
Novel View Synthesis for 3D Computer-Generated Holograms Using Deep Neural Fields
Kenneth Chen, Anzhou Wen, Yunxiang Zhang, Praneeth Chakravarthula, Qi SunOptics Express 2025

Process Only Where You Look: Hardware and Algorithm Co-optimization for Efficient Gaze-Tracked Image Rendering in Virtual Reality
Haiyu Wang, Wenxuan Liu, Kenneth Chen, Qi Sun, Sai Qian ZhangACM/IEEE International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA) 2025

FovealNet: Advancing AI-Driven Gaze Tracking Solutions for Efficient Foveated Rendering in Virtual Reality
Wenxuan Liu, Budmonde Duinkharjav, Qi Sun, Sai Qian ZhangIEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (IEEE VR) 2025

Perceptually-Guided Acoustic “Foveation”
Xi Peng, Kenneth Chen, Iran Roman, Juan Pablo Bello, Qi Sun*, Praneeth Chakravarthula*IEEE VR 2025

Evaluating Visual Perception of Object Motion in Dynamic Environments
Budmonde Duinkharjav, Jenna Kang, Gavin S. P. Miller, Chang Xiao, Qi SunACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH Asia 2024)
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GazeFusion: Saliency-guided Image Generation
Yunxiang Zhang, Nan Wu, Connor Lin, Gordon Wetzstein, Qi Sun[★ Best Paper Award ★] ACM Transactions on Applied Perception (ACM SAP 2024)
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PEA-PODs: Perceptual Evaluation of Algorithms for Power Optimization in XR Displays
Kenneth Chen, Thomas Wan, Nathan Matsuda, Ajit Ninan, Alexandre Chapiro*, Qi Sun*[★ Best Paper Honorable Mention Award ★] ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH 2024)
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Accelerating Saccadic Response through Spatial and Temporal Cross-Modal Misalignments
Daniel Jiménez Navarro, Xi Peng, Yunxiang Zhang, Karol Myszkowski, Hans-Peter Seidel, Qi Sun, Ana SerranoACM SIGGRAPH 2024

May the Force Be with You: Dexterous Finger Force-Aware XR Interface
Fengze Zhang*, Yunxiang Zhang*, Xi Peng, Sky Achitoff, Paul Torrens, Qi SunIEEE ISMAR 2024

Toward User-Aware Interactive Virtual Agents: Generative Multi-Modal Avatar Behaviors in VR
Bhasura Gunawardhana, Yunxiang Zhang, Qi Sun, Zhigang DengIEEE ISMAR 2024

Measuring and Predicting Multisensory Reaction Latency: A Probabilistic Model for Visual-Auditory Integration
Xi Peng, Yunxiang Zhang, Daniel Jiménez-Navarro, Ana Serrano, Karol Myszkowski, Qi SunIEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (IEEE ISMAR) 2024
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Modeling the Impact of Head-Body Rotations on Audio-Visual Spatial Perception for Virtual Reality Applications
Edurne Bernal-Berdun, Mateo Vallejo, Qi Sun, Ana Serrano, Diego Gutierrez[★ Best Paper Honorable Mention Award ★] IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (IEEE VR) 2024

Exploiting Human Color Discrimination for Memory- and Energy-Efficient Image Encoding in Virtual Reality
Nisarg Ujjainkar, Ethan Shahan, Budmonde Duinkharjav, Kenneth Chen, Qi Sun, Yuhao ZhuACM ASPLOS 2024

AutoColor: Learned Light Power Control for Multi-Color Holograms
Yicheng Zhan, Koray Kavakli, Hakan Ürey, Qi Sun, Kaan AkşitSPIE AR|VR|MR 2024
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The Shortest Route Is Not Always the Fastest: Probability-Modeled Stereoscopic Eye Movement Completion Time in VR
Budmonde Duinkharjav, Benjamin Liang, Anjul Patney, Rachel Brown, Qi SunACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH Asia 2023)
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ARGUS: Visualization of AI-assisted Task Guidance in AR
S.C. Quispe, J. Rulff, E. McGowan, B. Steers, G. Wu, S. Chen, I. Roman, R. Lopez, E. Brewer, C. Zhao, J. Qian, K. Cho, H. He, Q. Sun, H. Vo, J.P. Bello, M. Krone, C. Silva[★ Best Paper Honorable Mention Award ★] IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (VIS 2023)

Imperceptible Color Modulation for Power Saving in VR/AR
Kenneth Chen, Budmonde Duinkharjav, Nisarg Ujjainkar, Ethan Shahan, Abhishek Tyagi, Jiayi He, Yuhao Zhu, Qi SunSIGGRAPH 2023 Emerging Technologies

Toward Optimized VR/AR Ergonomics: Modeling and Predicting User Neck Muscle Contraction
Yunxiang Zhang, Kenneth Chen, Qi SunSIGGRAPH 2023
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Reconstructing Room Scales with a Single Sound for Augmented Reality Displays
Benjamin Liang, Andrew Liang, Iran Roman, Tomer Weiss, Budmonde Duinkharjav, Juan Pablo Bello, Qi SunJournal of Information Display 2023 (invited article)

