Weibin Kou寇卫斌PhD Candidate
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I am currently a PhD candidate at The Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE), The University of Hong Kong (HKU), supervised by Prof. Yik-Chung Wu. My research interest lies at the intersection of Federated Learning (FL), Large Models (LMs), Autonomous Driving (AD) and Robotic Perception.
[02/2025] One paper is accepted to IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (TITS).
[01/2025] One paper is accepted to IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2025).
[09/2024] I am invited to serve as a reviewer for IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interface (IEEE VR).
[09/2024] I am invited to serve as a reviewer for ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD).
[08/2024] I am invited to serve as a reviewer for International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR).
[08/2024] I am invited to serve as a reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC).
[07/2024] I am awarded IROS 2024 travel grant ($1,000).
[07/2024] One paper is accepted to IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC 2024).
[06/2024] One paper is accepted to IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2024).
[05/2024] I am invited to serve as a reviewer for Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2024).
[04/2024] One paper is accepted to IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (TWC).
[04/2024] I am invited to serve as Program Committee Member for 2nd International Conference on AI-generated Content (AIGC 2024).
[04/2024] I am invited to serve as a reviewer for IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2024).
[03/2024] I am invited to serve as a reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI).
[04/2024] One paper is accepted to Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence (EAAI).
[11/2023] I am offered to join SUSTech Fellowship Program.
[10/2023] I am invited to serve as a reviewer for ICRA 2024.
[06/2023] One paper is accepted to IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2023.
[01/2023] One paper is accepted to IEEE International Conference on Communication (ICC) 2023.
*: equal contribution, †: corresponding author
Predicting Childhood and Adolescence Hypertension: Analysis of Predictors Using Machine Learning.
Hengyan Liu, Wei-Bin Kou, Yik-Chung Wu, Pui Hing Chau, Thomas Wai Hung Chung, Daniel Yee Tak Fong†.
Pediatrics.
Adverse Weather-Resilient Street Scene Understanding through Temporal Correlation and Unfolded Regularization.
Wei-Bin Kou, Guangxu Zhu, Rongguang Ye, Shuai Wang, Ming Tang† and Yik-Chung Wu†.
Under Review.
[Link]
Enhancing Large Vision Model in Street Scene Semantic Understanding through Leveraging Posterior Optimization Trajectory.
Wei-Bin Kou, Qingfeng Lin, Ming Tang, Shuai Wang, Rongguang Ye, Guangxu Zhu† and Yik-Chung Wu†.
Under Review.
[arXiv]
Label Anything: An Interpretable, High-Fidelity and Prompt-Free Annotator.
Wei-Bin Kou, Guangxu Zhu, Rongguang Ye, Shuai Wang, Ming Tang† and Yik-Chung Wu†.
Proceeding of International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2025.
[arXiv]
PraFFL: A Preference-Aware Scheme in Fair Federated Learning.
Rongguang Ye, Wei-Bin Kou, Ming Tang†.
Proceeding of SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), 2025.
[arXiv]
Fast-Convergent and Communication-Alleviated Heterogeneous Hierarchical Federated Learning in Autonomous Driving.
Wei-Bin Kou, Qingfeng Lin, Ming Tang, Rongguang Ye, Shuai Wang, Guangxu Zhu† and Yik-Chung Wu†.
IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (TITS), 2024.
[arXiv]
Pareto Front Shape-Agnostic Pareto Set Learning in Multi-Objective Optimization.
Rongguang Ye, Longcan Chen, Wei-Bin Kou, Jinyuan Zhang†, Hisao Ishibuchi†.
Proceeding of IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC).
Generalizable Autonomous Driving System across Diverse Adverse Weather Conditions.
Wei-Bin Kou, Guangxu Zhu, Rongguang Ye, Qingfeng Lin, Zeyi Ren, Ming Tang† and Yik-Chung Wu†.
Under Review.
[arXiv]
pFedLVM: A Large Vision Model (LVM)-Driven and Latent Feature-Based Personalized Federated Learning Framework in Autonomous Driving.
Wei-Bin Kou, Qingfeng Lin, Ming Tang, Sheng Xu, Rongguang Ye, Yang Leng, Shuai Wang, Zhenyu Chen, Guangxu Zhu† and Yik-Chung Wu†.
