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• Possible Meeting Times
• Schedule June 2005 - June 2006
• Agendas
• Interesting Papers
• Links

Possible Meeting Times

Wed at 11am no longer works for everyone. The following table contains possible meeting times. Please put your names down in ALL the dates that work for you and then we can pick a time that works for most people.

Schedule

Agendas

Anything else you wanna talk about this week?

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 22, 2005 Agenda

• 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

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 ]

Interesting Papers

Feel free to list papers that you might want to advertise or discuss in an upcoming meeting. Don't worry about having to present yet. For now, it would be interesting to see what kind of papers people dig up.

• 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

• 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)