Zhuowen Tu
Zhuowen Tu is a faculty member in the Department of Cognitive Science at UC San Diego, where his research sits at the intersection of computer vision and machine learning. He earned a PhD at Ohio State University in 2002, with a dissertation on image parsing. A 2003 paper on image parsing, written with Chen, Yuille and Zhu, won the ICCV Marr Prize. Holistically-Nested Edge Detection, written with Saining Xie, earned a Marr Prize honorable mention at ICCV in 2015. Saining Xie, his former PhD student, received a CVPR Young Researcher Award in 2025.
- Works
- 331
- Citations
- 40,219
- h-index
- 70
Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 15 October 2026.
Timeline
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2002
A doctorate on image parsing
He completes a PhD at Ohio State University in 2002, with a dissertation titled Image Parsing by Data-Driven Markov Chain Monte Carlo.
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2003
Image parsing wins the Marr Prize
He co-authors an image-parsing paper with Chen, Yuille and Zhu, and the paper wins the ICCV Marr Prize in 2003.
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2015
An honorable mention for edge detection
Holistically-Nested Edge Detection, a paper he co-authors with Saining Xie, earns a Marr Prize honorable mention at ICCV in 2015.
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2017
Introspective neural networks
His research includes introspective learning, shown at ICCV 2017 in Introspective Neural Networks for Generative Modeling.
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2025
A former student's CVPR award
In 2025 his former PhD student Saining Xie receives a CVPR Young Researcher Award.
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As of October 2026
Cognitive science at UC San Diego
In 2025 he is a faculty member in the Department of Cognitive Science at UC San Diego, and his research sits at the intersection of computer vision, machine learning and neural computation.
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