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Carol O'Sullivan
Trinity College Dublin & Disney Research LA

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Research

2016

FrankenFolk: distinctiveness and attractiveness of voice and motion
Jan Ondrej, Cathy Ennis, Niamh Merriman and Carol O'Sullivan.
ACM Transactions on Applied Perception, 13(4), 20, (2016).

HI Robot: Human Intention-aware Robot Planning for Safe and Efficient Navigation in Crowds
Chonhyon Park, Jan Ondrej, Max Gilbert, Kyle Freeman and Carol O'Sullivan.
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2016), To Appear (2016).

Globally Continuous and Non-Markovian Activity Analysis from Videos
He Wang and Carol O'Sullivan.
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2016), To Appear (2016).

Walk the talk: coordinating gesture with locomotion for conversational characters
Yingying Wang, Kerstin Ruhland, Michael Neff and Carol O'Sullivan.
Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds, 27(3-4), pp 369-377 (2016).

Path patterns: analyzing and comparing real and simulated crowds
He Wang, Jan Ondrej and Carol O'Sullivan.
ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games (I3D 2016), pp 49-57 (2016).

Multisensory aversive stimuli differentially modulate negative feelings in near and far space
Marine Taffou, Jan Ondrej, Carol O'Sullivan, Olivier Warusfel, Stéphanie Dubal and Isabelle Viaud-Delmon
Psychological Research,(2016).

Judging crowds' size by ear and by eye in virtual reality
Marine Taffou, Jan Ondrej, Carol O'Sullivan, Olivier Warusfel and Isabelle Viaud-Delmon
Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces, (online first)(2016).

Familiar environments enhance object and spatial memory in both younger and older adults
Niamh A. Merriman, Jan Ondrej, Eugenie Roudaia, Carol O'Sullivan and Fiona N. Newell.
Experimental Brain Research, 234(6), 1555-1574, (2016).

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2015

Push-recovery stability of biped locomotion
Y Lee, K Lee, SS Kwon, J Jeong, C O'Sullivan, MS Park, J Lee
ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG) 34 (6), 180, (2015)

Strutting hero, sneaking villain: Utilizing body motion cues to predict the intentions of others
H Kiiski, L Hoyet, AT Woods, C O'Sullivan, FN Newell
ACM Transactions on Applied Perception (TAP) 13 (1), 1 (2015)

Sackcloth or silk? The impact of appearance vs dynamics on the perception of animated cloth
C Aliaga, C O'Sullivan, D Gutierrez, R Tamstorf
Proceedings of the ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Applied Perception, 41-46, (2015)

The perception of lighting inconsistencies in composite outdoor scenes
M Tan, JF Lalonde, L Sharan, H Rushmeier, C O'Sullivan
ACM Transactions on Applied Perception (TAP) 12 (4), 18, (2015)

Stereo from Shading
A Chapiro, C O'Sullivan, W Jarosz, M Gross, A Smolic
Eurographics Symposium on Rendering (EGSR'15), (2015)

Auditory-visual virtual environment for the treatment of fear of crowds
M Taffou, J Ondrej, C O'Sullivan, O Warusfel, S Dubal, I Viaud-Delmon
VRIC'15 - Laval Virtual, (2015)

Crouch Gait is More Stable than Normal Gait
K Lee, Y Lee, SS Kwon, J Jeong, C O'Sullivan, MS Park, J Lee
Conference on Dynamic Walking (2015)

Eye-tracktive: Measuring attention to body parts when judging human motions
C Ennis, L Hoyet, C O'Sullivan
Eurographics short papers (EG'15), 37-40 (2015)

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2014

Generating and ranking diverse multi-character interactions
J Won, K Lee, C O'Sullivan, JK Hodgins, J Lee
ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG) 33 (6), 219

Perceptual evaluation of motion editing for realistic throwing animations
M Vicovaro, L Hoyet, L Burigana, C O'sullivan
ACM Transactions on Applied Perception (TAP) 11 (2), 10

Perceptual evaluation of cardboarding in 3D content visualization
A Chapiro, O Diamanti, S Poulakos, C O'Sullivan, A Smolic, M Gross
ACM Symposium on Applied Perception (SAP'14), 47-50

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2013

Evaluating the Distinctiveness and Attractiveness of Human Motions on Realistic Virtual Bodies
Ludovic Hoyet, Kenneth Ryall, Katja Zibrek, Hwangpil Park, Jehee Lee, Jessica Hodgins, and Carol O'Sullivan.
ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH Asia 2013), 32(6)

Creature Features: Online motion puppetry for non-human characters
Yeongho Seol, Carol O'Sullivan, and Jehee Lee
ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA 2013), pp 213-221 (2013)

Effects of Ageing and Sound on Perceived Timing of Human Interactions
Eugenie Roudaia, Ludovic Hoyet, David McGovern, Carol O'Sullivan, and Fiona N. Newell
ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Applied Perception (SAP 2013), pp 123-123 (2013)

Perception and Prediction of Social Intentions from Human Body Motion
Hanni Kiiski, Ludovic Hoyet, Brendan Cullen, Carol O'Sullivan, and Fiona N. Newell
ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Applied Perception (SAP 2013), pp 134-134 (2013)

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2012

Push it Real: Perceiving Causality in Virtual Interactions
Ludovic Hoyet, Rachel McDonnell and Carol O'Sullivan
ACM Transaction on Graphics (SIGGRAPH 2012), 31(4), (2012)

