Chris Bregler -- Other Media
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• Ronald Mallet and Chris Bregler received an Academy Award in the Oscar's Sci-Tech category
  

• NPR Radio Interview for Bob Garfield's "ON THE MEDIA", April 26, 2013, “THE FUTURE OF SURVEILLANCE”

• Scientific American Online, April 18, 2013, “Crowd Watching: Video Analytics Could Flag Crimes Before They Happen”

• Time Magazine: 10 Ideas That Make A Difference, March 14, 2013, “Spy on Sports Fans” and (SCAN)

• New York Times 2012: The Year in Graphics, December 30, 2012, "Olympics One with the Water", "What Romney and Obama's Body Language Says to Voters", and "Connecting Music and Gesture (The Maestro's Mojo, Alan Gilbert and the NY Philharmonics

• BBC World News, October 4, 7:30pm London Time, 2012, Interview on Obama / Romney Presidential Debate

• NY Times, October 2, 2012, "What Romney and Obama’s Body Language Says to Voters"

• CNN, August 24, 2012, "Can 3-D movie technology improve an athlete's performance? Olympic gold medalist Dana Vollmer demos the future of athletic training" VIDEO is here

• CNN, August 24, 2012, "Olympian Dana Vollmer demonstrates how she uses 3D movie technology to improve her swimming performance"

• ABC News, August 10, 2012, "Olympics: Best Swimmers Are Like Dolphins"

• New York Times, August 9, 2012, "How to Win: The High Dive"

• New York Times, July 27, 2012, "One With the Water"

• Scientific American, August 6, 2012, "Dana Vollmer’s Butterfly Stroke Features Dolphinlike Moves "

• National Geographic, France, August 7, 2012, "La nageuse à l’aise comme un dauphin dans l’eau"

• TEDx, NYU April 14, 2012, "New Frontiers in Human Motion, Crowds, and Gaming"

• New York Times, April 13, 2012, "In 3-D: How Mariano Rivera Dominates Hitters"

• New York Times, April 6, 2012, "The Maetro's Mojo" Article & Video

• Scientific American, September 27, 2011, "Something in the Way You Move: Cameras May Soon Recognize Criminals by Their Gait" Article & Video
  (Also at: PBS News Hour)

• New York Times, August 27, 2011, "Animated or Real, Both Are Believable"

• The Independent, October 4, 2011, "How to dub a film"

• NYU collaboration with C-Mon and Kypski on crowd-sourcing:

  • NYU Today (May 17, 2011)
  • Futurity (May 18, 2011)
  • Computer Vision Central (May 18, 2011)
  • Pressetext (in German, May 18, 2011)
  • Gizmag (May 19, 2011)
  • I Programmer (May 21, 2011)
  • Ninja Marketing (in Italian, May 25, 2011)
  • 3voor12 (in Dutch, May 30, 2011)
  • Public Radio International: The World (June 1, 2011)
  • also featured on podcast (June 17,2011)
  • The Fox is Black (June 2, 2011)
  • Radio Netherlands Worldwide (June 8, 2011)
  • Nonblok.com (in Indonesian, June 10, 2011)

• Discovery/Science Channel, December 29, 2010, NYU 3D Innovation Nation by Miles O'Brien (a CBS / NSF produced short segment about the NYU Movement Lab)

• New York Times - Front Page, October 3, 2010, "From the 'Avatar' Playbook, Pro Teams Adopt 3-D Imaging"

• DiscoveryNews (Discovery Channel online), October 6, 2010, "Athletes Use 3-D Imaging to Improve Their Game"
  

• NY Observer, October 4, 2010, "Computer Avatars Train Pro Athletes At NYU's Movement Lab"

• PresseText Austria, October 4, 2010,"Baseball-Profis trainieren mit Avatar-Technologie"

• Sify Sports, October 7, 2010, "Now, athletes resorting to 3-D imaging to boost performance"

• Kurier, October 4, 2010, "Computer-Spiele, die bunte Popkultur"

• ORF 2 TV, Interview on Ars Electronica General Festival Theme, August 29, 2010
  

• WIRED Blog, Squidball in "Hallucinatory Art Snags Attention …", August 31, 2010
  

• ORF FM4, Ars Electronica Festival - clowd2croud - experiments, Click here for story, Click here for audio, September 4, 2010
  

• Repair TV, Ars Electronica Festival - clowd2croud - experiments, September 5, 2010
  

• Servus TV, Ars Electronica Festival - clowd2croud - experiments, September 11, 2010
  

• New York Times Magazine, 4th of July, NYU Movement Lab created 3D reconstructions for Interactive Feature "Rivera's Cut Fastball" for "Mariano Rivera, King of the Closers" article.
  

