Character Animation Reading Group Homepage

MOCCA: Motion Control and Character Animation

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

Suggestions of possible papers to read

Quick links

• Agendas
• Interesting Papers

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Agendas

Feb 3, 2012 Agenda

• paper title
• link

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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.

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

"Data-Driven Biped Control" http://mrl.snu.ac.kr/research/ProjectDataDrivenBiped/DataDrivenBipedControl_2010.pdf -- JoelFerstay - 14 Feb 2012

"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

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

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