15-464 Syllabus for Fall 2005

This is a tentative syllabus. There will be much more reading material posted as the course proceeds. Slides, handouts, and updates will be available through the course web page.

Week of	Tue	Thu
Aug 30	Course overview / History of animation Reading: Parent Ch1	Forward kinematics: ASF and AMC files Reading: Parent Ch2
Sept 6	Splines and interpolation Reading: Parent Appendix B4 Programming Asst #1 OUT	Euler angles vs. quaternions Reading: Shoemake, "Animating Rotation with Quaternion Curves" Homework 1: On Bezier Quaternion Interpolation" (due Tuesday, Sept. 13, before class)
Sept 13	Blending curves and shapes: research examples I Reading: Igarashi, Moscovich, and Hughes, "Spatial Keyframing for Performance-driven Animation" Reading: Igarashi, Moscovich, and Hughes, "As-Rigid-As-Possible Shape Manipulation"	Blending curves and shapes: research examples II Reading: Bregler et al., "Turning to the Masters: Motion Capturing Cartoons" Reading: Ngo et al., "Accessible Animation and Customizable Graphics via Simplicial Configuration Modeling" Also see this class project
Sept 20	Inverse kinematics / Controlling character pose Reading: Parent Ch4.2 Homework #2 OUT	More IK Reading: Zhao and Badler '94 Reading: Yamane and Nakamura, '03 Programming Asst #1 DUE Programming Asst #2 OUT
Sept 27	Motion capture intro / lab visit Meet in mocap lab: WeH 1334 Homework #2 DUE (before class) Reading: Parent Ch6.7	Motion editing Reading: Lee and Shin, "..Interactive Motion Editing.." Reading: Gleicher, "Motion Editing with Spacetime Constraints"
Oct 4	Motion style: what is style? Homework 3: Motion Style" (due Tuesday, Oct 11, before class) Reading: Rose et al., "Verbs and Adverbs" Reading: Brand and Hertzmann, "Style Machines" Reading: Hsu et al., "Style Translation" Reading: Liu et al., "Learning Physics-Based Motion Style.." Reading: Chi et al., "EMOTE" Reading: Neff and Fiume, ".. Expressive Character Animation"	NO CLASS Jeffrey Katzenberg, Dreamworks -- 2:30pm McConomy
Oct 11	Physics primer and rigid body simulation Homework #3 DUE (before class) Reading: Parent Ch4.3-4.4 (also see B.6,B.7)	Collision and contact Reading: Baraff and Witkin's course notes, especially those on "Rigid Body Dynamics" Reading: "Fast Frictional Dynamics For Rigid Bodies", Kaufman, Edmunds, and Pai, SIGGRAPH 2005. Programming Asst #2 DUE
Oct 18	Cloth simulation Reading: Parent Ch6.6 Reading: Bhat et al., "Estimating Cloth Simulation Parameters.." Reading: Bridson et al., "Robust Treatment of Collisions..." Reading: Baraff and Witkin, "Large Steps in Cloth Simulation" Reading: Choi and Ko, "Stable but Responsive Cloth" Reading: Igarashi and Hughes, "Clothing Manipulation" Programming Asst #3 OUT	Natural phenomena Reading: Parent Ch5 Reading: Prusinkiewicz, "Simulation Modeling of Plants and Plant Ecosystems" Reading: "L-systems and Beyond", SIGGRAPH 2003 course notes
Oct 25	More natural phenomena Reading: Foster and Metaxas, "Realistic Animation of Liquids" Reading: Foster and Metaxas, "Modeling the Motion of a Hot, Turbulent Gas" Reading: Jos Stam, "Real-Time Fluid Dynamics for Games"	Brainstorming for final projects
Nov 1	Motion Textures Reading: Arikan and Forsyth, "Interactive Motion Generation from Examples" Reading: Lee et al., "Interactive Control of Avatars..." Reading: Kovar et al., "Motion Graphs" Reading: Pullen and Bregler, "Motion Capture Assisted Animation" Reading: Li, Wang, and Shum, "Motion Texture..."	Dynamic simulation for games and ragdoll physics Reading: Jakobsen, "Advanced Character Physics" Programming Asst #3 DUE
Nov 8	Motion control: beyond ragdolls Reading: Hodgins et al., "Animating Human Athletics" Reading: Faloutsos et al., "Composable Controllers..." Reading: Zordan et al., "Motion capture-driven simulations that hit and react" (toward end of web page) Reading: Zordan et al., "Dynamic response for motion capture animation" (top of web page) Reading: Pollard and Zordan, "Physically based grasping control from example" (near top of web page)	Optimization of motion: What do people optimize? Final project proposals DUE Anderson and Pandy, "Dynamic Optimization of Human Walking" Harris and Wolpert, "Signal-dependent noise deterimnes motor planning" Uno, Kawato, and Suzuki, "Formation and control of optimal trajectory in human multijoint arm movement", Biological Cybernetics, 61, 89-101, 1989. Flash and Hogan, "The Coordination of Arm Movements..."
Nov 15	Class cancelled	Muscles and meshes: filling out the skeleton Reading: Simmons, Wilhelms, and Van Gelder, "Model-Based Reconstruction for Creature Animation Reading: Scheepers et al., "Anatomy-Based Modeling of the Human Musculature Reading: Teran et al., "Creating and Simulating Skeletal Muscle..." Reading: Sifakis, Neverov, and Fedkiw, "Automatic Determination of Facial Muscle Activations..." Reading: Pai, Sueda, and Wei, "Simulation of 3D neuro-musculo-skeletal systems with contact" Reading: Sand, McMillan, and Popovic, "Continuous Capture of Skin Deformation" Reading: Anguelov et al., "SCAPE: Shape Completion and Animation of People"
Nov 22	AI / planning (Manfred) Reading: Kuffner, "Goal-Directed Navigation..." Reading: Lau and Kuffner, "Behavior Planning for Character Animation" Reading: Choi, Lee, and Shin, "Planning Biped Locomotion..."	THANKSGIVING (no class)
Nov 29	Crowds (Manfred) and Facial Animation Reading: Reynolds, "Steering Behaviors for Autonomous Characters" Reading: more info on flocking, steering, etc. from Craig Reynolds Reading: Bregler, Covell, and Slaney, "Video Rewrite..." Reading: Brand, "Voice Puppetry" Reading: Chai, Xiao, and Hodgins, "Vision-based Control of 3D Facial Animation" Reading: Vlasic, Brand, Pfister, Popovic, "Face Transfer with Multilinear Models" (first paper on this page)	Animation pipeline / Principles of animation Reading: Lasseter '87
Dec 6	Perception of motion	Help session for final projects
Dec 12 (Monday)	Final Project Presentations 5:30--8:30 (WeH 8427)	---