Publications

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Selected Publications

Kangcheng Liu, Cao Muqing. DLC-SLAM: A Robust LiDAR-SLAM System with Learning-based Denoising and Loop Closure. IEEE Transactions on Mechatronics (T-MECH), March 2023. Systematic Codebase of DLC-LiDAR-SLAM_v1.6.
Preliminary Codebase of LiDAR-SLAM_v1.2.

Kangcheng Liu. RM3D: Robust Data-Efficient 3D Scene Parsing via Traditional and Learnt 3D Descriptors-based Semantic Region Merging. International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV) 2022, IF in 2021: 13.369, Pages 1-30. IEEE Xplore
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Kangcheng Liu, Shao Ling. FAC: 3D Representation Learning via Foreground Aware Feature Contrast. CVPR 2023.
Codes of this work and the compared works.

Kangcheng Liu. Online Robot Navigation and Manipulation with Distilled Vision-Language Models. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA),. Codes

Kangcheng Liu, et al. Generalized Label-Efficient 3D Scene Parsing via Hierarchical Feature Aligned Pre-Training and Region-Aware Fine-tuning. Codes

Kangcheng Liu, Zhi Gao, Feng Lin, and Ben M. Chen. FG-Net: A Fast and Accurate Framework for Large-Scale LiDAR Point Clouds Understanding. IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics (T-CYB), March 2022, IF in 2021: 19.118. IEEE Xplore
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Kangcheng Liu, Zhi Gao, Feng Lin, and Ben M. Chen. FG-Conv: Large-Scale LiDAR Point Clouds Understanding Leveraging Feature Correlation Mining and Geometric-Aware Modeling. 2021 38th IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA). (Oral) . IEEE Xplore
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Kangcheng Liu, Yuzhi Zhao, and Ben M. Chen. WeakLabel3D-Net: A Complete Framework for Real-Scene LiDAR Point Clouds Weakly Supervised Multi-Tasks Understanding. 2021 38th IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA). (Oral) . IEEE Xplore
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Kangcheng Liu, Yuzhi Zhao, Qiang Nie, and Ben M. Chen. Weakly Supervised 3D Scene Parsing with Region-Level Boundary Awareness and Instance Discrimination. European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) 2022. ECCV Springer Book
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Kangcheng Liu. Robust Industrial UAV/UGV-Based Unsupervised Domain Adaptive Crack Recognitions with Depth and Edge Awareness: From System and Database Constructions to Real-Site Inspections. ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM) 2022. (Oral). ACM Digital Library
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Kangcheng Liu and Ben M. Chen. Industrial UAV-based Unsupervised Domain Adaptive Crack Recognitions: From System Setups to Real-Site Infrastructural Inspections. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics (TIE), 2022. IEEE Xplore
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Kangcheng Liu, et al. Generalized 3D Self-supervised Learning Framework via Prompted Foreground-Aware Feature Contrast. Codes

Kangcheng Liu, Yanbin Qu, Hak-Man Kim, and Huihui Song. Avoiding frequency second dip in power unreserved control during wind power rotational speed recovery. IEEE Transactions on Power Systems (TPS), May 2018 (TPS highly cited paper in the topic of control for power systems.) . IEEE Xplore
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Kangcheng Liu, Aoran Xiao, and Shijian Lu. D-LC-Nets: Robust Denoising and Loop Closing Networks for LiDAR-SLAM in Complicated Circumstances with Noisy Point Clouds. 2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS). (Oral) IEEE Xplore
Systematic Codebase of DLC-LiDAR-SLAM_v1.6.
Preliminary Codebase of LiDAR-SLAM_v1.2.

Kangcheng Liu, A LiDAR-Inertial-Visual SLAM System with Loop Detection . Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS), Workshops, 2021 (Oral) .

Kangcheng Liu, Learning-Based Defect Recognitions for Autonomous UAV Inspections . Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS), Workshops, 2020 (Oral) .

Kangcheng Liu, An Enhanced LiDAR-Inertial SLAM System for Robotics Localization and Mapping . International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Workshops, 2019 (Oral) .

