Completed CDE Theses

Thesis Title	Author
The Gameful Museum: Authenticity and Entertainment in the Digital Age	Daniela De Angeli
Interactive Feedforward in HighIntensity VR Exergaming	Soumya C Barathi
Modern Approaches to Camera Tracking Within the Visual Effects Pipeline	Alistair Barber
Generation of 3D characters from existing cartoons and a unified pipeline for animation and video games.	Simone Barbieri
Image-Based Rendering Of Real Environments For Virtual Reality	Tobias Bertel
Influence of Perspective in Virtual Reality	Naval Bhandari
Path manipulation strategies for rendering dynamic environments	Andreea Bizdideanu
Generating Engagement With Video Games Through Frustration And Hindrance	Adam Boulton
Recognition of Specific Objects Regardless of Depiction (Redacted Version)	Padraig Boulton
Understanding Hand Interactions and Mid-Air Haptic Responses within Virtual Reality and Beyond	Rory Clark
A Novel Neural Network Architecture with Applications to 3D Animation and Interaction in Virtual Reality	Javier DeHesa
Procedural generation of features for volumetric terrains using a rule-based approach	Rahul (Ray) Dey
Learning models for intelligent photo editing	Era Dorta
Tales of the tribes: animation as a tool for indigenous representation	Tara Douglas
Procedural Reconstruction of Architectural Parametric Models from Airborne and Ground Laser Scans	Kwamina Edum-Fotwe
One Is All, All Is One: Cross-Modal Displays for Inclusive Design and Technology	Tayfun Esenkaya
Compensating for Distance Compression in Virtual Audiovisual Environments	Daniel Finnegan
Computer graphics simulation of organic and inorganic optical and morphological appearance changes	Dhana Frerichs
User-appropriate viewer for high resolution interactive engagement with 3D digital cultural artefacts	David Gillespie
Evoking presence through creative practice on Pepper’s ghost displays	Oliver Gingrich
3D storyboarding for modern animation	Alex Gouvatsos
Physics-based character locomotion control with large simulation time steps	David Greer
Participatory design and free and open source software in the not for profit sector – the Hublink Project	Lisa Haskel
The Companion Experience: A Thesis from the Study of the Evolving Home Television Experience	Charlotte Hoare
Audience engagement and monetisation of creative content in digital environments: a creative SME perspective	Jake Hobbs
Droplets, splashes and sprays: highly detailed liquids in visual effects production	Richard Jones
Compositional Uncertainty in Models of Alignment	Ieva Kazlauskaite
Real-time Rendering of Complex, Heterogeneous Mesostructure on Deformable Surfaces	Charalampos (Babis) Koniaris
Using Bayesian Non-Parametrics to Learn Multivariate Dependency Structures	Andrew Lawrence
Constraint based simulation of soft and rigid bodies	Chris Lewin
Bounded Rationality in Reinforcement Learning	Jan Malte Lichtenberg
Towards Effective Virtual Reality Environments for the Behavioural Assessment ofExecutive Dysfunction	Zack Lyons
Investigating how computational tools can improve the production process of stop-motion animation	Lindsey Macaulay-Lowe
Computational fluid dynamics modelling of dissolved oxygen in oxidation ditches	Tom Matko
Human-Centred Design for Improving VR Training of Clinical Skills	Thomas Joseph Matthews
Affective state recognition in Virtual Reality from electromyography and photoplethysmography using head-mounted wearable sensors.	Ifigeneia Mavridou
Creative Editing and Synthesis of Objects in Photographs Using Generative Adversarial Networks	Youssef Alami Mejjati
Exploiting physiological changes during the flow experience for assessing virtual-reality game design.	Lazaros Michailidis
Efficient Accumulation, Analysis and Visualisation of Full-Waveform LiDAR in a Volumetric Representation with Applications to Forestry	Milto Miltiadou
Computer Vision with Machine Learning on Smartphones for Beauty Applications	Valentin Miu
The development of assistive technology to reveal knowledge of physical world concepts in young people who have profound motor impairments	Mark Moseley
Digital radiography: image acquisition and scattering reduction in x-ray imaging	Elena Marimon Munoz
Multi-Character Motion Retargeting for Large Scale Changes	Maryam Naghizadeh
Neural Rendering and Inverse Rendering Using Physical Inductive Biases	Thu Nguyen Phuoc
Programming Models for Heterogeneous Systems with Application to Computer Graphics	Ralph Potter
Improving Facial Animation using Non-Linear Motion	Kyle Reed
Personalized data generation and summarization using learned ranking models	Yassir Saquil
Procedural Constraint-based Generation for Game Development	Tristan Smith
A perceptually motivated approach to timbre representation and visualisation	Sean Soraghan
Graphics Insertions into Real Video for Market Research	Joanna Tarko
Deformable Objects for Virtual Environments	Catherine Taylor
Building Abstractable Story Components with Institutions and Tropes	Matthew Thompson
Physics-based modelling, simulation, placement and learning for musculo-skeletal animations	Fabio Turchet
MAMI Tech ToolkitUtilising Action Research to Develop a Technological Toolkit toFacilitate AccesstoMusic-Making	Asha Ward
E-StopMotion: Reconstructing and Enhancing 3D Animation of Stop Motion Characters by Reverse Engineering Plasticine Deformation	Anamaria Weston
Purposing digital media for education: critically exploring values and expectations in applying digital media for children’s learning and development.	Phil Wilkinson
Improving the Pipeline for Stereo Post-Production	Steve Willey
Exploring the Potential of Augmented Reality to Support People Living with Dementia to Complete Tasks at Home	Thomas Williams
Reducing Head Mounted Display VR Sickness Through Dynamic Field of View Constriction	Hashim Yaqub