Education

Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China
School of Future Technology
Ph.D. Student in Control Science and Engineering
Advisor: Prof. Zhi Zhai
2022 – Present

Shantou University, Shantou, Guangdong, China
Department of Mechanical Engineering
B.Eng. in Intelligent Manufacturing Engineering
2018 – 2022

Research Areas

Space situational awareness (object detection & pose estimation), neuromorphic (event-based) vision.

Projects

Pose Estimation Methods for Non-Cooperative Spacecraft toward Space Situation Awareness, Beijing Institute of Control Engineering, China Academy of Space Technology, 2023-2024. [PDF]

A Wafer Defect Detection Method Based on Hard Example Mining for IC Manufacturing, Undergraduate Thesis Defense, Shantou University, 2022. [PDF]

Publications

Ruitao Pan, Chenxi Wang*, Bing Han, Xinyu Zhang, Zhi Zhai, Jinxin Liu, Naijin Liu, Xuefeng Chen, “M²Former: Enhancing RT-DETR for Event-Based Space Object Detection,” IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (TGRS), 2025. [Project]

Bing Han, Ruitao Pan, Xinyu Zhang, Chenxi Wang, Zhi Zhai, Zhibin Zhao*, Xuefeng Chen, “Learning Upright and Forward-Facing Object Poses using Category-level Canonical Representations,” in IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2025. [Project]

Ruitao Pan, Chenxi Wang*, Zhi Zhai, Jinxin Liu, Tianhang Pan, Xuefeng Chen, “Monocular SLAM with Point and Line Features Applied to Spacecraft Relative Navigation,” International Journal of Aeronautical and Space Sciences, 2025. [PDF].

Datasets

E-SPARK: Event-based SPARK2021 Dataset for Space Object Detection [Dataset]