Boni Hu

Boni Hu 胡博妮

About Me

Hi! I am a final-year PhD student, fortunately under the supervision of Prof. Shuhui Bu. Previously, I am lucky to have opportunities to work at the UTS Robotics Institude as a visiting student, supervised by Liang Zhao and Shoudong Huang. My research focuses on place recognition, geolocalization and relocalization in remote sensing, with emphasis on vision representations that integrate geometric structures and semantic relationships to enable accurate and robust spatial understanding from aerial perspectives. Currently, my exploration focuses on equipping large language models and vision-language models (VLMs) with spatial intelligence for remote sensing applications. I also have a strong interest in applying these techniques to medical imaging and surgical robotics applications.

[TOP] I am actively seeking postdoctoral and industry opportunities starting from 2026.

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Selected Publications

Hi^2GSLoc
ArXiv
Hi2-GSLoc: Dual-Hierarchical Gaussian-Specific Visual Relocalization for Remote Sensing. [Paper]
Boni Hu, Zhenyu Xia, Lin Chen, Pengcheng Han, Shuhui Bu
ArXiv, 2025. Under Review.
OriLoc
JSTARS
OriLoc: Unlimited-FoV And Orientation-Free Cross-View Geolocalization. [Paper]
Boni Hu, Haowei Li, Shuhui Bu, Lin Chen, Pengcheng Han
IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 2025
CurriculumLoc
TGRS
CurriculumLoc: Enhancing Cross-Domain Geolocalization Through Multistage Refinement. [Paper] [Code]
Boni Hu, Lin Chen, Runjian Chen, Shuhui Bu, Pengcheng Han, Haowei Li
IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 2024
G2-Mapping
TASE
G2-Mapping: General Gaussian Mapping For Monocular, RGB-D, And LiDAR-Inertial-Visual Systems. [Paper]
Lin Chen, Boni Hu, Wang Jvboxi, Shuhui Bu, Wang Guangming, Pengcheng Han, Chen Jian
IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, 2025
FlashGS
SIGGRAPH Asia
TC-GS: A FASTER GAUSSIAN SPLATTING MODULE UTILIZING TENSOR CORES. [Paper] [Code]
Zimu Liao, Jifeng Ding, Rong Fu, Siwei Cui, Ruixuan Gong, Li Wang, Boni Hu, Yi Wang, Hengjie Li, Xingcheng Zhang, Hui Wang
ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2025 Conference Proceedings, 2025
FlashGS
CVPR
FlashGS: Efficient 3D Gaussian Splatting For Large-Scale And High-Resolution Rendering. [Paper] [Code]
Guofeng Feng, Siyan Chen, Rong Fu, Zimu Liao, Yi Wang, Tao Liu, Boni Hu, Linning Xu, Zhilin Pei, Hengjie Li, Xiuhong Li, Ninghui Sun, Xingcheng Zhang, Bo Dai
Proceedings of the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference, 2025
FP4 Pretraining
ICML
Towards Efficient Pre-Training: Exploring FP4 Precision In Large Language Models. [Paper]
Jiecheng Zhou, Ding Tang, Rong Fu, Boni Hu, Haoran Xu, Yi Wang, Suzhongling, Liang Liu, PeiZhilin, Hengjie Li, Xingcheng Zhang, Weiming Zhang
ES-FoMo III: 3rd Workshop on Efficient Systems for Foundation Models, ICML, 2025
MDINet
TGRS
MDINet: Multi-Domain Incremental Network For Change Detection. [Paper]
Lean Weng, Wengqing Wang, Boni Hu, Pengcheng Han, Shaocheng Xue, Yu Zhang, Haowei Li, Jie Jin, Shuhui Bu
IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 2024
GCG-Net
TGRS
GCG-Net: Graph Classification Geolocation Network. [Paper]
Yu Zhang, Shuhui Bu, Boni Hu, Pengcheng Han, Lean Weng, Shaocheng Xue
IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 2023
3D Colon Reconstruction
ICRA
3D Reconstruction Of Deformable Colon Structures Based On Preoperative Model And Deep Neural Network. [Paper]
Shuai Zhang, Liang Zhao, Shoudong Huang, Ruibin Ma, Boni Hu, Qi Hao
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2021
3D Aortic Reconstruction
MICCAI
Deep Learning Assisted Automatic Intra-Operative 3D Aortic Deformation Reconstruction. [Paper]
Yanhao Zhang, Raphael Falque, Liang Zhao, Shoudong Huang, Boni Hu
Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention–MICCAI, 2020

Research Experience

Academic Experience

Reviewer for:

  • IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
  • International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR)
  • IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
  • European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)
  • IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
  • IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology

Selected Honors