Tian Yang

I am currently an associate professor at School of Computer, Electronics, and Information, Guangxi University. I got my PhD degree from The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) in 2020. My supervisors are Prof. Pheng-Ann Heng and Prof. Chi-Wing Fu. Before that, I received my M.Sc. degree from CUHK in 2014, and B.Eng. degree from Jilin University in 2013, respectively.

My current research interest is human computer interaction in extended reality.

Publications [Google Scholar]

• AmplitudeArrow: On-the-Go AR Menu Selection Using Consecutive Simple Head Gestures and Amplitude Visualization
  Yang Tian, Youpeng Zhang, Yukang Yan, Shengdong Zhao, Xiaojuan Ma, Yuanchun Shi
  IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphic (CCF-A), 2025
  

• SummonBrush: Enhancing Touch Interaction on Large XR User Interfaces by Augmenting Users’ Hands with Virtual Brushes
  Yang Tian, Zhao Su, Tianren Luo, Teng Han, Shengdong Zhao, Youpeng Zhang, Yixin Wang, Boyu Gao, Dangxiao Wang
  IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphic (CCF-A), 2025, Presentation at IEEE VR 2025
  

• BoundaryScreen: Summoning the Home Screen in VR via Walking Outward
  Yang Tian, Xingjia Hao, Jianchun Su, Wei Sun, Yangjian Pan, Yunhai Wang, Minghui Sun, Teng Han, Ningjiang Chen
  IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphic (CCF-A), 2025, Presentation at IEEE VR 2025
  

• Kine-Appendage: Enhancing Freehand VR Interaction through Transformations of Virtual Appendages
  Yang Tian, Hualong Bai, Shengdong Zhao, Chi-Wing Fu, Chun Yu, Haozhao Qin, Qiong Wang, Pheng-Ann Heng
  IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphic (CCF-A), 2022
  

• Automatically detecting human-object interaction by an instance part-level attention deep framework
  Lin Bai, Fenglian Chen, Yang Tian
  Pattern Recognition (Zone 1, CAS), 2022, Volume: 134: 1-12
  

• Virtually-Extended Proprioception: Providing Spatial Reference in VR through an Appended Virtual Limb
  Yang Tian, Yuming Bai, Shengdong Zhao, Chi-Wing Fu, Tianpei Yang, and Pheng-Ann Heng
  ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CCF A), 2020
  

• Enhancing Augmented VR Interaction via Egocentric Scene Analysis
  Yang Tian, Chi-Wing Fu, Shengdong Zhao, Ruihui Li, Xiao Tang, Xiaowei Hu, and Pheng-Ann Heng
  IMWUT/Ubicomp (CCF A), 2019
  

• Bas-Relief Modeling from Normal Layers
  Mingqiang Wei*, Yang Tian*, Wai-Man Pang, Charlie C. L. Wang, Ming-Yong Pang, Jun Wang, Jing Qin, and Pheng-Ann Heng
  IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (CCF A), Volume 25, Issue 4, 2019