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Daniele Giunchi

I'm currently Assistant Professor in Scene Understanding and Smart Environments (HCI, Computer Vision, Robotics) at University of Birmingham, under the mentorship of Eyal Ofek, and Honorary Lecturer at University College London(UCL).. Until April 2025 I worked as Research Associate in the Virtual Environment and Computer Graphics (VECG) at UCL. In 2021 I achieved my PhD in Computer Science from UCL, under the supervision of Profs. Anthony Steed and Niloy Mitra. My research spans in computer graphics, human computer interaction, machine learning, computer vision, large language models, searching for new paradigm of individual interaction or collaborative interaction in order to improve user experience in VR/AR/XR. My PhD project was funded by a Marie Curie Fellowship, granted by the European Commission. During my PhD I worked as research intern at Microsoft and I was a visitor researcher at Max Plank Institute for Informatics. Before joining UCL, I obtained a degree in Astronomy from the University of Bologna, and I had a long experience in industry.

Contact

1th Floor
Computer Science
Murray Learning Centre 139
University of Birmingham, UK

News

	2025-10-25 Submit for a PhD position at Explora project to join the VRLAB in University of Birmingham under the supervision of Prof. Massimiliano Di Luca Head of VRLAB.
	2025-10-8 co-organizer of the workshop at ISMAR 2025, xrWorks'25
	2025-9-15 co-organizer of the workshop at ICIAP 2025, 1st International Workshop on Humans in the eXtended Artificial Intelligence Loop (HUARL)
	2025-07-19 I am currently seeking a UK citizen PhD student to join my research on next-generation generative AI and multimodal interfaces for XR, with applications in productivity, education, and data analysis.

