Chen Gao (高晨)

I'm currently a Research Fellow at LV-Lab, National University of Singapore, working with Prof. Shuichen Yan. Prior to this, I spent a wonderful year as a Research Fellow at Show Lab, National University of Singapore, working with Prof. Mike Z. Shou. I received the PhD from Beihang University, China, under the supervision of Prof. Si Liu. Also, I was a visting scholar at Peking University working with Prof. He Wang, focusing on the Embodied AI research. In the spare time, I also enjoy playing basketball.

gaochen.ai@gmail.com  /  Google Scholar  /  GitHub  / 

I am assisting Prof. Yan in recruiting Research Assistants and bachelor‘s,master’s and phd students. The primary research areas include Embodied AI, VLA/World Model-based Foundation Model, Visuo-Tactile for Contact-Rich Manipulation, etc. While candidates with relevant research experience will be prioritized, we also welcome applications from undergraduate interns. Interested individuals are encouraged to contact me via email for further information.
我在协助颜老师招RA以及本科生、硕士/博士生,在Embodied AI, VLA/World Model-based Foundation Model, Visuo-Tactile方向,有相关科研经历者优先,同时欢迎实习生/访问生,感兴趣的同学请邮件联系我。

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Recent News
  • [Aug. 2026]: One papers is accepted in IJCV 2026.
  • [Jul . 2026]: Server as Guest Editor of Big Data and Cognitive Computing (BDCC, JCR Q1)
  • [Jul . 2026]: One papers is accepted in ACM Computing Surveys 2026 (CSUR, Impact Factor 30.4)
  • [Jun. 2026]: Two papers are accepted in ECCV 2026.
  • [May. 2026]: We won the first place in WorldArena Challenge @CVPR 2026.
  • [May. 2026]: One papers is accepted in IJCV 2026.
  • [Apr. 2026]: Two papers are accepted in ICML 2026.
  • [Mar. 2026]: Received 2025 Embodied AI-100 Dataset 10 Award (具身智能-年度十大数据集).
  • [Feb. 2026]: One paper is accepted in CVPR 2026.
  • [Jan. 2026]: We won the third place in RoCo Challenge @AAAI Embodied AI Workshop 2026.
  • [Oct. 2025]: We organized the 1st RoboSoft Workshop @ACM MM 2025.
  • [Sep. 2025]: Three papers are accepted in NeurIPS 2025.
  • [Aug. 2025]: One Survey paper about RL reasoning for vision large model is released.
  • [Apr. 2025]: One Survey paper about diffusion model for robot is released.
  • [Jun. 2024]: One paper is accepted in ECCV 2024.
  • [Jan. 2024]: One paper is accepted in ICRA 2024.
  • [Oct. 2023]: One paper is accepted in TPAMI 2023.
  • [Aug. 2023]: One Survey paper is released in ArXiv.
  • [Mar. 2023]: One paper is accepted in CVPR 2023.
  • [Aug. 2022]: I Got HUAWEI Inc. Academic Star Scholarship.
  • [Jul. 2022]: One paper is accepted in ACM MM 2022 (1 Oral Presentation).
  • [Jun. 2022]: We won the first place in "SoundSpaces" Audio-visual Navigation Challenge @CVPR Embodied AI Workshop 2022.
  • [Mar. 2022]: Two papers are accepted in CVPR 2022 (1 Oral Presentation).
  • [Oct. 2021]: One paper is accepted in NeurIPS 2021.
  • [Jul. 2021]: One paper is accepted in ICCV 2021.
  • [May. 2021]: One paper is accepted in TPAMI.
  • [Mar. 2021]: One paper is accepted in CVPR 2021 (1 Oral Presentation).
  • [Jul. 2020]: We won the first place in REVERIE Navigation Challenge @ACL Workshop 2020.
  • [Jul. 2020]: One paper is accepted in ACM MM 2020 (1 Oral Presentation).
  • [Feb. 2020]: Two papers are accepted in CVPR 2020 (1 Oral Presentation>).
  • [May. 2019]: One paper is accepted in CHI 2019.
  • [Oct. 2018]: We won the second place on Multi-Person Parsing of LIP Challenge @CVPR Workshop 2018.


