Dr. Keke TANG (唐可可)
Full Professor, Deputy Director of the Institute of Big Data and Security
Guangdong Young Talents Program Selectee（广东省青年拔尖人才）
Cyberspace Institute of Advanced Technology (方滨兴院士团队，全国高校黄大年式教师团队)
Guangzhou University (广州大学)
Email: tangbohutbh[at]gmail[dot]com (note: I barely use the institutional email.)
Office: Room 616, Boxin (B2) Building, Huangpu Campus, Guangzhou University.
For考研/保研学生: 招生与加入课题组说明。 课题组主要研究机器人，计算机视觉，机器人安全和人工智能安全，有意向进组的同学 (要求：有野心，对未来目标明确，GPA高 or 代码能力强 or 能吃苦) 请在拟录取后/复试后第一时间联系我【发Gmail，邮件较多，1-2天未收到回复可以再发一封】。 本人比较Push，但是会手把手指导，学生也非常刻苦（自发的），组内学术氛围浓厚（风评可自行联系组内学生/毕业生打听，读研冷暖自知），生均产出1-2篇CCF A/B类顶会论文。
For potential collaborators: I am open to collaboration, including joint supervision of graduate students and joint applications for research grants. Feel free to contact me.
News
2026/6/18 3 papers are accepted by RA-L, IROS 2026 and ECCV 2026, respectively, congratulations to all co-authors.
2026/4/9 I will serve as an Area Chair for NeurIPS 2026 and ACM MM 2026.
2026/1/26 2 papers are accepted by ICLR 2026, congratulations to all co-authors.
2025/12/1 Our team, led by Professor Binxing Fang, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, has won the Special Prize in the Guangdong Provincial Teaching Achievement Award.
2025/11/8 3 papers are accepted by AAAI 2026, congratulations to all co-authors.
2025/9/19 I serve as an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (CCF-A, IF: 7.5).
2025/7/13 Honored to be promoted to Full Professor.
2025/6/27 Awarded the CCF–NetEase ThunderFire Joint Research Fund (CCF-网易雷火联合基金).
2025/4/29 3 papers are accepted by IJCAI 2025, congratulations to all co-authors.
2025/4/9 I will serve as an Area Chair for NeurIPS 2025.
2025/3/14 I will serve as an Area Chair for ACM MM 2025.
2025/2/27 Our paper "Simplification Is All You Need against Out-of-Distribution Overconfidence" is accepted by CVPR 2025.
2024/12/10 3 papers are accepted by AAAI 2025, congratulations to all co-authors.
2024/10/10 I am guest editing an Special Issue “Security Challenges and Defense Methods for Emerging AI Driven Applications” in IET Information Security.
2024/9/21 I serve as an Associate Editor of Visual Computer.
2024/9/21 1 co-supervised paper is accepted by EMNLP Findings 2024, congratulations to all co-authors.
2024/7/16 2 papers are accepted by ACM MM 2024, congratulations to all co-authors.
2024/7/11 Our 3D face reconstruction paper has been selected as a best paper candidate at ICME 2024.
2024/7/1 3 papers are accepted by ECCV 2024, congratulations to all co-authors.
2024/4/20 Prof. Keke Tang is awarded the Guangdong Special Support Program for Young Talents (“广东TZ计划”青年拔尖人才).
Biography
Keke Tang is a Full Professor at Guangzhou University since July 2025. He served as an Associate Professor from January 2019 to June 2025. From August 2017 to December 2018, he worked as a postdoctoral fellow in Prof. Wenping Wang's group (IEEE & ACM Fellow) at the University of Hong Kong.Keke Tang received his B.S. from Jilin University in 2012, and Ph.D. from University of Science and Technology of China supervised by Prof. Xiaoping Chen and Prof. Peng Song in 2017, where he also closely worked with Prof. Ligang Liu.
