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Biography

I am currently a first year Ph.D. student in the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), supervised by Prof. Yixuan Yuan. Also, I was a visiting student in the Medical Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at Westlake University, supervised by Prof. Yefeng Zheng (IEEE & AIMBE Fellow), in 2025. Before that, I received my M.Phil. degree under the supervision of Prof. Lei Zhu and Prof. Anyi Rao at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, in 2024, and the B.Eng. degree from the Engineering Science Experimental Class in School of Precision Instrument and Opto-Electronics Engineering at Tianjin University, in 2022.

My research interests mainly lie in Low-level Vision, Generative Modeling, and Medical Image Analysis.

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News

[08/2025] I start my Ph.D. journey at CUHK AIM Group.
[07/2025] Three papers accepted by ACM MM 2025.
[07/2025] One paper accepted by ACM UIST 2025 with Oral presentation.
[02/2025] One paper accepted by CVPR 2025.
[07/2024] I passed my oral defense for the M.Phil. degree.
[07/2024] One paper accepted by ACM MM 2024 with Oral presentation (3.97%).
[07/2024] One paper accepted by ECCV 2024.
[06/2024] One paper accepted by IJCV 2024.
[02/2024] One paper accepted by CVPR 2024.
[07/2023] One paper accepted by ACM MM 2023.
[07/2023] One paper accepted by ICCV 2023.

Education Experiences

Chinese University of Hong Kong

Ph.D. in Electronic Engineering, Aug. 2025 to Jul. 2028 (expected)

The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Guangzhou

M.Phil. in Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Sep 2022 ~ Oct 2024.

Tianjin University (Peiyang University)

B.Eng. in Measurement & Control Technology and Instruments, Sep 2018 - Jul 2022.

Internship Experiences

Selected Publications

* Equal Contribution

SAMVSR: Leveraging Semantic Priors to Zone-Focused Mamba for Video Snow Removal

Hongtao Wu*, Yifeng Wu*, Jiaxuan Jiang, Chengyu Wu, Hong Wang, Yefeng Zheng.

Proceedings of the 33rd ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM), 2025. [code]

CineVision: An Interactive Pre-visualization Storyboard System for Director–Cinematographer Collaboratio

Zheng Wei*, Hongtao Wu*, Lvmin Zhang, Xian Xu, Yefeng Zheng, Pan Hui, Maneesh Agrawala, Huamin Qu, Anyi Rao

User Interface Software and Technology (UIST), 2025. (Oral) [code]

RainMamba: Enhanced Locality Learning with State Space Models for Video Deraining.

Hongtao Wu, Yijun Yang, Huihui Xu, Weiming Wang, Jinni Zhou, and Lei Zhu.

Proceedings of the 32nd ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM), 2024. (Oral) [code]

Semi-Supervised Video Desnowing Network via Temporal Decoupling Experts and Distribution-Driven Contrastive Regularization.

Hongtao Wu, Yijun Yang, Angelica Aviles-Rivero, Jingjing Ren, Sixiang Chen, Haoyu Chen, Lei Zhu.

European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2024. [code]

Mask-Guided Progressive Network for Joint Raindrop and Rain Streak Removal in Videos.

Hongtao Wu, Yijun Yang, Haoyu Chen, Jingjing Ren, Lei Zhu.

Proceedings of the 31st ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM), 2023. [code]

Awards

PG Scholarship of CUHK, 2025-2028
PG Scholarship of HKUST(GZ), 2022-2024
Oral Presentation (3.97%) in ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM), 2024
First-Class Scholarship of Tianjin University, 2022
Excellent Conclusion of National College Students’ Innovation and Entrepreneurship Training Program, 2021
Outstanding graduate of Zhenhai High School of Zhejiang, 2018

Professional Activities

Conference Reviewer: CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, ACM MM, AAAI, MICCAI.

Journal Reviewer: TMI

Acknowledgements

I remain deeply indebted to the intellectual generosity of mentors and colleagues who shaped my academic journey. To all kindred spirits I meet along the way—may our pursuits ignite not just minds, but souls, and may we find meaning in both questions and answers.

Hunter, Hongtao Wu