Oct 12 2019: Brendan is recognized as honorable mention for the Graduate Student Oral Research Presentation Competition at 2019 AISES National Conference for “An Evaluation of Pupillary Light Response Models for 2D screens and VR HMDs”. Congrats Brendan!
Oct 10 2019: Brendan presents “An Evaluation of Pupillary Light Response Models for 2D Screens and VR HMDs” at the 2019 AISES National Conference.
Oct 1 2019: Brendan is accepted as a scholar in the NSF funded 2019 AISES Lighting the Pathway to Faculty Careers for Natives in STEM cohort. Congratulations Brendan!
Sep 5 2019: Pallavi accepted a position at Walmart Labs. Congratulations Pallavi!
Aug 22 2019: Dr. Jain named a technical program chair for ETRA 2020 along with Prof. Daniel Weiskopf and Prof. Ralph Radach.
30 July 2019: Yuzhu Dong presents “Perception based Algorithms for Creating Realistic Animations” at the SIGGRAPH 2019 Thesis Fast Forward
28 July 2019: Dr. Jain presents invited talk, “Omnidirectional Cinemagraphs on Construction Safety Training”, at the SIGGRAPH Frontiers Workshop on Content Generation for Workforce Training
18 July 2019: Poster on Child2adult: Revisiting dynamic scaling laws to age motion accepted at Symposium on Applied Perception 2019.
18 July 2019: Poster on Adult2Child Age Regression Using CycleGANs accepted at Symposium on Applied Perception 2019. Congratulations Thomas!
29 June 2019: UF sponsored privacy panel at ETRA 2019 is well attended.
13 June 2019: Alum Isaiah Bonds awarded Tapia Scholarship. Congratulations Isaiah!
IEEE VR tutorial on Eye Tracking in 360 slides now available.
6 June 2019: “The Impact of Visual and Audio Alerts on Driving Behavior and Exploring Visual Attention through Eye Tracking” at the Exploring Transportation and STEM: From the Community to the Classroom K-12 outreach event sponsored by the University of Florida Transportation Institute.
20 Mar 2019: Dr Jain presents “Challenges and opportunities in motion and eye tracking” at Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IITD).
19 Mar 2019: Dr Jain presents “Head, shoulder, knees and toes … and eyes” atIndraprastha Institute of Information Technology, New Delhi.
18 Mar 2019: Brendan John accepted to ETRA Doctoral Symposium. Congratulations Brendan!
14 Mar 2019: Dr Jain presents “Omnidirectional Cinemagraphs for Safety Training” at the CCC Workshop on Content Generation for Workforce Training.
6 Mar 2019: Two papers accepted to ETRA 2019. Read more about Differential Privacy for EyeTracking Data and EyeVEIL: Degrading Iris Authentication in Eye Tracking Headsets
27 Feb 2019: Dr Jain presents “Creating Virtual Avatars for Young Children” at the University of Florida Developmental Psychology Seminar.
29 Jan 2019: Tutorial proposal at IEEE VR 2019 on eye-tracking was accepted. Join us in Osaka on March 23rd.
12 Dec 2018: Brendan John presents paper “A Benchmark of Four Methods for Generating 360 Saliency Maps from Eye Tracking Data” at AIVR 2018 in Taichung, Taiwan.
30 Nov 2018: Brendan John and Pallavi Raiturkar present their paper “An Evaluation of Pupillary Light Response Models for 2D Screens and VR HMDs” at VRST 2018 in Tokyo, Japan.
29 Nov 2018: Dr. Jain is a discussion leader at the TEDxUF Salon event on Smart Art.
12 Nov 2018: Dr. Jain presents invited talk “Perceptual Cues for Social Platforms” at Google. Google Tech Talk link coming soon.
8 Nov 2018: Dr. Jain presents invited talk “Heads, shoulders, knees, and toes…and eyes” at the IVESG seminar at UC Irvine.
31 Oct 2018: Brendan John presents research poster at the annual Graduate Diversity Research Symposium at University of Florida.
5 Oct 2018: Dr Jain presents invited talk “Generating Compelling Characters for Child Users” at the School of Computing seminar at Clemson University.
21 June 2018: Dr Jain presents invited talk “The role of gaze and pupil diameter in understanding audience engagement” at MPI Informatik at Saarbrucken.
17 June 2018: Dr Jain participates in Dagstuhl seminar 18252 “Ubiquitous Gaze Sensing and Interaction”
15 May 2018: Two short papers accepted to ETRA 2018. Read more on the online experience project page and on the user omics project page . Congratulations Chaitra and Sachin!
1 May 2018: Journal paper on message framing for climate change published in Applied Environmental Education & Communication.
22 April 2018: Short Paper on Kinder-Gator: The UF Kinect Database of Child and Adult Motion presented at Eurographics 2018. Congratulations Yuzhu and Aishat!
20 March 2018: Dr. Jain presents “Generating compelling characters for child users” at an invited seminar at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
27 Feb 2018: Poster on Style Translation to Create Child-like Motion accepted at Eurographics 2018. Congratulations Yuzhu!
15 Feb 2018: Dr Jain gives an invited seminar talk “Measuring viewer priorities in naturalistic settings” at the University of Florida Institute of Transportation Engineers Student Chapter
21 Nov 2017:Dr Jain presents the group’s latest results on child-like characters “Adult2Child: Dynamic Scaling Laws to Create Child-like Motion” at FIEA, UCF, Orlando, hosted by Ron Weaver.
