Hou In Ivan Tam

I am a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at Simon Fraser University, affiliated with the GrUVi Lab and the 3DLG Lab. I am honored to be supervised by Prof. Manolis Savva. My research interests broadly span computer graphics, particularly 3D scene generation, egocentric world understanding, and human-centric interactions.

I received my M.Sc. in Computer Science from Simon Fraser University in 2025. Prior to that, I earned my B.Sc. in Computer Science from SFU in 2023 with First Class Distinction. I was also honored with the Governor General’s Silver Medal, awarded for outstanding academic achievement.

Google Scholar / Github

Publications

2026

HSM: Hierarchical Scene Motifs for Multi-Scale Indoor Scene Generation

Hou In Derek Pun, Hou In Ivan Tam, Austin T. Wang, Xiaoliang Huo, Angel X. Chang, and Manolis Savva

In Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on 3D Vision (3DV), 2026

arXiv Bib Code Website

@inproceedings{pun2026hsm,
  title = {{HSM}: Hierarchical Scene Motifs for Multi-Scale Indoor Scene Generation},
  author = {Pun, Hou In Derek and Tam, Hou In Ivan and Wang, Austin T. and Huo, Xiaoliang and Chang, Angel X. and Savva, Manolis},
  year = {2026},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on 3D Vision (3DV)},
}

SceneEval: Evaluating Semantic Coherence in Text-Conditioned 3D Indoor Scene Synthesis

Hou In Ivan Tam, Hou In Derek Pun, Austin T. Wang, Angel X. Chang, and Manolis Savva

In Proc. of the Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), 2026

arXiv Bib Code Website

@inproceedings{tam2026sceneeval,
  title = {{SceneEval}: Evaluating Semantic Coherence in Text-Conditioned {3D} Indoor Scene Synthesis},
  author = {Tam, Hou In Ivan and Pun, Hou In Derek and Wang, Austin T. and Chang, Angel X. and Savva, Manolis},
  year = {2026},
  booktitle = {Proc. of the Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV)},
}

2025

SceneMotifCoder: Example-driven Visual Program Learning for Generating 3D Object Arrangements

Hou In Ivan Tam, Hou In Derek Pun, Austin T. Wang, Angel X. Chang, and Manolis Savva

In Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on 3D Vision (3DV), 2025

arXiv Bib Code Website

@inproceedings{tam2025smc,
  title = {{SceneMotifCoder}: Example-driven Visual Program Learning for Generating {3D} Object Arrangements},
  author = {Tam, Hou In Ivan and Pun, Hou In Derek and Wang, Austin T. and Chang, Angel X. and Savva, Manolis},
  year = {2025},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on 3D Vision (3DV)},
}

2024

CAGE: Controllable Articulation GEneration

Jiayi Liu, Hou In Ivan Tam, Ali Mahdavi-Amiri, and Manolis Savva

In Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024

arXiv Bib PDF Code Website

@inproceedings{liu2024cage,
  title = {{CAGE: Controllable Articulation GEneration}},
  author = {Liu, Jiayi and Tam, Hou In Ivan and Mahdavi-Amiri, Ali and Savva, Manolis},
  year = {2024},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)},
}