- Motion vectors and deep neural networks for video camera traps Riechmann, Miklas; Gardiner, Ross; Waddington, Kai; Rueger, Ryan; Leymarie, Frederic Fol and Rueger, Stefan. 2022. Motion vectors and deep neural networks for video camera traps. Ecological Informatics, 69, 101657. ISSN 1574-9541
- StrokeStyles: Stroke-based Segmentation and Stylization of Fonts Berio, Daniel; Leymarie, Frederic Fol; Asente, Paul and Echevarria, Jose. 2022. StrokeStyles: Stroke-based Segmentation and Stylization of Fonts. ACM Transactions on Graphics, 41(3), 28. ISSN 0730-0301
- A Machine Learning Application Based on Giorgio Morandi Still-Life Paintings to Assist Artists in the Choice of 3D Compositions Salimbeni, Guido; Leymarie, Frederic Fol and Latham, William. 2022. A Machine Learning Application Based on Giorgio Morandi Still-Life Paintings to Assist Artists in the Choice of 3D Compositions. Leonardo, 55(1), pp. 57-61. ISSN 0024-094X
- A dot that went for a walk: People prefer lines drawn with human-like kinematics Chamberlain, Rebecca; Orgs, Guido; Mayer, Veronika; Chana, Kirren; Berio, Daniel and Leymarie, Frederic Fol. 2022. A dot that went for a walk: People prefer lines drawn with human-like kinematics. British Journal of Psychology, 113(1), pp. 105-130. ISSN 0007-1269
- Aesthetics of graffiti: Comparison to text-based and pictorial artforms Chamberlain, Rebecca; Mullin, Caitlin; Berio, Daniel; Leymarie, Frederic Fol and Wagemans, Johan. 2022. Aesthetics of graffiti: Comparison to text-based and pictorial artforms. Empirical Studies of the Arts, 40(1), pp. 21-36. ISSN 0276-2374
- Network Bending: Expressive Manipulation of Generative Models in Multiple Domains Broad, Terence; Leymarie, Frederic Fol and Grierson, Mick. 2022. Network Bending: Expressive Manipulation of Generative Models in Multiple Domains. Entropy, 24(1), 28. ISSN 1099-4300
- Virtual Creature Morphology - A Review Lai, Gorm; Leymarie, Frederic Fol; Latham, William; Arita, Takaya and Suzuki, Reiji. 2021. Virtual Creature Morphology - A Review. Computer Graphics Forum, 40(2), pp. 659-681. ISSN 0167-7055
- CSynth: An Interactive Modelling and Visualisation Tool for 3D Chromatin Structure Todd, Stephen; Todd, Peter; McGowan, Simon J; Hughes, James R; Kakui, Yasutaka; Leymarie, Frederic Fol; Latham, William and Taylor, Stephen. 2021. CSynth: An Interactive Modelling and Visualisation Tool for 3D Chromatin Structure. Bioinformatics, 37(7), pp. 951-955. ISSN 1367-4803
- Art.Machines.Intelligence Leymarie, Frederic Fol. 2021. Art.Machines.Intelligence. Enjeux Numeriques(13), pp. 82-102. ISSN 2607-9984
- Trends and Anti-Trends in Techno-Art Scholarship: The Legacy of the Arts “Machine” Special Issues Bessette, Juliette; Leymarie, Frederic Fol and Smith, Glenn. 2019. Trends and Anti-Trends in Techno-Art Scholarship: The Legacy of the Arts “Machine” Special Issues. Arts, 8(3), 120. ISSN 2076-0752
- Kinematic Reconstruction of Calligraphic Traces from Shape Features Berio, Daniel; Leymarie, Frederic Fol and Plamondon, Rejean. 2018. Kinematic Reconstruction of Calligraphic Traces from Shape Features. Proceedings of the International Conference on Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, 1(1), pp. 762-767.
- Expressive Curve Editing with the Sigma Lognormal Model Berio, Daniel; Leymarie, Frederic Fol and Plamondon, Rejean. 2018. Expressive Curve Editing with the Sigma Lognormal Model. Eurographics 2018 short papers, 033-036.
