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  CMIC staff present latest work "Piku Piku Interpolation: An artist-guided sampling algorithm for synthesizing detail applied to facial animation” at SIGGRAPH Asia 2019

  17 November 2019

  CMIC present a new sampling algorithm that adds realism to early-stage facial animation by recreating detail observed FACS data extracted from videos.

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  CMIC staff present their paper "Adventures in Hologram Space” and poster/demo “VR Simulation for Radiation Therapy Education” at VRST 2019

  12 November 2019

  CMIC post-doc researcher Rafael Kuffner dos Anjos and Daniel Medeiros had the opportunity to present their latest paper and poster/demo at the VRST2019 conference in Sydney, Australia.

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  Technology developed by CMIC researchers and DreamFlux was used for the VR exhibition at CEATEC 2019 - "BanaDIVE - Mobile Suit Gundam The ORIGIN -RISING-"

  4 November 2019

  The special VR "BanaDIVE - Mobile Suit Gundam The ORIGIN -RISING-" introduced the experiences of entering the Gundam world through the fusion of VR experience and 360° movies using mixed reality technology.

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  CMIC student and staff present their paper and demo "Real-Time Mixed Reality Rendering for Underwater 360° Videos” at ISMAR 2019

  18 October 2019

  CMIC present the Underwater Toolkit, a mixed reality (MR) toolkit that enables seamless blending of virtual objects into underwater 360° videos (360-video) in real time.

• ECS Guest Talk - An Insider's Look: Behind the Scenes at Weta Digital

  1 October 2019

  Dr. Mark Droske - Head of Rendering Research at Weta Digital - looks inside Weta's rendering engine.