Tuan-Anh Vu

I completed my PhD in Computer Science and Engineering at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) in 2024, advised by Prof. Sai-Kit Yeung. Previously, I was a member of Computer Vision and Image Processing Lab under the supervision of Dr. Ha Viet Uyen Synh and also Research Assistant in the School of Computer Science and Engineering, International University - Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City.

I am very grateful to be a recipient of the A*STAR Research Attachment Programme (ARAP), which supports my research for 18 months at Centre for Frontier AI Research, A*STAR. During this time, I am very fortunate to work and be mentored by Dr. Qing Guo and Prof. Ivor W Tsang.

My recent research focuses on Deep Learning, 3D Reconstruction, Scene Understanding, Shape Analysis, and Geometry Processing. Currently, I have a pleasure of working with Prof. Duc Thanh Nguyen, Prof. Binh-Son Hua, and Dr. Quang-Hieu Pham.

Check my CV and PhD dissertation for more details.

Selected Publications

* denotes equal contribution, # denotes guidance role for juniors

New! MarineInst: A Foundation Model for Marine Image Analysis with Instance Visual Description (Oral - acceptance rate of 2.3% of 8,585 submissions)
Ziqiang Zheng, Yiwei Chen, Huimin Zeng, Tuan-Anh Vu, Binh-Son Hua, Sai-Kit Yeung
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2024
Project Page Paper

New! StyleCity: Large-Scale 3D Urban Scenes Stylization
Yingshu Chen, Huajian Huang, Tuan-Anh Vu, Ka Chun Shum, Sai-Kit Yeung
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2024
Project Page Paper

New! Test-Time Augmentation for 3D Point Cloud Classification and Segmentation
Tuan-Anh Vu*, Srinjay Sarkar*, Zhiyuan Zhang, Binh-Son Hua, Sai-Kit Yeung,
International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV 2024)
Project Page Paper (arxiv) Paper (IEEE)

MarineVRS: Marine Video Retrieval System with Explainability via Semantic Understanding
Tan-Sang Ha*, Hai Nguyen-Truong*, Tuan-Anh Vu#, and Sai-Kit Yeung
OCEANS 2023, Limerick
Project Page Paper (arxiv) Paper (IEEE)

Marine Video Kit: A New Marine Video Dataset for Content-based Analysis and Retrieval (Oral)
Quang-Trung Truong, Tuan-Anh Vu, Tan-Sang Ha, Lokoc Jakub, Yue Him Wong Tim, Ajay Joneja, and Sai-Kit Yeung
29th International Conference on Multimedia Modeling (MMM), 2023
Project Page Paper (arxiv) Paper (Springer) Code

RFNet-4D: Joint Object Reconstruction and Flow Estimation from 4D Point Clouds (Oral - acceptance rate of 2.7% of 5,803 submissions)
Tuan-Anh Vu, Duc-Thanh Nguyen, Binh-Son Hua, Quang-Hieu Pham, Sai-Kit Yeung
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2022
Project Page Paper Code Video Poster

Time-of-Day Neural Style Transfer for Architectural Photographs (Oral)
Yingshu Chen, Tuan-Anh Vu, Ka-Chun Shum, Binh-Son Hua, Sai-Kit Yeung
IEEE International Conference on Computational Photography (ICCP), 2022
Project Page Paper Code Video Poster

