Tuan-Anh Vu

Tuan-Anh Vu Vũ Tuấn Anh

Postdoctoral Researcher · UCLA SCI Lab, University of California, Los Angeles
Advised by Prof. M. Khalid Jawed  ·  Ph.D., HKUST 2024

3D / 4D Scene Understanding Robot Perception Foundation Models Robust Visual AI Autonomous Systems
On the 2026–2027 academic job market

Research Overview

I am a Postdoctoral Researcher at the UCLA SCI Lab, working with Prof. M. Khalid Jawed. I completed my Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering at HKUST in 2024, advised by Prof. Sai-Kit Yeung. From 2022–2024 I was a researcher at CFAR, A*STAR, Singapore under the A*STAR Research Attachment Programme, mentored by Prof. Qing Guo and IEEE Fellow Prof. Ivor W. Tsang.

My research develops visual perception systems that are robust in the wild — handling transparency, camouflage, dynamic 3D geometry, and uncontrolled field conditions. I build on foundations in 3D/4D scene understanding, point cloud learning, and vision-language models to enable reliable perception for autonomous robots and intelligent systems, including UAVs, Ground Robot, Robot Arms.

I have mentored 15 graduate and undergraduate researchers at UCLA and HKUST, co-organized workshops at CVPR, ICCV, and ACCV, and serve on the program committees of major venues including CVPR, ECCV, ICCV, NeurIPS, and ICLR.

Research Themes Overview
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3D & 4D Scene Understanding

Point clouds, Gaussian splatting, neural fields, dynamic reconstruction, flow estimation

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Robust Visual Perception

Transparent & reflective objects, camouflaged targets, multimodal sensor fusion

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Robot Perception & Autonomy

Field robotics, drone navigation, robotic manipulation, safe vision-LLM systems

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Vision-Language & Foundation Models

Referring segmentation, open-vocabulary detection, domain-specific model adaptation

Recent News

Mar 2026 Paper accepted at IJCV — CamoVid60K: large-scale video dataset for moving camouflaged animals.
Jan 2026 Paper accepted at IJCV — open-vocabulary camouflaged instance segmentation with diffusion.
Jan 2026 Serving as Session Chair at AAAI 2026. Invited talks at Sungkyunkwan University and Fulbright University Vietnam.
Jan 2026 Appointed Executive Officer (Secretary) of IEEE Coastal Los Angeles Section, Region 6.
Nov 2025 Two papers accepted at AAAI 2026 (one Oral, 4.3% rate); one at WACV 2026. Appointed Area Chair at ICASSP 2026.
Oct 2025 Co-organized CV4DC Workshop at ICCV 2025. Co-organizing CV4Animals Workshop at CVPR 2026.
Feb 2025 Joined UCLA SCI Lab as a Postdoctoral Researcher, working with Prof. M. Khalid Jawed.
Aug 2024 Two papers at ECCV 2024 — MarineInst (Oral, 2.3%) and StyleCity3D. Participated in ECCV Doctoral Consortium, mentored by Prof. Leonidas Guibas (IEEE/ACM Fellow).

