I am currently a PostDoc researcher at the Visual Intelligence for Transportation Lab at EPFL, under the guidance of Prof. Alexandre Alahi.

I completed my PhD at the Intelligent Vehicles group at TU Delft, supervised by Dr. Julian F. P. Kooij and Prof. Dr. Dariu M. Gavrila. During my PhD, I also collaborated with TomTom in Amsterdam. Prior to my PhD pursuit, I completed my MSc in Geomatics Engineering at the University of Stuttgart, Germany, in 2019, and received my BSc in Geodesy and Geomatics Engineering from Wuhan University, China, in 2016.

My research interests lie at the intersection of computer vision and mobile robotics, with a primary focus on visual localization for autonomous vehicles, particularly in ground-to-aerial cross-view localization. Additionally, I am deeply interested in mapping, 3D computer vision, representation learning, and self-supervised learning.

Selected publications

Adapting Fine-Grained Cross-View Localization to Areas without Fine Ground Truth
Zimin Xia, Yujiao Shi, Hongdong Li, Julian F. P. Kooij
ECCV 2024 (accepted)
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Convolutional Cross-View Pose Estimation
Zimin Xia, Olaf Booij, Julian F. P. Kooij
T-PAMI 2023
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SliceMatch: Geometry-guided Aggregation for Cross-View Pose Estimation
Ted Lentsch*, Zimin Xia*, Holger Caesar, Julian F.P. Kooij
*:Equal contribution
CVPR 2023
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Visual cross-view metric localization with dense uncertainty estimates
Zimin Xia, Olaf Booij, Marco Manfredi, Julian F.P. Kooij
ECCV 2022
Paper | Code | Video

Cross-view matching for vehicle localization by learning geographically local representations
Zimin Xia, Olaf Booij, Marco Manfredi, Julian F.P. Kooij
IEEE RA-L 2021
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Geographically local representation learning with a spatial prior for visual localization
Zimin Xia, Olaf Booij, Marco Manfredi, Julian F.P. Kooij
ECCV Workshop 2020 (Oral)
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