Evaluating the Plausibility of Edited Throwing Animations
Michele Vicovaro, Luigi Burigana, Ludovic Hoyet and Carol O'Sullivan
ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA 2012), pp 175-182, (2012)

Crowd Light: Evaluating the Perceived Fidelity of Illuminated Dynamic Scenes
Adrian Jarabo, Tom Van Eyck, Veronica Sundstedt, Kavita Bala, Diego Gutierrez and Carol O'Sullivan, Computer Graphics Forum (Eurographics 2012), 31(2), (2012)

Perception of finger motion from reduced marker sets
Ludovic Hoyet, Kenneth Ryall, Rachel McDonnell and Carol O'Sullivan, ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games (I3D'12), pp 79-86 (2012)

Perceptually plausible formations for virtual conversers
Cathy Ennis and Carol O'Sullivan, Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds (CASA'12), 23(3-4), pp 321-329 (2012)

Evaluating observers' sensitivity to errors in virtual throwing animations
Michele Vicovaro, Ludovic Hoyet, Luigi Burigana and Carol O'Sullivan, Perception 41 (ECVP Abstract Supplement), p. 149 (2012)

Exploring sensitivity to time-warped biological motion
Kenneth Ryall, Ludovic Hoyet, Jessica K. Hodgins and Carol O'Sullivan, Perception 41 (ECVP Abstract Supplement), p. 149 (2012)

Seminars/Talks

SPIE Human Vision and Electronic Imaging XVII (HVEI)
Style over substance?: What biological motion perception tells us about animating virtual characters ,
Banquet Speaker, San Francisco, January 2012.

28th Spring Conference on Computer Graphics
Animating Virtual Humans with Personality,
Keynote Talk, Smolenice, Slovakia, May 2012.

Central European Seminar on Computer Graphics (CESCG) for students
Perceiving Realism in Virtual Worlds,
Invited Talk, Smolenice, Slovakia, May 2012.

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2011

Insitu: Sketching Architectural Designs in Context
Patrick Paczkowski, Min H. Kim, Yann Morvan, Julie Dorsey, Holly Rushmeier, and Carol O'Sullivan, ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH Asia 2011), 30(6), pp 182:1-10,

Perceptual evaluation of footskate cleanup
Martin Prazak, Ludovic Hoyet and Carol O'Sullivan, ACM SIGGRAPH/EG Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA11), pp 287-294, (2011)

Perception of Simplification Artifacts for Animated Characters
Micheal Larkin and Carol O'Sullivan, ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Applied Perception in Graphics and Visualisation (APGV11), pp93-100, (2011)

Perceiving human motion variety
Martin Prazak and Carol O'Sullivan, ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Applied Perception in Graphics and Visualisation (APGV11), pp 87-92, (2011)

Symmetry Hybrids
Brian Cullen and Carol O'Sullivan, International Symposium on Computational Aesthetics in Graphics, Visualization, and Imaging, pp 33-38, ACM Press (2011)

Metropolis: multisensory simulation of a populated city
Carol O'Sullivan and Cathy Ennis, International Conference on Games and Virtual Worlds for Serious Applications (VS-Games), (Invited), IEEE Computer Society, pp 1-7 (2011)

A Caching Approach to Real-Time Procedural Generation of Cities from GIS Data
Brian Cullen and Carol O'Sullivan, Journal of WSCG 19(3), pp 119-126 (2011)

Perceptual Effects of Scene Context And Viewpoint for Virtual Pedestrian Crowds
Cathy Ennis, Christopher Peters and Carol O'Sullivan, ACM Transactions on Applied Perception 8(2) Article 10 (2011)

Seminars/Talks

3rd International Conference in Games and Virtual Worlds for Serious Applications (VS-Games'11)
Metropolis: multisensory simulation of a populated city, Keynote talk, Technical University of Athens, May 2011.

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2010

Seeing is Believing: Body Motion Dominates in Multisensory Conversations
Cathy Ennis, Rachel McDonnell and Carol O'Sullivan, ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH 2010) 29(4) Article 29 (2010)

Perceiving emotion in crowds: the role of dynamic body postures on the perception of emotion in crowded scenes
Joanna McHugh, Rachel McDonnell, Carol O'Sullivan and Fiona Newell Experimental Brain Research, 204(3), pp 361-72 (2010)

Fast and Efficient Skinning of Animated Meshes
Ladislav Kavan, Peter-Pike Sloan and Carol O'Sullivan, Computer Graphics Forum (Eurographics 2010), 29(2), pp 327-337 (2010)

The Saliency of Anomalies in Animated Human Characters
Jessica K. Hodgins, Sophie Joerg, Carol O'Sullivan, Sang-Il Park, Moshe Mahler,, ACM Transactions on Applied Perception 7(4), Article 22 (2010)

Perceptually Validated Global/Local Deformations
Marcos Garcia, Miguel Anguel Otaduy and O'Sullivan, Carol, Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds (CASA'10), 21, (3-4), pp 245-154(2010)

A Genetic-Fuzzy System for Optimising Agent Steering
Anton Gerdelan and O'Sullivan, Carol, Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds (CASA'10), 21, (3-4), pp 453-461 (2010)

