• Computer Graphics Pioneer
• Best Book in Computer Science (Computer Animation: Algorithms and Techniques), Association of American Publishers's Professional and Scholarly Book Division, 2001. Awarded to Morgan-Kaufmann, Publishers.
• SIGGRAPH Paper #3 included in SIGGRAPH 98's list of "Seminal Graphics: Pioneering Efforts that Shaped the Field."
• "Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis Award," (one of four given nationally), NCC, 1977.
• University Fellowship, The Ohio State University, 1972-1974.

• Membership in 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, UPE
• Program/Papers/Sketches Committees
  • Program Committee, SIBGRAPI 2008:Brazilian Symposium on Computer Graphics and Image Processing, Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil, October 12-15, 2008.
  • Program Committee, Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA), Dublin, Ireland, July 7-9, 2008.
  • Program Committee, International Conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents (CASA), Seoul, Korea, June 30-July 2, 2008.
  • Program Committee, Symposium on Computer Animation, San Diego, Aug 3-4, 2007.
  • Program Committee, Computer Graphics International, Petropolis, Brazil, May 30 - June 2, 2007.
  • Program Committee, International Conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents (CASA), Hasselt, Belgium, June 11-13,2007
  • Program Committee, SIBGRAPI 2007:Brazilian Symposium on Computer Graphics and Image Processing, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil, October 7-10, 2007.
  • Program Committee, International Conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents (CASA), Geneva, 2006.
  • Program Committee, SIBGRAPI 2006: Brazilian Symposium on Computer Graphics and Image Processing, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil, October 8-11, 2006.
  • Program Committee, ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA 2006), Vienna, Austria, September 2-4, 2006.
  • Program Committee, International Conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents (CASA), Hong Kong, 17-19 October 2005.
  • Program Committee, Pacific Graphics 2005, Macao, China, Oct. 12-14, 2005.
  • Program Committee, SIBGRAPI 2005: Brazilian Symposium on Computer Graphics and Image Processing, Natal, RN, Brazil, October 9-12, 2005.
  • Courses Committee, SIGGRAPH 2005, Los Angeles, 31 July - 4 August, 2005.
  • Program Committee, ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA 2005), Los Angeles, 28-30 July 2005.
  • Program Committee, the 23rd Computer Graphics International Conference (CGI 2005), Stony Brook University, New York, June 22-24, 2005.
  • Program Committee, The 17th International Conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents (CASA 2004), U. of Geneva, July 7-9, 2004.
  • Program Committee, ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA 2004), Grenoble, France, August 26-27, 2004.
  • Program Committee, Pacific Graphics 2004, Seoul, Korea, October 6-8, 2004.
  • Program Committee, The 16th International Conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents (CASA 2003), Rutgers University, May 7-9, 2003.
  • Program Committee, RichMedia 2003, Lausanne, Switzerland, October 16-17, 2003.
  • General Co-Chair, Symposium on Computer Animation, San Diego,CA, July 26-27, 2003.
  • Program Co-Chair, Computer Animation 2002, Geneva, Switzerland, June 19-21, 2002.
  • Program Committee, First International Workshop on 3D Virtual Heritage, Geneva, Switzerland, October 2-3, 2002.
  • Program Committee, ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Computer Animation, San Antonio, Texas, July 21-22, 2002.
  • Conference Technical Sketches Subcommittee Chair, SIGGRAPH 2002, San Antonio, Texas, 21-26 July, 2002.
  • Program Committee, Computer Graphics International 2000, Geneva, Switzerland, June 19-24, 2000.
  • Program Committee, Computer Animation '99, Geneva, Switzerland, May 26-28, 1999.
  • Conference Committee Member, Sketches Committee Chair, Sketches Session Chair, SIGGRAPH 98, Orlando, Florida, 1998.
  • Conference Technical Sketches Subcommittee Chair, SIGGRAPH 97, Los Angeles, CA, August 3-8, 1997.
  • Papers Committee Member, Paper Session Chair, SIGGRAPH 96, New Orleans, LA, August 4-9, 1996.
  • Conference Course Organizer, SIGGRAPH 91, Las Vegas, July 28-August 2, 1991.
  • Conference Course Organizer, SIGGRAPH 90, Dallas, Texas, August 6-8, 1990.
• Editorial Boards and Steering Committee
  • Associate Editor, Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (2004- )
  • Member, Steering Committee, Symposium on Computer Animation (2001-2007).
  • Member of the Editorial Board, Visual Computer (2000- )
• Expert Witness
  • Sidley Austin Brown & Wood LLP, expert report and rebuttal for Dreamworks against patent infringement suit, Los Angeles, CA, 2004-2005.
  • Cooley Godward LLP, expert opinions for Nintendo against patent infringement suit, Palo Alto, CA, 2004-2005.
  • Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, prior art evaluation for Electronic Arts against patent infringement suit, San Francisco, CA, 2005.
• Consulting Experience
  • AutoDesSys: CAD package display algorithms, polygonal reconstruction of implicit surfaces, B-spline curves, animation GUI
  • Artais: automated weather reporting system evaluation
  • CompuServe: game design
  • Level II: game design
  • Boeing: general graphics
• Reviewer Experience
  • Journals
    • ACM Transactions on Graphics
    • IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
    • The Visual Computer
    • IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications
    • Journal on Visualization and Computer Animation
    • Journal of Brasilian Computer Society
    • Journal of Graphical Models and Image Processing
    • Journal of Modeling and Simulation
    • Journal of Graphical Models
    • Journal of Graphical Tools
    • Computer Graphics Forum
    • Transactions on Multimedia Computing Communications and Applications
    • Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery
    • Pattern Recognition Letters
    • Machine Vision and Applications
    • Integrated Computer Aided Design
    • IEEE Expert
    • Transactions on Biomedical Engineering
    • International Network for Engineering Education and Research
  • Conferences, Symposia
    • SIGGRAPH (ACM Special Interest Group on Graphics)
    • Symposium on Computer Animation
    • Computer Animation and Social Agents (formerly, Computer Animation)
    • Graphics Interface
    • SIBGRAPI (Brasilian Computer Society)
    • Pacific Graphics
    • Computer Graphics International
    • Eurographics
    • Visualization
    • International Conference on Image Processing
    • American Society of Mechancial Engineers
    • Parallel Rendering Symposium
  • Research Proposals
    • National Science Foundation (panel)
    • National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
    • Hong Kong Research Grants Council
    • Ameritech Faculty Research Grant Program (panel)
    • Israel Binational Science Foundation
  • Book Proposals and Manuscripts
    • Morgan Kauffman
    • Science Research Associates, Inc.
    • W.H.Freeman and Co.
    • Addison-Wesley, Inc.
  • External Dissertations
    • Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 2004.
  • Miscellaneous
    • iNEER Special Volume: Innovations 2006 - World Innovations in Engineering Education and Research
    • Educational Testing Service
    • Evaluations for patent and immigration cases
    • University Fellowship (OSU; panel)
    • Denman Undergraduate Research Forum (OSU)
    • School, District, and State Science Fair Projects (Ohio)