Selected Publications (* Equal, # Corresponding)

GE-Sim 2.0: A Roadmap Towards Comprehensive Closed-loop Video World Simulators for Robotic Manipulation

Boxiang Qiu, Liliang Chen, Yue Liao, Nan Wang, Lintao Wang, Jiayi Luo, Wenzhi Zhao, Shengcong Chen, Di Chen, Ye Li, Chen Gao, Shuicheng Yan#, Si Liu#, Maoqing Yao#, Guanghui Ren#

Winner of WorldArena Challenge @CVPR 2026.
[Paper] [Code] [Website] [机器之心]

ManiSoft: Towards Vision-Language Manipulation for Soft Continuum Robotics

Ziyu Wei, Luting Wang, Chen Gao# (Project Lead), Li Wen#, Si Liu#

International Conference on Machine Learning. ICML 2026.
[Paper] [Code] [Website] [Dataset] [中文介绍] [Hold Workshop and Challenge]

OmniVTA: Visuo-Tactile World Modeling for Contact-Rich Robotic Manipulation

Yuhang Zheng*, Songen Gu*, Weize Li, Yupeng Zheng, Yujie Zang, Shuai Tian, Xiang Li, Ce Hao,
Chen Gao, Si Liu, Haoran Li, Yilun Chen, Shuicheng Yan#, Wenchao Ding#,

2025 Embodied AI-100: Dataset 10 Award (具身智能--年度十大数据集).
[Paper] [Code] [Website] [Dataset] [新智元]

OctoNav: Towards Generalist Embodied Navigation

Chen Gao*, Liankai Jin*, Xingyu Peng*, Jiazhao Zhang, Yue Deng, Annan Li, He Wang, Si Liu#

IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. CVPR 2026.
[Paper] [Code] [Website] [Dataset] [具身智能之心]

Towards Realistic Earth-Observation Constellation Scheduling: Benchmark and Methodology

Luting Wang, Yinghao Xiang, Hongliang Huang, Dongjun Li, Chen Gao#, Si Liu#

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems. NeurIPS 2025.
[Paper] [Code] [Website] [量子位]

PANDA: Towards Generalist Video Anomaly Detection via Agentic AI Engineer

Zhiwei Yang, Chen Gao#, Mike Zheng Shou#

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems. NeurIPS 2025.
[Paper] [Code]

RoboCerebra: A Large-scale Benchmark for Long-horizon Robotic Manipulation Evaluation

Songhao Han*, Boxiang Qiu*, Yue Liao*, Siyuan Huang, Chen Gao, Shuicheng Yan, Si Liu#

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems. NeurIPS 2025.
[Paper] [Code]

Reinforcement Learning for Multimodal Foundation Models: A Survey

Weijia Wu, Chen Gao, Joya Chen, Kevin Qinghong Lin, Qingwei Meng, Yiming Zhang, Yuke Qiu, Hong Zhou, Mike Zheng Shou#

[Paper] [Code]

Diffusion Models in Robotics: A Survey

Xiaokang Liu, Yuchen Ma, Chen Gao, Mike Zheng Shou#

International Journal of Computer Vision. IJCV 2026.
[Paper] [Code]

Global-Local Collaborative Inference with LLM for Lidar-Based Open-Vocabulary Detection

Xingyu Peng, Yan Bai, Chen Gao, Lirong Yang, Fei Xia, Beipeng Mu, Xiaofei Wang, Si Liu#

European Conference on Computer Vision. ECCV 2024.
[Paper] [Code]

Eliminating Cross-modal Conflicts in BEV Space for LiDAR-Camera 3D Object Detection

Jiahui Fu, Chen Gao#, Zitian Wang, Lirong Yang, Xiaofei Wang, Beipeng Mu, Si Liu

IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. ICRA 2024.
[Paper] [Code]

Room-Object Entity Prompting and Reasoning for Embodied Referring Expression

Chen Gao, Si Liu#, Jinyu Chen, Luting Wang, Qi Wu, Bo Li, Qi Tian

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. TPAMI 2024.
[Paper]