23 – 24 October 2017 Dr. Jain will present the group’s research at the CCC Computing Research Symposium at Washington DC on Oct 23-24. This gathering brings together researchers to imagine, discuss, and debate the future of computing and its role in addressing societal needs. The agenda is available here and the livestream is available here.
20 July 2017 Paper on ‘Adult2Child: Modifying mocap data from adults to be child-like’ to be presented at 2017 Motion In Games. Congratulations Yuzhu! See project page here.
13 July 2017 Dr. Jain presents a seminar talk at IRISA, Rennes, titled “Human-centered Video Editing”, hosted by Olivier LeMeur.
5 July 2017 Dr Jain presents an invited talk at B-COM, Rennes, hosted by Jean-Yves Aubie.
30 June 2017 Dr. Jain presents an invited talk at Technicolor, Rennes, titled “Human-centered Video Editing”, hosted by Erik Reinhard.
27 June 2017 Dr. Jain presents research at an invited lecture at IRISA, Brittany, titled “Human-centered Computer Graphics”.
16 June 2017 Dr. Jain is a visiting professor at IRISA, Brittany, this summer. She is hosted by Dr. Olivier Le Meur and the PERCEPT team.
23 – 24 April 2017 Brendan is invited to participate in the NSF Visioning Workshop on Networked Virtual and Augmented Reality Communications located in Washington, DC. Brendan serves as the Session Chair for the “Networked Immersion quality of experience: Trade-offs between latency and data volume” breakout session.
21 March 2017 Dr. Jain presents research at the UF Data Science and Informatics Symposium, Spring 2017.
10 February 2017 Dr. Jain presents ongoing research projects at UF ACM.
1 November 2016 Jain lab receives funding from Youtube Research!
20 September 2016 Take a look at the exciting things the team was doing over the summer!
29 June 2016 Paper on ‘Decoupling Light Reflex from Pupillary Dilation to Measure Emotional Arousal in Videos’ to be presented at ACM Symposium on Applied Perception 2016. Congratulations Pallavi! See project page here.
29 June 2016 Article on “Is the motion of a child perceivably different from the motion of an adult?” accepted to ACM Transactions on Applied Perception. See project page here.
9 June 2016 Poster on analyzing heart-rate of viewers on environmental public service announcements to be presented at SAP. Congratulations to Kartik Chaturvedi, Beida Chen, Isabella Cuba, Melissa Franklin, Nia Haynes, Andrew Lee, Pallavi Raiturkar, Rebecca Soodeen, and Julian Tolentino! Download preprint poster abstract here.
9 June 2016 Poster on analyzing visual scan paths on movie trailers to be presented at SAP. Congrats to Pallavi and Andrew! Download preprint poster abstract here.
18 May 2016 Workshop paper on benchmarking saliency algorithms on comic art to be presented at ICME Workshop on MMArt. Congratulations Khimya! See project page here.
18 May 2016 Poster on clustering gaze data for segmentation on comics to be presented at SAP. Congratulations Ishwarya! See project page here.
18 May 2016 Article on Predicting Moves-on-Stills for Comic Art accepted to IEEE CG&A Special Issue on Quality Assessment and Perception. See project page here.
1 May 2016 Jain lab receives funding from NSF! (CRII: RI 1566481)
29 April 2016 Don’t miss the tutorial on “Visual Attention from a Graphics Point of View” on May 9 at Eurographics. Organized by Dr. Jain, along with Dr. Sumanta Pattanaik and Dr. Olivier Le Meur.
27 April 2016 Two papers from Jain Lab accepted to ACM Symposium on Applied Perception. Coming soon!
15 April 2016 Andrew Lee has accepted a PhD position at Duke University. Congratulations Andrew!
5 Feb 2016 Dr. Jain is conference co-chair for ACM Symposium on Applied Perception (SAP), along with Dr. Joerg. Call for papers for ACM Symposium on Applied Perception (SAP)is out. Deadlines here.
5 Feb 2016 Dr. Jain to organize a tutorial on “Visual Attention from a Graphics Point of View” at Eurographics 2016 with Olivier Le Meur and Sumanta Pattanaik.
29 Jan 2016 Jain Lab receives research funding from Oculus Research!
2 Dec 2015 Dr. Jain presents her research at the Fall 2015 UF Data Science Symposium.
18 Nov 2015 Dr. Jain is a panelist for SEWIC 2015 in Atlanta. See picture here.
18 Nov 2015 Dr. Jain talks about Gaze-driven Video Re-editing as part of Marston Library’s iSTEAM lecture series.
14 Oct 2015 Dr. Jain presents her pencil sketches at 2015 Art in Engineering Museum Night at the Harn Museum.
9 Sept 2015 Dr. Jain invited to speak at the Marston Science Library iSTEAM seminar series.
9 Sept 2015 Dr. Jain invited to speak at the UF ACM student chapter on Sept 16th 2015.
9 Sept 2015 Dr. Jain presents Gaze-driven Video Re-editing at SIGGRAPH 2015.
22 July 2015 Stop-motion Animation Camp at Harn Museum
22 July 2015 Andrew Lee accepted into the University Scholars Program. Congratulations Andrew!
22 July 2015 Human Centered Computer Graphics at CISE
22 July 2015 While at Dallas, Dr. Jain collaborated with the Creative Automata Lab
20 July 2015 Dr. Jain’s article as part of the collection of thoughts on Liz Larner’s X sculpture: Models of X
20 July 2015 Press on the Social Saliency project: on CMU news and NSF news