- Medialness and the Perception of Visual Art Leymarie, Frederic Fol and Aparajeya, Prashant. 2017. Medialness and the Perception of Visual Art. Art and Perception, 5(2), pp. 169-232. ISSN 2213-4905
- The Machine as Artist: An Introduction Smith, Glenn and Leymarie, Frederic Fol. 2017. The Machine as Artist: An Introduction. Arts, 6(2), ISSN 2076-0752
- Swarmic autopoiesis and computational creativity al-Rifaie, Mohammad Majid; Leymarie, Frederic Fol; Latham, William and Bishop, Mark. 2017. Swarmic autopoiesis and computational creativity. Connection Science, 29(4), pp. 276-294. ISSN 0954-0091
- Curvy is the new straight: Kanizsa triangles Gintner, Timea; Aparajeya, Prashant; Leymarie, Frederic Fol and Kovacs, Ilona. 2016. Curvy is the new straight: Kanizsa triangles. Perception, 45(S2), p. 44. ISSN 0301-0066
- Point-based medialness for 2D shape description and identification Aparajeya, Prashant and Leymarie, Frederic Fol. 2016. Point-based medialness for 2D shape description and identification. Multimedia Tools and Applications, 75(3), pp. 1667-1699. ISSN 1380-7501
- On Writing and Reading Artistic Computational Ecosystems Antunes, Rui Filipe; Leymarie, Frederic Fol and Latham, William. 2015. On Writing and Reading Artistic Computational Ecosystems. Artificial Life, 21(3), pp. 320-331. ISSN 1064-5462
- Two Decades of Evolutionary Art Using Computational Ecosystems and Its Potential for Virtual Worlds Antunes, Rui Filipe; Leymarie, Frederic Fol and Latham, William. 2014. Two Decades of Evolutionary Art Using Computational Ecosystems and Its Potential for Virtual Worlds. Journal of Virtual Worlds Research, 7(3),
- The Emergence and Growth of Evolutionary Art 1980-1993 Lambert, Nicholas; Latham, William and Leymarie, Frederic Fol. 2013. The Emergence and Growth of Evolutionary Art 1980-1993. Leonardo, 46(4), pp. 367-375. ISSN 0024-094X
- Portrait drawing by Paul the robot Tresset, Patrick and Leymarie, Frederic Fol. 2013. Portrait drawing by Paul the robot. Computers & Graphics, 37(5), pp. 348-363. ISSN 0097-8493
- Human Robot Interaction and Drawing Tresset, Patrick and Leymarie, Frederic Fol. 2012. Human Robot Interaction and Drawing. Dossier Creativite et Innovation(78), pp. 44-49.
- Generative choreography: animating in real-time dancing avatars Leymarie, Frederic Fol and Antunes, Rui Filipe. 2012. Generative choreography: animating in real-time dancing avatars. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(7247), pp. 1-10. ISSN 0302-9743
- Surface reconstruction from point clouds by transforming the medial scaffold Leymarie, Frederic Fol; Chang, Ming-Ching and Kimia, Benjamin B.. 2009. Surface reconstruction from point clouds by transforming the medial scaffold. Computer Vision and Image Understanding, 113(11), pp. 1130-1146. ISSN 1077-3142
- The Medial Scaffold of 3D Unorganized Point Clouds Leymarie, Frederic Fol and Kimia, Benjamin B.. 2007. The Medial Scaffold of 3D Unorganized Point Clouds. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 29(2), pp. 313-330. ISSN 01628828
- Symmetry-based Representation of Volumetric Imaging Kimia, Benjamin B. and Leymarie, Frederic Fol. 2001. Symmetry-based Representation of Volumetric Imaging. IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP01), 2, pp. 581-584.
- The Shock Scaffold for Representing 3D Shape Leymarie, Frederic Fol and Kimia, Benjamin B.. 2001. The Shock Scaffold for Representing 3D Shape. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2059, pp. 216-229. ISSN 0302-9743
- Towards the Automation of Road Extraction Processes Leymarie, Frederic Fol; Boichis, N.; Airault, S. and Jamet, O.. 1996. Towards the Automation of Road Extraction Processes. SPIE European Symposium on Satellite and Remote Sensing III, 2960, pp. 84-95.
