Tien-Toan Nguyen

/tjɛn-twan ŋwɪn/

Ph.D. Student, Robotics and Autonomous Systems Center
Department of Computer Science, University of Southern California

Email: tientoan [at] usc [dot] edu

I am an incoming CS Ph.D. student at the University of Southern California, co-advised by Prof. Yue Wang and Prof. Daniel Seita. Previously, I was an AI Resident at the FPT AI Center. I graduated with a bachelor's degree in Computer Science at Ho Chi Minh City University of Science. These days, my research interest lies in the intersection of Robotics, Multimodal Learning, and Generative Modeling.

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Publications

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Language-Driven 6-DoF Grasp Detection Using Negative Prompt Guidance
Tien Toan Nguyen, Minh Nhat Vu, Baoru Huang, An Vuong, Quan Vuong, Dung Nguyen, Ngan Le, Thieu Vo, Anh Nguyen
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2024 Oral
arXiv | Project | Code

We introduce a novel diffusion model incorporating the new concept of negative prompt guidance learning to tackle the task of 6-DoF grasp detection in cluttered point clouds.

dise HabiCrowd: A High Performance Simulator for Crowd-Aware Visual Navigation
An Vuong, Tien Toan Nguyen, Minh Nhat Vu, Baoru Huang, Dung Nguyen, Binh Huynh, Thieu Vo, Anh Nguyen
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2024
arXiv | Project| Code

We introduce HabiCrowd, a new dataset and benchmark for crowd-aware visual navigation that surpasses other benchmarks in terms of human diversity and computational utilization.

dise Language-Conditioned Affordance-Pose Detection in 3D Point Clouds
Tien Toan Nguyen, Minh Nhat Vu, Baoru Huang, Tuan Vo, Vy Truong, Ngan Le, Thieu Vo, Bac Le, Anh Nguyen
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2024
arXiv | Project | Code

We address the task of language-driven affordance-pose detection in 3D point clouds. Our method simultaneously detect open-vocabulary affordances and generate affordance-specific 6-DoF poses.

dise Open-Vocabulary Affordance Detection using Knowledge Distillation and Text-Point Correlation
Tuan Vo, Minh Nhat Vu, Baoru Huang, Tien Toan Nguyen, Ngan Le, Thieu Vo, Anh Nguyen
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2024
arXiv | Code

We introduce a new open-vocabulary affordance detection method using knowledge distillation and text-point correlation.

Language-Driven Scene Synthesis Using Multi-Conditional Diffusion Model
An Vuong, Minh Nhat Vu, Tien Toan Nguyen, Baoru Huang, Dung Nguyen, Thieu Vo, Anh Nguyen
Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2023
arXiv | Project | Code

We introduce Language-Driven Scene Synthesis task, which involves the leverage of human-input text prompts to generate physically plausible and semantically reasonable objects.

dise Open-Vocabulary Affordance Detection in 3D Point Clouds
Tien Toan Nguyen, Minh Nhat Vu, An Vuong, Dung Nguyen, Thieu Vo, Ngan Le, Anh Nguyen
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2023 Best Paper Finalist
arXiv | Project | Code

Our method detects potentially unlimited textual affordance labels.

dise RoboDesign1M: A Large-scale Dataset for Robot Design Understanding
Tri Le, Tien Toan Nguyen, Quang Tran, Quang Nguyen, Baoru Huang, Hoan Nguyen, Minh Nhat Vu, Tung Duc Ta, Anh Nguyen
Under Review
arXiv

We introduce RoboDesign1M, a large-scale dataset dedicated to robot design with over 1M samples and multimodal ground truth.

dise Boosting Insect Pest Recognition with Deep-Wide Learning
Tien Toan Nguyen, Huy Nguyen, Huy Ung, Hieu Ung, Binh Nguyen
Under Review
arXiv | Code

DeWi obtains state-of-the-art performances on insect pest classification benchmarks by combining image data augmentation and representation learning.

Profesional Services

  • Conference reviewer: IROS 2025, ECCV 2024, ICRA 2024, IROS 2024.
  • Journal reviewer: RA-L 2025.

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