Find more about Keke: Google Scholar
Research
His research interests fall into the areas of robotics, computer vision and computer graphics, including- AI Security
- Adversarial Examples
- Out-of-distribution
- Robotic Security
- Efficient AI
- Reparameterization
- Network Pruning
- Robotics
- Robotic Vision
- Security in Robotics
- SLAM
- Computational Robotics
- Computer Vision
- 3D Shape Description and Matching
- 3D Object Registration, Reconstruction, and Recognition
- Image Classification
- Computer Graphics
- Geometry Processing
- Computational Fabrication
Professional Activities
- Conference Area Chair / Senior PC: NeurIPS (2025,2026), ACM MM (2025,2026), ACL (2025), IJCAI (2026), AAAI (2027)
- Journal Associate Editor: IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (CCF-A), The Visual Computer (CCF-C), Complex & Intelligent Systems, 《自动化与信息工程》
- Conference PC Member & Reviviewer: CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, SIGGRAPH Asia, ICML, NeurIPS, ICLR, AAAI, IJCAI, ACM MM, KDD, ICRA, ACL, EMNLP, EG, PG, ICME, ICASSP, ACCV, ICIP, CGI, SMI, CAD/Graphics, CVM, PRCV
- Journal Reviewer: TPAMI, TIFS, TKDE, TDSC, TAFFC, TNNLS, TCSVT, TMM, TGRS, TMC, TIST, TCC, TNSE, TETCI, TAI, TLT, IoT-J, Information Fusion, Computers & Security, Computer Aided Geometric Design, The Visual Computer, IET Computer Vision, Computers & Graphics, Expert Systems With Applications, Knowledge-Based Systems
- Society Commitee Member: CCF CAD&CG, CSIAM GDC, GAMES
Honors
- Special Prize in the Guangdong Provincial Teaching Achievement Award (广东省教学成果特等奖). 2025.
- Guangdong Special Support Program for Young Talents (广东省重大人才工程——“广东TZ计划”青年拔尖人才). 2024.
- Best Paper Finalist in ICME 2024.
- Excellence in Research Award of CIAT at Guangzhou University (卓越科研奖). 2024.
- Excellence in Research Award of CIAT at Guangzhou University (卓越科研奖). 2023.
Awards
| RoboCup | RoboCup is the most famous robotics competition in the world aiming at promoting robotics and AI research. |
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The 1st place of RoboCup@ Home League 2014 note: this is the only time that a Chinese team has ever won a championship. |
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The 1st place of RoboCup@ Robot Benchmarking Demonstration League 2015 note: this is the only time that a Chinese team has ever won a championship. |
Referred Research Publications
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Occluding the Solution Space: Planner-Agnostic Adversarial Attacks on Tolerance-Aware Manipulation Keke Tang, Tianyu Hao, Weilong Peng, Hao Jiang, Feng Wu, Peican Zhu, Jianmin Ji, Zhihong Tian IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2026 (机器人顶会) |
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Partially Observable Adversarial Patch Attacks on Vision-Language-Action Models in Robotics Xiaofei Wang, Mingliang Han, Tianyu Hao, Yi Yang, Yun-Bo Zhao, and Keke Tang* IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), 2026 |
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HHA: Hierarchical Hyperbolic Constraints for Imperceptible Point Cloud Attacks Keke Tang, Yu Liao, Weilong Peng, Xiaofei Wang, Daizong Liu, Zhongyun Hua, Peican Zhu, Zhihong Tian. European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2026 (计算机视觉顶会) |
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Optimal Transport-Induced Samples against Out-of-Distribution Overconfidence Keke Tang, Ziyong Du, Xiaofei Wang, Weilong Peng, Peican Zhu, and Zhihong Tian International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2026 (人工智能顶会) |
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Less Is More: Sparse and Cooperative Perturbation for Point Cloud Attacks Keke Tang, Tianyu Hao, Xiaofei Wang, Weilong Peng, Denghui Zhang, Peican Zhu, and Zhihong Tian AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2026 (Oral, CCF A类，人工智能顶会) |
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Transferable Hypergraph Attack via Injecting Nodes into Pivotal Hyperedges Meixia He, Peican Zhu, Le Cheng, Yangming Guo, Manman Yuan, and Keke Tang* AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2026 (Oral, CCF A类，人工智能顶会) |