Preprints

Tuan-Anh Vu, Zheng Ziqiang, Chengyang Song, Qing Guo, Ivor Tsang, Sai-Kit Yeung, "A Large-Scale Video Dataset for Moving Camouflaged Animals Understanding". Project Page, Paper
Tuan-Anh Vu, Duc Thanh Nguyen, Binh-Son Hua, Quang-Hieu Pham, Sai-Kit Yeung, "RFNet-4D++: Joint Object Reconstruction and Flow Estimation from 4D Point Clouds with Cross-Attention Spatio-Temporal Features". Paper
Tuan-Anh Vu, Duc Thanh Nguyen, Qing Guo, Binh-Son Hua, Nhat Minh Chung, Ivor W. Tsang, Sai-Kit Yeung, "Leveraging Open-Vocabulary Diffusion to Camouflaged Instance Segmentation". Paper
Tuan-Anh Vu, Hai Nguyen-Truong, Ziqiang Zheng, Binh-Son Hua, Qing Guo, Ivor W. Tsang, Sai-Kit Yeung, "TransCues: Boundary and Reflection-empowered Pyramid Vision Transformer for Semantic Transparent Object Segmentation". Paper
Hai Nguyen-Truong*, E-Ro Nguyen*, Tuan-Anh Vu#, Binh-Son Hua, Minh-Triet Tran, Sai-Kit Yeung, "Improving Referring Image Segmentation using Vision-Aware Text Features". Paper
Ziqiang Zheng, Jipeng Zhang, Tuan-Anh Vu, Shizhe Diao, Yue Him Wong Tim, Sai-Kit Yeung, "MarineGPT: Unlocking Secrets of Ocean to the Public". Paper
Ziqiang Zheng, Yiwei Chen, Jipeng Zhang, Tuan-Anh Vu, Huimin Zeng, Yue Him Wong Tim, Sai-Kit Yeung, "Exploring Boundary of GPT-4V on Marine Analysis: A Preliminary Case Study". Paper

Work Experiences

Teaching Assistant, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (2020 - 2024)

COMP 1021 - Introduction to Computer Science (2020), COMP2011 - Programming with C++ (2023), COMP 4431 - Multimedia Computing (2020, 2022), ISDN2300 - Introduction to 3D Design (2020, 2021, 2022), ISDN2400 - Physical Prototyping (2021), ISDN5300 - Advanced Digital Design (2022, 2023), CSIT6000L - Advanced Digital Design (2022), CSIT5940 - Advanced Digital Design (2023)

Research Assistant, School of Computer Science and Engineering, International University - Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City (2017 - 2018)

Mentors: Dr. Ha Viet-Uyen Synh, Dr. Long Hoang Pham.

Teaching Assistant, School of Computer Science and Engineering, International University - Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City (2016 - 2018)

Digital Image Processing ( 2016-2017), Theoretical Models for Computing (2016-2018), Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (2016-2017), Principle of Programming Language (2016-2017)

Professional Activities

Conference Reviewer: CVPR (2022 - 2024), ICCV (2023), ECCV (2022 - 2024), NeurIPS (2024), ICLR (2025), AAAI (2025), WACV (2022 - 2025), ACCV (2022 - 2024), ICME 2023
Journal Reviewer: IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence, IET Computer Vision, PeerJ Computer Science, SN Computer Science, Vietnam Journal of Computer Science
Organizer: Computer Vision for Developing Countries (CV4DC) Workshop'24, ACCV'24

Awards and Honors

Doctoral Consortium (2024), European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)
Doctoral Consortium (2024), IEEE Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IEEE CAI)
ARAP Research Award (2023-2024), Centre for Frontier AI Research, A*STAR
2nd Place, USV-based Obstacle Segmentation Challenge at WACV 2024 the 2nd Workshop on Maritime Computer Vision
2nd Place, USV-based Obstacle Segmentation Challenge at WACV 2023 the 1st Workshop on Maritime Computer Vision
UGC Research Travel Grant, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (for attending ECCV 2022)
Travel Grant, EPFL CIS Edge AI Summer School 2022
Best Poster Award, Machine Learning Summer School Indonesia (MLSS-Indo) 2020
Postgraduate Scholarship (2019-2023), The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Scholarship for SENG Summer Camp for Elite Students 2019, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Scholarship for Master by Research program in Information Technology (2017), International University - Vietnam National University HCM City
Scholarship for Excellent Academic Performance (2014-2015), International University - Vietnam National University HCM City