Character Animation Reading Group Homepage

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

Character Animation

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

-- MichielVanDePanne - 21 Feb 2012

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

Motion Control

http://mrl.snu.ac.kr/research/ProjectDataDrivenBiped/DataDrivenBipedControl_2010.pdf

"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

Using Natural Vibrations to Guide Control for Locomotion,
ACM Siggraph Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games (I3D), 2012
Nunes, R., Cavalcante-Neto, J., Vidal, C., Kry, P., Zordan, V.,
http://graphics.cs.ucr.edu/papers/nunes2012.pdf -- MichielVanDePanne - 21 Feb 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

Robotics

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

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

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

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

Steffen, J., & Haschke, R. (2007). Experience-based and tactile-driven dynamic grasp control. IRoS http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=4398960

-- DanielTroniak - 02 Mar 2012