• Research Software Grant, Alias Systems Inc., $695,960, March 2005.
• Principal Investigator (Co-PIs: Jim Davis, Raghu Machiraju, David Woods, Alan Murray), "Multi-level, active attention surveillance", NSF, ITR Program (Award #0428249), $1,300,000. Oct. 2004 - Sept. 2007.
• Team Member (PI: Wayne Carlson), History of Digital Design, Office of Technology Enhanced Learning and Research (OSU), $9000, 2003-2004.
• Principal Investigator (Co-PIs: Jim Davis, Raghu Machiraju, Leon Wang), Analysis and Knowledge Extraction from Video and Audio, AFRL, $65,000, 2003-2004.
• Principal Investigator, Gait Analysis by Remote Transmission and Analysis on the Web, Ameritech, $21,424, 2001-2002.
• Principal Investigator, Human Figure Animation, Honda R&D, $88,371, 2000-01
• Principal Investigator, Computer Graphics Software Grant, Alias/Wavefront, $115,000, 1999.
• Principal Investigator "Content-Driven Imaging Techniques for Clinical Interpretation of Gait Pathologies" OSU Interdisciplinary Seed Grant, $80,000, 1997-98.
• Principal Investigator, Texas Instruments, "Visual Communications," $24,000, 1997-98.
• Principal Investigator, Texas Instruments, "Visual Communictions," $25,000, 1996-97.
• Principal Investigator, Hewlett Packard Computer Equipment Grant, $106,510, 1989
• Principal Investigator, Hewlett Packard Computer Equipment Grant, $76,000, 1988.
• Principal Investigator, OSU Seed Grant, "A Two-Level Hierarchical Display Organization for Computer-Generated Images," $15,000, 1986-87.
• Co-Principal Investigator (PI: Chris Yessios), OSU Center for Teaching Excellence Grant, "An Instructional Tool for Recording and Evaluating the Architectural Design Process," $5,953, 1986-87.
• Faculty Associate, NSF Grant, "Knowledge Aided Architectural Problem Solving and Design," $228,832, 1986-87.
• Consultant, NSF Grant "Characterization of the Cognitive Strategies Using in the Conceptual Mechanics Design Process," $74,000, 1985.
• Principal Investigator, ONR Grant, "Enhancement of Digitized DMA Database by Synthetic Detail," $60,000, 1981.
• Co-Principal Investigator, NSF Grant No. MCS80-06322, "Computer Science and Computer Engineering Research Equipment," $126,000, 1980-81.
• Co-Principal Investigator (PI: Chuck Csuri), NSF Grant No. MCS79-23670, "Complex Animation and Complex Object Synthesis," $457,000, 1979-81.

