About Me
Hello, I'm a second-year Ph.D. student at the Geomatics Lab at KU Leuven and the Division of Geoinformatics at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, under the joint supervision of Prof. Andrea Nascetti, Prof. Maarten Vergauwen, and Prof. Yifang Ban. I previously earned my master's degree in Geomatics from ETH Zurich, where I was advised by Prof. Konrad Schindler. Prior to that, I completed my bachelor's in Geographic Information Science at Southeast University. I'm interested in generative models and self-supervised learning, especially in their application to satellite remote sensing imagery.
News
- May. 2025: I gave a hands-on tutorial at ESA-NASA International Workshop in ESA-ESRIN, Frascati, Italy 🇮🇹
- Dec. 2024: We released the preprint of PANGAEA 🌏
- Oct. 2024: I attended the ECCV2024 in Milan 🇮🇹
- Jul. 2024: Our paper DGInStyle is accepted by ECCV 💽
- Jul. 2024: I attended the SSL4EO workshop in Copenhagen 🇩🇰
Selected Publications
DGInStyle: Domain-Generalizable Semantic Segmentation with Image Diffusion Models and Stylized Semantic Control
Yuru Jia, Lukas Hoyer, Shengyu Huang, Tianfu Wang, Luc Van Gool, Konrad Schindler, Anton Obukhov
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) 2024
Can Generative Geospatial Diffusion Models Excel as Discriminative Geospatial Foundation Models?
Yuru Jia, Valerio Marsocci, Ziyang Gong, Xue Yang, Maarten Vergauwen, Andrea Nascetti
PANGAEA: A Global and Inclusive Benchmark for Geospatial Foundation Models
Valerio Marsocci*,Yuru Jia*, Georges Le Bellier, David Kerekes, Liang Zeng, Sebastian Hafner, Sebastian Gerard, Eric Brune, Ritu Yadav, Ali Shibli, Heng Fang, Yifang Ban, Maarten Vergauwen, Nicolas Audebert, Andrea Nascetti
* equal contribution
COP-GEN-Beta: Unified Generative Modelling of COPernicus Imagery Thumbnails
Miguel Espinosa, Valerio Marsocci, Yuru Jia, Elliot J. Crowley, Mikolaj Czerkawski
CVPR Workshop 2025
DeFlow: Self-supervised 3D Motion Estimation of Debris Flow
Liyuan Zhu, Yuru Jia, Shengyu Huang, Nicholas Meyer, Andreas Wieser, Konrad Schindler, Jordan Aaron
CVPR Workshop 2023 (Best Paper Award)
CrossEarth: Geospatial Vision Foundation Model for Domain Generalizable Remote Sensing Semantic Segmentation
Ziyang Gong *, Zhixiang Wei *, Di Wang *, Xianzheng Ma, Hongruixuan Chen, Yuru Jia, Yupeng Deng, Zhenming Ji, Xiangwei Zhu, Naoto Yokoya, Jing Zhang, Bo Du, Liangpei Zhang
Projects
Awards
- Dec. 2024: Culmann Prize (Outstanding Master's Thesis), ETH Zurich
- Jun. 2023: Best Paper Award, CVPR Photogrammetric Computer Vision Workshop, 2023
- Sep. 2021: ETHz Excellence Scholarship Recipient -- Half Scholarship
- Oct. 2019: National Scholarship Recipient, Southeast University
Academic Services
- 2025: Reviewer for ICCV 2025, ICML Workshop 2025