Michael Wakeham White Hart Lane
White Hart Lane 2017

Michael Wakeham

Hello! I'm an undergraduate student studying computer science at Boston University, where I work with Prof. Boqing Gong and Prof. Deepti Ghadiyaram. I'm also a visiting research intern at Kempner Institute, working with Prof. Qianqian Wang and Dr. Ruojin Cai

My research interests are broadly in machine learning and computer vision. More specifically, I am interested in understanding and modeling the 3D/4D world, cognitively inspired approaches to visual perception, and controllable visual media generation.

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News

  • [2026.10]Our work on 3D-driven perspective-to-360° video generation has been accepted to WACV 2027!
  • [2026.09]The BU RISE students i mentored this summer had their workshop paper accepted to TCCML @ NeurIPS 2026!
  • [2026.07]Visiting Prof. Qianqian Wang's research group at Kempner Institute
  • [2026.05]Received a Summer UROP award from BU
  • [2026.02]BabyVLM-V2 has been accepted to CVPR 2026!
  • [2025.09]Joined Prof. Boqing Gong's research group at BU

Research

A 3D-Driven Framework for Moving-Camera Perspective-to-360° Video Generation

Michael Wakeham, Mrinmoy Kumar Das, Wenqi Wang, Ayush Tewari, Boqing Gong, Deepti Ghadiyaram

WACV 2027

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BabyVLM-V2: Toward Developmentally Grounded Pretraining and Benchmarking of Vision Foundation Models

Shengao Wang*, Wenqi Wang*, Zecheng Wang*, Max Whitton*, Michael Wakeham, Arjun ChandraKate SaenkoVenkatesh SaligramaBoqing Gong

*Equal contribution.

CVPR 2026

arXiv project page

Who’s Who in the Anemone? A Benchmark for Clownfish Tracking in the Wild

Owen Chau*, Alexander Gou*, Ruta Sirdeshmukh*, Sarah Zhou*, Michael Wakeham†, Tuan TruongFritz FranciscoPeter BustonBoqing Gong

*Equal contribution. †Corresponding author.

TCCML Workshop @ NeurIPS 2026

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