Shengkai Zhang

Associate Professor

School of Navigation, Wuhan University of Technology

Biography

Shengkai Zhang (张胜凯) joined the School of Navigation at Wuhan University of Technology (WUT) in March 2026. Before this appointment, he worked at WUT’s School of Information Engineering from 2021 to 2026. He received his Ph.D. degree in Information and Communication Engineering from the School of Electronic Information and Communications, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), in 2021. He received master’s degrees from HUST and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) in 2012 and 2014, respectively. From 2014 to 2017, he was a Research Assistant at the HKUST-DJI Joint Innovation Laboratory in Hong Kong. His research interests include autonomous maritime navigation, Gaussian splatting, SLAM, and multisensor fusion.

Research Interests

Autonomous Maritime Navigation
Gaussian Splatting
SLAM
Multisensor Fusion

Selected Publications

Underwater 3D Gaussian Reconstruction Using Multi-view Sonar Imaging

IEEE Sensors Letters, Early Access, 2026

Yiwen Zhou, Kezhong Liu, Xuedou Xiao, Xuming Zeng, Shengkai Zhang, Mozi Chen

SIREN: Self-supervised 4D Implicit Representation for Enhanced Radar- and Vision-based Activity Recognition for Ship Watch-Keeping Officers

IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, Early Access, 2026

Mengchuang Hu, Mozi Chen, Yiling Ren, Junjie Weng, Xuedou Xiao, Shengkai Zhang, Kezhong Liu

MOGS: Monocular Object-guided Gaussian Splatting in Large Scenes

IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2026

Shengkai Zhang, Yuhe Liu, Jianhua He, Xuedou Xiao, Mozi Chen, Kezhong Liu

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Pose-Induced Error Compensation in Monocular Vision for Long-Range Air Draft Estimation

IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Early Access, 2026

Yiwen Zhou, Kezhong Liu, Mozi Chen, Xuming Zeng, Mengda Chen, Xuedou Xiao, Shengkai Zhang

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Robust mmWave Radar Sensing with Multi-sensor Temporal Calibration and Supervision

IEEE Internet of Things Journal, Early Access, 2026

Kezhong Liu, Cong Fan, Shengkai Zhang, Mozi Chen, Xuedou Xiao, Shuai Wang, Zheng Yang, Wei Wang

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mmWave Radar Perception Learning Using Pervasive Visual-Inertial Supervision

IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Early Access, 2026

Kezhong Liu, Yiwen Zhou, Mozi Chen, Jianhua He, Jingao Xu, Zheng Yang, Chris Xiaoxuan Lu, Shengkai Zhang

Code DOI

Methodology and Benchmark for Automated Driving Theory Test of Large Language Models

IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, vol. 26, no. 10, pp. 17013-17026, 2025

Dashuai Pei, Yiwen Wu, Jianhua He, Kezhong Liu, Mozi Chen, Xuedou Xiao, Shengkai Zhang, Jiawei Zheng

VISC: mmWave Radar Scene Flow Estimation Using Pervasive Visual-Inertial Supervision

IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2025

Kezhong Liu, Yiwen Zhou, Mozi Chen, Jianhua He, Jingao Xu, Zheng Yang, Chris Xiaoxuan Lu, Shengkai Zhang

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edgeSLAM2: Rethinking Edge-Assisted Visual SLAM with On-Chip Intelligence

In IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM) 2024

Danyang Li, Yishujie Zhao, Jintao Xu, Shengkai Zhang, Longfei Shangguan, Zheng Yang

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Resolving Loop Closure Confusion in Repetitive Environments for Visual SLAM through AI Foundation Models Assistance

In International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2024

Hongzhou Li, Sijie Yu, Shengkai Zhang, Guang Tan

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Enhancing mmWave Radar Point Cloud via Visual-inertial Supervision

In International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2024

Cong Fan, Shengkai Zhang, Kezhong Liu, Shuai Wang, Zheng Yang, Wei Wang

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Robust Metric Localization in Autonomous Driving via Doppler Compensation with Single-chip Radar

IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (TITS) 2024

Pengen Gao, Shengkai Zhang, Wei Wang, Chris Xiaoxuan Lu

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WiSion: Bolstering MAV 3D Indoor State Estimation by Embracing Multipath of WiFi

IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (TVT) 2023

Fei Xiao, Shengkai Zhang, Sheyang Tang, Shaojie Shen, Huixin Dong, Yi Zhong

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DC-Loc: Accurate Automotive Radar Based Metric Localization with Explicit Doppler Compensation

In International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2022

Pengen Gao, Shengkai Zhang, Wei Wang, Chris Xiaoxuan Lu

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Conquering Textureless with RF-referenced Monocular Vision for MAV State Estimation

In International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2021

Shengkai Zhang, Sheyang Tang, Wei Wang, Tao Jiang, Qian Zhang

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Robot-assisted Backscatter Localization for IoT Applications

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (TWC) 2020

Shengkai Zhang, Wei Wang, Sheyang Tang, Shi Jin, Tao Jiang

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WiFi-Inertial Indoor Pose Estimation for Micro Aerial Vehicles

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics (TIE), 2020.

Shengkai Zhang, Wei Wang, Tao Jiang

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RF Backscatter-based State Estimation for Micro Aerial Vehicles

In IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM) 2020

Shengkai Zhang, Wei Wang, Ning Zhang, Tao Jiang

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Awards & Funding

Research Funding

National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), General Program, Grant No. 52671464, Perception Methods for Unmanned Surface Vessels in Low-Visibility Environments Based on Vision Foundation Models, 2027-2030. Principal Investigator.
National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), General Program, Grant No. 52571413, Intelligent Collision-Avoidance Methods for Ships in Complex Scenarios Based on Large Language Models, 2026-2029. Participant; ongoing.
National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), General Program, Grant No. 62171192, Theory and Methods for Sub-6 GHz Wireless Channel Parameter Acquisition and Characteristic Analysis, 2022-2025. Participant; completed.
Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, Independent Innovation Project, State Estimation for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Using Wireless and Visual Sensing, 2021-2022. Principal Investigator; completed.

Awards and Honors

2025: First Prize, Science and Technology Award of the China Institute of Navigation, for Technologies and Applications for Personnel Safety Management and Man-Overboard Rescue on Large Ships.
2025: Second Prize, Hubei Provincial Science and Technology Progress Award, for Key Technologies and Applications for Robust Localization and Tracking in Complex Ship-Port Environments.
2024: First Prize, Wuhan University of Technology Science and Technology Award, for Key Technologies, Systems, and Industrial Applications for Robust Localization and Tracking in Complex Dynamic Interference Environments (Certificate No. 2024-J-1-09).
2021: Outstanding Paper Award from the Chinese Institute of Electronics for the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications paper Robot-Assisted Backscatter Localization for IoT Applications.
2020: Huawei Scholarship, First Class.
2020: National Scholarship for Doctoral Students (ranked first; two recipients in the school).
2020: Outstanding Doctoral Academic Scholarship, First Class.