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Compressed Animated Light Fields with Real-time View-dependent Reconstruction

Journal Article
Koniaris, C., Kosek, M., Sinclair, D., & Mitchell, K. (2019)
Compressed Animated Light Fields with Real-time View-dependent Reconstruction. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 25(4), 1666-1680. https://doi.org/10.1109/tvcg.2018.2818156
We propose an end-to-end solution for presenting movie quality animated graphics to the user while still allowing the sense of presence afforded by free viewpoint head motion....

IRIDiuM+: deep media storytelling with non-linear light field video

Conference Proceeding
Kosek, M., Koniaris, B., Sinclair, D., Markova, D., Rothnie, F., Smoot, L., & Mitchell, K. (2017)
IRIDiuM+: deep media storytelling with non-linear light field video. In SIGGRAPH '17 ACM SIGGRAPH 2017 VR Village. https://doi.org/10.1145/3089269.3089277
We present immersive storytelling in VR enhanced with non-linear sequenced sound, touch and light. Our Deep Media (Rose 2012) aim is to allow for guests to physically enter re...

Real-time rendering with compressed animated light fields.

Conference Proceeding
Koniaris, B., Kosek, M., Sinclair, D., & Mitchell, K. (2017)
Real-time rendering with compressed animated light fields. In GI '17 Proceedings of the 43rd Graphics Interface Conference. , (33-40). https://doi.org/10.20380/GI2017.05
We propose an end-to-end solution for presenting movie quality animated graphics to the user while still allowing the sense of presence afforded by free viewpoint head motion....

Noise Reduction on G-Buffers for Monte Carlo Filtering: Noise Reduction on G-Buffers for Monte Carlo Filtering

Journal Article
Moon, B., Iglesias-Guitian, J. A., McDonagh, S., & Mitchell, K. (2017)
Noise Reduction on G-Buffers for Monte Carlo Filtering: Noise Reduction on G-Buffers for Monte Carlo Filtering. Computer Graphics Forum, 36(8), 600-612. https://doi.org/10.1111/cgf.13155
We propose a novel pre-filtering method that reduces the noise introduced by depth-of-field and motion blur effects in geometric buffers (G-buffers) such as texture, normal an...

Real-Time Multi-View Facial Capture with Synthetic Training

Journal Article
Klaudiny, M., McDonagh, S., Bradley, D., Beeler, T., & Mitchell, K. (2017)
Real-Time Multi-View Facial Capture with Synthetic Training. Computer Graphics Forum, 36(2), 325-336. https://doi.org/10.1111/cgf.13129
We present a real-time multi-view facial capture system facilitated by synthetic training imagery. Our method is able to achieve high-quality markerless facial performance cap...

Rapid one-shot acquisition of dynamic VR avatars

Conference Proceeding
Malleson, C., Kosek, M., Klaudiny, M., Huerta, I., Bazin, J., Sorkine-Hornung, A., …Mitchell, K. (2017)
Rapid one-shot acquisition of dynamic VR avatars. In IEEE 2017 Virtual Reality (VR). https://doi.org/10.1109/vr.2017.7892240
We present a system for rapid acquisition of bespoke, animatable, full-body avatars including face texture and shape. A blendshape rig with a skeleton is used as a template fo...

Interactive Ray-Traced Area Lighting with Adaptive Polynomial Filtering

Conference Proceeding
Iglesias-Guitian, J. A., Moon, B., & Mitchell, K. (2016)
Interactive Ray-Traced Area Lighting with Adaptive Polynomial Filtering. In Proceedings of the 13th European Conference on Visual Media Production (CVMP 2016)
Area lighting computation is a key component for synthesizing photo-realistic rendered images, and it simulates plausible soft shadows by considering geometric relationships b...

Synthetic Prior Design for Real-Time Face Tracking

Conference Proceeding
McDonagh, S., Klaudiny, M., Bradley, D., Beeler, T., Matthews, I., & Mitchell, K. (2016)
Synthetic Prior Design for Real-Time Face Tracking. In 2016 Fourth International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV),. https://doi.org/10.1109/3dv.2016.72
Real-time facial performance capture has recently been gaining popularity in virtual film production, driven by advances in machine learning, which allows for fast inference o...

Real-time Physics-based Motion Capture with Sparse Sensors

Conference Proceeding
Andrews, S., Huerta, I., Komura, T., Sigal, L., & Mitchell, K. (2016)
Real-time Physics-based Motion Capture with Sparse Sensors. In Proceedings of the 13th European Conference on Visual Media Production (CVMP 2016)https://doi.org/10.1145/2998559.2998564
We propose a framework for real-time tracking of humans using sparse multi-modal sensor sets, including data obtained from optical markers and inertial measurement units. A sm...

Pixel history linear models for real-time temporal filtering.

Journal Article
Iglesias-Guitian, J. A., Moon, B., Koniaris, C., Smolikowski, E., & Mitchell, K. (2016)
Pixel history linear models for real-time temporal filtering. Computer Graphics Forum, 35(7), 363-372. https://doi.org/10.1111/cgf.13033
We propose a new real-time temporal filtering and antialiasing (AA) method for rasterization graphics pipelines. Our method is based on Pixel History Linear Models (PHLM), a n...
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CAROUSEL+ Telepresent Dance Reducing Social Distancing

2021 - 2024
CAROUSEL focuses on how Augmented Reality (AR) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies improve the quality of experience and social interaction in the frame of live virtual and hybrid events in ...
Funder: European Commission | Value: £864,628

Weather Prediction - Motogoloco

2015 - 2015
The solution for the synchronisation issue was to include a simultaneous animation of the journey and the weather data. This provided an intuitive visualisation of two independent sets of data.
Funder: Scottish Funding Council | Value: £5,000

DISTRO

2015 - 2018
The DISTRO network brings together leading laboratories in Visual Computing and 3D Computer Graphics research across Europe with the aim of training a new generation of scientists, technologists, and ...
Funder: European Commission | Value: £243,804

Learning from Korea - Media Skins as Public Art

2012 - 2015
Academic research into the use of video content for public art projects involving archival research, content preparation & knowledge transfer in preparation for a groundbreaking collaboration between ...
Funder: Royal Society of Edinburgh | Value: £2,242

New Online Local TV News Service - Freakworks

2012 - 2012
The company are planning to launch a new division of their business called ‘Leith.TV’. This will be a video-on-demand hyper local news service which will have a focus on Leith centric news. They are a...
Funder: Scottish Funding Council | Value: £4,805

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