Chai, J., & Hodgins, J. (2007). Constraint-based motion optimization using a statistical dynamic model. ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), 26(3), 1–10. doi:10.1145/1239451.1239459 http://faculty.cs.tamu.edu/jchai/projects/motion-optimization/

-- Main.shailen - 02 Oct 2012

MOCCA: Motion Control and Character Animation

Meetings

Mar 16, 2012

• Shailen presents, x718, 11am
• Continuation Methods for Adapting Simulated Skills, ACM Transaction on Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 2008)
• http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~van/papers/Continuation/Continuation.htm

Mar 9, 2012

• Daniel presents, x718, 11am
• Experience-based and tactile-driven dynamic grasp control, IROS 2007
• http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=4398960

Software

• Shailen's simulator (C++, Box2D, 20+ links): www.cs.ubc.ca/~shailen/animation/research/projects/crowd_sourcing_controllers/code/charSimulator_pub.rar

Papers of Interest

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=4398960

-- DanielTroniak - 02 Mar 2012

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Learning and generalization of motor skills by learning from demonstration. Pastor, P., Hoffmann, H., Asfour, T., & Schaal, S. ICRA 2009 Link: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=5152385&tag=1

-- DanielTroniak - 02 Mar 2012

Hand Manipulation

"DEXTROUS MANIPULATION FROM A GRASPING POSE" C. Karen Liu, 2009 Link: http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~karenliu/Manipulation2.html

-- Main.shuoshen - 01 Mar 2012

Continuation Methods for Adapting Simulated Skills,
ACM Transaction on Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 2008)
KangKang Yin, Stelian Coros, Philippe Beaudoin and Michiel van de Panne
http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~van/papers/Continuation/Continuation.htm

-- Main.shailen - 28 Feb 2012

Sampling-based Contact-rich Motion Control
ACM Transaction on Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 2010)
Libin Liu, KangKang Yin, Michiel van de Panne, Tianjia Shao and Weiwei Xu
http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~van/papers/2010-TOG-sampControl/index.html

-- Main.shailen - 28 Feb 2012

Meeting times for January -- August 2012

• Fridays, 11-12am, ICCS x718

Software

• Shailen's simulator (C++, Box2D, 20+ links): www.cs.ubc.ca/~shailen/animation/research/projects/crowd_sourcing_controllers/code/charSimulator_pub.rar

An Example-Based Motion Synthesis Technique for Locomotion and Object Manipulation
ACM Siggraph Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games (I3D), 2012
http://www.arishapiro.com/reach_i3d.pdf

-- MichielVanDePanne - 22 Feb 2012

Natural User Interface for Character Animation, Motion in Games (MIG), 2011.
http://graphics.cs.ucr.edu/papers/liu2011.pdf

-- MichielVanDePanne - 21 Feb 2012

Character Animation

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Motion Control

"Control Systems for Human Running using an Inverted Pendulum Model and a Reference Motion Capture Sequence"; Kwon and Hodgins, 2010

Link: http://graphics.cs.cmu.edu/projects/run_control_IPM/

Topic: Inverted pendulum model for running human character (+ some motion capture data integration)

-- BenHumberston - 08 Feb 2012

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Robotics

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Optimization

"Evaluating the CMA Evolution Strategy on Multimodal Test Functions" Hansen and Kern, 2004 Link: http://www.springerlink.com/content/4vx0ug7j4ml3n2dh/ Reason: Introduction to CMA algorithm that has become a popular choice for global optimization.

-- BenHumberston - 08 Feb 2012

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Feb 3, 2012 Agenda

• paper title
• link

• Doodle poll

Suggestions of possible papers to read

MOCCA: Motion Control and Character Animation

Proposed meeting times for January -- August 2012

• Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri 10-12am

Quick links

Nov 24, 2009 Agenda

• Haazebroek and Hommel. Anticipative Control of Voluntary Action: Towards a Computational Model
• http://home.planet.nl/~homme247/Anticipative%20control%20of%20voluntary%20action.pdf

• Anticipative Control of Voluntary Action, http://home.planet.nl/~homme247/Anticipative%20control%20of%20voluntary%20action.pdf
• Estimating Contact Dynamics, http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~mbrubake/projects/ICCV09.pdf

