Recent News
Prof. O'Brien quoted in New York Times Article on Inappropriate Duplication of Images in Biomedical Research.
March 8, 2017
Findings of fraud in biomedical research have surged in recent years, whether from an actual increase in misconduct or from heightened caution ... [more]
Berkeley Graphics Alums, Hayley Iben and Sarah Beth Eisinger have been featured in Khan Acedemy's Pixar in a Box series of tutorials.
December 12, 2016
Pixar in a Box is a behind-the-scenes look at how Pixar artists do their jobs. You will be able to animate bouncing balls, build a swarm of robots ... [more]
Prof. O'Brien receives Technical Achievement award from The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for Finite Element Destruction Modeling
January 12, 2015
Prof. James O'Brien will be receiving a Technical Achievement award from The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for Finite Element ... [more]
Scientific American selected Brian Barsky and Fu-Chung Huang's research on vision correcting displays as one of 2014s ten World Changing Ideas
December 1, 2014
Research by Brian Barsky and Fu-Chung and their colleagues at MIT on displays that correct for the viewer's vision problems has been selected ... [more]
To be presented at the SIGGRAPH 2014 conference in Vancouver
August 10, 2014
Adaptive Tearing and Cracking of Thin Sheets
Tobias Pfaff, Rahul Narain, Juan Miguel de Joya, and James O'Brien
Exposing Photo Manipulation from ...
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Recent Papers
Truth in Motion: The Unprecedented Risks and Opportunities of Extended Reality Motion Data
Vivek Nair, Louis Rosenberg, James F. O'Brien, Dawn Song
IEEE S&P
Berkeley Open Extended Reality Recordings 2023 (BOXRR-23): 4.7 Million Motion Capture Recordings from 105,000 XR Users
Vivek Nair, Wenbo Guo, Rui Wang, James F. O'Brien, Louis Rosenberg, Dawn Song
IEEE VR 2024
Unique Identification of 50,000+ Virtual Reality Users from Head and Hand Motion Data
Vivek Nair, Wenbo Guo, Justus Mattern, Rui Wang, James F. O'Brien, Louis Rosenberg, Dawn Song
USENIX Security 23
Exploring the Unprecedented Privacy Risks of the Metaverse
Vivek Nair, Gonzalo Munilla Garrido, Dawn Song, James F. O'Brien
PoPETS 2023
KBody: Balanced monocular whole-body estimation
Nikolaos Zioulis, James F. O'Brien
CVFAD 2023
KBody: Towards general, robust, and aligned monocular whole-body estimation
Nikolaos Zioulis, James F. O'Brien
RHOBIN 2023
Monocular Facial Performance Capture Via Deep Expression Matching
Stephen Bailey, Jérémy Riviere, Morten Mikkelsen, James F. O'Brien
SCA 2022
This photograph has been altered: Testing the effectiveness of image forensic labeling on news image credibility
Cuihua Shen, Mona Kasra, James F. O'Brien
Misinformation Review
Fast and Deep Facial Deformations
Stephen Bailey, Dalton Omens, Paul Dilorenzo, James F. O'Brien
SIGGRAPH 2020
Fake images: The effects of source, intermediary, and digital media literacy on contextual assessment of imag credibility online
Cuihua Shen, Mona Kasra, Wenjing Pan, Grace A. Bassett, Yining Malloch, James F. O'Brien
New Media and Society