Animating People
Animating people well requires an understanding of how people
move and how to describe what they're doing (so you can compel the
animation
to do what you want). Both of these are valuable to the vision
community. I have written a fair amount on human animation, and
in the review I
try to put tracking and motion synthesis ideas together.
Review
David A. Forsyth, Okan Arikan, Leslie Ikemoto, James O' Brien, Deva
Ramanan, Computational
Studies of Human Motion: Part 1, Tracking and Motion Synthesis,
Foundations and Trends¨ in Computer Graphics and Vision
Volume 1 Issue 2/3 (255pp), 2006
I have been fortunate to work with two very strong students on animation. You can find Okan Arikan's work here, and Leslie Ikemoto's work
here. Leslie seems to get interviewed quite often (here, and here). Leslie and Okan are starting a company together (animate-me).
Papers
- Okan Arikan and D.A. Forsyth,
"Interactive Motion Generation from Examples",
Proc. SIGGRAPH, 2002
- Okan Arikan, D.A. Forsyth and James O'Brien ``Motion Synthesis from Annotations,'' SIGGRAPH 2003, San Diego, CA, Jul. 2003, in ACM Transactions on Graphics, vol. 33:3, 402-408, 2003.
- Okan Arikan, D. A. Forsyth, James F. O'Brien, Motion capture
and editing: Pushing people around Proceedings of the 2005 ACM
SIGGRAPH/Eurographics symposium on Computer animation SCA '05
- Leslie Ikemoto and Okan Arikan and D.A. Forsyth, ``Knowing when to put
your foot down'', Proc Symp. Interactive 3D graphics and Games, 2006
- Leslie Ikemoto, Okan Arikan, D.A. Forsyth, Quick transitions using multi-way blends, Sketches SIGGRAPH '06
- Leslie Ikemoto, Okan Arikan, D.A. Forsyth, Learning to move autonomously in a hostile world Sketches SIGGRAPH '05
- Leslie Ikemoto, Okan Arikan, D.A. Forsyth Quick
Transitions with Cached Multi-way Blends ACM Symposium on Interactive
3D Graphics and Games (I3D) 2007
