Associate Professor, Department of Electromechanical Engineering
Associate Professor (Adjunct), Department of Computer and Information Science
The University of Macau
Email: huikong@um.edu.mo
Office phone number: 853-8822-4362
Mailing address: 5011i, N21 Research Building, the University of Macau, Tapai, Macau SAR, China
Short Bio
Dr. Hui Kong is with the State Key Laboratory of Internet of Things for Smart City (SKL-IOTSC), the Department of Electromechanical Engineering (EME), and the Department of Computer and Information Science (adjunct) of the University of Macau (UM). He obtained his Ph.D. degree (2007, Advisor: Prof. Eam Khwang Teoh) from the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. Previously, he was affiliated with MIT (Research Scientist with Prof. Sanjay Sarma 2011-2014), Ohio State University (Medical Imaging Specialist with Prof. Metin Gurcan, 2010-2011), and Ecole Normale Supereure, Paris (Postdoc with Prof. Jean Ponce, 2008-2010). He is a visiting faculty on the sabbatical leave at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 2025 (host: Prof. Maani Ghaffari). His research areas are sensing and perception for autonomous systems, mobile robotics, SLAM and multiview geometry in computer vision, etc. His research has been supported by the Science and Technology Development Fund of Macau (FDCT), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), and a couple of robotics companies. He has been an associate editor of the International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV) since 2019 and served on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Sensors (2021-2025), and serve as an associate editor (mapping and localization) of ICRA'25 and ICRA'26.
“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.”
― William Aloysius "Bil" Keane
Representative publications (works)
Wei Gao, Jie Zhang, Mingle Zhao, Zhiyuan Zhang, Shu Kong, Maani Ghaffari, Dezhen Song, Cheng-Zhong Xu, and Hui Kong, Super LiDAR Reflectance for Robotic Perception, https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2508.10398, 2025
Yuming Huang, Wei Gao, Zhiyuan Zhang, Maani Ghaffari Jadidi, Dezhen Song, Chengzhong Xu, and Hui Kong, Learning Orientation Field for OSM-Guided Autonomous Navigation, Journal of Field Robotics, 2025
Tian Gao, Zhiyuan Zhang, Yu Zhang, Huajun Liu, Kaijie Yin, Chengzhong Xu, Hui Kong, BHViT: Binarized Hybrid Vision Transformer, IEEE CVPR, 2025
Tianxiao Gao, Mingle Zhao, Cheng-Zhong Xu, and Hui Kong, Night-Voyager: Consistent and Efficient Nocturnal Vision-Aided State Estimation in Object Maps, IEEE Transactions on Robotics (TRO), 2025
Wei Gao, Zezhou Sun, Mingle Zhao, Chengzhong Xu, and Hui Kong, Active Loop Closure for OSM-guided Robotic Mapping in Large-Scale Urban Environment, IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Systems (IROS) , 2024
Mingle Zhao, Jiahao Wang, Tianxiao Gao, Chengzhong Xu, and Hui Kong, Free-Init: Scan-Free, Motion-Free, and Correspondence-Free Initialization for Doppler LiDAR-Inertial Systems, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), 2024
Mingle Zhao, Jiahao Wang, Tianxiao Gao, Chengzhong Xu, and Hui Kong, FMCW-LIO: A Doppler LiDAR-Inertial Odometry, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), 2024
Yuming Huang, Yi Gu, Cheng-Zhong Xu, and Hui Kong, Why semantics matters: A deep study on semantic particle-filtering localization in a LiDAR semantic pole-map, https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.14038, IEEE Transactions on Field Robotics (T-FR), 2024
Tianxiao Gao, Mingle Zhao, Cheng-Zhong Xu, and Hui Kong, Night-Rider: Nocturnal Vision-aided Localization in Streetlight Maps Using Invariant Extended Kalman Filtering, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2024
Tian Gao, Cheng-Zhong Xu, Le Zhang, and Hui Kong, GSB: Group Superposition Binarization for Vision Transformer with Limited Training Samples, Neural Networks, 2024
Zezhou Sun, Banghe Wu, Cheng-Zhong Xu, and Hui Kong, Concave-Hull Induced Graph-Gain for Fast and Robust Robotic Exploration, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), 2023
Banghe Wu, Cheng-Zhong Xu, and Hui Kong, Lidar Road-Atlas: An Efficient Map Representation for General 3d Urban Environment, Field Robotics, 2023,
Yaqing Ding, Jian Yang, Jean Ponce, and Hui Kong, Homography-Based Minimal-Case Relative Pose Estimation with Known Gravity Direction, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 2022
Huajun Liu, Xianyu Miao, Christoph Mertz, Chengzhong Xu, and Hui Kong, CrackFormer: Transformer Network for Fine-Grained Crack Detection, IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) , 2021
Ying Wang, Zezhou Sun, Cheng-Zhong Xu, Sanjay Sarma, Jian Yang, and Hui Kong, LiDAR-Iris for Loop Closure Detection, IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Systems (IROS) , 2020
Yigong Zhang, Yicheng Gao, Shuo Gu, Yubin Guo, Minghao Liu, Zezhou Sun, Zhixing Hou, Hang Yang, Ying Wang, Jian Yang, Jean Ponce, and Hui Kong, DIY your own hybrid thermal/EO camera for autonomous vehicle, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) , 2019
Yaqing Ding, Jian Yang, Jean Ponce and Hui Kong, An efficient solution to the homography-based relative pose problem with a common reference direction, IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) , 2019
Liang Chen, Jian Yang, and Hui Kong: Lidar-histogram for fast road and obstacle detection, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2017
Hailing Zhou, Hui Kong, Lei Wei, Douglas C. Creighton, Saeid Nahavandi: Efficient Road Detection and Tracking for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2015
Hui Kong, Hatice C. Akakin, Sanjay E. Sarma: A Generalized Laplacian of Gaussian Filter for Blob Detection and Its Applications. IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, 2013
Hui Kong, Sanjay E. Sarma, Feng Tang: Generalizing Laplacian of Gaussian Filters for Vanishing-Point Detection. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2013
Hui Kong, Metin Gurcan, and Kamel Belkacem-Boussaid: "Partitioning Histopathological Images: An Integrated Framework for Supervised Color-Texture Segmentation and Cell Splitting", IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 2011
Hui Kong, Jean-Yves Audibert, and Jean Ponce, "Detecting Abandoned Object with a Moving Camera", IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 2010
Hui Kong, Jean-Yves Audibert, and Jean Ponce, "General Road Detection from a Single Image", IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 2010
Hui Kong, Jean-Yves Audibert and Jean Ponce: "Vanishing Point Detection for Road Detection", IEEE CVPR 2009
Hui Kong, Lei Wang, Eam Khwang Teoh, Xuchun Li, Jian-Gang Wang, and Ronda Venkateswarlu. Generalized 2D Principal Component Analysis for Face Image Representation and Recognition. Neural Networks, August 2005. (special issue dedicated for best papers of IJCNN'05)
Hui Kong, Lei Wang, Eam-Khwang Teoh, Jian-gang Wang, and Ronda Venkateswarlu. A Framework of 2D Fisher Discriminant Analysis: Application to Face Recognition with Small Number of Training Samples. IEEE CVPR 2005
