Ferdi Smit, Ph.D.

My (holiday) photos:

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Graduation Spring 2005

Eindhoven (Spellenspektakel) 2004

Essen (Spiel) 2004

Ph.D. Thesis:

"A Programmable Display-Layer Architecture for Virtual-Reality Applications", F.A. Smit
Eindhoven University of Technology, November 2009, ISBN-13: 978 90 6196 553 4

Journal Publications:

"A Shared-Scene-Graph Image-Warping Architecture for VR: Low Latency versus Image Quality", F.A. Smit, R. van Liere, S. Beck, B. Froehlich
In review, Elsevier Computers and Graphics (CAG), 2009

"A Programmable Display Layer for Virtual Reality System Architectures", F.A. Smit, R. van Liere, B. Froehlich
Accepted for publication, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), 2009

"A Simulator-Based Approach to Evaluating Optical Trackers", F.A. Smit, R. van Liere
Elsevier Computers and Graphics (CAG), vol 33, issue 2, April 2009, p120-129

"GraphTracker: A Topology Projection Invariant Optical Tracker", F.A. Smit, A. van Rhijn, R. van Liere
Elsevier Computers and Graphics (CAG), vol 31, issue 1, Feb 2007, p26-38

Peer-reviewed Conference Publications:

"An Image Warping Architecture for VR: Low Latency versus Image Quality", F.A. Smit, R. van Liere, S. Beck, B. Froehlich
IEEE Virtual Reality (VR), p27-34, Lafayette, Louisiana, March 2009

"An Image-Warping VR-Architecture: Design, Implementation and Applications", F.A. Smit, R. van Liere, B. Froehlich
ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST), p115-122, Bordeaux, France, October 2008
Honorable Mention Award (Runner-up Best Paper)

"A Framework for Performance Evaluation of Model-Based Optical Trackers", F.A. Smit, R. van Liere
Eurographics Symposium on Virtual Environments (EGVE), p33-40, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, May 2008

"The Design and Implementation of a VR-Architecture for Smooth Motion", F.A. Smit, R. van Liere, B. Froehlich
ACM symposium on Virtual reality software and technology (VRST), p153-156, Newport Beach, California, 2007

"Three Extensions to Subtractive Crosstalk Reduction", F.A. Smit, R. van Liere, B. Froehlich
Eurographics Symposium on Virtual Environments (EGVE), p85-92, Weimar, Germany, July 2007

"Non-Uniform Crosstalk Reduction For Dynamic Scenes", F.A. Smit, B. Froehlich, R. van Liere
IEEE Virtual Reality, Charlotte, North Carolina, March 2007, p139-146

"GraphTracker: A Topology Projection Invariant Optical Tracker", F.A. Smit, A. van Rhijn, and R. van Liere
Eurographics Symposium on Virtual Environments (EGVE) p63-70, Lisbon, Portugal, May 2006.

Master's thesis:
Terrain Rendering for Scalable Tiled Displays
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 2005