Movements and voices affect perceived sex of virtual conversers
Rachel McDonnell and Carol OSullivan, ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Applied Perception in Graphics and Visualisation (APGV10), (2010)

The perception of finger motions
Sophie Joerg, Jessica K. Hodgins, and Carol OSullivan, ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Applied Perception in Graphics and Visualisation (APGV10), (2010)

Perceptual evaluation of human animation timewarping
Martin Prazak, Rachel McDonnell, and Carol O'Sullivan, ACM SIGGRAPH Asia Sketches and Applications (SIGGRAPH Asia'10), (2010)

Every Last Detail: Density Based Level of Detail Control for Crowd Rendering
Micheal Larkin, Sebastian Paris, Simon Dobbyn, and Carol O'Sullivan, ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Interactive Graphics and Games (I3D 2010) Poster (2010)

Moving Crowds: A Linear Animation System for Crowd Simulation
Martin Prazak, Ladislav Kavan, Rachel McDonnell, Simon Dobbyn, and Carol O'Sullivan, ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Interactive Graphics and Games (I3D 2010) Poster (2010)

Aurally aided visual search in depth using 'virtual' crowds of people
Jason S. Chan, Corrina Maguinness, Simon Dobbyn, Paul McDonald, Henry J. Rice, Carol O'Sullivan and Fiona N. Newell, Journal of Vision, 10(7): 886 (Abstract) (2010)

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2009

Eye-catching Crowds: Saliency based selective variation
Rachel McDonnell, Micheal Larkin, Benjamin Hernandez, Isaac Rudomin, Carol O'Sullivan ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH 2009), 28, (3) (2009)

Talking bodies: Sensitivity to desynchronization of conversations
Rachel McDonnell, Cathy Ennis, Simon Dobbyn and Carol O'Sullivan, ACM Transactions on Applied Perception, 6 (4) (2009)

Handling occluders in transitions from panoramic images: A perceptual study
Yann Morvan and Carol O'Sullivan, ACM Transactions on Applied Perception, 6 (4) (2009)

Investigating the role of body shape on the perception of emotion
Rachel McDonnell, Sophie Joerg, Joanna McHugh, Fiona N. Newell, and Carol O'Sullivan, ACM Transactions on Applied Perception 6 (3) (2009)

Effect of scenario on perceptual sensitivity to errors in animation
Paul S.A. Reitsma and Carol O'Sullivan ACM Transactions on Applied Perception 6 (3) (2009)

Realistic human body movement for emotional expressiveness
Hertzmann, Aaron, O'Sullivan, Carol and Perlin, Ken, ACM SIGGRAPH 2009 Courses) pp 1-27 (2009)

Evaluating the Effect of Motion and Body Shape on the Perceived Sex of Virtual Characters
Rachel McDonnell, Sophie Joerg, Jessica K. Hodgins, Fiona Newell, and Carol O'Sullivan, ACM Transactions on Applied Perception, 5, (4) (2009)

A Perceptual Approach to Trimming and Tuning Unstructured Lumigraphs
Yann Morvan and Carol O'Sullivan, ACM Transactions on Applied Perception, 5, (4) (2009)

Automatic Linearization of Nonlinear Skinning
Ladislav Kavan, Steven Collins and Carol O'Sullivan I3D'09: ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games, (2009)

CA-LOD: Collision Avoidance Level of Detail for Scalable, Controllable Crowds
Sebastien Paris, Anton Gerdelan and Carol O'Sullivan, Lecture Notes in Computer Graphics (Motion in Games'09), pp 13-28 (2009)

Variety is the Spice of (Virtual) Life
Carol O'Sullivan, Lecture Notes in Computer Graphics (Motion in Games'09), pp 84-93 (2009)

Animating Quadrupeds: Methods and Applications
Ljiljana Skrba, Lionel Reveret, Franck Hetroy, Marie-Paule Cani and Carol O'Sullivan, Computer Graphics Forum, 28(6), pp 1541-1560 (2009)

Human perception of quadruped motion
Ljiljana Skrba and Carol O'Sullivan, APGV '09: Proceedings of the 6th Symposium on Applied Perception in Graphics and Visualization (Poster) pp 130-130 (2009)

MetroPed: A Tool for Supporting Crowds of Pedestrian AIs in Urban Environments
Christopher Peters and Carol O'Sullivan, AISB'09: Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour (AI and Games symp.) pp 64-69 (2009)

LibViz: Data Visualisation of the Old Library
Ruhland, Kerstin, Sedlmair, Michael, Bioletti, Susan and O'Sullivan, Carol, International Journal of Architectural Computing 7, (1) pp 177-192 (2009)

Towards the Big Picture: Enriching 3D Models with Information Visualisation and Vice Versa
Sedlmair, Michael, Ruhland, Kerstin, Hennecke, Fabian, Butz, Andreas, Bioletti, Susan and O'Sullivan, Carol, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Smart Graphics) pp 27 - 39 (2009)

Virtual Populace
Norm Badler and Carol O'Sullivan (Eds.), IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications - Special Issue, 29, (4) (2009)

SCA 2006 Symposium
Marie-Paule Cani, Frederic H. Pighin, James F. O'Brien and Carol O'Sullivan (Eds.), Graphical Models - Special Issue, 71, (6) (2009)

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2008

Clone Attack! Perception of Crowd Variety
Rachel McDonnell, Micheal Larkin, Simon Dobbyn, Steven Collins and Carol O'Sullivan, ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH 2008), 27, (3) (2008)

