CIS888.14X: Advanced Computer Animation

CIS888.14X
Advanced Computer Animation

888 is a seminar in advanced computer animation, with an emphasis mainly in computer character animation. It's primary justification is as an excuse for getting my Ph.D. advisees and other advanced computer animation students together at one time.

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

Winter '10: review recent book

Luiz Velho, Paulo Cezar Pinto Carvalho, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo, Jonas Gomes, Mathematical Optiimization in Computer Graphics and Vision, Elsevier Inc., Morgan Kaufmann Publ., New York 2008.

For Autumn '09: recent animation papers

Topics

Fluids (4:0:4)
Image warping (1)
Motion synthesis and editing (4:1:9)
Reduced physics (4)
Crowds (0:1:4)
Hair (2:1)
Grasping (1)
Locomotion (2:1)
Character (2:3)
Camera (4)
Physics (0:4)
3D (0:1)
Deformation, Fracture (0:0:4)

NOTE: Everybody should choose one or two or three topics that is of interest and email me about it - so I can 'approve' your topic for the quarter. do this by next wednesday, 10/7.

ASSIGNMENTS:

Ben: sound/res, res?
Jae: camera, reduced physics, 3D
Cheng: perception
Di: deformations
Wei lu: fluids, controllable fire
Wei Xu: facial animation
KCLee: locomotion
Arun: crowds

Final Presentations:

Ben: sound dance interface
Jae: the graph camera, deformable object animation using reduced optimal control
Cheng: perception
Di: deformations
Wei Liu: controllable fire
Wei Xu: muscle-based facial animation
KCLee: locomotion
Arun: crowds

For Spring '09: PDE in Graphics

MIT course
Gilberto Urroz's Introduction to PDEs
On the Spine of a PDE Surface by Hassan ugail
Partial Differential equations in action by Sandro Salsa
Numerical treatment of PDEs by Grossmann and Roos
Differential equations demystified by Krantz at Amazon

For Winter '09: Implement paper from literature

Michael Andereck - "Density Contrast SPH Interfaces" by Solenthalar and Pajarola;
Jae Eisenmann - pose space deformation: A Powell Optimization Approach for Example-Based Skinning in a Production Animation Environment
Neelima Karanam - prototype thesis research
John Loy - A Semi-Lagrangian CIP Fluid Solver without Dimensional Splitting from Eurographics 2008
David Ogirala - sound from string simulation
Andrew Pamu - start thesis research
Ben Schroeder - Fast Viscoelastic Behavior with Thin Features by Chris Wojtan and Greg Turk from SIGGRAPH 2008
Cheng Zhang - Poisson disk sampling method

For Autumn '08: review papers from SIGGRAPH, SCA, CASA

topics
- fluids: Jae Eisenmann
- deformations, physics, collisions: Ben Schroeder
- crowds, planning: Cheng Zhang
- motion capture, data-driven: Neelima Karanam
- humans, characters, facial animation: Andrew Pamu
- hair, cloth: Mike Andereck
papers on the web
Tentative schedule for second presentation: 2-3 papers in detail
- Dec. 2, 2:30, DL680: Jae
- Dec. 4, 2:30, DL680: Ben, Mike
- Dec. 9, 2:30, DL680: Cheng
- Dec. 11, 2:30, DL680:Andrew, Neelima

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