• Books
  1. Rick Parent, Computer Animation: Algorithms and Techniques, Morgan Kaufmann, San Francisco, 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", Deformable Avatars, Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann, Daniel Thalmann (Eds.) (from IFIP TC5/WG5.10 DEFORM 2000 Workshop, November 29-30, 2000, Geneva, Switzerland and AVATARS 2000 Workshop, November 30-December 1, 2000, Lausanne, Switzerland. IFIP Conference Proceedings 196) Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, July 2001, ISBN 0-7923-7446-0, 12-23.
  2. Balakrishnan Chandrasekaran and Richard Parent, Molding Computer Clay - Steps Toward a Computer Graphics Sculptor's Studio, Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, C.H. Chen (ed.), Academic Press, New York, pp. 86-107, 1976.

• SIGGRAPH Proceedings
  1. Ferdi Scheepers, Rick Parent, Wayne Carlson, and Steve May, Anatomy-Based Modeling of the Human Musculature, Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 97, Los Angeles, pp. 163-172, August 1997.
  2. Jim Kent, Wayne Carlson and Richard Parent, Shape Transformation for Polyhedra Objects, Computer Graphics, Association for Computing Machinery, New York, Vol. 26, No. 2, (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 92, Chicago), pp. 47-54, July 1992.
  3. Dave Ebert and Richard Parent, Rendering and Animation of Gaseous Phenomena by Combining Fast Volume and Scanline A-buffer Techniques, Computer Graphics, Association for Computing Machinery, New York, Vol. 24, No 4, (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 90), pp. 357-366, Aug. 1990.
  4. John Chadwick, Dave Haumann and Richard Parent, Layered Construction for Deformable Animated Characters, Computer Graphics, Association for Computing Machinery, New York, Vol. 23, No. 3, (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 89, Boston, MA.), pp. 243-252, August 1989.
  5. Chuck Csuri, Ron Hackathorn, Rick Parent, Wayne Carlson, and Marc Howard, Towards an Interactive High Visual Complexity Animation System, Computer Graphics, Vol. 13, No. 2, (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 79, Chicago), pp. 289-299, August 1979.
  6. Richard Parent, A System for Sculpting 3-D Data, Computer Graphics, Vol. 2, No. 2, (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 77, San Jose, Calif.), pp. 138-147, June 1977.