Geometric Skinning with Approximate Dual Quaternion Blending
Ladislav Kavan, Steven Collins, Jiri Zara and Carol O'Sullivan. ACM Transactions on Graphics, 27, (4), pp1-23 (2008)

Quadruped Animation
Ljiljana Skrba, Lionel Reveret, Franck Hetroy, Marie-Paule Cani, Carol O'Sullivan, Eurographics 2008 - State of the Art Reports, pp1 - 17 (2008)

Polypostors: 2D polygonal impostors for 3D crowds
Ladislav Kavan, Simon Dobbyn, Steven Collins, Jiri Zara, Carol O'Sullivan, ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on interactive 3D Graphics and Games, pp149-155 (2008)

Evaluating the emotional content of human motions on real and virtual characters
Rachel McDonnell, Sophie Joerg, Joanna McHugh, Fiona Newell and Carol O'Sullivan, ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Applied Perception in Graphics and Visualization (APGV'08), pp67-74 (2008)

Effect of Scenario on Perceptual Sensitivity to Errors in Animation
Paul Reitsma and Carol O'Sullivan, ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Applied Perception in Graphics and Visualization (APGV'08), pp115-121 (2008)

Perceptual Evaluation of Position and Orientation Context Rules for Pedestrian Formations
Cathy Ennis, Christopher Peters and Carol O'Sullivan, ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Applied Perception in Graphics and Visualization (APGV'08), pp75-82 (2008)

Perceptual Evaluation of Cartoon Physics: Accuracy, Attention, Appeal
Marcos Garcia, John Dingliana and Carol O'Sullivan, ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Applied Perception in Graphics and Visualization (APGV'08), pp107-114 (2008)

LibViz: Data Visualisation of the Old Library
Kerstin Ruhland, Susan Bioletti, Michael Sedlmair and Carol O'Sullivan, 14th International Conference on Virtual Systems and Multimedia dedicated to Digital Heritage (VSSM'08), pp368-373 (2008)

Crowds in Context: Evaluating the Perceptual Plausibility of Pedestrian Orientations
Christopher Peters, Cathy Ennis, Rachel McDonnell, Carol O' Sullivan, Eurographics 2008 Short Papers, pp33 - 36 (2008)

Post-facto registration tools for urban modelling
Yann Morvan, Tommy Hinks, Hamish Carr, Debra Laefer, Sean Morrish, Carol O'Sullivan, Eurographics 2008 Short Papers, pp29 - 32 (2008)

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2007

Smooth Movers: Perceptually Guided Human Motion Simulation
Rachel McDonnell, Fional Newell and Carol O'Sullivan. Eurographics/ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA'07). pp259- 269, (2007)

Virtual Shapers & Movers: Form and Motion affect Sex Perception
Rachel McDonnell, Sophie Joerg, Jessica K. Hodgins, Fiona Newell, and Carol O'Sullivan. ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Applied Perception in Graphics and Visualization (APGV'07). pp7 - 10, (2007)

Skinning with Dual Quaternions
Ladislav Kavan, Steven Collins, Jiri Zara and Carol O'Sullivan. ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games (I3D'07). pp39 - 46, (2007)

Skinning Arbitrary Deformations
Ladislav Kavan, Rachel McDonnell, Simon Dobbyn, Jiri Zara and Carol O'Sullivan. ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games (I3D'07), ACM Press, pp53 - 60, (2007)

Pipeline for Populating Games with Realistic Crowds
Rachel McDonnell, Simon Dobbyn, Carol O'Sullivan. International Journal of Intelligent Games and Simulation, 4(2), pp1 - 15, (2007)

A Perceptual Approach to Trimming Unstructured Lumigraphs
Yann Morvan and Carol O'Sullivan. ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Applied Perception in Graphics and Visualization (APGV'07). pp61 - 68, (2007)

A Physically Based Deformation Model for Interactive Cartoon Animation
Marcos Garcia, John Dingliana and Carol O'Sullivan. International Workshop on Virtual Reality and Physical Simulation (VRIPHYS'07) . pp27 - 34, (2007)

Accelerated Light Propagation Through Participating Media
Richard Lee and Carol O'Sullivan. IEEE/EG International Symposium on Volume Graphics. pp17 - 23, (2007)

A Fast and Compact Solver for the Shallow Water Equations
Richard Lee and Carol O'Sullivan. International Workshop on Virtual Reality and Physical Simulation (VRIPHYS'07) . pp51 - 58, (2007)

LibViz: A visualisation toolkit to support the preservation of the Old Library
Kerstin Ruhland, Susan Bioletti, Carol O'Sullivan and Heinrich Hussmann, Eurographics Ireland Workshop, pp60 - 66, (2007)

Populating Virtual Environments with Crowds
Daniel Thalmann, Carol O'Sullivan, Barbara Yersin, Jonathan Maim and Rachel McDonnell Eurographics Tutorials (EG'07), pp23 - 123, (2007)

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2006

Animating Dolly: Real-time Herding and Rendering of Sheep
Ljiljana Skrba, Simon Dobbyn, Rachel McDonnell and Carol O'Sullivan. Eurographics Ireland Workshop, pp7 - 12, (2006)

