Research Activities

1). Ms. Shaojun Bian visited the Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China from 01/06/2014 to 18/07/2014, and gave a talk about National Centre for Computer Animation, Bournemouth University, UK and Differential equation-based geometric modelling and computer animation.

2). The UK research team published a paper “Dynamic skin deformation using finite difference solutions for character animation” in the journal of Computers & Graphics, and presented it at the Shape Modeling International 2014 Conference.

3). The UK research team has obtained a Bournemouth University’s Part Matched Studentship in 2014.

4). Dr Lihua You visited Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China from 15/09/2014 to 30/09/2014.

5) The UK research team has obtained a Bournemouth University Fusion Investment Fund to promote the research into Partial differential equation-based geometric modelling and computer animation in collaboration with University of Bradford, UK, 2014.

6). Prof Jian J. Zhang visited the Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China from ??/??/2014 to ??/??/2014.

7). The UK research team presented a paper on “A survey of sketch based modelling systems” at the 11th International Conference on Computer Graphics, Imaging and Visualization held in Singapore in 2014.

8). The UK research team published a paper “Blending using ODE swept surfaces with shape control and C1 continuity” in the journal of The Visual computer, and presented it at the Computer Graphics International 2014 Conference.

9). Dr Lihua You visited the Key State Lab of CAD&CG, Zhejiang University, China from 22/12/2014 to 28/12/2014.

10). The UK research team has a paper “Recent Developments in Skin Deformation for Character Animation” accepted by the 10th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications, 2015.