annotation for LiDAR Point Cloud Semantic Segmentation' is accepted by IEEE TGRS!
• 10 / 2023: We are organizing a special issue 'Point Cloud Processing with Machine Learning' on Remote Sensing (SCI, IF 5.0). Welcome to submit your original research work!
• 09 / 2023: Our work 'SCP: Scene completion pre-training for 3D object detection' wins the best paper award at ISPRS Geospatial Week 2023!
• 07 / 2023: Our work 'CASSPR: Cross Attention Single Scan Place Recognition' is accepted by ICCV 2023!
• 07 / 2023: Our work 'SegTrans: Semantic Segmentation with Transfer Learning for MLS Point Clouds' is accepted by IEEE GRSL! Congrats, Shuo Shen (MS@TUM)!
• 04 / 2023: Our work 'Scan2LoD3' on reconstructing semantic 3D building models is accepted by CVPR Workshop 2023!
• 04 / 2023: Our work 'Fast and deterministic (3+1) DOF point set registration with gravity prior' is accepted by ISPRS Journal!
• 03 / 2023: Passed my PhD with "no corrections"!
• 02 / 2023: We are organizing the workshop about '3DS Smart Cities-3D Sensing for Smart Cities' in the ISPRS Geospatial Week 2023! Welcome to join us!
• 01 / 2023: Our work 'DMT' on 3D single object tracking is accepted by IEEE TITS!
• 06 / 2022: I joined Visual Geometry Group (VGG), University of Oxford, as a Visiting Ph.D. student.

Publications (Selected)

( ^† indicates corresponding author, ^* indicates equal contribution)

SparseAlign: A Fully Sparse Framework for Cooperative Object Detection

Yunshuang Yuan, Yan Xia†, Daniel Cremers, Monika Sester

Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) , 2025

[paper]

Localizing Events in Videos with Multimodal queries

Gengyuan Zhang, Mang Ling Ada Fok, Jialu Ma, Yan Xia†, Daniel Cremers, Philip Torr, Volker Tresp, Jindong Gu

Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) , 2025

[paper]

Text2Loc: 3D Point Cloud Localization from Natural Language

Yan Xia*†, Letian Shi*, Zifeng Ding, João F. Henriques, Daniel Cremers

Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) , 2024

[paper]

CASSPR: Cross Attention Single Scan Place Recognition

Yan Xia*†, Mariia Gladkova*, Rui Wang, Qianyun Li, Uwe Stilla, João F. Henriques, Daniel Cremers

International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) , 2023

[paper]

SOE-net: A self-attention and orientation encoding network for point cloud based place recognition

Yan Xia, Yusheng Xu, Shuang Li, Rui Wang, Juan Du, Daniel Cremers, Uwe Stilla

Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) (Oral), 2021

[paper]

Academic Services

Editor Services

Special issue 'Point Cloud Processing with Machine Learning' on Remote Sensing (IF 5.0)

Conference Reviewers

• Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
• International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2023, 2025
• European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2022, 2024
• Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2023, 2025
• ACM Multimedia (MM), 2024, 2025
• International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2024
• Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV), 2024

Journal Reviewers

• IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (T-PAMI)
• IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (T-IP)
• ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS-J)
• IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (T-ITS)
• IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (T-VCG)
• IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (T-GRS)
• IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles (T-IV)
• Pattern Reccognition (PR)

Dr. Yan Xia

Research Scientist at Munich Center for Machine Learning
Senior Researcher at Technical University of Munich
Visiting Scholar in VGG, University of Oxford
Secretary of Working Group I/8 International Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS)
Email: yan.xia@tum.de

Senior Researcher at Technical University of Munich
Visiting Scholar in VGG, University of Oxford
Secretary of Working Group I/8 International Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS)
Email: yan.xia@tum.de

Visiting Scholar in VGG, University of Oxford
Secretary of Working Group I/8 International Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS)
Email: yan.xia@tum.de

Secretary of Working Group I/8 International Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS)
Email: yan.xia@tum.de

Email: yan.xia@tum.de

Editor Services

Conference Reviewers

Journal Reviewers

Dr. Yan Xia

Research Scientist at Munich Center for Machine Learning Senior Researcher at Technical University of Munich Visiting Scholar in VGG, University of Oxford Secretary of Working Group I/8 International Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS) Email: yan.xia@tum.de

Senior Researcher at Technical University of Munich Visiting Scholar in VGG, University of Oxford Secretary of Working Group I/8 International Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS) Email: yan.xia@tum.de

Visiting Scholar in VGG, University of Oxford Secretary of Working Group I/8 International Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS) Email: yan.xia@tum.de

Secretary of Working Group I/8 International Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS) Email: yan.xia@tum.de

Email: yan.xia@tum.de

Editor Services

Conference Reviewers

Journal Reviewers

Research Scientist at Munich Center for Machine Learning
Senior Researcher at Technical University of Munich
Visiting Scholar in VGG, University of Oxford
Secretary of Working Group I/8 International Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS)
Email: yan.xia@tum.de

Senior Researcher at Technical University of Munich
Visiting Scholar in VGG, University of Oxford
Secretary of Working Group I/8 International Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS)
Email: yan.xia@tum.de

Visiting Scholar in VGG, University of Oxford
Secretary of Working Group I/8 International Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS)
Email: yan.xia@tum.de

Secretary of Working Group I/8 International Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS)
Email: yan.xia@tum.de