This is a tentative syllabus. Updates will be posted to the course web page.
Week of |
Mon |
Wed |
Jan 12 |
Intro / Motion Capture Lab Demo |
Motion Capture (Ronit Slyper)
Ronit Slyper and Jessica Hodgins. Action capture with Accelerometers. In 2008 ACM SIGGRAPH / Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation, July 2008
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Jan 19 |
NO CLASS
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Motion Capture
Seth Cooper, Aaron Hertzmann, and Zoran Popovic, Active Learning for Real-Time Motion Controllers SIGGRAPH 2007.
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Jan 26 |
Motion Editing (Jinghao Fei)
Patrick Coleman, Jacobo Bibliowicz, Karan Singh and Michael Gleicher, Staggered Poses: A Character Motion Representation for Detail-Preserving Editing of Pose and Coordinated Timing. SCA 2008.
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Motion Editing
Anna Majkowska and Petros Faloutsos, Flipping with Physics: Motion Editing for Acrobatics. SCA 2007.
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Feb 2 |
Motion Graphs
Philippe Beaudoin, Michiel van de Panne, Pierre Poulin and Stelian Coros, Motion-Motif Graphs,
Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA) 2008.
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Motion Graphs
Liming Zhao and Alla Safonova, Achieving Good Connectivity in Motion Graphs, SCA 2008.
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Feb 9 |
Real-time Character Control
Wanyen Lo and Matthias Zwicker, Real-Time Planning for Parameterized Human Motion. SCA 2008.
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Real-time Character Control (Grant Watters)
Stelian Coros, KangKang Yin, Philippe Beaudoin and Michiel van de Panne.
Synthesis of Constrained Walking Skills
ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH Asia 2008).
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Feb 16 |
Animator Tools
Michael Kass, John Anderson, Animating Oscillatory Motion With Overlap: Wiggly Splines SIGGRAPH 2008.
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Evaluation (K. K. Ong)
Thierry Chaminade, Jessica Hodgins, and Mitsuo Kawato, Anthropomorphism influences perception of computer-animated characters' actions.
Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, May 2007.
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Feb 23 |
Animator Tools (Luis Bermudez)
Chris Hecker, Bernd Raabe, Ryan W. Enslow, John DeWeese, Jordan Maynard, Kees van Prooijen, Real-Time Motion Retargeting to Highly Varied User-Created Morphologies. SIGGRAPH 2008.
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Two-Character Interaction (Octavio Juarez-Espinosa)
Hubert Shum, Taku Komura, Masashi Shiraishi, and Shuntaro Yamazaki, Interaction Patches for Multi-Character Animation. SIGGRAPH Asia 2008.
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Mar 2 |
Animator Tools (K. K. Ong)
Michael Neff, Irene Albrecht, Hans-Peter Seidel, Layered Performance Animation with Correlation Maps, Eurographics 2007.
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Reach and Grasp Planning (Lillian Chang)
Lillian Y. Chang, Garth J. Zeglin, and Nancy S. Pollard, Preparatory object rotation as a human-inspired grasping strategy. IEEE International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids08), December, 2008.
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Mar 16 |
Reach and Grasp Planning (Dmitry Berenson)
Dmitry Berenson and Siddhartha Srinivasa, Grasp Synthesis in Cluttered Environments for Dexterous Hands, IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids08), December, 2008.
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PROJECT UPDATES
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Mar 23 |
Two-Character Interaction (Octavio Juarez-Espinosa)
Taesoo Kwon, Young-Sang Cho, Sang Il Park, and Sung Yong Shin, Two-Character Motion Analysis and Synthesis. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 14(3), 707-720, 2008.
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Laughing (Frank Palermo)
Paul C. DiLorenzo, Victor B. Zordan, Benjamin L. Sanders, Laughing out loud: control for modeling anatomically inspired laughter using audio, SIGGRAPH ASIA 2008.
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Mar 30 |
Dynamic Simulation (Luis Bermudez)
Marco da Silva, Yeuhi Abe, Jovan Popovic,
Interactive Simulation of Stylized Human Locomotion, ACM Transactions on Graphics 27(3), 2008, pages 82:1-82:10.
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Dynamic Simulation
Marco da Silva, Yeuhi Abe, Jovan Popovic, Simulation of Human Motion Data using Short-Horizon Model-Predictive Control, Computer Graphics Forum, 27(2), 2008, pages 371-380.
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Apr 6 |
Dynamic Response
Yeuhi Abe, Marco da Silva, and Jovan Popovic,
Multiobjective Control with Frictional Contacts, SCA 2007.
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Dynamic Response
Yuting Ye, C. Karen Liu, Animating responsive characters with dynamic constraints in near-unactuated coordinates, SIGGRAPH ASIA 2008.
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Apr 13 |
TBA
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Guest Lecture (Takaaki Shiratori)
Takaaki Shiratori and Jessica K. Hodgins, Accelerometer-based User Interfaces for the Control of a Physically Simulated Character. SIGGRAPH Asia 2008.
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Apr 20 |
Guest Lecture (Junggon Kim)
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Crowds (Frank Palermo)
Jehee Lee, Kang Hoon Lee, Myung Geol Choi, and Qyoun Hong,
Group Behavior from Video: A Data-Driven Approach to Crowd Simulation, SCA 2007.
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Apr 27 |
Crowds (Grant Watters)
Alon Lerner, Yiorgos Chrysanthou, Dani Lischinski, Crowds by Example, Eurographics 2007.
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FINAL PROJECT PRESENTATIONS
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