UC Research Profile - University of Canterbury

Dr Adrian James Clark

Contact

Department: School of Product Design

Email: adrian.clark@canterbury.ac.nz

Direct Dial: +64 3 3692458

Office: West 329

Language: English

About

Research / Creative works

Supervision

Networks

Fields of Research

Applied Immersive Game Design
Computer graphics
Augmented and Virtual Reality
Computer Vision based Natural Feature Registration
Artificial Intelligence

Researcher Summary

Adrian is a Senior Lecturer in Applied Immersive Game Design in the School of Product Design.

He completed his PhD in Computer Science at the HIT Lab NZ, where he developed a robust natural feature registration framework called OPIRA Optical-flow Perspective Invariant Registration Augmentation.

Subject Area: Disciplines

Computer Science, Information Technology, Information Sciences: Augmented Reality ; Computer Graphics and Image Processing ; Computer Vision ; Game design ; Game Development ; Human-Computer Interaction and Multimedia ; Virtual Reality

Resources

Research/Scholarly/Creative Works

Dong Z., Piumsomboon T., Zhang J., Clark AJ., Bai H. and Lindeman RW.. (2020) A Comparison of Surface and Motion User-Defined Gestures for Mobile Augmented Reality.. In Bernhaupt R; Mueller FF; Verweij D; Andres J; McGrenere J; Cockburn A; Avellino I; Goguey A; Bjøn P; Zhao S (Eds). CHI Extended Abstracts: 1-8. ACM. (Conference Contributions - Published)

Clark A. (2018) Texture mapping system and method.Patent No. WO2018151612A1, Worldwide. (Intellectual Property)

Clark A. and Looser J. (2018) Process, system and apparatus for machine colour characterisation of digital media.Patent No. WO2017034419A1, Worldwide. (Intellectual Property)

Guo P., Chiew YS., Shaw GM., Shao L., Green R., Clark A. and Chase JG. (2016) Clinical Activity Monitoring System (CATS): An automatic system to quantify bedside clinical activities in the intensive care unit. Intensive and Critical Care Nursing 37: 52-61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.iccn.2016.05.003. (Journal Articles)

Bartneck C. and Clark A. (2015) Semi-Automatic Color Analysis For Brand Logos. Color Research and Application 40(1): 72-84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/col.21853. (Journal Articles)

Billinghurst M., Clark A., Lee G. and Tan DS. (2015) A Survey of Augmented Reality. eBook: Now Foundations and Trends. 218. http://dx.doi.org/10.1561/1100000049. (Authored Books)

Stephenson M., Clark A. and Green R.. (2015) Novel Methods for Reflective Symmetry Detection in Scanned 3D Models. In. (Conference Contributions - Published)

Guo P., Chiew YS., Shao L., Clark A. and Chase JG. (2014) A Novel Visualization System for ICU Clinical Activity Tracking. Cape Town, South Africa: 19th World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control 2014 (IFAC), 24-29 Aug 2014. (Conference Contributions - Other)

Guo P., Chiew YS., Shao L., Clark A., Shaw GM. and Chase JG.. (2014) Novel Visualization Approach for Intensive Care Unit Clinical Activity Monitoring. In. (Conference Contributions - Published)

Piumsomboon T., Altimira D., Kim H., Clark A., Lee G. and Billinghurst M.. (2014) Grasp-Shell vs Gesture-Speech: A Comparison of Direct and Indirect Natural Interaction Techniques in Augmented Reality. In : 73-82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ISMAR.2014.6948411. (Conference Contributions - Published)

Piumsomboon T., Clark A. and Billinghurst M.. (2014) [DEMO] G-SIAR: Gesture-speech interface for augmented reality. In. (Conference Contributions - Published)

Piumsomboon T., Clark A. and Billinghurst M.. (2014) G-SIAR: Gesture-speech interface for augmented reality. In Proceedings ISMAR 2014: 365-366. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ISMAR.2014.6948491. (Conference Contributions - Published)

Corbett-Davies S., Dünser A., Clark A. and Green R.. (2013) An advanced interaction framework for augmented reality based exposure treatment. In (forthcoming) http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/VR.2013.6549351. (Conference Contributions - Published)

Piumsomboon T., Clark A. and Billinghurst M.. (2013) KITE: Platform for Mobile Augmented Reality Gaming and Interaction using Magnetic Tracking and Depth Sensing. In Proceedings: 289-290. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ISMAR.2013.6671809. (Conference Contributions - Published)

Piumsomboon T., Clark A., Billinghurst M. and Cockburn A.. (2013) User-defined gestures for augmented reality. In CHI '13 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems: 955-960. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2468356.2468527. (Conference Contributions - Published)

Piumsomboon T., Clark A., Billinghurst M. and Cockburn A.. (2013) User-defined gestures for Augmented Reality. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) - INTERACT 2013 8118: 282-299. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40480-1_18. (Conference Contributions - Published)

Clark A. and Dünser A.. (2012) An Interactive Augmented Reality Coloring Book. In Proceedings:: 7-10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/3dui.2012.6184168. (Conference Contributions - Published)

Corbett-Davies S., Dünser A. and Clark A. (2012) An interactive augmented reality system for exposure treatment. Atlanta, GA, USA: 11th IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR 2012) - Arts, Media, and Humanities Proceedings, 5-8 Nov 2012. (Conference Contributions - Other)

Corbett-Davies S., Green R. and Clark A.. (2012) Physically interactive tabletop augmented reality using the Kinect. In Proceedings:: 210-215. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2425836.2425880. (Conference Contributions - Published)

