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Dr Dar'ya Guarnera
Lecturer
Profile
Biography
Dar'ya Guarnera is a Lecturer in Creative AI and the Programme Lead for the MSc in Artificial Intelligence for the Creative Industries at the School of Arts and Creative Technologies, University of York. She is also the Programme Lead for Virtual World Building and the EDI Champion at CoSTAR Live Lab.
Her research interests include AI, computer graphics, and human perception of colour and material appearance, with applications in material acquisition and representation, as well as 3D visualisation.
After being awarded a BSc in Architecture from the Odessa State Academy of Civil Engineering and Architecture (Ukraine) and a degree in Computer Science from Liverpool Hope University, she began her research in physically based rendering at Loughborough University, where she received her PhD in Computer Science in 2018. Prior to joining the University of York, she was a Senior Researcher at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU).
Research
Overview
Research interests include material appearance, virtual reality, human perception of colour and material, modelling and rendering of facial appearance, appearance transfer methods.
Publications
Selected publications
Rodriguez, R.G., Hedjar, L., Toscani, M., Guarnera, D., Guarnera, G.C. and Gegenfurtner, K.R., 2024. Surround Effects on Color Constancy in Virtual Reality. Journal of Vision, 24(10), pp.517-517.
Hedjar, L., Rodríguez, R.G., Toscani, M., Guarnera, D., Guarnera, G.C. and Gegenfurtner, K.R., 2023. Object-based computations for color constancy. Journal of Vision, 23(9), pp.5100-5100.
Book: Guarnera, D. and Guarnera, G.C., 2022. Virtual material acquisition and representation for computer graphics. Springer Nature.
Gil Rodríguez, R., Bayer, F., Toscani, M., Guarnera, D.Y., Guarnera, G.C. and Gegenfurtner, K.R., 2022. Colour calibration of a head mounted display for colour vision research using virtual reality. SN Computer Science, 3(1), p.22.
Toscani, M., Guarnera, D., Guarnera, G.C., Hardeberg, J.Y. and Gegenfurtner, K.R., 2020. Three perceptual dimensions for specular and diffuse reflection. ACM Transactions on Applied Perception (TAP), 17(2), pp.1-26.
Rodriguez, R.G., Toscani, M., Guarnera, D., Guarnera, G.C., Bayer, F. and Gegenfurtner, K., 2020. Color constancy in a virtual reality environment. Journal of Vision, 20(11), pp.1226-1226.
Guarnera, G.C., Guarnera, D., Ward, G.J., Glencross, M. and Hall, I., 2019. BxDF material acquisition, representation, and rendering for VR and design. In SIGGRAPH Asia 2019 Courses (pp. 1-21).
Toscani, M., Rodriguez, R.G., Guarnera, D., Guarnera, G., Kalouaz, A. and Gegenfurtner, K.R., 2019, November. Assessment of OLED head mounted display for vision research with virtual reality. In 2019 15th International Conference on Signal-Image Technology & Internet-Based Systems (SITIS) (pp. 738-745). IEEE.
Sole, A., Gigilashvili, D., Midtfjord, H., Guarnera, D., Guarnera, G.C., Thomas, J.B. and Hardeberg, J.Y., 2019. On the acquisition and reproduction of material appearance. In Computational Color Imaging: 7th International Workshop, CCIW 2019, Chiba, Japan, March 27-29, 2019, Proceedings 7 (pp. 26-38). Springer International Publishing.
Toscani, M., Guarnera, D.Y., Guarnera, G.C., Hardeberg, J.Y. and Gegenfurtner, K., 2018. Visual sensitivity to material differences. Journal of Vision, 18(10), pp.228-228.
Guarnera, D., 2018. Image based surface reflectance remapping for consistent and tool independent material appearance (Doctoral dissertation, Loughborough University).
Guarnera, D., Guarnera, G.C., Toscani, M., Glencross, M., Li, B., Hardeberg, J.Y. and Gegenfurtner, K.R., 2018. Perceptually validated analytical BRDFs parameters remapping. In ACM SIGGRAPH 2018 Talks (pp. 1-2).
Guarnera, G.C., Ghosh, A., Hall, I., Glencross, M. and Guarnera, D., 2017. Material capture and representation with applications in virtual reality. In ACM SIGGRAPH 2017 Courses (pp. 1-72).
Guarnera, D., Guarnera, G.C., Ghosh, A., Hall, I. and Glencross, M., 2016. Capturing and representing brdfs for virtual reality. In SIGGRAPH ASIA 2016 Courses (pp. 1-80).
