VMD Lab

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News

Jun 2026

Hosting the monthly paper reading for VJAI.


Apr 2026

Hosting LAVA Grand challenge at ACMMM 2026 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.


Mar 2026

1 paper accepted to ACL 2026 in California, US.


Dec 2025

1 paper accepted to AACL in Mumbai, India.


Nov 2025

Organizing Vietnam - Japan AI Hackathon in Tokyo, Japan.


Oct 2025

Hosting LAVA workshop and Grand challenge at ACMMM 2025 in Dublin, Ireland.


Aug 2025

Attending MIRU 2024 in Kyoto, Japan.


Apr 2025

Move to SB Intuitions.


Sep 2024

1 paper accepted to NeurIPS 2024.


August 2024

Attending ACL 2024 in Bangkok, Thailand.

Attending MIRU 2024 in Kumamoto, Japan.


July 2024

1 paper accepted to ECCV 2024.

We will organize a workshop “Large Vision – Language Model Learning and Applications” at ACCV 2024.


June 2024

Attending CVPR 2024 in Seattle, US.

Award: First Workshop on Test-Time Adaptation: Model, Adapt Thyself! (MAT), Community Track, CVPR 2024.

2 CVPR workshop paper, 1 main conference paper.


Mar 2024

Award: 委員特別賞. 言語処理学会第30回年次大会(NLP2024).

1 paper accepted to 2024 IEEE CVPR workshop on fair, data-efficient, and trusted computer vision.


Feb 2024

1 paper accepted to CVPR 2024.

JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists (KAKENHI) FY 2024 - 2025.

The National Institute of Informatics (Japan) collaborative research fund FY 2024.


Jan 2024

Attending WACV 2024 in Hawaii, US.


Dec 2023

Attending EMNLP 2023 in Singapore.


Nov 2023

3 papers submitted to CVPR 2024.


Oct 2023

A commentary paper accepted for publication in 日本画像学会誌 (Journal of the Imaging Society of Japan): Anticipation Captioning with Commonsense Knowledge.

3 papers accepted to WACV 2024:

  • Soft Curriculum for Learning Conditional GANs with Noisy-Labeled and Uncurated Unlabeled Data
  • Revisiting Latent Space of GAN Inversion for Robust Real Image Editing
  • Label Augmentation as Inter-class Data Augmentation for Conditional Image Synthesis with Imbalanced Data

Attending ICCV 2023 in Paris, France.


Sep 2023

3 papers submitted to WACV 2024.

WACV 2024 reviewer.


Aug 2023

We have launched a new website. Thanks Dao Hoang Anh.


Jul 2023

1 paper accepted at ICCV 2023: Partition-and-Debias: Agnostic Biases Mitigation via A Mixture of Biases-Specific Experts.

Attending MIRU 2023 in Hamamatsu, Japan.


Jun 2023

I got funding from the National Institute of Informatics (Japan) for collaborative research from 2023/7–2024/3.

Invited talk AIST: Beyond simply describing what we see.

Presenting at CVPR 2023.

Presenting at the First International Workshop on Embodied Semiotics.

Attending JSAI 2023 in Kumamoto, Japan.


May 2023

1 paper accepted at AI4CC workshop (CVPR 2023): Balancing Reconstruction and Editing Quality of GAN Inversion for Real Image Editing with StyleGAN Prior Latent Space.


Apr 2023

I have been promoted to Project Assistant Professor at Nakayama Lab, The University of Tokyo.


Mar 2023

1 paper accepted at CVPR 2023: A-CAP: Anticipation Captioning with Commonsense Knowledge.

ICCV 2023 reviewer.

3 papers submitted to ICCV 2023.


24. Dec 2022

Welcome Dao — our lab is officially starting!


Dec 2022

Attending EMNLP 2022 (Abu Dhabi).


Nov 2022

4 CVPR papers submitted.


Oct 2022

1 paper accepted at WACV 2023: Indirect Adversarial Losses via an Intermediate Distribution for Training GANs.

1 oral paper accepted at EMNLP 2022: StoryER: Automatic Story Evaluation via Ranking, Rating and Reasoning.