Piumsomboon T. and Clark A.. (2012) ARMicroMachines: natural interaction with augmented reality scenes. In Proceedings: 99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2379256.2379283. (Conference Contributions - Published)

Piumsomboon T., Clark A., Umakatsu A. and Billinghurst M.. (2012) Poster: Physically-Based Natural Hand and Tangible AR Interaction for Face-to-Face Collaboration on a Tabletop. In Proceedings: 155-156. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/3DUI.2012.6184208. (Conference Contributions - Published)

Chyou T., Clark A. and Meyer J. (2011) A 3D vision approach for correction of patient pose in radiotherapy. Darwin, Australia: Engineering and Physical Sciences in Medicine and the Australian Biomedical Engineering Conference (EPSM ABEC 2011), 14-18 Aug 2011. (Conference Contributions - Other)

Clark A. and Green R.. (2011) Optical-Flow Perspective Invariant Registration. In Proceedings 2011 International Conference on Digital Image Computing: 92-98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/DICTA.2011.23. (Conference Contributions - Published)

Clark A. and Piumsomboon T.. (2011) A realistic augmented reality racing game using a depth-sensing camera. In ACM Digital Library: 499-502. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2087756.2087851. (Conference Contributions - Published)

Clark A., Dünser A. and Grasset R. (2011) Interactive Augmented Reality Coloring Book. Basel, Switzerland: 10th IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR), 26-29 Oct 2011. (Conference Contributions - Other)

Clark A., Dünser A. and Grasset R.. (2011) An interactive augmented reality coloring book. In SIGGRAPH Asia 2011 Emerging Technologies http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2073370.2073394. (Conference Contributions - Published)

Clark A., Dünser A., Billinghurst M., Piumsomboon T. and Altimira D.. (2011) Seamless interaction in space. In Proceedings of the 23rd Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference: 88-97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2071536.2071549. (Conference Contributions - Published)

Clark A., Piumsomboon T. and Billinghurst M.. (2011) Augmented reality micromachines. In SIGGRAPH Asia 2011 Emerging Technologies http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2073370.2073390. (Conference Contributions - Published)

Clifford R., Clark A. and Rogozin M.. (2011) Using Augmented Reality for Rapid Prototyping and Collaborative Design to Model 3D Buildings. In Proceedings of the 12th Annual Conference of the New Zealand Chapter of the ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction: 117-120. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2000756.2000774. (Conference Contributions - Published)

Piumsomboon T., Clark A. and Billinghurst M.. (2011) Physically-based Interaction for Tabletop Augmented Reality Using a Depth-sensing Camera for Environment Mapping. In Proceedings of Image and Vision Computing New Zealand (IVCNZ2011): 161-166. (Conference Contributions - Published)

Clark AJ. (2010) OPIRA: The Optical-Flow Perspective Invanant Registration Augmentation and Other Improvements for Natural Feature Registration. Christchurch, New Zealand. University of Canterbury. (Theses / Dissertations)

Clark AJ., Green RD. and Grant RN.. (2008) Perspective correction for improved visual registration using natural features. In Proceedings of IVCNZ 2008: 6pp. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/IVCNZ.2008.4762073. (Conference Contributions - Published)

Grant RN., Green RD. and Clark AJ.. (2008) HLS Distorted colour model for enhanced colour image segmentation. In Proceedings of IVCNZ 2008: 6pp. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/IVCNZ.2008.4762139. (Conference Contributions - Published)

Clark AJ., Green RD. and Grant RN.. (2007) Image and Video Noise: A Comparison of Noise in Images and Video With Regards to Detection and Removal. In VISAPP 2007 - International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications Proceedings: 153-156. (Conference Contributions - Published)

Grant RN., Green RD. and Clark AJ.. (2007) Hue Variance Prediction: An Empirical Estimate of the Variance within the Hue of an Image. In VISAPP 2007 - International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications Proceedings: 5-9. (Conference Contributions - Published)

Clark A. and Green R.. (2006) Detection and Removal of Global and Local Noise in Realtime Video Streams. In. (Conference Contributions - Published)

Clark A. and Green R.. (2005) An Adaptive Algorithm Switching System for Image Based Object Registration. In. (Conference Contributions - Published)

Clark A. and Green R.. (2004) 3D Model Generation from a Stereo Camera using Multiple Viewpoints. In Proceedings IVCNZ 2004: 345-350. (Conference Contributions - Published)

Student Supervision

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Current

PhD - Khan H: Indoor Tracking using Sensor Fusion

Completed

PhD - Piumsomboon T: Natural Hand Interaction for Augmented Reality (2015)
Masters - Dong Z: Exploring Mobile Augmented Reality Interaction through Camera Manipulation (2020)
Masters - Eagle JT: Kinect Surface Tracking (2014)
Masters - Figg H: Measurement of Patient Anxiety in MRI - Comparing VR Simulation to a Questionnaire (2018)
Masters - Head-Mears J: Accurate wide-area tracking for architectural, engineering and surveying applications (2014)
Masters - Smart C: An arrangement of tablets for supporting collaborative learning (2015)
Masters - Zhang J: Spatial Scale Perception in Immersive Virtual Reality (2020)
Honours - Stephenson M: Novel Methods for Reflective Symmetry Detection in Scanned 3D Models (2015)

Review and Refereeing

IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications (CG&A) ( 2011 - 2020)

IEEE Symposium on 3D User Interfaces (3DUI) ( 2010 - 2020)

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT) ( 2008 - 2020)

IEEE Virtual Reality ( 2010 )

Proceedings of IEEE/ACS International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications, AICCSA ( 2007 )

SPIE Optical Engineering ( 2011 - 2020)

The International Journal of Virtual Reality ( 2011 - 2020)