FoV-NeRF: Foveated Neural Radiance Fields for Virtual Reality
Nianchen Deng, Zhenyi He, Jiannan Ye, Budmonde Duinkharjav, Praneeth Chakravarthula, Xubo Yang, Qi Sun[★ Best Journal Paper Award ★] IEEE TVCG (presented at ISMAR 2022 & SIGGRAPH 2023)
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Color-Perception-Guided Display Power Reduction for Virtual Reality
Budmonde Duinkharjav*, Kenneth Chen*, Abhishek Tyagi, Jiayi He, Yuhao Zhu*, Qi Sun*ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH Asia 2022)
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Force-Aware Interface via Electromyography for Natural VR/AR Interaction
Yunxiang Zhang, Benjamin Liang, Boyuan Chen, Paul Torrens, S. Farokh Atashzar, Dahua Lin, Qi SunACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH Asia 2022)
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Image Features Influence Reaction Time: A Learned Probabilistic Perceptual Model for Saccade Latency
Budmonde Duinkharjav, Praneeth Chakravarthula, Rachel Brown, Anjul Patney, Qi Sun[★ Best Paper Award ★] ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH 2022)
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Joint Neural Phase Retrieval and Compression for Energy- and Computation-efficient Holography on the Edge
Yujie Wang, Praneeth Chakravarthula, Qi Sun, Baoquan Chen[★ Best Paper Honorable Mention Award ★] ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH 2022)
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Tailored Reality: Perception-Aware Scene Restructuring for Adaptive VR Navigation
Zhi-Chao Dong; Wenming Wu; Zenghao Xu; Qi Sun; Guanjie Yuan; Ligang Liu; Xiao-Ming FuACM Transactions on Graphics 2021 (presented at SIGGRAPH 2022)
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Larger visual changes compress time: The inverted effect of asemantic visual features on interval time perception
Sandra Malpica, Belen Masia, Laura Herman, Gordon Wetzstein, David Eagleman, Diego Gutierrez, Zoya Bylinskii, Qi SunPLOS ONE 2022
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Modeling and Optimizing Human-in-the-Loop Visual Perception Using Immersive Displays: A Review
Qi Sun, Budmonde Duinkharjav, Anjul PatneySID Symposium Digest of Technical Papers 2022 (invited article)

Dually Noted: Layout-Aware Annotations with Smartphone Augmented Reality
Jing Qian, Qi Sun, Curtis Wigington, Han Han, Tong Sun, Jennifer Healey, James Tompkin, Jeff HuangACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) 2022
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Instant Reality: Gaze-Contingent Perceptual Optimization for 3D Virtual Reality Streaming
Shaoyu Chen, Budmonde Duinkharjav, Xin Sun, Li-Yi Wei, Stefano Petrangeli, Jose Echevarria, Claudio Silva, Qi SunIEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proceedings of IEEE VR) 2022
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Leveraging Human Visual Perception for an Optimized Virtual Reality Experience
Qi SunIEEE Computer Graphics & Applications (Invited Article) 2021

Gaze-Contingent Retinal Speckle Suppression for Perceptually-Matched Foveated Holographic Displays
Praneeth Chakravarthula; Zhan Zhang; Okan Tarhan Tursun; Piotr Didyk; Qi Sun; Henry FuchsIEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proceedings of ISMAR) 2021

Deep Multi Depth Panoramas for View Synthesis
Kai-En Lin, Zexiang Xu, Ben Mildenhall, Pratul P. Srinivasan, Yannick Hold-Geoffroy, Stephen DiVerdi, Qi Sun, Kalyan Sunkavalli, Ravi RamamoorthiECCV 2020
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Has Half the Time Passed? Investigating Time Perception at Long Scales
Sandra Malpica, Belen Masia, Laura Herman, Gordon Wetzstein, David Eagleman, Diego Gutierrez, Zoya Bylinskii, Qi SunVision Science Society 2020
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DiffTaichi: Differentiable Programming for Physical Simulation
Yuanming Hu, Luke Anderson, Tzu-Mao Li, Qi Sun, Nathan Carr, Jonathan Ragan-Kelley, Frédo DurandICLR 2020
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Real VR – Importing the Real World into Immersive VR and Optimizing the Perceptual Experience of Head-Mounted Displays
Editors: Marcus Magnor, Alexander Sorkine-HornungSpringer Lecture Notes in Computer Science
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Eccentricity Effects on Blur and Depth Perception
Qi Sun, Fu-Chung Huang, Li-Yi Wei, David Luebke, Arie Kaufman, Joohwan KimOSA Optics Express, Vol.28 No.5, 2020

Reducing Simulator Sickness with Perceptual Camera Control
Ping Hu, Qi Sun, Piotr Didyk, Li-Yi Wei, Arie KaufmanSIGGRAPH Asia 2019
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A Transparent Display with Per-Pixel Color and Opacity Control
TJ Rhodes, Gavin Miller, Qi Sun, Daichi Ito, Li-Yi WeiSIGGRAPH 2019 Emerging Technologies
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Learning to Reconstruct 3D Manhattan Wireframes from a Single Image
Yichao Zhou, Haozhi Qi, Simon Zhai, Qi Sun, Zhili Chen, Li-Yi Wei, Yi MaICCV 2019 (Oral Presentation)
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Towards Virtual Reality Infinite Walking: Dynamic Saccadic Redirection
Qi Sun, Anjul Patney, Li-Yi Wei, Omer Shapira, Jingwan Lu, Paul Asente, Suwen Zhu, Morgan McGuire, David Luebke, Arie KaufmanSIGGRAPH 2018 (Live Demo at GTC 2018)
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Computational Methods for Immersive Perception
Thesis Committee: Arie Kaufman, Hong Qin, Xiaojun Bi, David Luebke, Li-Yi WeiIEEE VR 2019 Best Dissertation Award

Perceptually-Guided Foveation for Light Field Displays
Qi Sun, Fu-Chung Huang, Joohwan Kim, Li-Yi Wei, David Luebke, Arie KaufmanSIGGRAPH Asia 2017
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Mapping Virtual and Physical Reality
Qi Sun, Li-Yi Wei, Arie KaufmanSIGGRAPH 2016
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Benefits of 3D Immersion for Virtual Colonoscopy
Koosha Mirhosseini, Qi Sun, Krishna Gurijala, Bireswar Laha, Arie KaufmanIEEE 3DVis 2014