Kicking Off the Flywheel of AI + XR Innovations with XR Blocks
Ruofei Du
MIT HCI Seminar , Remote Talk.
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Featured Talk
“Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel.”I try my best to inspire my audience with the vision of a universally accessible XR that makes better physical life for humanbeings. Enjoy the show and contact me for any improvement feedback!
Presented Talks
Accelerating Human-Centered AI + XR Innovation
Ruofei Du
Mixed Reality User Experiences at Aarhus University , Remote Talk.
Accelerating Human-Centered AI + XR Innovation with XR Blocks
Ruofei Du
ACM Design , Remote Talk.
Accelerating Human-Centered AI + XR Innovation
Ruofei Du
Stanford XR 2025 , Stanford, Palo Alto.
Accelerating Human-Centered AI + XR Innovation with XR Blocks
Ruofei Du
WebAI Summit 2025 , Sunnyvale, CA, USA.
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XR Blocks: Accelerating AI + XR Innovation
Ruofei Du
UIST 2025 , Busan, South Korea.
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Interactive Perception & Graphics for a Universally Accessible XR
Ruofei Du
CVPR 2025 , Nashville, TN, USA.
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Visual Blocks for ML: Visual Prototyping of AI Pipelines
Ruofei Du
ECE188 , UCLA Remote Lecture.
Interactive Perception & Graphics for a Universally Accessible XR
Ruofei Du
CHI 2025 , Yokohama, Japan.
Networking and System Challenges: Interactive Perception & Graphics for a Universally Accessible XR
Ruofei Du
NSF ImmerCon 2025 , George Mason University, Fairfax, VA.
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Computational Interaction for a Universally Accessible Metaverse
Ruofei Du
Invited Talk at KAIST by Prof. Sang Ho Yoon , Remote Talk.
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Computational Interaction for a Universally Accessible Metaverse
Ruofei Du
Invited Talk at University of Minnesota by Prof. Zhu-Tian Chen , Minneapolis, MN, USA.
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Visual Blocks for ML: Visual Prototyping of AI Pipelines
Ruofei Du
WebAI Summit 2024 , Sunnyvale, CA, USA.
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Visual Blocks for ML: Visual Prototyping of AI Pipelines
Ruofei Du
CS139: Human-Centered AI @ Stanford , Stanford, Palo Alto.
Augmented Communication for a Universally Accessible Metaverse
Ruofei Du
Invited Talk at UMD by Dr. Varshney , College Park, Maryland.
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Interactive Perception & Graphics for a Universally Accessible Metaverse
Ruofei Du
University of Virginia CS Fall 2023 Distinguished Speakers , Charlottesville, Virginia, USA.
Rapsai: Accelerating Machine Learning Prototyping of Multimedia Applications through Visual Programming
Ruofei Du
CHI 2023 , Hamburg, Germany.
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Visual Captions: Augmenting Verbal Communication with On-the-fly Visuals
Ruofei Du
CHI 2023 , Hamburg, Germany.
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Interactive Perception & Graphics for a Universally Accessible Metaverse
Ruofei Du
Invited Talk at UCLA by Prof. Yang Zhang , Remote Talk.
Interactive Graphics for a Universally Accessible Metaverse
Ruofei Du
Invited Talk at ECL Seminar Series by Dr. Alaeddin Nassani , Remote Talk.
Interactive Graphics for a Universally Accessible Metaverse
Ruofei Du
Invited Talk at UICC 2023 sponsored by University of Iowa ACM Student Chapter , Iowa City, Iowa.
Interactive Graphics for a Universally Accessible Metaverse
Ruofei Du
Invited Talk at Empathic Computing Lab , Remote Talk.
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Interactive Graphics for a Universally Accessible Metaverse
Ruofei Du
Invited Talk at UMD by Prof. Amitabh Varshney , College Park, Maryland.
Computational Interaction for a Universally Accessible Metaverse
Ruofei Du
Invited Talk at GAMES Seminar , Remote Talk.
Fusing Physical and Virtual Worlds into An Interactive Metaverse
Ruofei Du
Invited Talk at UCLA by Prof. Yang Zhang , Remote Talk.
