Wentao BAO (包文韬)

Senior Research Scientist

Meta Reality Labs
322 Airport Blvd., Burlingame, CA 94010, USA
Email: wtbao2018 at gmail dot com

About Me

I am a senior research scientist at Meta Reality Labs. I obtained Ph.D. degree (2019-2024) from the Department of CSE, Michigan State University (MSU), working with Prof. Yu Kong. Prior to MSU, I spent three Ph.D. years (2019-2022) at the GCCIS, Rochester Institute of Technology (R.I.T), working with Prof. Yu Kong and Prof. Qi Yu. I completed both my Bachelor's and Master's degrees at the School of Remote Sensing and Information Engineering, Wuhan University (WHU) in 2016 and 2019, where I was advised by Prof. Daiqin Yang and Prof. Zhenzhong Chen at the Lab. of Intelligent Information Processing (IIP). I had research internship collaborations with excellent industrial researchers from Apple, OPPO US Research Center, and NEC Lab America.

I am broadly interested in real-world computer vision challenges related to visual recognition, prediction, understanding, and 3D vision. My Ph.D. research focuses on open-world visual understanding problems by developing CV/ML models spanning from conventional vision models to recent multi-modal LLM and GenAI approaches. In Reality Labs, I develop on-device biometric authentication systems for the latest AI-powered mixed/augmented-reality (MR/AR) glasses.

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2025.02: I delivered an online lecture talk to CS570 at Emory, invited by Dr. Wei Jin.
2025.01: We released a survey on Visual Large Language Models. Thanks to Yifan and all collaborators!
2024.10: 🎉🎉🎉 One paper is accepted by WACV 2025.
2024.07: I joined Meta Reality Labs as a research scientist.
2024.07: I successfuly passed the Ph.D. dissertation defense at CSE Department of MSU.
2024.07: Three papers are accepted by ECCV 2024 (two co-authored)!
2024.03: I am selected to present in CVPR 2024 Doctoral Consortium and chat with Prof. Jason Corso.
2024.02: I successfuly passed the MSU PhD Comprehensive Exam, being a Ph.D. candidate!
2023.07: One paper is accepted by ICCV 2023.
2023.05: I am invited to deliver a talk on open-set recognition at the the 2nd MSU-ND workshop.
2023.02: I will be a research intern at NEC Laboratories America, Inc. (Princeton, NJ) in this summer.
2023.02: One co-authored paper is accepted by CVPR 2023.
2022.08: I started my second journey of Ph.D. study at the CSE department at MSU!
2022.07: One co-authored paper is accepted by ECCV 2022.
2022.06: Start my internship at OPPO U.S. Research Center at Palo Alto, CA. (on-site)
2022.05: I attended the conference ICRA 2022 on-site at Philadelphia, PA.
2022.04: I received the CVPR 2022 Travel Award to attend the conference at New Orleans, LA.
2022.03: One paper is accepted by CVPR 2022 for Oral presentation!
2021.10: One co-authored paper is accepted by BMVC 2021.
2021.07: Two papers are accepted by ICCV 2021, with one paper for Oral presentation!
2021.06: Start my internship at Apple Inc., 3D Vision Team at Apple Maps. (remote)
2021.04: One co-authored paper is accepted by IJCNN 2021.
2020.07: Two papers are accepted by ACM MM 2020 (one co-authored).
2020.07: One co-authored paper is accepted by ECCV 2020.
2020.06: One paper is accepted by IROS 2020.
2020.06: One co-authored paper is accepted by ICPR 2020.
2020.05: I passed the Ph.D. Research Potential Assessment!
2019.08: Start my new journey at RIT, Rochester, NY.

Selected Publications [Google Scholar]

Conferences

Exploiting VLM Localizability and Semantics for Open Vocabulary Action Detection
Wentao Bao, Kai Li, Yuxiao Chen, Deep Patel, Martin Renqiang Min, Yu Kong
IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), 2025
arXiv Code BibTeX

Prompting Language-Informed Distribution for Compositional Zero-Shot Learning
Wentao Bao, Lichang Chen, Heng Huang, Yu Kong
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2024
arXiv Code BibTeX

Uncertainty-aware State Space Transformer for Egocentric 3D Hand Trajectory Forecasting
Wentao Bao, Lele Chen, Libing Zeng, Zhong Li, Yi Xu, Junsong Yuan, Yu Kong
International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2023
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OpenTAL: Towards Open Set Temporal Action Localization
Wentao Bao, Qi Yu, Yu Kong
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2022 (Oral)
PDF arXiv Poster Code BibTeX

