CS 294 Computer Games Human Motion Reading List

Human Motion Module papers

Motion capture

actually obtaining motion data from one or another source

• B. Bodenheimer, C. Rose, S. Rosenthal, and J. Pella. The process of motion capture: Dealing with the data. In Computer Animation and Simulation 1997. Proceedings of the Eurographics Workshop, 1997
• M. Gleicher. Animation from observation: Motion capture and motion editing. Computer Graph- ics, 1999
• T.B. Moeslund. Summaries of 107 computer vision-based human motion capture papers. Tech- nical Report LLA 99-01, University of Aalborg, 1999.
• Michael Gleicher Nicola Ferrier. Evaluating Video-Based Motion Capture. Proceedings of Computer Animation 2002 . June 2002.
• Jeff Lander, WORKING WITH MOTION CAPTURE FILE FORMATS

Motion editing and motion cleanup

going from motion data measured to actual usable motion information, also manipulating motions

• Michael Gleicher. Motion editing with spacetime constraints. In Proceedings of the 1997 Sympo- sium on Interactive 3D Graphics, 1997.
• BRUDERLIN, A., AND WILLIAMS, L. Motion signal processing. In Computer Graphics(Aug. 1995), pp. 97--104. Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 95.
• A. Witkin and Z. Popovic. Motion warping. In SIGGRAPH 95 Proceedings, Annual Conference Series, pages 105--108. ACM SIGGRAPH, Addison Wesley, August 1995.
• J. Lee and S. Yong Shin. A hierarchical approach to interactive motion editing for human-like figures. Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 99, pages 39--48, 1999.
• Michael Gleicher. Motion path editing. In J. Hughes and C. Sequin, editors, Proceedings 2001 ACM Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics, March 2001.
• J. Lee and S. Yong Shin. A hierarchical approach to interactive motion editing for human-like figures. Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 99, pages 39--48, 1999
• Lucas Kovar John Schreiner Michael Gleicher. Footskate Cleanup for Motion Capture Editing. Proceedings of the 2002 ACM Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA). July 2002.
• C. Rose, B. Bodenheimer and M.F. Cohen, Verbs and Adverbs:ÊMultidimensional Motion Interpolation IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications archive Volume 18 ,Ê Issue 5 Ê(September 1998)
• Michael Gleicher. Retargetting Motion to New Characters.Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 98. In Computer Graphics Annual Conferance Series. 1998.
• Maciejewski, A. A. (1990). Dealing with the ill-conditioned equations of motion for articulated figures. IEEE Comput. Graphics Appl. 10(3), pages 63---71
• Michael Girard, A. A. Maciejewski, Computational modeling for the computer animation of legged figures International Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques Pages: 263 - 270ÊÊ Year of Publication:Ê1985

Skinning a character

attaching a skin to the motion skeleton (the inverse of what you thought it meant!)

• Alex Mohr Michael Gleicher. Building Efficient, Accurate Character Skins from Examples. ACM Transactions on Graphics 21(3) (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 2003). July 2003.
• E. Catmull, A system for computer generated movies SIGGRAPH 1 - Computer graphics Pages: 422 - 431ÊÊ Year of Publication:Ê1972
• Xiaohuan Corina Wang, Cary Phillips Skinning: Multi-weight enveloping: least-squares approximation techniques for skin animation Proceedings of the 2002 ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics symposium on Computer animation, 2002

Combinatorial motion synthesis

building a set of motions by cutting and pasting exsiting examples

• Michael Gleicher, Hyun Joon Shin, Lucas Kovar, and Andrew Jepsen. Snap Together Motion: Assembling Run-Time Animation.2003 Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics. April 2003
• Lucas Kovar Michael Gleicher Frederic Pighin. Motion Graphs. ACM Transactions on Graphics 21(3) (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 2002).July 2002.
• J. Lee, J. Chai, P. S. A. Reitsma, J. K. Hodgins, and N. S. Pollard. Interactive control of avatars animated with human motion data. Proc. SIGGRAPH 2002
• O. Arikan and D. Forsyth. Interactive motion generation from examples. In Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH 02, 2002
• Arikan, O., Forsyth, D. A., O'Brien, J. F., "Motion Synthesis from Annotations." To appear in ACM SIGGRAPH 2003.

Motion synthesis by smoothing

building motions by inferring new motions from examples

• Y. Li, T. Wang, H-Y. Shum, Motion texture:Êa two-level statistical model for character motion synthesis Proceedings of the 29th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques table of contents Pages: 465 - 472ÊÊ Year of Publication:Ê2002
• Ajo Fod, Maja J Mataric«, and Odest Chadwicke Jenkins, "Automated Derivation of Primitives for Movement Classification", Autonomous Robots,12(1), Jan 2002, 39-54
• Aude Billard and Maja J Mataric«, "Learning human arm movements by imitation: Evaluation of a biologically inspired connectionist architecture", Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 37:2-3, Nov 30, 2001, 145-160
• Maja J Mataric«, Victor B. Zordan, and Matthew M. Williamson, "Making Complex Articulated Agents Dance: an analysis of control methods drawn from robotics, animation, and biology", Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, 2(1), Mar 1999, 23-44
• Mataric, M. J., Zordan, V. B., Mason, Z., Movement Control Methods for Complex, Dynamically Simulated Agents: Adonis Dances the Macarena Proceedings of Autonomous Agents '98, Minneapolis/St. Paul, May 1998, pp 317-324
• K. Pullen and C. Bregler. Motion capture assisted animation: Texturing and synthesis. In Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH 02, 2002
• Synthesis of Cyclic Motions with Texture (2002)ÊÊÊ Katherine Pullen, Christoph Bregler
• Alla Safonova and Jessica K. Hodgins and Nancy S. Pollard, Synthesizing Physically Realistic Human Motion in Low-Dimensional, Behavior-Specific Spaces, SIGGRAPH 2004
• Keith Grochow, Steven L. Martin, Aaron Hertzmann, Zoran Popovic. Style-based Inverse Kinematics. ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 2004), 2004.

Applications of Motion Synthesis

• Matthew Stone, Doug DeCarlo, Insuk Oh, Christian Rodriguez, Adrian Stere, Alyssa Lees, Chris Bregler. Speaking with Hands: Creating Animated Conversational Characters from Recordings of Human Performance In SIGGRAPH 2004.