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Professor Carol O'Sullivan

Professor of Visual Computing (2010) (Computer Science)
Non College Properties

 Carol.OSullivan@tcd.ie

 3531896 1220


Biography

Carol O'Sullivan is the Professor of Visual Computing in Trinity College Dublin. From 2013-2016 she was a Senior Research Scientist at Disney Research in Los Angeles, and spent a sabbatical year as Visiting Professor in Seoul National University from 2012-2013. Prior to her PhD studies, she spent several years in industry working in Software Development. She joined TCD as a lecturer in 1997 and served as the Dean of Graduate Studies from Jul'2007 to Jul'2010. She was elected a fellow of Trinity College in 2003 and of the European Association for Computer Graphics (Eurographics) in 2007. Her research interests include graphics and perception, animation, and crowd and human simulation. She has managed a range of projects with significant budgets during that time and successfully supervised many doctoral and post-doctoral researchers. She has been a member of many editorial boards and international program committees (including ACM SIGGRAPH and Eurographics). She is currently the Editor in Chief of the ACM Transactions on Graphics and previously served as Editor in Chief for the ACM Transactions on Applied Perception from 2006-2012. Recently, she has served as the Technical Papers chair for ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2021 and the Courses chair for SIGGRAPH Asia 2018.

Research Tags

  ANIMATION   COLLISION HANDLING   Computer Animation   Computer Graphics   Computer Graphics & Vision   Computer Modelling   EVALUATION   EYE MOVEMENTS   GRAPHICS AND PERCEPTION   INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS   PERCEPTION   SIMULATION LEVELS OF DETAIL   Virtual Reality   VISUALIZATION

Research Projects

 VERVE
 Metropolis
 GUILD: Generating Urban Infrastructures from LiDAR Data
 Geopostors: A Game Developers toolkit for Real-Time Crowds
 A Shared-Memory Hybrid Graphics Cluster for Visualisation and Video Processing

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Representations

Details Date
Co-Editor in Chief, ACM Transactions on Applied Perception (TAP) 2008-2012
Associate Editor in Chief (Special Issues), IEEE Computer Graphics & Applications (formerly editorial board member) 2007-
Program Co-chair, APGV 2009: ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Applied Perception in Graphics and Visualization 2009
Member Papers Committee, ACM SIGGRAPH 2010,2009,2007,2006, 2004, 2003
IPC member, EUROGRAPHICS 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009
Associate Editor, ACM Transactions on Applied Perception
Associate Editor, Computers and Graphics (Elsevier)
Co-chair, Eurographics: the 26th annual conference of the European Association for Computer Graphics. 2005
Member Editorial Board, Graphical Models (Elsevier) 2007-
Co-chair - SCA: ACM SIGGRAPH/EUROGRAPHICS Symposium on Computer Animation 2006
Member IPC, I3D: ACM Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics 2005-2007
Member IPC, SCA: ACM SIGGRAPH/EUROGRAPHICS Symposium on Computer Animation 2002-2006
Steering Committee member for the SIGGRAPH/EUROGRAPHICS Symposium on Computer Animation 2002-date
Co-chair and co-organiser: ACM SIGGRAPH/EUROGRAPHICS Campfire on Perceptually-Adaptive Graphics Snowbird, Utah May 2001
Co-chair and co-organiser of the Eurographics Ireland 2002 Workshop, Dublin March 2002
Co-organiser of the International Symposium on Virtual and Augmented Architecture (VAA01), Dublin June 2001.
Co-chair and organiser of the First Irish Workshop on Eye-Tracking, Dublin May 2000.
Member IPC, APGV: ACM Symposium on Applied Perception in Graphics and Visualization 2004-2007
Member IPC, V-Crowds 2005
Member IPC, IEEE Virtual Reality 2007
Member IPC, CASA: Computer Animation and Social Agents 2003-2007
Member IPC, ETRA: ACM SIGGRAPH/SIGCHI symposium on Eye Tracking Research & Applications, 2002, 2004 2002, 2004
Member IPC, VAST: International Symposium on Virtual Reality, Archaeology and Cultural Heritage 2004-2005
Member IPC, WSCG: International Conferences in Central Europe on Computer Graphics, Visualization and Computer Vision 2002-2006
Member IPC, EG-IRELAND: Irish Workshop on Computer Graphics, 2002-2005
Member IPC, VAA: International Symposium on Virtual and Augmented Architecture 2001
Reviewer for various journals, e.g., ACM Transactions on Graphics, IEEE CG&A, Presence, Computer Graphics Forum, The Visual Computer, and other journals and books. -
Reviewer for various conference and symposia, e.g., Eurographics Symposia on Rendering, Eurographics Symposia on Geometry Processing -

