Researcher Ramon y Cajal
Research interests
Computer graphics, Mixed reality, Relighting and inverse illumination, Crowd simulation, haptic interaction in virtual reality
Positions and education
Since January 2007: Researcher funded by the Ramon y
Cajal Programme at Universitat de Girona,
Departament d´Informātica i
Matemātica Aplicada,
Computer Graphics Lab.
September 2001 December 2006:
Senior Lecturer
at University College London, in the Computer Science Department.
Research carried out in the Computer Graphics and Virtual Environments research
lab.
January 2000-September 2001: Postdoctoral position, At University College London,,
in the Virtual Environments and Computer Graphics research lab.
1996-1999 Ph.D. in Computer Science - "Interactive Modelling for Common Illumination in
Augmented Reality", at iMAGIS/GRAVIR lab, Grenoble University, France.
Supervisors: C. Puech and G. Drettakis.
PhD students
K. Jacobs. October 2003-December 2006. Relighting of
Outdoor Scenes for Mixed-Reality. Funded by the UCL Graduate School.
Y. Wong. Started October 2004. Human-Based Perception
Driven Model for Crowd Navigation. Funded by the DTA.
Research fellows and visiting students
Marco Gillies. Body Language for Empathic Avatars.
Funded by the EPSRC.
Chris Christou. Funded by PRESENCCIA (EU IST project).
Funded partially by CREATE and PURFORM (EU IST projects). May 2004-February
2005.
Hila Ritter Widenfeld. Funded by CREATE (EU IST
project). March 2003-February 2005.
Franco Tecchia. Funded by CREATE (EU IST project). 2003-
2005.
Cameron Angus. Funded by CREATE (EU IST project). February
2004-November 2004.
Agnes Guerraz. Funded by CREATE (EU IST project).
September 2002-June 2003.
Alexandre Meyer. Funded by CREATE (EU IST project).
May 2002-September 2003.
Anders Hjorth and Jeppe Vesterbaek. Aalborg University.
Denmark.
September 2005-April 2006. Outdoor Relighting.
Emanuele Ruffaldi. Scuola Superiore SantAnna.
Laboratorio PERCRO. Pisa, Italy. Summer 2003. Haptic
Evaluation Methods.
Jean-Marc Coic. Ecole Polytechnique Paris. France. Spring-Summer
2003. Multi-Layer Impostors for Crowds.
Stephane Fortin. Ecole Polytechnique Paris. France.
Spring-Summer 2003. Perspective Shadow Maps Applied to Crowds.
David Marchal. Ecole Polytechnique Paris. France.
Spring-Summer 2002. Crowd Behaviour Simulation.
Programme committees
Co-Chair of Eurographics International Tutorial
Committee 2005.
Virtual Reality Software and Technology (ACM),
Programme Committee 2005, 2006.
ACM/Eurographics International Symposium on Virtual
Reality, Archaeology and Cultural Heritage (VAST), Programme Committee
2004-2006.
Annual International Workshop on Presence, Programme
Committee 2005.
VSMM, Virtual Reality at work in the 21st Century,
Programme Committee 2005.
International Workshop on Crowd Simulation, V-CROWD,
Programme Committee 2005.
Eurographics, Programme Committee 2004, 2007.
IEEE VR, Programme Committee 2006.
International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory
and Applications (GRAPP), programme committee 2006.
International Workshop on Presence, programme
committee 2007.
European Conference on Visual Media Production (CVMP),
programme committee 2006.