Perceptual Evaluation of LOD Clothing for Virtual Humans
Rachel McDonnell, Simon Dobbyn, Steven Collins and Carol O'Sullivan. ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA'06), pp117 - 126, (2006)

Clothing the Masses: Real-Time Clothed Crowds With Variation
Simon Dobbyn, Rachel McDonnell, Ladislav Kavan, Steven Collins and Carol O'Sullivan. Eurographics Short Papers (EG'06), pp103-106, (2006)

Crowd Creation Pipeline for Games
Rachel McDonnell, Simon Dobbyn, and Carol O'Sullivan. International Conference on Computer Games (CGames'06), pp183-190, (Best Paper Award) (2006)

Harnessing the human visual system for image based modeling: an interaction system
Yann Morvan and Carol O'Sullivan. Eurographics Short Papers (EG'06), pp57-60, (2006)

Efficient collision detection for spherical blend skinning
Ladislav Kavan, Carol O'Sullivan and Jiri Zara. The international conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques in Australasia and Southeast Asia (Graphite'06), pp147 - 156, (2006)

Approximate Collision Response using Closest Feature Maps
Thanh Giang and Carol O'Sullivan. Computer and Graphics, Elsevier, vol. 30, no 2., pp423 - 431 (2006)

Interruptible Collision Detection for Deformable Objects
Cesar Mendoza and Carol O'Sullivan. Computer and Graphics, Elsevier, vol. 30, no 2., pp432 - 438 (2006)

A Scalable and Reconfigurable Shared-Memory Graphics Architecture
Michael Manzke, Ross Brennan, Keith O'Conor, John Dingliana and Carol O'Sullivan. ACM SIGGRAPH Sketches and Applications (SIGGRAPH'06), pp182, (2006)

Populating Virtual Environments with Crowds
Daniel Thalmann, Carol O'Sullivan, Pablo de Heras Ciechomski, Simon Dobbyn, Eurographics Tutorials (EG'06), vol. 2, pp869 - 964, (2006)

Skinning Arbitrary Deformations
Ladislav Kavan, Carol O'Sullivan, Rachel McDonnell, Simon Dobbyn and Jiri Zara. ACM/EG Symposium on Computer Animation, 2006, posters.

Visual Tuning of an Image-based Rendering Algorithm
Yann Morvan and Carol O'Sullivan. Eurographics Ireland Workshop, pp1 - 6, (2006)

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2005

Collisions and Attention
Carol O'Sullivan. ACM Transactions on Applied Perception, 2(3), pp309 - 321, (2005)

Predicting and Evaluating Saliency for Simplified Polygonal Models
Sarah Howlett and Carol O'Sullivan. ACM Transactions on Applied Perception,
2(3) pp. 286 - 308

A framework for comparing task performance in real and virtual scenes
Sarah Howlett, Richard Lee and Carol O'Sullivan. ACM SIGGRAPH symposium on Applied Perception in Graphics and Visualisation (APGV'05), pp119 - 122, (2005)

Animating Humans on Handheld Devices for Interactive Gaming
Andrew Brosnan, Simon Dobbyn, John Hamill and Carol O'Sullivan. International Conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents (CASA'05), pp55 - 60, (2005)

LOD Human Representations: A Comparative Study
Rachel McDonnell, Simon Dobbyn and Carol O'Sullivan. International Workshop on Crowd Simulation (V-CROWDS'05), pp101 - 115, (2005)

Towards Time-Critical Collision Detection for Deformable Objects Based on Reduced Models
Cesar Mendoza and Carol O'Sullivan. International Conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents (CASA'05), pp191 - 194, (2005)

An Interruptible Algorithm for Collision Detection between Deformable Objects
Cesar Mendoza and Carol O'Sullivan. International Workshop on Virtual Reality and Physical Simulation (VRIPHYS'05), pp73 - 80, (2005)

Closest Feature Maps For Time-Critical Collision Handling
Thanh Giang and Carol O'Sullivan. International Workshop on Virtual Reality and Physical Simulation (VRIPHYS'05), pp65 - 72, (2005)

A voxel-based Approach to Approximate Collision Handling
John Dingliana and Carol O'Sullivan. Journal of Graphics Tools, 10(4), pp33 - 48, (2005)

Perceptual Evaluation of Impostor Representations for Virtual Humans and Buildings
John Hamill, Rachel McDonnell, Simon Dobbyn and Carol O'Sullivan. Computer Graphics Forum, 24(3), pp623 - 633, (2005)

Geopostors: A Real-Time Geometry/Impostor Crowd Rendering System
Simon Dobbyn, John Hamill, Keith O'Conor and Carol O'Sullivan. ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games (I3D'05), pp 95-102, (2005)

Geopostors: A Real-Time Geometry/Impostor Crowd Rendering System
Simon Dobbyn, John Hamill, Keith O'Conor and Carol O'Sullivan. ACM Transactions on Graphics, 24(3), pp 933, (2005)

A Virtual Reality Toolkit for the Diagnosis and Monitoring of Myocardial Infarctions
John Ryan, Carol O'Sullivan, Christopher Bell and Niall Mulvihill. International Workshop on Volume Graphics (VG'05), pp55 - 62, (2005)

Geometry Reduction for Urban Simulation on Handheld Devices
Andrew Brosnan, John Hamill and Carol O'Sullivan. Eurographics Ireland Workshop, pp17 - 24, (2005).

