Tony Danjun Wang · PhD Student at TUM

About

I'm Tony Danjun Wang (王丹君), a PhD Student at the Chair of Computer-Aided Medical Procedures (CAMP) at the Technical University of Munich, supervised by Prof. Nassir Navab. I work on multi-camera 3D perception and generative modeling: understanding people and scenes in 3D, often in the operating room.

Away from research, I spend my time at the piano, in the pool, and occasionally on call as a trained paramedic. More in Off-Hours. •ᴗ•

Looking for a thesis project or interested in a collaboration? Feel free to reach out:

Education

PhD Computer Science

Technical University of Munich

2026 – Present

M.Sc. Computer Science

Technical University of Munich

1.1High Distinction

2022 – 2026

B.Sc. Computer Science

Technical University of Munich

1.4Distinction

2019 – 2022

News

May 2026MICCAITopoOR: A Unified Topological Scene Representation for the Operating RoomOur paper was selected for early acceptance at MICCAI 2026.
Apr 2026ICMLDisPOSE: Projected Polystochastic Diffusion for Self-Supervised Multi-View 3D Human Pose EstimationOur paper was accepted to ICML 2026.
Jan 2026arXivCOMPOSE: Hypergraph Cover Optimization for Multi-view 3D Human Pose EstimationOur preprint is available on arXiv.
Sep 2025AwardTrackOROur paper received the Best Paper Award at the COLAS workshop at MICCAI 2025.
Aug 2025MICCAI-WMitigating Biases in Surgical Operating Rooms with GeometryOur extended abstract was accepted for an oral presentation at COLAS / MICCAI 2025.
Aug 2025MICCAI-WTrackOR: Towards Personalized Intelligent Operating Rooms Through Robust TrackingOur paper was accepted to COLAS / MICCAI 2025.
Jun 2025MedIABeyond Role-Based Surgical Domain ModelingOur paper was accepted to Medical Image Analysis.
Jan 2025TMIContext-Aware Real-Time Semantic View Expansion of Intraoperative 4D OCTOur paper was accepted to IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging.
Jun 2023MICCAISegmentOROur paper was accepted to MICCAI 2023.
Apr 2023IPCAIDisguisOROur paper was accepted to IPCAI 2023.

Publications

Peer-reviewed

selected
TopoOR: A Unified Topological Scene Representation for the Operating Room
Instead of flattening the operating room into a scene graph of pairwise links, TopoOR models it as a higher-order structure that keeps different modalities such as 3D geometry, audio, and robot kinematics separate.
Tony Danjun Wang, Ka Young Kim, Tolga Birdal, Nassir Navab, Lennart Bastian
MICCAI 2026·Conference
arXivEarly Acceptance (Top 9%)
```
@inproceedings{wang2026topoor,
  title={TopoOR: A Unified Topological Scene Representation for the Operating Room},
  author={Wang, Tony Danjun and Kim, Ka Young and Birdal, Tolga and Navab, Nassir and Bastian, Lennart},
  booktitle={International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI)},
  year={2026},
  organization={Springer}
}
```
selected
DisPOSE: Projected Polystochastic Diffusion for Self-Supervised Multi-View 3D Human Pose Estimation
Estimates 3D human poses from multiple cameras with no 3D supervision data. The key idea is to treat cross-view person matching as a diffusion process. It holds up under heavy occlusion and works across different camera setups.
Tony Danjun Wang, Tolga Birdal, Nassir Navab, Lennart Bastian
ICML 2026·Conference
arXiv Code Project
```
@inproceedings{wang2026dispose,
  title={DisPOSE: Projected Polystochastic Diffusion for Self-Supervised Multi-View 3D Human Pose Estimation},
  author={Wang, Tony Danjun and Birdal, Tolga and Navab, Nassir and Bastian, Lennart},
  booktitle={International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)},
  year={2026}
}
```
selected
Beyond Role-Based Surgical Domain Modeling: Generalizable Re-Identification in the Operating Room
Identifies individual staff in the operating room from their 3D shape and motion instead of their appearance, which barely changes under standardized scrubs. The goal is to stop treating people as interchangeable roles and start modeling who they are and how they work together.
Tony Danjun Wang*, Lennart Bastian*, Tobias Czempiel, Christian Heiliger, Nassir Navab· *Equal contribution
Medical Image Analysis (MedIA), 2025·Journal · IF 10.7
Paper Code Project
```
@article{wang2025beyond,
  title={Beyond Role-Based Surgical Domain Modeling: Generalizable Re-Identification in the Operating Room},
  author={Wang, Tony Danjun and Bastian, Lennart and Czempiel, Tobias and Heiliger, Christian and Navab, Nassir},
  journal={Medical Image Analysis},
  volume={105},
  pages={103687},
  year={2025},
  publisher={Elsevier},
  doi={10.1016/j.media.2025.103687}
}
```

Non-intrusive Body Composition Assessment from Full-body mmWave Scans

Miriam Senne*, Benjamin D. Killeen*, Tony Danjun Wang, Nassir Navab· *Equal contribution

MICCAI 2026·Conference

arXivEarly Acceptance (Top 9%)

