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 5.1 years and contributed to 7 projects, including SonifyAR: Context-Aware Sound Generation in Augmented Reality, DIAM: Drone-based Indoor Accessibility Mapping, RAIS: Robotic Accessibility Indoor Scanner, as well as 10 publications. During their time in the lab, Xia mentored 4 Makeability Lab students, including Ruiqi Chen, Qiaochu (Steve) Liu, and Richard Weiye Zhang.
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Recent Projects

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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

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DepthScape

2024 – Present

Recent Papers

Accessibility Scout: Personalized Accessibility Scans of Built Environments

UIST 2025 To Appear

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

PDF | doi | Citation | Accessibility Scout

Authoring 2.5D Designs with Depth Estimation

CHI 2025

Xia Su, Cuong Nguyen, Matheus A Gadelha, Yu Shen, Stefano Petrangeli, Jon E. Froehlich

PDF | doi | Citation | DepthScape

RAIS: Towards A Robotic Mapping and Assessment Tool for Indoor Accessibility Using Commodity Hardware

ASSETS 2024

Xia Su, Daniel Campos Zamora, Jon E. Froehlich

PDF | doi | Citation | RAIS: Robotic Accessibility Indoor Scanner

Videos

A Demo of DIAM: Drone-based Indoor Accessibility Mapping

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

Talks
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

July 07, 2025

New UW Solar Vehicle Team Crushes at American Solar Challenge

June 23, 2025

Three Microsoft Research PhD Internships

June 01, 2025

Xia Interns at Apple Research!

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