Publications

Overview

My research interest is in localization and sensing, using different modalities, for various applications including AR/VR, smart home, and robotics. I have worked with IMUs, speakers/microphones, cameras/3D vision, RF sensors, and also a fusion of some of these modalities.

Main Publications

  • 1. Helping Generative Models with Signal Processing Hints
    Zhijian Yang, and Romit Roy Choudhury
    In submission

  • 2. Marionette: Hand Gesture and Position Tracking for Intuitive Contact-free Robot Arm Control
    Siddharth Rupavatharam, Alexis Burns, Zhijian Yang, Caleb Escobedo, Daewon Lee, Lawrence Jackel, Richard Howard, and Volkan Isler
    In submission

  • 3. Low-cost Refrigerator Frost Detection using Piezoelectric Sensors [paper]
    Zhijian Yang, Siddharth Rupavatharam, Alexis Burns, Daewon Lee, Richard Howard, and Volkan Isler
    IEEE ICC 2024 (To appear)

  • 4. PoseKernelLifter: Metric Lifting of 3D Human Pose using Sound [paper] [website]
    Zhijian Yang, Xiaoran Fan, Volkan Isler, and Hyun Soo Park
    IEEE/CVF CVPR 2022 (Acceptance rate: 2067/8161 = 25.3%)

  • 5. Personalizing Head Related Transfer Functions for Earables [paper] [slides]
    Zhijian Yang and Romit Roy Choudhury
    ACM SIGCOMM 2021 (Acceptance rate: 55/241 = 22.8%)

  • 6. Ear-AR: Indoor Acoustic Augmented Reality on Earphones [paper] [slides]
    Zhijian Yang, Yu-Lin Wei, Sheng Shen, and Romit Roy Choudhury
    ACM MobiCom 2020 (Acceptance rate: 62/384 = 16.1%)

  • 7. EarSense: Earphones as a Teeth Activity Sensor [paper] [slides]
    Jay Prakash, Zhijian Yang, Yu-Lin Wei, Haitham Hassanien, and Romit Roy Choudhury
    ACM MobiCom 2020 (Acceptance rate: 62/384 = 16.1%)

  • 8. Voice Localization Using Nearby Wall Reflections [paper] [slides]
    Sheng Shen, Daguan Chen, Yu-Lin Wei, Zhijian Yang, and Romit Roy Choudhury
    ACM MobiCom 2020 (Acceptance rate: 62/384 = 16.1%)

  • 9. Towards Wearable Everyday Body-Frame Tracking using Passive RFIDs [paper]
    Haojian Jin, Zhijian Yang, Swarun Kumar, and Jason Hong
    ACM Ubicomp 2018 (IMWUT December 2017)

  • 10. Wish: Towards a Wireless Shape-aware World using Passive RFIDs [paper]
    Haojian Jin, Jingxian Wang, Zhijian Yang, Swarun Kumar, and Jason Hong
    ACM Mobisys 2018 (Acceptance rate: 34/188 = 18.1%)

Demos and Workshop papers

  • 11. STEAR: Robust Step Counting from Earables [paper] [slides]
    Jay Prakash, Zhijian Yang, Yu-Lin Wei, and Romit Roy Choudhury
    ACM Earcomp 2019 (with Ubicomp 2019)

  • 12. RF-Wear: Towards Wearable Everyday Skeleton Tracking Using Passive RFIDs
    Haojian Jin, Jingxian Wang, Zhijian Yang, Swarun Kumar, and Jason Hong
    ACM Ubicomp/ISWC 2018 Demo. Best demo honorable mention award (2/51)