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.