About Me

I am a Ph.D. student at the University of Maryland, College Park, working in the GAMMA lab under the guidance of Dr. Dinesh Manocha. My research focuses on robotics, particularly in navigation and perception.

Interests
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Robotics
  • Navigation
  • Perception
Education

  • PhD Robotics

    the University of Maryland, College Park

  • MEng Robotics

    the University of Maryland, College Park

Projects
Datasets
Indoor Navigation
Language-Model-Based Approaches
Outdoor Navigation
Place Recognition
Scene Understanding
Recent News
  • We have 3 papers accepted by IROS 2024.
  • I’m going to give a presentation in the North Carolina State University in Nov 2024.
Papers Under Submission
Kasun Weerakoon, Mohamed Elnoor, Gershom Seneviratne, Vignesh Rajagopal, Senthil Hariharan Arul, Jing Liang, Mohamed Khalid M Jaffar, Dinesh Manocha (2024). BehAV: Behavioral Rule Guided Autonomy Using VLMs for Robot Navigation in Outdoor Scenes.
PDF Code Video
Jing Liang, Zhuo Deng, Zheming Zhou, Min Sun, Omid Ghasemalizadeh, Cheng-Hao Kuo, Arnie Sen, Dinesh Manocha (2024). CSCPR: Cross-Source-Context Indoor RGB-D Place Recognition.
PDF
Jing Liang, He Yin, Xuewei Qi, Jong Jin Park, Min Sun, Rajasimman Madhivanan, Dinesh Manocha (2024). ET-Former: Efficient Triplane Deformable Attention for 3D Semantic Scene Completion From Monocular Camera.
PDF Video
Xiyang Wu, Ruiqi Xian, Tianrui Guan, Jing Liang, Souradip Chakraborty, Fuxiao Liu, Brian Sadler, Dinesh Manocha, Amrit Singh Bedi (2024). On the safety concerns of deploying llms/vlms in robotics: Highlighting the risks and vulnerabilities.
PDF
Daeun Song, Jing Liang, Xuesu Xiao, Dinesh Manocha (2024). TGS: Trajectory Generation and Selection using Vision Language Models in Mapless Outdoor Environments.
PDF Code
Daeun Song, Jing Liang, Amirreza Payandeh, Xuesu Xiao, Dinesh Manocha (2024). VLM-Social-Nav: Socially Aware Robot Navigation through Scoring using Vision-Language Models.
PDF Video
Jing Liang, Dibyendu Das, Daeun Song, Md Nahid Hasan Shuvo, Mohammad Durrani, Karthik Taranath, Ivan Penskiy, Dinesh Manocha, Xuesu Xiao (2024). GND: Global Navigation Dataset with Multi-Modal Perception and Multi-Category Traversability in Outdoor Campus Environments.
PDF Code Dataset Video Website
Publications
Laura Zheng, Sanghyun Son, Jing Liang, Xijun Wang, Brian Clipp, Ming C. Lin (2024). Deep Stochastic Kinematic Models for Probabilistic Motion Forecasting in Traffic. In IROS 2024.
PDF Cite
Jing Liang, Amirreza Payandeh, Daeun Song, Xuesu Xiao, Dinesh Manocha (2024). DTG: Diffusion-based Trajectory Generation for Mapless Global Navigation. In IROS 2024.
PDF Cite Code Video
Jing Liang, Deng Zhuo, Zheming Zhou, Omid Ghasemalizadeh, Dinesh Manocha, Min Sun, Cheng-Hao Kuo, Arnie Sen (2024). PoCo: Point Context Cluster for RGBD Indoor Place Recognition. In IROS 2024.
PDF Cite Code Video
Jing Liang, Peng Gao, Xuesu Xiao, Adarsh Jagan Sathyamoorthy, Mohamed Elnoor, Ming C. Lin, Dinesh Manocha (2024). Mtg: Mapless trajectory generator with traversability coverage for outdoor navigation. In ICRA 2024.
PDF Cite Code Video
Kasun Weerakoon, Adarsh Jagan Sathyamoorthy, Jing Liang, Tianrui Guan, Utsav Patel, Dinesh Manocha (2023). GrASPE: Graph based Multimodal Fusion for Robot Navigation in Outdoor Environments. In RA-L 2023.
PDF Cite Video
Roth, Aaron M., Jing Liang, Ram Sriram, Elham Tabassi, Dinesh Manocha (2023). MSVIPER. In JWAS 2023.
PDF Cite Website
Jing Liang, Kasun Weerakoon, Tianrui Guan, Nare Karapetyan, Dinesh Manocha (2022). Adaptiveon: Adaptive outdoor local navigation method for stable and reliable actions. In RA-L 2022.
PDF Cite Code Video
Adarsh Jagan Sathyamoorthy, Kasun Weerakoon, Tianrui Guan, Jing Liang, Dinesh Manocha (2022). Terrapn: Unstructured terrain navigation using online self-supervised learning. In IROS 2022.
PDF Cite Video
Peng Gao, Jing Liang, Yu Shen, Sanghyun Son, Ming C. Lin (2022). Visual, Spatial, Geometric-Preserved Place Recognition for Cross-View and Cross-Modal Collaborative Perception. In IROS 2023.
PDF Cite Poster
Tianrui Guan, Aswath Muthuselvam, Montana Hoover, Xijun Wang, Jing Liang, Adarsh Jagan Sathyamoorthy, Damon Conover, Dinesh Manocha (2022). Terrapn: Unstructured terrain navigation using online self-supervised learning. In CVPR 2023.
PDF Cite Code
Qiaoyun Wu, Jun Wang, Jing Liang, Xiaoxi Gong, Dinesh Manocha (2022). Image-goal navigation in complex environments via modular learning. In RA-L 2022.
PDF Cite
Aaron M Roth, Jing Liang, Dinesh Manocha (2021). XAI-N: Sensor-based robot navigation using expert policies and decision trees. In IROS 2021.
PDF Cite Code Video
Jing Liang, Yi-Ling Qiao, Tianrui Guan, Dinesh Manocha (2021). OF-VO: Efficient Navigation Among Pedestrians Using Commodity Sensors. In RA-L 2021.
PDF Cite Video
Jing Liang, Utsav Patel, Adarsh Jagan Sathyamoorthy, Dinesh Manocha (2021). Crowd-steer: Realtime smooth and collision-free robot navigation in densely crowded scenarios trained using high-fidelity simulation. In IJCAI 2021.
PDF Cite Video Website
Zhiming Chen, Tingxiang Fan, Xuan Zhao, Jing Liang, Cong Shen, Hua Chen, Dinesh Manocha, Jia Pan, Wei Zhang (2021). Autonomous social distancing in urban environments using a quadruped robot. In IEEE Access.
PDF Cite Video
Jing Liang, Adarsh Jagan Sathyamoorthy, Utsav Patel, Tianrui Guan, Rohan Chandra, Dinesh Manocha (2020). DenseCAvoid: Real-time Navigation in Dense Crowds using Anticipatory Behaviors. In ICRA 2020.
PDF Cite Video