About | Yongpeng Cao

I am a full-time research engineer at Nablas. I worked on semantic human action recognition, high-speed vision system and human-robot intereaction.

I received my Ph.D. and M.S. degree from Yamakawa lab, the University of Tokyo, and B.S. from Beijing University of Chemical Technology in 2020.

Former intern at SonyAI and Hitachi R&D, research assistant at the University of Tokyo and Tokyo University of Science.

news

Jun 1, 2026	Started working as a full-time research engineer at Nablas.
Mar 24, 2026	Received my Ph.D. degree from the University of Tokyo.
Sep 4, 2024	Started working as an intern in Hitachi Central Research Laboratory
Jun 1, 2024	Started working as an RA in the University of Tokyo
Nov 1, 2023	Started working as a RA in Tokyo University of Science

selected publications

SASI: Leveraging Sub-Action Semantics for Robust Early Action Recognition in Human-Robot Interaction

Yongpeng Cao, Masahiro Hirano, Hyuno Kim, and 1 more author

Apr 2026

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@misc{cao2026sasi,
  title = {{SASI}: Leveraging Sub-Action Semantics for Robust Early Action Recognition in Human-Robot Interaction},
  author = {Cao, Yongpeng and Hirano, Masahiro and Kim, Hyuno and Yamakawa, Yuji},
  year = {2026},
  month = apr,
  eprint = {2604.27508},
  archiveprefix = {arXiv},
  primaryclass = {cs.RO},
}

A Wearable Real-Time 2D/3D Eye-Gaze Interface to Realize Robot Assistance for Quadriplegics

Yongpeng Cao, Shouren Huang, Sune Lundø Sørensen, and 2 more authors

IEEE Access, 2025

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@article{cao2025wearable,
  title = {A Wearable Real-Time 2D/3D Eye-Gaze Interface to Realize Robot Assistance for Quadriplegics},
  author = {Cao, Yongpeng and Huang, Shouren and S{\o}rensen, Sune Lund{\o} and Yamakawa, Yuji and Ishikawa, Masatoshi},
  journal = {IEEE Access},
  year = {2025},
  volume = {13},
  pages = {155259--155276},
  doi = {10.1109/ACCESS.2025.3603617},
}

Marker-less Kendo Motion Prediction Using High-speed Dual-camera System and LSTM Method

Yongpeng Cao, and Yuji Yamakawa

In 2022 IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM), 2022

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@inproceedings{Kendo2022,
  author = {Cao, Yongpeng and Yamakawa, Yuji},
  booktitle = {2022 IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM)},
  title = {Marker-less Kendo Motion Prediction Using High-speed Dual-camera System and LSTM Method},
  year = {2022},
  pages = {159--164},
  doi = {10.1109/AIM52237.2022.9863303},
}