Papers & Journals
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2009
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Eye-catching Crowds: Saliency based Selective Variation
Rachel McDonnell, Michéal Larkin, Benjamin Hernandez, Isaac Rudomin, Carol O’Sullivan
ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH 2009), 28, (3), 55:1 - 55:10, 2009
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Talking Bodies: Sensitivity to De-synchronization of Conversations
Rachel McDonnell, Cathy Ennis, Simon Dobbyn, Carol O’Sullivan
ACM Transactions on Applied Perception, 22, (1), 22:1 - 22:8, 2009
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Investigating the role of body shape on the perception of emotion
Rachel McDonnell, Sophie Joerg, Joanna McHugh, Fiona Newell, Carol O’Sullivan
ACM Transactions on Applied Perception, 6 (3), 14:1 - 14:11, 2009
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Evaluating the effect of motion and body shape on the perceived sex of virtual characters.
Rachel McDonnell, Sophie Joerg, Jessica K. Hodgins, Fiona Newell, and Carol O’Sullivan
ACM Transactions on Applied Perception, 5, (4), 20:1 - 20:14, 2009
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2008
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Clone Attack! Perception of Crowd Variety
Rachel McDonnell, Michéal Larkin, Simon Dobbyn, Steven Collins, Carol O’Sullivan
ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH 2008), 27, (3), 26:1 - 26:8, 2008
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Evaluating the emotional content of human motions on real and virtual characters
Rachel McDonnell, Sophie Joerg, Joanna McHugh, Fiona Newell, Carol O’Sullivan.
In APGV ‘08: Proceedings of the symposium on Applied Perception in Graphics and Visualisation, pp. 67-74, 2008
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Crowds in Context: Evaluating the Perceptual Plausibility of Pedestrian Orientations
Christopher Peters, Cathy Ennis, Rachel McDonnell, Carol O’Sullivan.
Eurographics Short Papers, pp. 227-230, 2008
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2007
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Pipeline for Populating Games with Realistic Crowds
Rachel McDonnell, Simon Dobbyn, Carol O’Sullivan.
International Journal of Intelligent Games and Simulation, Volume 4, Number 2, pp. 1-15, 2007
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Smooth Movers: Perceptually Guided Human Motion Simulation
Rachel McDonnell, Fiona Newell, Carol O’Sullivan.
In Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation, pp. 259-269, 2007
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Virtual Shapers & Movers: Form and Motion affect Sex Perception
Rachel McDonnell, Sophie Joerg, Jessica Hodgins, Fiona Newell, Carol O’Sullivan.
In APGV ‘07: Proceedings of the symposium on Applied Perception in Graphics and Visualisation, pp. 7-10, 2007
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Skinning Arbitrary Deformations
Ladislav Kavan, Rachel McDonnell, Simon Dobbyn, Jiri Zara, Carol O’Sullivan.
In Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games, I3D, pp. 53-60 2007
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2006
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Perceptual Evaluation of LOD Clothing for Virtual Humans
Rachel McDonnell, Simon Dobbyn, Steven Collins, Carol O’Sullivan.
ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation, pp. 117-126, 2006
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Crowd Creation Pipeline for Games
Rachel McDonnell, Simon Dobbyn, Carol O’Sullivan.
In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Computer Games, CGames 2006, pp. 183-190, 2006 (Best paper award)
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Clothing The Masses: Real-Time Clothed Crowds With Variation
Simon Dobbyn, Rachel McDonnell, Steven Collins, Ladislav Kavan, Carol O’Sullivan.
Eurographics Short Papers, pp. 103-106, 2006
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Animating Dolly: Real-time Herding and Rendering of Sheep
Ljiljana Skrba, Simon Dobbyn, Rachel McDonnell, Carol O’Sullivan.
In Proceedings of Eurographics Ireland Workshop, pp. 7-12, 2006
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2003 - 2005
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Perceptual Evaluation of Impostor Representations for Virtual Humans and Buildings
John Hamill, Rachel McDonnell, Simon Dobbyn, Carol O’Sullivan.
Computer Graphics Forum 24(3), Eurographics, pp. 623-633, 2005
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Perceptually Adaptive Graphics
Carol O’Sullivan, Sarah Howlett, Yann Morvan, Rachel McDonnell, Keith O’Conor.
Eurographics State of the Art reports, pp. 141-164, 2004
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LOD Human Representations: A Comparative Study
Rachel McDonnell, Simon Dobbyn, Carol O’Sullivan.
Proceeding of the First International Workshop on Crowd Simulation, pp. 101-115, 2005
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Application of the Golden Ratio to 3D Facial Models
Rachel McDonnell and Ann McNamara.
Proceedings Eurographics Ireland, pp. 35-42, 2003