I completed my MPhil at the School of Computing and Data Science, The University of Hong Kong (HKU), where I worked on open-world visual concept learning under the supervision of Prof. Kai Han. Previously, I earned my Bachelor degree in Electronic Engineering from the same university.
@mastersthesis{cendra2026mphil,
author = {Fernando Julio Cendra},
title = {Open-World Visual Concept Discovery and Extraction},
school = {The University of Hong Kong},
year = {2026},
}
@article{Cendra2026PromptPool,
author = {Fernando Julio Cendra and Xinghui Li and Kai Han},
title = {Effective Prompt Pool Learning for Continual Category Discovery},
journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.19001},
year = {2026},
}
@inproceedings{Cendra2026PartCo,
author = {Fernando Julio Cendra and Kai Han},
title = {PartCo: Part-Level Correspondence Priors Enhance Category Discovery},
booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)},
year = {2026},
}
@inproceedings{Cendra2025ICE,
author = {Fernando Julio Cendra and Kai Han},
title = {ICE: Intrinsic Concept Extraction from a Single Image via Diffusion Models},
booktitle = {IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)},
year = {2025},
}
@inproceedings{cendra2024promptccd,
author = {Fernando Julio Cendra and Bingchen Zhao and Kai Han},
title = {PromptCCD: Learning Gaussian Mixture Prompt Pool for Continual Category Discovery},
booktitle = {European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)},
year = {2024}
}
@inproceedings{chan2023histopathology,
author = {Chan Tsai Hor and Fernando Julio Cendra and Lan Ma and Guosheng Yin and Lequan Yu},
title = {Histopathology Whole Slide Image Analysis with Heterogeneous Graph Representation Learning},
booktitle = {IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)},
year = {2023},
}
@inproceedings{cendra2022sl3d,
author = {Fernando Julio Cendra and Lan Ma and Jiajun Shen and Xiaojuan Qi},
title = {SL3D: Self-Supervised Self-Labeled 3D Recognition},
booktitle = {NeurIPS Workshop on Self-Supervised Learning: Theory and Practice (NeurIPS Workshop)},
year = {2022},
}
Conference Reviewer: CVPR (2024-2026), ECCV (2024), NeurIPS (2023,2025,2026), ICLR (2026), BMCV (2026), AAAI (2025-2026)
Workshop Reviewer: "Visual Concepts" (CVPRW 2025), "LIMIT: Representation Learning with Very Limited Resources" (ECCVW 2026)