Selected Current Projects

  • "The Colour of Horror"
    Is there a connection between genre, director, and colour palette? Does colour play a role in a films sucess?
  • "Disparity Correction with Statistical Analysis" Making the observation that "if colour does not vary greatly in a region, neither should the depth" to correct disparity maps produced by other methods.
  • "Gender Bias in Film Dialogue and Posters Is there bias in film? How does that bias present itself? Has bias changed over time? Do sucessful films present more or less bias on average?

Selected Previous Work

Stereo 3D

  • L. Istead, A. Pocol, I. Bronson Watt, N. Lemoing, A. Yang, and C. Kaplan. Generating Rough Stereoscopic 3D Line Drawings from 3D Images. Graphics Interface 2021.
  • L. Istead, C. Kaplan. Stylized Stereoscopic 3D Line Drawings from 3D Images. Expressive 2018.
  • L. Istead, P. Asente, and C. S. Kaplan. Layer-based Disparity Adjustment in Stereoscopic 3D Media. CVMP 2016
  • L. Northam, P. Asente, and C. S. Kaplan. Stereoscopic 3D Image Stylization. Computers and Graphics, Vol. 37, Iss. 5, pp. 389-402, 2013.
  • L. Northam, P. Asente, J. Istead, C. S. Kaplan. Adjusting the Disparity of Stereoscopic 3D Media in Post Production. SIGGRAPH 2013.
  • L. Northam, P. Asente, and C. S. Kaplan. Consistent Stylization and Painterly Rendering of Stereoscopic 3D Images. NPAR 2012.
  • L. Northam, P. Asente, C. S. Kaplan. Consistent Stylization of Stereoscopic 3D Images. SIGGRAPH 2012.

Film

  • J. Wentzel, L. Istead. Volumetric and User-Centric Rendering Techniques for Lens Flare and Film Grain in Virtual Reality Environments. CVMP 2022.
  • L. Istead, A. Pocol, S. Siu, w. Chen, A. Zdanowicz, A. Rowan, C. Kaplan. The Colour of Horror. CVMP 2022.
  • A. Pocol, L. Istead. Assessing the Impact of Movie Plot Summaries on Box Office Sales. IEEE BigDataService 2022.
  • L. Istead, A. Pocol, S. Siu. Evaluating Gender Bias in Film Dialogue. NLDB 2022.
  • J. Roberts-Smith, S. DeSouza-Coelho, T. Dobson, S. Gabriele, O. Rodriguez-Arenas, S. Ruecker, S. Sinclair, A. Akong, M. Bouchard, M. Hong, D. Jakacki, D. Lam, A. Kovacs, L. Northam, and D. So. Visualizing Theatrical Text: From Watching the Script to the Simulated Environment for Theatre (SET). Digital Humanities Quarterly, Vol. 7. No. 3. 2013.
  • L. Northam, C. S. Kaplan. A Probabilistic Grammar Model for Film Language. GRAND 2014.

Real Time Collaboration

  • L. Northam, C. S. Kaplan. Designing a Real Time Visualization Tool for Previsualization and Virtual Production of Film and Games. GRAND Research Notes 2012.
  • L. Northam, J. Istead, C. S. Kaplan. A Collaborative Real Time Previsualization Tool for Video Games and Film. SIGGRAPH 2012.
  • L. Northam, J. Istead, C. Kaplan. RTFX: On-set Previs with UnrealEngine3. ICEC, 2011.
  • A. Katzman, L. Northam, W. M. Irwin. Integration of Game and Film Technologies. Previsualization and Virtual Production Conference 2011.

High Performance Rendering

  • L. Northam, K. Daudjee and R. Smits. Ray Tracing in the Cloud using MapReduce. HPCS 2013 (nominated for Best Paper Award).

Non-photorealistic Rendering

  • L. Istead, J. Istead, A. Pocol, C. Kaplan. A Simple, Stroke-Based Method for Gesture Drawing. CGI 2022. Winner of the VRIH Track Best Paper Award
  • L. Northam, J. Istead, and C. S. Kaplan. Brush Stroke Ordering Techniques for Painterly Rendering. Computational Aesthetics 2010.
  • L. Northam, J. Istead, C. Kaplan. Artistic Sketching with a Painterly Rendering Algorithm. SIGGRAPH 2010.

Other

  • R. Sandhu, A. Edginton, L. A. Istead. Data Visualization and Interface Design for Human Health Risk Assessment. Society of Toxicology 2017.
  • L. Northam and G. V. G. Baranoski. A Novel First Principles Approach for the Estimation of the Sieve Factor of Blood Samples. Optics Express, Vol. 18, Iss. 7, pp. 7456-7469, 2010.