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Schedule

Agendas

Feb 5, 2008 Agenda

• 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

Feb 12, 2008 Agenda

• 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

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

Mar 12, 2008 Agenda

• Discussion on the current state of the various projects

Mar 19, 2008 Agenda

• TBD

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.

• 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
• 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
• 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. 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
• 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

People interested in attending the meetings

• MichielVanDePanne
• PhilippeBeaudoin
• StelianCoros
• MichaelWelsman
• WillChao