Piano
I’ve played piano for over 14 years and competed nationally.
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About
I’m an ELLIS PhD student at the Technical University of Munich, working with Prof. Nassir Navab at the Chair of Computer-Aided Medical Procedures (CAMP).
My research focuses on understanding people and scenes in 3D from multiple cameras. I work on multi-camera perception and generative modeling, with applications in the operating room.
Away from research, you’ll usually find me at the piano or in the pool. I also occasionally work on call as a trained paramedic.
Interested in a thesis project or collaboration in these areas? Feel free to reach out at tony.wang@tum.de.
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Education
PhD Computer Science
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Recent news
- Sep 2026AwardYoung Scientist AwardReceived the MICCAI Young Scientist Award for TopoOR.
- Sep 2026NeurIPSCOMPOSEOur work on training-free multi-view 3D human pose estimation was accepted to NeurIPS.
- Jul 2026ProgramSoftware Campus · ZEISSSelected for Software Campus, with ZEISS as my industry partner.
- Jun 2026TalkSurgical Data Science Summer SchoolInvited to give a lecture on 3D Computer Vision in Strasbourg, France.
- 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.
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Publications
A selection of my work as first or joint first author. A complete publication list is available on Google Scholar.
Peer-reviewed
COMPOSE: Hypergraph Cover Optimization for Multi-view 3D Human Pose Estimation
Estimates 3D human poses from multiple cameras without training a model. It matches detections jointly across views using a hypergraph, making the associations more robust to occlusion and noisy detections.
NeurIPS 2026·Conference@inproceedings{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}, booktitle={Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)}, year={2026} }TopoOR: A Unified Topological Scene Representation for the Operating Room
Represents the operating room using higher-order relationships rather than only pairwise links. It brings 3D geometry, audio, and robot kinematics into one representation while preserving their distinct structures.
MICCAI 2026·Conference@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} }DisPOSE: Projected Polystochastic Diffusion for Self-Supervised Multi-View 3D Human Pose Estimation
Learns to estimate 3D human poses from multiple cameras without 3D supervision. It treats matching people across camera views as a diffusion process and works across different camera setups, including scenes with heavy occlusion.
ICML 2026·Conference@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} }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.
Medical Image Analysis (MedIA), 2025·Journal · IF 10.7@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} }DisguisOR: Holistic Face Anonymization in the Operating Room
Anonymizes faces in operating room recordings by combining multiple camera views into a 3D scene and rendering replacement faces consistently across views, helping locate faces that 2D methods miss under occlusion.
IPCAI 2023·Conference@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
TrackOR: Towards Personalized Intelligent Operating Rooms Through Robust Tracking
COLAS Workshop @ MICCAI 2025 · Full Paper·Workshop@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
COLAS Workshop @ MICCAI 2025 · Extended Abstract·Workshop@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} }
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Awards
- Sep 2026Young Scientist AwardMICCAI 2026 · TopoOR
- Sep 2025Best Paper AwardCOLAS Workshop @ MICCAI 2025
- Mar 2024Bachelor Thesis PrizeDeutsche Gesellschaft für Digitale Medizin
- 2022 & 2023Germany's National ScholarshipDeutschlandstipendium
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Off-Hours
Paramedic
I’m trained and certified as a paramedic in Germany and occasionally work on call.
Swimming
I used to coach swimming. These days, I’m still in the pool most days.
Tutoring
I spent several years tutoring computer science and maths fundamentals.
Cinema
I prefer seeing films on the big screen. Going to the cinema is one of my favorite ways to spend an evening.