Publications

Selected Publications

⭐ 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). vol. 32, no. 5, pp. 3093-3103, May 2026, doi: 10.1109/TVCG.2026.3680749. [Link]

⭐ 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). Dec 2025. [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). Article 364, 1–16, May 2025. [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. Oct 2023. [Link]

International Full Papers

Kiyohiro Nakayama, I-Chao Shen, Ruofan Liu, Yiming Wang, Gordon Wetzstein, and Takeo Igarashi. Garment Particles: A 2D–3D Symmetric Garment Representation for Generation and Editing. In Proceedings of the Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques Conference Papers (SIGGRAPH Conference Papers ‘26). Article 178, 1–12, July 2026. [Link]

Yichen Peng, Jyun-Ting Song, Siyeol Jung, Ruofan Liu, Haiyang Liu, Xuangeng Chu, Ruicong Liu, Erwin Wu, Hideki Koike, and Kris Kitani. DyaDiT: A Multi-Modal Diffusion Transformer for Socially Favorable Dyadic Gesture Generation. In the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR ‘26). June 2026. [Link]

Selim Emir Can, Jan Ackermann, Kiyohiro Nakayama, Ruofan Liu, Tong Wu, Yang Zheng, Hugo Bertiche, Menglei Chai, Thabo Beeler, and Gordon Wetzstein. Image2Garment: Simulation-ready Garment Generation from a Single Image. arXiv preprint. Mar 2026. [Link]

International Posters & Demos

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 ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2024 Posters (Siggraph Asia ‘24). Article 6, 1–2. Dec 2024. [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]