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Publications
My current research interests intersect computer graphics, VR/AR, applied perception, and displays.
(Representative papers are highlighted, *=equal contribution, †=equal advising)
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Perceptually-Guided Acoustic ``Foveation''
Xi Peng,
Kenneth
Chen,
Iran Roman,
Juan Pablo Bello,
Qi Sun†,
Praneeth Chakravarthula†
IEEE VR 2025
| Conference Proceedings
We present a perceptual sound source clustering technique.
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PEA-PODs: Perceptual Evaluation of Algorithms for Power Optimization in XR Displays
Kenneth
Chen,
Thomas Wan,
Nathan Matsuda,
Ajit Ninan,
Alexandre Chapiro†,
Qi Sun†
ACM SIGGRAPH 2024
| Journal Proceedings
Best Paper Award (Honorable Mention)
We conduct user studies to evaluate display power optimization algorithms.
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Exploiting Human Color Discrimination for Memory- and Energy-Efficient Image Encoding in Virtual Reality
Nisarg Ujjainkar,
Ethan Shahan,
Kenneth
Chen,
Budmonde Duinkharjav,
Qi Sun,
Yuhao Zhu
ACM ASPLOS 2024
A DRAM traffic compression scheme using peripheral color modulation.
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Toward Optimized VR/AR Ergonomics: Modeling and Predicting User Neck Muscle Contraction
Yunxiang Zhang,
Kenneth
Chen,
Qi Sun
ACM SIGGRAPH 2023
| Conference Proceedings
Leveraging EMG devices, we developed a model to predict VR neck muscular workload.
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Color-Perception-Guided Display Power Reduction for Virtual Reality
Budmonde Duinkharjav*,
Kenneth
Chen*,
Abhishek Tyagi,
Jiayi He,
Yuhao Zhu†,
Qi Sun†
ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2022
| Journal Proceedings
We measured human sensitivity to peripheral color stimuli via a psychophysical studied, and applied this data to OLED display power optimization.
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Other Papers
Short papers, demos, and posters.
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