- From Manual to Automatic Stereoplotting: Evaluation of Different Road Network Capture Processes Leymarie, Frederic Fol; Airault, S. and Jamet, O.. 1996. From Manual to Automatic Stereoplotting: Evaluation of Different Road Network Capture Processes. International Archives of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 31(3), pp. 14-18.
- Tracking Deformable Objects in the Plane Using an Active Contour Model Leymarie, Frederic Fol and Levine, Michael. 1993. Tracking Deformable Objects in the Plane Using an Active Contour Model. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 15(6), pp. 617-634.
- Simulating the Grassfire Transform Using an Active Contour Model Leymarie, Frederic Fol and Levine, Michael. 1992. Simulating the Grassfire Transform Using an Active Contour Model. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 14(1), pp. 56-75.
- Fast Raster Scan Distance Propagation on the Discrete Rectangular Lattice Leymarie, Frederic Fol and Levine, Michael. 1992. Fast Raster Scan Distance Propagation on the Discrete Rectangular Lattice. CVGIP-IU, 55(1), pp. 84-94.
- New method for shape description based on an active contour model Leymarie, Frederic Fol and Levine, Michael. 1989. New method for shape description based on an active contour model. Proceedings of SPIE conference on "Visual Communications and Image Processing, 1199(1), pp. 390-401.
Prof Frederic Fol Leymarie
Frederic works on creativity and AI systems, including robots which can perform artistic skills similar to humans.
Staff details
Frederic works on creativity and AI systems, including robots which can perform with artistic skills similar to expert humans.
He also conducts work with specialists in the biosciences, helping to develop interactive computer environments (occasionally in the form of serious games) to facilitate the study of complex biomolecular problems (folding, docking).
Frederic has a long term interest in shape understanding where he combines knowledge from perception, vision science, AI, the visual arts. Frederic joined Goldsmiths in 2004, when he launched an MSc in Arts Computing.
Outside academia, Frederic leads the consulting activity London Geometry in partnership with Prof. William Latham.
Academic qualifications
Ph.D. (Brown University, 2003).
Teaching
Frederic is programme leader with William Latham of the MSc Computer Games & Entertainment. In the past few years, his focus has been on teaching maths and graphics to our MSc Computer Games & Entertainment students.
The programme lasts two terms (Autumn+Winter/Spring). The evaluation is essentially based on individual and team projects. Typical topics covered include linear algebra, complex numbers and quaternions, interpolation in curves and surfaces, meshes and light rendering.
Each year brings some new topics. In the past two years Frederic has developed lectures on the use of machine learning in computer games. I also teach (together with Andy Thomason) the 'Physics and Animation in Games' module (1 term). He also mentors Year 2 BSc Computer Science team projects and occasionally final year individual projects.
Publications and research outputs
Edited Book
- The Machine as Art/ The Machine as Artist Leymarie, Frederic Fol; Bessette, Juliette and Smith, G.W., eds. 2020. The Machine as Art/ The Machine as Artist. Basel, Switzerland: MDPI. ISBN 9783039360642
Book Section
- Kinematics Reconstruction of Static Calligraphic Traces from Curvilinear Shape Features Berio, Daniel; Leymarie, Frederic Fol and Plamondon, Rejean. 2020. Kinematics Reconstruction of Static Calligraphic Traces from Curvilinear Shape Features. In: Rejean Plamondon; Angelo Marcelli and Miguel Ángel Ferrer, eds. The Lognormality Principle and its Applications in e-Security, e-Learning and e-Health. 88 World Scientific, pp. 237-268. ISBN 9789811226823
- Interactive Generation of Calligraphic Trajectories from Gaussian Mixtures Berio, Daniel; Leymarie, Frederic Fol and Calinon, Sylvain. 2019. Interactive Generation of Calligraphic Trajectories from Gaussian Mixtures. In: Nizar Bouguila and Wentao Fan, eds. Mixture Models and Applications. Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature Switzerland AG, pp. 23-38. ISBN 9783030238759
