Publications

Scope

This page provides a list of academic publications that present research projects utilising Unreal Engine 4 or newer as a component of their software implementations. This list does not include:

• Non-academic publications (e.g. blog posts, whitepapers, technical reports, etc.)
• Publications that discuss the Unreal Engine but do not utilise it as a component of a software implementation
• Publications that present a software/multimedia implementation without any research component
• Publications that present research which utilises versions of the Unreal Engine prior to Unreal Engine 4
• Publications that present research concerning the underlying technologies that power game engines (e.g. rendering techniques, networking algorithms, etc.) that provide an implementation for the Unreal Engine

Although the UE4Research contributors do our best to keep this publication list up-to-date, we cannot guarantee that the list is exhaustive. If you find a relevant publication that we’ve missed, please let us know about it. If you would like to cite any of the publications in your own research, you can access the underlying BibTeX database for the list here.

Publications by year

• 2019
• 2018
• 2017
• 2016
• 2015

2019

• Joey Campbell and Mike Fraser. Cartright: maintaining good posture in the presence of adaptive haptics. In Proceedings of the 31st European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics, ECCE 2019, 148–155. New York, NY, USA, 09 2019. Association for Computing Machinery. URL: https://doi.org/10.1145/3335082.3335088, DOI: doi:10.1145/3335082.3335088.

• Joey Campbell and Mike Fraser. Switching it up: designing adaptive interfaces for virtual reality exergames. In Proceedings of the 31st European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics, ECCE 2019, 177–184. New York, NY, USA, 09 2019. Association for Computing Machinery. URL: https://doi.org/10.1145/3335082.3335087, DOI: doi:10.1145/3335082.3335087.

2018

• Slawomir Bak, Peter Carr, and Jean-François Lalonde. Domain adaptation through synthesis for unsupervised person re-identification. CoRR, 2018. URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/1804.10094, arXiv:1804.10094.

• Marcel Bock and Andreas Schreiber. Visualization of neural networks in virtual reality using Unreal Engine. In Proceedings of the 24th ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology, VRST '18, 132:1–132:2. New York, NY, USA, 2018. ACM. URL: http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/3281505.3281605, DOI: doi:10.1145/3281505.3281605.

• Elizabeth Bondi, Ashish Kapoor, Debadeepta Dey, James Piavis, Shital Shah, Robert Hannaford, Arvind Iyer, Lucas Joppa, and Milind Tambe. Near real-time detection of poachers from drones in AirSim. In Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI-18, 5814–5816. International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Organization, 7 2018. URL: https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2018/847, DOI: doi:10.24963/ijcai.2018/847.

• Elizabeth Bondi, Debadeepta Dey, Ashish Kapoor, Jim Piavis, Shital Shah, Fei Fang, Bistra Dilkina, Robert Hannaford, Arvind Iyer, Lucas Joppa, and Milind Tambe. AirSim-W: a simulation environment for wildlife conservation with UAVs. In Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGCAS Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies, COMPASS '18, 40:1–40:12. New York, NY, USA, 2018. ACM. URL: http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/3209811.3209880, DOI: doi:10.1145/3209811.3209880.

• Joey Campbell, Trevor Hogan, and Mike Fraser. Feeling virtual worlds: an exploration into coupling virtual and kinaesthetic experiences. In Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction, TEI '18, 279–285. New York, NY, USA, 03 2018. Association for Computing Machinery. URL: https://doi.org/10.1145/3173225.3173281, DOI: doi:10.1145/3173225.3173281.

• Adrian Carrio, Sai Vemprala, Andres Ripoll, Srikanth Saripalli, and Pascual Campoy. Drone detection using depth maps. CoRR, 2018. URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/1808.00259, arXiv:1808.00259.

• A. Cover, R. D. Posser, J. P. Campos, and R. Rieder. Methodology of communication between a criminal database and a virtual reality environment for forensic study. In 2017 19th Symposium on Virtual and Augmented Reality (SVR), volume 00, 215–222. Nov. 2018. URL: doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/SVR.2017.35, DOI: doi:10.1109/SVR.2017.35.

• S. Jha, S. S. Banerjee, J. Cyriac, Z. T. Kalbarczyk, and R. K. Iyer. AVFI: fault injection for autonomous vehicles. In 2018 48th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks Workshops (DSN-W), 55–56. June 2018. doi:10.1109/DSN-W.2018.00027.

