Dynamic Augmented Reality Cues for Telementoring in Laparoscopic Surgery: Usability Study Jhasketan Padhan, Hawa Hamza, Dehlela Shabir, Omar M. Aboumarzouk, Abdulla Al- Ansari, Panagiotis Tsiamyrtzis, Zhigang Deng, and Nikhil V. Navkar, JMIR Human Factors, JMIR Publications, [accepted in Feb 2026].
Multi-TPC: A Multimodal Dataset for Three-Party Conversations with Speech, Motion, and Gaze Meng-Chen Lee, and Zhigang Deng, Scientific Data, Nature Press, [accepted in Jan 2026]
Towards Fast Safe Online Reinforcement Learning via Policy Finetuning Keru Chen, Honghao Wei, Zhigang Deng, and Sen Lin, Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR), JMLR Inc., [accepted in Jan 2026] [pdf]
A Real-Time Markerless Approach for 3D Pose Estimation of Laparoscopic Instruments in Surgical Training Simulators Dehlela Shabir, Jhasketan Padhan, Nihal Abdulrahiman, Omar Aboumarzouk, Zhigang Deng, Khaled Shaban, Nikhil V. Navkar, IEEE Access, [accepted in December 2025] [pdf]
Robust Differentiable Sketch Rendering for Single-View 3D Reconstruction Aobo Jin, Qixin Deng, Lei Si, and Zhigang Deng, Computer Graphics Forum (CGF), Eurographics Association, [accepted in November 2025] [pdf]
Mixed Reality Based Training Simulator for Learning Scope Maneuvering Skills in Hysteroscopy Waseem Palliyali, Hawa Hamza, Mohammad Khorasani, Omar Aboumarzouk, Abdulla Al Ansari, Zhigang Deng, and Nikhil V. Navkar, Virtual Reality (VR), Springer Press, [accepted in November 2025] [pdf]
Structural Chain of Thoughts for Radiology Education Akash Awasthi, Brandon Chung, Anh Mai Vu, Saba Khan, Ngan Hoang Le, Zhigang Deng, Rishi Agrawal, Carol C. Wu, Hien Van Nguyen, Knowledge-Based Systems (KBS), Volume 330, Part A, November 2025, 114433, Elsevier Press. [pdf]
Enhancing Gaze Prediction in Multi-Party Conversations via Speaker-Aware Multimodal Adaptation Meng-Chen Lee, and Zhigang Deng, Proceeding of the 27th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI) 2025, Oct 13 -17, 2025, Canberra, Australia, ACM Press, pp. 200 – 208. [oral] [pdf]
Learning Multimodal Motion Cues for Online End-of-Turn Prediction in Multi-Party Dialogue Meng-Chen Lee, and Zhigang Deng, Proceeding of the 27th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI) 2025, Oct 13 -17, 2025, Canberra, Australia, ACM Press, pp. 265 – 274. [pdf]
Interpreting Radiologist’s Intention from Eye Movements in Chest X-ray Diagnosis Trong-Thang Pham, Anh Nguyen, Zhigang Deng, Carol C. Wu, Hien Van Nguyen, Ngan Hoang Le, Proceedings of the 33rd ACM International Conference on Multimedia (MM) 2025, October 27-31, 2025, Dublin, Ireland, ACM Press. pp. 257 – 266. [Outstanding Paper Award (in content theme)] [pdf]