Hongbin Zha

Timeline

1. 1983–1990

   Hefei degree and Kyushu PhD

   He earns a B.Sc. from Hefei University of Technology in 1983. In 1990, he completes a Ph.D. in electrical engineering at Kyushu University in Japan.

2. 1991–1999

   Kyushu University and a Taylor Award

   After working as a research associate at Kyushu Institute of Technology, he joins Kyushu University as an associate professor in 1991. In 1999, he is a visiting professor at the Centre for Vision, Speech, and Signal Processing at the University of Surrey and receives the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society's Franklin V. Taylor Award.

3. 2000–2007

   Professor at Peking University

   He becomes a professor at the Key Lab on Machine Perception (MOE) of Peking University in 2000. In 2002, he becomes Vice Dean of the School of EECS, and in 2007, Director of the Key Lab of Machine Perception (MOE).

4. 2009–2011

   Ministry and national prizes

   The Ministry of Public Security gives him its Second Prize of Scientific and Technological Progress in 2009. In 2010, he wins the First Prize of Ministry of Education Technical Invention and the best paper award from EuroMed. In 2011, he receives the Second Prize of National Technical Invention.

5. 2010–2016

   General chair of ACCV

   He serves as General Chair of ACCV 2010 and 3DIMPVT 2011, and as Area Chair of ICCV 2011. He also serves as General Chair of CVM 2012 and ACCV 2016.

6. 2019–2020

   Deep visual odometry at CVPR

   In 2019, he coauthors Beyond Tracking with Fei Xue and colleagues, a CVPR paper that adds Memory and Refining components to learning-based visual odometry. In 2020, he coauthors a CVPR paper with Shunkai Li, Xin Wang and others that proposes an online meta-learning algorithm so visual odometry networks adapt to new environments in a self-supervised manner.

7. 2023–2025

   Active mapping and Adaptive VIO

   In 2023, he coauthors Active Neural Mapping with Zike Yan and Haoxiang Yang, an online active mapping system built on a coordinate-based implicit neural representation. In 2024, he coauthors Adaptive VIO, a monocular visual-inertial odometry method that combines online continual learning with nonlinear optimization. In 2025, he coauthors Proactive Scene Decomposition and Reconstruction, an online approach that uses human-object interactions to disassemble and reconstruct an environment.

8. As of October 2026

   Professor and key lab director

   He is a professor in Peking University's School of Intelligence Science and Technology, director of the Key Laboratory of Machine Perception and Intelligence of the Ministry of Education, and a Distinguished Professor under the Changjiang Scholars Program. From 2011 to 2019, he sits on the 6th Expert Consultation Committee of the Information Science Department of the National Natural Science Foundation of China. He leads the Digital Longmen Grottoes project.