Ph.D Student MAGIX (Computer Graphics) Lab, 3324 Boelter Hall Computer Science Department University of California, Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA 90095 Phone #: (310)-206-6069 (Office) (310)-398-0108 (Home) Email: abingcao@cs.ucla.edu

Hi, welcome to my homepage. My name is Yong Cao. I am also called Tom by my friends. Now I am a Ph.D. student in Department of Computer Science, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA). I am working with my advisor Petros Faloutsos in MAGIX (Modeling, Animation and GrafIX) lab . Frederic Pighin is my co-advisor, because I have been working with him at Institute for Creative Technologies (ICT), USC since June 2002.

My current research topic is computer animation, specificlly character animation. I got my Bachelor degree in Computer Sciences in 1997 from University of Science and Technology of China (USTC, China) and Master degree in Pattern Recognition in 2000 from Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Curriculum vitae: PDF HTML.

Research Interests:

• Computer Graphics
• Character Animation: Facial Animation and Full Body Animation
• Search-based Motion Synthesis
• Machine Learning for Motion Synthesis

Please visit my research webpage for my research projects and demo videos.

Publications:

• Yong Cao, Petros Faloutsos, Fred Pighin “Expressive Speech-Driven Facial Animation” , to appear in ACM Transactions on Graphics, October 2005 . (Download PDF 2.2M)

• Yong Cao, Petros Faloutsos, Eddie Kohler, Fred Pighin “Real-time Speech Motion Synthesis from Recorded Motions” , In Proceedings of the 2004 ACM SIGGRAPH / Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation, Page 347-355. (Dowload PDF 415K)

• Ari Shapiro , Yong Cao, Petros Faloutsos “Stylistic Motion Decomposition”, ACM SIGGRAPH / Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation 2004, Poster Paper.

• Ari Shapiro , Yong Cao, Petros Faloutsos “Interactive Motion Decomposition”, ACM SIGGRAPH 2004 Technical Sketches. (Dowload PDF 238K)

• Yong Cao, Petros Faloutsos, Fred Pighin “Unsupervised Learning for Speech Motion Editing”, In Proceedings of the 2003 ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation , Page 225-231. (Dowload PDF 755K)

• Yong Cao, Tian Jie & Qiu Feng “Research of Progressive Meshes Algorithm Applied in Virtual Endoscopy System”, Journal of Software (Chinese Academy of Sciences) 2002, Vol. 13, No.4, pp. 677-685.

• Qiu Feng, Tian Jie, Yong Cao “The Summarization of PACS System”, Chinese Journal of Medical Imaging Technology 2002, Vol. 16, No.1, pp. 73-75.

• Liu Jingchun, Tianjie, Yong Cao “The Architecture and Implementation of PACS System”, Chinese Journal of Medical Imaging Technology 2000, Vol. 16, No.1, pp. 76-78.

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