Papers and Research by Members of the Digital Human League :

 

• Facial Capture and Performance:

  • Digial Ira and Beyond: Creating Photoreal Real-Time Digital Characters (course notes) (Javier von der Pahlen, Jorge Jimenez, Etienne Danvoye, Paul Debevec, Graham Fyffe), 2014.
  • Driving High-Resolution Facial Blendshapes with Video Performance Capture (Graham Fyffe, Andrew Jones, Oleg Alexander, Ryosuke Ichikari, Paul Graham, Koki Nagano, Jay Busch, Paul Debevec), In SIGGRAPH, 2013.
  • Digital Ira: Creating a Real-Time Photoreal Digital Actor
    (Oleg Alexander, Graham Fyffe, Jay Busch, Xueming Yu, Ryosuke Ichikari, Andrew Jones, Paul Debevec, Jorge Jimenez, Etienne Danvoye, Bernardo Antionazzi, Mike Eheler, Zybnek Kysela, Javier von der Pahlen), In SIGGRAPH Real Time Live!, 2013.
  • Measurement-based Synthesis of Facial Microgeometry (Paul Graham, Borom Tunwattanapong, Jay Busch, Xueming Yu, Andrew Jones, Paul Debevec, Abhijeet Ghosh), In EUROGRAPHICS, 2013.
  • The Light Stages and Their Applications to Photoreal Digital Actors (Paul Debevec), In SIGGRAPH Asia, 2012.
  • High Fidelity Facial Hair Capture
    (Graham Fyffe), In SIGGRAPH, 2012.
  • Multiview Face Capture using Polarized Spherical Gradient Illumination (Abhijeet Ghosh, Graham Fyffe, Borom Tunwattanapong, Jay Busch, Xueming Yu, Paul Debevec), In Proceedings of SIGGRAPH Asia 2011/ACM Trans. on Graphics, volume 30(6), 2011.
  • Creating a Photoreal Digital Actor: The Digital Emily Project (Oleg Alexander, Mike Rogers, William Lambeth, Matt Chiang, Paul Debevec), In IEEE European Conference on Visual Media Production (CVMP), 2009.
  • Practical Modeling and Acquisition of Layered Facial Reflectance (Abhijeet Ghosh, Tim Hawkins, Pieter Peers, Sune Frederiksen, Paul Debevec) ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2008
  • A system for high-resolution face scanning based on polarized spherical illumination (Wan-Chun Ma, Tim Hawkins, Charles-Felix Chabert, Mark Bolas, Pieter Peers, Paul Debevec), In SIGGRAPH, 2007.

• The Uncanny Valley*

  • Facial Expression

    • Tinwell, A. (2014) The Uncanny Valley in Games and Animation. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press.
    • Tinwell, A., Grimshaw, M. and Abdel Nabi, D. (2014) ‘The Uncanny Valley and nonverbal communication in virtual characters’, in Tanenbaum, J., Seif El-Nasr, M. and Nixon, M. (eds.), Nonverbal Communication in Virtual Worlds, Pittsburgh, PA: ETC Press, pp. 325-342.
    • Tinwell, A. and Sloan, R. J. S. (2014) ‘Children’s Perception of Uncanny Human-Like Virtual Characters’, Computers in Human Behaviour, vol. 36, pp. 286-296.
    • Tinwell, A., Abdel Nabi, D. & Charlton, J. (2013) ‘Perception of psychopathy and the Uncanny Valley in virtual characters’, Computers in Human Behavior, vol. 29, no. 4, pp. 1617-1625.
    • Tinwell, A., Grimshaw, M., Williams, A. and Abdel Nabi, D. (2011) ‘Facial expression of emotion and perception of the Uncanny Valley in virtual characters’, Computers in Human Behavior, vol. 27, no. 2, pp. 741-749.

  • Speech

    • Tinwell, A., Grimshaw, M. and Abdel Nabi, D. (in press) ‘The effect of onset asynchrony in audio-visual speech and the Uncanny Valley in virtual characters’, International Journal of the Digital Human.
    • Tinwell, A., Grimshaw, M. and Williams, A. (2011) ‘Uncanny speech’, in Grimshaw, M. (ed.), Game Sound Technology and Player Interaction: Concepts and Developments, Hershey, PA: IGI Global, pp. 213-234.
    • Tinwell, A., Grimshaw, M. and Abdel Nabi, D. (2011) ‘Effect of emotion and articulation of speech on the Uncanny Valley in virtual characters’, in Proceedings of the Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction 2011 Conference , Memphis, TN: USA, pp. 557–566.

  • Psychological Response to the Uncanny Valley

    • Tinwell, A. (in press) ‘Is the Uncanny Valley a Universal or Individual Response?’ Interaction Studies.
    • Tinwell, A. (2014) ‘Applying psychological plausibility to the Uncanny Valley phenomenon’, in Grimshaw, M. (ed.) Oxford Handbook of Virtuality, Oxford: Oxford, University Press, pp. 173-186.
    • Tinwell, A., Grimshaw, M. and Williams, A. (2011) ‘The Uncanny Wall’, International Journal of Arts and Technology, vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 326-341.
    • Tinwell, A., Grimshaw, M. and Williams, A. (2010) ‘Uncanny behaviour in survival horror games’, Journal of Gaming and Virtual Worlds, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 3-25.
    • Tinwell, A. and Grimshaw, M. (2009) ‘Bridging the uncanny: An impossible traverse?’, in Proceedings of 13th Int. MindTrek Conf.: Everyday Life in the Ubiquitous Era , Finland, pp. 66-73.|
    • Tinwell, A. (2009) ‘The uncanny as usability obstacle’, in Proceedings of the Online Communities and Social Computing Workshop, HCI International 2009 , San Diego, USA, pp. 622-631.

* This research on the Uncanny Valley was carried out at the University of Bolton, UK.