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Building machines that perceive and reason — at the crossroads of vision, language and remote sensing

Led by Dr. Wenjia Xu, our group works at the intersection of computer vision, natural language processing and remote sensing, with a focus on multi-modal large language models, agents, and few-shot learning.

What we work on

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Four research lines: the multi-modal models themselves, the agents built on top of them, the LEO communication systems that carry the data, and the Earth observation problems all of it is meant to solve.

Satellite view of a river winding through farmland

Multi-Modal LLMs

Vision-language models that align imagery with text: multimodal pre-training and instruction tuning, in-context learning, model compression and pruning, and benchmarks that measure what these models actually understand.

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Satellite view of snow-covered mountain ranges

Agent

Autonomous systems that plan, call tools and verify their own work — hierarchical multi-agent architectures for long-horizon tasks, tool-augmented reasoning, and agents that operate real analysis pipelines end to end.

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Satellite view of a coastal city and turquoise sea

Intelligence for LEO Communication and Network

Learning-based signal and network intelligence for low-Earth-orbit systems: specific emitter identification, intelligent signal processing, and the integration of communication with remote sensing on a single platform.

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Satellite view of a lake and surrounding landscape

Earth Observation Applications

Turning satellite and UAV observations into usable measurements: scene classification, change detection, height and depth estimation, multi-view stereo, and UAV visual localization.

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The people doing the work

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A small group in Beijing, working on models that read the Earth from orbit

Earth-observation satellite above the planet
Wenjia Xu

Wenjia Xu 许文嘉

Associate Professor · PhD Supervisor

School of Information and Communication Engineering, BUPT

Research across computer vision, natural language processing and remote sensing, focusing on agents, multimodal large language models and few-shot learning.

Computer Vision Natural Language Processing Remote Sensing
1,370+ Total citations
h-index 18 Google Scholar
40+ Publications

Students & alumni

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19 Members
6 PhD Students
13 Master Students
5 Alumni

We train researchers who can take a problem from a raw satellite signal all the way to a working system — and who leave the lab with the judgement to pick the next problem themselves.

Adequate computational power support Global collaboration network Cutting-edge scientific questions

Latest Publications

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Our latest work in computer vision, language intelligence, multi-modal learning, and remote sensing.

Life beyond research

Dinners, outings and the conferences we travelled to together — the part of lab life that does not show up in a paper.

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