Huakun Liu
Ph.D. student at CARE Lab, NAIST
I am a third-year Ph.D. student at the Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST) in Japan, where I am a member of the Cybernetics and Reality Engineering (CARE) Laboratory under the supervision of Prof. Kiyoshi Kiyokawa.
My research interests broadly lie in human motion understanding, spanning areas such as motion capture, analysis, and perceptual modeling. I aim to explore how human motion can be measured, interpreted, and synthesized from both physical and perceptual perspectives. By deepening our understanding of human motion, I seek to contribute to technologies that can perceive, predict, and respond to human behavior in more natural and human-centered ways, supporting intuitive human-computer interaction, empathetic machines, and embodied forms of digital communication. Beyond motion understanding, I am deeply interested in sensor-based approaches to human behavior, including IMU, UWB, ultrasonic, EOG, and EMG technologies. I explore how these sensing modalities can be used to integrate physical, physiological, and perceptual information, offering new possibilities for modeling and interpreting complex human activities.
Latest News
- 2025-10 Our paper “From the movement of my opponent: Temporal gesture recognition from electromyography in the Rock-Paper-Scissors game” got the Best Student Paper Award at the ACII 2025.
- 2025-10 Our paper “Mind Your Vision” got accepted by MUM 2025.
- 2025-09 We won the 1st place in the Twelfth Indoor Localization Competition (Smartphone with Navigation Robot Track) at the IPIN 2025 (結構圧倒的な優勝でした).
- 2025-08 I started my research scientist internship at LINEヤフー Virtual Human Lab (Led by Kent Fujiwara).
- 2025-07 I gave a talk about our work “UMotion” at MIRU 2025.
- 2025-06 Two papers got accepted by ACII 2025.
- 2025-03 Our paper “UMotion” got accepted by CVPR 2025 (Highlight).
- 2024-09 We won the 1st place in the Eleventh Indoor Localization Competition (Smartphone-based Track) at the IPIN 2024.
Research
For a complete list of publications, please refer to my Google Scholar profile.
Awards & Honors
- 2025.10 Best Student Paper Award, 13th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII 2025), Canberra, Australia, 2025
- 2025.09 1st place winner, Twelfth Indoor Localization Competition (Smartphone with Navigation Robot Track), Fifteenth International Conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation (IPIN), Tampere, Finland, 2025
- 2024.09 1st place winner, Eleventh Indoor Localization Competition (Smartphone-based Track), Fourteenth International Conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation (IPIN), Hongkong, China, 2024
- 2024.04 Selected by JST Support for Fostering Researchers in Emerging Artificial Intelligence (AI) Program (次世代AI人材育成プログラム) (3,900,000 yen per year)
- 2024.03 NAIST Best Student Award (最優秀学生賞), Nara Institute of Science and Technology, 2024.
- 2023.06 1st place winner, 2023 Emotion Physiology and Experience Collaboration Competition (EPiC), International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII), Cambridge, USA, 2023
- 2023.09 3rd place winner, Tenth Indoor Localization Competition (Smartphone-based Track), Thirteenth International Conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation (IPIN), Nuremberg, Germany, 2023
- 2022.12 Special session award (Location and Informatics), HCG Symposium 2022 (特集テーマセッション賞(ロケーション・インフォマティクス), HCG シンポジウム 2022, 高松市)
- 2022.10 Excellent/F1-score Award, Fourth Nurse Care Activity Recognition Challenge, The 4th International Conference on Activity and Behavior Computing, Kaiserslautern, Germany, 2022
Academic Service
Reviewer
- IEEE VR
- ICMI
- SUI
- Augmented Humans
- IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement
More about me
Some of my other interests are- Driving
- Games (Stardew Valley, Rimworld, Civilization, Dota2, Oxygen Not Included, Slay the Spire, etc.)
- Comics (Japanese, Korean, Chinese, etc.)
- Music
- Food (Squid ink pasta, Yakiniku, Sushi, Hotpot, etc.)
- Drama
- Dogs and Cats
- Storage & Organization