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Ian McDowall
dblp:88/5383
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8ranked-venue papers
1as first author
0since 2021 · last 2015
—ORCID · none
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Graphics, computer vision, multimedia, augmented reality and games · 8 · 1 first-authorHuman-computer interaction and ubiquitous computing · 2Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 first-author
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Computer graphics and multimedia
7 papers |
Computational photography and imaging · 40% Virtual and augmented reality · 28% Image and video processing · 17% | |
| Human-computer interaction and pervasive computing
2 papers |
Immersive interaction · 90% Collaborative and social computing · 10% |
Topics — the 11 heaviest of 15, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Computational photography and imaging › image display
computational display |
0.2 | 1 | 2015 | Adaptive color display via perceptually-driven factored spectral projection · ACM Trans. Graph. 2015 |
Image and video processing › color image processing
gamut mapping |
0.2 | 1 | 2015 | Adaptive color display via perceptually-driven factored spectral projection · ACM Trans. Graph. 2015 |
Virtual and augmented reality › telepresence
3d teleconferencing |
0.1 | 1 | 2009 | Achieving eye contact in a one-to-many 3D video teleconferencing system · ACM Trans. Graph. 2009 |
Virtual and augmented reality › 3d display › stereoscopic display
autostereoscopic display |
0.1 | 1 | 2007 | Rendering for an interactive 360degree light field display · ACM Trans. Graph. 2007 |
Rendering › image-based rendering
light field display rendering |
0.1 | 1 | 2007 | Rendering for an interactive 360degree light field display · ACM Trans. Graph. 2007 |
Computational photography and imaging › microscopy imaging
computational microscopy |
0.0 | 1 | 2004 | Synthetic aperture confocal imaging · ACM Trans. Graph. 2004 |
Computational photography and imaging › microscopy imaging
confocal imaging |
0.0 | 1 | 2004 | Synthetic aperture confocal imaging · ACM Trans. Graph. 2004 |
Computational photography and imaging › multi-perspective imaging
synthetic aperture imaging |
0.0 | 1 | 2004 | Synthetic aperture confocal imaging · ACM Trans. Graph. 2004 |
Virtual and augmented reality › immersive interaction
collaborative virtual environments |
0.0 | 1 | 1997 | The two-user Responsive Workbench: support for collaboration through individual views of a shared space · SIGGRAPH 1997 |
Virtual and augmented reality › immersive display
head-tracked display |
0.0 | 1 | 1997 | The two-user Responsive Workbench: support for collaboration through individual views of a shared space · SIGGRAPH 1997 |
Collaborative and social computing
co-located collaboration |
0.0 | 1 | 1997 | The two-user Responsive Workbench: support for collaboration through individual views of a shared space · SIGGRAPH 1997 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
open-source design · 0.3time-multiplexed primaries · 0.2perceptually-driven optimization · 0.2factored spectral projection · 0.2vertex shader · 0.1eye tracking · 0.16d lookup table · 0.1tracking system · 0.1multiple-center-of-projection rendering · 0.1FPGA · 0.1individual view rendering · 0.0head tracking · 0.0
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Adaptive color display via perceptually-driven factored spectral projectionabstractFundamental display characteristics are constantly being improved, especially resolution, dynamic range, and color reproduction. However, whereas high resolution and high-dynamic range displays have matured as a technology, it remains largely unclear how to extend the color gamut of a display without either sacrificing light throughput or making other tradeoffs. In this paper, we advocate for adaptive color display; with hardware implementations that allow for color primaries to be dynamically chosen, an optimal gamut and corresponding pixel states can be computed in a content-adaptive and user-centric manner. We build a flexible gamut projector and develop a perceptually-driven optimization framework that robustly factors a wide color gamut target image into a set of time-multiplexed primaries and corresponding pixel values. We demonstrate that adaptive primary selection has many benefits over fixed gamut selection and show that our algorithm for joint primary selection and gamut mapping performs better than existing methods. Finally, we evaluate the proposed computational display system extensively in simulation and, via photographs and user experiments, with a prototype adaptive color projector. Isaac Kauvar, Samuel J. Yang, Liang Shi 0003, Ian McDowall, Gordon Wetzstein |
ACM Trans. Graph. | 4 |
| 2013 | Open virtual realityabstractThe ICT Mixed Reality Lab is leveraging an open source philosophy to influence and disrupt industry. Projects spun out of the lab's efforts include the VR2GO smartphone based viewer, the inVerse tablet based viewer, the Socket HMD reference design, the Oculus Rift and the Project Holodeck gaming platforms, a repurposed FOV2GO design with Nokia Lumia phones for a 3D user interface course at Columbia University, and the EventLab's Socket based HMD at the University of Barcelona. A subset of these will be demonstrated. This open approach is providing low cost yet surprisingly compelling immersive experiences. Mark T. Bolas, James Iliff, Perry Hoberman, Nathan Burba, Thai Phan, Ian McDowall, Palmer Luckey, David M. Krum |
VR | 6 |
| 2009 | Improving acoustic speaker verification with visual Body-Language featuresabstractWe show how an SVM based acoustic speaker verification system can be significantly improved in incorporating new visual features that capture the speaker's ldquobody language.rdquo We apply this system to many hours of Internet videos and TV broadcasts of politicians and other public figures. Our data ranges from current and former US election candidates to the Queen of England, the President of France, and the Pope, while giving speeches. Christoph Bregler, Sally Rosenthal, Ian McDowall |
ICASSP | 4 |
