Huangbo Zou

I am a Research Assistant at Westlake University, working with Prof. Haibin Ling.

I received my B.Eng. from Tongji University in 2026 and was an exchange student at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

My research focuses on 3D perception and spatial reasoning, with applications in cryo-electron tomography and vision-language models.

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Huangbo Zou

Research

My research interests include 3D computer vision, vision-language models, embodied AI, and AI for science.

Rotating 3D views of DeepFinder foreground and TomoDETR particle coordinates

TomoDETR: Point-Set Prediction with Cross-Window Refinement for Cryo-ET Particle Localization

Huangbo Zou, Suyi Chen, Mengxue Wang, Yilai Li, Zhaoqian Wang, Haibin Ling

Direct particle coordinates from point annotations, with learned refinement across overlapping windows.

Illustration of the change in orientation between two objects

Rotated, but How Far? Diagnosing and Improving Object-Rotation Reasoning in VLMs

Zhaochen Wang, Yujun Cai, Huangbo Zou, Hower Yang, Naipeng Dong, Miao Xu, Haibin Ling

Studying how vision-language models reason about changes in object orientation.

Education

Tongji University

Bachelor of Engineering ยท Surveying and Mapping Engineering

2022 โ€” 2026
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Exchange student

Jan โ€” May 2025

Selected Honors

Tongji University Outstanding Student Scholarship โ€” First Prize (2024), Second Prize (2025).
Tongji University Student Overseas/Outbound Exchange Scholarship (2026).

Misc

I enjoy photography, filmmaking, hiking, and middle- and long-distance running. You can find some of my photography here.