• Rawal Khirodkar, Donghyun Yoo, and Kris M. Kitani. Domain randomization for scene-specific car detection and pose estimation. CoRR, 2018. URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/1811.05939, arXiv:1811.05939.

• Abhishek Kolagunda, Scott Sorensen, Sherif Mehralivand, Philip Saponaro, Wayne Treible, Baris Turkbey, Peter Pinto, Peter Choyke, and Chandra Kambhamettu. A mixed reality guidance system for robot assisted laparoscopic radical prostatectomy. In Danail Stoyanov, Zeike Taylor, Duygu Sarikaya, Jonathan McLeod, Miguel Angel González Ballester, Noel C.F. Codella, Anne Martel, Lena Maier-Hein, Anand Malpani, Marco A. Zenati, Sandrine De Ribaupierre, Luo Xiongbiao, Toby Collins, Tobias Reichl, Klaus Drechsler, Marius Erdt, Marius George Linguraru, Cristina Oyarzun Laura, Raj Shekhar, Stefan Wesarg, M. Emre Celebi, Kristin Dana, and Allan Halpern, editors, OR 2.0 Context-Aware Operating Theaters, Computer Assisted Robotic Endoscopy, Clinical Image-Based Procedures, and Skin Image Analysis, 164–174. Cham, 2018. Springer International Publishing.

• M. McMahon and M. Schukat. A low-cost, open-source, BCI- VR game control development environment prototype for game based neurorehabilitation. In 2018 IEEE Games, Entertainment, Media Conference (GEM), 1–9. Aug 2018. doi:10.1109/GEM.2018.8516468.

• B. Nash, A. Walker, and T. Chambers. A simulator based on virtual reality to dismantle a research reactor assembly using master-slave manipulators. Annals of Nuclear Energy, 120:1 – 7, 2018. URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306454918302482, DOI: doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anucene.2018.05.018.

• Cheng Peng and Volkan Isler. Adaptive view planning for aerial 3D reconstruction of complex scenes. CoRR, 2018. URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/1805.00506, arXiv:1805.00506.

• Shital Shah, Debadeepta Dey, Chris Lovett, and Ashish Kapoor. AirSim: high-fidelity visual and physical simulation for autonomous vehicles. In Marco Hutter and Roland Siegwart, editors, Field and Service Robotics, 621–635. Cham, 2018. Springer International Publishing. URL: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-67361-5_40.

• D. L. Smyth, F. G. Glavin, and M. G. Madden. Using a game engine to simulate critical incidents and data collection by autonomous drones. In 2018 IEEE Games, Entertainment, Media Conference (GEM), 1–9. Aug 2018. doi:10.1109/GEM.2018.8516527.

• Jonathan Tremblay, Thang To, and Stan Birchfield. Falling Things: a synthetic dataset for 3D object detection and pose estimation. In The IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops. June 2018. URL: https://research.nvidia.com/publication/2018-06_Falling-Things.

• T. Wu, S. Tseng, C. Lai, C. Ho, and Y. Lai. Navigating assistance system for quadcopter with deep reinforcement learning. In 2018 1st International Cognitive Cities Conference (IC3), 16–19. Aug 2018. doi:10.1109/IC3.2018.00013.

• Xiaoting Zhang, Jihong Liu, Qing Chen, Hao Song, Qianyi Zhan, and Jing Lu. A 3D virtual weft-knitting engineering learning system based on Unreal Engine 4. Computer Applications in Engineering Education, 26(6):2223–2236, 2018. URL: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/cae.22030, DOI: arXiv:https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/cae.22030, doi:10.1002/cae.22030.

2017

• Till Bergmann, Matthias Balzer, Torsten Hopp, Thomas van de Kamp, Andreas Kopmann, Nicholas Tan Jerome, and Michael Zapf. Inspiration from VR gaming technology: deep immersion and realistic interaction for scientific visualization. In IVAPP 2017 : 8th International Conference on Information Visualization Theory and Applications, Porto, Portugal, 27. Februar - 1. März.2017. Vol.: 3. Ed.: L. Linsen (IVAPP is part of VISIGRAPP, the 12th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications), 330–334. SciTePress, Setúbal, 2017. 54.02.02; LK 01. URL: https://publikationen.bibliothek.kit.edu/1000078131.