Publications

	Embodiment in Smartphone Augmented Reality: Effects on User Performance Han Loong Low, Daniele Giunchi, Riccardo Bovo, Pasquale Cascarano, Nick Ritchie, Anthony Steed, Enrico Costanza full paper at MUM 2025 Keywords: embodiment, mobile augmented reality, face filters, engagement
	See It and Hear It: Multimodal Guidance in MR-Based Neurosurgical Simulation for Skill Retention Pasquale Cascarano, Andrea Loretti, Luca Zanuttini, Daniele Giunchi, Riccardo Bovo, Shirin Hajahmadi, Giacomo Vallasciani, Matteo Martinoni, Gustavo Marfia full paper at VRST 2025 Best Paper Award Keywords: Mixed Reality, Neurosurgical Training, External Ventricular Drainage, Catherer Placement, Visual Guidance, Audio Guidance, Multimodal Guidance, Skill Retention.
	Revisiting put-that-there, context aware window interactions via LLMs Riccardo Bovo, Daniele Giunchi, Pasquale Cascarano full paper at xrWorks 2025 / ISMAR 2025 Keywords: XR interfaces, window management, multimodal input, large language model, speech interface
	PaintBranch: Asynchronous Collaborative Art in Virtual Reality Ana David, Daniele Giunchi, Stuart James, Anthony Steed and Augusto Esteves Poster at IEEE VR 2025 Keywords: art collaboration, asynchronous collaboration, version control, virtual reality
	Around The Virtual Campfire: Early UX Insights Into AI-generated Stories In VR Elia Gatti, Daniele Giunchi, Nels Numan and Anthony Steed IEEE AIxVR(2025) Keywords: large language model, VR, storytelling, speech interface
	DreamCodeVR: Towards Democratizing Behavior Design in Virtual Reality with Speech-Driven Programming Daniele Giunchi; Nels Numan; Elia Gatti; Anthony Steed Proceedings of IEEE VR(2024) Keywords: large language model, VR, rapid prototyping, low code programming, speech programming
	STREAMSPACE: A Framework for Window Streaming in Collaborative Mixed Reality Environments Giunchi, Daniele; Bovo, Riccardo; Numan, Nels; Steed, Anthony Poster at IEEE VR(2024) Keywords: virtual screen, virtual reality, collaborative interaction
	AIsop: Exploring Immersive VR Storytelling Leveraging Generative AI Gatti, Elia; Giunchi, Daniele; Numan,Nels; Steed, Anthony Poster at IEEE VR(2024) Keywords: large language model, VR, storytelling, generative AI
	Fovea Prediction Model in VR Giunchi, Daniele; Bovo, Riccardo; Bhatia, Nitesh; Heinis, Thomas; Steed, Anthony Poster at IEEE VR(2024) Keywords: neural networks, gaze prediction, visual attention
	Extending the Open Source Social Virtual Reality Ecosystem to the Browser in Ubiq Sebastian Friston, Ben Congdon, Nels Numan, Klara Brandstätter, Lisa Izzouzi, Felix Thiel, Jingyi Zhang, Daniele Giunchi, David Swapp, Anthony Steed Proceedings of the 28th International ACM Conference on 3D Web Technology (2023) Keywords: social-vr, interoperability, toolkits
	Speech-Augmented Cone-of-Vision for Exploratory Data Analysis Riccardo Bovo, Daniele Giunchi, Ludwig Sidenmark, Joshua Newn, Hans Gellersen, Enrico Costanza, Thomas Heinis CHI'23 Keywords: Field of View, multi-modal visual attention cues, VR collaborative analytics, eye-tracking
	Ubiq-Genie: Leveraging External Frameworks for Enhanced Social VR Experiences Nels Numan, Daniele Giunchi, Benjamin Congdon, Anthony Steed 2023 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW) Keywords: social virtual reality, collaboration, open source, system architecture, generative artificial intelligence
	Towards Outdoor Collaborative Mixed Reality: Lessons Learnt from a Prototype System Nels Numan, Ziwen Lu, Benjamin Congdon, Daniele Giunchi, Alexandros Rotsidis, Andreas Lernis, Kyriakos Larmos, Tereza Kourra, Panayiotis Charalambous, Yiorgos Chrysanthou, Simon Julier, Anthony Steed 2023 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW) Keywords: mixed reality, augmented reality, virtual reality, collaboration, outdoor, city-scale, reconstruction, registration
	Cone of Vision as a Behavioural Cue for VR Collaboration Riccardo Bovo, Daniele Giunchi, Muna Alebri, Anthony Steed, Enrico Costanza, Thomas Heinis Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, CSCW2 Keywords: : Field of View frustum visualizations, visual attention cues, VR collaborative analytics
	Explorative Study on Asymmetric Sketch Interactions for Object Retrieval in Virtual Reality Daniele Giunchi, Stuart James, Riccardo Bovo, Donald Degraen, Anthony Steed 2022 International Conference on Interactive Media, Smart Systems and Emerging Technologies (IMET) Keywords: Sketch, Virtual Reality, CNN, HCI
	Mitigation strategies for participant non-attendance in VR remote collaborative experiments Riccardo Bovo, Daniele Giunchi, Enrico Costanza, Anthony Steed, Thomas Heinis Frontiers in Computer Science Keywords: collaborative experiment, non-attendance, virtual reality (VR), cost function, recruitment procedures
	Fast Blue-Noise Generation via Unsupervised Learning Daniele Giunchi, Alejandro Sztrajman, Anthony Steed 2022 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN) Keywords: Neural networks, Image processing, Noise generators, Monte Carlo methods
	Shall I describe it or shall I move closer? Verbal references and locomotion in VR collaborative search tasks Riccardo Bovo, Daniele Giunchi, Enrico Costanza, Anthony Steed, Thomas Heinis Proceedings of 20th European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work
	Real-time head-based deep-learning model for gaze probability regions in collaborative VR Riccardo Bovo, Daniele Giunchi, Ludwig Sidenmark, Hans Gellersen, Enrico Costanza, Thomas Heinis 2022 Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications (ETRA 2022) Keywords: neural networks, gaze prediction, gaze inference, visual attention
	MR-RIEW: An MR Toolkit for Designing Remote Immersive Experiment Workflows Riccardo Bovo; Daniele Giunchi; Anthony Steed; Thomas Heinis Poster 2022 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW)
	Lessons Learned Running Distributed and Remote Mixed Reality Experiments Anthony Steed, Daniel Archer, Klara Brandstätter, Ben James Congdon, Sebastian Friston, Priya Ganapathy, Daniele Giunchi, Lisa Izzouzi, Gun Woo Park, David Swapp, Felix Johannes Thiel Frontiers in Computer Science (2022) Keywords: virtual reality, mixed reality, distributed of experiments, avatars, social virtual environments
	Ubiq-Exp: A Toolkit to Build and Run Remote and Distributed Mixed Reality Experiments Anthony Steed, Lisa Izzouzi, Klara Brandstätter, Sebastian Friston, Benjamin James Congdon, Otto Olkkonen, Daniele Giunchi, Nels Numan, David Swapp Frontiers in Virtual Reality (2022) Keywords: virtual reality, 3D user interfaces, experiment design, distributed experiments, remote experiments
	Perceived realism of pedestrian crowds trajectories in vr Daniele Giunchi, Riccardo Bovo, Panayiotis Charalambous, Fotis Liarokapis, Alastair Shipman, Stuart James, Anthony Steed, Thomas Heinis Proceedings of the 27th ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST 2021) Keywords: crowd simulation, perception, virtual reality
	Mixing Modalities of 3D Sketching and Speech for Interactive Model Retrieval in Virtual Reality Daniele Giunchi, Alejandro Sztrajman, Stuart James, Anthony Steed IMX 2021 Keywords: Sketch, Virtual Reality, CNN, HCI
	VR Toolkit for Identifying Group Characteristics Hugo Mayo, Alastair Shipman, Daniele Giunchi, Riccardo Bovo, Anthony Steed, Thomas Heinis Collective Dynamics 2021 Keywords: VR·crowd behaviour·voronoi density·pedestrian
	Real-time Collaboration Between Mixed Reality Users in Geo-referenced Virtual Environment Shubham Singh, Zengou Ma, Daniele Giunchi, Anthony Steed arXiv
	Selecting texture resolution using a task‐specific visibility metric Krzysztof Wolski, Daniele Giunchi, Shin-ichi Kinuwaki, Piotr Didyk, Karol Myszkowski, Anthony Steed, Rafal K Mantiuk Computer Graphics Forum Keywords: Perception; Image manipulation; Image processing Webpage
	VisTexRes: Visibility thresholds for Texture Resolution Krzysztof Wolski, Daniele Giunchi, Shinichi Kinuwaki, Piotr Didyk, Karol Myszkowski, Anthony Steed, Rafal Mantiuk where Keywords: key, key. Webpage
	Mixing realities for sketch retrieval in Virtual Reality Daniele Giunchi, Stuart James, Donald Degraen, Anthony Steed VRCAI 2019 Poster Keywords: Sketch, Virtual Reality, CNN, HCI
	Dataset and metrics for predicting local visible differences Krzysztof Wolski, Daniele Giunchi, Nanyang Ye, Piotr Didyk, Karol Myszkowski, Radosław Mantiuk, Hans-Peter Seidel, Anthony Steed, Rafał K Mantiuk ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG) 2018 Keywords: Visual perception, visual difference predictor, visual metric, distortion visibility, image quality, data-driven metric, dataset, convolutional neural network
	3D Sketching in Virtual Reality for immersive model search Daniele Giunchi, Stuart James, Anthony Steed Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Expressive '18 Keywords: Sketch, Virtual Reality, CNN, HCI
	Model Retrieval by 3D Sketching in Immersive Virtual Reality Daniele Giunchi, Stuart James, Anthony Steed IEEE VR 2018 Posters Keywords: Sketch, Virtual Reality, CNN, HCI

