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M.Sc. Xingcheng Zhou

Technical University of Munich

Informatics 6 - Chair of Robotics, Artificial Intelligence and Real-time Systems (Prof. Knoll)

Postal address

Boltzmannstr. 3
85748 Garching b. München

Curriculum Vitae

Xingcheng Zhou joined the Chair of Robotics, Artificial Intelligence and Real-time Systems in 2023 under the supervision of Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Alois Christian Knoll. He completed his M.Sc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Technical University of Munich in 2021. Before starting as Research Assistant at TUM, he worked as an Industrial AI Researcher at Siemens. 

Open Topics

I am presently seeking self-motivated students to address intriguing problems that have emerged within my research domains. Primary focus centers around Large Language Models, Autonomous Driving, Computer Vision,  including VLMs, VLAs, 3D Environment Perception and Understanding, and related areas. Should you find yourself intrigued by any of the presently accessible topics, please forward me an email containing an up-to-date Curriculum Vitae, and a Transcript of your academic records.

  • Vision Language Model in Autonomous Driving
  • World Models and Data Generation for 3D Traffic Environment Understanding
     

TypeAuthorTitlePeriod 

Master’s    

Thesis - ext

Julian Ivanov3D Object Detection Generalization in Static LiDAR Applications

08.23 -

03.24

 

Master’s

Thesis

Samyak JainReal-time Multi-view Road-side 3D Object Detection

10.23 -

06.24

 

Master’s

Thesis

Deyu FuDomain Adaptation for Road-Side Vision-Based 3D Object Detection

11.23 -

07.24

 

Master’s

Thesis

Chaima GhaddabSupervised 3D Perception on Roadside LiDARs Under Different Weather Situations

12.23 -

07.24

 

Master’s

Thesis

Qiwen XuCLIP-Enhanced 3D Object Detection

11.23 -

07.24

 

Master’s

Thesis

Baran Ekin ÖzdemirKnowledge Distilled Traffic Environment Understanding

11.23 -

07.24

 

Guided

Research

Hao GuoA Multi-Modal Benchmark for Visual Question Answering in Transportation Scenes

05.24 -

09.24

 

Master’s

Thesis - ext

Raul David Dominguez SanchezLiDAR-guided Monocular 3D Object Detection for Railway Monitoring

04.24 -

11.24

 

Master’s

Thesis

Konstantinos LarintzakisExploring Large Vision-Language Models in the Realm of Intelligent Traffic Surveillance

04.24 -

11.24

 

Guided 

Research - ext

Sen LiaoEnhancing Test Automation Workflows through LLM-Driven Optimization

06.24-

10.24

 

Master’s

Thesis - ext

Chenyang LinReal-time LLM-based Agent Planning System

08.24-

02.25

 

Master’s

Thesis

Kaan Kalaycıoğlu Referring Traffic Object Detection and Multi-Object Tracking

11.24-

04.25

 

Master’s

Thesis

Heng WuWeakly-Supervised Real2Real Domain Adaptation for Roadside Monocular 3D Object Detection

11.24-

05.25

 

Master’s

Thesis

Xuyuan HanEnd-to-End Autonomous Driving with Vision Language Models

11.24-

05.25

 

Master’s

Thesis

Hao GuoEvaluating and Mitigating Hallucination in Vision-Language Models for Traffic Accident Video Understanding

03.25-

07.25

 

Master’s

Thesis - ext

Feng YangSemantic Tool Selection for Efficient DAG-based Orchestration and Task Execution in LLM Multi-Agent Systems

04.25-

10.25

 

Master’s

Thesis - ext

Qihang LiApplication of Chain-of-Thought Enhanced LLMs via DPO-Based Multi-Stage Fine-Tuning

08.25-

12.25

 

Master’s

Thesis

Fadi Essam Saad Aziz EshakEnhanced Traffic Scene Understanding with World Models

09.25-

03.26

 
     

Publications

2026

  • Liu, Jiong; Xu, Yingjie; Zhou, Xingcheng; Song, Rui; Zimmer, Walter; Knoll, Alois; Cao, Hu: SegRGB-X: General RGB-X Semantic Segmentation Model. IEEE TITS, 2026 mehr… BibTeX Volltext ( DOI )

