Hi, I am an AI researcher at Alaya Lab. I received my Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo, where I was advised by Prof. Yoichi Sato. My current research focuses on AI for gaming, especially using video generation models to build playable game experiences.

My research interests are centered around video generation, video understanding, and embodied AI. In the past, I was working on hand pose estimation and gaze estimation tasks.

🔥 News

• [September, 2026]:  🎉 One paper has been accepted by CoRL.
• [March, 2026]:  🎉 Joined Alaya Lab as AI Researcher.
• [March, 2026]:  🎉 Received Ph.D. in Information Science from the University of Tokyo.
• [February, 2026]:  🎉 Two papers have been accepted by CVPR 2026.
• [June, 2025]:  🎉 One paper has been accepted by ICCV 2025.
• [December, 2024]:  🎉 I am luckily accepted by JSPS Research Fellowship for Young Scientists DC2.

📝 Publications

CoRL 2026

Predictive Representation Learning for Manipulation via Streaming Egocentric 3D Hand Forecasting

Ruicong Liu, Yifei Huang, Liangyang Ouyang, Caixin Kang, Yoichi Sato
10th Annual Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), 2026
Paper | Code | Dataset

CVPR 2026

UniLS: End-to-End Audio-Driven Avatars for Unified Listening and Speaking

Xuangeng Chu*, Ruicong Liu^{* †}, Yifei Huang, Yun Liu, Yichen Peng, Bo Zheng
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2026
Project page Paper Code

CVPR 2026

DyaDiT: A Multi-Modal Diffusion Transformer for Socially-Aware Dyadic Gesture Generation

Yichen Peng, Jyun-Ting Song, Siyeol Jung, Ruofan Liu, Haiyang Liu, Xuangeng Chu, Ruicong Liu, Erwin Wu, Hideki Koike, Kris Kitani
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2026
Project page Paper

ICCV 2025

Egocentric Inertial Localization with Vision-Language Informed Action Cues

Mingfang Zhang, Ryo Yonetani, Yifei Huang, Liangyang Ouyang, Ruicong Liu, Yoichi Sato
IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2025
Paper | Code

IJCV

From Gaze Jitter to Domain Adaptation: Generalizing Gaze Estimation by Manipulating High-Frequency Components

Ruicong Liu, Haofei Wang, Feng Lu
International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), 2024
Paper

ECCV 2024

ActionVOS: Actions as Prompts for Video Object Segmentation

Liangyang Ouyang, Ruicong Liu, Yifei Huang, Ryosuke Furuta, Yoichi Sato
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2024 Oral, top 2%
Paper | Video | Code

ECCV 2024

Masked Video and Body-worn IMU Autoencoder for Egocentric Action Recognition

Mingfang Zhang, Yifei Huang, Ruicong Liu, Yoichi Sato
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2024
Paper | Video | Code

CVPR 2024

Single-to-Dual-View Adaptation for Egocentric 3D Hand Pose Estimation

Ruicong Liu, Takehiko Ohkawa, Mingfang Zhang, Yoichi Sato
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024
Paper | Video | Code

TPAMI

PnP-GA+: Plug-and-Play Domain Adaptation for Gaze Estimation using Model Variants

Ruicong Liu, Yunfei Liu, Haofei Wang, Feng Lu
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), 2024
Paper

AAAI 2024

UVAGaze: Unsupervised 1-to-2 Views Adaptation for Gaze Estimation

Ruicong Liu, Feng Lu
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2024
Paper | Code

ICCV 2021

Generalizing gaze estimation with outlier-guided collaborative adaptation

Yunfei Liu*, Ruicong Liu*, Haofei Wang, Feng Lu
IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2021
Paper | Code

💻 Experiences

Visiting Scholar - CVML@NUS

National University of Singapore
March 2024 - November 2024

Services:

• Conference Reviewer: CVPR, ECCV, ICCV, NeurIPS, ACM MM, WACV, BMVC
• Journal Reviewer: TMM, TCSVT, TIP, TOMM

🏆 Awards

• JSPS Research Fellowship for Young Scientists DC2, 2025
• Outstanding Master’s Thesis at BSIG 2024.
• CVPR Outstanding Reviewer Award, 2024.
• SPRING GX Project, 2024.
• The University of Tokyo Doctoral Fellowship (IIW), 2023.
• Outstanding Graduate Student of Beihang University, 2023.
• Bachelor of Honours of Shandong University, 2020.
• Outstanding Graduate Student of Shandong University, 2020.
• National Scholarship, the Ministry of Education of China, 2017.

📖 Educations

• 2023.04 - 2026.03, Ph.D. in Information Science @ Institute of Industrial Science, the University of Tokyo.
• 2020.09 - 2023.01, M.E. in Computer Technology @ State Key Laboratory of Virtual Reality Technology and Systems, School of Computer Science and Engineering, Beihang University.
• 2016.09 - 2020.06, B.E. in Softerware Engineering @ School of Software Engineering, Shandong University.