There are many applications that demand large quantities of natural looking motion. It is difficult to synthesize motion that looks natural, particularly when it is people who mus...
We present a method for automatically rendering pen-and-ink illustrations of trees. A given 3-d tree model is illustrated by the tree and a visual representation of the foliage us...
In this paper we present a model-based algorithm for the estimation of 3D motion and the analysis of facial expressions of a speaking person. A set of facial animation parameters ...
We apply manipulation planning to computer animation. A new path planner is presented that automatically computes the collision-free trajectories for several cooperating arms toma...
Yoshihito Koga, Koichi Kondo, James Kuffner, Jean-...
NP-hard combinatorial optimization problems are common in real life. Due to their intractability, local search algorithms are often used to solve such problems. Since these algori...