@article{qi_cui_du_xu_mcallister_2021, title={Visual Fatigue Alleviating in Stereo Imaging of Anaglyphs by Reducing Retinal Rivalry and Color Distortion Based on Mobile Virtual Reality Technology}, volume={2021}, ISSN={["1530-8677"]}, DOI={10.1155/2021/1285712}, abstractNote={Stereoscopic display is the means of showing scenes in Virtual Reality (VR). As a type of stereo images, anaglyphs can be displayed not only on the screen, but are currently the only solution of stereo images that can be displayed on paper. However, its deficiencies, like retinal rivalry and color distortion, could cause visual fatigue. To address this issue, an algorithm is proposed for anaglyph generation. Unlike previous studies only considering one aspect, it considers both retinal rivalry and color distortion at the same time. The algorithm works in the CIE L ∗ a ∗ b ∗ color space and focuses on matching the perceptual color attributes especially the hue, rather than directly minimizes the sum of the distances between the perceived anaglyph color and the stereo image pair. In addition, the paper builds a relatively complete framework to generate anaglyphs so that it is more controllable to adjust the parameters and choose the appropriate process. The subjective tests are conducted to compare the results with several techniques which generate anaglyphs including empirical methods and computing methods. Results show that the proposed algorithm has a good performance.}, journal={WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS & MOBILE COMPUTING}, author={Qi, Min and Cui, Shanshan and Du, Qianmin and Xu, Yuelei and McAllister, David F.}, year={2021}, month={Sep} } @article{hussain_mcallister_2013, title={Stereo rendering of rain in real-time}, volume={8648}, ISSN={["1996-756X"]}, DOI={10.1117/12.2001308}, abstractNote={The rendering of photorealistic rain has been previously studied for monoscopic viewing. We extend the monoscopic statistical rain models to simulate the behavior and distribution of falling rain for stereo viewing. Our goal is to be able to render in real-time frame rates. In this investigation we ignore the complex issues of scene illumination and concentrate on the parameters that produce a realistic rain distribution. Using the concept of retinal persistence we render a visible falling raindrop as a linear streak. To speed rendering we use pre-computed images of such rain streaks. Rain streak positions for the left- and right-eye views are created by generating random numbers that depend on the view volume of the scene. We permit interactive but controlled modification of rain parameters such as density and wind gusts. We compare our approach to the use of existing 2D-3D conversion methods. The results demonstrate that using commercial 2D-3D converters are not sufficient in producing realistic stereo rain effects. Future research will concentrate on including complex lighting interactions.}, journal={STEREOSCOPIC DISPLAYS AND APPLICATIONS XXIV}, author={Hussain, Syed A. and McAllister, David F.}, year={2013} } @article{mcallister_zhou_sullivan_2010, title={Methods for computing color anaglyphs}, volume={7524}, ISSN={["1996-756X"]}, DOI={10.1117/12.837163}, abstractNote={A new computation technique is presented for calculating pixel colors in anaglyph images. The method depends upon knowing the RGB spectral distributions of the display device and the transmission functions of the filters in the viewing glasses. It requires the solution of a nonlinear least-squares program for each pixel in a stereo pair and is based on minimizing color distances in the CIEL*a*b* uniform color space. The method is compared with several techniques for computing anaglyphs including approximation in CIE space using the Euclidean and Uniform metrics, the Photoshop method and its variants, and a method proposed by Peter Wimmer. We also discuss the methods of desaturation and gamma correction for reducing retinal rivalry.}, journal={STEREOSCOPIC DISPLAYS AND APPLICATIONS XXI}, author={McAllister, David F. and Zhou, Ya and Sullivan, Sophia}, year={2010} } @article{strickland_mcallister_coles_osborne_2007, title={An evolution of virtual reality training designs for children with autism and fetal alcohol spectrum disorders}, volume={27}, ISSN={["1550-3259"]}, DOI={10.1097/01.TLD.0000285357.95426.72}, abstractNote={This article describes an evolution of training programs to use first-person interaction in virtual reality (VR) situations to teach safety skills to children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD). Multiple VR programs for children aged 2 to 9 were built and tested between 1992 and 2007. Based on these results, a learning design evolved that uses practice in virtual space with guidance and correction by an animated character, strategic limitations on allowed actions to force correct patterning, and customization of worlds and responses to simplify user controls. This article describes program evolution by comparing design details and results as variations in behavioral responses between disorders, differences in skill set complexity between different safety skills being taught, and improved technology required changes in the virtual training methodology. A series of research projects are summarized in which the VR programs proved effective for teaching children with ASD and FASD new skills in the virtual space and, where measured, most children generalized the actions to the real world.