I am Linping YUAN (袁林萍), a Ph.D. candidate at HKUST VisLab, at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), supervised by Prof. Huamin Qu. Before that, I obtained my bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering from Xi’an Jiaotong University (XJTU) in 2019.

My research interests lie in the intersection of virtual/augmented reality (VR/AR), human-computer interaction (HCI), and data visualization (VIS). I design and develop algorithms, interactive tools, and visual analytic systems to facilitate the creation of various artifacts, including 2D visualizations and infographics, AR data videos, and VR animated stories. Specifically, my research 1) provides computational creativity support by mining design practices from large datasets with deep learning techniques, and 2) adopts data-driven approach to facilitate creators understand and improve the way audience interact with their artifacts.

Latest News

Our research proposal Augmenting Situated Visualizations with Tangible User Interfaces was awarded over 1M HKD by the General Research Fund, the Research Grants Council (RGC) of Hong Kong.
I was awarded a HKUST RedBird Academic Excellence Award.
Our paper Exploring Interactions with Printed Data Visualizations in Augmented Reality VIS was awarded a 2022 Honorable Mention Award and invited to present in IEEE VIS 2022 and SIGGRAPH Asia 2022.
I was awarded a 2022 Style3D Graduate Fellowship.
I was awarded a HKUST RedBird Academic Excellence Award.
We won the Deloitte ESG Innovation Award in HackUST 2022 (Top prize under the ESG theme). Further details can be found here.
I pass the Ph.D. Qualification Exam! I am a Ph.D. candidate now. My PQE topic is about using AR for real-time tasks and the design of AR user interfaces. The slides can be found here.
My visit to the Zhejiang Lab under the supervision of Prof. Yingcai Wu is over. See you, friends!
Our paper InfoColorizer Interactive Recommendation of Color Palettes for Infographics is accepted by TVCG. The preprint version can be found here.
Our paper Deep Colormap Extraction from Visualizations is accepted by TVCG. The preprint version can be found here.

Exploring Interactions with Printed Data Visualizations in Augmented Reality

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (2022)
Honorable Mention Award

InfoColorizer: Interactive Recommendation of Color Palettes for Infographics

Linping Yuan, Ziqi Zhou, Jian Zhao, Yiqiu Guo, Fan Du, Huamin Qu
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (2021)

Deep Colormap Extraction from Visualizations

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (2021)

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