CPSC 526 Jan 2008 Computer Animation -- lectures

week 1
  Mon Jan 7   (no class today)
  Wed Jan 9   course overview
week 2
  Mon Jan 14  History: Labanotation, Rotoscoping, Cell animation, mocap tech, data/algo/artist
  Wed Jan 16  Mori's uncanny vally, review of transf, transf hierarchies
week 3
  Mon Jan 21  Representing Orientations and Rotations
  Wed Jan 23  Definitions: kinematics, dynamics, configuration (DOFs), state, examples
week 4
  Mon Jan 28  Inverse kinematics
  Wed Jan 30  Dynamics
week 5
  Mon Feb 4   class cancelled due to illness
  Wed Feb 6   Dynamics (continued)
week 6
  Mon Feb 11  Introduction to Control
  Wed Feb 13  Optimization methods for animation
week 7
  Mon Feb 18  reading week
  Wed Feb 20  reading week
week 8
  Mon Feb 25  Machine learning for animation
  Wed Feb 27  Machine learning for animation (continued)
week 9
  Mon Mar 3  2.5 Motion Graphs (Michiel) 
              [8] Kovar et al., "Motion Graphs"
              [1] Treuille et al. "Near-optimal character animation ..."
              [2] Safonova and Hodgins, "... interpolated motion graphs"
  Wed Mar 5   2.9 Crowds:  Andrew, Michael
              "Continuum Crowds"
                 http://grail.cs.washington.edu/projects/crowd-flows/
              "Group Behavior from Video: A Data-driven Approach to Crowd Simulation" 
                 http://mrl.snu.ac.kr/research/ProjectVideoCrowd/group_behavior.html
week 10
  Mon Mar 10  2.3 Statistical Models of motion:  Sam, Stelian
              [4] Chai and Hodgins, "Performance animation from low-dimensional control signals"
              [5] Ren et al., "A data-driven approach to quantifying natural human motion"
  Wed Mar 12  2.10 Animation Interfaces:  Sergio, Edgar
              [2] Thorne et al., "Motion Doodles: an interface for sketching character motion"
                http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~van/papers/index.html#2004
              [4] Laszlo et al., "Interactive control for physically-based animation"
                http://www.dgp.utoronto.ca/~jflaszlo/interactive-control.html
week 11
  Mon Mar 17  2.8 Skinning:  Cody, Qignan
              [4] Lewis et al., "Pose space deformation", SIGGRAPH 2000
              [6] James and Twigg, "Skinning Mesh Animations", SIGGRAPH 2005
  Wed Mar 19  2.7 Motion as a Trajectory Optimization Problem:  Michiel
              [5] Witkin and Kass, "Spacetime Constraints"
              [3] Popovic and Witkin, "Physically based motion transformations"
week 12 
  Mon Mar 24  Easter Monday, no class
  Wed Mar 26  2.12 Motion Control in Nature:  Idin, Pooyan               
week 13
  Mon Mar 31  2.4  Physics-based Simulation of Locomotion:  Nasa, Stelian
  Wed Apr  2  2.11 Character Personality and Aesthetics: Michiel
              [3] Perlin, "Real time responsive animation with personality"
              [5] Lee, Badler, and Badler, "Eyes alive ..."
week 14
  Mon Apr 7   2.6 Motion Perception: Michiel
              [7] Giese and Poggio, "Neural mechanism for the recogntion ..."
              [4] McDonnell et al., "Smooth movers ..."
  Wed Apr 9   open problems