Bo (Hawk) Wang

Welcome to my research site, where I share my research in computer vision and machine learning. The work I do spans a broad spectrum of topics and domains, including human modeling (pose and action), 3D vision, robotics, and applications in biomedical and health sciences. Currently, I am a Principal Researcher at CtrsVision. My previous roles include Senior Researcher at Tencent US and Research Scientist at GE Global Research. I obtained my Ph.D. from the School of Computing at the University of Utah in 2015.

I’m excited to announce that I will be joining Ole Miss this Fall as an Assistant Professor in Computer Science. I am currently recruiting two PhD students to join my lab, starting this fall (or next spring). If you’re passionate about research in computer vision and machine learning, I’d love to hear from you. Please email me your CV and transcript with the subject line “[24Fall/25Spring PhD Application - Your Name]”. Let’s explore how we can work together to push the boundaries of what’s possible in our field.

news

Dec, 2023	An HOI detection paper accepted at AAAI 2024.
Nov, 2023	Serve as Area Chair for ECCV 2024.
Feb, 2023	A 3D Dense Face Alignment paper accepted at CVPR 2023.
Feb, 2023	A 2D human pose estimation paper accepted to Pattern Recognition journal.
Oct, 2022	Received Outstanding Reviewer Award at ECCV 2022.
Apr, 2022	A 3D multi-person pose estimation paper accepted to TPAMI.

selected publications

AAAI

Few-Shot Learning from Augmented Label-Uncertain Queries in Bongard-HOI

Qinqian Lei , Bo Wang, and Robby T Tan

In Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence , 2024

arXiv Bib Code Website

@inproceedings{lei2024fewshot,
  title = {Few-Shot Learning from Augmented Label-Uncertain Queries in Bongard-HOI},
  author = {Lei, Qinqian and Wang, Bo and Tan, Robby T},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
  year = {2024},
}

CVPR

DSFNet: Dual Space Fusion Network for Occlusion-Robust 3D Dense Face Alignment

Heyuan Li , Bo Wang, Yu Cheng , Mohan Kankanhalli , and 1 more author

In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition , 2023

arXiv Bib HTML Code

@inproceedings{li2023dsfnet,
  title = {DSFNet: Dual Space Fusion Network for Occlusion-Robust 3D Dense Face Alignment},
  author = {Li, Heyuan and Wang, Bo and Cheng, Yu and Kankanhalli, Mohan and Tan, Robby T},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition},
  pages = {4531--4540},
  year = {2023},
}

PR journal

Bottom-up 2D pose estimation via dual anatomical centers for small-scale persons

Yu Cheng* , Yihao Ai* , Bo Wang, Xinchao Wang , and 1 more author

Pattern Recognition, 2023

arXiv Bib HTML

@article{cheng2023bottom,
  title = {Bottom-up 2D pose estimation via dual anatomical centers for small-scale persons},
  author = {Cheng*, Yu and Ai*, Yihao and Wang, Bo and Wang, Xinchao and Tan, Robby T},
  journal = {Pattern Recognition},
  volume = {139},
  pages = {109403},
  year = {2023},
  publisher = {Elsevier},
}

TPAMI

Dual networks based 3d multi-person pose estimation from monocular video

Yu Cheng , Bo Wang, and Robby T Tan

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 2022

arXiv Bib HTML Code

@article{cheng2022dual,
  title = {Dual networks based 3d multi-person pose estimation from monocular video},
  author = {Cheng, Yu and Wang, Bo and Tan, Robby T},
  journal = {IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence},
  volume = {45},
  number = {2},
  pages = {1636--1651},
  year = {2022},
  publisher = {IEEE},
}

CVPR

Monocular 3D multi-person pose estimation by integrating top-down and bottom-up networks

Yu Cheng , Bo Wang, Bo Yang , and Robby T Tan

In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition , 2021

arXiv Bib HTML Code

@inproceedings{cheng2021monocular,
  title = {Monocular 3D multi-person pose estimation by integrating top-down and bottom-up networks},
  author = {Cheng, Yu and Wang, Bo and Yang, Bo and Tan, Robby T},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition},
  pages = {7649--7659},
  year = {2021},
}

AAAI

Graph and temporal convolutional networks for 3d multi-person pose estimation in monocular videos

Yu Cheng , Bo Wang, Bo Yang , and Robby T Tan

In Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence , 2021

arXiv Bib HTML Code

@inproceedings{cheng2021graph,
  title = {Graph and temporal convolutional networks for 3d multi-person pose estimation in monocular videos},
  author = {Cheng, Yu and Wang, Bo and Yang, Bo and Tan, Robby T},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
  volume = {35},
  number = {2},
  pages = {1157--1165},
  year = {2021},
}

AAAI

3d human pose estimation using spatio-temporal networks with explicit occlusion training

Yu Cheng* , Bo Yang* , Bo Wang*, and Robby T Tan

In Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence , 2020

arXiv Bib HTML

@inproceedings{cheng20203d,
  title = {3d human pose estimation using spatio-temporal networks with explicit occlusion training},
  author = {Cheng*, Yu and Yang*, Bo and Wang*, Bo and Tan, Robby T},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
  volume = {34},
  number = {07},
  pages = {10631--10638},
  year = {2020},
}

ICCV

Occlusion-aware networks for 3d human pose estimation in video

Yu Cheng* , Bo Yang* , Bo Wang, Wending Yan , and 1 more author

In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision , 2019

Bib HTML

@inproceedings{cheng2019occlusion,
  title = {Occlusion-aware networks for 3d human pose estimation in video},
  author = {Cheng*, Yu and Yang*, Bo and Wang, Bo and Yan, Wending and Tan, Robby T},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision},
  pages = {723--732},
  year = {2019},
}