Xinyu Shi

Xinyu Shi

石新羽 ｜ CS PhD Student

University of Waterloo

Hi! I am Xinyu Shi, a first-year Ph.D. student in the WatVis Research Group at University of Waterloo, advised by Prof. Jian Zhao. My research interests include Human-Computer Interaction and Visualization. I received my bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering from Xiamen University in China.

Outside of research, I am keen on exploring new possibilities in my life. I am a beginner of skiing and rock climbing. I enjoy travelling and hope to mark every national parks in the world.

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Interests
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Human-AI Co-Creation
  • Creativity Support Tool
Education

  • University of Waterloo, 2021 - Present

    Ph.D. in Computer Science

  • Xiamen University, 2016 - 2020

    B.Eng. in Software Engineering

News
  • [2022/05] Transferred from M.Math to Ph.D. program
  • [2022/04] One paper submitted to UIST

Publications

Teaching American Sign Language in Mixed Reality
Teaching American Sign Language in Mixed Reality
Qijia Shao, Amy Sniffen, Julien Blanchet, Megan E. Hillis, Xinyu Shi, Themistoklis K. Haris, Jason Liu, Melissa Malzkuhn, Lorna C. Quandt, James Mahoney, David J.M. Kraemer, Xia Zhou, Devin Balkcom
In Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, 4(4), 1-27. (IMWUT/Ubicomp'20).
Key Words: Wearable Techique, Mixed Reality, Motion Tracking

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Accurate and Fast Classification of Foot Gestures for Virtual Locomotion
Accurate and Fast Classification of Foot Gestures for Virtual Locomotion
Xinyu Shi, Junjun Pan, Zeyong Hu, Juncong Lin, Shihui Guo, Minghong Liao, Ye Pan, Ligang Liu
In 2019 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (pp. 178-189). (ISMAR'19).
Key Words: Wearable Technique, Virtual Reality, Gesture Recognition

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Blind Image Super Resolution with Semantic-Aware Quantized Texture Prior
Blind Image Super Resolution with Semantic-Aware Quantized Texture Prior
Chaofeng Chen, Xinyu Shi, Yipeng Qin, Xiaoming Li, Xiaoguang Han, Tao Yang, Shihui Guo
In arXiv:2202.13142.
Key Words: Low-level Vision, Super Resolution, VQGAN

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