Personal Profile

I am an Associate Professor and Assistant to the Dean of the School of Artificial Intelligence, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology. I received my B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. from the School of Remote Sensing and Information Engineering, Wuhan University. My main research direction is 3D reconstruction from various types of remote sensing imagery (satellite imagery, aerial imagery, UAV imagery, and crowdsourced imagery). After completing my Ph.D., I conducted two years of postdoctoral research jointly supervised by Wuhan University and Huawei, focusing on indoor 3D modeling from panoramic imagery. I have published more than 20 papers in renowned SCI journals and international conferences such as ISPRS, JAG, CVPR, ACM MM, TGRS, Remote Sensing, and Geo-spatial Information Science. I have participated in multiple National Natural Science Foundation of China projects, led one Huawei pre-research project and five contract/industry-funded projects. I currently serve as a reviewer for venues such as JAG, ACM MM, and Remote Sensing, and previously served as a Guest Editor for Remote Sensing and as Program Committee Chair for ACM SIGGRAPH VRCAI 2024.

Our research group is equipped with more than 50 NVIDIA GPUs of multiple models (including more than 30 V100/5090/4090/3090 cards, and the number is continuously expanding). We have a good collaborative relationship with the Supercomputing Center of China Mobile Nanjing Jiangbei Branch, which can provide ample computing power support for our research.

We recruit master's students year-round who are interested in artificial intelligence, computer vision, remote sensing, image processing, and 3D reconstruction and who are highly self-motivated!

[Undergraduates interested in our research directions are welcome to join us!]

Research areas for recruitment:

[1] Computer Vision: 3D Reconstruction, 3D Object Detection, Panorama Processing

[2] Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing: Satellite Image Processing, 3D Modeling, Image Classification

[Selected publications]

[1] Hu Z, Zhang K, Liu Y. Edge constrained DSM refinement based on shading from high resolution multi-view satellite images[J]. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 2025, 18: 1-12. （中科院二区SCI）

[2] Hu Z, Tao P, Long X, Wang H. Shading aware DSM generation from high resolution multi-view satellite images[J]. Geo-spatial Information Science, 2024, 11: 1-10. （中科院一区SCI）

[3] Shen G, Huang J, Hu Z, Wang B. Cn-rma: Combined network with ray marching aggregation for 3d indoor object detection from multi-view images[C]//Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. 2024: 21326-21335. （CCF-A类会议）

[4] Hu Z, Duan B, Zhang Y, Sun M, Huang J. MVLayoutNet: 3D Layout Reconstruction with Multi-view Panoramas [C]. Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Multimedia, 2022: 1289-1298. （CCF-A类会议）

[5] Hu Z, Hou Y, Tao P, Shan J. IMGTR: Image-triangle based multi-view 3D reconstruction for urban scenes[J]. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. 2021, 181: 191-204. （中科院一区SCI）

[6] Liu Y, Aleksandrov M, Hu Z, Meng Y, Zhang L, Zlatanova S, Ai H, Tao P. Accurate light field depth estimation under occlusion[J]. Pattern Recognition, 2023, 138: 1-15. （中科院一区SCI）

[7] Hu Z, Hou Y, Tao P, Shan J. SREVAS: Shading based Surface Refinement under Varying Albedo and Specularity[J]. Remote Sensing, 2020, 12: 3488-3506. （中科院二区SCI）

[8] Shan J, Hu Z, Tao P, Wang L, Zhang S, Ji S. Toward a unified theoretical framework for photogrammetry[J]. Geo-Spatial Information Science, 2020, 23(1): 75-86. （中科院一区SCI）

[9] Zhang S, Tao P, Wang L, Hou Y, Hu Z. Improving Details of Building Façades in Open LiDAR Data Using Ground Images[J]. Remote Sensing, 2019, 11(4): 1-11. （中科院二区SCI）

[10] Meng Y, Hu Z, Chen X, Yao J. Subtracted Histogram: Utilizing Mutual Relation Between Features for Thresholding[J]. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 2018 (99): 1-21. （中科院一区SCI）

[11] Hou Y, Peng J, Hu Z, Tao P, Shan J. Planarity constrained multi-view depth map reconstruction for urban scenes[J]. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 2018, 139: 133-145. （中科院一区SCI）

[12] Hu Z, Peng J, Hou Y, Shan J. Evaluation of Recently Released Open Global Digital Elevation Models of Hubei, China[J]. Remote Sensing, 2017, 9(3): 1-17. （中科院二区SCI）

[13] Zhao Y, Liu Y, Hu Z, Chen P, Chen X, Dong B. Multi-stage matching for different sources of geospatial images based on local image self-similarity[J]. Optics and Lasers in Engineering, 2025, 191: 1-16. （中科院二区SCI）

[14] Hu Z, Lu W, Zhang K, Yang H, Wang Y, Qin N, Liu Y, Zlatanova S. Accurate room layout estimation from multi-view panoramas with multi-label graph cut[J]. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 2025. （中科院一区SCI）

[15] Chen P, Liu Y, Zhang L, Hu Z, Lu L, Besklubova. Bridging Extreme Viewpoint Gap: Robust Cross-Domain Matching of Tower Surveillance and Satellite Images for Precise Geolocation[J]. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 2026.（中科院一区SCI）

[16] Hu Z, Chen Z, Li Y, Liu Y, Zhang K, Zhao C, Zhang Y. Shading and Geometric Constraint Neural Radiance Field for DSM Reconstruction from Multi-View Satellite Images. Remote Sensing, 2026, 18(7), 1091.（中科院二区SCI）