About

Shaoyu Cai 蔡紹禹
Shaoyu Cai is a Ph.D candidate under the supervision of Prof. Kening Zhu from School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong. He received B.Eng degree from College of Engineering, Huazhong Agricultural University (2018). He was a visiting researcher at Graduate of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo (2020) and working closely with Prof. Takuji Narumi and Prof. Yuki Ban. His research interest lies in the field of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), with emphasis on cross-modal generation (e.g., from vision to touch), data-driven texture modeling and rendering, and haptic interface for virtual and augmented reality (VR & AR).
Contact Me: shaoyu.cai [AT] my [DOT] cityu [DOT] edu [DOT] hk
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Latest News
[2021.09] The invited submission of FrictGAN was accepted by Computers & Graphics!
[2021.09] WeightedWalking was accepted by ACM SIGGRAPH Asia Emerging Technologies!
[2021.07] One paper was accepted by IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters with IROS 2021!
Publications

FrictGAN: Frictional Signal Generation from Fabric Texture Images using Generative Adversarial Network
Best Paper Audience Choice Award (Top-3)
Shaoyu Cai, Yuki Ban, Takuji Narumi, and Kening Zhu
In 2020 International Conference on Artificial Reality and Telexistence & Eurographics Symposium on Virtual Environments (ICAT-EGVE 2020).
[Paper] [Code]
Demonstration of thermairglove: A pneumatic glove for material perception in virtual reality through thermal and force feedback
Shaoyu Cai, Pingchuan Ke, Shanshan Jiang, Takuji Narumi, and Kening Zhu
In SIGGRAPH Asia 2019 Emerging Technologies, pp. 11-12. 2019. (Acceptance Rate = 20%)
[Paper] [Video]
Embodied Weather: Promoting Public Understanding of Extreme Weather Through Immersive Multi-Sensory Virtual Reality
Pingchuan Ke, Kai-Ning Keng, Shanshan Jiang, Shaoyu Cai, Zhiyi Rong, and Kening Zhu
In The 17th International Conference on Virtual-Reality Continuum and its Applications in Industry, pp. 1-2. 2019.
[Paper] [Video]Experience
Education
PhD in Creative Media
2019.9 - present
School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China
Supervisor: Prof. Kening Zhu
Reseach topics: Cross-modal learning, haptic rendering, multi-modal interface, virtual and augmentated reality
Bachelor of Engineering
2014.9 - 2018.6
College of Engineering and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China
Bachelor in Engineering
Experience
Visiting researcher
2020.1 - 2020.3
Graduate of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Supervisors: Prof. Takuji Narumi and Prof. Yuki Ban
Research assistant
2018.8 - 2019.8
School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China
Supervisor: Prof. Kening Zhu
Exchanging undergraduate
2016.9 - 2017.2
Department of Electrical Engineering, National Taipei University, Taiwan, China
Supervisor: Prof. Hooman Samani
Projects
- ALL
- VR/AR
- Cross-modal
- Haptic Interface
More News
[2020.12] FrictGAN received Best Paper Audience Choice Award!
[2020.10] One paper was accepted by ICAT-EGVE 2020!
[2020.03] One paper was accepted by IEEE VR 2020!
[2019.11] Demonstration of ThermAirGlove was accepted by SIGGRAPH Asia Emerging Technologies 2019!
Contact
Location:
Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre, 18 Tat Hong Avenue, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong
Email:
shaoyu.cai@my.cityu.edu.hk