Zitong Zhan is a Ph.D. student at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE), University at Buffalo (UB). His research interest is SLAM. He has received a Dean’s Fellowship.

Education

Ph.D. in Computer Science
- University at Buffalo (UB), USA
- 2023 - Present
Master of Science in Computer Science
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL
- Aug. 2021 - Aug. 2023
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and in Mathematics
- University of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison, WI
- Aug. 2018 - May 2021

Awards

Dean’s Fellowship

Emails

Personal Email: zitongz@sairlab.org
Institute Email: zzhan4@buffalo.edu

Publications

Bundle Adjustment in the Eager Mode.
Zitong Zhan, Huan Xu, Zihang Fang, Xinpeng Wei, Yaoyu Hu, Chen Wang.
arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.12190, 2024.

SAIR Lab Recommended
```
@article{zhan2024bundle,
  title = {Bundle Adjustment in the Eager Mode},
  author = {Zhan, Zitong and Xu, Huan and Fang, Zihang and Wei, Xinpeng and Hu, Yaoyu and Wang, Chen},
  journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.12190},
  year = {2024},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.12190},
  addendum = {SAIR Lab Recommended}
}
```
```
Zhan, Zitong and Xu, Huan and Fang, Zihang and Wei, Xinpeng and Hu, Yaoyu and Wang, Chen, "Bundle Adjustment in the Eager Mode," arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.12190, 2024.
```
Imperative Learning: A Self-supervised Neural-Symbolic Learning Framework for Robot Autonomy.
Chen Wang, Kaiyi Ji, Junyi Geng, Zhongqiang Ren, Taimeng Fu, Fan Yang, Yifan Guo, Haonan He, Xiangyu Chen, Zitong Zhan, Qiwei Du, Shaoshu Su, Bowen Li, Yuheng Qiu, Yi Du, Qihang Li, Yifan Yang, Xiao Lin, Zhipeng Zhao.
arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.16087, 2024.

SAIR Lab Recommended
```
@article{wang2024imperative,
  title = {Imperative Learning: A Self-supervised Neural-Symbolic Learning Framework for Robot Autonomy},
  author = {Wang, Chen and Ji, Kaiyi and Geng, Junyi and Ren, Zhongqiang and Fu, Taimeng and Yang, Fan and Guo, Yifan and He, Haonan and Chen, Xiangyu and Zhan, Zitong and Du, Qiwei and Su, Shaoshu and Li, Bowen and Qiu, Yuheng and Du, Yi and Li, Qihang and Yang, Yifan and Lin, Xiao and Zhao, Zhipeng},
  journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.16087},
  year = {2024},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.16087},
  code = {https://github.com/sair-lab/iSeries},
  website = {https://sairlab.org/iseries},
  addendum = {SAIR Lab Recommended}
}
```
```
Wang, Chen and Ji, Kaiyi and Geng, Junyi and Ren, Zhongqiang and Fu, Taimeng and Yang, Fan and Guo, Yifan and He, Haonan and Chen, Xiangyu and Zhan, Zitong and Du, Qiwei and Su, Shaoshu and Li, Bowen and Qiu, Yuheng and Du, Yi and Li, Qihang and Yang, Yifan and Lin, Xiao and Zhao, Zhipeng, "Imperative Learning: A Self-supervised Neural-Symbolic Learning Framework for Robot Autonomy," arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.16087, 2024.
```
iMatching: Imperative Correspondence Learning.
Zitong Zhan, Dasong Gao, Yun-Jou Lin, Youjie Xia, Chen Wang.
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2024.

