About me

I am a 3rd year PhD student at Computer Vision Lab, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology at the University of Osaka, Japan, working on 3D reconstruction, 3D generation and novel-view synthesis under the supervision of Prof. Fumio Okura.

Research interests

Education

Period Description
Apr. 2023 ~ Ph.D. of Information Science,
School of Information Science and Technology, the University of Osaka, Japan.
Apr. 2021 ~ Mar. 2023 Master of Information Science,
School of System Informatics, Kobe University, Japan.
Sept. 2015 ~ June. 2019 Bachelor of Engineering,
School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Shanghai University of Engineering and Science, China.

Work experiences

Period Roll/Place Project Description
Feb 2026 ~ Present Research Internship
Davinci Lab, Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Japan. 		Physically-based 3D Gaussian Splatting
Apr. 2023 ~ Present Research Assistant
The University of Osaka, Japan. 		3D plant reconstruction and modeling
Aug. 2023 ~ Sept. 2023 Research Internship
Visual Intelligence Research Laboratories, NEC Corp., Japan. 		Multi-modal environment recognition
Apr. 2021 ~ Mar. 2023 Research Assistant
Kobe University, Japan. 		Vision-based animal interaction recognition

Publications

International Conference Paper

NeuraLeaf: Neural Parametric Leaf Models with Shape and Deformation Disentanglement

Yang Yang,, Dongni Mao, Hiroaki Santo, Yasuyuki Matsushita and Fumio Okura
Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2025 (Highlight).
[paper+supp] [Project Page]

Interaction-via-Actions: Cattle Interaction Detection with Joint Learning of Action-Interaction Latent Space

Ren Nakagawa*, Yang Yang*, Risa Shinoda, Hiroaki Santo, Kenji Oyama, Fumio Okura, Takenao Ohkawa
* Equal contribution
Proceedings of IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), 2026.
[paper+supp]

Zero-shot Hierarchical Plant Segmentation via Foundation Segmentation Models and Text-to-image Attention

Junhao Xing, Ryohei Miyakawa, Yang Yang, Xinpeng Liu, Risa Shinoda, Hiroaki Santo, Yosuke Toda, Fumio Okura
Proceedings of IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), 2026.
[paper+supp]

Journal Paper

LeafGen: Structure-aware leaf image generation for annotation-free leaf instance segmentation

Naoki Asada, Xinpeng Liu, Kanyu Xu, Ryohei Miyakawa, Yang Yang, Hiroaki Santo, Yosuke Toda, Fumio Okura
Plant Phenomics, 7(4):100092.

Talking with Actionbits—A Part-Enhanced VLM for Action and Interaction Recognition in Animals

Yang Yang,Ren Nakagawa,Risa Shinoda, Hiroaki Santo, kenji Oyama, Takenao Ohkawa,Fumio Okura
Sensors, 2026.

GaussianPlant: Structure-aligned Gaussian Splatting for 3D Reconstruction of Plants

Yang Yang, Risa Shinoda, Hiroaki Santo, Fumio Okura
Submitted to TPAMI (under review)

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