2025

  • Dominguez Sanchez, Raul David; Diaz Ortiz, Xavier; Zhou, Xingcheng; Ronecker, Max Peter; Karner, Michael; Watzenig, Daniel; Knoll, Alois: LiDAR-Guided Monocular 3D Object Detection for Long-Range Railway Monitoring. arXiv e-prints, 2025, arXiv--2504 mehr… BibTeX
  • Li, Mengyu; Zhou, Xingcheng; Chen, Guang; Knoll, Alois; Cao, Hu: TUMTraf EMOT: Event-Based Multi-Object Tracking Dataset and Baseline for Traffic Scenarios. arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.14595, 2025 mehr… BibTeX Volltext ( DOI )
  • Liu, Mingyu; Cui, Yuning; Strand, Leah; Zhou, Xingcheng; Zhang, Jiajie; Knoll, C. Alois: MambaSFLNet: A Mamba-Based Model for Low-Light Image Enhancement with Spatial and Frequency Features. 2025 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2025 mehr… BibTeX
  • Liu, Mingyu; Hou, Yutong; Yurtsever, Ekim; Zhou, Xingcheng; Zhang, Jiajie; Zhang, Haolin; Knoll, C. Alois: Surface3D: A Surface-Aware Framework for Refining 3D Object Detection. 2025 IEEE International Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference (ITSC), 2025 mehr… BibTeX
  • Sanchez, Raul David Dominguez; Ortiz, Xavier Diaz; Zhou, Xingcheng; Ronecker, Max Peter; Karner, Michael; Watzenig, Daniel; Knoll, Alois: LiDAR-Guided Monocular 3D Object Detection for Long-Range Railway Monitoring. 2025 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV), 2025 mehr… BibTeX Volltext ( DOI )
  • Wang, Yuping; Xing, Shuo; Can, Cui; Li, Renjie; Hua, Hongyuan; Tian, Kexin; Mo, Zhaobin; Gao, Xiangbo; Wu, Keshu; Zhou, Sulong; You, Hengxu; Peng, Juntong; Zhang, Junge; Wang, Zehao; Song, Rui; Yan, Mingxuan; Zimmer, Walter; Zhou, Xingcheng; Li, Peiran; Lu, Zhaohan; Chen, Chia-Ju; Huang, Yue; Rossi, Ryan A.; Sun, Lichao; Yu, Hongkai; Fan, Zhiwen; Yang, Frank Hao; Kang, Yuhao; Greer, Ross; Liu, Chenxi; Lee, Eun Hak; Di, Xuan; Ye, Xinyue; Ren, Liu; Knoll, Alois; Li, Xiaopeng; Ji, Shuiwang; Tomizuka, Masayoshi; Pavone, Marco; Yang, Tianbao; Du, Jing; Yang, Ming-Hsuan; Wei, Hua; Wang, Ziran; Zhou, Yang; Li, Jiachen; Tu, Zhengzhong: Generative AI for Autonomous Driving: Frontiers and Opportunities. Proceedings of the Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2025, 2025 mehr… BibTeX Volltext ( DOI ) Volltext (mediaTUM)
  • Zhou, Xingcheng; Han, Xuyuan; Yang, Feng; Ma, Yunpu; Tresp, Volker; Knoll, Alois: Opendrivevla: Towards end-to-end autonomous driving with large vision language action model. arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.23463, 2025 mehr… BibTeX Volltext ( DOI )
  • Zhou, Xingcheng; Larintzakis, Konstantinos; Guo, Hao; Zimmer, Walter; Liu, Mingyu; Cao, Hu; Zhang, Jiajie; Lakshminarasimhan, Venkatnarayanan; Strand, Leah; Knoll, Alois C: TUMTraffic-VideoQA: A Benchmark for Unified Spatio-Temporal Video Understanding in Traffic Scenes. International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) , 2025 mehr… BibTeX Volltext ( DOI )
  • Zimmer, Walter; Greer, Ross; Zhou, Xingcheng; Song, Rui; Cao, Hu; Lehmberg, Daniel; Pavel, Marc; Alaaeldin Ghita, Ahmed; Gopalkrishnan, Akshay; Caesar, Holger; Trivedi, Mohan M.; Knoll, Alois C.: Towards Vision Zero: The TUM Traffic Accid3nD Dataset. IEEE/CVF Int. Conf. on Computer Vision Workshops (ICCVW) 2025, IEEE/CVF, 2025, 19 mehr… BibTeX Volltext ( DOI ) Volltext (mediaTUM)
  • Zimmer, Walter; Greer, Ross; Zhou, Xingcheng; Song, Rui; Pavel, Marc; Lehmberg, Daniel; Ghita, Ahmed; Gopalkrishnan, Akshay; Trivedi, Mohan; Knoll, Alois: Enhancing highway safety: Accident detection on the a9 test stretch using roadside sensors. arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.00402, 2025 mehr… BibTeX
  • Zimmer, Walter; Pranamulia, Ramandika; Zhou, Xingcheng; Zhang, Jiajie; Wei, Chuheng; Greer, Ross; Perez, Stephany Berrio; Liu, Mingyu; Trivedi, Mohan; Knoll, Alois: PointCompress3D: A Point Cloud Compression Framework for Roadside LiDARs in Intelligent Transportation Systems. 2025 IEEE International Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference (ITSC), 2025 mehr… BibTeX

