Hi, I am Jiancheng Pan, a Ph.D. student at Tsinghua University. My research focuses on
computer vision, multimodal learning, multimodal large language models and unified models for real-world applications
in Earth science, medicine, and robotics, etc. I have published papers at CVPR, AAAI, ACM MM, and KDD,
including a CVPR 2026 Highlight and a
KDD 2026 Best Paper Award.
Before that, I received my Master's degree from Zhejiang University of Technology under the supervision
of Prof. Cong Bai.
During the same period, I spent two years at Tsinghua University as a Visiting Research Student under
the supervision of Prof. Xiaomeng Huang.
Prior to my Ph.D. studies, I was a Visiting Researcher at
INSAIT, Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”, working with
Prof. Luc Van Gool
and Dr. Danda Paudel.
News
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Aug 2026
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Aug 2026
Our KDD 2026 paper won the Best Paper Award 🏆 (AI4Science Track). NEW
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Jul 2026
Two papers were accepted by
ACM MM 2026 (CCF-A). Congrats to coauthors.
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Jul 2026
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Jun 2026
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May 2026
Gave an
AI TIME CVPR 2026 pre-conference talk on 3D Vision & Physical Perception.
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May 2026
One paper was accepted by
KDD 2026 (Oral, CCF-A). Congrats to Xiao.
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May 2026
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Apr 2026
One paper was selected for a poster presentation at
VALSE 2026 in Wuhan.
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Mar 2026
One paper was accepted by
IGARSS 2026 (Oral). Congrats to Jiahao.
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Feb 2026
One paper was accepted by
CVPR 2026 (Highlight, CCF-A).
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Jan 2026
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Nov 2025
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Oct 2025
One paper was accepted by
AAAI 2026 (IAAI, CCF-A). Congrats to Yuze.
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Oct 2025
One paper was accepted by
IEEE GRSL. Congrats to Yanxing.
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Oct 2025
One abstract was accepted by
AGU 2025 in New Orleans, LA (Oral).
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Sep 2025
Our project was selected for the TeleAI Young Researchers Computing Program (青年智算计划首批入选项目, 仅 10 项入选).
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Sep 2025
Honored as Graduate Academic Star (研究生学术之星, Only 10/13,000+).
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Apr 2025
One paper was selected for a poster presentation at
VALSE 2025 in Zhuhai.
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Apr 2025
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Apr 2025
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Mar 2025
🏆 Runner-up in the NTIRE 2025 Challenge as team leader, at the CVPR 2025.
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Mar 2025
Two papers were accepted by
IGARSS 2025. Congrats to Yanxing and Jiahao.
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Dec 2024
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Nov 2024
Awarded the National Scholarship (国家奖学金, Top 1.05%, Ranking 7/664).
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Oct 2024
One abstract was accepted by
AGU 2024 in Washington, D.C. (Oral).
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Apr 2024
One paper was accepted by
IEEE TGRS (CCF-B, IF=7.5).
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Oct 2023
Awarded the National Scholarship (国家奖学金, Top 0.2%, Ranking 1/615).
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Jul 2023
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Apr 2023
Received the ICMR Travel Scholarship (USD 2,000).
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Apr 2023
Awards
KDD 2026 Best Paper Award (最佳论文奖, AI4Science Track)
TeleAI Young Researchers Computing Program (青年智算计划首批入选项目, 仅 10 项入选)
Graduate Academic Star of Zhejiang University of Technology (研究生学术之星, Only 10/13,000+)
INSAIT Graduate Research Fellowship (GRF Scholarship, ~€18,000, Bulgaria)
Runner-up, NTIRE 2025 CD-FSOD Challenge at CVPR 2025
National Scholarship (国家奖学金, Top 1.05%, 7/664)
National Scholarship (国家奖学金, Top 0.2%, 1/615)
ACM SIGMM/ICMR Travel Scholarship ($2,000, Thessaloniki, Greece)
Publications and Preprints
* Equal contribution;
† Corresponding author.
