The Immersive Computing Lab conducts cutting edge research that spans the fields of computer graphics, physics, and computational cognition, with the goal of creating unprecedented virtual and augmented reality systems to revolutionize urban life. Our research directions include novel multimodal/low-latency/immersive interaction devices, bio-physically inspired wearable displays, perception-aware VR/AR, and beyond.


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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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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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 and Demoed at GPU Technology Conference (GTC) 2018
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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

Computational Methods for Immersive Perception
Thesis Committee: Arie Kaufman, Hong Qin, Xiaojun Bi, David Luebke, Li-Yi WeiIEEE VR 2019 Best Dissertation Award
Real VR – Importing the Real World into Immersive VR and Optimizing the Perceptual Experience of Head-Mounted Displays
Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Editors: Marcus Magnor, Alexander Sorkine-Hornung
Chapter: Redirected Walking in VR
Qi Sun, Anjul Patney, Frank Steinicke
Chapter: State of the Art in Perceptual VR Displays
Gordon Wetzstein, Anjul Patney, Qi Sun

QI SUN
Assistant Professor
Computer Science and Engineering
Center for Urban Science and Progress
NYU Tandon School of Engineering
370 Jay Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201
qisun@nyu.edu
Assistant Professor
Computer Science and Engineering
Center for Urban Science and Progress
NYU Tandon School of Engineering
370 Jay Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201
qisun@nyu.edu