Xia Su

Xia Su

PhD Student, Computer Science
University of Washington
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Xia Su is currently a PhD Student in the Makeability Lab. Xia has been in the lab for 5.4 years. Xia contributed to 8 projects, including Accessibility Scout, DIAM: Drone-based Indoor Accessibility Mapping, and DepthScape, as well as 12 publications. During their time in the lab, Xia mentored 4 Makeability Lab students, including Ruiqi Chen, Richard Weiye Zhang, and Qiaochu (Steve) Liu.
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Recent Projects

This is the thumbnail image for the project SonifyAR: Context-Aware Sound Generation in Augmented Reality

SonifyAR: Context-Aware Sound Generation in Augmented Reality

2023 – Present

DIAM system overview. (A) The DJI Avata drone used to scan indoor spaces. (B) Indoor accessibility mapping result, green part shows detected doors. (C) DIAM use a few-shot fine-tuned instance segmentation model to detect accessibility related facilities. (D) DIAM also estimates camera position and fly trajectory to help locate detected facilities

DIAM: Drone-based Indoor Accessibility Mapping

2024 – Present

This is the thumbnail image for the project RAIS: Robotic Accessibility Indoor Scanner

RAIS: Robotic Accessibility Indoor Scanner

2023 – Present

This is the thumbnail image for the project DepthScape

DepthScape

2024 – Present

Recent Papers

“Does the cafe entrance look accessible? Where is the door?” Towards Geospatial AI Agents for Visual Inquiries

ICCV CV4A11y Workshop 2025

Jon E. Froehlich, Jared Hwang, Zeyu Wang, John O'Meara, Xia Su, William Huang, Yang Zhang, Alexander J. Fiannaca, Philip Nelson, Shaun K. Kane

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FlyMeThrough: Human-AI Collaborative 3D Indoor Mapping with Commodity Drones

UIST 2025

Xia Su, Ruiqi Chen, Jingwei Ma, Chu Li, Jon E. Froehlich

PDF arXiv doi Cite Code Talk FlyMeThrough

Accessibility Scout: Personalized Accessibility Scans of Built Environments

UIST 2025

William Huang, Xia Su, Jon E. Froehlich, Yang Zhang

PDF arXiv doi Cite Accessibility Scout

Videos

A Demo of DIAM: Drone-based Indoor Accessibility Mapping

YouTube | Paper | DIAM: Drone-based Indoor Accessibility Mapping

Talks
FlyMeThrough: Human-AI Collaborative 3D Indoor Mapping with Commodity Drones

Sept. 30, 2025 | UIST 2025

Busan, South Korea

Xia Su

PDF | PPTX Paper | FlyMeThrough

SonifyAR: Context-Aware Sound Generation in Augmented Reality

Oct. 13, 2024 | UIST

Pittsburgh, PA

Xia Su

PDF | PPTX Paper | SonifyAR: Context-Aware Sound Generation in Augmented Reality

RASSAR: Room Accessibility and Safety Scanning in Augmented Reality

May 15, 2024 | CHI 2024

Honolulu, Hawaiʻi

Xia Su

PDF | PPTX | RASSAR

We design, build, and evaluate new interactive tools and techniques to address pressing societal challenges. Makeability refers both to how our technological innovations make new abilities possible for humans as well as our educational mission to help students gain new abilities as they learn and grow through research, invention, and human-centered design.

Recent News

Dec. 10, 2025

Project Sidewalk Awarded Mapillary Camera Grant

Dec. 08, 2025

Distinguished Lecture at UMN CRAY Colloquium

Nov. 13, 2025

Goodbye to Yotam

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