- Swarm-Based Identification of Animation Key Points from 2D-medialness Maps Aparajeya, Prashant; Leymarie, Frederic Fol and al-Rifaie, Mohammad Majid. 2019. Swarm-Based Identification of Animation Key Points from 2D-medialness Maps. In: Anikó Ekárt; Antonios Liapis and María Luz Castro Pena, eds. Computational Intelligence in Music, Sound, Art and Design. 11453 Cham, Switzerland: Springer, pp. 69-83. ISBN 9783030166663
Article
- Simple Hybrid Camera-Based System Using Two Views for Three-Dimensional Body Measurements Montazerian, Mohammad and Leymarie, Frederic Fol. 2023. Simple Hybrid Camera-Based System Using Two Views for Three-Dimensional Body Measurements. Symmetry, 16(1), 49. ISSN 2073-8994
- On Mixed-Initiative Content Creation for Video Games Lai, Gorm; Leymarie, Frederic Fol and Latham, William. 2022. On Mixed-Initiative Content Creation for Video Games. IEEE Transactions on Games, 14(4), pp. 543-557. ISSN 2475-1502
- What Is It about Art? A Discussion on Art.Intelligence.Machine. Leymarie, Frederic Fol and Simmons, Seymour. 2022. What Is It about Art? A Discussion on Art.Intelligence.Machine. Arts, 11(5), 100. ISSN 2076-0752
Conference or Workshop Item
- The Effects of Hand Tracking on User Performance: an experimental study of an object selection based memory game Jamalian, Nima; Gillies, Marco; Leymarie, Frederic Fol and Pan, Xueni. 2022. 'The Effects of Hand Tracking on User Performance: an experimental study of an object selection based memory game'. In: 2022 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR). Singapore, Singapore 17-21 October 2022.
- Two Decades of Game Jams Lai, Gorm; Kultima, Annakaisa; Khosmood, Foaad; Pirker, Johanna; Fowler, Allan; Vecchi, Ilaria; Latham, William and Leymarie, Frederic Fol. 2021. 'Two Decades of Game Jams'. In: ICGJ 2021: Sixth Annual International Conference on Game Jams, Hackathons, and Game Creation Events. Montreal, Canada 2 August 2021.
- The Effect of Spatial Design on User Memory Performance Using the Method of Loci in VR Gerard, Pierre-François; Leymarie, Frederic Fol and Latham, William. 2021. 'The Effect of Spatial Design on User Memory Performance Using the Method of Loci in VR'. In: 7th International Conference of the Immersive Learning Research Network (iLRN). Eureka, California, United States 17 May-10 June 2021.
Digital
- The History of the Species in Sketch Latham, William and Leymarie, Frederic Fol. 2007. The History of the Species in Sketch.
Project
- Mutator VR Latham, William; Todd, Stephen; Putnam, Lance; Todd, Peter and Leymarie, Frederic Fol. 2016 - 2020 Mutator VR.
Report
- Tracking and Describing Deformable Objects Using Active Contour Models Leymarie, Frederic Fol. 1990. Tracking and Describing Deformable Objects Using Active Contour Models. Technical Report. Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Snakes and Skeletons Leymarie, Frederic Fol and Levine, Michael. 1989. Snakes and Skeletons. Technical Report. Technical Report TR-CIM-89-1, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
- Curvature morphology Leymarie, Frederic Fol and Levine, Michael. 1988. Curvature morphology. Technical Report. Technical Report TR-CIM-88-26, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Show/Exhibition
- Creative Machine Latham, William; Tanaka, Atau and Leymarie, Frederic Fol. 2014. Creative Machine. In: "Creative Machine", St James Hatcham Church Gallery, Goldsmiths, University of London, 7 - 14 November 2014.
Thesis
- Three-Dimensional Shape Representation via Shock Flows Leymarie, Frederic Fol. 2003. Three-Dimensional Shape Representation via Shock Flows. Doctoral thesis, Brown University, U.S.A.
Research Interests
Areas of supervision:
- Computer vision and computer graphics
- AI, Machine Learning and Creativity
- Artistically skillful robots
- Interactive platforms for the biosciences, including collaborative VR systems and serious games: Bioblox, CSynth, FoldSynth
- Intersection of the visual arts and live performances with computing, perception and robots.