• Journals
  1. A.T. Murray, K. Kim, J. Davis, R. Machiraju and R. Parent, Coverage optimization to support security monitoring, Computers Environment and Urban Systems, 31 (2007), pp. 133-147. (and presented at 101st Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Denver, Colorado, USA, April 5-9, 2005).
  2. Scott King, Rick Parent, Creating Speech-Synchronized Animation,, Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol.11, Issue 3 (May 2005) pp. 341-352.
  3. Scott King, Rick Parent, Animating Song, Journal of Visualization and Computer Animation, 15(1), pp 53-61, March 2004.
  4. Lawson Wade, Rick Parent, Automated Generation of Control Skeletons for Use in Animation,, The Visual Computer, Vol. 18, No. 2, March 2002, 97-110.
  5. Scott A. King, Richard E. Parent, "A 3D Parametric Tongue Model for Animated Speech", Journal of Visualization and Computer Animation, Vol. 12, No. 3, 2001.
  6. Karan Singh, Rick Parent, Joining Polyhedral Objects using Implicitly Defined Surfaces, Visual Computing, Col. 17, No. 7, pp. 415-428, October 2001.
  7. Dave Miller and Richard Parent, An Articulated Limb Motion Planner for Optimized Movement, The Journal of Visualization and Animation, John Wiley & Sons, New York, Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 89-123, April-June 1994.
  8. Frank Adelstein, Loren Schweibert, Golden Richard III and Richard Parent, A Distributed Graphics Library System, Software - Practive & Experience, John Wiley & Sons, New York, Vol. 24, No. 4, pp. 363-376, April 1994.
  9. Dave Ebert, Wayne Carlson and Richard Parent, Solid Spaces and Inverse Particle Systems for Controlling the Animation of Gases and Fluids, The Visual Computer, Springer Verlag, New York, Vol. 10, No. 2, pp. 179-190, November 1993.
  10. Richard Parent, Shape Transformation by Boundary Representation Interpolation: A Recursive Approach to Establishing Face Correspondences, (OSU Technical Report OSU-CISRC-2-91-TR7), The Journal of Visualization and Computer Animation, John Wiley & Sons, NY, Vol 3, pp. 219-239, Jan. 1992.
  11. Brian Guenter and Richard Parent, Improved Motion Control with Numerical Arclength Computation of Parametric Space Curves, Computer Graphics and Applications, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Computer Society, New York, Vol. 10, No. 3, pp. 72-78, May 1990.
  12. Sandy Mamrak, Con O'Connell and Richard Parent, Experience with the Automatic Generation of Translation Software for Graphical Objects, Computer Graphics and Applications, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Computer Society, New York, Vol. 9, No. 6, pp. 34-42, November 1989.
  13. E. Chen and R. Parent, Shape Averaging: a New Approach to Object Synthesis, Computer Graphics and Applications, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Computer Society, New York, Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 47-54, January 1989.
  14. Dave Haumann, and Richard Parent, The Behavioral Test-bed: Obtaining Complex Behavior from Simple Rules, The Visual Computer, Springer Verlag, New York, Vol. 4, No. 6, pp. 322-347, December 1988.

