Chang Xiao (肖昶)

changxiao0731 at gmail.com

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Presentation at Adobe Summit 2024.

I’m a Research Scientist at Adobe Research. I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science from Columbia University. My research lie at the intersection of Human-Computer Interaction, applied AI/ML and LLMs, Computer Graphics and XR. I am particularly interested in leveraging computational method and AI to create intuitive, accessible and human-centered interaction techniques that bridge the digital and physical worlds. Additionally, I explore novel ways in which AI can reshape creativity, productivity, and everyday experiences. I am a recipient of the Snap Research Fellowship (2019) and the Cheung-Kong Innovation Doctoral Fellowship.

My research outcomes have had various impacts beyond academia. At Adobe, I have presented my research twice during Adobe’s annual event, Summit Sneaks (2022, 2024). These features have also been integrated into Adobe Commerce’s product, the AR Viewer and Adobe Experience Platform. My past work has received more than 50 media interviews and coverages, including by CNN, Adweek, CACM, and IEEE Spectrum. I also hold 10+ US patents.

Adobe Sumer Internship 2025 We have multiple Ph.D. internship openings for Summer 2025. If you are interested in topics related to HCI, LLMs, or XR, please email me your CV.

news

Oct, 2024 Attending UIST 2024 in Pittsburgh. Come talk to me if you’re interested in Summer 2025 internship at Adobe Research!
Aug, 2024 Serve as an Associate Chair (AC) for CHI 2025.
Jul, 2024 One paper by my intern Monde accepted at SIGGRAPH Asia 2024 (Journal Track)!
Jul, 2024 One paper by my intern Xia accepted at UIST 2024!
Mar, 2024 I have presented my research on Generative AI at Adobe Summit Sneaks 2024, with basketball legend Shaquille O’Neal! Check out video here.

selected publications

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    Evaluating Visual Perception of Object Motion in Dynamic Environments
    Budmonde Duinkharjav, Jenna Kang, Gavin Miller, Chang Xiao, and Qi Sun
    ACM Transactions on Graphics, SIGGRAPH Asia (Journal Track), 2024
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    SonifyAR: Context-Aware Sound Effect Generation in Augmented Reality
    Xia Su, Jon Froehlich, Eunyee Koh, and Chang Xiao
    ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, UIST, 2024
  3. HCIAR/VRVision
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    MoiréWidgets: High-Precision, Passive Tangible Interfaces via Moiré Effect
    Daniel Campos Zamora, M. Doga Dogan, Alexa F. Siu, Eunyee Koh, and Chang Xiao
    ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI, 2024
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    StandARone: Infrared-Watermarked Documents as Portable Containers of AR Interaction and Personalization
    M. Doga Dogan, Alexa F. Siu, Jennifer Healey, Curtis Wigington, Chang Xiao, and Tong Sun
    ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI Late Breaking Work, 2023
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    Improving Learning-based Camera Pose Estimation for Image-based Augmented Reality Applications
    Enyu Cai, Ryan A. Rossi, and Chang Xiao
    ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI, 2023
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    AutoSurveyGPT: GPT-Enhanced Automated Literature Discovery
    Chang Xiao
    ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, UIST Poster, 2023
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    iMarker: Instant and True-to-scale AR with Invisible Markers
    Chang Xiao, Ryan A. Rossi, and Eunyee Koh
    ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, UIST Poster (Technology behind Adobe’s Summit Sneaks Presentation), 2022
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    VisGNN: Personalized Visualization Recommendationvia Graph Neural Networks
    Fayokemi Ojo, Ryan A. Rossi, Jane Hoffswell, Shunan Guo, Fan Du, Sungchul Kim, Chang Xiao, and Eunyee Koh
    ACM Web Conference, WWW, 2022
  9. AI/MLSecurity
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    Can one hear the shape of a neural network?: Snooping the GPU via Magnetic Side Channel
    Henrique Teles Maia, Chang Xiao, Dingzeyu Li, Eitan Grinspun, and Changxi Zheng
    USENIX Security, 2022
  10. HCIAR/VRVision
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    MoiréBoard: A Stable, Accurate and Low-cost Camera Tracking Method
    Chang Xiao, and Changxi Zheng
    ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, UIST, 2021
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    DeepCAD: A Deep Generative Network for Computer-Aided Design Models
    Rundi Wu, Chang Xiao, and Changxi Zheng
    International Conference on Computer Vision, ICCV, 2021
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    BackTrack: 2D Back-of-device Interaction through Front Touchscreen
    Chang Xiao, Karl Bayer, Changxi Zheng, and Shree K. Nayar
    ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI, 2021
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    RP2K: A Large-Scale Retail Product Dataset for Fine-Grained Image Classification
    Jingtian Peng, Chang Xiao, and Yifan Li
    arxiv preprint, 2006.12634, 2021
  14. AI/MLVision
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    One Man’s Trash is Another Man’s Treasure: Resisting Adversarial Examples by Adversarial Examples
    Chang Xiao, and Changxi Zheng
    Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR, 2020
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    Enhancing Adversarial Defense by k-Winners-Take-All
    Chang Xiao, Peilin Zhong, and Changxi Zheng
    International Conference on Learning Representations, ICLR (Spotlight, top 3%), 2020
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    Rethinking Generative Mode Coverage: A Pointwise Guaranteed Approach
    Peilin Zhong*, Yuchen Mo*, Chang Xiao*, Pengyu Chen, and Changxi Zheng
    (*equal contribution) Neural Information Processing Systems, NeurIPS, 2019
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    Vidgets: Modular Mechanical Widgets for Mobile Devices
    Chang Xiao, Karl Bayer, Changxi Zheng, and Shree K. Nayar
    ACM Transactions on Graphics, SIGGRAPH (50K+ views on Youtube), 2019
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    Mechanics-Aware Modeling of Cloth Appearance
    Montazerim Zahra, Chang Xiao, Raymond Yun Fei, Changxi Zheng, and Shuang Zhao
    IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, TVCG, 2019
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    BourGAN: Generative Networks with Metric Embeddings
    Chang Xiao, Peilin Zhong, and Changxi Zheng
    Neural Information Processing Systems, NeurIPS (Spotlight, top 3%), 2018
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    Fontcode: Embedding Information in Text Documents Using Glyph Perturbation
    Chang Xiao, Cheng Zhang, and Changxi Zheng
    ACM Transactions on Graphics, SIGGRAPH (100K+ Views on Youtube), 2018
  21. PhysicsGraphics
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    Two-color and 3d Phase-amplitude Modulation Holograms
    Adam Overvig, Sajan Shrestha, Chang Xiao, Changxi Zheng, and Nanfang Yu
    Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, CLEO, 2018