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Curriculum Vitae

Scott King

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Education

Ph.D.	Ohio State University, Computer and Information Science	2001
M.S.	Ohio State University, Computer and Information Science	1994
B.S.	Utah State University, Computer Science	1988

Employment

2004-present	Assistant Professor	Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, Computing and Mathematical Sciences, Corpus Christi, TX, USA
2002-2004	Lecturer	University of Otago, Computer Science Department, Dunedin, New Zealand
2000-2001	Senior Lecturer	The Ohio State University, Department of Computer and Information Science, Columbus, OH, USA
1996-2000	Graduate Research Assistant	The Ohio State University, Department of Computer and Information Science, Columbus, OH, USA
1992-1994, 1996-2000	Graduate Administrative Assistant	The Ohio State University, Department of Computer and Information Science, Columbus, OH, USA
1995-1997	Summer Intern	Texas Instruments Software Research Laboratory, Dallas, TX, USA
1995-1996	Graduate Research Assistant	Ohio Supercomputer Center, Columbus, OH, USA
1991-1992, 1994	Programmer/Analyst	Harris Methodist, Ft Worth, TX, USA
1989-1991	Software Engineer	General Dynamics, Ft Worth, TX, USA
1988-1989	Programmer	Tandy Corp, Ft Worth, TX, USA

Publications

• Journals
  1. Scott A. King, Richard E. Parent, "Creating Speech-Synchronized Animation", IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, submitted.
  2. Scott A. King and Richard E. Parent, "Animating Song", JVCA, 2004, to appear.
  3. Scott A. King and Richard E. Parent, "A 3D Parametric Tongue Model for Animated Speech", JVCA, 12 (3), pp. 107-115, 2001.
• Book Chapters
  1. Scott A. King, Richard E. Parent, and Barbara Olsafsky, "A Muscle-Based 3D Parametric Lip Model for Speech-Synchronized Facial Animation" in Deformable Avatars, edited by Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann and Daniel Thalmann, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, 2001.
  2. Scott A. King, Roger A. Crawfis and Wayland Reid, "Fast Volume Rendering and Animation of Amorphous Phenomena", chapter 14 in Volume Graphics, edited by Min Chen, Arie E. Kaufman and Roni Yagel, Springer, London, 2000.
• Conference Proceedings
  1. Will Baker and Scott A. King, "Interactive Modelling of Hair with Texture Maps", Image and Vision Computing New Zealand 2003, 26-28 November, Palmerston North, New Zealand, pp. 84-89, 2003.
  2. Zhuming Lam and Scott A. King, "Animation of Tree Development", Image and Vision Computing New Zealand 2003, 26-28 November, Palmerston North, New Zealand, pp. 297-302, 2003.
  3. M.S. Lorenzo, J.D. Edge, S.A. King and S. Maddock, "Use And re-use of Facial Motion Capture Data", Proceedings of Vision, Video, and Graphics 2003, 10-11 July, University of Bath, 2003.
  4. Scott A. King, Alistair Knott, and Brendan McCane, "Language-driven nonverbal communication in a bilingual conversational agent", Proceedings of Computer Animation and Social Agents 2003, 7-9 May, Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Jersey, pp 17-22, 2003.
  5. Rick Parent, Scott King, Osamu Fujimura, "Issues with lip-synch animation: can you read my lips?", Proceedings of Computer Animation 2002, , 19-21 June, Geneva, Switzerland, pp. 3-10, 2002.
  6. Scott A. King and Richard E Parent, "Lip Synchronization for Song", Proceedings of Computer Animation 2002, 19-21 June, Geneva Switzerland, pp. 233-239, 2002.
  7. Scott A. King, Richard E. Parent, "A Parametric Tongue Model for Animated Speech", Computer Animation and Simulation 2000 (CAS): Proceedings of the Eurographics Workshop, Interlaken, Switzerland, August 21-22, pp 3-13, 2000.
  8. Scott A. King, Richard E. Parent, and Barbara Olsafsky, "An Anatomically-Based 3D Parametric Lip Model to Support Facial Animation and Synchronized Speech", Proceedings of Deform 2000, 29-30 November, Geneva, Switzerland, pp. 7-19, 2000.
  9. Scott A. King, Roger A. Crawfis, Wayland Reid, "Fast Animation of Amorphous and Gaseous Phenomena", Proceedings of Volume Graphics '99, Swansea, Wales, pp 333-346, March 1999.
  10. R. Yagel, D. Stredney, G.J. Wiet, P. Schmalbrock, L. Rosenberg, D.J. Sessanna, Y. Kurzion, and S. King, "Multisensory Platform for Surgical Simulation", IEEE Virtual Reality Annual International Symposium 1996 - VRAIS'96 Santa Clara CA, March 1996, pp. 72-78.
• Invited Talks
  1. Rick Parent, Scott King, Osamu Fujimura, "Issues with lip-synch animation: can you read my lips?", Proceedings of Computer Animation 2002, , 19-21 June, Geneva, Switzerland, pp. 3-10, 2002.
• Tech Reports
  1. Scott A. King, A Facial Model and Animation Techniques for Animated Speech, Ph.D. Thesis, Ohio State University, 2001.
  2. Scott A. King, Richard E. Parent, "TalkingHead: A Text-to-Audiovisual-Speech system", Technical Report# OSU-CISRC-2/80-TR05, Department of Computer and Information Science, The Ohio State University: Columbus, OH, February 2000.
• Courses
  1. Course 28, "Motion Capture: Pipeline, Applications, and Use", SIGGRAPH 2002.

