I am Ruofei Du,
a Researcher and a Hacker,
in Engineering Interactive Systems.

2D justifies existence,
3D validates identification,
4D convinces living,
and these projects fulfill my life.

Research Projects

DepthLab: Real-Time 3D Interaction With Depth Maps for Mobile Augmented Reality

2019 - Present

Ruofei Du, Eric Turner, Maksym Dzitsiuk, Luca Prasso, Ivo Duarte, Jason Dourgarian, Joao Afonso, Jose Pascoal, Josh Gladstone, Nuno Cruces, Shahram Izadi, Adarsh Kowdle, Konstantine Tsotsos, and David Kim

Geollery: Social Media Platform in Virtual Reality

2014 - Present

Ruofei Du, David Li, and Amitabh Varshney

Foveated Rendering for 3D Graphics

2017 - Present

Xiaoxu Meng, Ruofei Du, Matthias Zwicker, and Amitabh Varshney

Montage4D: Real-Time Multiview Video-Based Rendering

2016 - 2018

Ruofei Du, Ming Chuang, Wayne Chang, Hugues Hoppe, and Amitabh Varshney

SketchyScenes: Understanding Scene Sketches

2018 - 2019

Changqing Zou, Qian Yu, Ruofei Du, Haoran Mo, Yi-Zhe Song, Tao Xiang, Chengying Gao, Baoquan Chen, Hao Zhang, Chengying Gao, and Hongbo Fu

360 Video Streaming and Rendering

2018 - Present

David Li, Ruofei Du, Adharsh Babu, Camelia Brumar, and Amitabh Varshney

CollaboVR: A Reconfigurable Framework for Multi-User to Communicate in Virtual Reality

2019 - 2019

Zhenyi He, Ruofei Du, and Ken Perlin

ORCLayout: Adaptive GUI Layout With OR-Constraints

2018 - 2020

Yue Jiang, Ruofei Du, Christof Lutteroth, and Wolfgang Stuerzlinger

HandSight: A Touch-Based Wearable System to Increase Information Accessibility for People With Visual Impairments

2013 - 2015

Lee Stearns, Ruofei Du, Uran Oh, Yumeng Wang, Leah Findlater, Rama Chellappa, and Jon Froehlich

VRSurus: Enhancing Interactivity and Tangibility of Puppets in Virtual Reality

2016 - 2017

Ruofei Du and Liang He

Tracking-Tolerent Visual Cryptography

2018 - Present

Ruofei Du, Eric Lee, and Amitabh Varshney

Online Vigilance Analysis Combining Video and Electrooculography Features

2011 - 2013

Ruofei Du, Renjie Liu, Tianxiang Wu, and Bao-Liang Lu

3DVAR: From 3D Reconstruction to Virtual and Augmented Reality

2012 - 2013

Ruofei Du, Zhiwei Li, Rui Cai, Siyuan Fang, Jiawei Gu, Bao-Liang Lu, and Lei Zhang

Fun Projects

AtmoSPHERE: Representing Space and Movement Using Sand Traces in an Interactive Zen Garden

2013 - 2014

Ruofei Du, Kent Wills, Max Potasznik, and Jon Froehlich

DuEngine: An Efficient Interactive C++ Renderer

2017 - Present

Ruofei Du

DuCrawler: Mining Datasets From Google and Bing

2018 - Present

Ruofei Du

C-Flow: Visualizing Foot Traffic and Profit Data to Make Informative Decisions

2013 - 2013

Tiffany Chao, Ruofei Du, Jonathan Gluck, Hitesh Maidasani, Kent Wills, and Ben Shneiderman

JanCorpus: A Search Engine for Corpus With Millions of Janpanese Essays

2011 - 2012

Ruofei Du, Enpeng Yao, Bo Chen, Dongqing Zhang, and Jianhua Zhang

57aMP: Create Physical Stamps With the Thermal Power of Touch

2013 - 2013

Tiffany Chao, Ruofei Du, and Jon Froehlich

57fire: Creating Live Fire Illusion in Holographic Display With Heat

2013 - 2013

Ruofei Du, Tiffany Chao, and Jon Froehlich

Cubot: An In-Hand or Wearable Input Device Attached Onto Everyday Object

2013 - 2013

Ruofei Du, Fan Du, and Jon Froehlich

Statistics for K-Mer Based Splicing Analysis

2014 - 2014

Ruofei Du

3DEye: Eye-Controlled 3D Wander System in 2010

2010 - 2011

Ruofei Du, Chengnan An, Zi Wang, Chenchen Shen, and Zhanxun Dong

Enchanting Ema: A Magical Interpretation of Shinto-Japanese Beliefs

2014 - 2014

Kent Wills, Ruofei Du, and Jon Froehlich

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