Portrait of Jiancheng Pan

Jiancheng Pan (潘建成)

Ph.D. student, Tsinghua University

About Me

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

  • Aug 2026
    One paper was accepted by the ECCV 2026 Workshop (HCMIW). NEW
  • Aug 2026
    Our KDD 2026 paper won the Best Paper Award 🏆 (AI4Science Track). NEW
  • Jul 2026
    Two papers were accepted by ACM MM 2026 (CCF-A). Congrats to coauthors.
  • Jul 2026
    Open Source GeoAI Practice Challenge (CNY 30,000) with ModelScope and the IEEE GRSS Beijing Student Chapter at IEEE AP-GARSS 2026.
  • Jun 2026
    Call for papers: Open Source GeoAI Practice with ModelScope at IEEE AP-GARSS 2026 in Qingdao.
  • May 2026
    Gave an AI TIME CVPR 2026 pre-conference talk on 3D Vision & Physical Perception.
  • May 2026
    One paper was accepted by KDD 2026 (Oral, CCF-A). Congrats to Xiao.
  • May 2026
    One CVPR 2026 paper was invited to the EgoVis Workshop at CVPR 2026.
  • Apr 2026
    One paper was selected for a poster presentation at VALSE 2026 in Wuhan.
  • Mar 2026
    One paper was accepted by IGARSS 2026 (Oral). Congrats to Jiahao.
  • Feb 2026
    One paper was accepted by CVPR 2026 (Highlight, CCF-A).
  • Jan 2026
    We are hosting the NTIRE Cross-Domain Few-Shot Object Detection Challenge at a CVPR 2026 workshop.
  • Nov 2025
    One paper was accepted by the AAAI 2026 Workshop (AI4UP). Congrats to Jiahao.
  • Oct 2025
    One paper was accepted by AAAI 2026 (IAAI, CCF-A). Congrats to Yuze.
  • Oct 2025
    One paper was accepted by IEEE GRSL. Congrats to Yanxing.
  • Oct 2025
    One abstract was accepted by AGU 2025 in New Orleans, LA (Oral).
  • Sep 2025
    Our project was selected for the TeleAI Young Researchers Computing Program (TeleAI 青年智算计划首批入选项目, 仅 10 项入选).
  • Sep 2025
    Honored as Graduate Academic Star (研究生学术之星, Only 10/13,000+).
  • Jul 2025
    I officially joined Sofia University as a Visiting Researcher (Bulgaria).
  • Jun 2025
    Honored as an Outstanding Graduate (浙江省优秀毕业生, China).
  • Apr 2025
    One paper was selected for a poster presentation at VALSE 2025 in Zhuhai.
  • Apr 2025
    One paper was accepted by the CVPR 2025 Workshop (NTIRE 2025 Challenge).
  • Apr 2025
    Received the INSAIT Graduate Research Fellowship (INSAIT GRF).
  • Mar 2025
    🏆 Runner-up in the NTIRE 2025 Challenge as team leader, at the CVPR 2025.
  • Mar 2025
    Two papers were accepted by IGARSS 2025. Congrats to Yanxing and Jiahao.
  • Dec 2024
    One paper was accepted by AAAI 2025 (CCF-A).
  • Nov 2024
    Awarded the National Scholarship (国家奖学金, Top 1.05%, Ranking 7/664).
  • Oct 2024
    One abstract was accepted by AGU 2024 in Washington, D.C. (Oral).
  • Apr 2024
    One paper was accepted by IEEE TGRS (CCF-B, IF=7.5).
  • Oct 2023
    Awarded the National Scholarship (国家奖学金, Top 0.2%, Ranking 1/615).
  • Jul 2023
    One paper was accepted by ACM MM 2023 (CCF-A, Oral).
  • Apr 2023
    Received the ICMR Travel Scholarship (USD 2,000).
  • Apr 2023
    One paper was accepted by ACM ICMR 2023 (CCF-B, Oral).

Awards

  • KDD 2026 Best Paper Award (最佳论文奖, AI4Science Track)
  • TeleAI Young Researchers Computing Program (TeleAI 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 long-term remote sensing sequence from 2011 to 2023
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
project page / paper / code
SIS-Bench UAV urban square animated demo
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
project page / paper / code
FetalMind fetal ultrasound animated demo
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)
project page / paper / code
Global hydropower infrastructure paper overview
Global hydropower infrastructure and its environmental risks mapped by multimodal AI
Jiahao Li, Jiancheng Pan, Ramit Debnath, Dabo Guan, Xiaomeng Huang
Preprint, 2026
project page / paper / code
SegThinker paper overview
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 animated demo
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
Highlight
project page / paper / code
EarthSynth animated demo
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
project page / paper / code
Locate Anything on Earth animated demo
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
project page / paper / code
DOVE paper overview
Direction-Oriented Visual-semantic Embedding Model for Remote Sensing Image-text Retrieval
Qing Ma*, Jiancheng Pan*, Cong Bai
IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (TGRS), 2024
paper
PIR animated demo
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
paper / code
SWAN paper overview
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
paper / code

Projects

Global Infrastructure emissions Detector project preview
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.
project page / team / release news
AGG AI-Generated Gameverse animated demo
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.
project page / code

Research Experiences

  • 2026.01 - Present
    Research Intern, Interactive Intelligence Lab, Ant Research
    Hangzhou, China
  • 2025.06 - 2026.01
    Visiting Researcher, INSAIT, Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”
    Sofia, Bulgaria
  • 2024.04 - 2024.08
    Algorithm Intern, Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
    Shanghai, China

Education

  • 2026.08 - Present
    Ph.D. Student, Tsinghua University
    Supervised by Prof. Xiaomeng Huang
  • 2023.08 - 2025.06
    Visiting Research Student (访问学生), Tsinghua University
    Supervised by Prof. Xiaomeng Huang
  • 2022.08 - 2025.06
    M.S. Student, Zhejiang University of Technology
    Supervised by Prof. Cong Bai

Talks and Presentations

  • 2026.08
    Scientific Foundation Models
    KDD 2026 Oral Presentation, Jeju, South Korea - Best Paper Award
  • 2026.05
    3D Vision & Physical Perception
    AI TIME CVPR 2026 Pre-Conference Talk, Online
  • 2025.12
    Advancing Machine Learning for Remote Sensing: Overcoming Data Scarcity and Domain Shift Challenges
    AGU Fall Meeting, Online
  • 2025.06
    NTIRE Cross-Domain Few-Shot Object Detection Challenge
    CVPR 2025 NTIRE Workshop Oral Presentation, Online
  • 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.

Contact

For research collaboration or discussion, email me at jiancheng.pan.plus [at] gmail.com.