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    Daniele Giunchi

    I'm a Research Associate in the Virtual Environment and Computer Graphics (VECG) at the University College London(UCL). In 2021 I achieved my PhD in Computer Science from UCL, under the supervision of Profs. Anthony Steed and Niloy Mitra. My research spans in computer graphics, human computer interaction, machine learning, computer vision, large language models, searching for new paradigm of individual interaction or collaborative interaction in order to improve user experience in VR/AR/XR. My PhD project was funded by a Marie Curie Fellowship, granted by the European Commission. During my PhD I worked as research intern at Microsoft and I was a visitor researcher at Max Plank Institute for Informatics. Before joining UCL, I obtained a degree in Astronomy from the University of Bologna, and I had a long experience in industry.


    Contact
    4th Floor
    Dept of Computer Science
    169 Euston Road
    University College London, UK

    Publications

    DreamCodeVR: Towards Democratizing Behavior Design in Virtual Reality with Speech-Driven Programming
    Daniele Giunchi; Nels Numan; Elia Gatti; Anthony Steed
    Proceedings of IEEE VR(2024)
    Keywords: large language model, VR, rapid prototyping, low code programming, speech programming
    STREAMSPACE: A Framework for Window Streaming in Collaborative Mixed Reality Environments
    Giunchi, Daniele; Bovo, Riccardo; Numan, Nels; Steed, Anthony
    Poster at IEEE VR(2024)
    Keywords: virtual screen, virtual reality, collaborative interaction
    AIsop: Exploring Immersive VR Storytelling Leveraging Generative AI
    Giunchi, Daniele; Bovo, Riccardo; Bhatia, Nitesh; Heinis, Thomas; Steed, Anthony
    Poster at IEEE VR(2024)
    Keywords: large language model, VR, storytelling, generative AI
    Fovea Prediction Model in VR
    Giunchi, Daniele; Bovo, Riccardo; Bhatia, Nitesh; Heinis, Thomas; Steed, Anthony
    Poster at IEEE VR(2024)
    Keywords: neural networks, gaze prediction, visual attention
    Extending the Open Source Social Virtual Reality Ecosystem to the Browser in Ubiq
    Sebastian Friston, Ben Congdon, Nels Numan, Klara Brandstätter, Lisa Izzouzi, Felix Thiel, Jingyi Zhang, Daniele Giunchi, David Swapp, Anthony Steed
    Proceedings of the 28th International ACM Conference on 3D Web Technology (2023)
    Keywords: social-vr, interoperability, toolkits
    Speech-Augmented Cone-of-Vision for Exploratory Data Analysis
    Riccardo Bovo, Daniele Giunchi, Ludwig Sidenmark, Joshua Newn, Hans Gellersen, Enrico Costanza, Thomas Heinis
    CHI'23
    Keywords: Field of View, multi-modal visual attention cues, VR collaborative analytics, eye-tracking
    Ubiq-Genie: Leveraging External Frameworks for Enhanced Social VR Experiences
    Nels Numan, Daniele Giunchi, Benjamin Congdon, Anthony Steed
    2023 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW)
    Keywords: social virtual reality, collaboration, open source, system architecture, generative artificial intelligence
    Towards Outdoor Collaborative Mixed Reality: Lessons Learnt from a Prototype System
    Nels Numan, Ziwen Lu, Benjamin Congdon, Daniele Giunchi, Alexandros Rotsidis, Andreas Lernis, Kyriakos Larmos, Tereza Kourra, Panayiotis Charalambous, Yiorgos Chrysanthou, Simon Julier, Anthony Steed
    2023 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW)
    Keywords: mixed reality, augmented reality, virtual reality, collaboration, outdoor, city-scale, reconstruction, registration
    Cone of Vision as a Behavioural Cue for VR Collaboration
    Riccardo Bovo, Daniele Giunchi, Muna Alebri, Anthony Steed, Enrico Costanza, Thomas Heinis
    Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, CSCW2
    Keywords: : Field of View frustum visualizations, visual attention cues, VR collaborative analytics
    Explorative Study on Asymmetric Sketch Interactions for Object Retrieval in Virtual Reality
    Daniele Giunchi, Stuart James, Riccardo Bovo, Donald Degraen, Anthony Steed
    2022 International Conference on Interactive Media, Smart Systems and Emerging Technologies (IMET)
    Keywords: Sketch, Virtual Reality, CNN, HCI
    Mitigation strategies for participant non-attendance in VR remote collaborative experiments
    Riccardo Bovo, Daniele Giunchi, Enrico Costanza, Anthony Steed, Thomas Heinis
    Frontiers in Computer Science
    Keywords: collaborative experiment, non-attendance, virtual reality (VR), cost function, recruitment procedures
    Fast Blue-Noise Generation via Unsupervised Learning
    Daniele Giunchi, Alejandro Sztrajman, Anthony Steed
    2022 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN)
    Keywords: Neural networks, Image processing, Noise generators, Monte Carlo methods
