Llogari Casas

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Llogari Casas

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Llogari Casas is a computer scientist and entrepreneur in the field of Augmented Reality (AR). He holds a degree in Multimedia from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya and a master's degree in Computer Animation from Kingston University London. He obtained his Ph.D. from Edinburgh Napier University as part of a Horizon 2020 Marie Curie Fellowship, a highly regarded research fellowship established by the European Commission.

One of Casas' notable achievements is the development of Intermediated Reality, a groundbreaking tool that brings real-world objects to life using Augmented Reality. This tool enables objects such as statues in museums, characters and consumer products to interact with users through mobile devices. Unlike traditional Augmented Reality, which overlays virtual objects onto reality, Casas' innovation focuses on animating real objects and creating believable animations. The animations even include the deformation of an object's shadow as it moves.

Casas has also embraced entrepreneurship and played a pivotal role in co-founding two ventures. He is a co-founder of 3FINERY LTD, a spin-out company from Edinburgh Napier University that specializes in delivering augmented reality solutions for mobile devices. Additionally, Casas is a co-founder of Flash Park SL, a startup focused on providing innovative solutions for efficiently locating parking spots in busy cities through a network of renewable energy-powered parking sensors. In recognition of his achievements, Casas was awarded the Young Computer Researcher award by the Spanish Scientific Society of Informatics in 2021.

Research

Contribution to ground breaking computer vision, graphics and fabrication research works, including real-time integration of fabricated object registration, tracking, and actuation with video game simulation and gameplay components.

Publications

Intermediated Reality with an AI 3D Printed Character

L. Casas and K. Mitchell. "Intermediated Reality with an AI 3D Printed Character". SIGGRAPH '23: ACM SIGGRAPH 2023 Real-Time Live!. 2023. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 5, 1–2.

FaceMagic: Real-time Facial Detail Effects on Mobile

L. Casas, Y. Li and K. Mitchell. "FaceMagic: Real-time Facial Detail Effects on Mobile". SIGGRAPH Asia 2020 Technical Communications. 2020. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 9, 1–4.

Intermediated Reality (Thesis)

L. Casas. "Intermediated Reality (Thesis)". Edinburgh Napier University. 2020. Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom.

Intermediated Reality

L. Casas. "Intermediated Reality". In SIGGRAPH Asia 2019 Doctoral Consortium (SA '19). 2019. Brisbane, Australia. Association for Computing Machinery, Article 8, 1–4.

Intermediated Reality: A Framework for Communication through Tele-Puppetry

L. Casas and K. Mitchell. "Intermediated Reality: A Framework for Communication through Tele-Puppetry". Frontiers in Robotics and Artificial Intelligence - Special issue "Collaboration in Mixed-Reality" 2019.

Enhanced Shadow Retargeting with Light-Source Estimation Using Flat Fresnel Lenses

L. Casas, M. Fauconneau, M. Kosek, K. Mclister, and K. Mitchell, “Enhanced Shadow Retargeting with Light-Source Estimation Using Flat Fresnel Lenses”, Computers, vol. 8, no. 2, p. 29, Apr. 2019.

Multi-reality games: an experience across the entire reality-virtuality continuum

L. Casas^*, L. Ciccone^*, G. Çimen, P. Wiedemann, M. Fauconneau, R. W. Sumner and K. Mitchell. "Multi-reality games: an experience across the entire reality-virtuality continuum". In Proceedings of the 16th ACM SIGGRAPH International Conference on Virtual-Reality Continuum and its Applications in Industry (VRCAI '18). Tokyo, Japan. 2018. Article 18, 1–4.

Image Based Proximate Shadow Retargeting

L. Casas, M. Fauconneau, M. Kosek, K. Mclister, and K. Mitchell, "Image Based Proximate Shadow Retargeting", In Proceedings of the Conference on Computer Graphics & Visual Computing (CGVC '18), Swansea, Wales, UK, 2018, Eurographics Association, pp. 43–50.

Props Alive: A Framework for Augmented Reality Stop Motion Animation

L. Casas, M. Kosek and K. Mitchell, "Props Alive: A Framework for Augmented Reality Stop Motion Animation", 2017 IEEE 10th Workshop on Software Engineering and Architectures for Realtime Interactive Systems (SEARIS), Los Angeles, CA, USA, 2017, pp. 1-4.

Patents

Intermediated Reality. Augmented Reality Systems and Methods

L. Casas and K. Mitchell. 2019. US20220068010A1.

Real-time feature preserving rendering of visual effects on an image of a face

K. Mitchell, L. Casas and Y. Li. 2020. US11288859B2.

Equipo y procedimiento de localización de aparcamiento en zonas urbanas

L. Casas, G. Lorenzo and J. Codina. 2020. ES1299147Y.

Grants, Fellowships & Awards

Premio Investigación Sociedad Científica Informática de España (SCIE) – Fundación BBVA (2021)

Galardonado en la categoría de Investigador Joven Informático.

Innovate UK (2021 - 2022)

Project Manager. Innovation to Commercialisation of University Research (ICURe) follow on funding: round 8. Project 68475.

ICURe Programme (2020)

Entrepreneurial Lead. SETsquared: Innovation to Commercialisation of University Research (ICURe) Programme Cohort 26.

Marie Skłodowska-Curie ITN Fellowship (2016 - 2018)

Early Career Researcher (ESR). Horizon 2020. MSCA-ITN-2014-ETN. Distributed 3D Object Design (DISTRO). Grant Number 642841.

Telecom Seeds for the Future (2014)

Award Recipient. Huawei España & Escuela de Organización Industrial (EOI).

Experience

Co-founder

3FINERY LTD 2020 - Present

3FINERY LTD is an Augmented Reality spin-out from Edinburgh Napier University that provides a novel marketing tool by bringing objects to life in mobile devices. Our clients are businesses who need to enhance their social media customer engagement to increase their sales. Unlike our competitors, who use AR to overlay content on the screen, our clients benefit from our unique capability to bring the appearance of real objects to life.

Co-founder

Flash Park SL 2020 - Present

Flash Park SL provides a revolutionary solution to efficiently find parking spots in the streets of crowded cities using a network of renewable energy-powered parking sensors.

Research Fellow

Edinburgh Napier University 2016 - Present

Completion of analytic transfer functions for low-latency tracked real physical impulses to virtual simulation and, conversely, game physics simulation to real world actuation aims to enhance interactivity between the real and virtual world.

Lab Associate

Disney Research Los Angeles 2019 - 2019

Exploration of real-time computer graphics techniques for facial detail reconstruction methods capable of retrieving high-quality geometry using Augmented Reality (AR) in hand-held mobile devices.