Performance for Care
Presentation / Conference
Mahoney, C., & Mermikedes, A. (2020, November)
Performance for Care. Presented at Performance for Care, Online
As the use of drama in the education of healthcare professionals becomes more widely accepted, its relationship to the more established practice of simulation based learning m...
L3V: A Layered Video Format for 3D Display
Conference Proceeding
Mitchell, K., Sinclair, D., Kosek, M., & Swaford, N. (2014)
L3V: A Layered Video Format for 3D Display
We present a layered video format for 3D interactive display which adapts and exploits well-developed 2D codecs with layer centric packing for real-time user perspective playb...
Active Learning for Interactive Audio-Animatronic Performance Design
Journal Article
Castellon, J., Bächer, M., McCrory, M., Ayala, A., Stolarz, J., & Mitchell, K. (2020)
Active Learning for Interactive Audio-Animatronic Performance Design. The Journal of Computer Graphics Techniques, 9(3), 1-19
We present a practical neural computational approach for interactive design of Audio-Animatronic® facial performances. An offline quasi-static reference simulation, driven by ...
Deep Precomputed Radiance Transfer for Deformable Objects
Journal Article
Li, Y., Wiedemann, P., & Mitchell, K. (2019)
Deep Precomputed Radiance Transfer for Deformable Objects. Proceedings of the ACM on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, 2(1), 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1145/3320284
We propose, DeepPRT, a deep convolutional neural network to compactly encapsulate the radiance transfer of a freely deformable object for rasterization in real-time.
With pre...
Instant messaging: using log files to identify patterns of interaction in group of teenage users.
Conference Proceeding
Davison, B., & Buckner, K. (2005)
Instant messaging: using log files to identify patterns of interaction in group of teenage users. In A. Sloane (Ed.), Home-oriented informatics and telematics : proceedings of the IFIP WG 9.3 HOIT2005 conference. , (277-290). https://doi.org/10.1007/11402985_20
This paper presents preliminary findings on teenagers’ use of instant messaging (IM) as an example of an Internet technology. The results are quantitative, being drawn from th...
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...
Online view sampling for estimating depth from light fields
Conference Proceeding
Kim, C., Subr, K., Mitchell, K., Sorkine-Hornung, A., & Gross, M. (2015)
Online view sampling for estimating depth from light fields. In 2015 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP)https://doi.org/10.1109/icip.2015.7350981
Geometric information such as depth obtained from light fields
finds more applications recently. Where and how to sample
images to populate a light field is an important probl...
PoseMMR: A Collaborative Mixed Reality Authoring Tool for Character Animation
Conference Proceeding
Pan, Y., & Mitchell, K. (2020)
PoseMMR: A Collaborative Mixed Reality Authoring Tool for Character Animation. In 2020 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW). , (759-760). https://doi.org/10.1109/vrw50115.2020.00230
Augmented reality devices enable new approaches for character animation, e.g., given that character posing is three dimensional in nature it follows that interfaces with highe...
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....
Photo-Realistic Facial Details Synthesis from Single Image
Conference Proceeding
Chen, A., Chen, Z., Zhang, G., Zhang, Z., Mitchell, K., & Yu, J. (2019)
Photo-Realistic Facial Details Synthesis from Single Image. In 2019 IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) (9429-9439). https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCV.2019.00952
We present a single-image 3D face synthesis technique that can handle challenging facial expressions while recovering fine geometric details. Our technique employs expression ...