Zhitong Xiong
About Me
I received the B.E. degree in Software Engineering, the M.S. degree in Computer Science and Technology and the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science and Technology from Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, China, in 2015, 2018 and 2021, respectively. My research interests lie broadly in the area of deep learning, remote sensing, computer vision, and Earth observation. Currently, I am a senior research scientist at the Department of Data Science in Earth Observation, Technical University of Munich, working with Prof. Xiaoxiang Zhu. My current research centers on building and optimizing foundation models for Earth observation, with an emphasis on scalable, sensor-adaptive architectures and cross-modal learning. I serve as the lead of the ML4Earth working group, where I coordinate collaborative research efforts on applying machine learning to environmental and geospatial challenges. In parallel, I am contributing to the project Energy-efficient AI for Extreme Weather Events Forecasting, which aims to fight climate change through sustainable AI approaches that enhance early warning systems for natural disasters. My broader goal is to bridge fundamental AI research with impactful Earth science applications, particularly in the context of climate resilience and disaster risk reduction.
Research Interests
- Remote Sensing: Foundation models, monocular height estimation, urban analysis, wildfire, flood detection
- Computer Vision: RGBD scene understanding, few-shot segmentation
News
- [Oct. 2025] Copernicus-FM (Extension of DOFA ) Selected as ICCV 2025 Best Paper Award Candidate — 13 Out of 2,700+ Submissions!
- [Aug. 2025] DOFA+ is released. SOTA performance achieved.
- [Jul. 2025] DOFA-CLIP is released.
- [Sep. 2024] New version of the DOFA weights are released. The performance is much better!
- [Aug. 2024] EarthNets is accepted by IEEE GRSM (IF: 16.2)!
- [Aug. 2024] Two papers are accepted to IEEE TGRS.
- [Jul. 2024] Two papers are accepted to ECCV 2024.
- [Feb. 2024] One paper is accepted to AAAI 2024.
Publications
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ICCV
ICCV 2025 -
arXiv
arXiv:2505.12513 -
arXiv
arXiv:2505.08529 -
JAG
International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation -
arXiv
arXiv:2503.06312 -
TGRS
IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing -
ISPRS
ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing -
ESSD
Earth System Science Data -
CVPR Earth Vision
Proceedings of the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference, EarthVision -
NeurIPS
NeurIPS 2025 Datasets and Benchmarks Track -
arXiv
arXiv:2506.01667 -
arXiv
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arXiv
arXiv:2403.15356 -
AAAI
Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2023 -
GRSM
IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine (IF 16.2) -
ECCV
European Conference on Computer Vision 2024 -
CVPR
IEEE/CVF conference on computer vision and pattern recognition 2020
Services
Conference Reviewers
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2021-2022 The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) 2022-2024 European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) 2022 European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) 2024 Neural Information Processing Systems Datasets and Benchmarks Track
Journal Reviewers
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI) IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP) IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
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