Publications

VirtualNexus: Enhancing 360-Degree Video AR/VR Collaboration with Environment Cutouts and Virtual Replicas

Published in The 37th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST ’24), 2024

A 360° Video AR/VR Remote Collaborative System with Enhanced Interactivity. The system enables better access to the remote environment with Environment Cutouts that can be pulled closer, and Virtual Replcas created with Instant-ngp.

Recommended citation: Xincheng Huang, Michael Yin, Ziyi Xia, and Robert Xiao. 2024. VirtualNexus: Enhancing 360-Degree Video AR/VR Collaboration with Environment Cutouts and Virtual Replicas. In The 37th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST ’24), October 13–16, 2024, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 12 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3654777.3676377

SurfShare: Lightweight Spatially Consistent Physical Surface and Virtual Replica Sharing with Head-mounted Mixed-Reality

Published in Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies. Volume 7, Issue 4., 2023

A lightweight symmetric and synchronous remote mixed-reality collaboration system with ad-hoc sketch-based virtual content creation.

Recommended citation: Xincheng Huang and Robert Xiao. 2023. SurfShare: Lightweight Spatially Consistent Physical Surface and Virtual Replica Sharing with Head-mounted Mixed-Reality. Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol. 7, 4, Article 162 (December 2023), 24 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3631418

Virtual Reality Telepresence: 360-Degree Video Streaming with Edge-Compute Assisted Static Foveated Compression

Published in IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2023

A 360° virtual reality telepresence system with edge-compute assisted static foveated compression

Recommended citation: Xincheng Huang, James Riddell, and Robert Xiao, "Virtual Reality Telepresence: 360-Degree Video Streaming with Edge-Compute Assisted Static Foveated Compression," in IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. https://doi.org/10.1109/TVCG.2023.3320255

StructureSense: Inferring Constructive Assembly Structures from User Behaviors

Published in Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies. Volume 6, Issue 4., 2022

A tracking system based on passive UHF-RFID sensing that infers constructive assembly structures from object motion.

Recommended citation: Xincheng Huang, Keylonnie L Miller, Alanson P. Sample, and Nikola Banovic. 2022. StructureSense: Inferring Constructive Assembly Structures from User Behaviors. Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol. 6, 4, Article 204 (December 2022), 25 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3570343