I am a incoming PhD student at HKUST (GZ), AI Thrust and VLIS LAB. My supervisor is Prof. Lin Wang. During my Master years at XJTU, I was supervised by Prof. Zejian Yuan. I was fortunate to work with Dr. Ang Li, and Dr. Hao Ai with great passions.

My research interests are in computer vision, particularly 360 vision and depth estimation / completion.

Education

Undergraduate: Xi’an Jiaotong University, Major: Automation, 2015-2019

Master: Xi’an Jiaotong University, Major: Control Science and Engineering, 2019-2022

Ph.D.: Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou campus), Major: Artificial Intelligence, 2023-Now

News

2023.07: One paper accepted by ICCV 2023. It is about 360 image enhancement.

2023.05: One paper about NeRF-SLAM is finished.

2023.04: One paper about 360 high-resolution monocular depth estimation is finished.

2023.02: Two papers accepted by CVPR 2023. They are about 360 monocular depth estimation and 360 unsupervised domain adaptation.

2022.05: One survey paper about 360 deep-learning vision is finished.

2021.10: One paper accepted by BMVC 2021. It is about surround-view free space detection.

2021.05: One paper accepted by ICIP 2021. It is about indoor depth completion.

Selected Publications (* indicates equal contribution)

1. Zidong Cao, Hao Ai, Yan-Pei Cao, Ying Shan, Xiaohu Qie, Lin Wang. “OmniZoomer: Learning to Move and Zoom in on Sphere at High-Resolution.” ICCV 2023.
2. Zidong Cao, Hao Ai, and Lin Wang. “360-degree High-Resolution Depth Estimation via Uncertainty-aware Structural Knowledge Transfer.” arXiv 2023.
3. Hao Ai ^*, Zidong Cao ^*, Jinjing Zhu, Haotian Bai, Yucheng Chen, Lin Wang. “Deep learning for omnidirectional vision: A survey and new perspectives.” arXiv 2022.