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)