GeoChrono: Benchmarking and Rethinking Long-Term Temporal Understanding in Remote Sensing
Yujie Li, Jiancheng Pan, Zhiwei Wei, Jiuniu Wang, Mugen Peng, Wenjia Xu†
ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM), 2026
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Self in Space: Benchmarking Self-Awareness and Spatial Cognition in UAV Embodied Intelligence
Zhishan Zou, Guoyan Sun, Zhiwei Wei, Jiancheng Pan, Yujie Li, Mugen Peng, Wenjia Xu†
ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM), 2026
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Epistemic-aware Vision-Language Foundation Model for Fetal Ultrasound Interpretation
Xiao He*, Huangxuan Zhao*†, Guojia Wan, Jiancheng Pan, Yanxing Liu, Xin Zou, Yong Luo, Yongchao Xu, Juhua Liu, Wei Zhou, Dacheng Tao, Bo Du†
ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), 2026,
Best Paper Award (AI4Science Track, only 4 Tracks)
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SegThinker: Recurrent Vision with Reasoning for Image Segmentation
Yuedong Tan, Jiancheng Pan, Yuqian Fu, Jiawei Shao, Radu Timofte, Luc Van Gool, Danda Pani Paudel, Zongwei Wu
Preprint, 2025
V²-SAM: Marrying SAM2 with Multi-Prompt Experts for Cross-View Object Correspondence
Jiancheng Pan*, Runze Wang*, Tianwen Qian, Mohammad Mahdi, Yanwei Fu, Xiangyang Xue, Xiaomeng Huang, Luc Van Gool, Danda Pani Paudel, Yuqian Fu†
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2026,
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EarthSynth: Generating Informative Earth Observation with Diffusion Models
Jiancheng Pan*, Shiye Lei*, Yuqian Fu†, Jiahao Li, Yanxing Liu, Yuze Sun, Xiao He, Long Peng, Xiaomeng Huang†, Bo Zhao†
Preprint, 2025
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Locate Anything on Earth: Advancing Open-Vocabulary Object Detection for Remote Sensing Community
Jiancheng Pan*, Yanxing Liu*, Yuqian Fu†, Muyuan Ma, Jiahao Li, Danda Pani Paudel, Luc Van Gool, Xiaomeng Huang†
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2025
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A Prior Instruction Representation Framework for Remote Sensing Image-text Retrieval
Jiancheng Pan, Qing Ma, Cong Bai†
ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM), 2023,
Oral Presentation
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Reducing Semantic Confusion: Scene-aware Aggregation Network for Remote Sensing Cross-modal Retrieval
Jiancheng Pan, Qing Ma†, Cong Bai
ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (ICMR), 2023,
Oral Presentation
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Projects
Global Infrastructure emissions Detector (GID, 碳甄)
Organized by
Tsinghua University
GID tracks global emission sources, analyzes their temporal and spatial patterns, and provides tools
for Earth science research.
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AGG: AI-Generated Gameverse
Biao Gong, Qiyuan Zhang, Shuai Tan, Zheng Zhang, Hengyuan Cao,
Jiancheng Pan, Xing Zhu, Yujun Shen
AGG aims to build an AI-native foundation for both game creation and play, targeting researchers
shaped by deep learning paradigms.
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Research Experiences
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2026.01 - Present
Research Intern, Interactive Intelligence Lab, Ant Research
Hangzhou, China
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2025.06 - 2026.01
Visiting Researcher, INSAIT, Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”
Sofia, Bulgaria
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2024.04 - 2024.08
Algorithm Intern, Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Shanghai, China
Education
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2026.08 - Present
Ph.D. Student, Tsinghua University
Supervised by Prof. Xiaomeng Huang
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2023.08 - 2025.06
Visiting Research Student (访问学生), Tsinghua University
Supervised by Prof. Xiaomeng Huang
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2022.08 - 2025.06
M.S. Student, Zhejiang University of Technology
Supervised by Prof. Cong Bai
Talks and Presentations
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2026.08
Scientific Foundation Models
KDD 2026 Oral Presentation, Jeju, South Korea - Best Paper Award
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2026.05
3D Vision & Physical Perception
AI TIME CVPR 2026 Pre-Conference Talk, Online
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2025.12
Advancing Machine Learning for Remote Sensing: Overcoming Data Scarcity and Domain Shift Challenges
AGU Fall Meeting, Online
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2025.06
NTIRE Cross-Domain Few-Shot Object Detection Challenge
CVPR 2025 NTIRE Workshop Oral Presentation, Online
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2024.12
Advancing Machine Learning for Remote Sensing: Overcoming Data Scarcity and Domain Shift Challenges
AGU Fall Meeting, Washington, D.C., USA
Academic Service
Workshop organizer: Open Source GeoAI Practice at IEEE AP-GARSS 2026; 2nd NTIRE CD-FSOD Challenge at CVPR 2026.
Conference reviewer / PC member: KDD 2026-2027, AAAI 2026-2027, NeurIPS UniReps 2024-2025, ACM MM 2024-2026, ACM ICMR 2024-2026, ECCV 2026, and GAIA 2025.
Journal reviewer: Information Fusion, Pattern Recognition, IEEE TMM, IEEE TIP, IEEE TGRS, IEEE TCSVT, IEEE TIFS, Journal of Remote Sensing, and International Journal of Digital Earth.
Memberships (including past): ACM SIGMM, IEEE, IEEE GRSS, CSIG, and AGU.
