Recent Submissions

  • Are LLMs ready for visualization? 

    Vázquez Alcocer, Pere Pau (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2024)
    Conference lecture
    Open Access
    Generative models have received a lot of attention in many areas of academia and the industry. Their capabilities span many areas, from the invention of images given a prompt to the generation of concrete code to solve a ...
  • Effect of color palettes in heatmaps perception: a study 

    Molina López, Elena; Middel Soria, Carolina; Vázquez Alcocer, Pere Pau (European Association for Computer Graphics (Eurographics), 2023)
    Conference lecture
    Open Access
    Heatmaps are a widely used technique in visualization. Unfortunately, they have not been investigated in depth and little is known about the best parameterizations so that they are properly interpreted. The effect of ...
  • Exploring the role of expected collision feedback in crowded virtual environments 

    Yun, Haoran; Pontón Martínez, José Luis; Beacco Porres, Alejandro; Andújar Gran, Carlos Antonio; Pelechano Gómez, Núria (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2024)
    Conference report
    Open Access
    An increasing number of virtual reality applications require environments that emulate real-world conditions. These environments often involve dynamic virtual humans showing realistic behaviors. Understanding user perception ...
  • Automatic 3D avatar generation from a single RBG frontal image 

    Beacco Porres, Alejandro; Gallego Vila, Jaime; Slater, Mel (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2022)
    Conference lecture
    Open Access
    We present a complete automatic system to obtain a realistic 3D avatar reconstruction of a person using only a frontal RGB image. Our proposed workflow first determines the pose, shape and semantic information from the ...
  • Organ donation training using VR: ODT-VR 

    Vallespí Monclús, Pau; Álvarez, Brian; Monclús Lahoya, Eva; Fairén González, Marta (European Association for Computer Graphics (Eurographics), 2023)
    Conference lecture
    Open Access
    Organ transplantation has become very important for treating organ diseases and new technologies have been developed to increase the donor pool. Virtual Reality (VR) has been proven to be a valuable tool for training in ...
  • An interaction metaphor for enhanced VR-based volume segmentation 

    Monclús Lahoya, Eva; Vázquez Alcocer, Pere Pau (European Association for Computer Graphics (Eurographics), 2023)
    Conference lecture
    Open Access
    The segmentation of medical models is a complex and time-intensive process required for both diagnosis and surgical preparation. Despite the advancements in deep learning, neural networks can only automatically segment a ...
  • Animation fidelity in self-avatars: impact on user performance and sense of agency 

    Yun, Haoran; Pontón Martínez, José Luis; Andújar Gran, Carlos Antonio; Pelechano Gómez, Núria (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2023)
    Conference report
    Open Access
    The use of self-avatars is gaining popularity thanks to affordable VR headsets. Unfortunately, mainstream VR devices often use a small number of trackers and provide low-accuracy animations. Previous studies have shown ...
  • Effective user studies in computer graphics 

    Malpica Mallo, Sandra; Sun, Qi; Kellnhofer, Petr; Beacco Porres, Alejandro; Senel, Gizem; McDonnell, Rachel; Flores Vargas, Mauricio (European Association for Computer Graphics (Eurographics), 2023)
    Conference lecture
    Open Access
    User studies are a useful tool for researchers, allowing them to collect data on how users perceive, interact with and process different types of sensory information. If planned in advance, user experiments can be leveraged ...
  • Visual analysis of multi-labelled temporal noise data from multiple sensors 

    Franco Moreno, Juan José; Vázquez Alcocer, Pere Pau (SciTePress, 2023)
    Conference report
    Open Access
    Environmental noise pollution is a problem for cities’ inhabitants, that can be especially severe in large cities. To implement measures that can alleviate this problem, it is necessary to understand the extent and impact ...
  • An annotation tool for digital restoration of wall paintings 

    Barreiro Díaz, Albert; Muñoz Pandiella, Imanol; Bosch Geli, Carles; Andújar Gran, Carlos Antonio (European Association for Computer Graphics (Eurographics), 2022)
    Conference lecture
    Open Access
    Antique paintings are essential to study and understand our past. Paintings, and specifically mural paintings, are delicate artworks that are affected by multiple deterioration conditions. Weathering and human interventions ...
  • Digital reintegration of distributed mural paintings at different architectural phases: the case of St. Quirze de Pedret 

    Muñoz Pandiella, Imanol; Argudo Medrano, Óscar; Lorès Otzet, Immaculada; Font Comas, Joan; Àvila Casademont, Genís; Pueyo Sandez, Francesc Xavier; Andújar Gran, Carlos Antonio (European Association for Computer Graphics (Eurographics), 2022)
    Conference report
    Open Access
    Sant Quirze de Pedret is a Romanesque church located in Cercs (Catalonia, Spain) at the foothills of the Pyrenees. Its walls harbored one of the most important examples of mural paintings in Catalan Romanesque Art. However, ...
  • Disturbance and plausibility in a virtual rock concert: a pilot study 

    Beacco Porres, Alejandro; Oliva Martínez, Ramon; Cabreira Sánchez, Carlos; Gallego Vila, Jaime; Slater, Mel (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2021)
    Conference report
    Open Access
    We present methods used to produce and study a first version of an attempt to reconstruct a 1983 live rock concert in virtual reality. An approximately 10 minute performance by the rock band Dire Straits was rendered in ...

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