Publications * equal contribution  ·  † corresponding  ·  # senior author

2026
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AgriDrone: A Multi-Sensor Dataset and Lightweight Vision Backbone for Perception in Greenhouse Drone Navigation
Tuan-Anh Vu, Evelyn Zhu, Xiaoyang Zhao, Angela Yang, Akshat Pandya, M. Khalid Jawed
Preprint New
2026
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Catch Me If You Can Describe Me: Open-Vocabulary Camouflaged Instance Segmentation with Diffusion
IJCV 2026 Journal New
2026
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CamoVid60K: A Large-Scale Video Dataset for Moving Camouflaged Animals Understanding
Tuan-Anh Vu#, Ziqiang Zheng, Chengyang Song, Qing Guo, Ivor Tsang, Sai-Kit Yeung
IJCV 2026 Journal New
2026
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Power of Boundary and Reflection: Semantic Transparent Object Segmentation using Pyramid Vision Transformer with Transparent Cues
WACV 2026 New
2026
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Reconstruction Using the Invisible: Intuition from NIR and Metadata for Enhanced 3D Gaussian Splatting
Gyusam Chang, Tuan-Anh Vu†, Vivek Alumootil, Harris Song, Deanna Pham, Sangpil Kim#, M. Khalid Jawed#
AAAI 2026 New
2026
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AquaVision: An Edge-Deployed 360° Underwater Panoramic Monitoring System
Tan-Sang Ha, Tuan-Anh Vu#, Sai-Kit Yeung
Preprint New
2026
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Exploiting Geometric Structures for Modeling Multi-Agent Behaviors: A New Thinking
Bohao Qu, Xiaofeng Cao, Bing Li, Menglin Zhang, Tuan-Anh Vu, Di Lin, Qing Guo
AAAI 2026 Oral · 4.3% New
2026
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MarineEVT: Advancing Event-Centric Marine Video Understanding via Visual Tool Reasoning
Tuan-An To, Wong Yuk Kwan, Tuan-Anh Vu, Ziqiang Zheng, Sai-Kit Yeung
Preprint New
2026
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Your Vision-Language-Action Model Already Has Attention Heads For Path Deviation Detection
Jaehwan Jeong, Evelyn Zhu, Jinying Lin, Emmanuel Jaimes, Tuan-Anh Vu, Jungseock Joo, Sangpil Kim#, M. Khalid Jawed#
Preprint New
2025
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DePT3R: Joint Dense Point Tracking and 3D Reconstruction of Dynamic Scenes in a Single Forward Pass
Vivek Alumootil, Tuan-Anh Vu†, M. Khalid Jawed
Preprint
2025
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HiddenObject: Modality Agnostic Fusion for Multimodal Hidden Object Detection
Harris Song*, Tuan-Anh Vu*†, Sanjith Menon, Sriram Narasimhan, M. Khalid Jawed
Preprint
2025
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Vision-Guided Targeted Grasping and Vibration for Robotic Pollination in Controlled Environments
Jaehwan Jeong*, Tuan-Anh Vu*, Radha Lahoti, Vivek Alumootil, Sangpil Kim#, M. Khalid Jawed#
Preprint
2025
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AgriChrono: A Multi-modal Dataset Capturing Crop Growth and Lighting Variability with a Field Robot
Jaehwan Jeong, Tuan-Anh Vu†, Mohammad Jony, Shahab Ahmad, Md Mukhlesur Rahman, Sangpil Kim#, M. Khalid Jawed#
Preprint
2025
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Vision-Aware Text Features in Referring Image Segmentation: From Object Understanding to Context Understanding
WACV 2025
2024
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Reconstruction of Time-Varying Point Clouds via Bidirectional Weakly-Supervised Learning of Spatio-Temporal Cross Features
Preprint
2024
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Test-Time Augmentation for 3D Point Cloud Classification and Segmentation
Tuan-Anh Vu*, Srinjay Sarkar*, Zhiyuan Zhang#, Binh-Son Hua, Sai-Kit Yeung
3DV 2024
2024
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MarineInst: A Foundation Model for Marine Image Analysis with Instance Visual Description
ECCV 2024 Oral · 2.3%
2024
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StyleCity: Large-Scale 3D Urban Scenes Stylization
ECCV 2024
2024
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Exploring Boundary of GPT-4V on Marine Analysis: A Preliminary Case Study
Preprint
2024
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Towards Transferable Attacks Against Vision-LLMs in Autonomous Driving with Typography
Preprint
2023
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MarineVRS: Marine Video Retrieval System with Explainability via Semantic Understanding
OCEANS 2023 Oral
2023
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Marine Video Kit: A New Marine Video Dataset for Content-based Analysis and Retrieval
MMM 2023 Oral
2023
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MarineGPT: Unlocking Secrets of Ocean to the Public
Ziqiang Zheng, Jipeng Zhang, Tuan-Anh Vu, Shizhe Diao, Yue Him Wong Tim, Sai-Kit Yeung
2022
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RFNet-4D: Joint Object Reconstruction and Flow Estimation from 4D Point Clouds
ECCV 2022 Oral · 2.7%
2022
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Time-of-Day Neural Style Transfer for Architectural Photographs
ICCP 2022 Oral