    Shall I describe it or shall I move closer? Verbal references and locomotion in VR collaborative search tasks
    Riccardo Bovo, Daniele Giunchi, Enrico Costanza, Anthony Steed, Thomas Heinis
    Proceedings of 20th European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work
    Real-time head-based deep-learning model for gaze probability regions in collaborative VR
    Riccardo Bovo, Daniele Giunchi, Ludwig Sidenmark, Hans Gellersen, Enrico Costanza, Thomas Heinis
    2022 Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications (ETRA 2022)
    Keywords: neural networks, gaze prediction, gaze inference, visual attention
    MR-RIEW: An MR Toolkit for Designing Remote Immersive Experiment Workflows
    Riccardo Bovo; Daniele Giunchi; Anthony Steed; Thomas Heinis
    Poster 2022 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW)
    Lessons Learned Running Distributed and Remote Mixed Reality Experiments
    Anthony Steed, Daniel Archer, Klara Brandstätter, Ben James Congdon, Sebastian Friston, Priya Ganapathy, Daniele Giunchi, Lisa Izzouzi, Gun Woo Park, David Swapp, Felix Johannes Thiel
    Frontiers in Computer Science (2022)
    Keywords: virtual reality, mixed reality, distributed of experiments, avatars, social virtual environments
    Ubiq-Exp: A Toolkit to Build and Run Remote and Distributed Mixed Reality Experiments
    Anthony Steed, Lisa Izzouzi, Klara Brandstätter, Sebastian Friston, Benjamin James Congdon, Otto Olkkonen, Daniele Giunchi, Nels Numan, David Swapp
    Frontiers in Virtual Reality (2022)
    Keywords: virtual reality, 3D user interfaces, experiment design, distributed experiments, remote experiments
    Perceived realism of pedestrian crowds trajectories in vr
    Daniele Giunchi, Riccardo Bovo, Panayiotis Charalambous, Fotis Liarokapis, Alastair Shipman, Stuart James, Anthony Steed, Thomas Heinis
    Proceedings of the 27th ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST 2021)
    Keywords: crowd simulation, perception, virtual reality
    Mixing Modalities of 3D Sketching and Speech for Interactive Model Retrieval in Virtual Reality
    Daniele Giunchi, Alejandro Sztrajman, Stuart James, Anthony Steed
    IMX 2021
    Keywords: Sketch, Virtual Reality, CNN, HCI
    VR Toolkit for Identifying Group Characteristics
    Hugo Mayo, Alastair Shipman, Daniele Giunchi, Riccardo Bovo, Anthony Steed, Thomas Heinis
    Collective Dynamics 2021
    Keywords: VR·crowd behaviour·voronoi density·pedestrian
    Real-time Collaboration Between Mixed Reality Users in Geo-referenced Virtual Environment
    Shubham Singh, Zengou Ma, Daniele Giunchi, Anthony Steed
    arXiv
    Selecting texture resolution using a task‐specific visibility metric
    Krzysztof Wolski, Daniele Giunchi, Shin-ichi Kinuwaki, Piotr Didyk, Karol Myszkowski, Anthony Steed, Rafal K Mantiuk
    Computer Graphics Forum
    Keywords: Perception; Image manipulation; Image processing
    VisTexRes: Visibility thresholds for Texture Resolution
    Krzysztof Wolski, Daniele Giunchi, Shinichi Kinuwaki, Piotr Didyk, Karol Myszkowski, Anthony Steed, Rafal Mantiuk
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    Mixing realities for sketch retrieval in Virtual Reality
    Daniele Giunchi, Stuart James, Donald Degraen, Anthony Steed
    VRCAI 2019 Poster
    Keywords: Sketch, Virtual Reality, CNN, HCI
    Dataset and metrics for predicting local visible differences
    Krzysztof Wolski, Daniele Giunchi, Nanyang Ye, Piotr Didyk, Karol Myszkowski, Radosław Mantiuk, Hans-Peter Seidel, Anthony Steed, Rafał K Mantiuk
    ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG) 2018
    Keywords: Visual perception, visual difference predictor, visual metric, distortion visibility, image quality, data-driven metric, dataset, convolutional neural network
    3D Sketching in Virtual Reality for immersive model search
    Daniele Giunchi, Stuart James, Anthony Steed
    Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Expressive '18
    Keywords: Sketch, Virtual Reality, CNN, HCI
    Model Retrieval by 3D Sketching in Immersive Virtual Reality
    Daniele Giunchi, Stuart James, Anthony Steed
    IEEE VR 2018 Posters
    Keywords: Sketch, Virtual Reality, CNN, HCI

    Quantum Information

    Towards Quantum Computer Generated Holography
    Thesis for the II level Master of Optics and Quantum Information from La Sapienza University (Rome).
    Thesis
    Slides of the presentation

    Teaching

    2023 Computer Graphics UCL
    2022 Image processing UCL
    2020-2022 Virtual Environments UCL
    2019 Advanced Deep Learning and Reinforcement Learning DeepMind/UCL
    2019 Machine Vision UCL
    2018, 2020 System Engineering UCL
    2017 Computational Photography UCL
    2017 Robotic Programming UCL




    Daniele Giunchi
    d.giunchi@ucl.ac.uk