Dr. Simon Gibson

Advanced Interfaces Group,
Department of Computer Science,
University of Manchester,
Oxford Road,
Manchester,
M13 9PL,
UK.

Tel: +44 (0) 161 275 6141
Fax: +44 (0) 161 275 6204
email: sg at cs.man.ac.uk
http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~gibsons

Research Experience:

September 2001-August 2004, Research Associate, EU Grant IST-28707, IST IV-4-2: "ARIS: Augmented Reality image synthesis through illumination reconstruction and its integration in interactive and shared mobile AR systems for E-(motion)-commerce", Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester, UK.

April 1998-August 2001, Research Associate, EPSRC Grant GR/M14531, "REVEAL: Reconstruction from Video of Environments with Accurate Lighting", Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester, UK.

October 1997-March 1998, Research Associate, EU Grant EPRIT IV-25377 "eSCAPE: Electronic Landscapes", Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester, UK.

Education:

Ph.D. "Efficient Radiosity Simulation using Perceptual Metrics and Parallel Processing", Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester, 1998.

M.Sc. (By Research) "Efficient Radiosity for Complex Environments", Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester, 1995.

B.Sc. (Hons), 1st class in Computer Science and Mathematics, University of Manchester, 1994.

Publications:

J. Cook, S. Gibson, T.L.J. Howard, R.J. Hubbold, "Real-time Photo-realistic Augmented Reality fo Interior Design", ACM Siggraph 2003 Conference Abstracts and Applications. San Diego, CA, July, 2003.

S. Gibson, J. Cook, T.L.J. Howard and R.J. Hubbold, "Rapid Shadow Generation in Real-World Lighting Environments", Eurographics Symposium on Rendering 2003, Leuven, Belgium, June 2003.

S. Gibson, R.J. Hubbold, J. Cook, and T.L.J. Howard, "Interactive Reconstruction of Virtual Environments from Video Sequences", Computers and Graphics, Volume 27, Number 2, April 2003.

P. Debevec and S. Gibson (Editors), "Rendering Techniques 2002", (Proceedings of the 13th Eurographics Workshop on Rendering), ACM Press, 2002, ISBN 1-58113-534-3.

S. Gibson, J. Cook, T.L.J. Howard, R.J. Hubbold, and D. Oram, "Accurate Camera Calibation for Off-line, Video-Based Augmented Reality", IEEE and ACM International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR 2002), Darmstadt, Germany, September 2002.

S. Gibson, J. Cook, T.L.J. Howard, R.J. Hubbold, "ICARUS: Interactive Reconstruction from Uncalibration Image Sequences", ACM Siggraph 2002 Conference Abstracts and Applications. San Antonio, Texas, July, 2002.

S. Gibson, T.L.J. Howard, R.J. Hubbold, "Flexible Image-Based Photometric Reconstruction using Virtual Light Sources", Computer Graphics Forum (Proceedings of Eurographics 2001) 19(3), Manchester, UK, September 2001.

S. Gibson, T.L.J. Howard, R.J. Hubbold, "Image-Based Photometric Reconstruction for Mixed Reality", ACM Siggraph 2001 Conference Abstracts and Applications. Los Angeles CA, August 12-17, 2001.

R.J. Hubbold, J. Cook, M. Keates, S. Gibson, T.L.J. Howard, A. Murta, A.J. West, S.R. Pettifer, "GNU/MAVERIK: A micro-kernel for large-scale virtual environments". Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments, Volume 10, Number 1, MIT Press, February 2001.

C. D. Murray, J. M. Bowers, A. J. West, S. R. Pettifer and S. Gibson, "Navigation, Wayfinding and Place Experience within a Virtual City", Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments, Volume 9, Number 5, MIT Press, October 2000, pp. 435-447.

S. Gibson, T.L.J. Howard, "Interactive Reconstruction of Virtual Environments from Photographs, with Application to Scene-of-Crime Analysis", Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology 2000, Seoul, Korea, October 2000, pp. 41-48.

S. Gibson, R. J. Hubbold, "A Perceptually-Driven Parallel Algorithm for Efficient Radiosity Simulation", IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 6(3), July-Sept 2000, pp. 220-235.

S. Gibson, A. Murta, "Interactive Rendering with Real-World Illumination", Rendering Techniques 2000 (H. Rushmeier and B. Peroche, eds.) (Proceedings of the 11th Eurographics Workshop on Rendering), Brno, Czech Republic, June 2000, pp. 365-276.

T. Howard, A. Murta, S. Gibson, "Virtual Environments for Scene of Crime Reconstruction and Analysis", Proceedings of SPIE/IS&T, Vol. 3960, San Hose, CA, January 2000.

R.J. Hubbold, J. Cook, M. Keates, S. Gibson, T. Howard, A. Murta, A. West, S. Pettifer, "GNU/MAVERIK: A Micro-Kernel for Large-Scale Virtual Environments", Proc. Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology 1999, London, UK, December 1999.

A. Murta, S. Gibson, T.L.J. Howard, R.J. Hubbold, A.J. West, "Modelling and Rendering for Scene of Crime Reconstruction: A Case Study", Proceedings of Eurographics UK, Leeds, March 1998, pp. 169-173.