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Transferable and Undefendable Point Cloud Attacks via Medial Axis Transform Keke Tang, Yuze Gao, Weilong Peng, Xiaofei Wang, Meie Fang, and Peican Zhu Computer Aided Geometric Design (CAGD), 2026 (CCF B类) |
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Anchor Field Consistency for Imperceptible Adversarial Attacks on 3D Point Clouds Keke Tang, Zhenxing Cao, Weilong Peng, Xiaofei Wang, Peican Zhu, Zhihong Tian International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2026 |
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AdvGrasp: Adversarial Attacks on Robotic Grasping from a Physical Perspective Xiaofei Wang, Mingliang Han, Tianyu Hao, Cegang Li, Yunbo Zhao and Keke Tang* International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2025 (CCF A类，人工智能顶会) |
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SourceDetMamba: A Graph-aware State Space Model for Source Detection in Sequential Hypergraphs Le Cheng, Peican Zhu, Yangming Guo, Chao Gao, Zhen Wang and Keke Tang* International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2025 (CCF A类，人工智能顶会) |
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Simplification Is All You Need against Out-of-Distribution Overconfidence Keke Tang, Chao Hou, Weilong Peng, Xiang Fang, Zhize Wu, Yongwei Nie, Wenping Wang, and Zhihong Tian IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2025 (CCF A类，计算机视觉顶会) |
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Imperceptible 3D Point Cloud Attacks on Lattice-based Barycentric Coordinates Keke Tang, Ziyong Du, Weilong Peng, Xiaofei Wang, Daizong Liu, Ligang Liu, and Zhihong Tian AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2025 (CCF A类，人工智能顶会) |
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Hypergraph attacks via injecting homogeneous nodes into elite hyperedges Meixia He, Peican Zhu, Keke Tang*, Yangming Guo AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2025 (CCF A类，人工智能顶会) |
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Imperceptible Adversarial Attacks on Point Clouds Guided by Point-to-Surface Field Keke Tang, Weiyao Ke, Weilong Peng, Xiaofei Wang, Ziyong Du, Zhize Wu, Peican Zhu, Zhihong Tian International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2025 |
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SymAttack: Symmetry-aware Imperceptible Adversarial Attacks on 3D Point Clouds Keke Tang, Zhensu Wang, Weilong Peng, Lujie Huang, Le Wang, Peican Zhu, Wenping Wang, and Zhihong Tian ACM Multimedia (MM), 2024 (CCF A类，多媒体顶会) |
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FLAT: Flux-aware Imperceptible Adversarial Attacks on 3D Point Clouds Keke Tang, Lujie Huang, Weilong Peng, Daizong Liu, Xiaofei Wang, Yang Ma, Ligang Liu, and Zhihong Tian European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2024 (CCF B类，计算机视觉顶会) |
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CORES: Convolutional Response-based Score for Out-of-distribution Detection Keke Tang, Chao Hou, Weilong Peng, Runnan Chen, Peican Zhu, Wenping Wang, and Zhihong Tian IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024 (CCF A类，计算机视觉顶会) |
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Manifold Constraints for Imperceptible Adversarial Attacks on Point Clouds Keke Tang, Xu He, Weilong Peng, Jianpeng Wu, Yawen Shi, Daizong Liu, Pan Zhou, Wenping Wang, and Zhihong Tian AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2024 (CCF A类，人工智能顶会) |
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A General Black-box Adversarial Attack on Graph-based Fake News Detectors Peican Zhu, Zechen Pan, Yang Liu, Jiwei Tian, Keke Tang*, and Zhen Wang International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2024 (CCF A类，人工智能顶会) |
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Effective Single-Step Adversarial Training With Energy-Based Models Keke Tang, Tianrui Lou, Weilong Peng, Nenglun Chen, Yawen Shi, and Wenping Wang IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence (TETCI), 2024 |
