Spatial Intelligence · Embodied Intelligence · Autonomous Systems

Tongji Intelligence, Embodiment and Vision Lab (TIEV)

I am a tenured Associate Professor in the School of Computer Science and Technology at Tongji University. My research focuses on spatial and embodied intelligence, with memory mechanisms as a unifying theme.

Our work spans spatiotemporal reconstruction, foundation models, continual learning, reinforcement learning, safe decision-making, intelligent agents, and robotic systems. We study how memory helps these systems understand changing environments, learn from experience, and act safely over the long term.

  • Spatiotemporal reconstruction and spatial memory
  • Foundation models and continual learning
  • Reinforcement learning and safe decision-making
  • Intelligent agents and robotic systems

Publications

Selected Papers from the Last Five Years

MutualVPR: A Mutual Learning Framework for Resolving Supervision Inconsistencies via Adaptive Clustering

Qiwen Gu, Xufei Wang, Junqiao Zhao*, Siyue Tao, Tiantian Feng, Ziqiao Wang and Guang Chen

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2025), 2025.

TL;DR: Introduces a mutual-learning place-recognition framework that jointly refines image descriptors and adaptive clusters to reduce supervision inconsistency from viewpoint changes and occlusion.

CERTAIN: Context Uncertainty-aware One-Shot Adaptation for Context-based Offline Meta Reinforcement Learning

Hongtu Zhou, Ruiling Yang, Yakun Zhu, Haoqi Zhao, Hai Zhang, Di Zhang, Junqiao Zhao*, Chen Ye and Changjun Jiang

International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2025), 2025.

TL;DR: Models uncertainty in context representations and uses it to selectively gather task context for improved one-shot adaptation in offline meta-RL.

MU-GeNeRF: Multi-view Uncertainty-guided Generalizable Neural Radiance Fields for Distractor-aware Scene

Wenjie Mu, Zhan Li, Chuanzhou Su, Xuanyi Shen, Ziniu Liu, Fan Lu, Yujian Mo, Junqiao Zhao*, Tiantian Feng, Chen Ye and Guang Chen

The IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2026, Denver, Colorado, 2026.

TL;DR: Proposes an uncertainty capture mechanism in generalizable NeRF for dynamic distractor scenes, enabling robust feedforward 3D reconstruction in such scenarios.

Potentially Optimal Joint Actions Recognition for Cooperative Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

Chang Huang, Shatong Zhu, Junqiao Zhao*, Hongtu Zhou, Hai Zhang, Di Zhang, Chen Ye, Ziqiao Wang and Guang Chen

International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2026), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2026.

TL;DR: Identifies potentially optimal joint actions and adaptively adjusts training weights to improve convergence and policy recovery in cooperative multi-agent reinforcement learning.

Beyond Penalization: Diffusion-based Out-of-Distribution Detection and Selective Regularization in Offline Reinforcement Learning

Qingjun Wang, Hongtu Zhou, Hang Yu, Junqiao Zhao*, Yanping Zhao, Chen Ye, Ziqiao Wang and Guang Chen

International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2026), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2026.

TL;DR: Uses diffusion models to detect out-of-distribution actions and selectively regularize them while preserving beneficial actions.

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Papers by Wenjie Mu, Ziniu Liu, and Qiwen Gu Accepted by NeurIPS 2026!