Publications @ International Conference

⭐ Ruofan Liu, Chen-Chieh Liao, Takuya Takahashi, Yichen Peng, Erwin Wu, and Hideki Koike. MuscleGolfAR: Embodied versus Detached Visualization for Motions and Inferred Muscle Activations in Augmented Reality. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG Journal, IEEE VR ‘26). [Accepted]

⭐ Ruofan Liu, Yichen Peng, Takanori Oku, Chen-Chieh Liao, Erwin Wu, Shinichi Furuya, and Hideki Koike. From Pose to Muscle: Multimodal Learning for Piano Hand Muscle Electromyography. In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS ‘25). [Link]

⭐ Ruofan Liu, Yichen Peng, Takanori Oku, Chen-Chieh Liao, Erwin Wu, Shinichi Furuya, and Hideki Koike. PiaMuscle: Improving Piano Skill Acquisition by Cost-effectively Estimating and Visualizing Activities of Miniature Hand Muscles. In 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ‘25). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 364, 1–16. [Link]

Ruofan Liu, Yichen Peng, Takanori Oku, Erwin Wu, Shinichi Furuya, and Hideki Koike. PianoKeystroke-EMG: Piano Hand Muscle Electromyography Estimation from Easily Accessible Piano Keystroke. In SIGGRAPH Asia 2024 Posters (SA ‘24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 6, 1–2. [Link]

⭐ Ruofan Liu, Erwin Wu, Chen-Chieh Liao, Hayato Nishioka, Shinichi Furuya, and Hideki Koike. PianoSyncAR: Enhancing Piano Learning through Visualizing Synchronized Hand Pose Discrepancies in Augmented Reality. In 2023 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR ‘23). Sydney, Australia, 2023, pp. 859-868. [Link]

Erwin Wu, Takashi Matsumoto, Chen-Chieh Liao, Ruofan Liu, Hidetaka Katsuyama, Yuki Inaba, Noriko Hakamada, Yusuke Yamamoto, Yusuke Ishige, and Hideki Koike. SkiTech: An Alpine Skiing and Snowboarding Dataset of 3D Body Pose, Sole Pressure, and Electromyography. In Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Multimedia Content Analysis in Sports (MMSports ‘23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 3–8. [Link]

Ruofan Liu, Erwin Wu, Chen-Chieh Liao, Hayato Nishioka, Shinichi Furuya, and Hideki Koike. PianoHandSync: An Alignment-based Hand Pose Discrepancy Visualization System for Piano Learning. In Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA ‘23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 228, 1–7. [Link]

Ruofan Liu, Erwin Wu, Chen-Chieh Liao, Hayato Nishioka, Shinichi Furuya, and Hideki Koike. Synchronized Hand Difference Visualization for Piano Learning. In ACM SIGGRAPH 2022 Posters (SIGGRAPH ‘22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 4, 1–2. [Link]

Erwin Wu, Chen-Chieh Liao, Ruofan Liu, and Hideki Koike. Context-aware Risk Degree Prediction for Smartphone Zombies. In ACM SIGGRAPH 2022 Posters (SIGGRAPH ‘22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 48, 1–2. [Link]