• Conferences (other than SIGGRAPH)
  1. F. Janoos, S. Singh, O. Irfanoglu, R. Machiraju, R. Parent, "Activity Analysis Using Spatio-Temporal Trajectory Volumes in Surveillance Applications." IEEE Symposium on Visual Analytics Science and Technology, Nov. 2007 (accepted for publication).
  2. Firdaus Janoos, Raghu Machiraju, Rick Parent, "Sensor orientation for coverage optimization in surveillance applications," ideometrics IX (part of IS&T/SPIE Symposium on Electronic Imaging), 28 January-1 February 2007, San Jose, California. (accepted for publication)
  3. Yisheng Chen, Jinho Lee, Rick Parent, Raghu Machiraju, Markerless Monocular Motion Capture Using Image Features and Physical Constraints, Computer Graphics International (CGI 2005), Stony Brook, New York, June 22-24, 2005, pp. 36-43.
  4. Arun Somasundaram, Richard E. Parent, Inserting Synthetic Characters into Live-Action Scenes of Multiple People, Computer Animation and Social Agents (CASA 2003), Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 8-9 May 2003, pp. 137-142.
  5. Richard E. Parent, Scott King, Osamu Fujimura, Issues with Lip Synch Animation: Can You Read My Lips?, (invited paper), The 15th International Conference On Computer Animation (Computer Animation 2002), Geneva-Switzerland: June 19-21, 2002.
  6. Scott A. King, Richard E. Parent, Lip Synchronization for Song, The 15th International Conference On Computer Animation (Computer Animation 2002), Geneva-Switzerland: June 19-21, 2002.
  7. Matt Lewis, Richard E. Parent, Interactively Evolving Virtual Environment Maps with Continuous Layered Pattern Functions, The 15th International Conference On Computer Animation (Computer Animation 2002), Geneva-Switzerland: June 19-21, 2002.
  8. Rick Parent. "Computer Animation: Algorithms and Techniques - A Historical Review," Proceedings of Computer Animation 2000, 3-5 May 2000, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, p. 86-91, 2000.
  9. 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, pp. 7-19, 29-30 November, Geneva, 2000.
  10. 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, 2000, pp 3-13.
  11. Lawson Wade, Rick Parent, Fast, Fully-Automated Generation of Control Skeletons for Use in Animation, Computer Animation 2000, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, May 3-5, 2000,
  12. Karansher Singh, Jun Ohya, Fumio Kishino, and Richard Parent, Human Figure Synthesis and Animation for Virtual Space Teleconferencing, Virtual Reality Annual International Symposium '95, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, pp. 118-126, March 11-15, 1995.
  13. Karansher Singh, Rick Parent, Implicit Surface Based Deformations of Polyhedral Objects, Invited Paper, Implicit Surface Workshop, Eurographics, Grenoble, France, April 18-19, 1995.
  14. Jim Kent, Richard Parent and Wayne Carlson, Establishing Correspondences by Topological Merging: A New Approach to 3-D Shape Transformation, Graphics Interface '91, 18 pages, May 1991.
  15. John Chadwick and Richard Parent, Computer Character Animation: Where Is It Going, and What is Taking It So Long? NCGA '89 Conference Proceedings, Anaheim, Calif., pp. 486-497, 1989.
  16. Scott Whitman and Richard Parent, A Survey of Parallel Hidden Surface Removal Algorithms, PIXIM Conference Proceedings, Paris, France, pp. 445-461, October 1988.
  17. John Chadwick and Richard Parent, Critter Construction: Developing Characters for Computer Animation, PIXIM Conference Proceedings, Paris, France, pp. 283-305, October 1988.
  18. John Chadwick and Richard Parent, Controlling the Integration of Computational Models for Character Animation, NCGA '88 Conference Proceedings, Anaheim, Calif., pp. 423-432, March 21-25, 1988.
  19. Ron Hackathorn and Richard Parent, A Microprocessor-Based Animation System, Proceedings of the Canadian Man-Machine Communications Conference, Waterloo, Ontario, pp. 181-191, 1981.
  20. Wayne Carlson, Richard Parent and Charles Csuri, The Use of Color and 3-D Temporal and Spatial Data Management Techniques in Computer Aided Design, Proceedings of the 16th Annual International Design Automation Conference, San Diego, Calif., pp. 32-38, June 1979.

• Posters, Web Pages, SIGGRAPH Sketches, Course Notes, and other Cited Work
  1. Madhavi Muppala, Rick Parent, Personality and Posture, (Research Poster) 4th Intuition Internation COnference and Workshop on Virtual Reality, Athens, Greece, 4-5 October 2007
  2. Alessio Malizia, Adriano Rinaldi, Rick Parent, Modelling Behavior in a School of Fish by Fast Synthetic Distributed Vision, (Research Poster) SIGGRAPH 2006, Boston, July 30 - Aug 3, 2006.
  3. Yisheng Chen, Rick Parent, Raghu Machiraju, James Davis, Human Activity Recognition for Synthesis, (Poster) Human Sensing Workshop, CVPR, June 22, New York, 2006.
  4. Arun Somasundaram, Rick Parent Audio-Visual Speech Styles with Prosody, (Poster), Symposium for Computer Animation (SCA 2005), Los Angeles, CA, July 29-31, 2005.
  5. Rick Parent, Computer Animation Information Page, http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~parent/animation/index1.html, also linked to from: http://www.computeranimation.org/, 2000-.
  6. Rick Parent, So You Want To Do Computer Animation?, http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~parent/animation/FAQ.html, 2000-.
  7. Arun Somasundaram, Rick Parent, "3D Reconstruction of Walking Behavior Using a Single Camera," (SIGGRAPH Sketch), SIGGRAPH 02, San Antonio, Tx.
  8. Suba Varadarajan, Xiaonging Fu, Rick Parent, Kathy Johnson, 3D Gait Reconstruction Using Two-Camera Markerless Video, (SIGGRAPH Sketch), SIGGRAPH 99, Los Angeles, CA.
  9. Rick Parent, Kathy Johnson, Jianxiang Chang, Xiaoning Fu, Suba Varadarajan, Modeling Human Motion from Video for Use in Gait Analysis, (Poster), AIMA '99, March 9 1999.
  10. Kathy Johnson, Rick Parent, Jianxiang Chang, Xiaoning Fu, Gait Analysis Using a 3D Graphic Model to Drive Image Processing, (Interactive Poster), RESNA Annual Conference (Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology Society of North America), Long Beach, California, June 25-29, 1999.
  11. Richard Parent, Generating 2D Curves and 3D Objects, Tutorial Notes, SIGGRAPH 91, Las Vegas, Nevada, August, 1991 and Tutorial Notes, SIGGRAPH 90, Dallas, Texas, August 1990, Association for Computing Machinery, New York.
  12. Rick Parent, A Film Presentation of an Interactive System for 3D Data Generation, (Presentation) Computer Graphics, Vol. 10, No. 2, (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 76), July 1976.