| 2009 | Achieving eye contact in a one-to-many 3D video teleconferencing systemabstractWe present a set of algorithms and an associated display system capable of producing correctly rendered eye contact between a three-dimensionally transmitted remote participant and a group of observers in a 3D teleconferencing system. The participant's face is scanned in 3D at 30Hz and transmitted in real time to an autostereoscopic horizontal-parallax 3D display, displaying him or her over more than a 180° field of view observable to multiple observers. To render the geometry with correct perspective, we create a fast vertex shader based on a 6D lookup table for projecting 3D scene vertices to a range of subject angles, heights, and distances. We generalize the projection mathematics to arbitrarily shaped display surfaces, which allows us to employ a curved concave display surface to focus the high speed imagery to individual observers. To achieve two-way eye contact, we capture 2D video from a cross-polarized camera reflected to the position of the virtual participant's eyes, and display this 2D video feed on a large screen in front of the real participant, replicating the viewpoint of their virtual self. To achieve correct vertical perspective, we further leverage this image to track the position of each audience member's eyes, allowing the 3D display to render correct vertical perspective for each of the viewers around the device. The result is a one-to-many 3D teleconferencing system able to reproduce the effects of gaze, attention, and eye contact generally missing in traditional teleconferencing systems. Val Jones 0002, Magnus Lang, Graham Fyffe, Xueming Yu, Jay Busch, Ian McDowall, Mark T. Bolas, Paul E. Debevec |
ACM Trans. Graph. | 6 |
| 2007 | Multi-Use Light Engine - Fast ProjectionabstractThis demonstration shows a display device delivering thousands of binary frames per second. Binary images are delivered over a standard DVI interface and can be created on the fly in real time on an nVIDIA graphics Card. The images are synchronous to the input and triggers for LED illumination, camera shutters, or motion control can be created. This system can be configured into a projector of into other forms. Ian McDowall |
CVPR | 1 |
| 2007 | Rendering for an interactive 360degree light field displayabstractWe describe a set of rendering techniques for an autostereoscopic light field display able to present interactive 3D graphics to multiple simultaneous viewers 360 degrees around the display. The display consists of a high-speed video projector, a spinning mirror covered by a holographic diffuser, and FPGA circuitry to decode specially rendered DVI video signals. The display uses a standard programmable graphics card to render over 5,000 images per second of interactive 3D graphics, projecting 360-degree views with 1.25 degree separation up to 20 updates per second. We describe the system's projection geometry and its calibration process, and we present a multiple-center-of-projection rendering technique for creating perspective-correct images from arbitrary viewpoints around the display. Our projection technique allows correct vertical perspective and parallax to be rendered for any height and distance when these parameters are known, and we demonstrate this effect with interactive raster graphics using a tracking system to measure the viewer's height and distance. We further apply our projection technique to the display of photographed light fields with accurate horizontal and vertical parallax. We conclude with a discussion of the display's visual accommodation performance and discuss techniques for displaying color imagery. Val Jones 0002, Ian McDowall, Hideshi Yamada, Mark T. Bolas, Paul E. Debevec |
ACM Trans. Graph. | 2 |
| 2004 | Synthetic aperture confocal imagingabstractConfocal microscopy is a family of imaging techniques that employ focused patterned illumination and synchronized imaging to create cross-sectional views of 3D biological specimens. In this paper, we adapt confocal imaging to large-scale scenes by replacing the optical apertures used in microscopy with arrays of real or virtual video projectors and cameras. Our prototype implementation uses a video projector, a camera, and an array of mirrors. Using this implementation, we explore confocal imaging of partially occluded environments, such as foliage, and weakly scattering environments, such as murky water. We demonstrate the ability to selectively image any plane in a partially occluded environment, and to see further through murky water than is otherwise possible. By thresholding the confocal images, we extract mattes that can be used to selectively illuminate any plane in the scene. Marc Levoy, Billy Chen, Vaibhav Vaish, Mark Horowitz, Ian McDowall, Mark T. Bolas |
ACM Trans. Graph. | 5 |
| 1997 | The two-user Responsive Workbench: support for collaboration through individual views of a shared spaceabstractArticle The two-user Responsive Workbench: support for collaboration through individual views of a shared space Share on Authors: Maneesh Agrawala Stanford University, Stanford, CA Stanford University, Stanford, CAView Profile , Andrew C. Beers Stanford University, Stanford, CA Stanford University, Stanford, CAView Profile , Ian McDowall Fakespace, Inc., Mountain View, CA Fakespace, Inc., Mountain View, CAView Profile , Bernd Fröhlich Stanford University, Stanford, CA Stanford University, Stanford, CAView Profile , Mark Bolas Fakespace, Inc., Mountain View, CA Fakespace, Inc., Mountain View, CAView Profile , Pat Hanrahan Stanford University, Stanford, CA Stanford University, Stanford, CAView Profile Authors Info & Claims SIGGRAPH '97: Proceedings of the 24th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniquesAugust 1997 Pages 327–332https://doi.org/10.1145/258734.258875Online:03 August 1997Publication History 168citation1,305DownloadsMetricsTotal Citations168Total Downloads1,305Last 12 Months58Last 6 weeks7 Get Citation AlertsNew Citation Alert added!This alert has been successfully added and will be sent to:You will be notified whenever a record that you have chosen has been cited.To manage your alert preferences, click on the button below.Manage my AlertsNew Citation Alert!Please log in to your account Save to BinderSave to BinderCreate a New BinderNameCancelCreateExport CitationPublisher SiteGet Access Maneesh Agrawala, Andrew C. Beers, Ian McDowall, Bernd Fröhlich 0001, Mark T. Bolas, Pat Hanrahan |
SIGGRAPH | 3 |