Nov 17, 2009 Agenda

• Rebula et al. Learning Capture Points for Humanoid Push Recovery
• http://www.ihmc.us/~jpratt/publications/2007_Rebula_Pratt_Humanoids_LearningCapturePoints.pdf

Nov 10, 2009 Agenda

Nov 3, 2009 Agenda

• Ljiljana Skrba, Lionel Reveret, Franck H´etroy, Marie-Paule Cani and Carol O’Sullivan. Animating Quadrupeds: Methods and Applications
• http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/fulltext/121640759/PDFSTART

Nov 3, 2009 Agenda

• Manfred Lau, Ziv Bar-Joseph, James Kuffner. Modeling Spatial and Temporal Variation in Motion Data
• http://graphics.cs.cmu.edu/projects/model_variation/

Oct 27, 2009 Agenda

• Marc Toussaint. Probabilistic inference as a model of planned behavior
• http://user.cs.tu-berlin.de/~mtoussai/publications/09-toussaint-survey.pdf

Oct 20, 2009 Agenda

• Takaaki Shiratori, Brooke Coley, Rakie Cham, Jessica Hodgins. Simulating Balance Recovery Responses to Trips Based on Biomechanical Principles, SCA 2009
• http://graphics.cs.cmu.edu/projects/trip/

Oct 6, 2009 Agenda

• Yongjoon Lee, Seong Jae Lee, Zoran Popović. Compact Character Controllers. Siggraph Asia 2009
• http://grail.cs.washington.edu/projects/trans-graph/s2009/

Sep 29, 2009 Agenda

Sep 24, 2009 Agenda

• Satoru Ishigaki, Timothy White, Victor B. Zordan, C. Karen Liu. Performance-Based Control Interface for Character Animation, Siggraph 2009
• http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1531326.1531367

• Add your propositions here!

Sep 17, 2009 Agenda

• Jack M. Wang, David J. Fleet, Aaron Hertzmann. Optimizing Walking Controllers, to appear in Trans. Graph. 28(5) (Proceedings of Siggraph ASIA 2009)
• http://www.dgp.toronto.edu/~jmwang/optwalk/

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Apr 9, 2009 Agenda

• Maxime Tournier, Xiaomao Wu, Courty Nicolas, Arnaud Élise, Revéret Lionel. Motion Compression using Principal Geodesics Analysis, http://www-evasion.imag.fr/Membres/Maxime.Tournier/CompressionPGA/

Apr 2, 2008 Agenda

• Matthew Flagg, Atsushi Nakazawa, Qiushuang Zhang, Sing Bing Kang, Young Kee Ryu, Irfan Essa, James M. Rehg. Human Video Textures, i3D 2009. http://www.cc.gatech.edu/cpl/projects/humanvideotextures/

Mar 26, 2008 Agenda

• A performance-based technique for timing keyframe animations. SCL Terra, RA Metoyer - Graphical Models, 2007 - Elsevier http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S1524070306000646

• Layered performance animation with correlation maps. M Neff, I Albrecht, HP Seidel - Computer Graphics Forum, 2007 - ingentaconnect.com http://www.cs.ucdavis.edu/~neff/papers/correlationMapsEG07.pdf

• Discuss MichaelWelsman SCA submission
• Layered performance animation with correlation maps. M Neff, I Albrecht, HP Seidel - Computer Graphics Forum, 2007 - ingentaconnect.com http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/bpl/cgf/2007/00000026/00000003/art00049

• A performance-based technique for timing keyframe animations. SCL Terra, RA Metoyer - Graphical Models, 2007 - Elsevier http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S1524070306000646
• Motion Control with Strokes. M Oshita - Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds, 2005 http://www.oshita-lab.org/paper/casa05.pdf
• Layered performance animation with correlation maps. M Neff, I Albrecht, HP Seidel - Computer Graphics Forum, 2007 - ingentaconnect.com http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/bpl/cgf/2007/00000026/00000003/art00049
• Design and Analysis of Conceptual Sketches Based on Context Awareness. C Ma, H Wang, D Teng, G Dai - Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2008 - Springer http://www.springerlink.com/index/e514m8x865377401.pdf