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2004

An experimental approach to predicting saliency for simplified polygonal models
Sarah Howlett, John Hamill and Carol O'Sullivan, ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Applied Perception in Graphics and Visualization (APGV'04), pp 57-64, (2004 (colour plate).

Perceptually Adaptive Graphics
Carol O'Sullivan, Sarah Howlett, Yann Morvan, Rachel McDonnell and Keith O'Conor, Eurographics State of the Art Reports (EG'04), pp141 - 164, (2004)

Collisions and attention
Carol O'Sullivan and Richard Lee, ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Applied perception in graphics and visualization (APGV'04), pp165, (2004)

Adaptive Medial-Axis Approximation for Sphere-Tree Construction
Gareth Bradshaw and Carol O'Sullivan. ACM Transactions on Graphics, 23(1), pp1 - 29, resources, (2004)

Real-time Interactive Volumetric Animation of the Heart's Electrical Cycle from Automatically Synchronized ECG
John Ryan, Carol O'Sullivan and Christopher Bell. Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds, 15, pp353-360, (2004)

Fidelity Metrics for Animation
Carol O'Sullivan, Journal of WSCG, 12(1-3), pp 1-5, (2004)

A Virtual Reality Electrocardiography Teaching Tool
John Ryan, Carol O'Sullivan, Christopher Bell and Robert Mooney, International Conference on Biomedical Engineering, pp250-253, (2004)

3D Visualisation of Confocal Flourescence Microscopy Data
Keith O'Conor, Paul Voorheis and Carol O'Sullivan. Eurographics Ireland Workshop, pp49 - 54, (2004)

Framework and Applications for Mobile Networks using Synthetic Multimedia
Eamonn Boyle, Felicia Brisc, S. Cooray, B. Uscilowski, Robert Sadleir, Carol O'Sullivan and Andrew Brosnan. International Conference on 3G Mobile Communication Technologies, pp644 - 648, (2004)

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2003

Evaluating the Visual Fidelity of Physically Based Animations
Carol O'Sullivan, John Dingliana, Thanh Giang and Mary K. Kaiser,
ACM Transactions on Graphics 22(3), pp527 - 536, (2003)

Eye-movements and Interactive Graphics
Carol O'Sullivan, John Dingliana and Sarah Howlett. The Mind's Eyes: Cognitive and Applied Aspects of Eye Movement Research, Hyona, J. Radach, R. and Deubel, H. (Eds.), pp555 - 571, (2003)

Virtual Dublin - A Framework for Real-Time Urban Simulation
John Hamill and Carol O'Sullivan, Journal of WSCG 11, pp221 - 225 (2003).

Attention-Driven Eye Gaze And Blinking For Virtual Humans
Christopher Peters and Carol O'Sullivan, ACM SIGGRAPH Sketches and Applications (SIGGRAPH'03), pp1 - 1, (2003)

Distributed Mobile Multi-User Urban Simulation
Clodagh Rossi, Alan Cummins and Carol O'Sullivan, ACM SIGGRAPH Sketches and Applications (SIGGRAPH'03), pp1 - 1, (2003)

Bottom-Up Visual Attention for Virtual Human Animation
Christopher Peters and Carol O'Sullivan, International Conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents (CASA'03), pp111 - 117, more info, (2003)

Simulating Virtual Humans Across Diverse Situations
Christopher Peters, Simon Dobbyn, Brian MacNamee and Carol O'Sullivan, Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA'03), Spring LNCS, pp159 - 168, (2003)

Smart Objects for Attentive Agents
Christopher Peters, Simon Dobbyn, Brian MacNamee and Carol O'Sullivan, International Conference in Central Europe on Computer Graphics, Visualization and Interactive Digital Media, pp1-8, (2003)

The Construction of a Volumetric Cardiac Model for Real-time ECG Simulation
Robert Mooney, Carol O'Sullivan and Christopher Bell, International Conference in Central Europe on Computer Graphics, Visualization and Interactive Digital Media, pp97 - 100, (2003)

Complementarity Based Multiple Point Collision Resolution
Thanh Giang, Gareth Bradshaw and Carol O'Sullivan, Eurographics Ireland Workshop, pp1 - 7, (Best Paper Award), (2003)

Saliency Determination for Polygonal Simplification
Sarah Howlett, John Hamill and Carol O'Sullivan, European Conference on Eye Movements (ECEM12), poster PA4, (2003)

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2002

Sphere-Tree Construction using Medial-Axis Approximation
Gareth Bradshaw and Carol O'Sullivan. ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA'02), pp33 - 40, (2002) pp 33-40

Synthetic Vision and Memory for Autonomous Virtual Humans
Christopher Peters and Carol O'Sullivan, Computer Graphics Forum, 21(4), pp743-752, (2002)

A Memory Model for Autonomous Virtual Humans
Christopher Peters and Carol O'Sullivan. Eurographics Ireland Workshop, pp21 - 26, (Best Paper Award), (2002)

Levels of Detail for Crowds and Groups
Carol O'Sullivan, Justine Cassell, Hannes Vilhjalmsson, John Dingliana, Simon Dobbyn, Brian McNamee, Christopher Peters and Thanh Giang, Computer Graphics Forum, 21(4) pp733 - 742, (2002)