Towards Vehicle-to-everything Autonomous Driving: A Survey on Collaborative Perception

Si Liu#, Chen Gao, Yuan Chen, Xingyu Peng, Xianghao Kong, Kun Wang, Runsheng Xu, Wentao Jiang, Hao Xiang, Jiaqi Ma, Miao Wang

[Paper] [Code]

Adaptive Zone-aware Hierarchical Planner for Vision-Language Navigation

Chen Gao, Xingyu Peng, Mi Yan, He Wang, Lirong Yang, Haibing Ren, Hongsheng Li, Si Liu#,

IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. CVPR 2023.
[Paper] [Code]

Target-Driven Structured Transformer Planner for Vision-Language Navigation

Yusheng Zhao*, Jinyu Chen*, Chen Gao, Wenguan Wang, Lirong Yang, Haibin Ren, Huaxia Xia, Si Liu#,

ACM International Conference on Multimedia. ACM MM 2022. (Oral Presentation)
[Paper] [Code]

3D-SPS: Single-Stage 3D Visual Grounding via Referred Point Progressive Selection

Junyu Luo*, Jiahui Fu*, Xianghao Kong, Chen Gao#, Haibing Ren, Hao Shen, Huaxia Xia, Si Liu,

IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. CVPR 2022. (Oral Presentation)
[Paper] [Code]

Reinforced Structured State-Evolution for Vision-Language Navigation

Jinyu Chen, Chen Gao, Erli Meng, Qiong Zhang, Si Liu#

IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. CVPR 2022.
[Paper] [Code]

PSGAN++: Robust Detail-Preserving Makeup Transfer and Removal

Si Liu, Wentao Jiang, Chen Gao, Ran He, Jiashi Feng, Bo Li, Shuicheng Yan

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. TPAMI 2021.
[Paper] [Code & Dataset]

Room-and-Object Aware Knowledge Reasoning for Remote Embodied Referring Expression

Chen Gao, Jinyu Chen, Si Liu#, Luting Wang, Qiong Zhang, Qi Wu

IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. CVPR 2021. (Oral Presentation)
[Paper] [Code]

AdversarialNAS: Adversarial Neural Architecture Search for GANs

Chen Gao, Yunpeng Chen, Si Liu#, Zhenxiong Tan, Shuicheng Yan

IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. CVPR 2020.
[Paper] [Code]

PSGAN: Pose and Expression Robust Spatial-Aware GAN for Customizable Makeup Transfer

Wentao Jiang, Si Liu#, Chen Gao, Jie Cao, Ran He, Jiashi Feng, Shuicheng Yan

IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. CVPR 2020. (Oral Presentation)
[Paper] [Code & Dataset]

InteractGAN: Learning to Generate Human-Object Interaction

Chen Gao, Si Liu#, Defa Zhu, Quan Liu, Jie Cao, Haoqian He, Ran He, Shuicheng Yan

ACM International Conference on Multimedia. ACM MM 2020. (Oral Presentation)
[Paper] [Project]





Academic Services

  • Conference Reviewer: CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, NeurIPS, ICLR, AAAI, ACM MM, ICRA, etc.
  • Journal Reviewer: IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP), IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM), IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT), IEEE Transaction on Cybernetics, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (TNNLS), IEEE Transactions on Signal and Information Processing over Networks, Multimedia Tools and Applications, Neurocomputing, Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR).
  • Research Internship

  • [Sep. 2019 - Jan. 2020]: Research Intern at YITU, led by Shuicheng Yan
  • [Aug. 2020 - Mar. 2021]: Research Intern at SenseTime, led by Chen Qian
  • [Aug. 2022 - Jun. 2024]: Research Intern at Meituan autonomous vehicles, led by Beipeng Mu
  • Awards

  • [2024]: Outstanding Graduate (Phd) of Beijing
  • [2023]: National Scholarship
  • [2022]: HUAWEI Inc. Academic Star Scholarship (15 people worldwide)
  • [2020]: National Scholarship
  • [2017]: National Scholarship
  • [2015]: National Scholarship

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