SAIR Lab Recommended
```
@inproceedings{zhan2024imatching,
  title = {{iMatching}: Imperative Correspondence Learning},
  author = {Zhan, Zitong and Gao, Dasong and Lin, Yun-Jou and Xia, Youjie and Wang, Chen},
  booktitle = {European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)},
  year = {2024},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.02141},
  code = {https://github.com/sair-lab/iMatching},
  website = {https://sairlab.org/iMatching},
  addendum = {SAIR Lab Recommended}
}
```
```
Zhan, Zitong and Gao, Dasong and Lin, Yun-Jou and Xia, Youjie and Wang, Chen, "iMatching: Imperative Correspondence Learning," European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2024.
```
PyPose v0.6: The Imperative Programming Interface for Robotics.
Zitong Zhan, Xiangfu Li, Qihang Li, Haonan He, Abhinav Pandey, Haitao Xiao, Yangmengfei Xu, Xiangyu Chen, Kuan Xu, Kun Cao, Zhipeng Zhao, Zihan Wang, Huan Xu, Zihang Fang, Yutian Chen, Wentao Wang, Xu Fang, Yi Du, Tianhao Wu, Xiao Lin, Yuheng Qiu, Fan Yang, Jingnan Shi, Shaoshu Su, Yiren Lu, Taimeng Fu, Karthik Dantu, Jiajun Wu, Lihua Xie, Marco Hutter, Luca Carlone, Sebastian Scherer, Daning Huang, Yaoyu Hu, Junyi Geng, Chen Wang.
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) Workshop, 2023.
```
@inproceedings{zhan2023pypose,
  title = {{PyPose} v0.6: The Imperative Programming Interface for Robotics},
  author = {Zhan, Zitong and Li, Xiangfu and Li, Qihang and He, Haonan and Pandey, Abhinav and Xiao, Haitao and Xu, Yangmengfei and Chen, Xiangyu and Xu, Kuan and Cao, Kun and Zhao, Zhipeng and Wang, Zihan and Xu, Huan and Fang, Zihang and Chen, Yutian and Wang, Wentao and Fang, Xu and Du, Yi and Wu, Tianhao and Lin, Xiao and Qiu, Yuheng and Yang, Fan and Shi, Jingnan and Su, Shaoshu and Lu, Yiren and Fu, Taimeng and Dantu, Karthik and Wu, Jiajun and Xie, Lihua and Hutter, Marco and Carlone, Luca and Scherer, Sebastian and Huang, Daning and Hu, Yaoyu and Geng, Junyi and Wang, Chen},
  year = {2023},
  booktitle = {IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) Workshop},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.13035},
  code = {https://github.com/pypose/pypose},
  video = {https://youtu.be/XDtUDIWuGng},
  website = {https://sairlab.org/pypose/}
}
```
```
Zhan, Zitong and Li, Xiangfu and Li, Qihang and He, Haonan and Pandey, Abhinav and Xiao, Haitao and Xu, Yangmengfei and Chen, Xiangyu and Xu, Kuan and Cao, Kun and Zhao, Zhipeng and Wang, Zihan and Xu, Huan and Fang, Zihang and Chen, Yutian and Wang, Wentao and Fang, Xu and Du, Yi and Wu, Tianhao and Lin, Xiao and Qiu, Yuheng and Yang, Fan and Shi, Jingnan and Su, Shaoshu and Lu, Yiren and Fu, Taimeng and Dantu, Karthik and Wu, Jiajun and Xie, Lihua and Hutter, Marco and Carlone, Luca and Scherer, Sebastian and Huang, Daning and Hu, Yaoyu and Geng, Junyi and Wang, Chen, "PyPose v0.6: The Imperative Programming Interface for Robotics," IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) Workshop, 2023.
```
Transfer of Representations to Video Label Propagation: Implementation Factors Matter.
Daniel McKee, Zitong Zhan, Bing Shuai, Davide Modolo, Joseph Tighe, Svetlana Lazebnik.
arXiv preprint arXiv:2203.05553, 2022.
```
@article{mckee2022transfer,
  title = {Transfer of Representations to Video Label Propagation: Implementation Factors Matter},
  author = {McKee, Daniel and Zhan, Zitong and Shuai, Bing and Modolo, Davide and Tighe, Joseph and Lazebnik, Svetlana},
  journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2203.05553},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/pdf/2203.05553.pdf},
  year = {2022}
}
```
```
McKee, Daniel and Zhan, Zitong and Shuai, Bing and Modolo, Davide and Tighe, Joseph and Lazebnik, Svetlana, "Transfer of Representations to Video Label Propagation: Implementation Factors Matter," arXiv preprint arXiv:2203.05553, 2022.
```
Robust Online Video Instance Segmentation with Track Queries.
Zitong Zhan, Daniel McKee, Svetlana Lazebnik.
arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.09108, 2022.
```
@article{zhan2022robust,
  title = {Robust Online Video Instance Segmentation with Track Queries},
  author = {Zhan, Zitong and McKee, Daniel and Lazebnik, Svetlana},
  journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.09108},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/pdf/2211.09108.pdf},
  year = {2022}
}
```
```
Zhan, Zitong and McKee, Daniel and Lazebnik, Svetlana, "Robust Online Video Instance Segmentation with Track Queries," arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.09108, 2022.
```