@inproceedings{senne2026bodycomposition,
  title={Non-intrusive Body Composition Assessment from Full-body mmWave Scans},
  author={Senne, Miriam and Killeen, Benjamin D. and Wang, Tony Danjun and Navab, Nassir},
  booktitle={International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI)},
  year={2026},
  organization={Springer}
}

Context-Aware Real-Time Semantic View Expansion of Intraoperative 4D OCT

Michael Sommersperger, Philipp Matten, Tony Danjun Wang, Shervin Dehghani, Jonas Nienhaus, Hessam Roodaki, Wolfgang Drexler, Rainer A. Leitgeb, Tilman Schmoll, Nassir Navab

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging (TMI), 2025·Journal · IF 9.8

Paper

@article{sommersperger2025oct,
  title={Context-Aware Real-Time Semantic View Expansion of Intraoperative 4D OCT},
  author={Sommersperger, Michael and Matten, Philipp and Wang, Tony Danjun and Dehghani, Shervin and Nienhaus, Jonas and Roodaki, Hessam and Drexler, Wolfgang and Leitgeb, Rainer A. and Schmoll, Tilman and Navab, Nassir},
  journal={IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging},
  year={2025},
  publisher={IEEE}
}

SegmentOR: Obtaining Efficient Operating Room Semantics through Temporal Propagation

Lennart Bastian*, Daniel Derkacz-Bogner*, Tony Danjun Wang, Tobias Czempiel, Benjamin Busam, Nassir Navab· *Equal contribution

MICCAI 2023·Conference

Paper Code Project

@inproceedings{bastian2023segmentor,
  title={SegmentOR: Obtaining Efficient Operating Room Semantics through Temporal Propagation},
  author={Bastian, Lennart and Derkacz-Bogner, Daniel and Wang, Tony Danjun and Czempiel, Tobias and Busam, Benjamin and Navab, Nassir},
  booktitle={International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI)},
  pages={56--66},
  year={2023},
  organization={Springer},
  doi={10.1007/978-3-031-43996-4_6}
}

DisguisOR: Holistic Face Anonymization in the Operating Room

Lennart Bastian*, Tony Danjun Wang*, Tobias Czempiel, Benjamin Busam, Nassir Navab· *Equal contribution

IPCAI 2023·Conference

arXiv Code ProjectAward nominated

@article{bastian2023disguisor,
  title={DisguisOR: Holistic Face Anonymization in the Operating Room},
  author={Bastian, Lennart and Wang, Tony Danjun and Czempiel, Tobias and Busam, Benjamin and Navab, Nassir},
  journal={International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery},
  note={Presented at IPCAI 2023},
  year={2023},
  publisher={Springer}
}

Preprints & workshops

COMPOSE: Hypergraph Cover Optimization for Multi-view 3D Human Pose Estimation

Tony Danjun Wang, Tolga Birdal, Nassir Navab, Lennart Bastian

arXiv preprint, 2026·Preprint

arXiv Code Project

@article{wang2026compose,
  title={COMPOSE: Hypergraph Cover Optimization for Multi-view 3D Human Pose Estimation},
  author={Wang, Tony Danjun and Birdal, Tolga and Navab, Nassir and Bastian, Lennart},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.09698},
  year={2026}
}

TrackOR: Towards Personalized Intelligent Operating Rooms Through Robust Tracking

Tony Danjun Wang, Christian Heiliger, Nassir Navab, Lennart Bastian

COLAS Workshop @ MICCAI 2025 · Full Paper·Workshop

arXiv Code ProjectBest Paper Award

@inproceedings{wang2025trackor,
  title={TrackOR: Towards Personalized Intelligent Operating Rooms Through Robust Tracking},
  author={Wang, Tony Danjun and Heiliger, Christian and Navab, Nassir and Bastian, Lennart},
  booktitle={International Workshop on Collaborative Intelligence and Autonomy in Image-Guided Surgery},
  pages={53--63},
  year={2025},
  organization={Springer}
}

Mitigating Biases in Surgical Operating Rooms with Geometry

Tony Danjun Wang, Tobias Czempiel, Nassir Navab, Lennart Bastian

COLAS Workshop @ MICCAI 2025 · Extended Abstract·Workshop

arXiv Code ProjectOral presentation

@article{wang2025mitigating,
  title={Mitigating Biases in Surgical Operating Rooms with Geometry},
  author={Wang, Tony Danjun and Czempiel, Tobias and Navab, Nassir and Bastian, Lennart},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.08028},
  year={2025}
}

Awards

Sep 2025Best Paper AwardCOLAS Workshop @ MICCAI 2025
Mar 2024Bachelor Thesis PrizeDeutsche Gesellschaft für Digitale Medizin
2022 & 2023Germany's National ScholarshipDeutschlandstipendium

Off-Hours

Piano

14+ years

Played seriously enough to compete on the national level.

Paramedic

Certified

Trained and certified as a paramedic in Germany.

Swimming

Former coach

Worked as a swim coach. Still in the pool most weeks.

Tutoring

CS · math

Tutored for years, mostly CS and maths fundamentals. Teaching keeps you honest about what you actually understand.

Cinema

35mm

Card-carrying cinephile. I'd rather see something on the big screen than stream it at home.