Thesis & Dissertation

2024
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Robust Scene Understanding in Challenging Scenarios
Tuan-Anh Vu
Ph.D. Dissertation · HKUST · 2024
Advised by Prof. Sai-Kit Yeung (HKUST).
Doctoral Consortiums:
2019
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Extend Traffic Signs Detection and Recognition Algorithm in Nighttime in Viet Nam
Tuan-Anh Vu
B.Sc. Thesis · HCMIU-VNU · 2019

Full list on Google Scholar and ORCID.

Teaching & Student Supervision

Courses Taught / TA

Introduction to Computer Science HKUST · COMP 1021
Programming with C++ HKUST · COMP 2011
Multimedia Computing HKUST · COMP 4431
Introduction to 3D Design HKUST · ISDN 2300
Physical Prototyping HKUST · ISDN 2400
Advanced Digital Design HKUST · ISDN 5300 / CSIT 6000L / CSIT 5940
Digital Image Processing HCMIU-VNU
Theoretical Models for Computing HCMIU-VNU
Introduction to Artificial Intelligence HCMIU-VNU
Principles of Programming Languages HCMIU-VNU

Current Mentees

Graduate Students
AI
Gyusam Chang
Visiting Ph.D. · Artificial Intelligence · Korea University
AI
Jaehwan Jeong
Visiting Ph.D. · Artificial Intelligence · Korea University
ME
Xiaoyang "Tony" Zhao
M.S. · Mechanical Engineering · UCLA
CS
Alan Nadelsticher Ruvalcaba
M.S. · Computer Science · Georgia Tech
Undergraduate Students
CS
Harris Song
CS
Vivek Alumootil
CS
Angela Yang
CS
Aaditya Raj
CS
Kevin Yao
M&P
Menghui "Evelyn" Zhu
DT
Russell Luo
ME
Deanna Pham
ME
Sanjith Menon
ME
Mehmet Arif Bacaksizlar
CE
Darren Chin

Professional Service

Leadership & Organization

Session Chair, AAAI 2026
Area Chair, ICASSP 2026
IEEE Executive Officer (Secretary), Coastal Los Angeles Section, Region 6 (2026–)
Workshop Co-organizerCV4Animals @ CVPR 2026
Workshop Co-organizerCV4DC @ ICCV 2025, ACCV 2024

Program Committee / Reviewer

Top Venues: CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, AAAI, IJCAI, WACV, ICRA, ACM MM (2022–2026)
Journals: IJCV, ACM TOG, IEEE TIP, IEEE TMM, IEEE RA-L, EAAI, CAD, Neurocomputing

Selected Honors & Awards

2025 Doctoral Consortium with Travel Grant, WACV 2025 · Mentored by Prof. R. Souvenir & Prof. S. X. Huang
2024 Doctoral Consortium, ECCV 2024 · Mentored by Prof. Leonidas Guibas (IEEE/ACM Fellow)
2024 Doctoral Consortium, IEEE CAI 2024 · Mentored by Prof. Ivor W. Tsang (IEEE Fellow)
2024 2nd Place, USV-based Obstacle Segmentation Challenge · WACV 2024 Maritime CV Workshop
2022 UGC Research Travel Grant, HKUST (ECCV 2022) · Travel Grant, EPFL CIS Edge AI Summer School
2020 Best Poster Award, Machine Learning Summer School Indonesia (MLSS-Indo)
2019 Postgraduate Scholarship, HKUST (2019–2023)