Invited Talks

• Rick Parent, Scott King, Osamu Fujimura, "Issues with lip-synch animation: can you read my lips?", Proceedings of Computer Animation 2002, 19-21 June, Geneva, Switzerland, 2002.

Teaching

• COSC 455, Computer Graphics, University of Otago.
• COSC 342, Computer Graphics, University of Otago.
• CIS 541, Numerical Analysis, The Ohio State University.
• COSC 201, Computers for Professionals, University of Otago.
• COSC 326, Effective Programming, University of Otago.

Service

• FUSE (New Zealand Game Developer Conference 2004) program committee.
• Computer Animation and Social Agents 2004 program committee.
• Pacific Graphics 2004 program committee.
• SIGGRAPH International Committee, 2002-3.
• SIGGRAPH Pathfinders, 2001.
• Member CIS 2⁵ anniversary committe.
• Chair Graduate Steering Committe, Computer and Information Science, The Ohio State University, 1999-2000.
• Member Council of Graduate Students, The Ohio State University, 1998-2000.
• Member Central Ohio Transit Authority advisory committe, The Ohio State Univerisity, 1998-2000.
• Volunteers for Medical Engineering of Texas, member and chair of Programming and Communications Group, 1989-1990.
• President, treasurer, member, Student Chapter of the ACM, Utah State University, 1986-1988.

Students Advised

• Zhuming Lam (M.S. 2004 expected)
• 3 fourth year projects, 2002-2003.
• 5 honours student projects, 2003.
• 3 summer bursary students, 2002, 2003.
• 1 student from Twente University for a 3 month internship, 2003.

Professional Activities

• Membership Professional Organizations
  • Member, Association for Computing Machinery, and Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics (SIGGRAPH).
  • Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Computer Society.
  • Member, EUROGRAPHICS.
  • Member, The Computer Graphics Society.
• Reviewer Experience
  • IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graph., 2000, 2001, 2003.
  • IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 2003.
  • The Visual Computer, 2002.
  • Wiley UK, 2001.
  • Mirage 2003 Conference.
  • SIGGRAPH CDRom Reviewer, 1998-2001.
  • SIGGRAPH Course Reviewer, 1998-2000.
  • Ph.D. dissertition, University of Sydney, 2003.
  • Masters thesis, University of Otago, 2003.