CPSC 8110: Technical Character Animation

Course Overview

INSTRUCTOR: Sophie Joerg
OFFICE HOURS: Tue 1:30-2:30pm, and by appointment, McAdams 318
SEMESTER: Spring 2019
TIME: TTh 9:30-10:45am
LOCATION: McAdams 110E

Paper Presentations

Date Topic Presentations
March 26 Project Review -
March 28 Gestures and Hands Diejie Shangchen Han, Beibei Liu, Robert Wang, Yuting Ye, Christopher D. Twigg and Kenrick Kin. Online Optical Marker-based Hand Tracking with Deep Labels. ACM Transaction on Graphics (SIGGRAPH) 2018.
April 2Project work Homework
April 4Project review -
April 9Character Animation in VR Alex Nicholas Toothman and Michael Neff. The Impact of Avatar Tracking Errors on User Experience in VR. IEEE VR 2019. [video]
Divine Marc Erich Latoschik, Florian Kern, Jan-Philipp Stauffert, Andrea Bartl, Mario Botsch, and Jean-Luc Lugrin. Not Alone Here?! Scalability and User Experience of Embodied Ambient Crowds in Distributed Social Virtual Reality. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 2019.
April 11Embodied Agents, Crowds, Motion graphs Ryland Ioannis Karamouzas1, Nick Sohre, Ran Hu, and Stephen J. Guy. Crowd Space: A Predictive Crowd Analysis Technique. ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH Asia) 2018.
Yixian Alla Safonova and Jessica K. Hodgins. Construction and optimal search of interpolated motion graphs. SIGGRAPH 2007.
April 16Machine Learning Hollis Chenglei Wu, Takaaki Shiratori, and Yaser Sheikh. Deep Incremental Learning for Efficient High-Fidelity Face Tracking. ACM Transaction on Graphics (SIGGRAPH Asia) 2018.
Ryan Andreas Aristidou, Daniel Cohen-Or, Jessica K. Hodgins, Yiorgos Chrysanthou, Ariel Shamir. Deep Motifs and Motion Signatures. ACM Transaction on Graphics (SIGGRAPH Asia) 2018.
April 18Emotion + Style, Quiz Ashley Martin Guay, Marie-Paule Cani, and Rémi Ronfard. The Line of Action: an Intuitive Interface for Expressive Character Posing. ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH Asia) 2013.
April 23Project Review -
April 25Further Topics