Cleveland Vision & AI Lab

Cleveland Vision & AI Lab

About the lab

Cleveland Vision & AI Lab is a research lab led by Dr. Hongkai Yu in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Cleveland State University, Cleveland, OH, USA, which focuses on the innovative and practical solutions for real-world interdisciplinary researches by the methods of computer vision, machine learning, deep learning and artificial intelligence. Our developed algorithms and solutions have been successfully applied in the areas of Transportation, Autonomous Driving, Remote Sensing, etc. Our research achievements lead to 1 book chapter, 3 patents and about 80 papers, including prestigious conference and journal papers, such as CVPR, ICCV, AAAI, ACM MM, ICRA, IEEE Trans, Transportation Research Part C, etc. Our research is supported by National Academy of Sciences, National Science Foundation, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Ohio Department of Transportation, etc.

Address: FH 311, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Cleveland State University, Cleveland, OH 44115, USA.

Recent News

09/2025: Dr. Yu has been listed in the World's Top 2% Scientists by Stanford/Elsevier. Congratulations!
09/2025: Dr. Yu received a new NSF grant. Thanks to NSF!
08/2025: Dr. Yu received Tenure and Promotion. Congratulations!
07/2025: Welcome Delin Ren to join our group.
06/2025: 1 paper about Multimodal 3D Detection for All-Weather Driving have been accepted by ACM MM2025. Congratulations to Haochen and Lei.
05/2025: Baolu starts his intern in XPENG at Silicon Valley. Congratulations to Baolu.
02/2025: 2 papers about Connected and Automated Vehicles (CAV) have been accepted by ICRA2025. Congratulations to Baolu.
12/2024: Our lab publicized several open-source research works: LightDiff [CVPR2024], Intersection Markings [CUS2024].
11/2024: One paper has been accepted by Green Energy and Intelligent Transportation. Congratulations to Baolu Li.
05/2024: Jinlong passed the PhD dissertation defense. Our second PhD! Congratulations to Dr. Jinlong Li!
04/2024: 3 papers have been accepted by IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV 2024). Congratulations to Huiming, Baolu, Xinyu.
03/2024: 1 paper about Sora for Smart Sensing of Vehicles has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles.
03/2024: Huiming passed the PhD dissertation defense. Our first PhD! Congratulations to Dr. Huiming Sun!
02/2024: 1 paper about Intelligent Vehicle's Low-Light Driving has been accepted by CVPR2024. Congratulations to Jinlong, Baolu, Xinyu.
01/2024: 3 papers about Connected and Automated Vehicles (CAV) have been accepted by ICRA2024. Congratulations to Jinlong, Baolu, Xinyu.
10/2023: Our NSF MRI Grant Webpage is Ready Now after a large number of internal testings. GPU HPC Cluster is ready for free usages at CSU now. Congratulations!
10/2023: One paper has been accepted by WACV2024. Congratulations to Huiming Sun.
09/2023: One survey paper has been accepted by Green Energy and Intelligent Transportation. Congratulations to Xinyu Liu.
08/2023: Our lab received an extended two-year grant from Brookhaven National Laboratory (Total: 3 years). Thanks to BNL.
05/2023: One paper has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology. Congratulations to Huiming Sun and Jin Ma.
04/2023: Huiming Sun received the Graduate Student Research Award ($4,000). Thanks to CSU.
04/2023: Dr. Yu received the Faculty Research and Development Award and the Faculty Merit Recognition Award. Thanks to CSU.
04/2023: We publicize the first large-scale real-world dataset for Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) cooperative perception in autonomous driving: V2V4Real, which has been accepted as highlight paper (235/9155 = 2.5%) in CVPR 2023.
03/2023: One paper has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles. Congratulations to Jinlong.
01/2023: Welcome Jiacheng Guo and Xinyu Liu to join our group. They will be co-advised with Dr. Tianyun Zhang.


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