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publications
Generating Rough Stereoscopic 3D Line Drawings from 3D Images
Published in Proceedings of Graphics Interface 2021, 2021
Recommended citation: Istead, L., Pocol, A., Kaplan, C. S., Watt, I., Lemoing, N., & Yang, A. (2021). "Generating Rough Stereoscopic 3D Line Drawings from 3D Images". In: Proceedings of Graphics Interface 2021.
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Evaluating Gender Bias in Film Dialogue
Published in 27th International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems (NLDB), 2022
Recommended citation: Istead, L., Pocol, A., & Siu, S. (2022). "Evaluating Gender Bias in Film Dialogue". In: Natural Language Processing and Information Systems, pp. 403-410.
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Assessing the Impact of Movie Plot Summaries on Box Office Sales
Published in IEEE Eighth International Conference on Big Data Computing Service and Applications, 2022
Recommended citation: Pocol, A., & Istead, L. (2022). "Assessing the Impact of Movie Plot Summaries on Box Office Sales". In: 2022 IEEE Eighth International Conference on Big Data Computing Service and Applications (BigDataService), pp. 48-52.
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A Simple, Stroke-Based Method for Gesture Drawing
Published in Computer Graphics International 2022 / VRIH Journal, 2022
Recommended citation: Istead, L., Istead, J., Pocol, A., & Kaplan, C. S. (2022). "A Simple, Stroke-Based Method for Gesture Drawing". In: Computer Graphics International 2022. (Best Paper Award)
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The Colour of Horror
Published in ACM SIGGRAPH European Conference on Visual Media Production (CVMP), 2022
Recommended citation: Istead, L., Pocol, A., Siu, S., Chen, W., Zdanowicz, A., Rowaan, A., & Kaplan, C. S. (2022). "The Colour of Horror". In: ACM SIGGRAPH European Conference on Visual Media Production (CVMP).
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Seeing is No Longer Believing: A Survey on the State of Deepfakes, AI-Generated Humans, and Other Nonveridical Media
Published in Advances in Computer Graphics (Springer Nature Switzerland), 2023
Recommended citation: Pocol, A., Istead, L., Siu, S., Mokhtari, S., & Kodeiri, S. (2024). "Seeing is No Longer Believing: A Survey on the State of Deepfakes, AI-Generated Humans, and Other Nonveridical Media". In: Advances in Computer Graphics, pp. 427-440.
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Interactive Colour Palette Generation from Videos
Published in SIGGRAPH 2024 Poster, 2024
Recommended citation: Pocol, A., & Istead, L. (2024). "Interactive Colour Palette Generation from Videos". In: SIGGRAPH 2024 Posters (SIGGRAPH 2024 Posters). ACM.
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Evaluating and Improving Disparity Maps Without Ground Truth
Published in Intelligent Systems and Applications (Springer Nature Switzerland), 2024
Recommended citation: Pocol, A., Istead, L., & Kaplan, C. S. (2024). "Evaluating and Improving Disparity Maps Without Ground Truth". In: Arai, K. (eds) Intelligent Systems and Applications, pp. 153-177.
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An Evaluation of Gender Bias in 167K Movie Posters
Published in Intelligent Systems and Applications (Springer Nature Switzerland), 2024
Recommended citation: Song, Y., Pocol, A., & Istead, L. (2024). "An Evaluation of Gender Bias in 167K Movie Posters". In: Intelligent Systems and Applications, pp. 332-358.
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Binned-KMeans: Extracting Memorable, Explainable, Weighted and Sorted Colour Palettes from Videos
Published in International Conference on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing (CBMI), 2025
Recommended citation: Pocol, A., Istead, L., & Kaplan, C. (2025). "Binned-KMeans: Extracting Memorable, Explainable, Weighted and Sorted Colour Palettes from Videos". In: 2025 International Conference on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing (CBMI), pp. 1-5.
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talks
Talk 1
Published:
Seminar 1: Computational Methods for Colour Palette Comparison
Talk 2
Published:
Seminar 2: Computational Methods for Colour Palette Generation and the Psychophysiological Impact Thereof
teaching
Teaching Assistant (CS 350)
Undergraduate, University of Waterloo, 2021
Teaching Assistant (CS 488)
Undergraduate, University of Waterloo, 2022
Teaching Assistant (CS 492)
Undergraduate, University of Waterloo, 2023
Course Supporter (Secure Coding)
Career Accelerator, WatSPEED, 2024
Instructional Apprentice (CS 116)
Undergraduate, University of Waterloo, 2026
Instructor (Python 1)
Career Accelerator, WatSPEED, 2026