• Technical Reports
  1. Arunachalam Somasundaram and Rick Parent, "A Facial Animation System for Expressive Audio-Visual Speech," 32 pp. OSU-CISRC-4/06-TR46 Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Ohio State University: Columbus, OH, April 2006.
  2. Matthew Lewis and Richard Parent, "An Implicit Surface Prototype for Evolving Human Figure Geometry," ACCAD Technical Report: OSU-ACCAD-11/00-TR2, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Ohio State University: Columbus, OH, 2000.
  3. 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.
  4. Ferdi Scheepers, Rick Parent, Steve May, and Wayne Carlson, A Procedural Approach to Modeling and Animating the Skeletal Support of the Upper Arm, OSU ACCAD Technical Report, OSU-ACCAD-1/96-TR, January 1996.
  5. Karansher Singh and Richard Parent, Fast Scanline Processing of Useful Implicitly-Defined Shapes: Sphylinders, Cone-Spheres and Rounded Polygons. OSU CIS Technical Report, OSU-CISRC-5/94-TR26, May 1994.
  6. Karansher Singh and Richard Parent, Polyhedral Shapes as General Implicit Surface Primitives, OSU CIS Technical Report, OSU-CISRC-5/94-TR24, May 1994.
  7. Dave Miller and Richard Parent, An Articulated Limb Motion Planner Emphasizing Human-Like Movement, OSU CIS Technical Report, OSU-CISRC-2/93-TR8, February 1993.
  8. Wayne Brown and Richard Parent, Using Architectural Knowledge in Architectural Design, OSU Technical Report OSU-CISRC-5/90-TR14, May 1990.
  9. Wayne Carlson, Dave Ebert, Richard Parent and Keith Boyer, EDGE Library, OSU Technical Report OSU-CISRC-2/90-TR3, February 1990.
  10. Wayne Carlson and Richard Parent, Recoverable Compression Techniques for Storing and Transferring Computer Graphic Images, OSU Technical Report OSU-CISRC-1/90-TR2, January 1990.
  11. Dave Ebert and Richard Parent, Animation of Gaseous Phenomena Using Turbulent Flow Based Solid Texturing, OSU Technical Report, OSU-CISRC-8/89-TR36, August 1989.
  12. Richard Parent and Ron Klasky, Using Geometrical Element Clusters for Efficient Calculation of Computer Generated Images, OSU Technical Report, OSU-CISRC-12/88-TR39, December 1988.
  13. Sandy Mamrak, Con O'Connell, Richard Parent and H. Hong, The Automatic Generataion of Software for Data Exchange in the Graphics Domain, OSU Technical Report OSU-CISRC-7188-TR20, August 1988.
• Films
  1. Tim Van Hook, Rodger Wilson, Rick Parent, Wayne Carlson, Ron Hackathorn, Flight of Fancy, 1980.
  2. Rodger Wilson, Rick Parent, Landscape My Ass!, 1979.
  3. Tim Van Hook, Rodger Wilson, Rick Parent, Wayne Carlson, Ron Hackathorn, The Magician and His Relative Clauses, 1979.
  4. Charles Csuri, Rick Parent, Wayne Carlson, Spatial Data Management, 1979.
  5. Rick Parent, Rodger Wilson, Wayne Carlson, Ron Hackathorn, The City, 1979.
  6. Tim Van Hook, Rodger Wilson, Rick Parent, Wayne Carlson, Ron Hackathorn, Across and Around, 1978.
  7. Tim Van Hook, Rodger Wilson, Rick Parent, Wayne Carlson, Ron Hackathorn, The Circus, 1978.
  8. Rick Parent, DG, 1977.

