Prof Frederic Fol Leymarie

Frederic works on creativity and AI systems, including robots which can perform artistic skills similar to humans.

Staff details

Prof Frederic Fol Leymarie

Position

Professor

Department

Computing

Email

ffl (@gold.ac.uk)

Website

http://www.folleymarie.com

Frederic works on creativity and AI systems, including robots which can perform with artistic skills similar to expert humans.

He also conducts work with specialists in the biosciences, helping to develop interactive computer environments (occasionally in the form of serious games) to facilitate the study of complex biomolecular problems (folding, docking).

Frederic has a long term interest in shape understanding where he combines knowledge from perception, vision science, AI, the visual arts. Frederic joined Goldsmiths in 2004, when he launched an MSc in Arts Computing.

Outside academia, Frederic leads the consulting activity London Geometry in partnership with Prof. William Latham.

Academic qualifications

Ph.D. (Brown University, 2003).

Teaching

Frederic is programme leader with William Latham of the MSc Computer Games & Entertainment. In the past few years, his focus has been on teaching maths and graphics to our MSc Computer Games & Entertainment students.

The programme lasts two terms (Autumn+Winter/Spring). The evaluation is essentially based on individual and team projects. Typical topics covered include linear algebra, complex numbers and quaternions, interpolation in curves and surfaces, meshes and light rendering.

Each year brings some new topics. In the past two years Frederic has developed lectures on the use of machine learning in computer games. I also teach (together with Andy Thomason) the 'Physics and Animation in Games' module (1 term). He also mentors Year 2 BSc Computer Science team projects and occasionally final year individual projects.

Publications and research outputs

Edited Book

  • The Machine as Art/ The Machine as Artist Leymarie, Frederic Fol ORCID logo ; Bessette, Juliette; and Smith, G.W., eds. 2020. The Machine as Art/ The Machine as Artist. Basel, Switzerland: MDPI. ISBN 9783039360642

Book Section

  • Kinematics Reconstruction of Static Calligraphic Traces from Curvilinear Shape Features Berio, Daniel ; Leymarie, Frederic Fol ORCID logo ; and Plamondon, Rejean. 2020. Kinematics Reconstruction of Static Calligraphic Traces from Curvilinear Shape Features. In: Rejean Plamondon; Angelo Marcelli and Miguel Ángel Ferrer, eds. The Lognormality Principle and its Applications in e-Security, e-Learning and e-Health. 88 World Scientific, pp. 237-268. ISBN 9789811226823
  • Interactive Generation of Calligraphic Trajectories from Gaussian Mixtures Berio, Daniel ; Leymarie, Frederic Fol ORCID logo ; and Calinon, Sylvain. 2019. Interactive Generation of Calligraphic Trajectories from Gaussian Mixtures. In: Nizar Bouguila and Wentao Fan, eds. Mixture Models and Applications. Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature Switzerland AG, pp. 23-38. ISBN 9783030238759
  • Swarm-Based Identification of Animation Key Points from 2D-medialness Maps Aparajeya, Prashant ; Leymarie, Frederic Fol ; and al-Rifaie, Mohammad Majid . 2019. Swarm-Based Identification of Animation Key Points from 2D-medialness Maps. In: Anikó Ekárt; Antonios Liapis and María Luz Castro Pena, eds. Computational Intelligence in Music, Sound, Art and Design. 11453 Cham, Switzerland: Springer, pp. 69-83. ISBN 9783030166663

Article

Conference or Workshop Item

  • Robotic Painting using Semantic Image Abstraction Stroh, Michael; Paetzold, Patrick; Berio, Daniel ; Leymarie, Frederic Fol ORCID logo ; Kehlbeck, Rebecca; and Deussen, Oliver. 2025. 'Robotic Painting using Semantic Image Abstraction'. In: ACM/EG Expressive Symposium - WICED: Eurographics Workshop on Intelligent Cinematography and Editing - Artworks, Posters, Demos. London, United Kingdom 11 - 12 May 2025.
  • Image-Driven Robot Drawing with Rapid Lognormal Movements Berio, Daniel ; Clivaz, Guillaume; Stroh, Michael; Deussen, Oliver; Plamondon, Rejean; Calinon, Sylvain; and Leymarie, Frederic Fol ORCID logo . 2025. 'Image-Driven Robot Drawing with Rapid Lognormal Movements'. In: 34th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication. Eindhoven, Netherlands 25-29 August 2025.
  • The Effects of Hand Tracking on User Performance: an experimental study of an object selection based memory game Jamalian, Nima ORCID logo ; Gillies, Marco ORCID logo ; Leymarie, Frederic Fol ORCID logo ; and Pan, Xueni ORCID logo . 2022. 'The Effects of Hand Tracking on User Performance: an experimental study of an object selection based memory game'. In: 2022 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR). Singapore, Singapore 17-21 October 2022.

Digital

Project

  • Mutator VR Latham, William ; Todd, Stephen ; Putnam, Lance ; Todd, Peter; and Leymarie, Frederic Fol . 2016 - 2020 Mutator VR.

Report

  • Tracking and Describing Deformable Objects Using Active Contour Models Leymarie, Frederic Fol . 1990. Tracking and Describing Deformable Objects Using Active Contour Models. Technical Report. Montreal, Quebec, Canada
  • Snakes and Skeletons Leymarie, Frederic Fol ; and Levine, Michael. 1989. Snakes and Skeletons. Technical Report. Technical Report TR-CIM-89-1, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
  • Curvature morphology Leymarie, Frederic Fol ; and Levine, Michael. 1988. Curvature morphology. Technical Report. Technical Report TR-CIM-88-26, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Show/Exhibition

  • Creative Machine Latham, William ; Tanaka, Atau ; and Leymarie, Frederic Fol . 2014. Creative Machine. In: "Creative Machine", St James Hatcham Church Gallery, Goldsmiths, University of London, 7 - 14 November 2014.

Thesis

Research Interests

Areas of supervision:

  • Computer vision and computer graphics
  • AI, Machine Learning and Creativity
  • Artistically skillful robots
  • Interactive platforms for the biosciences, including collaborative VR systems and serious games: Bioblox, CSynthFoldSynth
  • Intersection of the visual arts and live performances with computing, perception and robots.