Frederic I. Parke

Professor of Architecture
Co-Director Visual Studies Unit
Visualization Sciences Program Director


College of Architecture,
Texas A&M University
College Station, Texas 77843-3137
(979) 845-3465, FAX (979) 845-4491
parke@viz.tamu.edu

Last Update 3/9/04

Education

• Ph.D. 1974, Computer Science, University of Utah
• M.S. 1972, Computer Science, University of Utah
• B.S. 1965, Physics, University of Utah

Professional Background

• International Business Machines, 1991-1996

 

 

A senior member of the Architecture and Technical Strategy group, Visual Systems, RS/6000 Divsion, Austin. Principal focus was on the development of Visual Client strategy.

Previously was the techical lead and chief architect of the Actor portion of IBM's Human Centered technologies. Focus was the integration of speech recognition, speech synthesis, and speech synchronized facial animation for user interface and personal communications applications.
 

• New York Institute of Technology, 1981-1991

• Professor of Computer Science, 1982-1991
• Director, Computer Graphics Laboratory, 1982-1989
• Vice-President, Computer Research and Development, 1985-1989
• Visiting Professor and Technical Director, Computer Graphics Laboratory, 1981-1982

• Computer Graphics Laboratories, Inc., 1982-1989

 

 

Director of Research and Development responsible for transfer of computer graphics technology into commercial graphics systems including animation systems, electronic illustration systems, real time image compositing systems, and real time visual simulation systems.
 

• Case Western Reserve University, 1974-1982

• Adjunct Associate Professor, Computer Engineering and Science, 1982-1988
• Associate Professor, Computer Engineering and Science, 1980-82
• Assistant Professor, Computer Engineering and Information Science, 1974-1980

• University of Utah, 1970-1974

• Teaching Assistant, Computer Science, 1970-1972
• Research Assistant, Computer Science, 1972-1974

• Okaloosa-Walton Community College, 1968-1970

 

 

Instructor of Data Processing and Computer Mathematics
 

• U.S. Air Force, 1966-1970

 

 

Officer stationed at the Mathematical Services Laboratory, Eglin AFB, Florida developing simulation software for threat weapon systems and the graphics support software for a real time airborne weapons effectiveness testing system.

Professional Activities

• Associate Editor - Journal of Visualization and Computer Animation

• Book - Computer Facial Animation, with Keith Waters, A.K. Peters Ltd., Wellesley, MA., 1996

• Patent Activity

• U.S. Patent 5,025,394 - Method and Apparatus for Generating Animated Images, June 1991 (perception based animation rendering techniques)
• U.S. Patent 5,696,879 - Method and Apparatus for Improved Voice Transmission, December 1997 (related to speech synchronized facial animation)

• Reviewer - Communications of the ACM, ACM transactions on Graphics, SIGGRAPH, IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, National Science Foundation, also a number of computer conferences and several textbook publishers

• Consulting - Grumman, BETAC Corp., Synetics Corp., Ektron Corp., Tektronix Laboratories, American Analytic Corporation, Owens Corning Fiberglas, Evans and Sutherland Computer Corp., Goodyear Aerospace, NYIT, Winko-Matic Signal Company, TRW Systems.

• Member -Association for Computing Machinery, SIGGRAPH, IEEE Computer Society

Teaching

• Summer 2004
• CARC 601 - Research Methods
• Spring 2004
• VIZA 616- Rendering and Shading
• VIZA 617 - Advanced Animation
• Fall 2003
• ENDS 375 - Foundations of Visualization
• Summer 2003
• CARC 601 - Reserach Methods(w/Don House)
• Spring 2003
• VIZA 616 - Rendering and Shading
• VIZA 617 - Advanced Animation
• Fall 2002
• VIZA 652 - Computing for Visualization I
• VIZA 617 - Advanced Animation
• Summer 2002
• VIZA 627 - Design Communication III
• Spring 2002
• VIZA 616- Rendering and Shading
• VIZA 617 - Advanced Animation
• Fall 2001
• ENDS 375 - Foundations of Visualization
• VIZA 617 - Advanced Animation
• Summer 2001
• VIZA 644 Experimental Visualization
• Spring 2001
• VIZA 616- Rendering and Shading
• VIZA 617 - Advanced Animation
• Fall 2000
• ENDS 489 - Foundations of Visualization
• VIZA 617 - Advanced Animation
• Summer 2000
• VIZA 644 Experimental Visualization
• Spring 2000
• VIZA 616- Rendering and Shading
• VIZA 617 - Advanced Animation
• Fall 1999
• ENDS 489 - Foundations of Visualization
• VIZA 617 - Advanced Animation
• Summer 1999
• VIZA 627 Design Communication III
• Spring 1999
• VIZA616 - Rendering and Shading
• VIZA617 - Advanced Animation
• Fall 1999
• VIZA617 - Advanced Animation
• ENDS489 - Foundations of Visualization
• Spring 1998
• VIZA617 - Advanced Animation
• Fall 1998
• VIZA617 - Advanced Animation
• VIZA652 - Computing for Visualization I
• Spring 1997
• VIZA617 - Character Animation
• Fall 1997
• VIZA617 - Character Animation
• VIZA652 - Computing for Visualization I

Research Interests

"Next Generation" immersive virtual environments.
Expressive character animation, with focus on facial modeling and animation issues.
Anthropologically based facial modeling.
Physically based character modeling and simulation.
The use of gestures in animation control interfaces.
"Conversational" interfaces combining character animation with speech input and output
Visualization as part of learning environments
The development of innovative computer hardware/software systems
The development of innovative and very capable modeling and animation tools to support expressive character animation.