Evidential Deep Learning for Open Set Action Recognition
Wentao Bao, Qi Yu, Yu Kong
International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2021 (Oral)
PDF arXiv Poster Code BibTeX

DRIVE: Deep Reinforced Accident Anticipation with Visual Explanation
Wentao Bao, Qi Yu, Yu Kong
International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2021
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Uncertainty-based Traffic Accident Anticipation with Spatio-Temporal Relational Learning
Wentao Bao, Qi Yu, Yu Kong
The 28th ACM International Conference on Multimedia (MM), 2020
arXiv DOI Code Dataset BibTeX

Object-Aware Centroid Voting for Monocular 3D Object Detection
Wentao Bao, Qi Yu, Yu Kong
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2020
PDF arXiv Demo BibTeX

Journals

Human Scanpath Prediction based on Deep Convolutional Saccadic Model
Wentao Bao, Zhenzhong Chen
Elsevier Journal of Neurocomputing (Neurocomputing), 2020
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MonoFENet: Monocular 3D Object Detection with Feature Enhancement Networks
Wentao Bao, Bin Xu, Zhenzhong Chen
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP), 2019
DOI BibTeX

Preprints

Latent Space Energy-based Model for Fine-grained Open Set Recognition
Wentao Bao, Qi Yu, Yu Kong
Preprint, 2023
arXiv BibTeX

Selected Awards & Honors

Awards

CVPR 2024 Travel Award for presentation in CVPR'24 Doctoral Consortium, Seattle, USA, 2024.
CVPR 2022 Travel Award for in-person conference at New Orleans, USA, 2022.
AAAI 2020 Travel Award for in-person conference at New York, USA, 2020.
Postgraduate Academic Innovation Award from Wuhan University, 2020.
Grand Prize Winner, ICME 2018 Grand Challenge on Salient360! Visual Attention Modeling for 360 Content, 2018.
Bronze Award in Hubei Province, The 2nd China College Students "Internet Plus" Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition. 2016.
Second-Class Prize, The 3rd National Graduate Contest on Smart-City Technology and Creative Design, Abnormal Event Detection. 2016.
First Prize, IEEE BigMM 2015 Challenge: "Large-Scale Object Tracking over a Multiple-Camera Network". 2015.
Third-Class Prize, The 14th "Challenge Cup" National Undergraduate Curricular Academic Science and Technology Contest on "Smart City". 2015.
Meritorious Winner, Mathematical Contest in Modeling (MCM). 2015.
Second prize, The 12th "SuperMap Cup" National Undergraduate GIS Contest, Android Application Development. 2014.

Honors

Excellent Graduated Student, Wuhan University, 2019. (top 5%)
China National Scholarship, 2018.
The First-class Academic Scholarship, Wuhan University, 2017 & 2018. (top 10%)
Outstanding Postgraduate Student, Wuhan University, 2017 & 2018. (top 10%)
Excellent Graduate Freshman Scholarship of Wuhan University, 2016. (top 10%)
Advanced Individual, Wuhan University, 2016.

Academic Services

Editorial Board

Multimedia Systems Journal (MMSJ)

Conference Reviewer

IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR): 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026
IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV): 2021, 2025
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV): 2022, 2024
International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI): 2023
ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM): 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV): 2023, 2024, 2025
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA): 2021

Journal Reviewer

Membership

IEEE Student Member.
ACM Student Member.

Volunteer

Thirty-Fourth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-20), Feb. 7-12, 2020, New York, USA.

Teaching

Teaching Assistant, MSU CSE-402: Biometrics and Pattern Recognition, FS2023.
Teaching Activities (DRL Intro.), RIT CSCI-631: Foundations of Computer Vision, SS2021 & SS2022.
Teaching Activities (EDL Intro.), RIT CISC-849: PhD Seminar, FS2021.

Academic Talks

2025.02.18: Delivering a guest lecture at Emory CS570 hosted by Dr. Wei Jin.

2023.05.13: Delivering a talk at the 2nd MSU-ND Computer Vision and Biometrics Workshop, introducing on Evidential Deep Learning for Open-Set Action Recognition

2021.08.20 & 2021.09.16: Delivering two academic talks in Chinese media Jishi and TechBeat, introducing our recent ICCV Oral paper.

2020.11.17: Delivering an academic talk in the 2020 RIT Graduate Virtual Showcase: A Vision Into the Future.

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