Wanmeng Li is currently a second-year Ph.D. student at the Intelligent Autonomous Systems Laboratory (IAS-Lab) at the University of Padua, under the supervision of Prof. Alberto Pretto and Prof. Emanuele Menegatti.
His research interests include data-efficient 3D LiDAR point cloud perception, transfer learning, unsupervised/semi-supervised learning, and image enhancement.
He received his Master’s degree from the City University of Hong Kong and his Bachelor’s degree from Hebei University of Technology
🔥 News
- [02/2026] - One paper was accepted for publication in EAAI
- [06/2025] - ConUDA was accepted and selected as a Best Paper Finalist at ECMR 2025.
- [06/2025] - DPGLA was selected for oral presentation at IROS 2025.
📝 Publications
Biologically-inspired two-pathway transformer network for image dehazing
Houwang Zhang, Wanmeng Li, Leanne Lai-Hang Chan
Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
DPGLA: Bridging the Gap between Synthetic and Real Data for Unsupervised Domain Adaptation in 3D LiDAR Semantic Segmentation [Code]
Wanmeng Li, Simone Mosco, Daniel Fusaro, Alberto Pretto
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2025
ConUDA: Confidence-Guided Pseudo-Label Sampling for Unsupervised Domain Adaptation in 3D LiDAR Semantic Segmentation [Code]
Wanmeng Li, Simone Mosco, Daniel Fusaro, Alberto Pretto
European Conference on Mobile Robots (ECMR), 2025
Real-time Underwater Place Recognition in Synthetic and Real Environments using Multibeam Sonar and Learning-based Descriptors
Daniel Fusaro, Simone Mosco, Wanmeng Li, Alberto Pretto
IEEE International Conference on Simulation, Modeling, and Programming for Autonomous Robots (SIMPAR), 2025
P-SVM2: Enhancing LiDAR-based Traversability Analysis with Augmented Point Cloud Descriptor for Autonomous Mobile Systems [Code]
Wanmeng Li, Daniel Fusaro, Emilio Olivastri, Alberto Pretto
IEEE International Conference on Cybernetics and Intelligent Systems (CIS) and IEEE International Conference on Robotics, Automation and Mechatronics (RAM), 2025
A Sonar-based AUV Positioning System for Underwater Environments with Low Infrastructure Density
Emilio Olivastri, Daniel Fusaro, Wanmeng Li, Simone Mosco, Alberto Pretto
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) Workshop, 2024
Improving Generalization of Synthetically Trained Sonar Image Descriptors for Underwater Place Recognition [Code]
Ivano Donadi, Emilio Olivastri, Daniel Fusaro, Wanmeng Li, Daniele Evangelista, Alberto Pretto
International Conference on Computer Vision Systems (ICVS), 2023
Unsupervised Low-Light Image Enhancement Based on Deep Lightness and Grey Pixel Estimation
Houwang Zhang, Wanmeng Li, Leanne Lai-Hang Chan
International Conference on Wavelet Analysis and Pattern Recognition (ICWAPR), 2023
🎖 Honors and Awards
- 2020.12 Graduated with Distinction from the City University of Hong Kong.
- Always A nice person.
📖 Educations
- 2025.11 – now, Visiting Ph.D. Student at the Chair of Robotics, Artificial Intelligence and Real-Time Systems, TUM School of Computation, Information and Technology, Technical University of Munich, Germany
- 2023.10 – now, Ph.D. student in Information Engineering, University of Padua, Italy
- 2019.09 – 2020.12, M.Sc. in Multimedia Information Technology, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
- 2015.09 – 2019.06, B.Eng. in Communication Engineering, Hebei University of Technology, Tianjin, China
💻 Working Experience
- 2023.03 – 2023.09, Research Fellow, University of Padua, Italy
- 2022.02 – 2023.02, Research Assistant, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
- 2020.12 – 2022.01, Product Manager, Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology Co., Ltd., Hangzhou, China
- 2019.10 – 2019.12, Video Development Engineer Intern, ZTE Corporation, Shenzhen, China
🚫 Failure Experience
- 2023: One paper was rejected by the AAAI conference
- 2020: Applied to over 30 companies before receiving an offer that met my expectations
- 2019: Took the National Postgraduate Entrance Examination; did not get admitted to the first-choice university
- 2016-2017: Passed the CET-6 (College English Test – Band 6) on the third attempt during undergraduate studies
- 2016-2017: Passed the National Computer Rank Examination (NCRE) on the third attempt during undergraduate studies