• Reece A. Boyd and Salvador E. Barbosa. Reinforcement learning for all: an implementation using Unreal Engine blueprint. In 2017 International Conference on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence (CSCI), 787–792. IEEE, Dec 2017. doi:10.1109/CSCI.2017.136.

• Nicola Capece, Ugo Erra, Simone Romano, and Giuseppe Scanniello. Visualising a software system as a city through virtual reality. In Lucio Tommaso De Paolis, Patrick Bourdot, and Antonio Mongelli, editors, Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, and Computer Graphics, 319–327. Cham, 2017. Springer International Publishing. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-60928-7_28.

• Tami Griffith, Jennie Ablanedo, and Tabitha Dwyer. Leveraging a virtual environment to prepare for school shootings. In Stephanie Lackey and Jessie Chen, editors, Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality, 325–338. Cham, 2017. Springer International Publishing. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-57987-0_26.

• Karla Paraiso and Victoria Interrante. Can virtual human entourage elements facilitate accurate distance judgments in VR? In Jernej Barbic, Mirabelle D'Cruz, Marc Erich Latoschik, Mel Slater, and Patrick Bourdot, editors, Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality, 119–133. Cham, 2017. Springer International Publishing. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-72323-5_8.

• Q. Sun, E. Gonzalez, and B. Abadines. A wearable sensor based hand movement rehabilitation and evaluation system. In 2017 Eleventh International Conference on Sensing Technology (ICST), 1–4. Dec 2017. doi:10.1109/ICSensT.2017.8304471.

2016

• J. Du, C. Mouser, and W. Sheng. Design and evaluation of a teleoperated robotic 3-D mapping system using an RGB-D sensor. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, 46(5):718–724, May 2016. doi:10.1109/TSMC.2015.2461186.

• Adam Lerer, Sam Gross, and Rob Fergus. Learning physical intuition of block towers by example. In Proceedings of the 33rd International Conference on International Conference on Machine Learning - Volume 48, ICML'16, 430–438. JMLR.org, 2016. URL: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3045390.3045437.

• Jenny Lin, Xingwen Guo, Jingyu Shao, Chenfanfu Jiang, Yixin Zhu, and Song-Chun Zhu. A virtual reality platform for dynamic human-scene interaction. In SIGGRAPH ASIA 2016 Virtual Reality Meets Physical Reality: Modelling and Simulating Virtual Humans and Environments, SA '16, 11:1–11:4. New York, NY, USA, 2016. ACM. URL: http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2992138.2992144, DOI: doi:10.1145/2992138.2992144.

• Weichao Qiu and Alan Yuille. UnrealCV: connecting computer vision to Unreal Engine. In Gang Hua and Hervé Jégou, editors, Computer Vision – ECCV 2016 Workshops, 909–916. Cham, 2016. Springer International Publishing. URL: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-49409-8_75.

• J. Skinner, S. Garg, N. Sünderhauf, P. Corke, B. Upcroft, and M. Milford. High-fidelity simulation for evaluating robotic vision performance. In 2016 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2737–2744. Oct 2016. doi:10.1109/IROS.2016.7759425.

• Yi Zhang, Weichao Qiu, Qi Chen, Xiaolin Hu, and Alan L. Yuille. UnrealStereo: a synthetic dataset for analyzing stereo vision. CoRR, 2016. URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/1612.04647, arXiv:1612.04647.

2015

• S. I. Ktena, W. Abbott, and A. A. Faisal. A virtual reality platform for safe evaluation and training of natural gaze-based wheelchair driving. In 2015 7th International IEEE/EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering (NER), 236–239. April 2015. doi:10.1109/NER.2015.7146603.

• Greg Rauhoeft, Markus Leyrer, William B. Thompson, Jeanine K. Stefanucci, Roberta L. Klatzky, and Betty J. Mohler. Evoking and assessing vastness in virtual environments. In Proceedings of the ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Applied Perception, SAP '15, 51–54. New York, NY, USA, 2015. ACM. URL: http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2804408.2804425, DOI: doi:10.1145/2804408.2804425.