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Hello, I'm Erwin!

a bit more about me:

I'm an Assistant Professor (2022.10~) at the School of Computing, Tokyo Institute of Technology (TokyoTech). I'm currently also a visiting researcher at the Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, and a research fellow at  Sony CSL. I obtained my Ph.D. and M.Sc. in computer science at TokyoTech with Prof. Hideki Koike and obtained my B.Sc. from Shanghai Jiao Tong University with Prof. Xinghao Jiang.

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My research interest lies in the field of Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Vision, Machine Learning, and Mixed Reality. My primary works include pose forecasting for sports training, 3D body/hand pose estimation, VR/AR/MR visualizations, and DL-based interaction prediction. 

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For more info, please refer to my CV. And feel free to contact me in either English, German, Chinese, or Japanese!

News (Recent Events)

  • [2022/10/01] Start my new career as an Assistant Professor at TokyoTech!

  • [2022/10/01] The paper PianoHand is accepted to WACV 2023.

  • [2022/04/11] The paper SPinPong is acknowledged by the Seiichi Tejima Research Award.

  • [2022/04/01] Start working as a Research Fellow at Sony CSL.

  • [2022/02/28] The paper SmartSmombie receive the 6th AIP Network Director Award. 

  • [2022/02/11] Our work Time-distorted Ski is accepted as a full paper by AHs 2022 and a poster by IEEE VR 2022.

  • [2021/03/31] Start my research internship at Sony Computer Science Laboratory!

  • [2020/12/20] The paper SPinPong is accepted to the TVCG journal track of IEEE VR 2021!

Education

  • Ph.D. in Computer Science,  School of Computing, Tokyo Institute of Technology. 

        (2019.9~2022.9, supervised by Prof. Hideki Koike)

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  • M.E. in Computer Science, School of Computing, Tokyo Institute of Technology.

        (2017.9~2019.9, supervised by Prof. Hideki Koike) 

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  • International Exchange Student, Ritsumeikan University & Kyoto University.

        (2015.9~2016.9, "Study in Kyoto" Program)

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  • B.Sc. in Computer Science (with Honor), SEIEE, Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

        (2013.9~2017.7, Major in Information Security Engineering, supervised by Prof. Xinghao Jiang)

Experience

  • Assistant Professor, Tokyo Institute of Technology.

        (2022.10~present)

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  • Visiting Researcher, Carnegie Mellon University.

        (2022.10~present, visiting Prof. Kris Kitani)

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  • Research Fellow, Sony CSL.

        (2022.4~present, working with Prof. Shinichi Furuya)

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  • Research Internship, Sony CSL.

        (2021.3~2022.3, worked with Prof. Shinichi Furuya)

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  • Research Internship, Huawei Research Japan.

        (2020.7~2020.10, worked with Prof. Bo Zheng)

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  • Visiting Student, Carnegie Mellon University.

        (2020.1~2020.4, worked with Prof. Kris Kitani)​​

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  • Teaching Assistant, Tokyo Institute of Technology.

        (2018.4~2022.4, Course "Information Literacy 1&2" and "Computer Science 1&2")

Awards

  • Seiichi Tejima Research Award, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 2021

  • AIP Network Director Award, 6th JST CREST AIP Challenge Program (2021)

  • Best Paper Award, ACM SIGGRAPH VRCAI 2019 

  • Best Research Demo Runner-up, IEEE VR 2019

  • Best Poster Honorable Mention, ACM VRST 2018

  • Graduation with Honor: Excellent Graduates of the year 2017, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 2017

  • Outstanding Exchange Student of Study in Kyoto Program, Ritsumeikan University, 2016

  • Excellent International Student Award, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 2014

  • Excellent International Student of the Month, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 2013​

Scholarships & Fellowships

  • Research Fellowship for Young Scientists ("Gakushin" DC1), JSPS, 2020~2023

  • Tokyo Tech Tsubame Scholarship, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 2019~2020

  • Research Assistant Fellowship, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 2017~2020

  • Scholarships for International Students in Japan, JASSO, 2015~2016

  • Shanghai Government Scholarship for International Students (B), Shanghai Government, 2013~2017​

Representative Publications (Click here for more)

  • SPinPong - Virtual Reality Table Tennis Skill Acquisition using Visual, Haptic and Temporal Cues

       Erwin Wu, Mitski Piekenbrock, Takuto Nakamura, Hideki Koike. （IEEE VR 2021 (TVCG))​

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  • Back-Hand-Pose: 3D Hand Pose Estimation for a Wrist-worn Camera via Dorsum Deformation Network

       Erwin Wu, Ye Yuan, Hui-Shyong Yeo, Aaron Quigley, Hideki Koike, Kris M. Kitani. （UIST 2020)​

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  • FuturePose - Mixed Reality Martial Arts Training Using Real-Time 3D Human Pose Forecasting With a RGB Camera

       Erwin Wu and Hideki Koike. (WACV 2019)

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  • How to VizSki: Visualizing Captured Skier Motion in a VR Ski Training Simulator

       Erwin Wu, Florian Perteneder, Takayuki Nozawa, Hideki Koike. (VRCAI 2019)

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  • Opisthenar: Hand Poses and Finger Tapping Recognition by Observing Back of Hand Using Embedded Wrist Camera

       Hui-Shyong Yeo, Erwin Wu, Juyoung Lee, Aaron Quigley, Hideki Koike. (UIST 2019)

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Patents

  • US Patents, Measurement support device, method and computer program product, US Patent App. 63/089.139.

       Erwin Wu, Hui-Shyong Yeo, Hideki Koike, and Kris M. Kitani.  (2020.10)​

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  • US Patents, Measurement support device, method and computer program product, US Patent App.

       Erwin Wu, Hayato Nishioka, Shinichi Furuya, Hideki Koike. (2022.07)​

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  • US Patents, Measurement support device, method and computer program product, US Patent App. 

       Erwin Wu, Kris M. Kitani , and Hideki Koike. (2022.11)​

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  • JP Patents, Information processing system, information processing method, and program, JP2022062672A 

       Erwin Wu, Hui-Shyong Yeo, Hideki Koike, and Kris M. Kitani. (2020.10)​

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  • JP Patents, Information processing system, information processing method, and program, JP2022172499A 

       Piekenbrock Mitski, Erwin Wu, and Hideki Koike. (2021.05)​

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