}, number={3}, journal={TOPICS IN LANGUAGE DISORDERS}, author={Strickland, Dorothy C. and McAllister, David and Coles, Claire D. and Osborne, Susan}, year={2007}, pages={226–241} } @article{mayer_mershon_lim_chipley_mcallister_2006, title={Visual factors affecting touchdown point judgments during off-airport emergency landings}, volume={16}, ISSN={["1050-8414"]}, DOI={10.1207/s15327108ijap1604_4}, abstractNote={This article provides a comprehensive discussion of research designed to examine the possible existence of consistent visual misperceptions that may occur during off-airport emergency landings. The importance of 2 particular visual experiences was evaluated: (a) the view of the world seen from the unusually steep bank at a low altitude, and (b) the visual distraction of a "windmilling" propeller. The influences of experience and environmental structure were also considered. Studies of these factors were conducted using a visually realistic cockpit mounted within a VisionDome® virtual reality environment. Behavioral responses were collected from both naive participants and pilot participants. The findings indicated that judgments of the position of the touchdown point made while the airplane is turning are underestimated in distance, whereas judgments made while the airplane is on a straight approach to the touchdown point are overestimated. In most cases, the windmilling propeller decreased touchdown point judgment accuracy. In addition, pilot experience was associated with improved judgment accuracy during the turning approaches. The presented environmental structure had a weak and inconsistent effect.}, number={4}, journal={INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF AVIATION PSYCHOLOGY}, author={Mayer, Celeste M. and Mershon, Donald H. and Lim, Raymond W. and Chipley, M. Ryan and McAllister, David F.}, year={2006}, pages={401–418} } @article{rodman_mcallister_bitzer_cepeda_abbitt_2002, title={Forensic speaker identification based on spectral moments}, volume={9}, ISSN={["1350-1771"]}, DOI={10.1558/sll.2002.9.1.22}, abstractNote={A new method for doing text-independent speaker identification geared to forensic situations is presented. By analysing ‘isolexemic’ sequences, the method addresses the issues of very short criminal exemplars and the need for open-set identification. An algorithm is given that computes an average spectral shape of the speech to be analysed for each glottal pulse period. Each such spectrum is converted to a probability density function and the first moment (i.e. the mean) and the second moment about the mean (i.e. the variance) are computed. Sequences of moment values are used as the basis for extracting variables that discriminate among speakers. Ten variables are presented all of which have sufficiently high inter- to intraspeaker variation to be effective discriminators. A case study comprising a ten-speaker database, and ten unknown speakers, is presented. A discriminant analysis is performed and the statistical measurements that result suggest that the method is potentially effective. The report represents work in progress.}, number={1}, journal={FORENSIC LINGUISTICS-THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SPEECH LANGUAGE AND THE LAW}, author={Rodman, R and McAllister, D and Bitzer, D and Cepeda, L and Abbitt, P}, year={2002}, pages={22–43} } @article{mcallister_mcallister_vivian_2002, title={The impact of digital books upon print publishing}, ISBN={["0-7803-7284-0"]}, DOI={10.1109/istas.2002.1013810}, abstractNote={This paper examines the concrete impact of digital publishing upon print publishing. The remarkable growth of the Internet is at the core of this impact, as the Internet forms the backbone for much of the digitization of print publishing, from commercial promotional efforts to e-book readers to alliances with education. Additionally, this paper offers short-term speculations-grounded in specific current developments-of the continuing effects of digital publishing on print publishing.