Crowd and Group Simulation with Levels of Detail for Geometry, Motion and Conversational Behaviour
Carol O'Sullivan, Justine Cassell, Hannes Vilhjalmsson, Simon Dobbyn, Christopher Peters, William Leeson, Thanh Giang and John Dingliana, Eurographics Ireland Workshop, pp15 - 20, (2002)

Men Behaving Appropriately: Integrating the Role Passing Technique into the ALOHA system
Brian McNamee, Simon Dobbyn, Padraig Cunningham and Carol O'Sullivan. Animating Expressive Characters for Social Interactions (AISB'02), pp59 - 62, (2002)

Vision-Based Reaching for Autonomous Virtual Humans
Christopher Peters and Carol O'Sullivan. Animating Expressive Characters for Social Interactions (AISB'02), pp69 - 72, (2002)

Proceedings of the Eurographics Ireland Workshop
John Dingliana, Ann McNamara and Carol O'Sullivan (Eds.) (2002)

Distributed Multi-user Urban Simulation
Clodagh Rossi and Carol O'Sullivan, Eurographics Ireland Workshop, pp41 - 46, (2002)

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2001

Collisions and Perception (pdf)
Carol O'Sullivan and John Dingliana, ACM Transactions on Graphics, 20(3), pp151 - 168, (2001)

Real vs. Approximate Collisions: When can we tell the difference
Carol O'Sullivan and John Dingliana, ACM SIGGRAPH Sketches and Applications (SIGGRAPH'01), pp249, (2001)

Collisions and Adaptive Levels of Detail
John Dingliana, Carol O'Sullivan and Gareth Bradshaw, ACM SIGGRAPH Sketches and Applications (SIGGRAPH'01), pp156, (2001)

T6: Collision Handling for Virtual Environments
Carol O'Sullivan, John Dingliana, Fabio Ganovelli and Gareth Bradshaw, Eurographics Tutorials (EG'01), pp1 - 35, (2001)

Collision Handling,
Carol O'Sullivan and John Dingliana, ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Campfire on Perceptually Adaptive Graphics, pp31 - 34, (2001)

Levels of Detail in Physically-based Real-time Animation
John Dingliana and Carol O'Sullivan. ERCIM News (special issue on Computer Graphics and Visualization) 44, pp43 - 44, (2001)

Eye-tracking for Interactive Computer Graphics
Carol O'Sullivan, John Dingliana, Gareth Bradshaw and Ann McNamara European Conference on Eye Movements (ECEM11) pp-S45, (2001)

Animating cuts with on-the-fly re-meshing
Fabio Ganovelli and Carol O'Sullivan, Eurographics short papers (EG'01), pp243 - 247, (2001)

Proceedings of the ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Campfire on Perceptually Adaptive Graphics
Ann McNamara and Carol O'Sullivan (Eds.), more info, Snowbird Utah, May (2001)

Proceedings of the International Symposium on Virtual and Augmented Architecture, Dublin, Ireland (VAA'01)
Bob Fisher, Kenneth Dawson-Howe and Carol O'Sullivan (Eds), Dublin, June (2001)

ERCIM News - Special Issue on Graphics and Visualization
Carol O'Sullivan and Roberto Scopigno, ERCIM News, 44, (2001)

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2000

Graceful Degradation of Collision Handling in Physically Based Animation
John Dingliana and Carol O'Sullivan, Computer Graphics Forum (Eurographics 2000), 19(3, pp239 - 247, (2000)

Level of Detail Control for Real-time Computer Graphics and Virtual Reality: Applications of Eye-tracking
Carol O'Sullivan, Marc Janott, Mark Watson and John Dingliana, Irish Workshop on Eye-Tracking pp11 - 14, (2000)

BucketTree: Improving collision detection between deformable objects
Fabio Ganovelli, John Dingliana and Carol O'Sullivan, Spring Conference on Computer Graphics (SCCG'00), pp156 - 163, (2000)

New Metrics for Evaluation of Collision Detection Techniques
Evin Levey, Christopher Peters and Carol O'Sullivan, International Conference in Central Europe on Computer Graphics, Visualization and Interactive Digital Media, pp140 - 146, (2000)

ALOHA: Adaptive Level of Detail for Human Animation: Towards a new Framework
Thanh Giang, Robert Mooney, Christopher Peters and Carol O'Sullivan, Eurographics short papers (EG'00), pp71 - 77, (2000)

Extracting Cross-Sectional Profiles from Unorganized Point Clouds
Gareth Bradshaw and Carol O'Sullivan, Computer Graphics and Imaging (CGIM'00), pp175 - 180, (2000)

Metropolis Particle Tracing for Global Illumination
Willian Leeson and Carol O'Sullivan, Computer Graphics and Imaging (CGIM'00), pp51 - 56, (2000)

Extracting Geometric Models from Medieval Moulding Profiles forCase-Based Reasoning
Gareth Bradshaw and Carol O'Sullivan, Knowledge-Based Intelligent Engineering Systems (KES'00), pp531 - 536, (2000)

Analysis of Visibility Masks and Resultant Image Quality
Leo Talbot and Carol O'Sullivan, Eurographics workshop on Parallel Graphics and Visualization (EGPGV'00), pp75 - 80, (2000)

Proceedings of the Irish Workshop on Eye-Tracking
Carol O'Sullivan and Aidan Moran (Eds), Dublin, May (2000)

