Kenny Mitchell
Kenny Mitchell

Prof Kenny Mitchell

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  K.Mitchell2@napier.ac.uk

   

Biography

Professor Kenny Mitchell is a Technical Director of Rendering at Roblox Corporation and chair of Video Game Technology at Edinburgh Napier University providing practical technology solutions for video games, Disney theme parks, movie production, and immersive media. Over the past 20 years he has shipped video games ground breaking high-end graphics technologies including voxels, volumetric light scattering, motion blur, light field and deep learning methods. His Ph.D. founded real-time 3D graphics for information visualization on consumer hardware. Whilst leading technology into movie franchise video games like Harry Potter, the BAFTA award winning Boom Blox with Stephen Spielberg, Star Wars augmented reality photos, and image quality for CG (Finding Dory) & live action (Pirates of the Caribbean) films, he currently has over 50 patent inventions. He has built and managed research groups up to 20 people, and projects with international consortia of up to 24 companies/universities.
He is Principal Investigator for Napier as part the EU ITN project DISTRO with PhD studentships to offer for immediate start.
Past and current PhD and MPhil supervisions
Simon Pilgrim (UCL), Babis Koniaris (Bath), Nick Swafford (Bath), Gwyneth Bradbury (UCL), Dan Calian (UCL), Isadora Sanna (Bath), Llogari Casas Cambra (ENU), Angeliki Glynou (ENU), Caio Brito (U Montreal), David Sinclair (Edinburgh University).
He serves on the board of InGAME, as past chair of ACM SIGGRAPH I3D, CVMP and VRCAI and current Editorial Board of IEEE Computers and Graphics and ACM Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, on the EPSRC strategic advisory network including the UK Digital Economy Impact Review, USA NSF scoping in immersive technologies.
https://www.mobygames.com/developer/sheet/view/developerId,43106/, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm7376664/, BAFTA, ACM Pioneer, IEEE Senior. https://twitter.com/farpeek Roblox: ProfessorKJM & farpeekl
Personal Page: farpeek.com

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Editorial Activity

  • Kenny Mitchell joins Editorial Board of IEEE Computers and Graphics

 

Fellowships and Awards

  • Professor Kenny Mitchell gets Best Paper award at ACM Conference on Visual Media Production

 

Invited Speaker

  • Prof K Mitchell to give Keynote talk at Eurographics UK.

 

Membership of Professional Body

  • IEEE Senior Member

 

Non-executive Directorship

  • Cobra Simulation Ltd

 

Spin-outs and Licences

  • 3FINERY Ltd co-founder and CTO

 

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Adaptive polynomial rendering

Journal Article
Moon, B., McDonagh, S., Mitchell, K., & Gross, M. (2016)
Adaptive polynomial rendering. ACM transactions on graphics, 35(4), 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1145/2897824.2925936
In this paper, we propose a new adaptive rendering method to improve the performance of Monte Carlo ray tracing, by reducing noise contained in rendered images while preservin...

Simulation and skinning of heterogeneous texture detail deformation

Patent
Koniaris, C., Mitchell, K., & Cosker, D. (2016)
Simulation and skinning of heterogeneous texture detail deformation. US2016133040
A method is disclosed for reducing distortions introduced by deformation of a surface with an existing parameterization. In an exemplary embodiment, the method comprises recei...

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...

Latency aware foveated rendering in unreal engine 4

Conference Proceeding
Swafford, N. T., Cosker, D., & Mitchell, K. (2015)
Latency aware foveated rendering in unreal engine 4. In CVMP '15 Proceedings of the 12th European Conference on Visual Media Productionhttps://doi.org/10.1145/2824840.2824863
We contribute a foveated rendering implementation in Unreal Engine 4 (UE4) and a straight-forward metric to allow calculation of rendered foveal region sizes to compensate for...

Real-time variable rigidity texture mapping

Conference Proceeding
Koniaris, C., Mitchell, K., & Cosker, D. (2015)
Real-time variable rigidity texture mapping. In CVMP '15 Proceedings of the 12th European Conference on Visual Media Production. https://doi.org/10.1145/2824840.2824850
Parameterisation of models is typically generated for a single pose, the rest pose. When a model deforms, its parameterisation characteristics change, leading to distortions i...

Guided Ecological Simulation for Artistic Editing of Plant Distributions in Natural Scenes

Journal Article
Bradbury, G. A., Subr, K., Koniaris, B., Mitchell, K., & Weyrich, T. (2015)
Guided Ecological Simulation for Artistic Editing of Plant Distributions in Natural Scenes. The Journal of Computer Graphics Techniques, 4(4), 28-53
In this paper we present a novel approach to author vegetation cover of large natural scenes. Unlike stochastic scatter-instancing tools for plant placement (such as multi-cla...

Guided ecological simulation for artistic editing of plant distributions in natural scenes

Journal Article
Bradbury, G. A., Subr, K., Koniaris, C., Mitchell, K., & Weyrich, T. (2015)
Guided ecological simulation for artistic editing of plant distributions in natural scenes. The Journal of Computer Graphics Techniques, 4(4),
In this paper we present a novel approach to author vegetation cover of large natural scenes. Unlike stochastic scatter-instancing tools for plant placement (such as multi-cla...

Carpet unrolling for character control on uneven terrain

Conference Proceeding
Miller, M., Holden, D., Al-Ashqar, R., Dubach, C., Mitchell, K., & Komura, T. (2015)
Carpet unrolling for character control on uneven terrain. In MIG '15 Proceedings of the 8th ACM SIGGRAPH Conference on Motion in Gameshttps://doi.org/10.1145/2822013.2822031
We propose a type of relationship descriptor based on carpet unrolling that computes the joint positions of a character based on the sum of relative vectors originating from a...

Augmented creativity: bridging the real and virtual worlds to enhance creative play

Conference Proceeding
Zünd, F., Ryffel, M., Magnenat, S., Marra, A., Nitti, M., Kapadia, M., …Sumner, R. W. (2015)
Augmented creativity: bridging the real and virtual worlds to enhance creative play. In SA '15 SIGGRAPH Asia 2015 Mobile Graphics and Interactive Applicationshttps://doi.org/10.1145/2818427.2818460
Augmented Reality (AR) holds unique and promising potential to bridge between real-world activities and digital experiences, allowing users to engage their imagination and boo...

Adaptive rendering with linear predictions

Journal Article
Moon, B., Iglesias-Guitian, J. A., Yoon, S., & Mitchell, K. (2015)
Adaptive rendering with linear predictions. ACM transactions on graphics, 34(4), 121:1-121:11. https://doi.org/10.1145/2766992
We propose a new adaptive rendering algorithm that enhances the performance of Monte Carlo ray tracing by reducing the noise, i.e., variance, while preserving a variety of hig...

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