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!

[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 ourTri-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 ourBPNet.

[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, full list on Google Scholar
(*equal contribution, †corresponding author, ‡project leader)

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 ]   [ Demo ]  
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 ]   [ Demo ]  
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 ]   [ Demo ]  
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 Presentation
[ Project ]   [ Paper ]   [ Code ]   [ Demo ]  
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
[ Project ]   [ Paper ]   [ Code ]   [ Demo ]   Best Paper at PixFoundation workshop
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†
TPAMI 2025
[ Project ]   [ Paper ]   [ Video ]   [ Code ]   [ Demo ]  
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 ]  
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 ]  
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 Presentation
[ Project ]   [ Paper ]   [ Code ]  
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 ]  
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
SIGGRAPH 2024
[ Project ]   [ Paper ]   [ Code ]   [ Data ]  
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 ]   [ Data ]  
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 Presentation
[ Project ]   [ Paper ]   [ Code ]   Best paper finalist (17/8260)
Scale-arbitrary Invertible Image Downscaling
Jinbo Xing*, Wenbo Hu*, Menghan Xia, Tien-Tsin Wong
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP), 2023.
[ Project ]   [ Paper ]   [ Code ]  
Disentangled Image Colorization via Global Anchors
Menghan Xia, Wenbo Hu, Tien-Tsin Wong, Jue Wang
ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), 2022.   SIGGRAPH Asia Journal Track
[ Project ]   [ Paper ]   [ Code ]  
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 ]  
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 ]  
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 Presentation
[ Project ]   [ Paper ]   [ Code ]  
Mononizing Binocular Videos
Wenbo Hu, Menghan Xia, Chi-Wing Fu, Tien-Tsin Wong
ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), 2020.   SIGGRAPH Asia
[ Project ]   [ Paper ]   [ Code ]  

Education

Aug. 2018 - May. 2022

  The Chinese University of Hong Kong
  Dept of Computer Science & Engineering
Ph.D.

Sep. 2014 - Jun. 2018

  Dalian University of Technology
  Dept of Computer Science and Technology
Bachelor (Rank: 3/105, GPA: 90.3/100)





Work Experience

Dec. 2023 - Present

Tencent AI Lab
Researcher at CVC

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
Summer Intern

Miscellaneous