Biography

Boying Li is currently a Research Fellow at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, working with Prof. JianFei Cai. Her research also involves close collaboration with Prof. Ian Reid. She obtained her Ph.D. degree from Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) in 2023, Shanghai, China, under the supervision of Prof. Wenxian Yu and Prof. Danping Zou. Her research interests include 3D computer vision, robotics, Embodied AI, Generative AI, including SLAM (Simultaneous Localization And Mapping), 3D reconstruction.

Open to collaboration with undergraduate and graduate students, and researchers. I am always looking for motivated Master’s and PhD candidates, please feel free to contact me via email at boying.li@monash.edu.

News:

• Our paper accepted for ECCV’26 !
• Our paper accepted for CVPR’26 !
• Our paper accepted for NeurIPS’25 !
• Our paper accepted for RAL !
• Serving as Associate Editor (AE) for IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS’25) !
• Our paper accepted for ICRA’25 !
• National Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation by China Education Society of Electronics (CESE, Nomination Award) !

Contact:

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Publications [Google Scholar]

• VIEW2SPACE: Studying Multi-View Visual Reasoning from Sparse Observations. [Paper]
  Fucai Ke, Zhixi Cai, Boying Li, Long Chen, Beibei Lin, Weiqing Wang, Pari Delir Haghighi, Gholamreza Haffari, Hamid Rezatofighi.
  European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2026.

• Unified Camera Positional Encoding for Controlled Video Generation. [Paper] [Code]
  Cheng Zhang, Boying Li, Meng Wei, Yan-Pei Cao, Camilo Cruz Gambardella, Dinh Phung, Jianfei Cai.
  *The IEEE / CVF Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR), 2026.

• PlanarGS: High‐Fidelity Indoor 3D Gaussian Splatting Guided by Vision–Language Planar Priors. [Paper] [Code]
  Xirui Jin, Renbiao Jin, Boying Li, Danping Zou, Wenxian Yu.
  The Thirty-Ninth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2025.

• Hier-SLAM++: Neuro-Symbolic Semantic SLAM with a Hierarchically Categorical Gaussian Splatting. [Paper] [Code]
  Boying Li, Vuong Chi Hao, Peter J. Stuckey, Ian Reid, and Hamid Rezatofighi
  Arxiv, 2025.

• Hier-SLAM: Scaling-up Semantics in SLAM with a Hierarchically Categorical Gaussian Splatting. [Paper] [Code]
  Boying Li, Zhixi, Cai, Yuan-Fang Li, Ian Reid, and Hamid Rezatofighi
  IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA). 2025

• NEUSIS: A Compositional Neuro-Symbolic Framework for Autonomous Perception, Reasoning, and Planning in Complex UAV Search Missions [Paper]
  Zhixi Cai, Cristian Rojas Cardenas, Kevin Leo, Chenyuan Zhang, Kal Backman, Hanbing Li, Boying Li, Mahsa Ghorbanali, Stavya Datta, Lizhen Qu, Julian Gutierrez Santiago, Alexey Ignatiev, Yuan-Fang Li, Mor Vered, Peter J Stuckey, Maria Garcia de la Banda, Hamid Rezatofighi
  IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RAL), 2025

• TextSLAM: Visual SLAM with Semantic Planar Text Features. [Paper] [Code] [Dataset] [Evaluation tool]
  Boying Li, Danping Zou, Yuan Huang, Xinghan Niu, Ling Pei, Wenxian Yu
  IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI). 2023

• StructDepth: Leveraging the structural regularities for self-supervised indoor depth estimation. [Paper] [Code]
  Boying Li, Yuan Huang, Zeyu Liu, Danping Zou, Wenxian Yu
  IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV). 2021

• TextSLAM: Visual SLAM with Planar Text Features. [Paper]
  Boying Li, Danping Zou, Daniele Sartori, Ling Pei, Wenxian Yu
  IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA). 2020

• Ship Size Extraction for Sentinel-1 Images Based on Dual-Polarization Fusion and Nonlinear Regression: Push Error Under One Pixel. [Paper]
  Boying Li, Bin Liu, Weiwei Guo, Zenghui Zhang, Wenxian Yu
  IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (TGRS). 2018

• OpenSARShip 2.0: A large-volume dataset for deeper interpretation of ship targets in Sentinel-1 imagery. [Paper]
  Boying Li, Bin Liu, Lanqing Huang, Weiwei Guo, Zenghui Zhang, Wenxian Yu
  SAR in Big Data Era: Models, Methods and Applications (BIGSARDATA). 2017

• Ship Geometric Information Extraction for Sentinel-1 Dual-Polarization Images. [Paper]
  Boying Li, Bin Liu, Weiwei Guo, Zenghui Zhang and Wenxian Yu
  Science and Technology Review. 2017

• OpenSARShip: A dataset dedicated to Sentinel-1 ship interpretation. [Paper]
  Lanqing Huang, Bin Liu, Boying Li, Weiwei Guo, Wenhao Yu, Zenghui Zhang, Wenxian Yu
  IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing. 2017

• Ship Characterization and Analyses in Sentinel-1 Imagery Based on a Large and Open Dataset. [Paper]
  Lanqing Huang, Boying Li, Bin Liu, Weiwei Guo, Zenghui Zhang, Wenxian Yu
  Advances in SAR Remote Sensing of Oceans. 2018

Research Experience

• Advanced Neuro Symbolic Learning and Reasoning   2023 - Now
• 3D Computer Vision   2020 - Now
• Intelligent Robotics   2018 - Now
• Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Remote Sensing Image Interpretation   2016 - 2018

Academic Experience

• Associate Editors (AE) for IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS’25)
• Reviewer for:
• IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI)
• IEEE Transactions on Robotics (TRO)
• IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)
• The IEEE / CVF Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR)
• The European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)
• Conference and Workshop on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)
• IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
• IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
• The International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)

Teaching Assistant and Volunteer Experience

• Teaching Assistant [2018 - 2020]: Remote Sensing, GPS and GIS Techniques.
• Popular Science [2018 - 2021]: Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, Navigation and Computer Vision.
• Chief Umpire [2018]: 2nd National Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Intelligent Sensing Technology Competition.

Selected Honors

• National Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation by China Education Society of Electronics (CESE, Nomination Award)
• OUTSTANDING GRADUATE of Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
• National Scholarship (2 times), Top 2%.
• Second Prize of National Mathematical Modeling Contest.