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What are the invariants of $U\otimes V\otimes W$ under action of $GL(U)\times GL(V) \times GL(W)$

The tensor product of some (finite dimensional real) vector spaces is acted on by the direct product of their general linear groups. I would like to know if there are explicit invariants in the case of 3 vector spaces. For one vector space there are two orbits: 0 vector, and non-zero vector. For two vector spaces, $T\in U\otimes V \cong Hom(U,V^*)$ there are finitely many orbits characterized by $rank(T)$. For 3 vector spaces the dimension of $U\otimes V\times W$ is $uvw$ and the dimension of $GL(U)\times GL(V) \times GL(W)$ is $u^2+v^2+w^2$ so that usually the space of orbits has positive dimension. Any references would be most welcome. I am particularly interested in the case U,V and W all have dimension 4.