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My main research area is character animation, specifically modelling and animating faces, although I have worked on projects in modelling, rendering, animation, visualisation and computer games over the last 20 years or so. I am Head of the Computer Graphics and Virtual Reality Research Group. I have over 60 refereed publications and am a member of both ACM Siggraph and Eurographics. I also have a keen interest in education, and firmly support the University's stance on research-led teaching.

News

• One new PhD student started in January 2012

Selected papers

• Gunnarsson, O. and S. Maddock (2010), "Sketch-Based Posing of 3D Faces for Facial Animation", Proceedings of The Eighth Theory and Practice of Computer Graphics 2010 Conference (TP.CG.2010), Sheffield, Sep 6-8, 2010, pp.223-230
• BinSubaih, A., S. Maddock, D. Romano (2009), "Serious Games for the Police: Opportunities and Challenges", Special Reports & Studies Series at the Research & Studies Center (Dubai Police Academy), 2009
• Gamito, M.N. and S.C.Maddock (2009), "Accurate Multi-Dimensional Poisson-Disc Sampling", ACM Transactions on Graphics, 29(1), December 2009. (Also presented at ACM Siggraph 2010.)
• Martinez Lazalde, O., S. Maddock, M.Meredith (2008), "A Constraint-Based approach to Visual Speech for a Mexican-Spanish Talking Head", International Journal of Computer Games Technology,Volume 2008 (2008), Article ID 412056, 7 pages.

Recent funded projects

• RECITE (Rethinking a City's Theatres, Digital Creativity and Innovation), University of Sheffield Cross-cutting Director of Research and Innovation Scholarships in the Digital World, £162,000, Peng (PI) and Samuel (Architecture), Maddock and Romano (Computer Science), Nicholson and Babbage (English), Sep 2010-Sep 2013,
• "Visual Speech for Technology Enhanced Learning", ESRC/EPSRC PhD studentship, £49,000, Maddock (PI, Computer Science), Nicolson (Psychology), Pascalis (Grenoble), Oct 2008-Sep 2011. PhD student: Priya Dey.