I am a postdoctoral fellow at Tongji University, working with Prof. Qijun Chen in the Robotics and Artificial Intelligence Lab.
My research focuses on robot perception, real-time semantic segmentation, vision-language navigation, and trustworthy autonomous systems.
I received my Ph.D. from Tongji University under the supervision of Prof. Chengju Liu.
Recent highlights: Youth Talent Support Program for PhD Students by CAST (2024), Shanghai Super Postdoctoral Program (2025),
Shanghai Outstanding Graduate (2024), and Best Cognitive Paper Finalist at IROS 2024.
2025 Shanghai “Super Postdoctoral” Incentive Plan
2025 Shanghai AI Society — Youth Outstanding Paper Award
2025 Tongji University Excellent Doctoral Dissertation
2024 Youth Talent Support Program for PhD Students, China Association for Science and Technology (CAST)
2024 Best Cognitive Paper Finalist, IROS 2024
2024 Outstanding Graduate of Shanghai Municipality
2019–2024 RoboCup China Open — SPL Champion (6 times) & SSPL/OPL Champion
Visual Information Decoding via Optic Nerve Frequency Response
PI · NSFC Young Scientists Fund (C) · 2026–2028 · ¥300k
Safe and Trustworthy Human-Machine Co-driving System
Key participant · MIIT 2030 “New Generation AI” Major Project · 2020–2024 · ¥26.46M
Modeling and Autonomous Control of Intelligent Unmanned Systems
Participant · NSFC Key Project (62233013) · 2023–2027 · ¥2.88M
Autonomous Driving Theory for Unmanned Terminals
Participant · NSFC Key Project (62333017) · 2024–2028 · ¥2.28M
Behavior Optimization under Social Norms & Vision-Language Navigation
Participant · NSFC General Projects (62173248, 62473295) · 2022–2028
Multimodal Intelligent Robot – Environmental Perception (Defense Innovation)
Participant · 2018–2019 · ¥1M
Full list: 18 papers (11 Q1 journals, top conferences ICRA/IROS)
Decoupling Semantic and Localization for Semantic Segmentation via Magnitude-Aware and Phase-Sensitive Learning
Q. Yan, et al. (First author)
Information Fusion, 2024 IF 15.5
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DR-Block: Convolutional Dense Reparameterization for CNN Generalization Free Improvement
Q. Yan, et al. (First author)
IEEE TCSVT, 2024 IF 11.1
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RoboSeg: Real-Time Semantic Segmentation on Computationally Constrained Robots
Q. Yan, et al. (First author)
IEEE TSMC: Systems, 2020 IF 8.7
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NDNet: Space-wise Multiscale Representation Learning via Neighbor Decoupling for Real-time Driving Scene Parsing
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IEEE TNNLS, 2022 IF 8.9
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HoloParser: Holistic Visual Parsing for Real-time Semantic Segmentation in Autonomous Driving
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IEEE TIM, 2022 IF 5.6
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FDLNet: Boosting Real-time Semantic Segmentation by Image-size Convolution via Frequency Domain Learning
Q. Yan, et al. (First author)
ICRA 2023 (Poster)
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HoloSeg: An Efficient Holographic Segmentation Network for Real-time Scene Parsing
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ICRA 2022 (Oral)
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Multimodal Evolutionary Encoder for Continuous Vision Language Navigation
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IROS 2024 (Oral) Best Cognitive Paper Finalist
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View all 18 publications with links (TCSVT, TNNLS, EAAI, KBS, etc.)
📘 Visual Environment Perception Technology — Scene Semantic Parsing Methods and Applications
Co-author (3/4). Tsinghua University Press, 2025.
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Patents (selected)
• CN202210841726.2 – Fast visual detection of safety helmets based on convolutional vertical integration (3/4)
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• CN202210843903.0 – Safety helmet detection via structural re-parameterization for edge devices (3/4)
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• ZL201710249970.9 – Music playing device following reading position of paper book (5/5)
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🏅 National Scholarship (2019)
🏅 Tongji Excellent Ph.D. Scholarship (2021)
🏅 Tongji Outstanding Student (2019,2021)
🏅 RoboCup SPL Outstanding Contribution (2019)
🏆 RoboCup SPL National Champion (2019–2024)
🏆 RoboCup Tianjin Int'l Invitational 1st Prize (2019,2023)
🏆 RoboCup@Home SSPL National Champion (2019,2020,2022)
🏆 RoboCup@Home OPL National Champion (2020) & 2nd (2022)
📜 Excellent Ph.D. Graduate of Shanghai (2024)
📜 Tongji Excellent Dissertation (2025)
📜 Shanghai AI Society Youth Paper Award (2025)
Professional service: Reviewer for Information Fusion, TNNLS, EAAI, ICRA, IROS; Member of Chinese Association of Automation.