Hongruixuan Chen

About

Hongruixuan Chen is a JSPS Research Fellow at The University of Tokyo. He received his Ph.D. from the Machine Learning and Statistical Data Analysis Lab at The University of Tokyo, under the supervision of Prof. Naoto Yokoya. He serves as co-lead of WG-MIA within the Image Analysis and Data Fusion Technical Committee (IADF TC). He was also an academic visitor at the Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing Group, ETH Zurich, and a former intern at The United Nations Satellite Center (UNOSAT). His research focuses on leveraging machine learning and computer vision to monitor, characterize, and interpret changes on Earth's surface, with the goal of advancing urban planning, resource management, environmental protection, and sustainable development.

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Selected Publications

IM4CD

Multimodal remote sensing change detection: An image matching perspective

H. Chen, C. Lan, J. Song, D. Ibañez, J. Xia, K. Schindler, N. Yokoya

ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 2026

BRIGHT

Bright: A globally distributed multimodal building damage assessment dataset with very-high-resolution for all-weather disaster response

H. Chen, J. Song, O. Dietrich, C. Broni-Bediako, W. Xuan, J. Wang, X. Shao, Y. Wei, J. Xia, C. Lan, K. Schindler and N. Yokoya

Earth System Science Data (ESSD), 2025

IEEE Data Fusion Contest 2025
ChangeMamba

ChangeMamba: Remote sensing change detection with spatio-temporal state space model

H. Chen, J. Song, C. Han, J. Xia, and N. Yokoya

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (TGRS), 2024

ESI Hot PaperESI Highly Cited Paper
FDMCD

Fourier domain structural relationship analysis for unsupervised multimodal change detection

H. Chen, N. Yokoya, and M. Chini

ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 2023

ESI Highly Cited Paper
I3PE

Exchange means change: An unsupervised single-temporal change detection framework based on intra- and inter-image patch exchange

H. Chen, J. Song, C. Wu, B. Du, and N. Yokoya

ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 2023

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Experience

Work & Overseas Experience

2025.09 – 2026.03JSPS Research Fellow, The University of Tokyo — Host: Prof. Naoto Yokoya
2024.10 – 2025.09Research Part-time Worker, Geoinformatics Team, RIKEN AIP — Host: Prof. Naoto Yokoya
2024.01 – 2024.07Academic Visitor, Photogrammetry & Remote Sensing Group, ETH Zurich — Host: Prof. Konrad Schindler
2023.05 – 2024.01Research Part-time Worker, Geoinformatics Team, RIKEN AIP — Host: Prof. Naoto Yokoya
2022.11 – 2023.03Research Assistant, Beyond AI, The University of Tokyo — Host: Prof. Masashi Sugiyama

Education

2019.09 – 2022.06M.E., LIESMARS, Wuhan University — Supervisors: Prof. Chen Wu, Prof. Bo Du, Prof. Liangpei Zhang
2015.09 – 2019.06B.E., Anhui University — Supervisors: Prof. Yanlan Wu, Prof. Peng Jiang
Fundings
2024.10 – 2025.09PI, UTokyo AI Center Fusion Research Promotion Fund (1,600,000 JPY)
2024.04 – 2026.03PI, Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Research Fellows (1,500,000 JPY)
2023.12 – 2024.12PI, UTokyo AI Center Fusion Research Promotion Fund (2,000,000 JPY)
2023.06 – 2024.03PI, UTokyo GSFS Challenging New Area Doctoral Research Grant (600,000 JPY)
2023.06 – 2024.03CI, UTokyo GSFS Challenging New Area Doctoral Research Grant (600,000 JPY)
2023.04 – 2025.09PI, Microsoft Research Asia Collaborative Research Program Fellowship (10,000 USD)
2016.11 – 2018.11PI, Chinese National Innovative Research Project for Undergraduate Students (10,000 CNY)
Services

Membership

  • IEEE, Student Member
  • IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS), Student Member

Reviewer

  • IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI)
  • IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP)
  • IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT)
  • IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (TNNLS)
  • IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (TGRS)
  • International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV)
  • ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (P&RS)
  • Medical Image Analysis (MedIA)
  • Information Fusion (InfFus)
  • International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation (JAG)
  • IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
  • European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)
  • Other 50+ journals & conferences ...
Awards & Honors
  • 2026 — UTokyo President’s Award for Academic Achievement
  • 2026 — UTokyo GSFS Dean’s Award for Academic Achievement
  • 2026 — JSPS Research Fellow’s Special Allowance (Research Incentive Grant)
  • 2024 — Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) DC2 Research Fellowship
  • 2023 — Japanese-Swiss Young Researchers' Exchange Programme Special 2023 Exchange Grant
  • 2022 — The University of Tokyo Fellowship (Todai Fellowship)
  • 2022 — Outstanding Graduate Student, Wuhan University
  • 2021 — Wang Zhizhuo Innovation Talent Scholarship, Wuhan University
  • 2021 — National Scholarship for Postgraduates, Ministry of Education
  • 2021 — First Prize of Academic Scholarship, Wuhan University
  • 2021 — Outstanding Graduate Student, Wuhan University
  • 2020 — National Scholarship for Postgraduates, Ministry of Education
  • 2020 — First Prize of Academic Scholarship, Wuhan University
  • 2020 — Outstanding Graduate Student, Wuhan University
  • 2019 — LIESMARS Scholarship for Excellent First-Year Postgraduates
  • 2019 — Excellent Graduate of Anhui Province
  • 2018 — First Prize of Academic Scholarship, Anhui University
  • 2018 — Second Prize, Esri Cup GIS Software Development Contest in China
  • 2018 — Outstanding Prize, National Geomatics Contest in Programming
  • 2018 — Meritorious Winner, US Mathematical Contest in Modeling
  • 2017 — Second Prize, China National Mathematical Contest in Modeling
  • 2017 — National Scholarship for Undergraduates, Ministry of Education
  • 2016 — Anhui University Scholarship for Excellent Students
Resources

Code Repositories

Datasets

  • BRIGHT dataset — Link
  • OpenMapCD dataset — Link
  • SynRS3D dataset — Link
  • CoralReef dataset — Link
  • Wuhan dataset — Link
  • SyntheWorld dataset — Link
  • GF-2 change detection dataset — Link
  • WH-MAVS scene classification dataset — Link