Wenqi Jia

Hey! 😊

I am a third-year PhD student in Computer Science at Georgia Tech UIUC, working with Prof. James Rehg and co-advised by Prof. Danfei Xu. I received my B.Eng from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, majoring in Electronic and Information Engineering.

I have spent a wonderful summer at Meta Reality Labs in summer 2023, where I worked with Ruohan Gao and Vamsi Ithapu.

I'm excited to be heading back to Reality Labs for my internship in summer 2025!
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Research

My research focuses on egocentric perception and predictive modeling of human behavior. I explore how multi-modal first-person signalsβ€”including visual, auditory, and motor cuesβ€”can be used to understand and anticipate human interactions with objects, people, and environments. The broader goal is to enable intelligent agents to perceive, reason, and act in human-centered, real-world scenarios.
This has led me to explore how egocentric cues can be integrated with 3D human understanding and embodied systems, with potential applications in robotics and AR/VR. If you're interested in chatting or collaborating in this direction, feel free to drop me an email :)

News

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04.2024   Passed my Qualifier!🧐 I will transfer to UIUC in Fall 24. 🌽🌽🌽🧐🌽🌽🌽
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02.2024   One paper accepted by CVPR '24! Check out the AV-CONV!! πŸŽ‰πŸ€Ήβ€β™€οΈ
01.2023   I'll be interning at Meta Reality Labs in summer 2023! β™ΎοΈπŸ‘©β€πŸ’»
08.2022   One journal paper accepted by TNNLS! πŸŽ‰
07.2022   One paper accepted by ECCV '22!! πŸŽ‰βœ‘οΈ
03.2022   Our Ego4D paper has been accepted by CVPR '22 as an oral paper! πŸ₯‚

Publications
SocialGesture: Delving into Multi-person Gesture Understanding
Xu Cao, Pranav Virupaksha, Wenqi Jia, Bolin Lai, Fiona Ryan, Sangmin Lee, James M. Rehg
CVPR, 2025
paper (coming soon)
Listen to Look into the Future: Audio-Visual Egocentric Gaze Anticipation
Bolin Lai, Fiona Ryan, Wenqi Jia, Miao Liu, James M. Rehg
ECCV, 2024
project / paper / code / data Split / supplementary / video / poster
The Audio-Visual Conversational Graph: From an Egocentric-Exocentric Perspective
Wenqi Jia, Miao Liu, Hao Jiang, Ishwarya Ananthabhotla, James Rehg,
Vamsi Krishna Ithapu, Ruohan Gao
CVPR, 2024
project / paper / code / dataset (under internal review) / bibtex

(⇐ Move your cursor on the image for a short demo video!)


Werewolf Among Us: A Multimodal Dataset for Modeling Persuasion Behaviors in Social Deduction Games
Bolin Lai, Hongxin Zhang, Miao Liu, Aryan Pariani, Fiona Ryan,
Wenqi Jia, James Rehg, Diyi Yang
ACL Findings, 2023
project / paper / bibtex

Generative Adversarial Network for Future Hand Segmentation from Egocentric Video
Wenqi Jia, Miao Liu, James Rehg
ECCV, 2022
project / paper /  code /  supplement / poster / video /  bibtex

(⇐ Move your cursor on the image for a short demo video!)

Ego4D: Around the World in 3,000 Hours of Egocentric Video
Kristen Grauman, et al.
CVPR, 2022   (Oral)
project / paper / code / dataset / video / bibtex

Paying More Attention to Motion: Attention Distillation for Learning Video Representations
Miao Liu, Wenqi Jia, Xin Chen, Yun Zhang, Yin Li, James Rehg
IJCV, 2021   (Special Issue) (under review)
arXiv / code / bibtex
Holistic-Guided Disentangled Learning With Cross-Video Semantics Mining for Concurrent First-Person and Third-Person Activity Recognition
Tianshan Liu, Wenqi Jia, Rui Zhao, Kin-Man Lam, Jun Kong
TNNLS, 2022
paper / bibtex
Academic Service and Volunteer Work
  • Reviewer πŸ”Ž, CVPR, ECCV, BMVC, ICCV
  • Certified First Responder πŸš‘, Hong Kong Red Cross, Jun 2015 - Jun 2019
Fun facts about me!
  • Obviously I love travelling around the world: πŸ±β€πŸš€


  • I'm Chinese and if you wonder what's the correct pronunciation of my name (with the tones!), try to say the brand "Givenchy"in British accent 🀣
  • I play the piano 🎹 & very into classical music
  • I love Renaissance art and Surrealism! During the pandemic I was admitted as a Master of Arts in Art History at the University of Hong Kong (but didn't enrol cause I decided to be focused on my passion in Computer Science first πŸ‘©β€πŸ’»)
  • I learned my Japanese through Anime (NARUTO is my favorite πŸ”₯)
  • Je parle un peu franΓ§ais (a beginner who likes to say Je ne sais pas) 🧐