He was born in 1996 in Henan, China. He graduated from Dalian University of Technology (DUT) in 2018 with a bachelor's degree in computer science and technology (Outstanding Graduates of Liaoning Province), supervised by Prof. YANG, Xin. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science and Engineering from The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) in 2022, supervised by Prof. WONG, Tien-Tsin. From 2022 to 2023, he was a researcher and developer at PICO Mixed Reality, Bytedance. Since November 2023, he joined Tencent as a senior researcher, leading an effort to Generative World Model, including 3D from Images/Videos, Novel View Synthesis, and Video Generation.

His works have been selected as Best Paper Finalist in ICCV'2023, and Best Paper at PixFoundation workshop in CVPR'2025. He received the CCF Elite Collegiate Award in 2017. He has served as a reviewer for top-tier conferences and journals, including SIGGRAPH, SIGGRAPH Asia, CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, NeurIPS, ICML, EG, TVCG, IJCV, etc.

We have several open positions for research interns and full-time researchers. Feel free to drop me an email if you are interested.

News!

[01/2026] Invited to give a talk at Winter3DV, a closed-door workshop on 3D vision.

[10/2025] Serving as Program Committee for Mini3DV 2025 (a high-quality closed-door workshop), on World Modeling session.

[09/2025] ViewCrafter is accepted to TPAMI!

[06/2025] Three papers (one is Oral) accepted to ICCV'25.

[06/2025] Our DepthCrafter is selected as Best Paper at PixFoundation workshop in CVPR'25! Best Paper Award

[06/2025] Invited talk by CSIG about "基于视频生成模型的场景演变生成最新进展".

[04/2025] Invited talk by China3DV 2025 about "GenConstruction".

[03/2025] Invited talk by GAMES about "Generative Novel View Synthesis".

[03/2025] Invited talk by AnySyn3D about "Video Diffusion for 3D".

[03/2025] We released code and models for TrajectoryCrafter.

[02/2025] Three papers accepted to CVPR'25.

[10/2024] Invited talks by Chinagraph about: [DepthCrafter, StereoCrafter, ViewCrafter] and [Tri-MipRF, Rip-NeRF, Analytic-Splatting].

[09/2024] One paper accepted to NeurIPS'24.

[07/2024] Four papers accepted to ECCV'24.

[05/2024] Invited talk by NeRF/GS & Beyond about Anti-Aliasing in Neural Rendering. [Slides]

[04/2024] Invited talk by China3DV 2024 about Anti-Aliasing in Neural Rendering.

[03/2024] One paper conditionally accepted to SIGGRAPH'24.

[02/2024] One paper accepted to CVPR'24.

[10/2023] Our Tri-MipRF was selected in ICCV'23 Best Paper Finalist!

[08/2023] Invited talk by GAMES about our Tri-MipRF.

[07/2023] Our Tri-MipRF was accepted to ICCV'23 as ORAL presentation.

[07/2023] One paper on invertile image downscaling accepted to TIP'23.

[08/2022] One paper conditionally accepted to SIGGRAPH Asia'22 (Journal Track).

[05/2022] Passed the oral defense and became a Dr.

[08/2021] Invited talk by 智东西 about our BPNet.

[07/2021] One paper on lighting estimation accepted to TIP'22.

[07/2021] Two papers accepted to ICCV'21.

[07/2021] One paper on 3D human pose estimation accepted to ACM MM'21.

[06/2021] Invited talk at ScanNet CVPR'21 Workshop about our BPNet (Recording).

[06/2021] Code of BPNet is released now.

[03/2021] One paper conditionally accepted to CVPR 2021 (Oral).

[08/2020] One paper conditionally accepted to SIGGRAPH Asia 2020.

[08/2018] I start my Ph.D study at CUHK.

[01/2018] I will work as a research intern at SenseTime.

