Yiming Zeng | 曾逸明
yzeng25 at uic dot edu

I'm a Computer Science PhD student at Sun Yat-sen University, advised by Prof. Hui Cheng. I received my master's degree from University of Illinois at Chicago under the supervision of Prof. Mojtaba Soltanalian. My research intrest lies in the interplay of Generative AI and Robotics, with a focus on robotic manipulation and visual navigation.

I usually spend my leisure time playing the flute (performed a live show on China Central Television), playing tennis, and exploring nature. Please feel free to reach out to me through email or LinkedIn!

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Research

Prior Does Matter: Visual Navigation via Denoising Diffusion Bridge Models

Hao Ren, Yiming Zeng, Zetong Bi, Zhaoliang Wan, Junlong Huang, Hui Cheng
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2025
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NaviDiffusor: Cost-Guided Diffusion Model for Visual Navigation

Yiming Zeng, Hao Ren, Shuhang Wang, Junlong Huang, Hui Cheng
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2025
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LVDiffusor: Distilling Functional Rearrangement Priors from Large Models into Diffusor

Yiming Zeng*, Mingdong Wu*, Long Yang, Jiyao Zhang, Hao Ding, Hui Cheng, Hao Dong
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RAL), 2024
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OPG-Policy: Occluded Push-Grasp Policy Learning with Amodal Segmentation

Hao Ding, Yiming Zeng, Zhaoliang Wan, Hui Cheng
IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2024
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One-Bit Compressive Sensing: Can We Go Deep and Blind?

Yiming Zeng, Shahin Khobahi, Mojtaba Soltanalian,
IEEE Signal Processing Letters (SPL), 2022
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