Publications

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2025

• UASTHN: Uncertainty-Aware Deep Homography Estimation for UAV Satellite-Thermal Geo-localization
  J. Xiao, G. Loianno
  International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
  Project Paper Code
• VG-SSL: Benchmarking Self-supervised Representation Learning Approaches for Visual Geo-localization
  J. Xiao, G. Zhu, G. Loianno
  IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV)
  Paper Code

2024

• STHN: Deep Homography Estimation for UAV Thermal Geo-localization with Satellite Imagery
  J. Xiao, N. Zhang, D. Tortei, G. Loianno
  IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)
  Project Paper Code Video
• Unifying Foundation Models with Quadrotor Control for Visual Tracking Beyond Object Categories
  A. Saviolo*, P. Rao*, V. Radhakrishnan, J. Xiao, G. Loianno
  IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
  Paper Video

2023

• Long-range UAV Thermal Geo-localization with Satellite Imagery
  J. Xiao, D. Tortei, E. Roura, G. Loianno
  IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
  Project Paper Code Video

2022

• Identity Preserving Loss for Learned Image Compression
  J. Xiao, L. Aggarwal, P. Banerjee, M. Aggarwal, G. Medioni
  IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops
  Paper
• Multi-Robot Collaborative Perception with Graph Neural Networks
  Y. Zhou, J. Xiao, Y. Zhou, G. Loianno
  IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)
  Paper Video

2021

• Toward Coordination Control of Multiple Fish-Like Robots: Real-Time Vision-Based Pose Estimation and Tracking via Deep Neural Networks
  T. Zhang, J. Xiao, L. Li, C. Wang, G. Xie
  IEEE CAA J. Autom. Sinica
  Paper

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Reviews

• IEEE Transactions on Robotics
• IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
• IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2024
• IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2024
• IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2024
• Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) 2025