Publications

2025-ICMI-EnhanceGazePrediction

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.

2025-ICMI-LearningMultimodalCues

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.

2025-MM-InterpretRadiologist

Scanpath-Guided Radiologist’s Intention Identification

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.

2025-ICCV-CTGaze

CTGaze: A Dataset and Baselines for Visual Attention Modeling in CT Diagnostics

Trong-Thang Pham, Akash Awasthi, Saba Khan, Tien-Phat Nguyen, Ngoc Son Nguyen, Cuong Tran Van, Zhigang Deng, Carol C. Wu, Hien Van Nguyen, Ngan Hoang Le,

Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) 2025, Oct 19 – 23th, 2025, Honolulu, Hawai’i.

2025-MICCAI-Marta

MAARTA: Multi-Agentic Radiology Teaching Assistant

Akash Awasthi, Brandon Chung, Anh Mai Vu, Ngan Hoang Le, Zhigang Deng, Carol C. Wu, Hien Van Nguyen,

Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI) 2025, Daejeon, Republic of Korea, September 23-27, 2025.

2025-RYAI-AI-Human-Collab

A Collaborative Approach Integrating AI and Human Expertise to Improve Detection of Abnormalities on Chest Radiographs through Correction of Perceptual Errors

Akash Awasthi, Ngan Le, Zhigang Deng, Carol C. Wu, and Hien Van Nguyen,

Radiology: Artificial Intelligence, RSNA Press. [accepted in June 2025]

2025-VR-HySim

HySim: Towards Development of a Surgical Simulation Framework with Improved Visual and Tactile Realism

Waseem Palliyali, Hawa Hamza, Santu Paul, Ali Baig, Abdulla Al-Ansari, Omar Aboumarzouk, Zhigang Deng, Nikhil V. Navkar,

Virtual Reality, Springer Press. [accepted in June 2025]

2025-SR-MedGaze

Modeling radiologists’ cognitive processes using a digital gaze twin to enhance radiology training

Akash Awasthi, Anh Vu Mai, Ngan Le, Zhigang Deng, Supratik Maulik, Rishi Agrawal, Carol C. Wu, and Hien V. Nguyen,

Scientific Reports, Volume 15, article number 13685, April 2025, Nature Press.

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2024-AIM-InterpretableAI

ItpCtrl-AI: End-to-End Interpretable and Controllable Artificial Intelligence by Modeling Radiologists’ Intentions

Trong-Thang Phama, Jacob Brecheisen, Carol C. Wu, Hien Nguyen, Zhigang Deng, Donald Adjeroh, Gianfranco Doretto, Arabinda Choudhary, Ngan Le

Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIM), Volume 160, Article 103054, Elsevier Press.

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2024-CSBJ-BridgingHumanMachine

Bridging Human and Machine Intelligence: Reverse-Engineering Radiologist Intentions for Clinical Trust and Adoption

Akash Awasthi, Ngan Le, Zhigang Deng, Rishi Agrawal, Carol C. Wu, and Hien Nguyen,

Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal (CSBJ), 24(2024), pp. 711–723, Elsevier Press.

[Invited Article]

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2025-WACV-GazeSearch

GazeSearch: Radiology Findings Search Benchmark

Trong-Thang Phama, Tien-Phat Nguyen, Yuki Ikebe, Akash Awasthi, Zhigang Deng, Carol Wu, Hien Nguyen, and Ngan Le,

Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) 2025, Tucson, Arizona, Feb 28 - March 4, 2025. [oral paper]

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2024-CMPB-HoloMentoring

A Holographic Telementoring System Depicting Surgical Instrument Movements for Real-time Guidance in Open Surgeries

Malek Anabtawi, Dehlela Shabir, Jhasketan Padhan, Abdulla Al Ansari, Omar M Aboumarzouk, Zhigang Deng, Nikhil V. Navkar,

Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine (CMPB), 256(2024), pp. 108396, Elsevier Press.

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2024-SIGA-FarmModeling

Large Scale Farm Scene Modeling from Remote Sensing Imagery

Zhiqi Xiao, Hao Jiang, Zhigang Deng, Wenwei Han, Ran Li, and Zhaoqi Wang,

ACM Transactions on Graphics, (special issue for ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2024 Journal Papers), 43(6), December 2024, Articl 260, 12 pages, December 2024.

[pdf] [Video] [Supplemental Document]

2024-PG-DenseCrowdPrediction

Dense Crowd Motion Prediction through Density and Trend Maps

Tingting Wang, Qiang Fu, Minggang Wang, Huikun Bi, Qixin Deng, and Zhigang Deng,

Proceeding of Pacific Graphics (PG) 2024, Huangshan, China, Oct 13-16, 2024.

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2024-ICMI-OnlineTurnPrediction

Online Multimodal End-of-turn Prediction for Three-party Conversations

Meng-Chen Lee, and Zhigang Deng,

Proceeding of ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI) 2024, Costa Rica, Nov 4-8, 2024, pp. 57-65.

[Best Paper Runner-up Award]

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2024-ISMAR-IntelligentVirtualAgent

Toward Socially-Aware Interactive Virtual Agents: Generating Multi-Modal Agent Behaviors

Bhasura S. Gunawardhana, Yunxiang Zhang, Qi Sun, and Zhigang Deng,

Proceedings of 23rd IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR) 2024, Seattle, USA, Oct 21- 25, 2024, pp. 1068-1077.

[pdf] [Video] [Project Page (with code and dataset)]

2024-IVA-SentenceBasedNextSpeakerPrediction

A Computational Study on Sentence-based Next Speaker Prediction in Multiparty Conversations

Meng-Chen Lee, Wu Angela Li, and Zhigang Deng,

Proceeding of ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA) 2024, , September 16–19, 2024, Glasgow, UK, ACM Press, pages 23:1 - 23:4.

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2024-TAP-ColorThemeEvaluation

Color Theme Evaluation through User Aesthetic Preference Modeling

Bailin Yang, Tianxiang Wei, Xiaohui Liang, Frederick W. B. Li, Zhigang Deng, and Yili Fang,

ACM Transactions on Applied Perception (TAP), 21(3), July 2024, Article 12, pages 12:1 - 12:35, ACM Press.

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2024-SIGGRAPH-InsectWingDeformation

Real-time Wing Deformation Simulations for Flying Insects

Qiang Chen, Zhigang Deng, Feng Li, Yuming Fang, Tingsong Lu, Yang Tong, Yifan Zuo,

Proceeding of ACM SIGGRAPH 2024 Conference Papers, Article 35, pages 35:1 - 35:11, Denver, CO, July 28 - August 1st, 2024. ACM Press.

[pdf] [Video]

2024-TVC-AgentCrowdSimSurvey

Agent-based Crowd Simulation: An In-depth Survey of Determining Factors

Saba Khan, and Zhigang Deng

The Visual Computer, Special Issue for CGI 2024, 40(7), July 2024, pp. 4993 - 5004, Springer Press.

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