Students

M.S. Committees

• Ongoing (Visualization Sciences)

• Hobart Chan (Chair)
• Julie Gracia (Chair)
• Kevin Singleton (Chair)
• Christina Garcia (Chair)
• Chris Chapman (Chair)
• Kateleen Bateman (Chair)
• Shannon Greenwood (Member)
• Dane Bettis (Member)
• Recently Completed

• Chris Anderson (Chair) MS VIZA 2003
• Chris Haaser (Chair) MS VIZA 2002
• Tonya Abna (Member)
• Michael Mao, (Member)  MS VIZA 5/99
• Manuel Calderon (Member) MS VIZA 12/98
• Jennifer Gerwig,(Chair) MS VIZA 5/99
• Everett Hinckley (Member) MS VIZA 8/99
• Eric Koehlert, (Chair) MS VIZA 12/98
• Chris Chapman (Chair) MS VIZA 12/98
• Nicholas Rodnicki (Member) MS Arch 5/98
• Corey Ferrier (Member)  MS CS 12/97
• Jian Li (Member) MS CS  5/98

Publications

• El-Nasr, Ieorger, House, Parke, Yen, "Emotionally Expressive Agents," Proc. Computer Animation '99, Geneva, May 1999
• Parke, F. I. "Computer Generated Animation of Faces," in Seminal Graphics: Pioneering Efforts that Shaped the Field, Ed. R. Wolfe, ACM Siggraph, August 1998.
• Parke, F. I., "Perception Based Animation Rendering," Journal of Visualization and Computer Animation, Vol. 2, No 2, June 1991.
• Parke, F. I., "Control Parameterization for Facial Animation," Proc. Computer Animation 91, Geneva, May 1991, Springer-Verlag.
• Parke, F. I., "Techniques for Facial Animation," New Trends in Animation and Visualization, Thalmann, N.M. and D. Thalmann (Eds.), Addison-Wesley, 1991.
• Parke, F. I., "Interactive Tools to Support Animation Tasks," Proc. 1986 Workshop on Interactive 3D Graphics, Chapel Hill, Oct. 1986.
• Parke, F. I., "Parameterized Models for Facial Animation," IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, Nov. 1982.
• Parke, F. I., "Simulation and Expected Performance Analysis of Multiple Processor Z-Buffer Systems," Proc. SIGGRAPH '80, Seattle, July 1980. (also reprinted in Selected Reprints on VLSI Technologies and Computer Graphics, Henry Fuchs (Ed), IEEE Computer
• Parke, F. I., "Adaptation of Scan and Slit-Scan Techniques to Computer Animation, Proc. SIGGRAPH '80, Seattle, July 1980.

Grants and Awards

• Co-PI. "Next-Generation Immersive Visualization Systems," $165,000, TAMU TITF grant, 2002-05.
• Principal Investigator, "Next Generation Immersive Environments," $2000 CARC seed grant, 1999.
• Co-Principal Investigator with C. Wayne Smith, "Anthropologically Based Facial Models," $ 23,260 TAMU IRI grant, 1999-2000.
• Principal Investigator for a $95,000 contract to investigate, implement, and evaluate a "Parsimonious" real time visual simulation system prototype for the U.S. Air Force (1989-91) Contract # F33615-85-D-0514.
• Principal Investigator for a multi-year (1985-88) $550,000 contract to investigate, and apply advanced computer graphics and graphics systems to various aspects of information presentation and decision support for the Central Intelligence Agency.
• Principal Investigator for a $135,000 contract to investigate computer graphics techniques as related to the U.S. Air Force "Super Cockpit" program (1986-88).
• Principal Investigator for a three year (1978-81) $273,000 contract to implement and evaluate N.mPc, an adaptable simulation and modeling system to support the development of multi-processor systems for the National Security Agency.
• Principal Investigator for a three year (1978-81) $54,000 NASA funded project concerned with the application of advanced computer graphics visualization to fluid flow problems.

• IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Award, May 1995

Invited Talks and Presentations

• Siggraph'98, participated in several Digital Campfires, July 1998
• SXSW'98 panel on Getting a Job, March, 1998
• SPR Conference, Facial Animation and Synthetic Emotion, October 1997
• Siggraph'97 panel on Facial Animation: Past, Present and Future, August 1997
• Invited Lecture, Sam Houston State University, April 1997
• Invited Lecture, Institute for Biological Technology, April 1997
• SXSW'97 panel on the Future of Animation, March 1997
• NSF Workshop on Facial Animation, November 1993
• NSF Workshop on Facial Expression Understanding, August 1992
• Perception Based Animation Rendering, Visualization Workshop, Utah SuperComputer Institute, May 1992
• Perception Based Animation Rendering, NY Siggraph Keynote Speaker, New York, Dec. 1991