Meng-Yu Jennifer Kuo, PhD

Hello! I am an Assistant Professor at Nara Women's University, Nara, Japan ⛩️
I received my PhD degree (supervised by Prof. Shohei Nobuhara and Prof. Ko Nishino) from the Computer Vision Lab at Kyoto University, Japan. I was a postdoc (working with Prof. Hyun-Soo Park) at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.

Research Interests: Computer Vision, 3D Sensing, Computational Photography, Physics-Based Vision, and Structure-from-Motion.

CV[03/2023]

Feel free to reach out at mengyu.j.kuo@gmail.com

News

Aug. 2026Plant4D🌱 has been accepted at WACV2027 (Round 1)!
Jan. 2026I will serve as a Diversity & Inclusion Chair for ACCV2026.
Sep. 2025Got a paper accepted at WACV2026 (Round 1)!
Apr. 2025I will serve as the local organizer for the CVIM May 2025 Symposium in Nara, Japan.

Publications

	Plant4D Structure-aware Riemannian Growth Fields for 4D Plant Modeling Meng-Yu Jennifer Kuo, Ryo Kawahara Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), 2027 (Round 1) [project page]
	MMHOI: Modeling Complex 3D Multi-Human Multi-Object Interactions Kaen Kogashi, Anoop Cherian, Meng-Yu Jennifer Kuo Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), 2026 (Round 1, 6.4%, Oral) [project page]
	Learning 3D Human UV with Loose Clothing from Monocular Video Meng-Yu Jennifer Kuo, Jingfan Guo, Ryo Kawahara The International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications (VISAPP), 2024 [paper] [poster]
	Teleidoscopic Imaging System for Microscale 3D Shape Reconstruction Ryo Kawahara, Meng-Yu Jennifer Kuo, Shohei Nobuhara Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR), 2023 [project page]
	Polarimetric Underwater Stereo Ryo Kawahara, Meng-Yu Jennifer Kuo, Takahiro Okabe Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis (SCIA), 2023 [paper] [poster]
	Non-Rigid Shape From Water Meng-Yu Jennifer Kuo, Ryo Kawahara, Shohei Nobuhara, Ko Nishino International Conference on Computational Photography (ICCP), 2021 (Paper talk) Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), 2021 [project page] [supp. material] [paper] [talk]
	Appearance and Shape from Water Reflection Ryo Kawahara, Meng-Yu Jennifer Kuo, Shohei Nobuhara, Ko Nishino Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), 2020 (Best Paper Finalist) [project page] [supp. material] [paper] [talk (skip to 33:38)]
	Surface Normals and Shape From Water Meng-Yu Jennifer Kuo, Satoshi Murai, Ryo Kawahara, Shohei Nobuhara, Ko Nishino Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), 2021 [project page] Satoshi Murai, Meng-Yu Jennifer Kuo, Ryo Kawahara, Shohei Nobuhara, Ko Nishino International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2019 (Oral, 4.3%)* (Equal contribution)

Honors and Awards

2023年度山下記念研究賞 (March 2024)
Kobayashi International Scholarship (April 2017 - March 2020)
DOCOMO International Student Scholarship (April 2015 - March 2017)
International ICT Innovative Services Contest 2013 - Third Place (Nov. 2013)

Invited Talks

Refraction and Absorption for Underwater Shape Recovery
- Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems Seminar | Sept., 2021

- Beijing University of Technology Seminar | Apr., 2022

- 第230回コンピュータビジョンとイメージメディア研究発表会 | May, 2022 (奨励賞)

- Keynote talk in International Computational Imaging Conference (CSOE-CITA2022) | Oct. 12, 2022

- Talk in 11th Applied Optics and Photonics China (AOPC2022) | Dec., 2022

Teaching

奈良女子大学
- パサージュ　（７５Ａ/Ｂ）：3Dビジョン研究セミナー | 2025- Spring Semester

- 計算機実験II | 2025- Fall Semester

- 情報処理入門 | 2026- Spring Semester

Fun Facts About Me!

I play the piano 🎹, pretty much into classical music.
I dance 💃, recently started learning contemporary jazz.