2024

  • Liu, Mingyu; Yurtsever, Ekim; Brede, Marc; Meng, Jun; Zimmer, Walter; Zhou, Xingcheng; Zagar, Bare Luka; Cui, Yuning; Knoll, C. Alois: GraphRelate3D: Context-Dependent 3D Object Detection with Inter-Object Relationship Graphs. 2024 IEEE International Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference (ITSC), 2024 mehr… BibTeX Volltext ( DOI )
  • Liu, Mingyu; Yurtsever, Ekim; Fossaert, Jonathan; Zhou, Xingcheng; Zimmer, Walter; Cui, Yuning; Zagar, Bare Luka; Knoll, Alois C.: A Survey on Autonomous Driving Datasets: Statistics, Annotation Quality, and a Future Outlook. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles, 2024, 1-29 mehr… BibTeX Volltext ( DOI )
  • Zhou, Xingcheng; Fu, Deyu; Zimmer, Walter; Liu, Mingyu; Lakshminarasimhan, Venkatnarayanan; Strand, Leah; Knoll, Alois: WARM-3D: A Weakly-Supervised Sim2Real Domain Adaptation Framework for Roadside Monocular 3D Object Detection. 2024 IEEE International Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference (ITSC), 2024 mehr… BibTeX
  • Zhou, Xingcheng; Knoll, Alois C.: GPT-4V as Traffic Assistant: An In-depth Look at Vision Language Model on Complex Traffic Events. arxiv, 2024 mehr… BibTeX Volltext ( DOI )
  • Zhou, Xingcheng; Liu, Mingyu; Yurtsever, Ekim; Zagar, Bare Luka; Zimmer, Walter; Cao, Hu; Knoll, Alois C.: Vision Language Models in Autonomous Driving: A Survey and Outlook. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles, 2024, 1-20 mehr… BibTeX Volltext ( DOI )
  • Zimmer, Walter; Wardana, Gerhard Arya; Sritharan, Suren; Zhou, Xingcheng; Song, Rui; Knoll, Alois C.: TUMTraf V2X Cooperative Perception Dataset - Supplementary Material. Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, IEEE/CVF, 2024, 13 mehr… BibTeX Volltext ( DOI ) Volltext (mediaTUM)
  • Zimmer, Walter; Wardana, Gerhard Arya; Sritharan, Suren; Zhou, Xingcheng; Song, Rui; Knoll, Alois C.: TUMTraf V2X Cooperative Perception Dataset. 2024 Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2024), IEEE/CVF, 2024, 21 mehr… BibTeX Volltext (mediaTUM)

2023

  • Zimmer, Walter; Wu, Jialong; Zhou, Xingcheng; Knoll, Alois C.: Real-Time And Robust 3D Object Detection with Roadside LiDARs. In: Lecture Notes in Mobility. Springer Nature Singapore, 2023 mehr… BibTeX Volltext ( DOI )
  • van Kempen, Raphael; Lampe, Bastian; Leuffen, Marc; Wirtz, Lena; Thomsen, Fabian; Bilkei-Gorzo, Gergely; Busch, Jean-Pierre; Feger, Ida; Geller, Christian; Kehl, Christian; Uszynski, Olaf; Wagner-Douglas, Lotte; Zanger, Lukas; Eckstein, Lutz; Klüner, David; Beerwerth, Julius; Alrifaee, Bassam; Kowalewski, Stefan; Konersmann, Marco; Steinfurth, Felix; Rumpe, Bernhard; Hartmann, Max; Siepenkötter, Norbert; Moormann, Dieter; Böhlen, Boris; Hannig, Claudia; Hekele, Esther; Gotzig, Heinrich; Rostocki, Paul-David; Gautam, Deepak-Kumar; Schubert, Richard; Braun, Niklas; Maurer, Markus; Gemlau, Kai-Björn; Abel, Sebastian; Ernst, Rolf; Lutwitzi, Melina; Bayerlein, Lorenz; Berghöfer, Moritz; Blödel, Alexander; Klamann, Björn; Kuznietsov, Anton; Peters, Steven; Leinen, Stefan; Bahle, Jakob; Ullrich, Lars; Graichen, Knut; Woopen, Timo; Spychalski, Dominik; Krauß, Christoph et al.: AUTOtech.agil: Architecture and Technologies for Orchestrating Automotive Agility. In: 32nd Aachen Colloquium Sustainable Mobility. RWTH Aachen University, 2023, 49 mehr… BibTeX Volltext ( DOI ) Volltext (mediaTUM)

2022

  • Zimmer, Walter; Erçelik, Emeç; Zhou, Xingcheng; Diaz Ortiz, Xavier Jair; Knoll, Alois C.: A Survey of Robust LiDAR-based 3D Object Detection Methods for Autonomous Driving, 2022 mehr… BibTeX Volltext (mediaTUM)
  • Zimmer, Walter; Ercelik, Emec; Zhou, Xingcheng; Ortiz, Xavier Jair Diaz; Knoll, Alois: A Survey of Robust 3D Object Detection Methods in Point Clouds. , 2022 mehr… BibTeX Volltext ( DOI )
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