IRIDiuM: immersive rendered interactive deep media
Conference Proceeding
Koniaris, B., Israr, A., Mitchell, K., Huerta, I., Kosek, M., Darragh, K., …Moon, B. (2016)
IRIDiuM: immersive rendered interactive deep media. https://doi.org/10.1145/2929490.2929496
Compelling virtual reality experiences require high quality imagery as well as head motion with six degrees of freedom. Most existing systems limit the motion of the viewer (p...
Stereohaptics: a haptic interaction toolkit for tangible virtual experiences
Conference Proceeding
Israr, A., Zhao, S., McIntosh, K., Schwemler, Z., Fritz, A., Mars, J., …Mitchell, K. (2016)
Stereohaptics: a haptic interaction toolkit for tangible virtual experiences. In SIGGRAPH '16: ACM SIGGRAPH 2016 Studio. https://doi.org/10.1145/2929484.2970273
With a recent rise in the availability of affordable head mounted gear sets, various sensory stimulations (e.g., visual, auditory and haptics) are integrated to provide seamle...
Using a conceptual data language to describe a database and its interface
Conference Proceeding
Mitchell, K., Kennedy, J., & Barclay, P. J. (1995)
Using a conceptual data language to describe a database and its interface. In C. Goble, & J. Keane (Eds.), Advances in Databases: Proceedings [of the] 13th British National Conference on Database - BNCOD13, 1995 (101-119). https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0000543
We propose a conceptual approach to defining interfaces to databases which uses the features of a fully object oriented data language to specify interface objects combined wit...
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...
Props Alive: A Framework for Augmented Reality Stop Motion Animation
Conference Proceeding
Casas, L., Kosek, M., & Mitchell, K. (2020)
Props Alive: A Framework for Augmented Reality Stop Motion Animation. In 2017 IEEE 10th Workshop on Software Engineering and Architectures for Realtime Interactive Systems (SEARIS)https://doi.org/10.1109/SEARIS41720.2017.9183487
Stop motion animation evolved in the early days of cinema with the aim to create an illusion of movement with static puppets posed manually each frame. Current stop motion mov...
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....
User, metric, and computational evaluation of foveated rendering methods
Conference Proceeding
Swafford, N. T., Iglesias-Guitian, J. A., Koniaris, C., Moon, B., Cosker, D., & Mitchell, K. (2016)
User, metric, and computational evaluation of foveated rendering methods. In SAP '16 Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Perception. https://doi.org/10.1145/2931002.2931011
Perceptually lossless foveated rendering methods exploit human perception by selectively rendering at different quality levels based on eye gaze (at a lower computational cost...
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...
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...