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Publications (42)

cs.CV2024

WalkTheDog: Cross-Morphology Motion Alignment via Phase Manifolds

Peizhuo Li, Sebastian Starke, Yuting Ye +1

We present a new approach for understanding the periodicity structure and semantics of motion datasets, independently of the morphology and skeletal structure of characters. Unlike…

cs.CV2022

QuestSim: Human Motion Tracking from Sparse Sensors with Simulated Avatars

Alexander Winkler, Jungdam Won, Yuting Ye

Real-time tracking of human body motion is crucial for interactive and immersive experiences in AR/VR. However, very limited sensor data about the body is available from standalone…

cs.GR2023

MOCHA: Real-Time Motion Characterization via Context Matching

Deok-Kyeong Jang, Yuting Ye, Jungdam Won +1

Transforming neutral, characterless input motions to embody the distinct style of a notable character in real time is highly compelling for character animation. This paper introduc…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017

Exploiting ITO colloidal nanocrystals for ultrafast pulse generation

Qiangbing Guo, Yudong Cui, Yunhua Yao +7

Dynamical materials that capable of responding to optical stimuli have always been pursued for designing novel photonic devices and functionalities, of which the response speed and…

cs.GR2023

QuestEnvSim: Environment-Aware Simulated Motion Tracking from Sparse Sensors

Sunmin Lee, Sebastian Starke, Yuting Ye +2

Replicating a user's pose from only wearable sensors is important for many AR/VR applications. Most existing methods for motion tracking avoid environment interaction apart from fo…

cs.LG2025

Ranking hierarchical multi-label classification results with mLPRs

Yuting Ye, Christine Ho, Ci-Ren Jiang +2

Hierarchical multi-label classification (HMC) has gained considerable attention in recent decades. A seminal line of HMC research addresses the problem in two stages: first, traini…

stat.ME2019

Paired Test of Matrix Graphs and Brain Connectivity Analysis

Yuting Ye, Yin Xia, Lexin Li

Inferring brain connectivity network and quantifying the significance of interactions between brain regions are of paramount importance in neuroscience. Although there have recentl…

cs.CV2018

Learning Warped Guidance for Blind Face Restoration

Xiaoming Li, Ming Liu, Yuting Ye +3

This paper studies the problem of blind face restoration from an unconstrained blurry, noisy, low-resolution, or compressed image (i.e., degraded observation). For better recovery…

math.OC2017

HONES: A Fast and Tuning-free Homotopy Method For Online Newton Step

Yuting Ye, Lihua Lei, Cheng Ju

In this article, we develop and analyze a homotopy continuation method, referred to as HONES , for solving the sequential generalized projections in Online Newton Step, as well as…

cs.CV2023

Rethinking the Data Annotation Process for Multi-view 3D Pose Estimation with Active Learning and Self-Training

Qi Feng, Kun He, He Wen +2

Pose estimation of the human body and hands is a fundamental problem in computer vision, and learning-based solutions require a large amount of annotated data. In this work, we imp…

cs.CV2024

EgoLM: Multi-Modal Language Model of Egocentric Motions

Fangzhou Hong, Vladimir Guzov, Hyo Jin Kim +4

As the prevalence of wearable devices, learning egocentric motions becomes essential to develop contextual AI. In this work, we present EgoLM, a versatile framework that tracks and…

physics.optics2023

Graphene/silicon heterojunction for reconfigurable phase-relevant activation function in coherent optical neural networks

Chuyu Zhong, Kun Liao, Tianxiang Dai +18

Optical neural networks (ONNs) herald a new era in information and communication technologies and have implemented various intelligent applications. In an ONN, the activation funct…

cs.GR2026

Dancing Points: Synthesizing Ballroom Dancing with Three-Point Inputs

Peizhuo Li, Sebastian Starke, Yuting Ye +1

Ballroom dancing is a structured yet expressive motion category. Its highly diverse movement and complex interactions between leader and follower dancers make the understanding and…

cs.GR2023

DROP: Dynamics Responses from Human Motion Prior and Projective Dynamics

Yifeng Jiang, Jungdam Won, Yuting Ye +1

Synthesizing realistic human movements, dynamically responsive to the environment, is a long-standing objective in character animation, with applications in computer vision, sports…

