Publications

2026

1. High-Speed Vision Improves Zero-Shot Semantic Understanding of Human Actions

   Yongpeng Cao, and Yuji Yamakawa

   May 2026

   arXiv Bib

   @misc{cao2026highspeed,
     title = {High-Speed Vision Improves Zero-Shot Semantic Understanding of Human Actions},
     author = {Cao, Yongpeng and Yamakawa, Yuji},
     year = {2026},
     month = may,
     eprint = {2605.00496},
     archiveprefix = {arXiv},
     primaryclass = {cs.CV},
   }

2. 

   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

   arXiv Bib GitHub Video Project page

   @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},
   }

2025

1. 

   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

   Bib HTML GitHub

   @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},
   }

2024

1. Perceptual Anchoring for Gaze-Tracking Wearables and Robot-Mounted Sensors

   Sune Lundø Sørensen, Shouren Huang, Yongpeng Cao, and 1 more author

   In 2024 21st International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots (UR), 2024

   Bib HTML

   @inproceedings{Sorensen2024,
     author = {S{\o}rensen, Sune Lund{\o} and Huang, Shouren and Cao, Yongpeng and Kj{\ae}rgaard, Mikkel Baun},
     booktitle = {2024 21st International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots (UR)},
     title = {Perceptual Anchoring for Gaze-Tracking Wearables and Robot-Mounted Sensors},
     year = {2024},
     pages = {71--76},
     doi = {10.1109/UR61395.2024.10597438},
   }

2023

1. Human-Robot Interaction and Collaboration Utilizing Voluntary Bimanual Coordination

   Shouren Huang, Yongpeng Cao, Kenichi Murakami, and 2 more authors

   In 2023 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC), 2023

   Bib HTML

   @inproceedings{bimanual2023,
     author = {Huang, Shouren and Cao, Yongpeng and Murakami, Kenichi and Ishikawa, Masatoshi and Yamakawa, Yuji},
     booktitle = {2023 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC)},
     title = {Human-Robot Interaction and Collaboration Utilizing Voluntary Bimanual Coordination},
     year = {2023},
     pages = {1044--1051},
     doi = {10.1109/SMC53992.2023.10394275},
   }

2022

1. 

   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

   Bib HTML

   @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},
   }