• About Me

    Profile

    I am now a Ph.D. Student in the State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing (LIESMARS), Wuhan University, and I will graduate in June 2023. In LIESMARS, I work with Prof. Xianfeng Huang and Prof. Fan Zhang. Before that, I got the M.Eng. degree and the BEng. degree from Wuhan University and Nanjing University of Information Science& Technology (NUIST), respectively.

    Please refer to my full CV here.

    Research Interests

    • Photogrammetry and Computer Vision
    • Photogrammetric-based 3D City and Landscape Modeling
    • Scene Understanding in UAV Images and Photogrammetric 3D models
  • Education

    WHU (Wuhan University) Sep. 2019 – Jun. 2023

    Ph.D. in Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing Wuhan, China

    WHU (Wuhan University) Sep. 2016 – Jun. 2018

    M.Eng. in Surveying and Mapping Engineering Wuhan, China

    NUIST (Nanjing University of Information Science& Technology) Sep. 2012 – Jun. 2016

    B. Sc. in Geographic Information System Nanjing, China

  • Work Experience

    IBM CIO Identity Chengdu, China

    Business Analyst in AccessHub Team Jul. 2018 – Aug. 2019

    Access Management, UI Design, Team Working Skills, Technical Supports

    Geo-Spatial Information Science (SCI Q2, Intern) Wuhan, China

    Student Editor, Article Editing & Proof, Poster Design Journal Promotion Mar. 2021 – Dec. 2024

  • Publications

    Journal Papers

    Improved instance segmentation for slender urban road facility extraction using oblique aerial images [J].

    International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

    Mao, Z., Huang, X., Niu, W., Wang, X., Hou, Z., & Zhang, F. (2023)

    Paper Github

    Glass façade segmentation and repair for aerial photogrammetric 3D building models with multiple constraints [J].

    International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

    Mao, Z., Huang, X., Xiang, H., Gong, Y., Zhang, F., & Tang, J. (2023)

    Paper Github

    Mao, Z., Huang, X., Gong, Y., Xiang, H., & Zhang, F.

    (2022)

    Paper Github

    Mao, Z., Zhang, F., Huang, X., Jia, X., Gong, Y., & Zou, Q.

    (2021)

    Paper Github

    Yang, C., Zhang, F., Gao, Y., Mao, Z., Li, L., & Huang, X.

    (2021)

    Paper

    Oblique photogrammetry supporting procedural tree modeling in urban areas [J]

    ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing

    Wang, X., Xiang, H., Niu, W., Mao, Z., Huang, X., & Zhang, F.

    (2023)

    Paper Github

  • Research Projects

    Slender Urban Road Facility (SURF) Detection and 3D Modeling

    (2019.9 - 2020.12)

    [1] we propose an improved instance segmentation method to extract slender urban road facilities from UAV images.

    - a dense anchor ratio with an IoU-balanced sampling strategy (DASS) for proposal generation.

    - the balanced finegrained features (BFGF) to improve the boundary segmentation results.

    - work accepted by the journal JAG (2023).

    [2] SURF 3D modeling via template matching.

    - generate 3D points of SRUF by triangulation and predict the location and orientation via least-squares fitting.

    - retrieve SURF 3D template from sketch model and texture database.

    - work accepted by the journal RS (2021) .

    Glass façades segmentation and 3D building model repair

    (2021.5 - 2022.5)

    [1] we propose an ensemble method to segment glass façades in oblique aerial images.

    - a strategy is adopted to preserve the spatial relationship between glass façade panels.

    - edge features are extracted to improve the detector’s performance.

    - work accepted by the journal GRSL (2022).

    [2] glass façades extraction and repair in photogrammetric 3D models.

    - a projection-based method to extract glass façades in photogrammetric 3D building models.

    - a mesh denoising method to remedy the geometric deformation and apply texture mapping to correct the distortion.

    - applying multiple constraints guarantees the proposed pipeline will not worsen the 3D buidling models.

    - work accepted by the journal JAG (2023).

    Other research programs

    • Vehicle detection in UAV images and moving vehicle removal from photogrammetric 3D urban models (2021.1 - 2021.4)
    • Fragments assembly methods to virtually restore the Buddha statue in Yungang Grottoes (2022.4 - 2022.8)
    • Assembly-based 3D traffic facility modeling (2022.9-now, ongoing)
  • Honors and Awards

    The Best Volunteer in 2020 International Graduate Workshop on GeoInformatics (IGWG) (2021)

    The Outstanding Student Editor of Geo-spatial Information Science (GSIS) (2023)

    Student scholarships of Wuhan University (2022)