cs.CV2019

Going Deeper in Spiking Neural Networks: VGG and Residual Architectures

Abhronil Sengupta, Yuting Ye, Robert Wang +2

Over the past few years, Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have become popular as a possible pathway to enable low-power event-driven neuromorphic hardware. However, their application…

cs.CV2023

Physics-based Motion Retargeting from Sparse Inputs

Daniele Reda, Jungdam Won, Yuting Ye +2

Avatars are important to create interactive and immersive experiences in virtual worlds. One challenge in animating these characters to mimic a user's motion is that commercial AR/…

cs.CV2021

Identity-Disentangled Neural Deformation Model for Dynamic Meshes

Binbin Xu, Lingni Ma, Yuting Ye +3

Neural shape models can represent complex 3D shapes with a compact latent space. When applied to dynamically deforming shapes such as the human hands, however, they would need to p…

math.ST2020

The existence of maximum likelihood estimate in high-dimensional binary response generalized linear models

Wenpin Tang, Yuting Ye

Motivated by recent works on the high-dimensional logistic regression, we establish that the existence of the maximum likelihood estimate exhibits a phase transition for a wide ran…

cs.CV2025

HMD^2: Environment-aware Motion Generation from Single Egocentric Head-Mounted Device

Vladimir Guzov, Yifeng Jiang, Fangzhou Hong +5

This paper investigates the generation of realistic full-body human motion using a single head-mounted device with an outward-facing color camera and the ability to perform visual…

cs.CV2026

GIRAF: Towards Generalizable Human Interactions with Articulated Objects

Xiaohan Zhang, Sebastian Starke, Alexander Winkler +3

Synthesizing realistic full-body human interactions with articulated objects is a fundamental challenge for embodied AI and graphics, with applications in robotics training and vir…

cs.GR2025

CHOICE: Coordinated Human-Object Interaction in Cluttered Environments for Pick-and-Place Actions

Jintao Lu, He Zhang, Yuting Ye +3

Animating human-scene interactions such as pick-and-place tasks in cluttered, complex layouts is a challenging task, with objects of a wide variation of geometries and articulation…

cs.CV2023

Learning to Transfer In-Hand Manipulations Using a Greedy Shape Curriculum

Yunbo Zhang, Alexander Clegg, Sehoon Ha +2

In-hand object manipulation is challenging to simulate due to complex contact dynamics, non-repetitive finger gaits, and the need to indirectly control unactuated objects. Further…

cs.CV2023

AlteredAvatar: Stylizing Dynamic 3D Avatars with Fast Style Adaptation

Thu Nguyen-Phuoc, Gabriel Schwartz, Yuting Ye +2

This paper presents a method that can quickly adapt dynamic 3D avatars to arbitrary text descriptions of novel styles. Among existing approaches for avatar stylization, direct opti…

cs.CV2022

Transformer Inertial Poser: Real-time Human Motion Reconstruction from Sparse IMUs with Simultaneous Terrain Generation

Yifeng Jiang, Yuting Ye, Deepak Gopinath +3

Real-time human motion reconstruction from a sparse set of (e.g. six) wearable IMUs provides a non-intrusive and economic approach to motion capture. Without the ability to acquire…

cs.LG2021

Understanding the role of importance weighting for deep learning

Da Xu, Yuting Ye, Chuanwei Ruan

The recent paper by Byrd & Lipton (2019), based on empirical observations, raises a major concern on the impact of importance weighting for the over-parameterized deep learning mod…

cs.CV2019

Disentangling Pose from Appearance in Monochrome Hand Images

Yikang Li, Chris Twigg, Yuting Ye +2

Hand pose estimation from the monocular 2D image is challenging due to the variation in lighting, appearance, and background. While some success has been achieved using deep neural…

cs.CV2024

Nymeria: A Massive Collection of Multimodal Egocentric Daily Motion in the Wild

Lingni Ma, Yuting Ye, Fangzhou Hong +14

We introduce Nymeria - a large-scale, diverse, richly annotated human motion dataset collected in the wild with multiple multimodal egocentric devices. The dataset comes with a) fu…

cs.GR2025

MHR: Momentum Human Rig

Aaron Ferguson, Ahmed A. A. Osman, Berta Bescos +44

We present MHR, a parametric human body model that combines the decoupled skeleton/shape paradigm of ATLAS with a flexible, modern rig and pose corrective system inspired by the Mo…

cs.GR2025

ChildlikeSHAPES: Semantic Hierarchical Region Parsing for Animating Figure Drawings

