Publications

Explore HAI Lab's selected publications in Human-centered AI, VR and AR, Human-computer interaction, Eye tracking, Human behavior modeling, and intelligent interactive systems.

Journal Papers

Learning Alignments of Human Gaze and Fine-grained Task Descriptions thumbnail

CGIT 2026

Learning Alignments of Human Gaze and Fine-grained Task Descriptions

Takumi Nishiyasu, Zhiming Hu, Andreas Bulling, Yoichi Sato

Proceedings of the ACM on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, 2026, 9(2): 1-18.

DiffGaze: A Diffusion Model for Modelling Fine-grained Human Gaze Behaviour on 360° Images thumbnail

TiiS 2025

DiffGaze: A Diffusion Model for Modelling Fine-grained Human Gaze Behaviour on 360° Images

Chuhan Jiao, Yao Wang, Guanhua Zhang, Mihai Bâce, Zhiming Hu, Andreas Bulling

ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems, 2026, 16(1): 1-23

HaHeAE: Learning Generalisable Joint Representations of Human Hand and Head Movements in Extended Reality thumbnail

TVCG 2025 · ISMAR 2025 oral

HaHeAE: Learning Generalisable Joint Representations of Human Hand and Head Movements in Extended Reality

Zhiming Hu*, Guanhua Zhang, Zheming Yin, Daniel Haeufle, Syn Schmitt, Andreas Bulling

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG, oral presentation at ISMAR 2025), 2025, 31(10): 8726 - 8737

HOIMotion: Forecasting Human Motion During Human-Object Interactions Using Egocentric 3D Object Bounding Boxes thumbnail

TVCG 2024 · ISMAR 2024 Journal-track

Best Journal Paper Award

HOIMotion: Forecasting Human Motion During Human-Object Interactions Using Egocentric 3D Object Bounding Boxes

Zhiming Hu*, Zheming Yin, Daniel Haeufle, Syn Schmitt, Andreas Bulling

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG, ISMAR 2024 Journal-track), 2024, 30(11): 7375 - 7385

Pose2Gaze: Eye-body Coordination during Daily Activities for Gaze Prediction from Full-body Poses thumbnail

TVCG 2025 · ISMAR 2024 oral

Pose2Gaze: Eye-body Coordination during Daily Activities for Gaze Prediction from Full-body Poses

Zhiming Hu*, Jiahui Xu, Syn Schmitt, Andreas Bulling

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG, oral presentation at ISMAR 2024), 2025, 31(9): 4655-4666

VisRecall++: Analysing and Predicting Visualisation Recallability from Gaze Behaviour thumbnail

PACM HCI 2024 · ETRA

VisRecall++: Analysing and Predicting Visualisation Recallability from Gaze Behaviour

Yao Wang, Yue Jiang, Zhiming Hu, Constantin Ruhdorfer, Mihai Bâce, Andreas Bulling

Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction (PACM HCI), 2024, 8(ETRA): 1-18

PrivatEyes: Appearance-based Gaze Estimation Using Federated Secure Multi-Party Computation thumbnail

PACM HCI 2024 · ETRA

PrivatEyes: Appearance-based Gaze Estimation Using Federated Secure Multi-Party Computation

Mayar Elfares, Pascal Reisert, Zhiming Hu, Wenwu Tang, Ralf Küsters, Andreas Bulling

Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction (PACM HCI), 2024, 8(ETRA): 1-23

Intentional Head-Motion Assisted Locomotion for Reducing Cybersickness thumbnail

TVCG 2023 · IEEE VR 2023 oral

Intentional Head-Motion Assisted Locomotion for Reducing Cybersickness

Zehui Lin, Xiang Gu, Sheng Li, Zhiming Hu, Guoping Wang

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG, oral presentation at IEEE VR 2022), 2023, 29(8): 3458-3471

EHTask: Recognizing User Tasks from Eye and Head Movements in Immersive Virtual Reality thumbnail

TVCG 2023 · IEEE VR 2023 oral

EHTask: Recognizing User Tasks from Eye and Head Movements in Immersive Virtual Reality

Zhiming Hu, Andreas Bulling, Sheng Li, Guoping Wang

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG, oral presentation at IEEE VR 2022), 2023, 29(4): 1992-2004

FixationNet: Forecasting Eye Fixations in Task-Oriented Virtual Environments thumbnail

TVCG 2021 · IEEE VR 2021 Journal-track

Best Journal Paper Nominees

FixationNet: Forecasting Eye Fixations in Task-Oriented Virtual Environments

Zhiming Hu, Andreas Bulling, Sheng Li, Guoping Wang

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG, IEEE VR 2021 Journal-track), 2021, 27(5): 2681-2690

DGaze: CNN-Based Gaze Prediction in Dynamic Scenes thumbnail

TVCG 2020 · IEEE VR 2020 Journal-track

DGaze: CNN-Based Gaze Prediction in Dynamic Scenes

Zhiming Hu, Sheng Li, Congyi Zhang, Kangrui Yi, Guoping Wang, Dinesh Manocha

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG, IEEE VR 2020 Journal-track), 2020, 26(5): 1902-1911

