Henry Che

Home Institution
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year Participated
2022

Year in School
Undergraduate

REU Faculty Mentor
Sarita Adve

Research Area Interest
Architecture, Compilers, and Parallel Computing

Project Title
Depth Fusion and Tracking plugin for XR System

Biography & Research Abstract

Abstract:

Illinois Extended Reality Tested (or ILLIXR) provides an open source XR system for research and developing. ILLIXR comprises a wide variety of different plugins that add functionalities to the system such as SLAM, pose prediction, tracking,… For my project, I develop a depth fusion and tracking plugin for ILLIXR, which is necessary for 3D reconstruction and scene understanding, from Oxford University’s open-source InfiniTAM framework.

Bio:

Hi! My name is Henry Che and I'm a freshman majoring in Computer Engineering. I am originally from Vietnam but I moved to the US just before attending UIUC. I am passionate about everything related to Extended Reality (Virtual Reality/ Augmented Reality/ Mixed Reality), especially its hardware and lower-level components and systems, ever since the release of the first generation of the Microsoft HoloLens. I truly believe XR is going to be a prevalent technology, if not a standard platform, in the near future!