Wanli Ma
Research Associate | Department of Engineering
Civil Engineering Building, University of Cambridge
Cambridge, CB3 0FA, UK
wm369*at*cam.ac.uk
About
I am a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Engineering and an affiliated member of Clare Hall at the University of Cambridge, working on the EPSRC-funded MicroBlast project led by Prof. Samuel Rigby. I am a member of IMPACT group led by Dr. Sivasakthy Selvakumaran. Prior to joining Cambridge, I completed my PhD at Cardiff University's Visual Computing Group, led by Prof. Paul Rosin, under supervision of Dr. Oktay Karakus and Prof. Paul Rosin in 2025. I received my Master's Degree with Distinction from the University of Bristol in 2021.
Research Interests
- Computer Vision
- Remote Sensing
- Structural Damage Assessment
- Semi-supervised Learning
- Active Learning
- Image Fusion
- Inverse Problem
Highlights
- Affiliated Postdoctoral Member of Clare Hall
- Master's Degree with Distinction
- Honors Bachelor Graduate
- Ranked No. 2 MVEO Competition in BMVC Workshop 2023
- First Prize in China International Aircraft Design Challenge (CADC) Competition
- 2nd Prize in National College Students Photoelectric Design Competition
- OYSS Fellow
Recent News & Activities
- 03-08 Aug 2025: Attended IGARSS 2025, delivered two presentations, and chaired a poster session.
- 14 July 2025: Glad to visit the University of Sheffield and give a talk about building damage assessment using AI + remote sensing.
- 19 June 2025: I have been appointed as an Affiliated Postdoctoral Member of Clare Hall at the University of Cambridge! [Link]
- 20 May 2025: One Paper got accepted in JSTARS! [Link]
- 12 May 2025: Passed PhD viva with minor corrections. Grateful for the invaluable support from Oktay and Paul throughout this journey.
- 25 Apr. 2025: Invited to chair a session at the IGARSS 2025.
- 24 Apr. 2025: Received travel grant from IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society.
- 21 Apr. 2025: Collaborative project completed — Mw-7.7 Earthquake Impact Assessment in Myanmar and Thailand using Remote Sensing Data, Accessible on Zenodo and MapBox.
- 19 Mar. 2025: One paper got accepted in IGARSS 2025! [Link]
Publications & Preprints
Selected papers
- High-precision density mapping of marine debris and floating plastics via satellite imagery. H Booth, W Ma, O Karakuş, Scientific Reports 13 (1), 6822, 2023 [PDF]
- AMM-FuseNet: Attention-based multi-modal image fusion network for land cover mapping. W Ma, O Karakuş, PL Rosin, Remote Sensing 14 (18), 4458, 2022 [PDF]
- Confidence guided semi-supervised learning in land cover classification. W Ma, O Karakuş, PL Rosin, IGARSS, 2023 [PDF]
- Knowledge distillation for road detection based on cross-model semi-supervised learning. W Ma, O Karakuş, PL Rosin, IGARSS, 2024 [PDF]
- Exploiting the dual-tree complex wavelet transform for ship wake detection in SAR imagery. W Ma, A Achim, O Karakuş, ICASSP, 2021 [PDF]
- DiverseNet: Decision Diversified Semi-supervised Semantic Segmentation Networks for Remote Sensing Imagery. W Ma, O Karakuş, PL Rosin, JSTARS, 2025 [PDF]
- Core-Set Selection for Data-efficient Land Cover Segmentation. K Nogueira, A Zaytar, W Ma, et al., arXiv preprint, 2025 [PDF]
- Integrating Semi-Supervised and Active Learning for Semantic Segmentation. W Ma, O Karakuş, PL Rosin, arXiv preprint, 2025 [PDF]
- Patch-GAN Transfer Learning with Reconstructive Models for Cloud Removal. W Ma, O Karakuş, PL Rosin, IGARSS, 2025 [PDF]
- Land Cover Classification Using Attention-Based Multi-Modal Image Fusion. O Karakuş, W Ma, PL Rosin, Signal and Image Processing for Remote Sensing, 309, 2024
Oral & Poster Presentations
- Oral Presentation: IGARSS 2025 Brisbane, Australia, 03-08 Aug 2025
- Oral Presentation: IGARSS 2024 Athens, Greece, 07-12 Jul. 2024
- Oral Presentation: BMVC 2023 Aberdeen, UK, 20-24 Nov. 2023
- Oral Presentation: IGARSS 2023 Pasadena, US, 16-21 Jul. 2023
- Poster: BMVA Computer Vision Summer School Norwich, UK, 11-15 Jul. 2022
- Poster: Vision Researchers Colloquium 2022 Cardiff, UK, 4 Jul. 2022
- Poster: Special Event: BMVA 3 Day Symposium Manchester, UK, 4-6 Apr. 2022
- Oral Presentation: ICASSP 2021 Toronto, CA (Virtually), 6-11 Jun. 2021