Users’ experiences of enhancing underwater images: An empirical study (2021)
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Emberton, S., & Simons, C. (2021). Users’ experiences of enhancing underwater images: An empirical study. Quality and User Experience, 7(1), Article 1. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41233-021-00048-3

Within the worldwide diving community, underwater photography is becoming increasingly popular. However, the marine environment presents certain challenges for image capture, with resulting imagery often suffering from colour distortions, low contras... Read More about Users’ experiences of enhancing underwater images: An empirical study.

Music and sound in virtual/augmented realities—Questions, challenges and approaches: A multidisciplinary roundtable (2021)
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Summers, T., Cook, J., Famer, W., Raffaella Ferrè, E., Harrison, L., Hemming, R., …Whittaker, L. (2021). Music and sound in virtual/augmented realities—Questions, challenges and approaches: A multidisciplinary roundtable. Journal of Sound and Music in Games, 2(2), 63-83. https://doi.org/10.1525/jsmg.2021.2.2.63

The mid-to-late 2010s saw a renewed interest in virtual reality technologies with the release of a wide selection of consumer VR headsets and glasses, and the increased power of smartphones to provide augmented reality experiences. While research on... Read More about Music and sound in virtual/augmented realities—Questions, challenges and approaches: A multidisciplinary roundtable.

Anomaly detection using pattern-of-life visual metaphors (2019)
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Happa, J., Bashford-Rogers, T., Agrafiotis, I., Goldsmith, M., & Creese, S. (2019). Anomaly detection using pattern-of-life visual metaphors. IEEE Access, 7, 154018-154034. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2948490

Complex dependencies exist across the technology estate, users and purposes of machines. This can make it difficult to efficiently detect attacks. Visualization to date is mainly used to communicate patterns of raw logs, or to visualize the output of... Read More about Anomaly detection using pattern-of-life visual metaphors.

Interactive molecular dynamics in virtual reality from quantum chemistry to drug binding: An open-source multi-person framework (2019)
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O’Connor, M. B., Bennie, S. J., Deeks, H. M., Jamieson-Binnie, A., Jones, A. J., Shannon, R. J., …Glowacki, D. R. (2019). Interactive molecular dynamics in virtual reality from quantum chemistry to drug binding: An open-source multi-person framework. Journal of Chemical Physics, 150(22), https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5092590

© 2019 Author(s). As molecular scientists have made progress in their ability to engineer nanoscale molecular structure, we face new challenges in our ability to engineer molecular dynamics (MD) and flexibility. Dynamics at the molecular scale differ... Read More about Interactive molecular dynamics in virtual reality from quantum chemistry to drug binding: An open-source multi-person framework.

Fear filter: Visualising the UK Terror Threat Level (2019)
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Dickinson, R. (2019). Fear filter: Visualising the UK Terror Threat Level. https://doi.org/10.33008/IJCMR.2019.07

This statement explores the digital photo artwork Fear Filter which uses the UK Terror Threat Level as a source for a set of visualisation tools. It argues that the UK Terror Threat Level should be understood as part of the expansion of a range of se... Read More about Fear filter: Visualising the UK Terror Threat Level.

Learning preferential perceptual exposure for HDR displays (2019)
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Bashford-Rogers, T., Melo, M., Marnerides, D., Bessa, M., Debattista, K., & Chalmers, A. (2019). Learning preferential perceptual exposure for HDR displays. IEEE Access, 7, 36800-36809. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2898910

High Dynamic Range (HDR) displays are capable of displaying a wider dynamic range of values than conventional displays. As HDR content becomes more ubiquitous, the use of these displays is likely to accelerate. As HDR displays can present a wider ran... Read More about Learning preferential perceptual exposure for HDR displays.

Audio-visual-olfactory resource allocation for tri-modal virtual environments (2019)
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Doukakis, E., Debattista, K., Bashford-Rogers, T., Dhokia, A., Asadipour, A., Chalmers, A., & Harvey, C. (2019). Audio-visual-olfactory resource allocation for tri-modal virtual environments. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 25(5), 1865-1875. https://doi.org/10.1109/TVCG.2019.2898823

© 2019 IEEE. Virtual Environments (VEs) provide the opportunity to simulate a wide range of applications, from training to entertainment, in a safe and controlled manner. For applications which require realistic representations of real world environm... Read More about Audio-visual-olfactory resource allocation for tri-modal virtual environments.

