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Tong Zhao

PhD candidate


I am Tong Zhao, pursuing Ph.D. degree at the School of Vehicle and Mobility, Tsinghua University, under the supervision of Prof. Yintao Wei. I am a visiting student at the MSC Lab in UC Berkeley, under the supervision of Prof. Masayoshi Tomizuka. I received my Bachelor degree from Xiamen University (XMU) in 2020.

My research topics include environment perception especially road surface conditions for unmanned ground vehicles, aiming at safer and more comfortable autonomous driving. I am interested in 3D vision technologies, with their applications in practical engineering tasks.

Education

School of Vehicle and Mobility, Tsinghua University (Beijing, China)   08/2020 - present
Ph.D. candidate in Automotive Engineering

EE, Xiamen University (Xiamen, China)   09/2016 - 06/2020
B.Eng. in Electronic Information Science and Technology GPA: 3.74/4.0, Ranking: 2/69

Publications

Preprint

  1. T. Zhao, C.F. Xu, M.Y. Ding, M Tomizuka, and Y.T. Wei, “RSRD: A road surface reconstruction dataset and benchmark for safe and comfortable autonomous driving”, 2023. [arXiv] [Website]
  2. T. Zhao, M.Y. Ding, W. Zhan, M. Tomizuka, and Y.T. Wei, “Depth-aware Volume Attention for Texture-less Stereo Matching”, 2024. [arXiv] [Code]
  3. T. Zhao, L. Yang, Y.C. Xie, M.Y. Ding, M. Tomizuka, and Y.T. Wei, “RoadBEV: Road Surface Reconstruction in Bird’s Eye View”, 2024. [arXiv] [Code]

Selected Published Papers

  1. T. Zhao, J.X. He, J.C. Lv, D.L. Min, and Y.T. Wei, “A comprehensive implementation of road surface classification for vehicle driving assistance: Dataset, models, and deployment” IEEE Trans. Intell. Transp. Syst., 2023. [Paper] [Website]
  2. T. Zhao, P.L. Guo, J.X. He, and Y.T. Wei, “A Hierarchical Scheme of Road Unevenness Perception with LiDAR for Autonomous Driving Comfort”, IEEE Trans. Intell. Veh., 2024. [Paper] [Website]
  3. T. Zhao, P.L. Guo, and Y.T. Wei, “Road friction estimation based on vision for safe autonomous driving”, Mech. Syst. Signal Proc., 2024. [Paper]
  4. T. Zhao, Y.T. Wei, “A road surface image dataset with detailed annotations for driving assistance applications”, Data in Brief, 2022. [Paper]
  5. G.Q. Liang, T. Zhao, N.F. Li, J.C. Lv, Y.C. Du, and Y.T. Wei, “Experimental study of road identification by LSTM with application to adaptive suspension damping control”, Mech. Syst. Signal Proc., 2022. [Paper]
  6. G.Q. Liang, T. Zhao, Y, Wang, and Y.T. Wei, “Road unevenness identification based on LSTM network”, Automot. Eng, 2021.

Academic Service

  • Reviewer for IEEE TITS, IEEE TIV, IEEE TVT, Sci. Rep., EAAI, ESWA, KBS …