Zhuowen Tu
Professor
Develops statistical learning and deep learning models for computer vision and multi-modal data, including image parsing and 3D volumetric modeling.
Zhuowen Tu's lab at UCSD works on 3D vision & neural rendering, vision-language & multimodal and learning theory & optimization. 38 papers since 2023, 37 at top venues, mostly CVPR and ICCV. 10 PhD students. 31 alumni, most often to Meta and Apple. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 10/ year
- at T1 venues
- 97%
- PhD students
- 10
- MS students
- 0
- alumni listed
- 31
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 9 papers2026 · T1 8 · collecting
- 6 papers2025 · T1 6
- 12 papers2024 · T1 12
- 11 papers2023 · T1 11
T1 venuesOtherVenues: CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, NeurIPS, ICLR
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Vision-language & multimodal8 papers
- 3D vision & neural rendering6 papers
- Learning theory & optimization5 papers
- volumetric0 papers
- multi-modal0 papers
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
20269 papers
- ECCV (T1)Beyond Disjoint Tasks: Towards More Natural Continual Learning for Vision-Language Models
- WACVCVP: Central-Peripheral Vision-Inspired Multimodal Model for Spatial Reasoning
- NeurIPS (T1)CyCLeGen: Cycle-Consistent Layout Prediction and Image Generation
- NeurIPS (T1)OverLay++: Dense-Overlap Layout-to-Image Generation Dataset
- CVPR (T1)PixARMesh: Autoregressive Mesh-Native Single-View Scene Reconstruction
- CVPR (T1)SemLayer: Semantic Generative Segmentation and Layer Reconstruction for Vector Icons
- ECCV (T1)Soft tail-dropping for adaptive visual tokenization
- CVPR (T1)Talk2Move: Reinforcement Learning for Text-Instructed Object-Level Geometric Transformation in Scenes
- ICLR (T1)VideoNSA: Native Sparse Attention Scales Video Understanding
20256 papers
- ICCV (T1)DepR: Depth Guided Single-view Scene Reconstruction with Instance-level Diffusion
- CVPR (T1)Ground-V: Teaching VLMs to Ground Complex Instructions in Pixels
- ICCV (T1)Lay-Your-Scene: Natural Scene Layout Generation with Diffusion Transformers
- NeurIPS (T1)OverLayBench: A Benchmark for Layout-to-Image Generation with Dense Overlaps
- NeurIPS (T1)Salient Concept-Aware Generative Data Augmentation
- ICCV (T1)YOLO-Count: Differentiable Object Counting for Text-to-Image Generation
202412 papers
- CVPR (T1)Bayesian Diffusion Models for 3D Shape Reconstruction
- AAAI (T1)BLIVA: A Simple Multimodal LLM for Better Handling of Text-Rich Visual Questions
- ECCV (T1)Dolfin: Diffusion Layout Transformers without Autoencoder
- CVPR (T1)Enhancing Vision-Language Pre-training with Rich Supervisions
- CVPR (T1)HOIDiffusion: Generating Realistic 3D Hand-Object Interaction Data
- CVPR (T1)Non-autoregressive Sequence-to-Sequence Vision-Language Models
- CVPR (T1)On the Scalability of Diffusion-based Text-to-Image Generation
- ECCV (T1)Open-World Dynamic Prompt and Continual Visual Representation Learning
- ICLR (T1)Patched Denoising Diffusion Models For High-Resolution Image Synthesis
- CVPR (T1)Restoration by Generation with Constrained Priors
- CVPR (T1)TokenCompose: Grounding Diffusion with Token-level Supervision
- EMNLP (T1)When Is Multilinguality a Curse? Language Modeling for 250 High-and Low-Resource Languages
202311 papers
- CVPR (T1)DiffusionRig: Learning Personalized Priors for Facial Appearance Editing
- ICCV (T1)Distilling Large Vision-Language Model with Out-of-Distribution Generalizability
- ICCV (T1)DocTr: Document Transformer for Structured Information Extraction in Documents
- CVPR (T1)Guided Recommendation for Model Fine-Tuning
- ICCV (T1)MasQCLIP for Open-Vocabulary Universal Image Segmentation
- ICCV (T1)Object-centric Multiple Object Tracking
- ICLR (T1)On the Feasibility of Cross-Task Transfer with Model-Based Reinforcement Learning
- ICML (T1)Open-Vocabulary Universal Image Segmentation with MaskCLIP
- ICCV (T1)Single-Stage Diffusion NeRF: A Unified Approach to 3D Generation and Reconstruction
- ICCV (T1)SkeleTR: Towards Skeleton-based Action Recognition in the Wild
- ICCV (T1)Uni-3D: A Universal Model for Panoptic 3D Scene Reconstruction
Where alumni went31 listed, 56% to industry
Industry 14Academia 11
Most often to
- Meta
- Apple
- Microsoft
Also to
- UCLA
- Carnegie Mellon University
- CUHK
Apply to UCSDFall 2027
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