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[Seminar] Perceptually guided animation of humans and crowds.

Date: 
Tuesday, October 23rd 2012, 4:00pm
Location: 
302동 309-1호

Summary

  Research in the field of Visual Computing has contributed greatly to increasing the realism of
virtual objects, scenes and characters, by drawing on fundamental mathematical, scientific and
technical principles to create stunning visual effects. Ultimately, however, the realism of a
virtual world is in the eye of the beholder, so human perception must also be considered as an
integral part of the creative process. In the field of computer animation, a major goal is to
create virtual humans with emotion, personality and individual style using a variety of methods.
In our work, we use perceptual insights to help with the task of simulating objects, humans and
crowds. In this talk, I will discuss some of the technical and perceptual challenges of creating
compelling dynamic scenes, from simple colliding spheres to a complex Metropolis, populated with
realistic crowds

Speaker Bio

 Carol O'Sullivan is the Professor and Chair of Visual Computing in the school  of Computer Science
in Trinity, where she leads the Graphics, Vision and Visualisation group (GV2) and is the Director
of the Centre for Creative Technologies. She is currently also a Visiting Professor at Seoul
National University.  After receiving a B.A. in Mathematics from Trinity College in 1988, she
worked for several years as a software engineer in industry (mainly in Germany), followed by a
Masters degree from Dublin City University in 1996 and a PhD in computer graphics from TCD in
1999. She has published over 120 peer-reviewed papers and supervised over 20 PhD students to
completion. She was elected as the first Irish Fellow of the European Association for Computer
Graphics (Eurographics) in 2007, and as a Fellow of Trinity College in 2003. She is the co-Editor
in Chief of the ACM Transactions on Applied Perception, and the Associate Editor in Chief for
Special Issues of IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications.  She has chaired several international
conferences, including Eurographics 2005, and has been a member of many international program
committees, including the SIGGRAPH and Eurographics papers committees.