At the invitation of the School of Information Science and Engineering, Professor Gu Dongbing of the University of Exeter, UK, paid a visit to ECUST on April 10th, 2017. Professor Gu made an academic report entitled “Visual Mapping and Localisation for Autonomous Navigation”, which was chaired by Professor Xingsheng and attended by teachers and graduate students of the School of Information Science and Engineering. During the Q&A session of the report, Professor Gu and the audience held heated discussions.