1. "Designing Collaborative Interdisciplinary CG Experiences in the Curriculum" (panel), SIGGRAPH 2006, Boston, July 30 - August 3, 2006.
2. "Computer Graphics Projects for Early Research Experience" (keynote), Teaching and Research in Graphics as an Undergraduate Topic 2006 (TARGUT 2006), Denison University, Granville, Ohio, June 5-6, 2006.
3. "Markerless Motion Capture", (keynote), SIBGRAPI 2005: Brazilian Symposium on Computer Graphics and Image Processing, Natal, RN, Brazil, 9-12 October 2005.
4. "Computer Animation", (1.5 day seminar), University of Fortaleza, Brazil, 13-14 October, 2005.
5. "Tracking the Human Figure in Video", SIAC 2003, Aug 27-29, 2003, Wright State Univ., Fairborn, Ohio.
6. "Virtual Humans: Past, Present, and Future", (panel) CASA 2003, Rutgers, New Brunswick, New Jersey, May 8-9, 2003. With Dimitris Metaxas, Catherine Pelachaud, and Daniel Thalmann.
7. "Challenges of Human Figure Modeling and Animation," Wayne State Univ., Detroit, 1 April 2003.
8. "Lip-Sync Animation" , Workshop on Mathematics and Computer Animation, Fields Institue, Univ. of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, November 8-9, 2002.
9. "Challenges of Human Figure Modeling and Animation," (keynote), SIBGRAPI 2002, Fontaleza, Brazil, October 7-10,2002.
10. "Challenges of Human Figure Modeling and Animation," UNISINOS, Sao Leopoldo, Brazil, October 3,2002.
11. "Lip-Sync Animation" UNISINOS, Sao Leopoldo, October 4, 2002.
12. "Lip-Sync Animation: Can you read my synthetic lips?" University of North Carolina Graphics Group, UNC, September 18, 2002.
13. "Human Figure Modeling and Animation," (keynote) SIAC 2002, Wright State Univ., Fairborn Ohio, August 26, 2002.
14. "Issues in Lip-Sync Animation: Can you read my lips," Computer Animation 2002, Geneva, June 16-19, 2002.
15. "Human Figure Modeling and Animation," Central Ohio Chapter of the ACM, Columbus, Ohio, April 17, 2002.
16. "Computer Animation: Algorithms and Techniques, a Historical Perspective," CA 2000, Philadelphia, PA, 4 May 2000.
17. "Computer Animation: Algorithms and Techniques," Greater Dayton Area Chapter of the ACM, Dayton, Ohio, 16 March 2000.
18. "Computer Animation: Algorithms and Techniques," University of Houston, Houston Texas, February 11, 1999.
19. "Human Figure Modeling," Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio, January 22, 1999.
20. "Realistic Modeling of Human Figures and Efficient Collision Detection and Responses Using Implicit Surfaces," Society of Automotive Engineers, Dayton, Ohio, April 29, 1998.
21. "Computer Animation in the Entertainment Industry," Central Ohio Chapter of the ACM, Columbus, Ohio, 21 October 1998.
22. "Computer Animation in the Entertainment Industry," University of Maryland at Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, February 1996.
23. "Use of Implicit Surfaces in Virtual Space Teleconferencing," University of Maryland at Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, February 1996.
24. "Use of Implicit Surfaces in Virtual Space Teleconferencing," PIXAR, San Fran, Calif., January 1996.
25. "Use of Implicit Surfaces in Virtual Space Teleconferencing," Implicit Surface Workshop, Eurographics, Grenoble, France, April 18-19, 1995.
26. "Facial Animation," Texas Instruments, Dallas, Texas, February 27, 1995.