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Reparameterization Head for Efficient Multi-Input Networks Keke Tang, Wenyu Zhao, Weilong Peng, Xiang Fang, Xiaodong Cui, Peican Zhu, Zhihong Tian IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2024 |
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Matching Words for Out-of-distribution Detection Keke Tang, Xujian Cai, Weilong Peng, Daizong Liu, Peican Zhu, Pan Zhou, Zhihong Tian, and Wenping Wang IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), accepted, 2023 (CCF B类，数据挖掘顶会, acceptance rate: 9.37%) |
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HEPT Attack: Heuristic Perpendicular Trial for Hard-label Attacks under Limited Query Budgets Qi Li, Xingyu Li, Xiaodong Cui, Keke Tang*, and Peican Zhu* ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), accepted, 2023 |
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OOD Attack: Generating Overconfident Out-of-distribution Examples to Fool Deep Neural Classifiers Keke Tang, Xujian Cai, Weilong Peng, Shudong Li, and Wenping Wang IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), accepted, 2023 |
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Deep Manifold Attack on Point Clouds via Parameter Plane Stretching Keke Tang, Jianpeng Wu, Weilong Peng, Yawen Shi, Peng Song, Zhaoquan Gu, Zhihong Tian, and Wenping Wang AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), accepted, 2023 (CCF A类，人工智能顶会) [Paper] |
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Rethinking Perturbation Directions for Imperceptible Adversarial Attacks on Point Clouds Keke Tang, Yawen Shi, Tianrui Lou, Weilong Peng, Xu He, Peican Zhu, Zhaoquan Gu, and Zhihong Tian IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2022 (IF: 10.238, 中科院一区，顶刊) |
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RepPVConv: Attentively Fusing Reparameterized Voxel Features for Efficient 3D Point Cloud Perception Keke Tang, Yuhong Chen, Weilong Peng, Yanling Zhang, Meie Fang, Zheng Wang, and Peng Song The Visual Computer, 2022 (CCF C类) |
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Decision Fusion Networks for Image Classification Keke Tang, Yuexin Ma, Dingruibo Miao, Peng Song, Zhaoquan Gu, Zhihong Tian and Wenping Wang IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, 2022 (IF: 14.255, 中科院一区，顶刊) |
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Manipulation Planning From Demonstration Via Goal-Conditioned Prior Action Primitive Decomposition and Alignment Nan Lin#, Yuxuan Li#, Keke Tang#, Yujun Zhu, Xiayu Zhang, Ruolin Wang, Jianmin Ji, Xiaoping Chen and Xinming Zhang IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2022 (selected for presentation at ICRA) |
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CODEs: Chamfer Out-of-Distribution Examples against Overconfidence Issue Keke Tang, Dingruibo Miao, Weilong Peng, Jianpeng Wu, Yawen Shi, Zhaoquan Gu, Zhihong Tian, and Wenping Wang IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), accepted, 2021 (CCF A类，计算机视觉三大顶会之一) [Paper] |
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A Hybrid Underwater Manipulator System With Intuitive Muscle-Level sEMG Mapping Control Hua Zhong, Zhong Shen, Yafei Zhao, Keke Tang, Zheng Wang, and Wenping Wang IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2020 (selected for presentation at ICRA) |
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Computational Design of Steady 3D Dissection Puzzles Keke Tang, Peng Song, Xiaofei Wang, Bailin Deng, Chi-Wing Fu, and Ligang Liu Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. of Eurographics), accepted, 2019 (CCF B类，计算机图形学三大顶会之一) [Paper] [Video: youtube, youku] |
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Signature of Geometric Centroids for 3D Local Shape Description and Partial Shape Matching Keke Tang, Peng Song, and Xiaoping Chen The 13th Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV), 2016 (CCF C类) [Paper] [Project Page] |