Richard Lobb's Research Publications


Journal Articles

LOBB, R. , HARLOW, J. 'Coderunner: A tool for Assessing Computer Programming Skills'. ACM Inroads. 2016 March;7(1):47-51.

ALEXANDER, J, COCKBURN, A., LOBB, R. 'AppMonitor: A tool for recording user actions in unmodified Windows applications'. Behav Res Methods. 2008 May;40(2):413-21.

NIXON, D., LOBB, R. 'A Fluid-Based Soft Object Model'. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications 22 (4): 68-75. 2002

VAN DER LINDEN, J., LOBB, R. 'MPEG-Encoded light fields'. Journal of Graphics Tools, 6(2):1-15, 2001.

WUENSCHE, B., LOBB, R. 'Triage Polygonization of Rounded Polyhedra”, The Visual Computer, 15(1):36-54, 1999.

LOBB, R. J., 'Quasi-convolutional Smoothing of Polyhedra'. The Visual Computer 12: 390-405, 1996.

TITHERIDGE, J.E., LOBB, R.J. 'A Least-Squares Polynomial Analysis and its Application to Topside Ionograms'. Radio Science, 12(3):451-459, 1977.

LOBB, R.J., TITHERIDGE, J.E. 'The Effects of Travelling Ionospheric Disturbances on Ionograms'. Journal of Atmospheric and Terrestrial Physics, 39:129-138, 1977.

LOBB, R.J., TITHERIDGE, J.E. 'The Valley Problem in Bottomside Ionogram Analysis'. Journal of Atmospheric and Terrestrial Physics, 39:35-42, 1977.


Book Chapters

GUESGEN, H.W., HERTZBERG, J., LOBB, R., MANTLER,. Buffering fuzzy maps in GIS. Spatial Cognition and Computation (Special Issue on Vagueness, Uncertainty and Granularity), 3(2&3):207-222, 2003.

SANDERS, M., LOBB R., RIDDLE, P., 'Locomotion Controllers for Mass-Spring Creatures'. Advances in Intelligent Systems: Theory and Applications in the Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications. Series by IOS Press. 59, pp 215-220. 2001.


Refereed Conference Publications

LOBB., R., DA SILVA, A., LEONARDI, E., MELLIA, M., MEO, M. 'Adaptive Overlay Topologoy for Mesh Based P2P-TV Systems', The 19th International Workshop on Network and Operating Systems Support for Digital Audio and Video (ACM NOSSDAV 2009), Williamsburg, Virginia, June 3-5, 2009

LOBB R., BELL, T., BAINBRIDGE, D, ‘Fast Capture of Sheet Music for an Agile Digital Music Library. Proc ISMIR 2005, 6th International onference on Music Information Retrieval, London, UK. pp. 145-152. 11 - 15 September 2005.

SANDERS, M., LOBB R., RIDDLE, P, 'Evolving Controllers for Virtual Creature Locomotion', in Proc. GRAPHITE 2003 (International Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques in Australasia and South East Asia), Melbourne, Australia, February 11-14, 2003. Short paper. pp 255-256..

GUESGEN, H.W., HERTZBERG, J., LOBB, R., MANTLER, A. 'First steps towards buffering fuzzy maps with graphics hardware'. Proc. FOIS-01 Workshop on Spatial Vagueness, Uncertainty and Granularity (SVUG-01), Ogunquit, Maine, October 2001.

WUENSCHE B.C., LOBB R J. 'A scientific visualization schema incorporating perceptual concepts'. Proc. IVCNZ'01, 31-36.

WUENSCHE, B., LOBB, R. 'The Visualization of Diffusion Tensor Fields in the Brain'. Proc. Intl Conf on Mathematics and Engineering Techniques in Medicine and Biological Sciences METMBS '01, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, June 25-28, 498-504, 2001.

SANDERS, M., LOBB, R., RIDDLE, P. 'Locomotion Controllers for Mass-Spring Creatures' Proc. AISTA2000, Canberra, Australia, February 2000.

WUENSCHE, B., LOBB, R. 'A Toolkit for the Visualization of Stress and Strain Tensor Fields in Biological Tissue'. Proc. VIP'99, Sydney, Australia, pp 6-15, November 1999.

KULKA, R., LOBB, R. 'An Enhanced Splatting Method'. Proc. 22nd Australasian Computer Science Conference, ACSC'99, Auckland, pp134-145. January 1999.

POON, D., LOBB, R. 'Cutting Corners'. Proc. 22nd Australasian Computer Science Conference, ACSC'99, Auckland, pp158-169, January 1999.

WUENSCHE, B., LOBB, R. 'A New Method for Rounding Polyhedral Objects'. Proc. VIP '97, Sydney, pp 65-77. 1997.

MARSCHNER, S., LOBB, R. 'An Evaluation of Reconstruction Filters for Volume Rendering'. Proc. IEEE Visualization '94, Washington DC, pp 100-107, 1994.

LOBB, R.J., WILLMOTT, A.J. 'A Class Library for Teaching 3D Computer Graphics'. Proc. 16th Australian Computer Science Conference, Brisbane, Australia, pp 353-361. February 1993.

LOBB, R.J., HALSTEAD, M.A.B. 'Exploiting Coherence in Ray Tracing'. Proc. 11th NZ Computer Conference, Wellington, August 1989.

LOBB, R.J. 'Antialiasing of Polygons with a Weighted Filter'. Proc. CG International '87. Published as Computer Graphics 1987, Springer-Verlag, pp107-128. 1987.

LOBB, R.J., MUGRIDGE, W.B. 'Networking of Microcomputers in a Programming Laboratory'. Proc. 1st Australian Computer Engineering Symposium, Queensland, Australia. pp11:1-11.6. August 1983.


Unrefereed Conference Proceedings

SANDERS, M., LOBB, R., RIDDLE, P. 'Evolving Controllers for Virtual Creature Locomotion', in Proc. Western Computer Graphics Symposium 2002, Vernon BC Canada. 24 -27 March 2002. pp 85-92.


Other Refereed Publications by Thesis Students under my Direct Supervision

WUENSCHE, B. C. 'A Toolkit for Visualizing Biomedical Data Sets', Proc. GRAPHITE 2003 (accepted for publication)

VAN DER LINDEN, J. 'Multi-lightfield Rendering', Proc. GRAPHITE 2003 (accepted for publication)

VAN DER LINDEN, J. 'Auto-focusing of Light Fields' Proc. 22nd Australasian Computer Science Conference, ACSC'99, Auckland, pp146-157. January 1999.

KULKA, P. 'A survey of Projection Methods for Direct Volume Rendering', Proc. IVCNZ'98, Auckland, pp 109-114, November 1998.

WUENSCHE, B. 'The Visualization of Two-Dimensional Second-Order Tensor Fields.' Proc. IVCNZ'98, Auckland, pp 174-179. November 1998.

WUENSCHE, B. 'Survey and Evaluation of Mesh Reduction Techniques', Proc. IVCNZ'98, Auckland, pp 393-398. November 1998.

WUENSCHE, B. 'A Survey and Analysis of Common Polygonization Methods & Optimization Techniques.' Machine Graphics & Vision, 6: 451-486, 1997.


Technical Reports

LOBB, R.J., WILLMOTT, A.J. 'Tridee – an Object-Oriented 3D Graphics Package' Auckland Computer Science Report Series, No. 59, July 1992.

LOBB, R.J. 'A Computer Booking System'. Auckland Computer Science Report Series, No. 35, December 1984.

LOBB, R.J., MUGRIDGE, W.B. 'AUCSNET – A Status Report'. Auckland Computer Science Report Series, No. 32, December 1983.