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Seminar "Character Animation" (SS 2008)

Seminar conducted by Michael Kipp and Alexis Heloir.

Abstract
Animating hierarchical, articulated structures like human bodies is a challenging task. A human skeleton has many degrees of freedom that, ideally, should all be controlled automatically according to high-level commands (walk, grasp, gesture, change posture) and parameters (fast, expansive, like an old person, jerky). The ultimate aim is synthetic movement that looks natural (i.e. human-like), is synchronized (e.g. to speech or music) and expressive (style, personality, emotion). In this seminar, we will look at the most important contributions to this field, ranging from representational issues and inverse kinematics to motion capture and questions of high-level style parameters.

Written Report Facts:

• Deadline: 7 August 2008
• Format: Springer LNCS (See a sample here)
• 10-15 pages, English
• Slides on written report

Facts:

• time: Thursdays, 16:20 h
• location: MPII, room 23 (ground level)
• language: English
• first meeting: 17 April 2008
• last meeting: 17 July 2008
• requirements for participation: at least 1 Computer graphics lecture/seminar

Requirements for successful participation:

• give a presentation (30 min) and discuss (10 min)
• hand in a written report (10-15 pages, English)
• chair one session (i.e. announce the speaker and manage discussion)
• attend all sessions

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