Kangcheng Liu, A Light-Weight LiDAR-Inertial SLAM System with Loop Closing . International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Workshops, 2020 (Oral) .

Kangcheng Liu, Xiaodong Han, and Ben M. Chen. Deep Learning Based Automatic Crack Detection and Segmentation for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Inspections. 2019 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO), (Oral) IEEE Xplore
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Kangcheng Liu, Zhi Gao, Feng Lin, and Ben M. Chen. Fast Large-Scale LiDAR Point Clouds Understanding Network Leveraging Correlated Feature Mining and Geometric-Aware Modelling. IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics (T-CYB), December 2020, IF in 2021: 19.118. IEEE Xplore
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Kangcheng Liu, and Ben M. Chen. An Integrated Visual System for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Following Ground Vehicles: Simulations and Experiments. 2022 International Conference on Control and Automation (ICCA), 2022 (Oral) . IEEE Xplore
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Kangcheng Liu, and Ben M. Chen. An Enhanced LiDAR Inertial Localization and Mapping System for Unmanned Ground Vehicles. . 2022 International Conference on Control and Automation (ICCA), 2022 (Oral) . IEEE Xplore
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Kangcheng Liu, Guidong Yang, and Ben M. Chen. Datasets and Methods for Boosting Infrastructure Inspection: A Survey on Defect Segmentation and Detection. 2022 International Conference on Control and Automation (ICCA), 2022. IEEE Xplore
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Kangcheng Liu, Guidong Yang, and Ben M. Chen. Datasets and Methods for Boosting Infrastructure Inspection: A Survey on Defect Classification. . 2022 International Conference on Control and Automation (ICCA), 2022. IEEE Xplore
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Kangcheng Liu, Guidong Yang, and Ben M. Chen. [ Datasets and processing methods for boosting visual inspection of civil infrastructure: A comprehensive review and algorithm comparison for crack classification, segmentation, and detection. ]. Construction and Building Materials, 2022.
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Kangcheng Liu, Semi-Supervised Confidence-Level-based Contrastive Discrimination for Class Imbalanced Semantic Segmentation. . 2022 IEEE International Conference on CYBER Technology in Automation, Control, and Intelligent Systems (CYBER), 2022. IEEE Xplore
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Kangcheng Liu, A Robust and Efficient LiDAR-Inertial-Visual Fused Simultaneous Localization and Mapping System with Loop Closure. 2022 IEEE International Conference on CYBER Technology in Automation, Control, and Intelligent Systems (CYBER), 2022. IEEE Xplore
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Kangcheng Liu, A Light-Weight LiDAR-Inertial SLAM System with High Efficiency and Loop Closure Detection Capacity. . 2022 IEEE International Conference on Advanced Robotics and Mechatronics (ICARM), 2022. IEEE Xplore
Codes of LiDAR-SLAM. Codes of Compared Works.

Yuzhi Zhao, Lai-Man Po, Kangcheng Liu, Xuehui Wang, Win-Yin Yu. SVCNet: Real-time Scribble-based Video Colorization with Pyramid Networks. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 2023.

Yuzhi Zhao, Lai-Man Po, Tingyu Lin, Xuehui Wang, Kangcheng Liu, et al. Legacy Photo Editing with Learned Noise Prior. IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), Oral, 2021. CVF Open Access
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Muqing Cao, Kun Cao, Shenghai Yuan, Kangcheng Liu, et al. Path Planning for Multiple Tethered Robots Using Topological Braids. . Proceedings of Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS), 2023.

Kangcheng Liu, A LiDAR-Inertial-Visual SLAM System with Loop Detection . Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS), Workshops, 2021 (Oral) .

Kangcheng Liu, Learning-Based Defect Recognitions for Autonomous UAV Inspections . Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS), Workshops, 2020 (Oral) .

Kangcheng Liu, An Enhanced LiDAR-Inertial SLAM System for Robotics Localization and Mapping . International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Workshops, 2019 (Oral) .

Kangcheng Liu, A Light-Weight LiDAR-Inertial SLAM System with Loop Closing . International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Workshops, 2020 (Oral) .

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