Kicking Off the Flywheel of AI + XR Innovations with XR Blocks
Ruofei Du
University of Rochester CS Seminar Series, Wegmans Hall 1400, Rochester, NY.
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
Kicking Off the Flywheel of AI + XR Innovations with XR Blocks
Ruofei Du
UCLA CS 201, 3400 Boelter Hall, Los Angeles, CA.
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Kicking Off the Flywheel of AI + XR Innovations with XR Blocks
Ruofei Du
NSF workshop on Immersive Networking and Systems , George Mason University, Fairfax, VA.
Kicking Off the Flywheel of AI + XR Innovations with XR Blocks
Ruofei Du
MIT HCI Seminar , Remote Talk.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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