Homepage of Richard Southern

I am a Research Fellow in the National Centre for Computer Animation at Bournemouth University.
My Curriculum Vitae is available on request.

Teaching

Fundamentals of Computer Science: Overview [slides][slides with notes][slide latex source][workshop latex source] (first part of the workshop assignment is to compile the workshop assignment! Hint: Try pdflatex)
Fundamentals of Computer Science: Databases (watch this space)
Fundamentals of Computer Science: Future Computing (watch this space)
Programming Principles and Practice (watch this space)

Research Interests

	I am interested in Animation analysis and synthesis, in particular reverse engineering deformable models from animation data for the purposes of synthesizing new feasible animations.
	My PhD thesis deals with Animation Manifolds, a space-time representation for animation objects. I am interested in exploring applications of this structure, particularly in video encoding and animation analysis.
	I am still interested in the (now rather old) topic of Level of Detail for surface meshes, in particular real time representations of continuous LOD objects, with applications to games and the film industry.

Publications

Richard Southern, Jian J. Zhang, "Motion-Sensitive Anchor Identification of Least-Squares Meshes from Examples," IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 17, no. 6, pp. 850-856, June 2011, doi:10.1109/TVCG.2010.95. [Paper][Movie]
Lihua You, Richard Southern, Jian Jun Zhang. Adaptive physics--inspired facial animation. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (proceedings of Motion in games 2009), 1(5884):207-218, 2009. [Paper]
Xiaosong Yang, Richard Southern, Jian Jun Zhang. Fast simulation of skin sliding. In Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds, 20(2-3):333-342, 2009.[Paper][Extended paper and movie][Talk]
Richard Southern and James Gain. Creation and control of real-time continuous level of detail on programmable graphics hardware. Computer Graphics Forum, 22(1):35-48, March 2003. [Paper]
Richard Southern, Patrick Marais, and Edwin Blake. Generic memoryless polygonal simplification. In ACM Afrigraph, 7-15, 2001. [Paper][Talk]
R. Southern, S. Perkins, B. Steyn, A. Muller, P. Marais, and E. Blake. A stateless client for progressive view-dependent transmission. In ACM Web3D, 43-49, 2001. [Paper site][Movie][Talk]
S. Behrman, R. Southern, A. Vasey, and D. Ziskind. Spatio-temporal access in persistent java. In Advances in Persistent Object Systems, 45-52, 1998

Reports

R. Southern. Animation manifolds for representing topological alteration. Technical Report UCAM-CL-TR-723 (PhD Thesis). [Paper]
R. Southern and N. A. Dodgson. A smooth manifold based construction of approximating lofted surfaces. Technical Report UCAM-CL-TR-699. Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, October 2007. [Paper][Poster (Curves and Surfaces 2006)][Talk]
N. A. Dodgson, M. A. Sabin and R. Southern. Preconditions on geometrically sensitive subdivision schemes. Technical Report UCAM-CL-TR-691. Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, August 2007. [Paper]
R. Southern, P. Marais and E. Blake. Evaluation of Memoryless Simplification. Technical Report CS01-18-00. Computer Science Department, University of Cape Town, 2001. [Paper]
R. Southern, P. Marais and E. Blake. Wavelets for Multi-resolution Analysis of Triangular Surface Meshes. Technical Report CS00-11-00. Computer Science Department, University of Cape Town, 2000. [Paper]

Media and Code

A presentation recently given about my trip to SIGGRAPH 2011 (Powerpoint only, with notes), available here.
The NCCA technical report cover sheet for LaTeX and Word.
A C++/CUDA implementation of general dimensional n-body solvers. Go to the project page here. A talk about this subject is available here.
From motion capture to virtual scene. Note these clips contain strong language. Push cleanup, hand and facial animation by Gavin Lewis. Video encoded with XVID 1.2.1 and MPEG Layer 3. [LO RES] [HI_RES]

Contact

+44 (0) 1202 961877

The Media School, Bournemouth University
Poole, Dorset BH12 5BB, UK
United Kingdom