Tianfu Wu
He/Him/His

Biography
Tianfu Wu is an associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at NC State University. He is currently the PI of the laboratory of interpretable Visual Modeling, Computing and Learning (iVMCL). He received his Ph.D. in statistics from UCLA under the supervision by Prof. Song-Chun Zhu. His research focuses on interpretable Visual Modeling, Computing and Learning, often motivated by the tasks of pursuing a unified framework for AI to ALTER (Ask, Learn, Test, Explain and Refine) in a trustworthy, robust and responsive way for AIGCGT (AI Generated Content and Ground-Truth).
Education
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Ph.D.
2011
Statistics
University of California, Los Angeles
Research Focus
Recent Publications
- Adversarial Perturbations Are Formed by Iteratively Learning Linear Combinations of the Right Singular Vectors of the Adversarial Jacobian (2025)
- DiffMesh: A Motion-aware Diffusion Framework for Human Mesh Recovery from Videos (2025)
- GSBA$\textasciicircumK$: $top$-$K$ Geometric Score-based Black-box Attack (2025)
- H$^3$GNNs: Harmonizing Heterophily and Homophily in GNNs via Joint Structural Node Encoding and Self-Supervised Learning (2025)
- ScaleLSD: Scalable Deep Line Segment Detection Streamlined (2025)
- WeGeFT: Weight‑Generative Fine‑Tuning for Multi‑Faceted Efficient Adaptation of Large Models (2025)
- A Pixel Is Worth More Than One 3D Gaussians in Single-View 3D Reconstruction (2024)
- Enhancing Approximate Message Passing via Diffusion Models Towards On-Device Intelligence (2024)
- High-Speed Receiver Transient Modeling with Generative Adversarial Networks (2024)
- Multi-View Attentive Contextualization for Multi-View 3D Object Detection (2024)
Recent News

New Technique Improves AI Ability to Map 3D Space With 2D Cameras
Posted on June 13, 2024 | Filed Under: AI/ML and Research
Because the technique works effectively with limited computational resources, it holds promise for improving the navigation of autonomous vehicles.

AI Networks Are More Vulnerable to Malicious Attacks Than Previously Thought
Posted on December 4, 2023 | Filed Under: Research
A study finds AI tools are more vulnerable than previously thought to targeted attacks that effectively force AI systems to make bad decisions.

New Method Helps AI Navigate 3D Space Using 2D Images
Posted on September 28, 2023 | Filed Under: AI/ML and Research
Photos are two-dimensional (2D), but autonomous vehicles and other technologies have to navigate the three-dimensional (3D) world. Researchers have developed a new method to help artificial intelligence (AI) extract 3D information from 2D i …