Chang Xu

ECEO lab, EPFL

Contact: chang.xu@epfl.ch

Github: Chasel-Tsui

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I'm currently a Phd candidate (2024-) of the ECEO lab at EPFL, supervised by Prof. Devis Tuia. During my doctoral study, my research will focus on multi-modal and climate foundation model. Prior to that, I obtained my Bacholar's and Master's degrees both in Electronic Information School, Wuhan University. I was honored to be supervised by Prof. Wen Yang, who guided me onto the journey of scientific research and helped me harvest a bunch of research experience and outcomes on object detection and localization, especially the tiny object detection series.

Recent News

2024

  • 2024-07 One collaborative paper on Cross-view Geo-localization without Ground Truth is accepted by TGRS 2024.
  • 2024-07 One paper on Robust Cross-view Geo-localization is accepted by ECCV 2024.
  • 2024-03 Two works on Aerial Object Tracking under Darkness and Occlusion are accepted by IGARSS 2024.
  • 2024-03 Our work on Aerial Object Tracking with Similar Object Distraction is accepted by ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing.
  • 2023

  • 2023-11 Our work on Aerial Object Tracking is accepted by IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing.
  • 2023-08 Our work on Drone-based RGBT Person Detection is accepted by ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing.
  • 2023-05 I got the best presentation award from ICDIP 2023.
  • 2023-05 I got the travel award from CVPR2023, unfortunately, my visa application to Canada was rejected :(
  • 2023-04 I will go to EPFL, Switzerland for summer internship, I am looking forward to it very much!
  • 2023-04 One collaborative work on Fast-moving Event-based Object Detection is accepted by IEEE TIM.
  • 2023-03 The work on Oriented Tiny Object Detection is accepted by CVPR 2023.
  • 2022

  • 2022-07 The work on Generic Tiny Object Detection is accepted by ECCV 2022.
  • 2022-06 The work on Tiny Object Detection Dataset, Benchmark and Method is accepted by ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing.
  • 2021-04 The work on Aerial Tiny Object Detection is accepted by EarthVision 2021.

  • Educations

    • Phd Candidate, 2024-
      EPFL, Switzerland
    • Exchange Master Student, 2023
      EPFL, Switzerland
    • M.Sc in Communication and Information System, 2021-2024
      Wuhan University, China
    • Winter School, 2020
      University of Oxford, the UK
    • B.Sc in Electronic Information Engineering, 2017-2021
      Wuhan University, China

    Selected Publications

    (* Equal Contribution, # Corresponding Author)

    Tiny Object Detection

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    Oriented Tiny Object Detection: A Dataset, Benchmark, and Dynamic Unbiased Learning. [Paper] [Code]

    Chang Xu, Ruixiang Zhang, Wen Yang#, Haoran Zhu, Fang Xu, Jian Ding, Gui-song Xia.

    arxiv, 2024

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    Dynamic Coarse-to-Fine Learning for Oriented Tiny Object Detection. [Paper] [Code]

    Chang Xu, Jian Ding, Jinwang Wang, Wen Yang#, Huai Yu, Lei Yu#, Gui-song Xia.

    CVPR, 2023

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    RFLA: Gaussian Repective Field based Label Assignment for Tiny Object Detection. [Paper] [Code]

    Chang Xu, Jinwang Wang, Wen Yang#, Huai Yu, Lei Yu, Gui-song Xia.

    ECCV, 2022

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    Detecting Tiny Objects in Aerial Images: A Normalized Wasserstein Distance and A New benchmark. [Paper] [Code]

    Chang Xu*, Jinwang Wang*, Wen Yang#, Huai Yu, Lei Yu, Gui-song Xia.

    ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 2022

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    Dot Distance for Tiny Object Detection in Aerial Images. [Paper] [Code]

    Chang Xu*, Jinwang Wang*, Wen Yang, Lei Yu.

    EarthVision (CVPRW), 2021

    Multi-modal Object Detection

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    Drone-based RGBT Tiny Person Detection. [Paper] [Code]

    Yan Zhang*, Chang Xu*, Wen Yang#, Guangjun He, Huai Yu, Lei Yu, Gui-song Xia.

    ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 2023

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    Motion Robust High-Speed Light-Weighted Object Detection with Event Camera. [Paper] [Code]

    Bingde Liu, Chang Xu, Wen Yang#, Huai Yu, Lei Yu.

    IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation & Measurement, 2023

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    Detecting Every Object from Events. [Paper] [Code]

    Haitian Zhang, Chang Xu, Xinya Wang, Bingde Liu, Guang Hua, Lei Yu, Wen Yang#.

    arxiv, 2024

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    Frequency-Adaptive Low-Latency Object Detection Using Events and Frames. [Paper] [Code]

    Haitian Zhang, Xiangyuan Wang, Chang Xu, Xinya Wang, Fang Xu, Huai Yu, Lei Yu, Wen Yang#.

    arxiv, 2024

    Label-efficient Object Detection

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    Robust Tiny Object Detection in Aerial Images amidst Label Noise. [Paper] [Code]

    Haoran Zhu*, Chang Xu*, Wen Yang#, Ruixiang Zhang, Yan Zhang, Gui-Song Xia.

    arxiv, 2024

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    Tiny Object Detection with Single Point Supervision. [Paper] [Code]

    Haoran Zhu, Chang Xu, Ruixiang Zhang, Fang Xu, Wen Yang#, Haijian Zhang, Gui-Song Xia.

    arxiv, 2024

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    Rethinking Scale Imbalance in Semi-supervised Object Detection for Aerial Images. [Paper] [Code]

    Ruixiang Zhang, Chang Xu, Fang Xu, Wen Yang#, Guangjun He, Huai Yu, Gui-Song Xia.

    arxiv, 2023

    Cross-view Geo-localization

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    ConGeo: Robust Cross-view Geo-localization across Ground View Variations. [Paper] [Code]

    Li Mi*, Chang Xu*,#, Javiera Castillo-Navarro, Syrielle Montariol, Wen Yang, Antoine Bosselut, Devis Tuia.

    ECCV, 2024

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    Learning Cross-view Visual Geo-localization without Ground Truth. [Paper] [Code]

    Haoyuan Li, Chang Xu, Wen Yang#, Huai Yu, Gui-Song Xia.

    IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 2024.

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    Unsupervised Multi-view UAV Image Geo-localization via Iterative Rendering. [Paper] [Code]

    Haoyuan Li, Chang Xu, Wen Yang#, Li Mi, Huai Yu, Gui-Song Xia.

    arxiv, 2024.

    Aerial Tracking

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    A3Track: Achieving Precise Aerial Tracking with Receptive Field Alignment. [Paper] [Code]

    Xu Lei, Chang Xu, Wensheng Chen, Wen Yang#, Gui-song Xia.

    IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 2023

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    Joint target and background temporal propagation for aerial tracking. [Paper] [Code]

    Xu Lei, Chang Xu, Wensheng Chen, Wen Yang#.

    ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 2024

    Awards

    • Outstanding Graduate Thesis, 2021
      Top 5%
      Wuhan University
    • Hubei Translation Final Contest, 2020
      Second Prize
      Hubei, China
    • National Undergraduate Electronic Design Contest (Hubei), 2019
      First Prize
      Hubei, China