Craig Yu

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DCXR Group

What will the future of work, entertainment, and everyday life be like 5-10 years from now?

To envision the possibilities, the Design Computing and eXtended Reality (DCXR) group conducts research in the following areas:

Computer Graphics: How to streamline the production pipeline of virtual worlds and objects by automation? How to build effective computational design tools to facilitate the creative process of digital artists and general users? How to let computers generate designs that are both functional and aesthetically pleasing? Computer Vision: How to let computers analyze the real world from visual inputs (e.g., images, videos, 3D point cloud)? How to produce 3D digital archives of our surroundings? How to enable computers to gain a human-level understanding of our surroundings in terms of functionality, physics, intentionality, and causality (FPIC)? Human-Computer Interaction: How to devise VR/AR/MR interfaces to bridge the gap between the virtual world and the real world? What computational tools can we create to augment human performance in workplace and everyday life? How can computers leverage human perceptual and behavioral data to power smart user interfaces & creativity tools?

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Along this direction, we are also interested in interdisciplinary research in topics such as:

Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning: to explore how we can incorporate AI/ML techniques to devise convenient, efficient and powerful design tools; Robotics & Automation: to explore how humans and robots can collaborate seamlessly in design and solving real-world problems; Cognitive Science: to better understand human perception towards everyday surroundings so as to create user-friendly design tools and interfaces.

Our recent research has largely focused on devising tools and techniques for enabling next-generation extended reality (XR) experiences and applications, including:

Personalized XR Training: to explore how we can automatically adapt XR training content w.r.t. individuals' performances to enhance skill training and education; XR Content Creation: to devise automatic algorithms or interactive tools for synthesizing or authoring XR content such as AR stories and animations; XR Robot Teleoperation: to create intuitive user interfaces and techniques to facilitate robot teleoperation via extended reality.