15-464 Syllabus for Spring 2007

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
Jan 16	Introduction Programming Asst #1 OUT Reading: Parent Ch1 Reading: ASF/AMC handout	Forward kinematics / angle representations / splines Reading: Parent Ch2, Appendix B4 Reading: splines handout
Jan 23	Cartoon Animation Filter Reading: Wang, Drucker, Agrawala, and Cohen, "The Cartoon Animation Filter" Reading: White, Loken, and van de Panne, "Slow In and Slow Out Cartoon Animation Filter"	Blending curves and shapes Reading: Igarashi, Moscovich, and Hughes, "Spatial Keyframing for Performance-driven Animation" Reading: Igarashi, Moscovich, and Hughes, "As-Rigid-As-Possible Shape Manipulation"
Jan 30	More blending curves and shapes Programming Asst #1 DUE / PRESENTATIONS 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	Inverse Kinematics Programming Asst #2 OUT Reading: Parent Ch4.2
Feb 6	Inverse kinematics II Reading: Zhao and Badler '94 Reading: Yamane and Nakamura, '03	Mesh deformation Reading: Sand, McMillan, and Popovic, "Continuous Capture of Skin Deformation" Reading: Anguelov et al., "SCAPE: Shape Completion and Animation of People"
Feb 13	Inverse kinematics on meshes Reading: Sumner et al. '05, "Mesh-Based Inverse Kinematics" Reading: Der, Sumner, and Popovic '06, "Inverse Kinematics for Reduced Deformable Models"	Physically based simulation Programming Asst #2 DUE / PRESENTATIONS Reading: Parent Ch4.3-4.4 (also see B.6,B.7) Reading: Baraff and Witkin's course notes, especially those on "Rigid Body Dynamics"
Feb 20	Cloth simulation Programming Asst #3 OUT 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"	Natural Phenomena Reading: Parent Ch5 Reading: Prusinkiewicz, "Simulation Modeling of Plants and Plant Ecosystems" Reading: "L-systems and Beyond", SIGGRAPH 2003 course notes 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"
Feb 27	Physically based character animation (simulation and control) Reading: Hodgins et al., "Animating Human Athletics" Reading: Faloutsos et al., "Composable Controllers..."	Physically based character animation (optimization) Final project OUT
Mar 6	NO CLASS (GDC)	NO CLASS (GDC)
Mar 13	SPRING BREAK	SPRING BREAK
Mar 20	Motion capture intro / lab visit Meet in mocap lab: WeH 1334 Reading: Parent Ch6.7	NO CLASS - Takeo Igarashi lecture Takeo Igarashi Interactive Smart Computers 4pm, WeH 7500
Mar 27	Motion Editing Programming Asst #3 DUE / PRESENTATIONS Final Project Proposals DUE Reading: Lee and Shin, "..Interactive Motion Editing.." Reading: Gleicher, "Motion Editing with Spacetime Constraints" 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..."	Responsive Characters (Jim McCann)
Apr 3	CLASS CANCELLED	CLASS CANCELLED
Apr 10	Motion planning Reading: Kuffner, "Goal-Directed Navigation..." Reading: Lau and Kuffner, "Behavior Planning for Character Animation" Reading: Choi, Lee, and Shin, "Planning Biped Locomotion..."	Combining motion capture and control 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)
Apr 17	Motion style: what is style? 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 -- CARNIVAL
Apr 24	Final project updates	Hands
May 1	Faces Reading: Sifakis, Neverov, and Fedkiw, "Automatic Determination of Facial Muscle Activations..." 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)	Final project presentations