About me

I am currently an Assistant Professor in the Information Systems Technology and Design (ISTD) Pillar at Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD). Prior to joining SUTD, I was a Research Fellow in Computer Vision and Robot Perception Lab, Department of Computer Science, National University of Singapore (NUS). I recieved my Ph.D. in Computer Science from NUS in March 2021, supervised by Professor Tat-Seng Chua.

I am heading Intelligent Machine Perception Lab (IMPL) at SUTD, with a primary focus on, but not limited to: (1) Computer Vision: 3D computer vision, (3D) scene understanding. (2) Machine Learning: data-efficient learning, multi-modal learning, continual learning, out-of-distribution learning, robust learning.


Open Positions

  • I am looking for PhD applicants with strong background in computer science, fully-supported by SUTD/AISG/SINGA/industry scholarship.
  • I am recruiting research fellow (holds a doctoral degree) with relevant research experience on computer vision.
  • I am welcoming self-fund or CSC-fund visiting PhD/Master students and local MComp/BComp students with interests in the area of (3D) computer vision and machine learning.
Please check here for more information, and feel free to reach out via email if you are interested in working with me.

News

  • [Jan 2024] One paper about language-guided 3D affordance segmentation is accepted by CVPR 2024!
  • [Jan 2024] One paper about semi-supervised 3D instance segmentation is accepted by ICRA 2024!
  • [Dec 2023] I am awarded a grant titled "MANTIS - Cross-modality Resiliency against Real-world Attacks" from DSO as the Principal Investigator!
  • [Dec 2023] Two papers about semi-supervised 3D object detection and robust visual recognition are accepted by AAAI 2024!
  • [Oct 2023] One paper about self-supervised point cloud representation learning is accepted by 3DV 2024 as an oral paper!
  • [Sep 2023] One paper about visual domain generalization is accepted by IJCV 2023!
  • [Aug 2023] One paper about robust few-shot point cloud segmentation is accepted by BMVC 2023!
  • [Aug 2023] I am awarded a grant titled "Towards Realistic Deep Learning for 3D Vision" from A*STAR as the co-Investigator!
  • [Jul 2023] One paper about generalized few-shot point cloud segmentation is accepted by ICCV 2023!
  • [Jun 2023] One paper about 6-DoF grasps synthesis is accepted by IROS 2023!
  • [May 2023] One paper about monocular 3D object detection is accepted by TCSVT 2023!
  • [Mar 2023] I am invited to serve as Demo Chair at Sixth IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Information Processing and Retrieval (MIPR 2023)!
  • [Feb 2023] I am invited to join the Organising Committee of IEEE ICME 2023 Workshop on 3D Multimedia Analytics, Search and Generation!
  • [Oct 2022] I am awarded a grant titled "Multi-modal Joint Learning for Scene Understanding" from SUTD-ZJU IDEA as the sole Principal Investigator!
  • [Sep 2022] I am awarded a grant titled "Data-efficient 3D Object Detection for Robot Perception" from TL@SUTD as the sole Principal Investigator!
  • [Aug 2022] I join the Singapore University of Technology and Design as an Assistant Professor!
  • [Jul 2022] Three papers are accepted by ECCV 2022!
  • [Dec 2021] One paper about class-incremental 3D object detection is accepted by AAAI 2022 as an oral paper!
  • [Jun 2021] I am selected for the CVPR 2021 Doctoral Consortium. My mentor is Prof. Serge Belongie!
  • [May 2021] I win the IMDA Excellent Prize for my PhD thesis!
  • [Mar 2021] I successfully defended my PhD thesis "Towards Learning Scene Semantics on 3D Point Clouds"!
  • [Mar 2021] One paper about few-shot 3D semantic segmentation is accepted by CVPR 2021!
  • [Aug 2020] I recieve the Research Achievement Award from SoC!
  • [Feb 2020] One paper about semi-supervised 3D object detection is accepted by CVPR 2020 as an oral paper!

Selected Publications

Please visit my google scholar profile for the full publication list.
* indicates corresponding author

