Hawk Bo Wang

I am an Assistant Professor in Computer Science at Ole Miss. My research interests in computer vision, deep learning, and multimodal models focus on enhancing the robustness and generalization of models, with applications to human-centric tasks such as human pose estimation and human-object interaction. I obtained my PhD from the School of Computing at the University of Utah. After that, I spent nearly a decade in industry research labs at GE Global Research, Tencent US, and CtrsVision. In both industry and academia, I regularly serve as a Program Committee/Area Chair for leading computer vision venues, including CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, NeurIPS, and WACV, among others. For more information about computer vision and deep learning research in general, check out my blog post.

Contact: 209-C Weir Hall, University, MS 38677

Information for Prospective Students

Current Ole Miss students: If you’re interested in research opportunities with me, please plan to take my courses (e.g., Computer Vision or Deep Learning). Afterward, feel free to email me your CV and we can set up a time to discuss potential projects in person.

Prospective students: If you are interested in pursuing a PhD at Ole Miss and would like to work with me, please email your CV and transcripts with the subject line “[26Fall (or other semester you plan to start) PhD Application - Your Name].”

For more information about computer vision and deep learning research and its impact, I encourage you to read my blog post.

news

Sep, 2025	A paper on texture transfer for Gaussian splatting accepted at NeurIPS 2025 (#1 in AI).
Aug, 2025	Serve as Area Chair for WACV 2026.
Jun, 2025	An HOI detection paper accepted at ICCV 2025 (top-3 in CV).
Sep, 2024	A zero-shot HOI paper accepted at NeurIPS 2024 (#1 in AI).
Jul, 2024	A human pose paper accepted at ECCV 2024 (top-3 in CV).
Jan, 2024	Outstanding Reviewer Award at WACV 2024.
Nov, 2023	Serve as Area Chair for ECCV 2024.
Oct, 2022	Outstanding Reviewer Award at ECCV 2022.

recent publications

3DOTT: Texture Transfer for 3D Objects from a Single Reference Image

Xiao Cao , Beibei Lin , Bo Wang, Zhiyong Huang , and 1 more author

In Neural Information Processing Systems , 2025

Bib

@inproceedings{lei2024zeroshot,
  title = {3DOTT: Texture Transfer for 3D Objects from a Single Reference Image},
  author = {Cao, Xiao and Lin, Beibei and Wang, Bo and Huang, Zhiyong and Tan, Robby T},
  booktitle = {Neural Information Processing Systems},
  year = {2025},
}

HOLa: Zero-Shot HOI Detection with Low-Rank Decomposed VLM Feature Adaptation

Qinqian Lei , Bo Wang, and Robby T Tan

In International Conference on Computer Vision , 2025

arXiv Bib Code Website

@inproceedings{lei2025zeroshot,
  title = {HOLa: Zero-Shot HOI Detection with Low-Rank Decomposed VLM Feature Adaptation},
  author = {Lei, Qinqian and Wang, Bo and Tan, Robby T},
  booktitle = {International Conference on Computer Vision},
  year = {2025},
}

EZ-HOI: VLM Adaptation via Guided Prompt Learning for Zero-Shot HOI Detection

Qinqian Lei , Bo Wang, and Robby T Tan

In Neural Information Processing Systems , 2024

arXiv Bib Code Website

@inproceedings{lei2024zeroshou,
  title = {EZ-HOI: VLM Adaptation via Guided Prompt Learning for Zero-Shot HOI Detection},
  author = {Lei, Qinqian and Wang, Bo and Tan, Robby T},
  booktitle = {Neural Information Processing Systems},
  year = {2024},
}

Domain-Adaptive 2D Human Pose Estimation via Dual Teachers in Extremely Low-Light Conditions

Yihao Ai , Yifei Qi , Bo Wang, Yu Cheng , and 2 more authors

In European Conference on Computer Vision , 2024

arXiv Bib Code

@inproceedings{ai2024domain,
  title = {Domain-Adaptive 2D Human Pose Estimation via Dual Teachers in Extremely Low-Light Conditions},
  author = {Ai, Yihao and Qi, Yifei and Wang, Bo and Cheng, Yu and Wang, Xinchao and Tan, Robby T},
  booktitle = {European Conference on Computer Vision},
  year = {2024},
}