July-Sep 2022

1 BMVC, 1 ACCV, 1 WACV, 1 EMNLP papers submitted.

ACCV 2022, WACV 2023, AAAI 2023 reviewer.

1 paper accepted to IEEE Access: Stochastically Flipping Labels of Discriminator’s Outputs for Training Generative Adversarial Networks”.


Jun 2022

Attending CVPR 2022 (New Orleans).

Invited talk (AIST).


Mar 2022

JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists (KAKENHI).

2 papers accepted at CVPR 2022

  • NOC-REK: Novel Object Captioning with Retrieved Vocabulary from External Knowledge
  • OSSGAN: Open-Set Semi-Supervised Image Generation

1 paper accepted to Machine Vision and Applications (MVAP): Paired-D++ GAN for Image Manipulation with Text.

2 ECCV papers submitted.

ECCV 2022 reviewer.


Jan 2022

Attending WACV 2022 (Hawaii).

1 IJCAI paper submitted.

ICPR 2022 reviewer.


Oct-Dec 2021

1 paper accepted at WACV 2022, “PPCD-GAN: Progressive Pruning and Class-Aware Distillation for Large-Scale Conditional GANs Compression”.

3 CVPR papers submitted.

1 NAACL paper submitted.

CVPR 2022 reviewer.


Jul-Sep 2021

1 BMVC paper submitted.

2 WACV papers submitted.

2 AAAI papers submitted.

BMVC 2021 external reviewer, NeurIPS 2021 emergency reviewer (Datasets and Benchmarks Track ), WACV 2022 reviewer.


Jun 2021

1 paper accepted at MVA (oral), “Saliency-based Subject Selection for Diverse Image Captioning.


Mar 2021

ICCV 2021 reviewer.

1 MVA (conference) paper submitted.

2 ICCV papers submitted.

1 ICMR paper submitted.


Dec 2020

CVPR 2021 reviewer


Nov 2020

CVIU paper submitted.

1 CVPR 2021 paper submitted.


Oct 2020

work as a postdoctoral researcher at Nakayama’s lab, The University of Tokyo.


Sep 2020

graduated from SOKENDAI and NII.


Jul 2020

Ph.D. thesis defense, “Learning-based Image Synthesis by Utilizing Disentangled Feature Representations”.

1 paper accepted at ECCV 2020, “Visual-Relation Conscious Image Generation from Structured-Text”.


Jun 2020

1 paper accepted at ICPR 2020, “Stylized-Colorization for Line-Arts”.


May 2020

1 paper published in Machine Vision and Applications (Two-Stream FCNs to Balance Content and Style for Style Transfer).


Apr 2020

1 ICPR 2020 paper submitted.


Mar 2020

ECCV 2020 reviewer.

1 ECCV 2020 paper submitted.


Nov 2019

1 CVPR 2020 paper submitted.

1 pre-print paper submitted (Two-Stream FCNs to Balance Content and Style for Style Transfer).


Aug 2019

1 pre-print paper submitted (Visual-Relation Conscious Image Generation from Structured-Text).


Jul-Sep 2019

Internship at VLLab, UC Merced, research on video generation project.


Jul 2019

1 MVA submitted.


Apr 2019

Released code for our paper “Paired-D GAN for Semantic Image Synthesis” (ACCV 2018) [project page].

Released code for our paper [project page, updating…].


Mar 2019

1 ICCV 2019 paper submitted.


Nov 2018

1 CVPR 2019 paper submitted.


Sep 2018

1 paper accepted at ACCV 2018, “Paired-D GAN for Semantic Image Synthesis”.


Dec 2017

1 paper accepted at WACV 2018, “Balancing Content and Style with Two-Stream FCNs for Style Transfer”.


Oct 2017

PhD student at SOKENDAI, Japan.


Apr-Sep 2017

Internship at NII, Japan, research on style transfer project.


Jul 2016

1 paper accepted at ICPR 2016, “Facial Expression Recognition by Re-ranking with Global and Local Generic Features”.


Aug 2015 - Jan 2016

Internship at NII, Japan, research on facial recognition project.