Mel Slater
Department of Computer Science
University College London

London WC1E 6BT

Tel: +44 (0)20 7679 3709
Fax +44 (0)20 7387 1397
Email: m.slater@cs.ucl.ac.uk

 

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Completed PhD Students

Tony Tsung-Yueh Lin 1989
Parallel Ray Tracing Using Space Subdivision

Raj Malhi 1989
Parallel Algorithms for Constructive Solid Geometry

Pericles Papageorgiou 1991
A New Paradigm for Object Oriented Design and Specification of Interactive Software

Siamak Masnavi 1992
Program Visualisation

Nikitas Tsopelas 1993
Modeling Thin-Walled Objects in Computer Graphics and Animation

Rabin Ezra 1994
An Adaptive Method for Rendering of Curved Surfaces

Adelene Whye-Leng Ng 1994
Techniques for Rapid Computation of Form Factors in Radiosity

Shancy Kou 1995
Interactive Deformable Models, awarded November, 1995

Yiorgos Chrysanthou 1996 
Algorithms for Rapid Computation of Shadows in Dynamically Changing Scenes

Mark Brown 1996
An Investigation of Three-Dimensional Displays for Real-Time, Safety-Critical Command/Control Applications: with application to Air Traffic Control

Anthony Steed  1996
A User-Defined Virtual Environment Dialogue Architecture

Bob Rosenberg 1999
Computing without Mice and Keyboards: Text and Graphic Input Devices for Mobile Computing

Amela Sadagic  1999
Efficient image display for head-slaved viewing of virtual environments, March 1999

Cristina Alberto 2000 
Study of Acclimatisation using Virtual Reality, April, 2000

Maia Garau, 2003, The Impact of Avatar Fidelity on Social Interaction in Virtual Environments, October 2003

Andreas Loizides, 2003, Intuitive Visualisations of Multivariate Data Sets, October 2003

Mette Thomsen, 2004, Discovering Mixed Reality: inventing design criteria for an action based Mixed Reality (jointly supervised with Prof. Peter Cook, Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London).

Current PhD Students

Writing Up

L. Bull, An Efficient and Scalable 3D Rendering Paradigm for Complex Environments using Point Based Rendering 

M. Oliveira, Layered Component Frameworks in Virtual Environment Systems 

Jesper Mortensen, Virtual Light Field Rendering

Joel Jordan, Minimal Cues for Presence in Virtual Environments " 

Insu Yu, Virtual Light Field Rendering (p/t)

Howard Towner, Virtual Facial Expression Synthesis (EngD) 

Franco Tecchia, Rendering Large Crowds in Virtual Environments (p/t)

In Progress

Pankaj Khanna, Virtual Light Field Rendering (p/t) 

Vinoba Vinayagamoorthy, Animating Virtual Characters (p/t) 

Maria Roussou, Virtual Reality in Education using a Constructivist Approach 

 

Last updated 16th August, 2005