Real Time Implicit Bulging and Area Preservation
Niall Linden, Hugh Reynolds and Carol O'Sullivan, Eurographics UK Conference (EGUK'00), pp25 - 32, (2000)

EFFIGI: An Efficient Framework for Implementing Global Illumination
Leeson, W. Carol O'Sullivan, Collins, S. International Conference in Central Europe on Computer Graphics, Visualization and Interactive Digital Media, pp62 - 69, (2000)

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1999

Real-Time Collision Detection and Response Using Sphere-Trees
Carol O'Sullivan and John Dingliana, Spring Conference on Computer Graphics (SCCG'99), pp83 - 92, (1999)

A Model of Collision Perception for Real-Time Animation
Carol O'Sullivan, Ralph Radach and Steven Collins, Eurographics Workshop on Computer Animation and Simulation (EGCAS'99), pp67 - 76, (1999)

Using interactive perception to optimise the visual quality of approximated objects in computer graphics
Marc Janott and Carol O'Sullivan, European Conference on Eye Movements (ECEM10), pp110 - 111, (1999)

The Functional Field of View for Collision Perception in Real-time Animation Systems
Carol O'Sullivan and Ralph Radach, European Conference on Eye Movements (ECEM10), pp16 - 17, (1999)

Perceptually-Adaptive Collision Detection for Computer Graphics
Carol O'Sullivan, Ph.D. thesis, Trinity College Dublin, (1999)

Heuristical Real-time Shadows
David Meaney and Carol O'Sullivan, Eurographics Workshop on Computer Animation and Simulation (EGCAS'99), pp167 - 176, (1999)

Real-Time Animation of Objects Modelled using Constructive Solid Geometry
John O'Loughlin and Carol O'Sullivan, Spring Conference on Computer Graphics (SCCG'99), pp 67-73, (1999)

Eye movements and Collision Detection
Carol O'Sullivan and Ralph Radach, International Summer School on Eye Movements, Leuven, Poster, (1999)

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1997

REACT: REal-time Adaptive Collision Testing, an Interactive Vision approach
Carol O'Sullivan and Ronan Reilly, Eurographics Workshop on Computer Animation and Simulation (EGCAS'97), Budapest, pp163 - 175, (1997)

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1996

Real-time Collision Detection for Computer Graphics
Carol O'Sullivan, M.Sc. thesis, Dublin City University, (1996)

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INVITED TALKS AND SEMINARS

Metropolis - Multisensory Crowd Simulation
IEEE VR Workshop on Virtual Cityscapes, Reno, Nevada, March, 2008

Wahrnehmungsgesteuerte Animation von grossen virtuellen Menschenansammlungen
Invited Talk, Cognitive Interaction Technology Clusters, University of Bielefeld, Germany, February, 2008

Building and populating a virtual city
Invited Talk, Departamento de Ciencias Computacionales, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Campus Estado de Mexico, February, 2008

Building and populating a Virtual City,
Invited talk, National Centre for Geocomputation, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, May , 2007

Everything you always wanted to know about Sex Perception * but were afraid to ask
Dagstuhl Seminar on Visual Computing- Convergence of Computer Graphics and Computer Vision, Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany, April, 2007

Metropolis: Inhabiting a Virtual City with Supercrowds
Invited Talk, Computer Science, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh PA, April, 2007

Metropolis: Inhabiting a Virtual City with Supercrowds
Invited Talk, Computer Science, North Carolina State University, February, 2007

Metropolis: Inhabiting a Virtual City with Supercrowds
Invited Talk, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, February, 2007

Attention Please: The Role of Attention in the Perception of Collisions
Invited Talk, Institute for Computer Graphics, Vienna University of Technology, March, 2006

Perceptual metrics for Level of Detail (LOD) human representations
Invited Talk, Computer Science, U.of Cambridge, June, 2006

Perceptual evaluation of human model representations for real-time crowd rendering
Invited Talk, Ayia Napa Summer Seminar, Cyprus, June, 2006

Perzeptive Computergraphik: Anpassung von Echtzeit-Rendering und -Simulation an die Grenzen der menschlichen Wahrnehmung
Invited Talk, Computer Science, University of Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany, April, 2005

Attention Please: The Role of Attention in the Perception of Collisions
Keynote talk, Workshop in Virtual Reality Interactions and Physical Simulations (VRIPHYS '05) Pisa, Italy, November 2005

Immersive Virtual Reality for Scientific Applications
Invited talk for the Dublin University Physics Society, February 2004

Fidelity Metrics for Animation
Keynote talk at the International Conference in Central Europe on Computer Graphics, Visualization and Computer Vision'2004, Plzen, Czech Rep. February 2004

Perceptual Metrics for Graphics
Invited talk at the University of Tuebingen, Germany, December 2003

Quality Assurance for Interactive Graphics
Enterprise Ireland Technology Breakfast talk, November 2003

Graphics, Visualisation and Perception at Trinity College Dublin
Invited talk, University of Bath, September 2003

Perception of Physically-based Animations
Invited talk, U. of Bristol, July 2003

Real-time Graphics and Physically-based Animation: The Challenges
Invited Seminar at the Hamilton Institute, Maynooth. June 2002

Measuring the visual fidelity of physically-based simulation - A new challenge
Invited Seminar at IBM T.J. Watson research centre, New York, February 2002

Graphics and Visual Perception
Invited talk at Medialab Europe, October 2001

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