Ali Arya

Assistant Professor of Interactive Multimedia
Carleton School of Information Technology &
Department of Systems and Computer Engineering

Publications

Books and Journals

Hasti Seifi, Steve DiPaola, and Ali Arya, "Expressive Animated Character Sequences Using Knowledge-Based Painterly Rendering,"Intenational Journal of Computer Game Technology, 2011

Nuket Nowlan, Eleanor Riesen, Michelle Morley, Ali Arya, and Nicholas Sauriol, "A Framework for an Immersive Learning Environment with Telemetrics and Simulation," Ubiquitous Learning: An International Journal, 2011

Ali Arya, Steve DiPaola and Avi Parush, "Perceptually Valid Facial Expressions for Character-based Applications," Intenational Journal of Computer Game Technology, 2009. PDF

Ali Arya and Steve DiPaola, "Face Modeling and Animation Language for MPEG-4 XMT Framework," IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, October 2007. PDF

Ali Arya and Steve DiPaola, "Multi-Space Behavioural Model for Face-based Affective Social Agents," EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing, Special Issue on Facial Image Processing, 2007. PDF

Ali Arya, Lisa Jefferies, James T. Enns, and Steve DiPaola, "Facial Actions as Visual Cues for Personality," Journal of Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., selected from the presentations at  19th Annual Conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents , Geneva, Switzerland, 2006. PDF

Ali Arya and Babak Hamidzadeh, "Face Animation: A Case Study for Multimedia Modeling and Specification Languages," in Multimedia Systems and Content-based Image Retrieval , S. Deb editor. 2003. PDF

Ali Arya and Babak Hamidzadeh, "Personalized Face Animation in ShowFace System," Int. Journal of Image and Graphics,, Special Issue on Virtual Reality and Virtual Environments, World Scientific Publishing, 2003. PDF

Refereed Conferences

Seyed Ali Etemad and Ali arya, "Perceptual Weights of Energy-related Features in Animation of Human Motion," CGI-2011, Ottawa, Canada.

Ali Arya, Peggy Hartwick, Shawn Graham, Nuket Nowlan, "Virtual Environment as a Learning Space: Two Case Studies," IETC-2011, Istanbul, Turkey.

Ali Arya, Nuket Nowlan, Nicholas Sauriol, "Data-driven Framework for an Online 3D Immersive Environment for Educational Applications," EduLearn-10 - Barcelona, Spain, July 5-7, 2010. PDF

Seyed Ali Etemad and Ali Arya, "Modeling and Transformation of 3D Human Motion," Proceedings of 5th International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications, Agadar, France, May, 2010. PDF

Mohammad Moallemi, Ali Arya, and Gabriel A. Wainer, "Simulation of Three Dimensional Elevator System Using Cell-DEVS Formalism", Proceedings of 2010 Spring Simulation Conference (SpringSim10), ANSS Symposium, Orlando, FL, 2010. PDF

Paul Slinger, Seyed Ali Etemad and Ali Arya, "Intelligent Toolkit for Procedural Animation of Human Behaviours," ACM FuturePlay-09 - Vancouver, Canada, May 12-13, 2009. PDF

Seyed Ali Etemad and Ali Arya, "Recognition and Synthesis of Human Motion for Procedural Animation," International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems, ICMCS-09, Ouarzazate, Morocco, April 2009. PDF

Veronica Zammitto, Steve DiPaola, and Ali Arya, "A Methodology for Incorporating Personality Modeling in Believable Game Characters," 4th Intl Conf on Games Research and Development (CyberGames), Beijing Normal University, China, 27-30 October 2008.

Ali Arya, Avi Parush, and Alicia McMullan, "Perceptually Valid Facial Expression Blending using Expression Units," ACM SIGGRAPH-07 , Poster Session, San Diego, CA, USA, August 5-9, 2007. PDF

Steve DiPaola and Ali Arya, "Emotional Remapping of Music to Facial Animation," ACM SIGGRAPH Video Game Symposium , Boston, MA, USA, July 29-30, 2006. PDF

Ali Arya, Steve DiPaola, Lisa Jefferies, and James T. Enns, "Socially communicative characters for interactive applications," 14th International Conference in Central Europe on Computer Graphics, Visualization and Computer Vision (WSCG-2006), University of West Bohemia, Plzen, Czech Republic, January 30 - February 3, 2006. PDF

Steve DiPaola, John Chan and Ali Arya, "Simulating Face to Face Collaboration for Interactive Learning Systems," eLearn 2005, Vancouver, 2005. PDF

Steve DiPaola and Ali Arya, "Socially Expressive Communication Agents: A Face-centric Approach," European Conference on Electronic Imaging and the Visual Arts, EVA-2005, Florence, Italy, March 17-18, 2005. PDF

Steve DiPaola and Ali Arya, "Affective Communication Remapping in MusicFace System," European Conference on Electronic Imaging and the Visual Arts, EVA-2004, London, England, July 26-31, 2004. PDF

Ali Arya and Steve DiPaola, "Face As A Multimedia Object," 5th International Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services, Lisbon, Portugal, April 21-23, 2004. PDF

Ali Arya and Babak Hamidzadeh, "ShowFace: A Framework for Personalized Face Animation," IEEE/EURASIP First International Workshop on Interactive Rich Media Content Production, RichMedia-2003, Lausanne, Switzerland, October 16-17, 2003. PDF

Ali Arya and Babak Hamidzadeh, "FIX: Feature-based Image Transformations for Face Animation," IEEE Int. Conf. on Information Technology: Research and Education, ITRE-2003, Newark, NJ, USA, August 10-13, 2003. PDF

Ali Arya and Babak Hamidzadeh, "An XML-Based Language for Face Modeling and Animation," IASTED Int. Conf. on Visualization, Imaging and Image Processing, VIIP-2002, Malaga, Spain, 2002. PDF

Ali Arya and Babak Hamidzadeh, "ShowFace MPEG-4 Compatible Face Animation Framework," IASTED Int. Conf. on Computer Graphics and Imaging, CGIM-2002, Kauai, Hawaii, 2002. PDF

Ali Arya and Babak Hamidzadeh, "TalkingFace: Using Facial Feature Detection and Image Transformations for Visual Speech," IEEE Int. Conf. on Image Processing, ICIP-2001, Thessaloniki, Greece, 2001. PDF

Ali Arya and Babak Hamidzadeh, "A Personalized Talking/Moving Head Presentation Using Image-based Transformations," Int. Conf. on Augmented Virtual Environments and 3D Imaging, Mykonos, Greece, 2001. PDF

Ali Arya and Kambiz Badie, "A Connectionist Approach to Reorganization of Knowledge Structures in Fuzzy Systems," IEEE Intl. Conf. on Fuzzy Systems, Barcelona, Spain, 1997. PDF