• Intelligence by mechanics, http://www.lauflabor.uni-jena.de/files/papers/BlickhanEA07PhilTransARoySocLond.pdf
• Recurrent Cerebellar Loops Simplify Adaptive Control of Redundant and Nonlinear Motor Systems, http://www.neuralalgorithms.group.shef.ac.uk/eyerobot/publications/porrill2007.pdf
• MKM: A global framework for animating humans in virtual reality applications, 2007, http://www.irisa.fr/siames/GENS/fmulton/pdfs/presence2007.pdf
• Environmentally mediated synergy between perception and behaviour in mobile robots, http://www.iua.upf.edu/bcncs/files/PaulVerschure_nature_425_620.pdf

Mar 12, 2008 Agenda

• Discussion on the current state of the various projects

Mar 19, 2008 Agenda

• TBD

Feb 18, 2008 Agenda

• Animation Canvas presentation by MichaelWelsman
• Hironori Mitake, Kazuyuki Asano, Takafumi Aoki, Marc Salvati, Makoto Sato, Shoichi Hasegawa. Physics-driven Multi Dimensional Keyframe Animation for Artist-directable Interactive Character, Eurographis 2009. http://haselab.hi.mce.uec.ac.jp/~mitake/en/research/KobitoMotion.html

• Zhigang Deng, Qin Gu, Qing Li. Perceptually Consistent Example-based Human Motion Retrieval, i3D 2009. http://graphics.cs.uh.edu/publication/pub/I3D09_motionretrieval_preprint.pdf YouTube video
• Matthew Flagg, Atsushi Nakazawa, Qiushuang Zhang, Sing Bing Kang, Young Kee Ryu, Irfan Essa, James M. Rehg. Human Video Textures, i3D 2009. http://www.cc.gatech.edu/cpl/projects/humanvideotextures/
• N. Hasler, C. Stoll, M. Sunkel, B. Rosenhahn, H.-P. Seidel: A Statistical Model of Human Pose and Body Shape, Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. Eurographics 2009) http://www.mpi-inf.mpg.de/resources/scandb/
• Maxime Tournier, Xiaomao Wu, Courty Nicolas, Arnaud Élise, Revéret Lionel. Motion Compression using Principal Geodesics Analysis, http://www-evasion.imag.fr/Membres/Maxime.Tournier/CompressionPGA/
• A good place to look for new papers

Feb 12, 2008 Agenda

• Discussion leader:
• P. G. Kry, L. Reveret, F. Faure, and M.-P.Cani. Modal Locomotion: Animating Virtual Characters with Natural Vibrations, to appear in Computer Graphics Forum 28(2) (Proceedings of Eurographics 2009)
• http://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~kry/pubs/ml/mleg.pdf

• Yen-Lin Chen, Jianyuan Min, Jinxiang Chai. Flexible Registration of Human Motion Data with Parameterized Motion Models, i3D 2009.
• Zhigang Deng, Qin Gu, Qing Li. Perceptually Consistent Example-based Human Motion Retrieval, i3D 2009.
• Matthew Flagg, Atsushi Nakazawa, Qiushuang Zhang, Sing Bing Kang, Young Kee Ryu, Irfan Essa, James M. Rehg. Human Video Textures, i3D 2009.

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Feb 5, 2008 Agenda

• Discussion leader:
• Edmond S.L. Ho, Taku Komura. Character Motion Synthesis by Topology Coordinates, to appear in Computer Graphics Forum 28(2) (Proceedings of Eurographics 2009)
• http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/tkomura/Ho_Komura_EG2009.pdf

• Regina Nuzzo. Computational Biomechanics: Making Strides Toward Patient Care. Biomedical Computation Review 2006. http://biomedicalcomputationreview.org/3/1/3.pdf
• Delp, S.L., Anderson, F.C., Arnold, A.S., Loan, P., Habib, A., John, C.T., Guendelman, E., Thelan, D.G. OpenSim: Open-source software to create and analyze dynamic simulations of movement. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering , vol 55, pp 1940-1950, 2007. http://nmbl.stanford.edu/publications/pdf/Delp2007.pdf
• Edmond S.L. Ho, Taku Komura. Indexing and Retrieving Motions of Characters in Close Contact, to appear in IEEE Transactions on Computer Graphics and Visualization http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/tkomura/Ho_Komura_TVCG.pdf
• A good place to look for new papers