Students

1. "A Facial Animation Model for Expressive Audio-Visual Speech," Arun Somasundaram, June, 2006.
2. "Using Interactive Genetic Algorithms with Layered Continuous Pattern Functions to Evolve Images and Surface Attributes," Matt Lewis, 2001.
3. "A Facial Model and Animation Techniques for Animated Speech," Scott King, 2001.
4. "Automated Generation of Control Skeletons for Use in Animation," Lawson Wade, 2000.
5. "Anatomy-Based Surface Generation for Articulated Models of Human Figures," Ferdi Scheepers, 1997.
6. "Realistic Human Figure Synthesis and Animation for VR Applications," Karansher Singh, 1995.
7. "Human-like Collision-Free Motion of Articulated Linkages," Dave Miller, 1993.
8. "Computer Assisted Three Dimensional Rotoscoping For Realistic Image Composition," Doug Roble, 1992.
9. "Solid Spaces: A Unified Approach to Modeling Object Attributes," Dave Ebert, 1991.
10. "Utilizing Scalable Shared Memory Multiprocessors for Computer Graphics Rendering," Scott Whitman, 1991.
11. "The Use of Simulation Techniques for Motion Control of Rigid Bodies in Computer Graphics," James Hahn, 1989.
12. "Using Behavioral Simulation to Animate Complex Processes," Dave Haumann, 1989.

M.S. Students

1. Ethan Metsger, "Tracking the Human Torso in Monocular Video" , Summer 2005.
2. Jason Witherell, "Facial Motion Capture on a Budget", Summer 2005
3. Tim Daoust, "A System for Performance and Key Frame Animation using Virtual Reality and Motion Capture", Summer '04
4. Brent Watkins, "Automatic Creation of Real-Time Muscle Systems", Spring '04
5. Patrick Coleman, "Motion Control for Fluid Animation: Flow Along a Control Path", 2002
6. Hoffmaster, (co-advise with Kikuo Fujimura) "An Automated System for Seed Vigor Testing Three-Day-Old Soybean Seedlings", 2002
7. Chris Fankhauser, "An Event Driven Collision Detection Algorithm for Particle Systems with Constant Forces", 2000
8. Ed Sindelar, "Modelling a Virtual Hand," 1994
9. Beth Hofer, "Facit," 1990.
10. Charles Jarred Crabb, "Using Functionally Defined Constraints to Animate a Scene," Autumn 1990
11. Marc Sarrel "spCAD: A Structural Primitive Based Computer Aided Design System," Autumn 1989
12. Deepak Deshpande, "Binary Space Partitioning for Motion Through 3-D Space," 1989
13. Juliet Ann Crist, "An Interactive Facade Generation and Editing System for the Application of Textures and Details," 1989
14. Jeffrey L. Gerckens, "Color Considerations for Interpolations in Color Rendering," 1988
15. Ron Klasky, "Time Reduction in Image Rendering by Object Clustering," 1987
16. H. Stephen Anderson, "Rendering Computer Graphics to be Composited with Photographic Backgrounds," 1987
17. Darryl Poe, "One- and Two-Pass Color Quantization Methods in Computer Graphics," 1986

Undergrad Honors Theses

1. Patrick Coleman, "Motion Control for Fluid Animation: Flow along Control Path," Spring 2002
2. Samuel K. Song, "Animation of Trees Under Wind Conditions" Spring 2001
3. Ming Jiang, "Free-Form Deformations of Progressive Meshes" Winter 2000
4. Mark Fontana, "A Hardware-Software System to Preserve Pneumatic Music Rolls as MIDI Data," Autumn 1994
5. Brian Adkins, "An Object Oriented System for Interactive Facial Data Generation," Spring 1992

Selected Accomplishments of Former Students

• Doug Roble, Ph.D.,College of Engineering Distinguished Alumnus; Technical Achievement Award - Academy of Motio Picture Arts and Sciences Certificate (1998); Scientific and Engineering Award - Academy Plaque (2008).
• James Hahn, Ph.D., Professor and Chair, George Washington University
• Dave Ebert, Ph.D., Professor, Purdue University
• Karan Singh, Ph.D., Associate Professor, University of Toronto
• Dave Haumann, Ph.D., Technical Director on Academy Award winning animation, "Geri's Game," from Pixar
• Dave Miller, Ph.D., formerly Senior Engineer, Maxim (Sims 2)
• Jeff Wolverton, M.S., Academy Award for animated short "Chubb-Chubb"
• Beth Hofer, M.S., Lead Character Developer, PDI
• Steve Anderson, M.S., formerly head of Electronic Arts L.A. office