This page highlights prior research projects some of which were done at my previous teaching jobs in Computer Science at Millsaps College in Jackson MS and in Computing in the Arts at College of Charleston in South Carolina.
SIGCSE 2020 Math Behind Movie Special Effects – Motivating Future Adventures in Computing by Unmasking Math Behind Movie Special Effects
by Katie Chea, Christine Moore, and William Bares. Follow this link to the ACM publication.
Computing in the Arts and Gender Balance
The Computing in the Arts program at College of Charleston has demonstrated sustained success in recruiting, retaining, and graduating women at rates of near fifty percent. Ample opportunities for individualized creative expression in the arts are woven through this four-year undergraduate program.
William H. Bares, Bill Manaris, Renée McCauley, and Christine Moore. 2019. Achieving Gender Balance through Creative Expression. In ACM SIGGRAPH 2019 Educators Forum (SIGGRAPH ’19), ACM, New York, NY, USA.
William H. Bares, Bill Manaris, Renée McCauley, and Christine Moore. 2019. Achieving Gender Balance through Creative Expression. In Proceedings of the 50th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE ’19). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 293-299. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3287324.3287435
William Bares, Bill Manaris & Renée McCauley. 2018. Gender equity in computer science through computing in the arts – a six-year longitudinal study, In Computer Science Education, 28:3, 191-210, DOI: 10.1080/08993408.2018.1519322
Computing in the Movies – This CS Education work explored how contextualizing introductory data science with movies can increase interest and broaden participation in data science. Click here to learn more about the pilot offered to high school students as part of CofC’s Honors College Summer Institute.
Story Blocker
Story Blocker is a Web-based virtual 3-D movie making application that can be used to practice cinematography skills of script writing, blocking, composition, and editing. Create and share short virtual 3-D movies so that others can view and offer constructive critiques. This project (the re-naming of its predecessor, Film Ties).
Story Blocker introductory video.
Editing motion paths with Story Blocker
Director’s Lens
Shortly after the release of the movie Avatar (2009), I originated the idea for the first human-in-the-loop intelligent virtual camera assistant. The system applies an Artificial Intelligence model which proposes alternative camera angles for filming movies based on previously recorded shots so that the computed suggestions reflect continuity and composition and editing style tendencies of the virtual camera operator. Follow this link to the ACM publication.
For more information please visit my colleague Marc Christie’s Director’s Lens web page.
Director’s Lens demo video from the 2011 ACM publication.