• StelianCoros
• MichaelWelsman
• WillChao

June 30, 2006 Agenda

• We'll discuss the paper "Automated Derivation of Primitives for Movement Classification" by Ajo Fod, Maja J Mataric, and Odest Chadwicke Jenkins (published in Autonomous Robot, 12(1), Jan. 2002)
• Link to the paper: http://www-robotics.usc.edu/~cjenkins/papers/ar2002_fod.pdf
• Let's discuss this paper on the wiki: CADiscussJun30

June 23, 2006 Agenda

• We'll discuss the ICRA 2006 paper "Evolution of Dynamic Maneuvers in a 3D Galloping Quadruped Robot" by Darren P. Krasny and David E. Orin
• Link to the paper: http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~kkyin/motionPapers/Krasny06.pdf
• Let's discuss this paper on the wiki: CADiscussJun23

June 16, 2006 Agenda

• We'll discuss the ICRA 2006 paper "Policies Based on Trajectory Libraries" by M. Stolle and C. Atkeson
• Link to the paper: http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~kkyin/motionPapers/stolle06.pdf
• Let's discuss this paper on the wiki: CADiscussJun16

June 9, 2006 Agenda

• We'll discuss the ICRA 2006 paper "Stepping Motion for a Human-like Character to Maintain Balance against Large Perturbations" by Shunsuke Kudoh, Taku Komura and Katsushi Ikeuchi
• Link to the paper: http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~kkyin/motionPapers/Kudoh06.pdf
• Let's discuss this paper on the wiki: CADiscussJun9

• Let's discuss this paper on the wiki: CADiscussMay26

• We'll discuss Kang favorite ICRA paper...

• We'll discuss the Siggraph 2006 paper "Motion Patches: Building Blocks for Virtual Environments Annotated with Motion Data" by Kang Hoon Lee, Myung Geol Choi and Jehee Lee
• Project page: http://mrl.snu.ac.kr/~zoi/motion_patch/motion_patch.html

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• Schedule June 2005 - Sep 2006
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May 19, 2006 Agenda

• We'll discuss the Siggraph 2006 paper "Compression of Motion Capture Databases" by Okan Arikan from University of Texas
• Project page: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~okan/papers/s2006/compression.html
• Let's discuss this paper on the wiki: CADiscussMay19

May 26, 2006 Agenda

• SIGGRAPH 2006
  • papers: http://www.cs.brown.edu/~tor/sig2006.html

People interested in attending the meetings

• MichielVanDePanne
• Kang Yin
• Kevin Loken
• PhilippeBeaudoin
• RoeyFlor
• HerbertChow

We've settled on Fri 11am for the summer term.

Sep 28, 2005 Agenda

• Discussion leader: Kang Yin
• "A Sliding Controller for Bipedal Balancing Using Integrated Movement of Contact and Non-Contact Limbs", Hofmann, A. G., Popovic, M. B., Herr, H. M., IROS 2004
• http://people.csail.mit.edu/hofma/Publications.htm

Sep 21, 2005 Agenda

• Discussion leader: Dana Sharon
• "Poincare-Map-Based Reinforcement Learning For Biped Walking" by J. Morimoto et al.
• http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~cga/walking/xmorimo-icra05.pdf

We've settled on Wed 2pm for the fall term.

