Zidong Cao

I am a second-year PhD student at HKUST (GZ campus), fortunately supervised by Prof. Hui Xiong.

I received my Bachelor and Master degree from Xi'an Jiaotong University in 2019 and 2022 respectively, fortunately supervised by Prof. Zejian Yuan and Dr. Ang Li.

My current research focuses on vision foundation model, and omnidirectional vision.

News

2025-03: PanDA is accepted by CVPR 2025.

2024-09: CRF360D is accepted by RAL & ICRA 2025.

2024-06: DESR is accepted by TAI 2024.

2023-07: OmniZoomer is accepted by ICCV 2023.

Selected Publications

	PanDA: Towards Panoramic Depth Anything with Unlabeled Panoramas and Mobius Spatial Augmentation Zidong Cao, Jinjing Zhu, Weiming Zhang, Hao Ai, Haotian Bai, Hengshuang Zhao, Lin Wang Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2025 Paper / Code
	Monocular 360 Depth Estimation via Spherical Fully-Connected CRFs Zidong Cao, Lin Wang IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RAL), IEEE International Conference on Robotics & Automation (ICRA), 2025 Paper / Code
	360 High-Resolution Depth Estimation via Uncertainty-aware Structural Knowledge Transfer Zidong Cao, Hao Ai, Athanasios V. Vasilakos, Lin Wang IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence (TAI), 2024 Paper
	OmniZoomer: Learning to Move and Zoom in on Sphere at High-Resolution Zidong Cao, Hao Ai, Yan-Pei Cao, Ying Shan, Xiaohu Qie, Lin Wang International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2023 Paper / Code

Academic Services

Conference reviewer: CVPR 2024, ICRA 2024, CVPR 2025.

Journal reviewer: TIP, TMM.