Wenbin Zhou

301 Haking Wong Building, HKU

Pokfulam, Hong Kong

I am a third year Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) 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

Mar 20, 2026	One paper accepted by IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG) and received a 🎉Best Paper Honorable Mention at IEEE VR 2026.
Dec 16, 2025	We are showing our real holographic displays prototype in SIGGRAPH ASIA 2025, Hong Kong from Dec 16 to 19. Feel free to stop by and have a try with your own eyes!
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!
Apr 10, 2023	I am thrilled to have been awarded the Funding Scheme for Student Projects/Activities by the Tam Wing Fan Innovation Fund and Philomathia Foundation Innovation Fund 2022-2023, totaling 40,000 HKD from HKU InnoWing.

Selected Publications

Towards Edge Holography via Implicit Neural Representation and Compression

🎉 Best Paper Honorable Mention

Hyunmin Ban, Wenbin Zhou, and Yifan Peng

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), 2026

To appear at IEEE VR 2026

Bib Project Page PDF

@article{ban2026edgeholography,
  title = {Towards Edge Holography via Implicit Neural Representation and Compression},
  author = {Ban, Hyunmin and Zhou, Wenbin and Peng, Yifan},
  journal = {IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG)},
  year = {2026},
  note = {To appear at IEEE VR 2026},
  project_page = {https://banhyunmin.github.io/edge_holography/},
  award_note = {🎉 Best Paper Honorable Mention}
}

Multi-color compressive hologram synthesis with learned wave propagation

Hyunmin Ban, Wenbin Zhou, Xiangyu Meng, and Yifan Evan Peng

Computational Visual Media, 2026

Bib HTML PDF

@article{ban2026multi,
  title = {Multi-color compressive hologram synthesis with learned wave propagation},
  author = {Ban, Hyunmin and Zhou, Wenbin and Meng, Xiangyu and Peng, Yifan Evan},
  journal = {Computational Visual Media},
  year = {2026},
  publisher = {TUP},
}

Empowering Head-up AR: Leveraging Holographic Display Engine, Geometry Optical Combiner, and Learned Calibration

Wenbin Zhou, Xiangyu Meng, Li Liao, and Yifan Peng

In Proceedings of the SIGGRAPH Asia 2025 Emerging Technologies, 2025

Bib HTML PDF

@incollection{zhou2025empowering,
  title = {Empowering Head-up AR: Leveraging Holographic Display Engine, Geometry Optical Combiner, and Learned Calibration},
  author = {Zhou, Wenbin and Meng, Xiangyu and Liao, Li and Peng, Yifan},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the SIGGRAPH Asia 2025 Emerging Technologies},
  pages = {1--3},
  year = {2025},
  publisher = {ACM},
  address = {Hong Kong, China},
}

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 (TVCG), 2025

Bib HTML PDF

@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 (TVCG)},
  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

Bib HTML PDF Code

@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},
}