Polymerizing Physical and Virtual Worlds into An Interactive Metaverse
Ruofei Du
Invited Talk by Prof. Arthur Theil at Birmingham City University , Remote Talk.
DepthLab: Real-time 3D Interaction with Depth Maps for Mobile Augmented Reality
Ruofei Du
UIST 2020 , Remote Talk.
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Polymerizing Physical and Virtual Worlds into An Interactive Metaverse
Ruofei Du
Invited Talk at University of Calgary by Prof. Ryo Suzuki , Remote Talk.
Blending Physical and Virtual Worlds into An Interactive Metaverse
Ruofei Du
Invited Talk at Wayne State University , Remote Talk.
Fusing Physical and Virtual Worlds into Interactive Mixed Reality
Ruofei Du
Invited Talk at George Mason University , Remote Talk.
Project Geollery.com: Reconstructing A Live Mirrored World With Geotagged Social Media
Ruofei Du
Web3D 2019 , Los Angeles, California.
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Geollery: A Mixed Reality Social Media Platform
Ruofei Du
CHI 2019 , Glasgow, United Kingdom.
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Fusing Multimedia Data Into Dynamic Virtual Environments
Ruofei Du
Ph.D. Dissertation, Talk at Facebook Reality Labs , University of Maryland, College Park, MD..
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Montage4D: Interactive Seamless Fusion of Multiview Video Textures
Ruofei Du
I3D 2018 , Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
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Social Street View: Blending Immersive Street Views with Geo-Tagged Social Media
Ruofei Du
Web3D 2016 , Anaheim, CA.
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Video Fields: Fusing Multiple Surveillance Videos Into a Dynamic Virtual Environment
Ruofei Du
Web3D 2016 , Anaheim, CA.
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A Pilot Study of Spherical Harmonics for Saliency Computation and Navigation in 360◦ Videos.
Ruofei Du
I3D 2018 , Montreal, Quebec, Canada. May 16, 2018..
Online Vigilance Analysis Combining Video and Electrooculography Features
Ruofei Du
ACM Class Academic Festival , Shanghai, China.
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Online Vigilance Analysis Combining Video and Electrooculography Features
Ruofei Du
ICONIP2012 , Doha, Qatar.
Tracking-Tolerent Visual Cryptography
Ruofei Du
VR 2019 , Osaka, Japan.
Interactive Fusion of 360° Images for a Mirrored World
Ruofei Du
VR 2019 , Osaka, Japan.
Collaborated Talks
Beyond the Phone: Exploring Context-Aware Interaction Between Mobile and Mixed Reality Devices
VR 2025 , Saint-Malo, France.
Experiencing InstructPipe: Building Multi-modal AI Pipelines via Prompting LLMs and Visual Programming
CHI 2024 , Hawaii, USA.
Human I/O: Towards a Unified Approach to Detecting Situational Impairments
CHI 2024 , Hawaii, USA.
UI Mobility Control in XR: Switching UI Positionings between Static, Dynamic, and Self Entities
CHI 2024 , Hawaii, USA.
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RetroSphere: Self-Contained Passive 3D Controller Tracking for Augmented Reality
Ubicomp 2023 , Cancún, Mexico.
A Log-Rectilinear Transformation for Foveated 360-degree Video Streaming
VR 2021 , Remote Talk.
GazeChat: Enhancing Virtual Conferences with Gaze-aware 3D Photos
UIST 2021 , Remote Talk.
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CollaboVR: A Reconfigurable Framework for Multi-user to Communicate in Virtual Reality
ISMAR 2020 , Remote Talk.
ORC Layout: Adaptive GUI Layout with OR-Constraints
CHI 2019 , Glasgow, United Kingdom.
Eye-Dominance-guided Foveated Rendering
VR 2020 , Remote Talk.
3D-Kernel Foveated Rendering for Light Fields
TVCG 2021 , Remote Talk.
Language-based Colorization of Scene Sketches
SIGGRAPH Asia 2019 , Brisbane, Australia.
Kernel Foveated Rendering
I3D 2018 , Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Evaluating Haptic and Auditory Directional Guidance to Assist Blind People in Reading Printed Text Using Finger-Mounted Cameras
ASSETS 2016 , Reno, Nevada.
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