Physics

[TVCG17] The Martian: Examining Human Physical Judgments Across Virtual Gravity Fields

This paper examines how humans adapt to novel physical situations with unknown gravitational acceleration in immersive virtual …

Tian Ye, Siyuan Qi, James Kubricht, Yixin Zhu, Hongjing Lu, Song-Chun Zhu

[CVPR16] Inferring Forces and Learning Human Utilities From Videos

We propose a notion of affordance that takes into account physical quantities generated when the human body interacts with real-world …

Yixin Zhu, Chenfanfu Jiang, Yibiao Zhao, Demetri Terzopoulos, Song-Chun Zhu

[CVPR16] Inferring Forces and Learning Human Utilities From Videos

[CogSci16] Probabilistic Simulation Predicts Human Performance on Viscous Fluid-Pouring Problem

The physical behavior of moving fluids is highly complex, yet people are able to interact with them in their everyday lives with …

James Kubricht, Chenfanfu Jiang, Yixin Zhu, Song-Chun Zhu, Demetri Terzopoulos, Hongjing Lu

[CogSci16] Probabilistic Simulation Predicts Human Performance on Viscous Fluid-Pouring Problem

[CVPR15] Understanding Tools: Task-Oriented Object Modeling, Learning and Recognition

In this paper, we present a new framework for task-oriented object modeling, learning and recognition. The framework include: i) …

Yixin Zhu, Yibiao Zhao, Song-Chun Zhu

[CVPR15] Understanding Tools: Task-Oriented Object Modeling, Learning and Recognition

[CogSci15] Evaluating Human Cognition of Containing Relations with Physical Simulation

Containers are ubiquitous in daily life. By container, we consider any physical object that can contain other objects, such as bowls, …

Wei Liang, Yibiao Zhao, Yixin Zhu, Song-Chun Zhu

[CogSci15] Evaluating Human Cognition of Containing Relations with Physical Simulation