ECCV 20262026
Lost in the Tail: Addressing Geographic Imbalance in Urban Visual Place Recognition
Zhiyao Shu, Jiacheng Yang, Yang Lu, Waishan Qiu, Chuan Li, Da Chen
PhD · Information Science & Technology
Zoey (Zhiyao) Shu
Fairfax, VA·Computer VisionHuman–Robot Interaction
I am a Ph.D. student in Information Science & Technology at George Mason University.
I work on computer vision and human–AI collaboration, building interactive systems that help autonomous agents understand and reason about what they sense and respond reliably in messy real-world scenarios.
Current focus
- Multimodal reasoning and reverse plan inference in human-robot interaction
- Video grounding and image retrieval
- LLM systems for collaborative sensemaking & qualitative analysis
Recent News
Jun 2026
🎉 Our paper “Lost in the Tail: Addressing Geographic Imbalance in Urban Visual Place Recognition” was accepted to ECCV 2026.
Aug 2025
Began my PhD in Information Science & Technology at George Mason University.
Mar 2025
Released MindCoder v2 — generate full reports in one click. Try it at mindcoder.ai.
Publications
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2025
Efficiency with Rigor! A Trustworthy LLM-powered Workflow for Qualitative Data Analysis
Jie Gao, Alok Prakash, Zhiyao Shu, Shun Yi Yeo, Chien-Ming Huang, Ziang Xiao, Mark Dredze
CIKM 20242024
When LLM Meets Hypergraph: A Sociological Analysis on Personality via Online Social Networks
Zhiyao Shu, Xiangguo Sun, Hong Cheng
Projects
May 2026Visit ↗
Multimodal Plan Inference for Human–Robot Interaction
A Bayesian framework that infers the intended plan of a person from multimodal cues — speech, pointing gestures, and facial expressions — so robots can interpret and act on human intent during collaborative interaction.
Apr 2025Visit ↗
MindCoder — LLM-Supported Qualitative Analysis
A full-stack tool for flexible, structured inductive qualitative analysis. Automates open coding, axial coding, and concept development with GPT-5, producing one-click reports to support insight presentation.
Blogs
Apr 202612 minJul 20256 min
Building a Weekly Research Digest Agent
A couple hundred new arXiv papers land in my categories every week, and maybe a dozen are worth my time. So I built an agent to find them — it scores each paper against my actual research and posts the 20 best to my Discord every Monday. Serverless, and free.
Ten Days Across the Country
A summer road trip from Seattle to Fairfax: wild horses over the Columbia, Devils Tower, the Badlands, a modernist pilgrimage in Columbus, Indiana, and Fallingwater on the way home. With a clickable route map.
Let's connect
Open to research collaborations.
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