27 papers
The Missing Link of XR: Empathy-Driven Reality for XR and Beyond
Yun Suen Pai, Tamil Selvan Gunasekaran, Jiashuo Cao +23
Extended reality (XR) for socialising is becoming increasingly popular. However, unlike conventional social platforms, XR prioritises embodiment and immersion, factors that strongl…
AutoLab: Can Frontier Models Solve Long-Horizon Auto Research and Engineering Tasks?
Zhangchen Xu, Junda Chen, Yue Huang +16
Scientific and engineering progress is fundamentally a long-horizon iterative process: proposing changes, running experiments, measuring outcomes, and continuously refining artifac…
XARP Tools: An Extended Reality Platform for Humans and AI Agents
Arthur Caetano, Radha Kumaran, Kelvin Jou +2
Building XR-AI research prototypes requires navigating two largely separate ecosystems. Mainstream XR development relies on C#/C++ and game engines, while AI development is centere…
MiXR: Harvesting and Recomposing Geometry from Real-World Objects for In-Situ 3D Design
Faraz Faruqi, Demircan Tas, Arthur Caetano +6
Recent developments in 3D generative AI enable users to create bespoke 3D models from text or image prompts. However, these approaches provide limited control over spatial structur…
Visual Aesthetic Benchmark: Can Frontier Models Judge Beauty?
Yichen Feng, Yuetai Li, Chunjiang Liu +14
Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) are now routinely deployed for visual understanding, generation, and curation. A substantial fraction of these applications require an expl…
TaskLens: Generating Task-Conditioned Scaffolded Interfaces for Learning Professional Creative Software
Yimeng Liu, Misha Sra
Professional creative software has steep learning curves for novices due to complex interfaces, limited guidance, and unfamiliar terminology. To support educators and tool creators…