Research presented during the 20th Symposium on Virtual and Augmented Reality (SVR), 2018

Abstract: A sign language avatar is an assistive technology used to convey information and support interaction for the deaf and hard of hearing. In this paper, the intelligibility of a signing avatar was evaluated using a Virtual Reality Head Mounted Display (HMD) and a conventional computer screen. The preliminary results show evidence that deaf and hard of hearing individuals better understand sign language content displayed on a VR HMD than on a flat-screen.

Title: "Computer Animation: Applications and New Technologies"

1-hour talk to over 200 undergraduate students about computer animation and some of its applications. I also talked about some of the next-gen technologies such as motion matching, motion synthesis, and 3D pose estimation from RGB images.