My current research in automated cinematography is inspired by traditional artistic and photographic composition techniques to improve the aesthetics of automatically computed 3D virtual camera views. My research also extends into other forms of visual composition and layout.
I am collaborating on this research with the North Carolina State University Center for Digital Entertainment.
William Bares. Panel Beat: Layout and Timing of Comic Panels. In Proceedings of Smart Graphics 2008, Rennes, France, August 2008.
William Bares. A Photographic Composition Assistant for Intelligent Virtual 3D Camera Systems. In Proceedings of the Sixth International Symposium on Smart Graphics, pages 172-183, Vancouver, B.C., Canada, July 23-25, 2006.
Arnav Jhala, William Bares, R M Young. Towards an intelligent storyboarding
tool for 3D environments. In Proceedings of the ACM International Conference
on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology (ACE 2005), pages 367-368,
Valencia Spain, June 15-17th 2005.
Scott McDermott, Junwei Li, and William Bares. Storyboard Frame Editing for Cinematic Composition. In Proceedings of the 2002 International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, pages 206-207, San Francisco California, January 2002.
William Bares, Scott McDermott, Christina Boudreaux, and Somying Thainimit. Virtual 3D Camera Composition from Frame Constraints. In ACM Multimedia 2000, pages 177-186, Los Angeles, California, October 30th to November 4th, 2000.
William Bares and James Lester. Intelligent Multi-Shot Visualization Interfaces for Dynamic 3D Worlds. In IUI-99: Proceedings of the 1999 International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, pages 119-126, Los Angeles, California, 1999. QuickTime Video (31MB)
William Bares, Luke Zettlemoyer, Dennis Rodriguez, and James Lester. Task-Sensitive Cinematography Interfaces for Interactive 3D Learning Environments. In IUI-98: Proceedings of the 1998 International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, pages 81-88, San Francisco, California, January 1998. QuickTime Video (12MB)
William Bares and James Lester. Realtime Generation of Customized 3D Animated Explanations for Knowledge-Based Learning Environments. In AAAI-97: Proceedings of the Fourteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Providence, Rhode Island, pages 347-354, July 1997. QuickTime Video (55MB)