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Scaling data volume and diversity is critical for generalizing embodied intelligence. While synthetic data generation offers a scalable alternative to expensive physical data acquisition, transferring robotic manipulation policies from…
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In recent years, immersive art installations featuring interactive artworks have been on the rise. These installations are an integral part of museums and art centers like selfie museums, teamLab Borderless, ARTECHOUSE, and Meow Wolf.…
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Interactive audio spatialization technology previously developed for video game authoring and rendering has evolved into an essential component of platforms enabling shared immersive virtual experiences for future co-presence, remote…
Perceiving paintings entails more than merely engaging the audience's eyes and brains; their perceptions and experiences of a painting can be intricately connected with body movement. This paper proposes an interactive art approach entitled…
Distributed hybrid rendering (DHR) is a real-time rendering approach that incorporates cloud-based ray tracing with locally rasterized graphics for interactive thin client metaverse and game applications. With cloud assistance, DHR can…
Effective communication of robotic touch intent is a key factor in promoting safe and predictable physical human-robot interaction (pHRI). While intent communication has been widely studied, existing approaches lack the spatial specificity…
Realistic shadow generation is a critical component for high-quality image compositing and visual effects, yet existing methods suffer from certain limitations: Physics-based approaches require a 3D scene geometry, which is often…
Real-time depth of field in game cinematics tends to approximate the semi-transparent silhouettes of out-of-focus objects through post-processing techniques. We leverage ray tracing hardware acceleration and spatio-temporal reconstruction…
Spatial tailoring of the material constitutive properties is a well-known strategy to mold the local flow of given observables in different physical domains. Coordinate-transformation-based methods (e.g., transformation optics) offer a…
Unprecedented possibilities of quadruped robots have driven much research on the technical aspects of these robots. However, the social perception and acceptability of quadruped robots so far remain poorly understood. This work investigates…