Calendar of CS269 SEM 2, Winter 2004

Jan 12 Overview of the course, Review of basic material
Jan 14 Overview of DANCE system and projects
Jan 19

HOLIDAY

Jan 21

Paper:

Jan 26

Paper:

Jan 28

Project proposals presented in class

Ari Shapiro, Frederic Pighin, and Petros Faloutsos, Hybrid Control For Interactive Character Animation, Pacific Graphics, 2003.

Feb 2

Learning Controls for Blend Shape Based Realistic Facial Animation, Pushkar Joshi, Wen Tien, Mathieu Desbrun, Frederic Pighin, SCA 2003.

Geometry-Driven Photorealistic Facial Expression Synthesis, Qingshan Zhang, Microsoft Research, Zicheng Liu, Baining Guo, Harry Shum, SCA 2003.

Presented by Alice Wang.

Feb 4

An Evaluation of a Cost Metric for Selecting Transitions Between Motion Segments, Jing Wang, Bobby Bodenheimer, SCA 2003.

Flexible Automatic Motion Blending with Registration Curves, Lucas Kovar, Michael Gleicher, SCA 2003.

Presented by Mike Zaimont.

Feb 9

Layered Acting For Character Animationi, Mira Dontcheva, Gary Yngve, Zoran Popovic, SIGGRAPH 2003.

Motion Synthesis from Annotations, Okan Arikan, David A. Forsyth, James F. O'Brien, SIGGRAPH 2003.

Presented by Marvin Chiang.

Feb 11

Efficient Synthesis of Physically Valid Human Motion, Anthony C. Fang, Nancy S. Pollard, SIGGRAPH 2003.

Presented by Eagle Jones.

Feb 16 HOLIDAY

Feb 18

Aesthetic Edits for Character Animation, Michael Neff, Eugene Fiume, SCA 2003.

Presented by Lloyd Thompson.

Modeling Realistic Virtual Hairstyles, Pacific Graphics 2001. Yizhou Yu.

A Practical Model for Hair Mutual Interactions, SCA 2002. Johnny Chang, Jingyi Jin, and Yizhou Yu.

Presented by Yoojin Hong.

Feb 23

Construction and Animation of Anatomically Based Human Hand Models, Irene Albrecht, Jorg Haber, Hans-Peter Seidel, SCA 2003.

Animating the Human Hand, George ElKoura, Karan Singh, SCA 2003.

Presented by: Ryan Deak.

Feb 25

MOVIE: TBA

Mar 1

Finite Volume Methods for the Simulation of Skeletal Muscle, Joseph Teran, Silvia Blemker, Victor Ng Thow Hing, Ronald Fedkiw, SCA 2003.

Presented by Ethan Drucker.

Mar 3

Mapping Optical Motion Capture Data to Skeletal Motion Using a Physical Model, Victor Zordan, Nicholas Van Der Horst, SCA 2003.

Mar 8

A Visual Speech Generator, Gregor A. Kalberer, Pascal Muller and Luc Van Gool.

ftp://ftp.vision.ee.ethz.ch/publications/2003/postscripts/kalberer_spie03.pdf.

Presented by Dong Huayi.

Mar 10

Building Efficient, Accurate Character Skins from Examples, Alex Mohr, Michael Gleicher, SIGGRAPH 2003.

Presented by Emud.

Mar 15 TBA
Mar 17 Project presentations