Astitva Srivastava, Harrison Jesse Smith, Thu Nguyen-Phuoc +1

Childlike human figure drawings represent one of humanity's most accessible forms of character expression, yet automatically analyzing their contents remains a significant challeng…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017

Sonication-assisted synthesis of semiconducting atomic crystals of germanium monoselenide: An isostructural and isoelectronic analog of black phosphorous

Yuting Ye, Qiangbing Guo, Xiaofeng Liu +4

Monochalcogenides of germanium (or tin) are considered as stable isoelectronic and isostructural analogue of black phosphorous. Their two-dimensional (2D) forms have been just pred…

cs.LG2019

Bayes EMbedding (BEM): Refining Representation by Integrating Knowledge Graphs and Behavior-specific Networks

Yuting Ye, Xuwu Wang, Jiangchao Yao +4

Low-dimensional embeddings of knowledge graphs and behavior graphs have proved remarkably powerful in varieties of tasks, from predicting unobserved edges between entities to conte…

physics.optics2024

On-Chip Vectorial Structured Light Manipulation via Inverse Design

Xiaobin Lin, Maoliang Wei, Kunhao Lei +12

On-chip structured light, with potentially infinite complexity, has emerged as a linchpin in the realm of integrated photonics. However, the realization of arbitrarily tailoring a…

cs.CV2026

NymeriaPlus: Enriching Nymeria Dataset with Additional Annotations and Data

Daniel DeTone, Federica Bogo, Eric-Tuan Le +7

The Nymeria Dataset, released in 2024, is a large-scale collection of in-the-wild human activities captured with multiple egocentric wearable devices that are spatially localized a…

cs.GR2023

Simulation and Retargeting of Complex Multi-Character Interactions

Yunbo Zhang, Deepak Gopinath, Yuting Ye +3

We present a method for reproducing complex multi-character interactions for physically simulated humanoid characters using deep reinforcement learning. Our method learns control p…

stat.ML2018

HierLPR: Decision making in hierarchical multi-label classification with local precision rates

Christine Ho, Yuting Ye, Ci-Ren Jiang +2

In this article we propose a novel ranking algorithm, referred to as HierLPR, for the multi-label classification problem when the candidate labels follow a known hierarchical struc…

cs.GR2025

Animating Childlike Drawings with 2.5D Character Rigs

Harrison Jesse Smith, Nicky He, Yuting Ye

Drawing is a fun and intuitive way to create a character, accessible even to small children. However, animating 2D figure drawings is a much more challenging task, requiring specia…

cs.IR2022

From Intervention to Domain Transportation: A Novel Perspective to Optimize Recommendation

Da Xu, Yuting Ye, Chuanwei Ruan

The interventional nature of recommendation has attracted increasing attention in recent years. It particularly motivates researchers to formulate learning and evaluating recommend…

cs.LG2022

Towards Robust Off-policy Learning for Runtime Uncertainty

Da Xu, Yuting Ye, Chuanwei Ruan +1

Off-policy learning plays a pivotal role in optimizing and evaluating policies prior to the online deployment. However, during the real-time serving, we observe varieties of interv…

stat.ME2021

Binomial Mixture Model With U-shape Constraint

Yuting Ye, Peter J. Bickel

In this article, we study the binomial mixture model under the regime that the binomial size can be relatively large compared to the sample size . This project is motivated…

cs.CV2020

Fully Convolutional Mesh Autoencoder using Efficient Spatially Varying Kernels

Yi Zhou, Chenglei Wu, Zimo Li +5

Learning latent representations of registered meshes is useful for many 3D tasks. Techniques have recently shifted to neural mesh autoencoders. Although they demonstrate higher pre…

cs.CV2024

DivaTrack: Diverse Bodies and Motions from Acceleration-Enhanced Three-Point Trackers

Dongseok Yang, Jiho Kang, Lingni Ma +3

Full-body avatar presence is crucial for immersive social and environmental interactions in digital reality. However, current devices only provide three six degrees of freedom (DOF…

cs.CV2025

From Sparse Signal to Smooth Motion: Real-Time Motion Generation with Rolling Prediction Models

German Barquero, Nadine Bertsch, Manojkumar Marramreddy +8

In extended reality (XR), generating full-body motion of the users is important to understand their actions, drive their virtual avatars for social interaction, and convey a realis…