S.R. Pettifer, S. Gibson, A.J. West, "Visualising the Virtual Cityscape", in "Visualisation of Structure and Population with Electronic Landscapes", Mariani J., Rouncefield M., O'Brien J. and Rodden T. (EDs), Lancaster University Press, Ch. 6 pp. 127-138, 1998.

S. Gibson, R.J. Hubbold, "Perceptually-Driven Radiosity", Computer Graphics Forum, 16(2), June 1997, pp. 129-140.

S. Gibson, R.J. Hubbold, "Efficient Refinement and Clustering for Radiosity in Complex Environments", Computer Graphics Forum, 15(5), December 1996, pp 297-310.

R.J. Hubbold, D. Xiao, S. Gibson, "MAVERIK - The Manchester Virtual Environment Interface Kernel", Proceedings of 3rd Eurographics Workshop on Virtual Environments, Monte-Carlo, Feb 1996.

Invited Talks and Presentations:

"Illumination Capture and Rendering for Augmented Reality", RFIA 2004, Toulouse, France, January 2004.

"Camera Calibration in Icarus: How we get Robustness, Speed, and Accuracy", Department of Computer Science, University of Bristol, UK, November 2002.

"Recovering Geometric Models from Image Sequences", First UK-Israel Symposium on Computer Graphics, Cambridge, UK, April 2002.

"Reconstructing Geometry and Illumination from Image Sequences", INRIA Sophia-Antipolis, France, November 2001.

"Photometric Reconstruction for Augmented Reality", Department of Computer Science, University of Bristol, UK, July 2001.

"Photometric Reconstruction for Augmented Reality", Department of Computer Science, University College London, London, UK, June 2001.

"Inverse Rendering Algorithms", ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Campfire on Perceptually Adaptive Graphics, Snowbird, Utah, USA, May 2001.

"Recovery of Geometric and Illumination Models from Image Sequences", Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina, USA, March 2001.

"Reconstruction of Virtual Environments for Scene-of-Crime Presentation and Analysis", IEE/BCS Lecture, UMIST, Manchester, UK, January 2001.

"Interactive Rendering of Synthetic Objects into Real Images", BMVA Technical Meeting on Augmented Reality, in association with the UKVRSIG and IEE/E4, British Institute of Radiology, London, UK, May 2000.

"Perceptually-Driven Radiosity", iMAGIS, Grenoble, France, December 1997.

Tutorials/Courses:

S. Gibson, "Illumination Capture and Rendering for Augmented Reality", RFIA 2004, Toulouse, France, January 2004.

D. Stricker, W. Kresse, J.F. Vigueras-Gomez, G. Simon, S. Gibson, J. Cook, P. Ledda and A. Chalmers, "Photorealistic Augmented Reality", ISMAR 2003 (Second International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality), Tokyo, Japan, October 2003.

S. Gibson and A. Chalmers, "Photorealistic Augmented Reality", Eurographics 2003, Granada, Spain, September 2003.

A. Chalmers and S. Gibson, "High Fidelity Virtual Environments", VIE 2003, Surry, UK, July 2003.

Professional Activities:

Programme Co-Chair:
VIE 2005, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK, April 2005.
13th Eurographics Workshop on Rendering, Pisa, Italy, June 2002.

Programme Committee Member:
ISMAR 2004 (International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality), Arlington, VA, USA, November 2004.
Afrigraph 2004, Stellenbosch, South Africa, November 2004,
Eurographics 2004 Annual Conference, Grenoble, France, September 2004 (Senior Reviewer).
The Eurographics Symposium on Rendering 2004, Norrköping, Sweden, June 2004.
Graphite 2004, Singapore, June 2004.
Eurographics 2003 Annual Conference, Granada, Spain, September 2003 (Senior Reviewer).
The International Conference on Visual Information Engineering (VIE 2003), University of Surry, UK, July 2003.
The Eurographics Symposium on Rendering 2003, Leuven, Belgium, June 2003.
AFRIGRAPH 2003, Cape Town, South Africa, February 2003.
Eurographics 2002 Annual Conference, Saarbrucken, Germany, September 2002.
AFRIGRAPH 2001, Cape Town, South Africa, November 2001.
12th Eurographics Workshop on Rendering, London, England, June 2001.
11th Eurographics Workshop on Rendering, Brno, Czech Republic, June 2000.
10th Eurographics Workshop on Rendering, Granada, Spain, June 1999.

Paper Reviews:
ACM SIGGRAPH,
ACM Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics,
ACM Transactions on Graphics,
Computer Graphics Forum,
Eurographics (Annual Conference),
Eurographics Workshop on Rendering,
Graphics Interface,
Graphite,
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications,
IEEE Signal Processing Letters,
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics,
International Journal of Image and Graphics,
International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality.

Course Reviews:
ACM SIGGRAPH.

Book Reviews:
Computer Graphics Forum.

Awards:

Best Thesis: "Efficient Radiosity Simulation using Perceptual Metrics and Parallel Processing" Department of Computer Science Research Student Symposium, University of Manchester, 1998-1999.
 

Software:

Principal design and implementation of the ICARUS and PFTrack camera matchmoving systems.

Last Updated March 19th 2004.