CIS888.14X
Advanced Computer Animation

Also, see list of possible projects (accessible from the cse.ohio-state.edu domain)

For Winter '08

• see my notes on the approach for this quarter
• we meet Fridays at 2:30 in DL680

Give overviews of areas of character animation. Email me a pdf of your presentation afterward (or beforehand if you have it ready in time for others in the class to print it and follow along).

Topic assignments are:

• Jan 25: facial animation - Ben Schroeder
• Feb 1: reaching & grasping - John Loy
• Feb 8: locomotion - Jae Eisenmann
  • Presentation (pdf)
  • Notes (doc)
  • Videos (tarball)
• Feb 15: motion capture - Youding Zhu
• Feb 22: full body movement - Matt Boggus
• Feb 29: body deformation - Ying Wei
• March 7: crowds - Mike Andereck
• March 7: behavioral - Neelima Karanam

for Autumn '07

• SCA 2007
  • TOC (pdf)
  • papers
  • papers: alternate site that links to authors' sites (thanks, Ben)
• SIGGRAPH 2007
  • TOC (pdf)
  • papers
• Topics and Presentation Schedule (PDFs)
  • Oct. 16: Motion capture & editing - Yisheng
  • Oct. 23: Dynamic control - Jae
  • Oct. 30: Pose estimation - Youding
  • Nov. 6: Deformable models - Rajat
  • Nov. 13: Combustion Animation - John
    • fireball
    • fireball-smoke
    • dragon-flame
    • bunny-burn
  • Nov. 20: Bubbles & Foam - Ben
  • Nov. 27: Behavioral modeling - Ying

for Spring '07

• CASA 2007 papers
• reviewing papers

for Winter '07

• Spore
• reviewing papers

SIGGRAPH and SCA papers for Autumn '06

Markerless Mocap for Spring '06

Links for tracking

• test case videos for tracking
• CAVIAR test data
• Crowds data
• CVonline
• Image processing tutorials

Behavior for Autumn '05, Winter '06

Cloth for Spring '04

Talking Head Project for Autumn '03

Sminshisescu's work for Spring '03

Tracking Project for Autumn '02 888L

MoCap Info from Spring '02 888