Schedule
Jan 15 - Jan 19	Tuesday: Course Introduction. Notes. The Principles of Animation. Computer Animation Introduction Paper. Thursday: Paper presentation by instructor "Unsupervised Learning for Speech Motion Editing" (PPT) Character animation research overview. (PDF)
Jan 22 - Jan 26	Paper Presentation by student. Tuesday: "Video rewrite: driving visual speech with audio" and "Voice puppetry" by George Luc Thursday: "Facial expression space learning" and "Expression Cloning" by Ajith Sowndararajan
Jan 29 - Feb 2	Paper Presentation by student. Tuesday: "Interactive Motion Generation from Examples" and "Motion Synthesis from Annotations" by Muruganand Karthikeyan Thursday: "Motion Graphs" and "Performance Animation from Low-dimensional Control Signals" by Wang, Rongrong
Feb 5 - Feb 9	Tuesday: "Computer Animation System Overview" (PPT) Thursday: Project Proposal presentation.
Feb 12 - Feb 16	Paper Presentation by student. Tuesday: "Animating human athletics" and "Motion Patches: Building Blocks for Virtual Environments Annotated with Motion Data" by Mohammad Alkandari Thursday: "Real-time Speech Motion Synthesis from Recorded Motions" and "Trainable videorealistic speech animation" by Regis Kopper
Feb 19 - Feb 23	Paper Presentation by student. Tuesday: "Synthesizing Realistic Facial Expressions from Photographs"and "Geometry-based Muscle Modeling for Facial Animation" by Kunmi S. Otitoju Thursday: "Pose Space Deformation" and "Skinning mesh animations" by Mara Silva
Feb 26 - Mar 2	Paper Presentation by student. Tuesday: "ANIMATED CONVERSATION: Rule-based Generation of Facial Expression, Gesture & Spoken Intonation for Multiple Conversational Agents" and "Retargetting Motion to New Characters" by Yonca Haciahmetoglu Thursday: "Autonomous Pedestrians" and "Crowdbrush: Interactive Authoring of Real-time Crowd Scenes" by Ryan Silva
Mar 5 - Mar 9	Spring Break.
Mar 12 - Mar 16	Paper Presentation by student. Tuesday: "Capturing and Animating Skin Deformation in Human Motion" and "Interaction Capture and Synthesis" by Instructor Thursday: "Handrix: Animating the Human Hand" and "Helping Hand: An Anatomically Accurate Inverse Dynamics Solution For Unconstrained Hand Motion" by George Luc
Mar 19 - Mar 23	Paper Presentation by student. Tuesday: "A muscle model for animating three-dimensional facial expression" and "Biomechanical Modeling and Neuromuscular Control of the Neck" by Wang, Rongrong Thursday: "Adaptive Wisp Tree - a multiresolution control structure for simulating dynamic clustering in hair motion" and "A Practical Model for Hair Mutual Interactions" by Kunmi Otitoju
Mar 26 - Mar 30	Tuesday: Project progress presentation. Thursday: A class at Art Department with Dr. Dean Webster.
Apr 2 - Apr 6	Paper Presentation by student. Tuesday: "Breathe easy: Model and control of simulated respiration for animation." and "Inverse Kinematics for Reduced Deformable Models" by Ryan Silva Thursday: "Physically Based Motion Transformation" and "Learning Physics-based Motion Style with Nonlinear Inverse Optimization" by Muruganand Karthikeyan
Apr 9 - Apr 13	Paper Presentation by student Tuesday: "Composable Controllers for Character Animation" and "Physically Based Motion Transformation" by Yonca Haciahmetoglu Thursday: "Dynamic Response for Motion Capture Animation" and "Efficient Content-Based Retrieval of Motion Capture Data" by Ajith Sowndararajan
Apr 16 - Apr 20	Paper Presentation by student. Tuesday: "Continuum Crowds" and "Synthesizing Animations of Human Manipulation Tasks" by Regis Kopper Thursday: "Registration Curves" and "Style-based Inverse Kinematics" by Mara Silva
Apr 23- Apr 27	Tuesday: Class lecture. Thursday: Final project result presentation
Apr 30 - May 4	Tuesday: Final project result presentation (continue)
May 9, 12:30pm	Project report deadline.