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I completed my Ph.D. at UNC-Chapel Hill in Computer Science in 2005. My dissertation topic was Modeling Hair using Levels of Detail, which I completed under the advisement of Prof. Ming Lin. My dissertation research was in multiple areas of hair modeling including:

  • Using levels-of-detail to accelerate the simulation and rendering of hair while maintaining high visual quality.
  • Dynamic clustering effects of hair
  • Modeling wet hair
  • Modeling styling products on hair
  • Interactive hairstyling

    • Hair Research Projects

    Interactive Virtual Hair Salon
    • Interactive Virtual Hair Salon.
      Kelly Ward, Nico Galoppo, and Ming C. Lin. PRESENCE, 2007.
      Project Website

    • A Simulation-based VR System for Interactive Hairstyling.
      Kelly Ward, Nico Galoppo, and Ming C. Lin. Proc. of IEEE VR 2006, Applications and Research Sketches.
      Project Website (Acrobat)

    Modeling Hair Influenced by Water and Styling Products
    • Modeling Hair Influenced by Water and Styling Products.
      Kelly Ward, Nico Galoppo, and Ming C. Lin. Proc. of Computer Animation and Social Agents, 2004.
      Project Website (Acrobat)

    • Introduces techniques for modeling wet hair and hair influenced by styling products (such as hairspray). Our approach includes a dynamics system that adaptively accounts for changing stiffness and weight of the hair, a geometric representation that can alter the physical depiction of hair based on the substance(s) present on it, and a rendering approach to account for the varying appearance of hair.

    Adaptive Grouping and Subdivision for Simulating Hair Dynamics
    • Adaptive Grouping and Subdivision for Simulating Hair Dynamics.
      Kelly Ward and Ming C. Lin. Proc. of Pacific Graphics, 2003.
      Project Website (Acrobat)

    • Presents an approach for adaptively grouping and subdividing hair creating both continuous and discrete LODs for modeling hair. This approach automatically simplifies the dynamics and collision detection for hair simulation while improving the visual quality of the hair by allowing us to simulate down to the individual strand level.

    Modeling Hair Using Level-of-Detail Representations
    • Modeling Hair Using Level-of-Detail Representations.
      Kelly Ward, Ming C. Lin, Joohi Lee, Susan Fisher, and Dean Macri. Proc. of Computer Animation and Social Agents, 2003.
      Project Website (Acrobat)

    • Presents a method for modeling hair using level-of-detail representations, which support the automatic simplification of dynamic simulation, collision detection, and graphical rendering of animated hair.

    Publications

  • Kelly Ward, Nico Galoppo, and Ming C. Lin. Interactive Virtual Hair Salon. to appear in PRESENCE, 2007. Project Website

  • Kelly Ward, Florence Bertails, Tae-Yong Kim, Stephen R. Marschner, Mari-Paule Cani, Ming C. Lin. A Survey on Hair Modeling: Styling, Simulation and Rendering. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 13, no. 2, pp. 213-234, Mar/Apr. 2007. (Acrobat)

  • Kelly Ward, Nico Galoppo, and Ming C. Lin. A Simulation-based VR System for Interactive Hairstyling IEEE Virtual Reality, Research Sketches and Applications, 2006. Project Website (Acrobat)

  • Kelly Ward, Nico Galoppo, and Ming C. Lin. Modeling Hair Influenced by Water and Styling Products. Proceedings of Computer Animation and Social Agents (CASA) , pp. 207-214, 2004. Project Website (Acrobat)

  • Kelly Ward, Nico Galoppo, and Ming C. Lin. Simulating and Rendering Wet Hair. ACM SIGGRAPH Sketches and Applications, 2004. Project Website (Acrobat)

  • Kelly Ward and Ming C. Lin. Adaptive Grouping and Subdivision for Simulating Hair Dynamics. In Pacific Graphics Conference on Computer Graphics and Applications, pp.234-243, 2003. Project Website (Acrobat)

  • Kelly Ward, Ming C. Lin, Joohi Lee, Susan Fisher, and Dean Macri. Modeling Hair Using Level-of-Detail Representations. Proceedings of Computer Animation and Social Agents (CASA), pp. 41-47, 2003. Project Website (Acrobat)

  • Kelly Ward, Susan Fisher, and Ming C. Lin. Simplified Representations for Modeling Hair. UNC Technical Report #TR02-020, 2002.

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