Character Animation II

Full Conference  One-Day Full Conference

Friday, 12 December
08:00 - 10:15
Room 303, 304, 305
Session Chair: Doug James

Facial Performance Synthesis Using Deformation-Driven Polynomial Displacement Maps
A method for acquiring, modelling, compressing, and synthesizing realistic detailed facial deformations using polynomial displacement maps driven by coarse motion capture markers.

Wan-Chun Ma
University of Southern California, National Taiwan University

Andrew Jones
Jen-Yuan Chiang
Tim Hawkins
Sune Frederiksen
Pieter Peers
University of Southern California

Marko Vukovic
Sony Pictures Imageworks

Ming Ouhyoung
National Taiwan University

Paul Debevec
USC Institute for Creative Technologies


Reusable Skinning Templates Using Cage-Based Deformations
A skinning template abstraction that makes it easy to design and transfer skin deformation styles.

Tao Ju
Washington University in St. Louis

Qian-Yi Zhou
University of Southern California

Michiel van de Panne
The University of British Columbia

Daniel Cohen-Or
Tel Aviv University

Ulrich Neumann
University of Southern California


Accelerometer-Based User Interfaces for the Control of a Physically Simulated Character
User study of three Wiimote interfaces for controlling a physically simulated character.

Takaaki Shiratori
Jessica Hodgins
Carnegie Mellon University


Video Puppetry: A Performative Interface for Cutout Animation
A video-based interface for creating animations by puppeteering.

Connelly Barnes
Princeton University

David Jacobs
University of California, Berkeley

Jason Sanders
NVIDIA Corporation

Dan Goldman
Adobe Systems Incorporated

Szymon Rusinkiewicz
Adam Finkelstein
Princeton University

Maneesh Agrawala
University of California, Berkeley


Laughing Out Loud: Control for Modeling Anatomically Inspired Laughter Using Audio
A novel technique for generating animation of laughter, including an audio-controlled method that automatically creates an animation from a soundtrack of an individual laughing.

Paul DiLorenzo
Victor Zordan
Benjamin Sanders
University of California, Riverside