Temporal continuity of visual attention for future gaze prediction in immersive virtual reality thumbnail

VRIH 2020

Temporal continuity of visual attention for future gaze prediction in immersive virtual reality

Zhiming Hu, Sheng Li, Meng Gai

Virtual Reality and Intelligent Hardware (VRIH), 2020, 2(2): 142-152

SGaze: A Data-Driven Eye-Head Coordination Model for Realtime Gaze Prediction thumbnail

TVCG 2019 · IEEE VR 2019 Journal-track

SGaze: A Data-Driven Eye-Head Coordination Model for Realtime Gaze Prediction

Zhiming Hu, Congyi Zhang, Sheng Li, Guoping Wang, Dinesh Manocha

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG, IEEE VR 2019 Journal-track), 2019, 25(5): 2002-2010

Conference Papers

DiffEyeSyn: User-specific Subtle Eye Movement Synthesis Using Diffusion Models thumbnail

AFGR 2026

DiffEyeSyn: User-specific Subtle Eye Movement Synthesis Using Diffusion Models

Chuhan Jiao, Guanhua Zhang, Yeonjoo Cho, Zhiming Hu, Andreas Bulling

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, 2026.

GazeInterpreter: Parsing Eye Gaze to Generate Eye-Body-Coordinated Narrations thumbnail

AAAI 2026

GazeInterpreter: Parsing Eye Gaze to Generate Eye-Body-Coordinated Narrations

Qing Chang#, Zhiming Hu#*

Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2026, 40(21): 17410-17418

HAGI: Head-Assisted Gaze Imputation for Mobile Eye Trackers thumbnail

UIST 2025

HAGI: Head-Assisted Gaze Imputation for Mobile Eye Trackers

Chuhan Jiao, Zhiming Hu*, Andreas Bulling

Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST), 2025: 1-14

HOIGaze: Gaze Estimation During Hand-Object Interactions in Extended Reality Exploiting Eye-Hand-Head Coordination thumbnail

SIGGRAPH 2025

HOIGaze: Gaze Estimation During Hand-Object Interactions in Extended Reality Exploiting Eye-Hand-Head Coordination

Zhiming Hu*, Daniel Haeufle, Syn Schmitt, Andreas Bulling

Proceedings of the ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques (SIGGRAPH), 2025: 1-10

SummAct: Uncovering User Intentions Through Interactive Behaviour Summarisation thumbnail

CHI 2025

SummAct: Uncovering User Intentions Through Interactive Behaviour Summarisation

Guanhua Zhang, Mohamed Ahmed, Zhiming Hu*, Andreas Bulling

Proceedings of the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2025: 1-17

GazeMoDiff: Gaze-guided Diffusion Model for Stochastic Human Motion Prediction thumbnail

Pacific Graphics 2024

GazeMoDiff: Gaze-guided Diffusion Model for Stochastic Human Motion Prediction

Haodong Yan#, Zhiming Hu#*, Syn Schmitt, Andreas Bulling

Proceedings of the Pacific Conference on Computer Graphics and Applications (Pacific Graphics), 2024: 1-12

DisMouse: Disentangling Information from Mouse Movement Data thumbnail

UIST 2024

DisMouse: Disentangling Information from Mouse Movement Data

Guanhua Zhang, Zhiming Hu*, Andreas Bulling

Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST), 2024: 1-13

GazeMotion: Gaze-guided Human Motion Forecasting thumbnail

IROS 2024

Oral Presentation

GazeMotion: Gaze-guided Human Motion Forecasting

Zhiming Hu*, Syn Schmitt, Daniel Haeufle, Andreas Bulling

Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2024: 13017-13022

Mouse2Vec: Learning Reusable Semantic Representations of Mouse Behaviour thumbnail

CHI 2024

Mouse2Vec: Learning Reusable Semantic Representations of Mouse Behaviour

Guanhua Zhang, Zhiming Hu*, Mihai Bâce, Andreas Bulling

Proceedings of the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2024: 1-17

SalChartQA: Question-driven Saliency on Information Visualisations thumbnail

CHI 2024

SalChartQA: Question-driven Saliency on Information Visualisations

Yao Wang, Weitian Wang, Abdullah Abdelhafez, Mayar Elfares, Zhiming Hu*, Mihai Bâce, Andreas Bulling

Proceedings of the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2024: 1-14

SUPREYES: SUPer Resolution for EYES Using Implicit Neural Representation Learning thumbnail

UIST 2023

SUPREYES: SUPer Resolution for EYES Using Implicit Neural Representation Learning

Chuhan Jiao, Zhiming Hu*, Mihai Bâce, Andreas Bulling

Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST), 2023: 1-13

Exploring Natural Language Processing Methods for Interactive Behaviour Modelling thumbnail

INTERACT 2023

Best Student Paper Nominees

Exploring Natural Language Processing Methods for Interactive Behaviour Modelling

Guanhua Zhang, Matteo Bortoletto, Zhiming Hu*, Lei Shi, Mihai Bâce, Andreas Bulling

Proceedings of the IFIP Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (INTERACT), 2023: 3-26

Short Papers, Abstracts, and Workshops