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 Metaverse in Virtual and Augmented Reality

2014 - Present

Ruofei Du, David Li, and Amitabh Varshney

Augmented Communication

2021 - Present

Xingyu "Bruce" Liu, Vladimir Kirilyuk, Xiuxiu Yuan, Peggy Chi, Anthony ``Xiang'' Chen, Alex Olwal, and Ruofei Du

Rapsai: Rapid Application Prototyping System for AI

2022 - Present

Ruofei Du, Na Li, Jing Jin, Michelle Carney, Scott Miles, Maria Kleiner, Xiuxiu Yuan, Yinda Zhang, Anuva Kulkarni, Xingyu "Bruce" Liu, Sergio Escolano, Abhishek Kar, Alex Olwal, Ping Yu, Ram Iyengar, and Adarsh Kowdle

Foveated Rendering and Streaming for 3D Graphics

2017 - Present

Xiaoxu Meng, Ruofei Du, David Li, Adharsh Babu, Camelia Brumar, Matthias Zwicker, and Amitabh Varshney

Digital Human and 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

GazeChat: Enhancing Virtual Conferences With Gaze-Aware 3D Photos

2020 - 2021

Zhenyi He, Keru Wang, Br Feng, on Yushan, , 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-Tolerant 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

MeteoVis: Visualizing Meteorological Events in Virtual Reality

2019 - 2020

David Li, Eric Lee, Elijah Schwelling, Mason Quick, Patrick Meyers, Ruofei Du, and Amitabh Varshney

ProtoSound: A Personalized and Scalable Sound Recognition System for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Users

2021 - 2021

Dhruv Jain, Khoa Nguyen, Steven Goodman, Rachel Grossman-Kahn, Hung Ngo, Aditya Kusupati, Ruofei Du, Alex Olwal, Leah Findlater, and Jon Froehlich

RetroSphere: Self-Contained Passive 3D Controller Tracking for Augmented Reality

2019 - 2022

Ananta Balaji, Clayton Kimber, David Li, Shengzhi Wu, Ruofei Du, and David Kim

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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