Selected publications. Full list on Google Scholar *equal contribution   †corresponding author   ‡project leader
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VerseCrafter: Dynamic Realistic Video World Model with 4D Geometric Control
Sixiao Zheng, Minghao Yin, Wenbo Hu†, Xiaoyu Li, Ying Shan, Yanwei Fu†
arXiv preprint, 2026
Project Paper Code GitHub stars Model
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Rolling Forcing: Autoregressive Long Video Diffusion in Real-Time
Kunhao Liu, Wenbo Hu†, Jiale Xu, Ying Shan, Shijian Lu†
arXiv preprint, 2025
Project Paper Code GitHub stars Demo
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GeometryCrafter: Consistent Geometry Estimation for Open-world Videos with Diffusion Priors
Tian-Xing Xu, Xiangjun Gao, Wenbo Hu†, Xiaoyu Li, Song-Hai Zhang†, Ying Shan
IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2025
Project Paper Code GitHub stars Demo
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NormalCrafter: Learning Temporally Consistent Normals from Video Diffusion Priors
Yanrui Bin, Wenbo Hu‡, Haoyuan Wang, Xinya Chen, Bing Wang†
IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2025
Project Paper Code GitHub stars Demo
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TrajectoryCrafter: Redirecting Camera Trajectory for Monocular Videos via Diffusion Models
Mark YU, Wenbo Hu†, Jinbo Xing, Ying Shan
IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2025 Oral
Project Paper Code GitHub stars Demo
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DepthCrafter: Generating Consistent Long Depth Sequences for Open-world Videos
Wenbo Hu*†, Xiangjun Gao*, Xiaoyu Li*†, Sijie Zhao, Xiaodong Cun, Yong Zhang, Long Quan, Ying Shan
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2025 Highlight Best Paper @ PixFoundation
Project Paper Code GitHub stars Demo
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ViewCrafter: Taming Video Diffusion Models for High-fidelity Novel View Synthesis
Wangbo Yu*, Jinbo Xing*, Li Yuan*, Wenbo Hu†, Xiaoyu Li, Zhipeng Huang, Xiangjun Gao, Tien-Tsin Wong, Ying Shan, Yonghong Tian†
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), 2025
Project Paper Video Code GitHub stars Demo
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StereoCrafter: Diffusion-based Generation of Long and High-fidelity Stereoscopic 3D from Monocular Videos
Sijie Zhao*, Wenbo Hu*, Xiaodong Cun*, Yong Zhang†, Xiaoyu Li†, Zhe Kong, Xiangjun Gao, Muyao Niu, Ying Shan
arXiv preprint, 2024
Project Paper Code GitHub stars
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Pixel-GS: Density Control with Pixel-aware Gradient for 3D Gaussian Splatting
Zheng Zhang, Wenbo Hu†, Yixing Lao, Tong He, Hengshuang Zhao†
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2024
Project Paper Code GitHub stars
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Analytic-Splatting: Anti-Aliased 3D Gaussian Splatting via Analytic Integration
Zhihao Liang, Qi Zhang, Wenbo Hu, Lei Zhu, Ying Feng, Kui Jia
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2024 Oral
Project Paper Code GitHub stars
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Texture-GS: Disentangling the Geometry and Texture for 3D Gaussian Splatting Editing
Tian-Xing Xu, Wenbo Hu†, Yu-Kun Lai, Ying Shan, Song-Hai Zhang†
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2024
Project Paper Code GitHub stars
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Rip-NeRF: Anti-aliasing Radiance Fields with Ripmap-Encoded Platonic Solids
Junchen Liu*, Wenbo Hu*, Zhuo Yang*, Jianteng Chen, Guoliang Wang, Xiaoxue Chen, Yantong Cai, Huan-ang Gao, Hao Zhao
ACM SIGGRAPH, 2024
Project Paper Code GitHub stars Data
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Inverse Rendering of Glossy Objects via the Neural Plenoptic Function and Radiance Fields
Haoyuan Wang, Wenbo Hu†, Lei Zhu, Rynson W.H. Lau†
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024
Project Paper Code GitHub stars Data
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Tri-MipRF: Tri-Mip Representation for Efficient Anti-Aliasing Neural Radiance Fields
Wenbo Hu, Yuling Wang, Lin Ma, Bangbang Yang, Lin Gao, Xiao Liu, Yuewen Ma
IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2023 Oral Best Paper Finalist (17/8260)
Project Paper Code GitHub stars
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Scale-arbitrary Invertible Image Downscaling
Jinbo Xing*, Wenbo Hu*, Menghan Xia, Tien-Tsin Wong
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP), 2023
Project Paper Code GitHub stars
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Disentangled Image Colorization via Global Anchors
Menghan Xia, Wenbo Hu, Tien-Tsin Wong, Jue Wang
ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), 2022 SIGGRAPH Asia
Project Paper Code GitHub stars
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Deep Halftoning with Reversible Binary Pattern
Menghan Xia, Wenbo Hu, Xueting Liu, Tien-Tsin Wong
IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2021
Project Paper Code GitHub stars
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Conditional Directed Graph Convolution for 3D Human Pose Estimation
Wenbo Hu, Changgong Zhang, Fangneng Zhan, Lei Zhang, Tien-Tsin Wong
ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM), 2021
Project Paper
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Bidirectional Projection Network for Cross Dimensional Scene Understanding
Wenbo Hu, Hengshuang Zhao, Li Jiang, Jiaya Jia, Tien-Tsin Wong
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2021 Oral
Project Paper Code GitHub stars
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Mononizing Binocular Videos
Wenbo Hu, Menghan Xia, Chi-Wing Fu, Tien-Tsin Wong
ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), 2020 SIGGRAPH Asia
Project Paper Code GitHub stars

Education

Aug. 2018 - May. 2022
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering
Ph.D. in Computer Science
Sep. 2014 - Jun. 2018
Dalian University of Technology
Dept. of Computer Science and Technology
B.Eng. in Computer Science Rank: 3/105, GPA: 90.3/100

Work Experience

Dec. 2023 - Present
Tencent AI Lab (ARC)
Senior Researcher
Sep. 2022 - Nov. 2023
PICO Mixed Reality, ByteDance
Researcher & Developer
Nov. 2021 - May. 2022
Tencent AI Lab
Research Intern
Sep. 2020 - Nov. 2021
DAMO Academy, Alibaba Group
Research Intern
Jan. 2018 - Jul. 2018
SenseTime
Research Intern
Jul. 2016 - Sep. 2016
DJI
Software Engineer Intern
  • CN108827302A (In process), “Multi-rotor aerocraft air navigation aid based on rotor tachometric survey”.
  • CN107656227B (Issued Oct. 2019), “Magnetometer calibration method based on Levenberg-Marquardt algorithm”.
  • CN107655463B (Issued Oct. 2019), “Electronic compass calibration method based on simulated annealing”.
  • CN207400517U (Issued May. 2018), “Intelligent toothbrush system ”.

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