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Morui Zhu

University of North Texas, Denton, TX

Third-year PhD candidate in CS at the University of North Texas; Research Intern at Toyota InfoTech Labs working on post-training data flywheel.

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Research papers on cooperative autonomous driving, 3D vision, and scene understanding.

When the Score Becomes the Target: Rethinking Metric Validity in Autonomous Driving
September 2026 Morui Zhu, Deyuan Qu, Qi Chen, Kentaro Oguchi, Qing Yang arXiv preprint arXiv:2609.34440, 2026 (under review)
#Autonomous Driving #Evaluation #Benchmark

Do benchmark score gains still reflect real driving improvements once the score becomes the optimization target? Controlled experiments say: not necessarily.

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LANTERN: A Closed-Loop Benchmark for VLM-Based Cooperative Driving with Temporally Grounded Warnings
September 2026 Yongshuo Liu, Xu Gao, Morui Zhu, Yongqi Zhu, Qi Chen, Deyuan Qu, Song Fu, Qing Yang arXiv preprint arXiv:2609.06368, 2026 (under review)
#Autonomous Driving #VLM #Benchmark

A closed-loop benchmark evaluating how vision-language models respond to temporally grounded safety warnings in cooperative driving.

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F3DGS: Federated 3D Gaussian Splatting for Decentralized Multi-Agent World Modeling
April 2026 Morui Zhu, Mohammad Dehghani Tezerjani, Mátyás Szántó, Márton Vaitkus, Song Fu, Qing Yang IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW), 2026
#Gaussian Splatting #World Modeling #Federated Learning

A federated framework that lets multiple agents collaboratively reconstruct 3D scenes with Gaussian splatting without centralizing raw data.

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Mind the Hitch: Dynamic Calibration and Articulated Perception for Autonomous Trucks
March 2026 Morui Zhu, Yongqi Zhu, Song Fu, Qing Yang IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2026
#Autonomous Driving #Perception #Calibration

dCAP: a vision-based framework that continuously estimates the 6-DoF relative pose between tractor and trailer cameras, plus the STT4AT benchmark for articulated trucks.

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M³CAD: Towards Generic Cooperative Autonomous Driving Benchmark
January 2026 Morui Zhu, Yongqi Zhu, Yihao Zhu, Qi Chen, Deyuan Qu, Song Fu, Qing Yang IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2026
#Autonomous Driving #Cooperative Perception #Benchmark

A generic benchmark for cooperative autonomous driving supporting multi-vehicle, multi-modal, and multi-task evaluation.

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From Features to Reference Points: Lightweight and Adaptive Fusion for Cooperative Autonomous Driving
November 2025 Yongqi Zhu, Morui Zhu, Qi Chen, Deyuan Qu, Isabella Luo, Song Fu, Qing Yang arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.18757, 2025
#Autonomous Driving #Cooperative Perception

A lightweight and adaptive reference-point-based fusion approach for cooperative autonomous driving.

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Investigating Crowdsourced Neural Radiance Maps for Autonomous Vehicles
October 2023 Morui Zhu, Erik Szász, Mátyás Szántó, Márton Vaitkus, Gábor Sörös IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Mobility, 2023 (Springer, pp. 247-257)
#Neural Rendering #Autonomous Driving #3D Reconstruction

Investigating the use of crowdsourced neural radiance fields (NeRF) as maps for autonomous vehicles.

A Global Multi-Temporal Dataset with STGAN Baseline for Cloud and Cloud Shadow Removal
June 2023 Morui Zhu, Chang Liu, Tamás Szirányi IMPROVE 2023 (SciTePress, pp. 206-212)
#Remote Sensing #GAN

A global multi-temporal satellite dataset with an STGAN baseline for cloud and cloud shadow removal.

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Process Monitoring and End-Point Identification of Unattended Liquid Phase Separation Based on Edge Detection
April 2023 Han Cheng, Morui Zhu, Xinlin Kong, Huanqing Peng, Wei Peng, Hao Zhang China Safety Science Journal, 33(4), 2023
#Computer Vision

Edge-detection-based process monitoring and end-point identification for unattended liquid phase separation.

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