Languages

Language Skill Reading Skill Writing Skill Speaking
English Fluent Fluent Fluent
German Fluent Medium Fluent

Memberships

Membership of Professional Institutions, Associations, Societies

Details Date From Date To
Member ACM SIGGRAPH 2000 date
Merriman Niamh A., Roudaia Eugenie, Ondřej Jan, Romagnoli Matteo, Orvieto Ivan, O'Sullivan Carol, Newell Fiona N., "CityQuest," A Custom-Designed Serious Game, Enhances Spatial Memory Performance in Older Adults, Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, 14, 2022, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Carol O'Sullivan, State of the art in telepresence, ACM SIGGRAPH 2022 Courses, 2022, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Carol O'Sullivan, Augmented/mixed reality technologies for food: A review, Trends in Food Science & Technology, 124, 2022, p182--194 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
, Trends of Augmented Reality for Agri-Food Applications, Sensors, 22, (21), 2022, p8333 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Goksu Yamac and Carol O'Sullivan, FauxThrow: Exploring the Effects of Incorrect Point of Release in Throwing Motions, ACM Symposium on Applied Perception 2022, 2022, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Goksu Yamac, Niloy J. Mitra and Carol O'Sullivan, Detecting the Point of Release of Virtual Projectiles in AR/VR, 2021 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW), Online, Mar 2021, 2021, pp563 - 564, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  DOI
ACM Transactions on Graphics, (2021), Carol O'Sullivan, [Editor in Chief], November 2021 - October 2024, Journal, PUBLISHED  URL
Nakamura Y.C, O'Sullivan C.A, Pollard N.S, Effect of Object and Task Properties on Bimanual Transport, Journal of Motor Behavior, 51, (3), 2019, p245 - 258, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI  URL
O'Sullivan, C. and Pettré, J., Foreword to the Special Section on Motion in Games, Computers and Graphics (Pergamon), 78, 2019, pA5 , Notes: [cited By 0], Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Niamh A. Merriman, Jan Ondrej, Alicia Rybicki, Eugenie Roudaia, Carol O'Sullivan and Fiona N. Newell, Crowded environments reduce spatial memory in older but not younger adults, Psychological Research, 82, 2018, p407 - 428, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
  

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Carol O'Sullivan, Building, Populating and Evaluating Virtual Worlds, Intel European Research and Innovation Conference, September, 2008, Invited Talk, PRESENTED
Carol O'Sullivan, Building and populating a virtual city, Invited Talk, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Campus Estado de Mexico, February, 2008, Invited Talk, PRESENTED
Carol O'Sullivan, Metropolis - Multisensory Crowd Simulation, IEEE VR Workshop on Virtual Cityscapes, Reno, Nevada, March, 2008, Invited Talk, PRESENTED
Carol O'Sullivan, Wahrnehmungsgesteuerte Animation von grossen virtuellen Menschenansammlungen, Invited Talk, University of Bielefeld, Germany, February, 2008, Invited Talk, PRESENTED
Carol O'Sullivan, Wahrnehmungsgesteuerte Animation von grossen virtuellen Menschenansammlungen, , University of Karlsruhe, July, 2007, Invited Talk, PRESENTED
O'Sullivan, C., Building and populating a Virtual City, Invited talk, National Centre for Geocomputation, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, May , 2007, Invited Talk, PRESENTED
O'Sullivan, C., Everything you always wanted to know about Sex Perception * but were afraid to ask, Dagstuhl Seminar on Visual Computing- Convergence of Computer Graphics and Computer Vision , Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany, April, 2007, Invited Talk, PRESENTED
O'Sullivan, C., Metropolis: Populating a Virtual City with Supercrowds., Invited Talk, Computer Science, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh PA, April , 2007, Invited Talk, PRESENTED
O'Sullivan, C., Metropolis: Populating a Virtual City with Supercrowds, Invited Talk, Computer Science, North Carolina State University, February, 2007, Invited Talk, PRESENTED
O'Sullivan, C., Metropolis: Populating a Virtual City with Supercrowds, Invited Talk, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, February, 2007, Invited Talk, PRESENTED

  

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Awards and Honours

Award Date
Elected Fellow of Trinity College Dublin 2003

Research Interests

Description Of Research Interests

Computer Graphics, Animation, Perception, Perceptually Adaptive Graphics, Physically Based Animation, Collision Handling, Visualisation, Visualization.