Wenbin Zhou

301 Haking Wong Building, HKU

Pokfulam, Hong Kong

I am a second year Ph.D. student in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE) at The University of Hong Kong (HKU). Currently, I am conducting research in the Computational Imaging & Mixed Representation Labortory, aka., WeLight@HKU led by Dr. Yifan (Evan) Peng.

I completed my bachelor’s degree in Physics (with a minor in Computer Science), under the guidance of Prof. Ligang Liu, at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), and further pursued a master’s degree in Computer Science at the University of Hong Kong. Additionally, I gained valuable experience as a Research Assistant at Purdue University, where I was led by Prof. Bedrich Benes for a period of two years.

My current academic interests revolve around the areas of Computational Holography, Optics, Computer Graphics, and Virtual/Augmented Reality.

news

Aug 13, 2025	I am presenting in The 16th International Conference on Information Optics 2025, Xi’an, China, on an invited talk Exploring System-aware Hologram Generation for VR and AR Displays.
Mar 25, 2025	I am presenting in International Conference on Display Technology 2025, Xiamen, China, on an invited talk Exploring System-aware Hologram Generation and Compression.
May 12, 2024	I am presenting in SID Display Week 2024, San Jose, CA, on oral paper Towards Real‐time 3D Computer‐Generated Holography with Inverse Neural Network for Near‐eye Displays.
Oct 01, 2023	I am excited to join the WeLight Lab at HKU as a Ph.D. student supervised by Dr. Yifan (Evan) Peng!
Aug 31, 2023	I graduated with distinction (GPA: 4.2/4.3) from Master of Science in Computer Science at the University of Hong Kong!

selected publications

Multi-illumination-interfered Neural Holography with Expanded Eyebox

Xinxing Xia, Pengfei Mi, Yiqing Tao, Xiangyu Meng, Wenbin Zhou, Yingjie Yu, and Yifan Peng

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2025

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@article{xia2025multi,
  title = {Multi-illumination-interfered Neural Holography with Expanded Eyebox},
  author = {Xia, Xinxing and Mi, Pengfei and Tao, Yiqing and Meng, Xiangyu and Zhou, Wenbin and Yu, Yingjie and Peng, Yifan},
  journal = {IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics},
  year = {2025},
  publisher = {IEEE},
}

3D-HoloNet: fast, unfiltered, 3D hologram generation with camera-calibrated network learning

Wenbin Zhou, Feifan Qu, Xiangyu Meng, Zhenyang Li, and Yifan Peng

Optics Letters, 2025

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@article{zhou20253d,
  title = {3D-HoloNet: fast, unfiltered, 3D hologram generation with camera-calibrated network learning},
  author = {Zhou, Wenbin and Qu, Feifan and Meng, Xiangyu and Li, Zhenyang and Peng, Yifan},
  journal = {Optics Letters},
  volume = {50},
  number = {4},
  pages = {1188--1191},
  year = {2025},
  publisher = {Optica Publishing Group},
}

59-4: Towards Real-time 3D Computer-Generated Holography with Inverse Neural Network for Near-eye Displays

Wenbin Zhou, Xiangyu Meng, Feifan Qu, and Yifan Peng

In SID Symposium Digest of Technical Papers, 2024

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@inproceedings{zhou202459,
  title = {59-4: Towards Real-time 3D Computer-Generated Holography with Inverse Neural Network for Near-eye Displays},
  author = {Zhou, Wenbin and Meng, Xiangyu and Qu, Feifan and Peng, Yifan},
  booktitle = {SID Symposium Digest of Technical Papers},
  volume = {55},
  number = {1},
  pages = {817--820},
  year = {2024},
  organization = {Wiley Online Library},
}

Deep learning-based emotion recognition from real-time videos

Wenbin Zhou, Justin Cheng, Xingyu Lei, Bedrich Benes, and Nicoletta Adamo

In Human-Computer Interaction. Multimodal and Natural Interaction: Thematic Area, HCI 2020, Held as Part of the 22nd International Conference, HCII 2020, 2020

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@inproceedings{zhou2020deep,
  title = {Deep learning-based emotion recognition from real-time videos},
  author = {Zhou, Wenbin and Cheng, Justin and Lei, Xingyu and Benes, Bedrich and Adamo, Nicoletta},
  booktitle = {Human-Computer Interaction. Multimodal and Natural Interaction: Thematic Area, HCI 2020, Held as Part of the 22nd International Conference, HCII 2020},
  pages = {321--332},
  year = {2020},
  organization = {Springer International Publishing},
}