Toby Howard

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Toby Howard
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Toby L. J. Howard is an Honorary Reader in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Manchester in the UK. He was appointed Lecturer in 1985, and was Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department 2011–2019. He retired from the University in 2020 and was appointed to an Honorary position. [10] [11] [12] [13] [14]

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Education

Howard was educated at Birkenhead School, and then the University of Manchester receiving a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science and a Master of Science degree in 1983 for work on the graphics facilities of the MU6 network. [15]

Research

Howard's research interests are computer graphics and virtual environments. [16] [17] [18] [19] as a member of the Advanced Interfaces Group (AIG) [20] and has supervised several doctoral students. [1] [3] [5] [7] [9] [21] Howard's research projects have included:

Teaching

Howard led the undergraduate courses COMP27112Computer Graphics and Image Processing and COMP37111 Advanced Computer Graphics. At Masters level he taught computer graphics and databases.

Public engagement

Howard was active in public engagement, focusing on projects with schools. He founded and led the annual UK Schools Computer Animation Competition which ran 2008–2018. [23]

Other activities

Howard is active in documenting the history of computers developed at the University of Manchester.

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References

  1. 1 2 Albin-Clark, Adrian (2012). Simulating characters for observation: Bridging theory and practice (PhD thesis). University of Manchester.
  2. ↑ Albin-Clark, A.; Howard, T. L. J.; Anderson, B. (2011). "Real-time computer graphics simulation of blockplay in early childhood". Computers & Education. 57 (4): 2496. doi:10.1016/j.compedu.2011.07.004.
  3. 1 2 Broughton, Russell Alan (2007). Framework for plausible augmentation of virtual environments (PhD thesis). University of Manchester.
  4. ↑ Broughton, R. A.; Howard, T. L. J. (2005). "Augmenting existing virtual environments with plausible naturalistic clutter". 2005 International Conference on Cyberworlds (CW'05). p. 8. doi:10.1109/CW.2005.22. ISBN   978-0769523781. S2CID   187981.
  5. 1 2 Caillette, Fabrice (2006). Real-time markerless 3-D human body tracking (PhD thesis). University of Manchester. Archived from the original on 20 July 2013.
  6. ↑ Caillette, F.; Galata, A.; Howard, T. (2008). "Real-time 3-D human body tracking using learnt models of behaviour" (PDF). Computer Vision and Image Understanding. 109 (2): 112. doi:10.1016/j.cviu.2007.05.005.
  7. 1 2 Gaborit, Nicholas (2006). Interaction mechanisms in a collaborative large scale virtual environment for public consultation (PhD thesis). University of Manchester.
  8. ↑ Gaborit, N.; Howard, T. (2004). "A collaborative virtual environment for public consultation in the urban planning process". Proceedings Theory and Practice of Computer Graphics. p. 104. doi:10.1109/TPCG.2004.1314459. ISBN   978-0769521374. S2CID   14786779.
  9. 1 2 Sayeed, Rezwan (2010). Illustrative non-photorealistic rendering techniques for GPU architectures (PhD thesis). University of Manchester.
  10. ↑ Toby Howard publications indexed by Google Scholar OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
  11. ↑ Toby Howard publications indexed by Microsoft Academic
  12. ↑ Toby Howard at DBLP Bibliography Server OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
  13. ↑ Howard, Toby L J's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  14. ↑ Toby L J Howard author profile page at the ACM Digital Library OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
  15. ↑ Howard, Toby L.J. (1983). Graphics facilities for the MU6 network (MSc thesis). University of Manchester. Archived from the original on 20 July 2013.
  16. ↑ Caillette, F.; Howard, T. (2004). "Real-Time Markerless Human Body Tracking Using Colored Voxels and 3-D Blobs" (PDF). Third IEEE and ACM International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality. p. 266. CiteSeerX   10.1.1.59.1508 . doi:10.1109/ISMAR.2004.50. ISBN   978-0769521916. S2CID   10235875.
  17. ↑ Howard, T. L. J. (1991). A Practical introduction to PHIGS and PHIGS plus. Boston: Addison-Wesley. ISBN   978-0201416411.
  18. 1 2 Hubbold, R.; Cook, J.; Keates, M.; Gibson, S.; Howard, T.; Murta, A.; West, A.; Pettifer, S. (1999). "GNU/MAVERIK". Proceedings of the ACM symposium on Virtual reality software and technology – VRST '99. p. 66. doi:10.1145/323663.323674. ISBN   978-1581131413. S2CID   9444800.
  19. ↑ Gibson, S.; Hubbold, R. J.; Cook, J.; Howard, T. L. J. (2003). "Interactive reconstruction of virtual environments from video sequences". Computers & Graphics. 27 (2): 293. CiteSeerX   10.1.1.101.7413 . doi:10.1016/S0097-8493(02)00285-6.
  20. ↑ http://aig.cs.man.ac.uk Archived 2004-07-30 at the Wayback Machine
  21. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Toby Howard: research". Archived from the original on 15 April 2014.
  22. ↑ Murray, C. D.; Pettifer, S.; Howard, T.; Patchick, E. L.; Caillette, F.; Kulkarni, J.; Bamford, C. (2007). "The treatment of phantom limb pain using immersive virtual reality: Three case studies". Disability & Rehabilitation. 29 (18): 1465–9. doi:10.1080/09638280601107385. PMID   17729094. S2CID   15764265.
  23. ↑ "The UK Schools Computer Animation Competition". animation18.cs.manchester.ac.uk.
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