At the 38th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST 2025) held in Busan, South Korea, from September 28, 2025 to October 1, YOSHIMOTO Takegi and OTOMO Chihiro, second-year doctoral students in the Frontier Media Science Program, Graduate School of Advanced Mathematical Sciences and Professor MIYASHITA Homei presented the research titled Towards Expressive Optics: A Design System for Scene-Specific External Lens Filters, and received the People's Choice Honorable Mention Award. This award is given to an outstanding research presentation in the poster presentations based on participants’ voting.
This research proposes an external lens filter design system that can be designed and manufactured by a 3D printer for the purpose of expanding photographic and video expression. Using proprietary software developed in-house enables designs that combine convex lenses and prism shapes to control the area where effects are applied. By manufacturing lens filters based on design data and simply attaching them to existing cameras, users can achieve any desired visual effect.
At the poster presentation, they displayed the lens filters they had manufactured and also conducted a demonstration exhibit where attendees could confirm the actual visual effects, which was well received.
Takegi Yoshimoto, Chihiro Otomo, and Homei Miyashita. 2025. Towards Expressive Optics: A Design System for Scene-Specific External Lens Filters. In Adjunct Proceedings of the 38th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST Adjunct '25). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 172, 1–3.
https://doi.org/10.1145/3746058.3758394