LASO: Language-guided Affordance Segmentation on 3D Object
Yicong Li, Na Zhao, Junbin Xiao, Chun Feng, Xiang Wang, Tat-Seng Chua
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Patten Recognition (CVPR), 2024
[Paper] [Code]
End-to-End Semi-Supervised 3D Instance Segmentation with PCTeacher
Linfeng Li, Na Zhao*
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2024
[Paper] [Code]
Robust Visual Recognition with Class-Imbalanced Open-World Noisy Data
Na Zhao*, Gim Hee Lee
Thirty-Eighth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2024
[Paper] [Code]
Dual-Perspective Knowledge Enrichment for Semi-Supervised 3D Object Detection
Yucheng Han, Na Zhao*, Weiling Chen, Keng-Teck Ma, Hanwang Zhang
Thirty-Eighth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2024
[Paper] [Code]
Enhancing Generalizability of Representation Learning for Data-Efficient 3D Scene Understanding
Yunsong Wang, Na Zhao, Gim Hee Lee
International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV), 2024 Oral Presentation
[Paper] [Code]
Style-Hallucinated Dual Consistency Learning: A Unified Framework for Visual Domain Generalization
Yuyang Zhao, Zhun Zhong, Na Zhao, Nicu Sebe, Gim Hee Lee
International Journal on Computer Vision (IJCV), 2023
[Paper] [Code]
Towards Robust Few-shot Point Cloud Semantic Segmentation
Yating Xu, Na Zhao, Gim Hee Lee
The British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), 2023
[Paper] [Code]
Generalized Few-Shot Point Cloud Segmentation Via Geometric Words
Yating Xu, Conghui Hu, Na Zhao, Gim Hee Lee
International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2023
[Paper] [Code]
Refining 6-DoF Grasps with Context-Specific Classifiers
Tasbolat Taunyazov, Heng Zhang, John Patrick Eala, Na Zhao, Harold Soh
International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2023
[Paper] [Code]
PDR: Progressive Depth Regularization for Monocular 3D Object Detection
Hualian Sheng, Sijia Cai, Na Zhao#, Bing Deng, Min-Jian Zhao#, Gim Hee Lee # indicates co-corresponding author
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT), 2023
[Paper]
Teaching with Soft Label Smoothing for Mitigating Noisy Labels in Facial Expressions
Tohar Lukov, Na Zhao, Gim Hee Lee, Ser-Nam Lim
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2022
[Paper] [Code]
Rethinking IoU-based Optimization for Single-stage 3D Object Detection
Hualian Sheng, Sijia Cai, Na Zhao*, Bing Deng, Jianqiang Huang, Xian-Sheng Hua, Min-Jian Zhao, Gim Hee Lee
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2022
[Paper] [Code]

Style-Hallucinated Dual Consistency Learning for Domain Generalized Semantic Segmentation
Yuyang Zhao, Zhun Zhong, Na Zhao, Nicu Sebe, Gim Hee Lee
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2022
[Paper] [Code]

Static-Dynamic Co-Teaching for Class-Incremental 3D Object Detection
Na Zhao, Gim Hee Lee
Thirty-Sixth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2022 Oral Presentation
[Paper] [Code]

Few-shot 3D Point Cloud Semantic Segmentation
Na Zhao, Tat-Seng Chua, Gim Hee Lee
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Patten Recognition (CVPR), 2021
[Paper] [Code] [Video]

SESS: Self-Ensembling Semi-Supervised 3D Object Detection
Na Zhao, Tat-Seng Chua, Gim Hee Lee
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Patten Recognition (CVPR), 2020 Oral Presentation
[Paper] [Code] [Video]

PS^2-Net: A Locally and Globally Aware Network for Point-Based Semantic Segmentation
Na Zhao, Tat-Seng Chua, Gim Hee Lee
25th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), 2020
[Paper] [Code] [Video]

Research Grants

  • Principal Investigator. DSO Research Grant. S$998,000. Dec 2023 - Dec 2026.
    Topic: Cross-modality Resiliency against Real-world Attacks
  • Co-Investigator. A*STAR MTC Programmatic Grant. S$599,950. Aug 2023 - Jul 2026.
    Topic: Towards Realistic Deep Learning for 3D Vision
  • Principal Investigator. SUTD-ZJU Thematic Research Grant. S$148,187. Dec 2022 - Nov 2024.
    Topic: Multi-modal Joint Learning for Scene Understanding
  • Principal Investigator. TL@SUTD Seed Grant. S$85,000. Oct 2022 - Apr 2024.
    Topic: Data-efficient 3D Object Detection for Robot Perception

Academic Experience


Academic Services

  • Conference Reviewer: ECCV 2024, ICML 2024, CVPR 2021-2024, ICLR 2024, NeurIPS 2023, ICCV 2023, IJCAI 2021-2023, AAAI 2021-2023, BMVC 2022, ECCV 2022, ICCV 2021, MM 2019-2020, PCM 2018
  • Journal Reviewer: TKDE, TIP, TCSVT, TOMM, TMM, Multimedia Systems, Neurocomputing, etc

Teaching Experience

  • Instructor, 50.007 Machine Learning, Spring 2023 & Spring 2024.
  • Mentor, 01.400 Capstone, Fall 2023 & Spring 2024.
  • Instructor, 10.020 Data Driven World, Fall 2023.
  • Teaching Assistant, CS4242 Social Media Computing, Spring 2018 & Spring 2019.
  • Teaching Assistant, CS5340 Uncertainty Modeling in AI, Fall 2018.
  • Teaching Assistant, CG3002 Embedded Systems Design Project, Fall 2017.