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Overview

Eyal Ofek is affiliated with Microsoft in the United States and has contributed extensively to the field of Computer Science, with a focus on Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, and Cognitive Neuroscience.

Their work spans several key topics including Virtual Reality Applications and Impacts, Augmented Reality Applications, Interactive and Immersive Displays, Teleoperation and Haptic Systems, Action Observation and Synchronization, Tactile and Sensory Interactions, and Human Motion and Animation.

Among the recently published papers by Eyal Ofek are:

  • The Rocketbox Library and the Utility of Freely Available Rigged Avatars (2020), published in Frontiers in Virtual Reality
  • Using Facial Animation to Increase the Enfacement Illusion and Avatar Self-Identification (2020), published in IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
  • The Self-Avatar Follower Effect in Virtual Reality (2020), published in the 2020 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (VR)
  • Quantifying the Effects of Working in VR for One Week (2022), published in IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
  • CoolMoves (2021), published in Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive Mobile Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies

Eyal Ofek collaborates frequently with several researchers, including Michel Pahud, Per Ola Kristensson, Jens Grubert, Mar González-Franco, and Verena Biener.

Their publications are often featured in prominent venues such as arXiv (Cornell University), the 2020 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (VR), IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Frontiers in Virtual Reality, and Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive Mobile Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies.

Best Publications

  • Detecting text in natural scenes with stroke width transform

    Boris Epshtein;Eyal Ofek;Yonatan Wexler

  • Full-frame video stabilization with motion inpainting

    Y. Matsushita;E. Ofek;Weina Ge;Xiaoou Tang

  • Haptic Retargeting: Dynamic Repurposing of Passive Haptics for Enhanced Virtual Reality Experiences

    Mahdi Azmandian;Mark Hancock;Hrvoje Benko;Eyal Ofek

  • RoomAlive: magical experiences enabled by scalable, adaptive projector-camera units

    Brett Jones;Rajinder Sodhi;Michael Murdock;Ravish Mehra

  • Dynamic map rendering as a function of a user parameter

    Leonard Smith;Gur Kimchi;Eyal Ofek

  • IllumiRoom: peripheral projected illusions for interactive experiences

    Brett R. Jones;Hrvoje Benko;Eyal Ofek;Andrew D. Wilson

  • Mode information displayed in a mapping application

    Leonard Smith;Gur Kimchi;Eyal Ofek

  • NormalTouch and TextureTouch: High-fidelity 3D Haptic Shape Rendering on Handheld Virtual Reality Controllers

    Hrvoje Benko;Christian Holz;Mike Sinclair;Eyal Ofek

  • Advanced three-dimensional television system technologies

    A. Redert;M.O. de Beeck;C. Fehn;W. Ijsselsteijn

  • Haptic Revolver: Touch, Shear, Texture, and Shape Rendering on a Reconfigurable Virtual Reality Controller

    Eric Whitmire;Hrvoje Benko;Christian Holz;Eyal Ofek

  • CLAW: A Multifunctional Handheld Haptic Controller for Grasping, Touching, and Triggering in Virtual Reality

    Inrak Choi;Eyal Ofek;Hrvoje Benko;Mike Sinclair

  • Sparse Haptic Proxy: Touch Feedback in Virtual Environments Using a General Passive Prop

    Lung-Pan Cheng;Eyal Ofek;Christian Holz;Hrvoje Benko

  • Room2Room: Enabling Life-Size Telepresence in a Projected Augmented Reality Environment

    Tomislav Pejsa;Julian Kantor;Hrvoje Benko;Eyal Ofek

  • Image-based façade modeling

    Jianxiong Xiao;Tian Fang;Ping Tan;Peng Zhao

  • Dynamic rendering of map information

    Leonard Smith;Gur Kimchi;Eyal Ofek

  • SeeingVR: A Set of Tools to Make Virtual Reality More Accessible to People with Low Vision

    Yuhang Zhao;Edward Cutrell;Christian Holz;Meredith Ringel Morris

  • Viewing media in the context of street-level images

    Eyal Ofek;Michael Kroepfl;Julian R. Walker;Gonzalo A. Ramos

  • Full-frame video stabilization

    Yasuyuki Matsushita;Eyal Ofek;Xiaoou Tang;Heung-Yeung Shum

  • Seamless Montage for Texturing Models

    Ran Gal;Yonatan Wexler;Eyal Ofek;Hugues Hoppe

  • The Rocketbox library and the utility of freely available rigged avatars

    Mar González-Franco;Eyal Ofek;Ye Pan;Angus Antley

  • Depth keying

    Ronen Gvili;Amir Kaplan;Eyal Ofek;Giora Yahav

  • IllumiRoom: peripheral projected illusions for interactive experiences

    Brett R. Jones;Hrvoje Benko;Eyal Ofek;Andrew D. Wilson

Frequent Co-Authors

Hrvoje Benko
Hrvoje Benko Facebook (United States)
Andrew D. Wilson
Andrew D. Wilson Microsoft (United States)
Christian Holz
Christian Holz ETH Zurich
Per Ola Kristensson
Per Ola Kristensson University of Cambridge
David Molnar
David Molnar Microsoft (United States)
Pushmeet Kohli
Pushmeet Kohli DeepMind (United Kingdom)
Heung-Yeung Shum
Heung-Yeung Shum Microsoft (United States)
Michael F. Cohen
Michael F. Cohen Facebook (United States)
Helen J. Wang
Helen J. Wang Microsoft (United States)
WA Wijnand IJsselsteijn
WA Wijnand IJsselsteijn Eindhoven University of Technology

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