}, journal={SOCIAL IMPLICATIONS OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY, PROCEEDINGS}, author={McAllister, D and McAllister, N and Vivian, S}, year={2002}, pages={150–154} } @book{mershon_mayer_mcalister_2002, title={Visual factors affecting pilots' judgments of the position of the touchdown during emergency landings}, number={NAG 2-1281}, journal={Final Technical Report on Research Grant NAG 2-1281}, institution={NASA-Ames}, author={Mershon, D. H. and Mayer, C. M. and McAlister, D. F.}, year={2002} } @inproceedings{mcallister_hogan_morris_mershon_mayer_lim_holmes_tomlinson_2001, title={Some problems encountered in the development of a virtual reality system for evaluating human performance during emergency power-off aircraft landings}, volume={4297}, ISBN={0819439770}, booktitle={Human vision and electronic imaging VI : 22-25 January, 2001, San Jose, USA}, author={McAllister, D. F. and Hogan, R. C. and Morris, B. E. and Mershon, D. H. and Mayer, C. M. and Lim, R. and Holmes, M. and Tomlinson, J.}, year={2001} } @inproceedings{mayer_mershon_lim_mcallister_matson_morris_2001, title={Visual factors affecting pilots' judgments of trajectory-to-touchdown during emergency landings}, volume={11}, booktitle={Focusing Attention on Aviation Safety the 11th International Symposium on Aviation Psychology, March 5-8, 2001, Columbus, Ohio, USA}, author={Mayer, C. M. and Mershon, D. H. and Lim, R. and McAllister, D. F. and Matson, K. and Morris, B. E.}, year={2001} } @inproceedings{rodman_mcallister_bitzer_freeman_1998, title={Automated lip-sync animation as a telecommunications aid for the hearing impaired}, booktitle={Proceedings, 1998 IEEE 4th Workshop Interactive Voice Technology for Telecommunications Applications: IVTTA '98, September 29th-30th, 1998, Turino, Italy}, publisher={New York: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.; Piscataway, NJ: IEEE Service Center}, author={Rodman, R. D. and McAllister, D. F. and Bitzer, D. L. and Freeman, A. S.}, year={1998}, pages={202–208} } @article{mcallister_rodman_bitzer_freeman_1998, title={Speaker independence in automated lip-sync for audio-video communication}, volume={30}, ISSN={["0169-7552"]}, DOI={10.1016/S0169-7552(98)00216-5}, abstractNote={By analyzing the absolute value of the Fourier transform of a speaker's voice signal we can predict the position of the mouth for English vowel sounds. This is without the use of text, speech recognition or mechanical or other sensing devices attached to the speaker's mouth. This capability can reduce the time required for mouth animation considerably. We expect it to be competitive eventually with the speech/text driven solutions which are becoming popular. Our technique would require much less interaction from the user and no knowledge of phonetic spelling. We discuss the problems of producing an algorithm that is speaker independent. The goal is to avoid having to measure mouth movements off video for each speaker's training sounds. We have discovered that eliminating variation due to pitch yields moments which are mouth shape dependent but not speaker dependent. This implies that careful construction of predictor surfaces can produce speaker independent prediction of mouth motion for English vowels.}, number={20-21}, journal={COMPUTER NETWORKS AND ISDN SYSTEMS}, author={McAllister, DF and Rodman, RD and Bitzer, DL and Freeman, AS}, year={1998}, month={Nov}, pages={1975–1980} } @inproceedings{rodman_bitzer_mcallister_1997, title={Lip synchronization as an aid to the hearing disabled}, number={1997}, booktitle={AVIOS 97: Proceedings of the American Voice Input/Output Society (AVIOS), September 1997}, publisher={San Jose, Calif.: American Voice Input/Output Society Society}, author={Rodman, R. D. and Bitzer, D. L. and McAllister, D. F.}, year={1997}, pages={233–248} } @inproceedings{rodman_mcallister_bitzer_1997, title={Lip synchronization for animation}, booktitle={Computer graphics: Proceedings, annual conference series, 1997: SIGGRAPH 97 Conference proceedings, August 3-8, 1997}, publisher={New York, N.Y.: Association for Computing Machinery}, author={Rodman, R. D. and McAllister, D. F. and Bitzer, D. L.}, year={1997}, pages={225–226} } @inproceedings{mcallister_bitzer_rodman_1997, title={Lip synchronization of speech}, booktitle={Proceedings of the Audio Visual Speech Processing Conference '97, October 1997}, author={McAllister, D. F. and Bitzer, D. L. and Rodman, R. D.}, year={1997}, pages={133–136} } @inproceedings{rodman_mcallister_bitzer_1997, title={Toward speaker independence in automated lip-sync}, number={1997}, booktitle={Compugraphics '97: Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Graphics and Visualization Techniques, December 1997}, publisher={Portugal}, author={Rodman, R. D. and McAllister, D. F. and Bitzer, D. L.}, year={1997}, pages={1–5} }