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Carol O'Sullivan
Trinity College Dublin

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CURRENT SUPERVISION -
PhD
- Brian Cullen: Procedural Modelling of Cities
- Martin Prazak: Human Animation
- Cathy Ennis: Crowd and Group Behaviour
- Sophie Joerg: Lifelike Motions for Virtual Characters
- Micheal Larkin: Real-time Crowd Rendering
- Tom Van Eyck: Real-time Crowd Rendering
Visiting Postgrad

Kerstin Ruhland: LibViz: Visualizing and Conserving the Old Library

Anton Gerdelan: Traffic Simulation

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THESES SUPERVISED TO COMPLETION -
PhD
Ljiljana Srkba(PhD passed 2010)
Animating Quadrupeds

Richard Lee (PhD passed 2007)
Adaptive Level of Detail Liquid Animation

Keith O'Conor (PhD passed 2007 - now at Radical Entertainment)
Software Infrastructure for Shared-Memory, Reconfigurable Graphics Clusters

Yann Morvan (PhD passed 2007 - now post-doc in GV2)
Perceptually-guided authoring of Image-Based Representations

Rachel McDonnell(PhD 2006 - now post-doc in GV2)
Perception of Human Motion for Animation
John Hamill (PhD 2005 - now working in IBM Ireland)
Level of Detail Techniques for Real-Time Urban Simulation
Simon Dobbyn (PhD 2005 - now research engineer in GV2):
Hybrid Representations and Perceptual Metrics for Scalable Human Simulation
John Ryan (PhD 2005 - now a lecturer in UCD)
Visualization and Simulation of Myocardial Infarctions from 12-lead ECG
Sarah Howlett (PhD 2005 - now working in AIB)
Saliency Determination for Polygonal Simplification
Thanh Giang (PhD 2004 - now post-doc in Inria, Grenoble)
Time Adaptive Dynamic Simulation Of Rigid Bodies
Christopher Peters (PhD 2004 - now senior lecturer in Coventry)
Bottom-up Visual Attention for Autonomous Virtual Human Animation
John Dingliana (Ph.D. 2003 - now lecturer in GV2)
Adaptive Levels of Detail for Interactive Collision Handling
Gareth Bradshaw(Ph.D. 2002 - now working with Agilent) Bounding Volume Hierarchies for Level-of-Detail Collision Handling
William Leeson (Ph.D. 2001) Monte-Carlo Simulation for Global Illumination

Research Masters

Andrew Brosnan (M.Sc. - will graduate 2006)
Generation and Evaluation of Imposter Representations on Low-End Devices
Alan Cummins (M.Sc. 2004)
Real-Time Display of 3D Graphics for Handheld Mobile Devices
Clodagh Rossi (M.Sc. submitted, 2004)
The Construction of a Mobile, Cross-platform Simulation.
Robert Mooney (M.Sc. 2003) The construction of a volumetric cardiac model for real-time ECG simulation
Leo Talbot (M.Sc. 2001) Parallel Radiosity: A Qualitative Analysis of Visibility Masks
Evin Levey (M.Sc. 2002)
Collision detection and Contraints for real-time, physically-based animation

Taught Masters mini-theses

David Meaney (M.Sc. DCU 1999)
Heuristical Real-time Shadows: Improving the creation of shadows in real-time applications in computer graphics
John O'Loughlin (M.Sc. DCU 1999)
Real-Time Animation of Objects Modelled using Constructive Solid Geometry
Seamus Brady (M.Sc. DCU 1999)
3D Training Environments: VRML and its use in Interactive Task-based Simulations

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FINAL YEAR PROJECTS SUPERVISED -
Final Year Projects
2005-2006

Nicholas Nash (BA CS)
Real-time Caustics
Eamonn Phelan (BA CS)
NPR on mobile devices
Michael Abrahamson (BA CS)
Balloon simulation

2004-2005

Siobhan Connell (BA CS)
Billboards Clouds model simplification technique
Tim Czerniak (BA CS)
Facial animation and conversational behaviour in ALOHA
Gerard Keating (BA CS)
Collision handling: Real-time animation of brittle fracture.
Alexander Murphy (BA CS)
Bird flocking and animation in Virtual Dublin
Marc O'Morain (BA CS)
Real-time physically-based sound
Elaine Roche (BA CS)
Hand Animation in ALOHA
Ljiljana Skrba (BA CS)
Behavioural Simulation of 4-legged animals
Emmanuel Stone (BA CS)
Creature Studio and Evolution
Stephen Walsh (BA CS)
Improving low-quality models using new lighting and rendering techniques

2003-2004

Yousef Thomas Hazimee(BA CS):
Facial animation in ALOHA
Daragh Paraic Murray(BA CS):
Modelling and Rendering plants for Virtual Dublin
Fergal Charles Aidan Reid (BA CS):
Interior engine for Virtual Dublin
Stephen Smyth(BA CS):
Navigating Virtual Dublin

2002-2003

Andrew Brosnan (BA CS):
Populating Virtual Dublin.
Richard Lee (BA CS):
3D liquid simulation.
Tarun Maitra (BA CS):
Environmental effects in Virtual Dublin
Patrick O'Loughlin (BA CS):
Real-time Collision Handling for Breakable objects
Ronan Watson (BA CS):
Virtual Viking Dublin with Portals
Conor Corrigan (BAI):
Real-time Shadows - with J. Dingliana
Tony Cullinane (BAI):
Matrix Palette Skinning - with J. Dingliana
Conor Lenihan (BAI):
Physically based facial animation - with J. Dingliana
Neil Mackey(BAI):
Fast occlusion testing for real-time animation - with J. Dingliana

2001-2002

Sarah Howlett (BACS)
Exploiting change-blindness for real-time animation.
Tarik Rahman (BAI)
Object recognition graphics tool for behavioural research
Nicolas Bourgogne (BAI)
Reactive dancer: Beat and Music analysis
Eoin Roche (BA CS)
Reactive dancer: Choreography and Animation
Robert Ryan (BA CS)
Enhancing a Virtual City with Snow

2000-2001

Dara Maguire (BA CS)
Texturing Deformable Objects
Simon Dobbyn (BAI)
Scripting System for Real-time Animation
Fintan Killeen (BA CS)
Real-time Adaptive Hair Animation
Gordon Power (BAI)
Real-time Smashing
Patrick Fitzgerald (BA CS)
Simulating environmental and lighting conditions for a virtual city.
Luke O'Reilly (BA CS)
Adaptive Levels Of Detail for Shadows.

2000-2001

Ronan O'Sullivan (BA CS)
Implementing Interruptible Collision Detection in a Distributed Interactive Simulation
Stephen Bond (BA CS)
Collision Response - Animating Brittle Fracture
Ashley Hayes (BA CS)
Real-time Shadows
Michael Lysaght (BA CS)
Parallel Collision Handling on a Cluster of PCs.
Matthew Ling (BA CS)
Character Animation with Motion Capture
Mark Watson (BA CS)
Gaze Tracking as a User Interface
T.J. Brosnan (BAI)
Adaptive Rendering with Levels of Detail
Anne Ryan (BSc)
Graphics Application to Landscape a Garden.
Paul Kelly (BSc)
Interior Design Application

+ many others prior to 2000.