Possible Meeting Times

Sep 7, 2005 Agenda

• Discussion leader: Kevin Loken
• Yaki Engel, Peter Szabo and Dmitry Volkinshtein. Learning to Control an Octopus Arm with Gaussian Process Temporal Difference Methods. To appear in NIPS (2005)
• http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~yaki/papers/octo_gprl.pdf

Aug 24, 2005 Agenda

• Discussion leader: Michiel van de Panne
• Tomohiko Mukai and Shigeru Kuriyama. Geostatistical Motion Interpolation. SIGGRAPH 2005
• http://www.val.ics.tut.ac.jp/VAL05/project/geostat/geostat.html

Aug 17, 2005 Agenda

• Discussion leader: Michiel van de Panne
• SIGGRAPH/SCA recap

July 20, 2005 Agenda

• Discussion leader: Kang Yin
• Okan Arikan, David A. Forsyth, James F. O'Brien. Pushing People Around. To appear in Symposium on Computer Animation, 2005
• http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~okan/papers/sca2005/pushingPeople.html

July 5, 2005 Agenda

• Discussion leader: Ken Alton
• "Mankyu Sung, Locas Kovar, and Michael Gleicher. Fast and Accurate Goal-Directed Motion Synthesis for Crowds. / Proceedings of 2005 Symposium on Computer Animation. / July 2005.
• http://www.cs.wisc.edu/graphics/Papers/Gleicher/Crowds/MultiCharacters.pdf

June 29, 2005 Agenda

• Discussion leader: Kevin Loken
• "Adaptation of performed ballistic motion" Adnan Sulejmanpasic & Jovan Popovic ACM Transactions on Graphics, Volume 24, Issue 1 (January 2005), pages 169-179
• http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1037966&coll=GUIDE&dl=ACM&CFID=46696584&CFTOKEN=67935934

June 15, 2005 Agenda

• We'll discuss the Siggraph 2005 paper "Performance Animation from Low-dimensional Control Signals" by Jinxiang Chai and Jessica K. Hodgins from Carnegie Mellon University. Project page: http://graphics.cs.cmu.edu/projects/performance-animation/pa_projectpage.html

June 07, 2005 Agenda

• Discuss reading group format, focus, meeting time and place, next week's paper
• Michiel will head a discussion on the tech report "Intelligence Capture" by Jonathan Dinerstein, Trent Crow, and Parris K. Egbert from Brigham Young University: http://rivit.cs.byu.edu/a3dg/publications/intelcap_techreport.pdf

Michiel, please change this if you wanted to cover a different Dinerstein paper (looks good, let's stick with this -- Michiel ]

June 29, 2005 Agenda

• Discussion leader: Kevin Loken
• "Adaptation of performed ballistic motion" Adnan Sulejmanpasic & Jovan Popovic ACM Transactions on Graphics, Volume 24, Issue 1 (January 2005), pages 169-179
• http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1037966&coll=GUIDE&dl=ACM&CFID=46696584&CFTOKEN=67935934

• Discussion leader to be chosen at random !?
  Learning Physics-Based Motion Style With Nonlinear Inverse Optimization (SIGGRAPH 2005) http://grail.cs.washington.edu/projects/charanim/paper0129_final.pdf

• Michiel's suggestions:
  • Dynamically-stable motion planning for humanoid robots (Autonomous Robots, 2002)
  • Geostatistical Motion Interpolation (SIGGRAPH 2005)
  • Acquisition of a Biped Walking Pattern Using a Poincare map (Humanoids 2004)
  • Inferring Motor Programs from Images of Handwritten Digits (NIPS 2005?)
  • Pushing People Around (SCA 2005)
  • Video-Based Character Animation (SCA 2005)

• Michiel's suggestions:
  • Dynamically-stable motion planning for humanoid robots (Autonomous Robots, 2002)
  • Geostatistical Motion Interpolation (SIGGRAPH 2005)
  • Acquisition of a Biped Walking Pattern Using a Poincare map (Humanoids 2004)
  • Inferring Motor Programs from Images of Handwritten Digits (NIPS 2005?)
  • Pushing People Around (SCA 2005)
  • Learning Physics-Based Motion Style With Nonlinear Inverse Optimization (SIGGRAPH 2005)

June 22, 2005 Agenda

• Any Ideas?

• Symposium on Computer Animation
  • advance program: http://www.cs.ucr.edu/rgl/sca/program.html
  • papers: http://myweb.hinet.net/home7/hks/Papers2005/sca2005Papers.htm

• SIGGRAPH 2005
  • papers: http://www.cs.brown.edu/~tor/sig2005.html