Quantum Information

Towards Quantum Computer Generated Holography
Thesis for the II level Master of Optics and Quantum Information from La Sapienza University (Rome) 2023.
Thesis
Slides of the presentation

Teaching

2024	Induction to Python Programming for Computer Graphics and Virtual Environment	UCL
2023, 2024	Computer Graphics	UCL
2022	Image processing	UCL
2020-2024	Virtual Environments	UCL
2019	Advanced Deep Learning and Reinforcement Learning	DeepMind/UCL
2019	Machine Vision	UCL
2018, 2020	System Engineering	UCL
2017	Computational Photography	UCL
2017	Robotic Programming	UCL

Mentoring

2025	Jhundon De Leon Mendi	Social VR Approach to Classrooms	(MSc thesis project, University of Birmingham, Psychology and Computer Science)
2025	Youngbin Park	Continuous World Generation in XR	(BSc thesis project, University of Birmingham, Computer Science)
2025	Diogo Fernandes	Sarcasm detection applied in finance news	(BSc thesis project, University of Birmingham Computer Science)
2025	Gavin Tsan	Engagement study on a strategic game	(BSc thesis project, University of Birmingham Computer Science)
2025	Caesar Wen	Background music impact in performance during action game (archery)	(thesis project, UCL Computer Science)
2025	Muyi Li	Immersive user interface for music prototyping	(thesis project, UCL Computer Science)
2025	Xiaoyu Zhang	Impact of background music in an immersive puzzle game	(thesis project, UCL Computer Science)
2025	Haiyan Yang	Gen-AI panoramic in VR	(thesis project, UCL Computer Science)
2025	Fateme (Mehrta) Eslami	Hand and Eye tracking for improving key prediction	(thesis project, UoB Computer Science)
2025	Yuehang Lin	Slippage perception while grabbing objects in a robotic scenario	(thesis project, UoB Computer Science)
2025	Fizri Mulyana	VideoShare: Adding reference space display to video conferencing for efficient spatial collaboration.	(thesis project, UoB Computer Science)
2025	Devika Mukherjee	Rendering touch events on lower half of the user body, using upper torso haptic rendering	(thesis project, UoB Computer Science)
2025	Libby Stranks	Animation in a crowd context	(thesis project, UoB Computer Science)
2025	Molly Zhu	Real-Time Speech Captioning and Visualization in Collaborative Mixed Reality	(thesis project, UCL ME Computer Science)
2024	Rowan Meng	Embodied LLM-based Programming	(summer intern, UCL)
2024	Aiman Sohail	Generative Storytelling in Social VR	(summer intern, UCL)
2024	Animesh Srivastava	High-Resolution Novel View Synthesis Using 3D Gaussian Splatting: A Focus on Human Subjects	(thesis project, UCL AI Centre)
2023	Angela Yu	Interactive Avatar Appearance Modelling with Generative AI	(thesis project, UCL MEng Computer Science)
2022	Ana David	Asynchronous Collaborative Art Creation	(thesis project, Lisbon University)
2021	Hugo Mayo	Virtual Reality Toolkit for Crowd Analysis	(thesis project, Imperial College London ME CS)
2020	Shubham Singh	Real-time collaboration between users in geo-referenced virtual environment (supporting both VR and AR).	(thesis project, UCL MEng Computer Science)
2017	Jack Roper	Immersive 3D Scene Prototyping in Virtual Reality	(thesis project, UCL ME Computer Science)

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