Major Revision.
[arXiv]
FedRC: A Rapid-Converged Hierarchical Federated Learning Framework in Street Scene Semantic Understanding.
Wei-Bin Kou, Qingfeng Lin, Ming Tang, Shuai Wang, Guangxu Zhu† and Yik-Chung Wu†.
Proceeding of IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2024.
[arXiv]
A hierarchical federated learning framework for collaborative quality defect inspection in construction.
Hai-Tao Wu, Heng Li, Hung-Lin Chi, Wei-Bin Kou†, Yik-Chung Wu, Shuai Wang.
Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence(EAAI), 2023.
MGFN++: Magnitude-Contrastive Glance-and-Focus Network for Weakly-Supervised Video Anomaly Detection.
Yingxian Chen, Wei-Bin Kou, Wilton Fok, Zhengzhe Liu†, Xiaojuan Qi, Yik-Chung Wu†.
Under Review of International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), 2023.
Communication Resources Constrained Hierarchical Federated Learning for End-to-End Autonomous Driving.
Wei-Bin Kou, Shuai Wang†, Guangxu Zhu, Bin Luo, Yingxian Chen, Derrick Wing Kwan Ng, and Yik-Chung Wu†.
Proceeding of IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2023.
[arXiv]
[code]
[BibTeX]
Communication-Efficient Joint Signal Compression and Activity Detection in Cell-Free Massive MIMO.
Qingfeng Lin, Yang Li, Wei-Bin Kou, Tsung-Hui Chang, and Yik-Chung Wu†.
Proceeding of IEEE International Conference on Communication (ICC), 2023.
Communication-Efficient Activity Detection for Cell-Free Massive MIMO: An Augmented Model-Driven End-to-End Learning Framework.
Qingfeng Lin, Yang Li, Wei-Bin Kou, Tsung-Hui Chang, and Yik-Chung Wu†.
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (TWC), 2023.
Training method of street scene understanding based on large visual model.
Weibin Kou, Guangxu Zhu, Shuai Wang, Kaifeng Han and Qimei Chen.
Approved 2024115636615.
An interpretable, high-fidelity, non-prompting data annotator.
Guangxu Zhu, Weibin Kou, Shuai Wang, Kaifeng Han and Qimei Chen.
Under Approval.
Large model application methods, devices and media in the context of autonomous driving.
Guangxu Zhu, Weibin Kou, Shuai Wang, Kaifeng Han and Qimei Chen.
CN Patent CN118823719B.
Model training method, vehicle control method and device based on Gaussian distribution.
Weibin Kou, Guangxu Zhu, Shuai Wang, Kaifeng Han and Qimei Chen.
CN Patent CN118151540A.
Large model driven personalized federated learning methods, vehicle control methods and devices.
Weibin Kou, Guangxu Zhu, Shuai Wang, Kaifeng Han and Qimei Chen.
CN Patent CN118151539A.
Defect Detection Methods, Systems and Robots.
Weibin Kou, Guangxu Zhu, Haitao Wu, Shuai Wang and Qingjiang Shi.
CN Patent CN116596865B.
A Behavior Prediction Method, System, Electronic Device and Storage Medium.
Weibin Kou, Guangxu Zhu, Shuai Wang, Yingxian Chen and Qingjiang Shi.
CN Patent CN116580448B.
Device detection method, device, computer device and medium based on neural network.
Qingfeng Lin, Yang Li, Weibin Kou, Zonghui Zhang, Yik-Chung Wu.
CN Patent CN116390139A.
Device status detection method, access point, central processing unit and computer equipment.
Qingfeng Lin, Yang Li, Weibin Kou, Zonghui Zhang, Yik-Chung Wu.
CN Patent CN116456384A.
Intelligent Mowing System.
Weipeng Chen,Hongwei Wang,Dezhong Yang, Weibin Kou.
US Patent US011140819B2.
Program Committee:
Program Committee Member for 2nd International Conference on AI-generated Content (AIGC), 2024.
Journal Reviewer:
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI).
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC).
Conference Reviewer:
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2025.
International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS), 2025.
IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interface (IEEE VR), 2025.
ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), 2025.
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2025.
Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2024.
International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2024, 2025.
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2024.