• NYU Today July 1, 2010, "NYU's Movement Lab Reconstructs Mariano Rivera's Pitching Motion for Animated 3D Look at His Delivery"
  

• International Business Times, July 1, 2010, "3D Motion Capture Recreates Yankees Closer"

• NYU Today, Vol 22, No 11, 2009 "Bregler Receives $1.47 Million Grant to Enhance Motion Capture Tools"
  

• CIMS Alumni, Fall 2009, "Chris Bregler: A Motion Capture Expert Who's Always on the Move"
  

• Technology Review, interview (quoted) for APRIL 29, 2009, Second Skin Captures Motion
  

• NYU Today, Vol 22, No 98, 2008 "Tina Fey Moves Like Sarah Palin, NYU Researchers Find"
  

• CBSnews.com, UWIRE, Washington Square News, Nov 17, 2008, NYU Analysis Finds Fey's Palin Near Perfect
  

• Kerrang Radio, UK, Interview on GreenDot Project, Nov 5, 2008
  

• BoingBoing 10/27 2008, GreenDot Project, "Biometric Identification by body language"
  

• Der Spiegel Online 10/29 2008 GreenDot Project
  

• Interviewed (quoted) for NewScientist Nov 26, 2007, "Cheap sensors could capture your every move"
  

• New York Academy of Science Magazine, Autumn 2007, "Winning Science".
  

• NYU Alumni Magazine, Fall 2007, "Movers, shakers and … software"
  

• Business Week, April 2nd, 2007: Video Interview on businessweek.com, & NYU's Mocap Suit made the cover.
  

• NYU Today "Courant Students Explore Body Movement with Laban Analysis", Oct 24, 2005
  

• News on SIGGRAPH 2004 Electronic Theater (produced by NYU Movement Lab):

• Animation Magazine, Sep 2004, "The Quest for the Best Eye Candy"
  

• Animation Magazine, Sep 2004, "The Next MoCap Frontier: Animation With Soul&quo t;
  

• Computer Graphics World, Aug 2004, Portfolio, SIGGRAPH Electronic Theater
  

• Computer Graphics World, Sep 2004, Portfolio, SIGGRAPH Animation Theater
  

• Variety, August 9-15, 2004, "Aping Mother Nature"
  

• Hollywood Reporter, Aug 6-8, 2004, "Geek Week"
  

• Millimeter Magazine, June 2004, "An Animation Celebration"
  

• Video Systems, June 2004, "An Animation Celebration"
  

• Millimeter Magazine, May 4, 2004, "SIGGRAPH Announces Best Animated Short & Jury Award"
  

• VFX Pro, May 4, 2004, "SIGGRAPH Announces Best Animated Short & Jury Award& quot;
  

• Shoot, Aug 6, 2004, "Fine Art Collection"
  

• CG Channel, 07/20/04, "SIGGRAPH Computer Animation Festival"
  

• Animation Flash, June 26, 2004, SIGGRAPH Sets Computer Animation Festival Program
  

• Sony Pictures Imageworks Moves forward with IMAGE MOTION (in Channel 5 News, VFXWorld)
  

• NHK (Main Japanese TV). Sep-19, 2004 1h documentary "Digital Stadium: SIGGRAPH2004 Special"
  

• G4Tech TV, Aug 11, 2004 New York Times, 10/09/03, "Decoding the Subtle Dance of Ordinary Movements"
  

• New York Times, 10/09/03, "Decoding the Subtle Dance of Ordinary Movements"

• New York 1 TV, 08/13/03, NYU Motion Capture Lab Coverage
  

• SIAM News, Vol 36, 3, 04/03, "Step by Step" (Article about Kathy Pullen + some of our research)
  

• Technology Review, 11/30/02, "Automating Animation" "
  

• Computer Graphics World, 02/20, "Masterful Animation"
  

• CG Focus, 12/03/01, "Cartoon Motion Capture"
  

• Technology Review, 06/30/00, "Lying With Pixels"
  

• NBC Nightly News, 09/14/97, Video Rewrite coverage
  

• Los Angeles Times, 09/01/97, "Watch What They Say –Even If They Didn't"