Uniform Color Space-Based High Dynamic Range Video Compression (2018)
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Mukherjee, R., Debattista, K., Bashford-Rogers, T., Bessa, M., & Chalmers, A. (2019). Uniform Color Space-Based High Dynamic Range Video Compression. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, 29(7), 2055-2066. https://doi.org/10.1109/TCSVT.2018.2861560

© 1991-2012 IEEE. Recently, there has been a significant progress in the research and development of the high dynamic range (HDR) video technology and the state-of-the-art video pipelines are able to offer a higher bit depth support to capture, store... Read More about Uniform Color Space-Based High Dynamic Range Video Compression.

Modelling farmland topography for suitable site selection of dam construction using unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) photogrammetry (2018)
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Ajayi, O. G., Palmer, M., & Salubi, A. A. (2018). Modelling farmland topography for suitable site selection of dam construction using unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) photogrammetry. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rsase.2018.07.007

© 2018 Elsevier B.V. UAV photogrammetry and 3D mapping are gaining fast and wide applications around the world majorly due to the relatively low-cost advantage it offers in the acquisition of high resolution 3D topographic models when compared to LiD... Read More about Modelling farmland topography for suitable site selection of dam construction using unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) photogrammetry.

Simple mappings, expressive movement: a qualitative investigation into the end-user mapping design of experienced mid-air musicians (2018)
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Brown, D., Nash, C., & Mitchell, T. (2018). Simple mappings, expressive movement: a qualitative investigation into the end-user mapping design of experienced mid-air musicians. Digital Creativity, 29(2-3), 129-148. https://doi.org/10.1080/14626268.2018.1510841

© 2018, © 2018 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. In a New Interface for Musical Expression (NIME), the design of the relationship between a musician’s actions and the instrument’s sound response is critical in creating instrume... Read More about Simple mappings, expressive movement: a qualitative investigation into the end-user mapping design of experienced mid-air musicians.

ExpandNet: A deep convolutional neural network for high dynamic range expansion from low dynamic range content (2018)
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Marnerides, D., Bashford-Rogers, T., Hatchett, J., & Debattista, K. (2018). ExpandNet: A deep convolutional neural network for high dynamic range expansion from low dynamic range content. Computer Graphics Forum, 37(2), 37-49. https://doi.org/10.1111/cgf.13340

© 2018 The Author(s) and 2018 The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd. High dynamic range (HDR) imaging provides the capability of handling real world lighting as opposed to the traditional low dynamic range (LDR) which struggles to... Read More about ExpandNet: A deep convolutional neural network for high dynamic range expansion from low dynamic range content.

A parallel modular biomimetic cilia sorting platform (2018)
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Whiting, J. G., Mayne, R., & Adamatzky, A. (2018). A parallel modular biomimetic cilia sorting platform. Biomimetics, 3(2), 5. https://doi.org/10.3390/biomimetics3020005

The aquatic unicellular organism Paramecium caudatum uses cilia to swim around its environment and to graze on food particles and bacteria. Paramecia use waves of ciliary beating for locomotion, intake of food particles and sensing. There is some evi... Read More about A parallel modular biomimetic cilia sorting platform.

Film sequence generation strategies for automatic intelligent video editing (1997)
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Butler, S., & Parkes, A. (1997). Film sequence generation strategies for automatic intelligent video editing. Applied Artificial Intelligence, 11(4), 367-388. https://doi.org/10.1080/088395197118190

In this article, we describe an approach to generic automatic intelligent video editing, which was used in the implementation of the LIVE system. We discuss cinema theory and related systems that recombine film fragments into sequences. We introduce... Read More about Film sequence generation strategies for automatic intelligent video editing.

Filmic space-time diagrams for video structure representation (1996)
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Parkes, A. P., Butler, S., & Parkes, A. P. (1996). Filmic space-time diagrams for video structure representation. Signal Processing: Image Communication, 8(4), 269-280. https://doi.org/10.1016/0923-5965%2895%2900052-6

In this paper, we propose a novel approach to computer representation for interactive film editing. We describe a prototype system developed at Lancaster which uses this approach, and show how such a system supports film editing. Our work involves th... Read More about Filmic space-time diagrams for video structure representation.