TOG
2012
12 years 2 months ago
2012
Human hair is known to be very difficult to model or reconstruct. In this paper, we focus on applications related to portrait manipulation and take an application-driven approach...
TOG
2012
12 years 2 months ago
2012
We propose a complete process for designing, simulating, and fabricating synthetic skin for an animatronics character that mimics the face of a given subject and its expressions. ...
TOG
2012
12 years 2 months ago
2012
We present a motion synthesis framework capable of producing a wide variety of important human behaviors that have rarely been studied, including getting up from the ground, crawl...
TOG
2012
12 years 2 months ago
2012
We present a physically-based system to simulate and control the locomotion of soft body characters without skeletons. We use the finite element method to simulate the deformatio...
TOG
2012
12 years 2 months ago
2012
Given a large repository of geotagged imagery, we seek to automatically find visual elements, e.g. windows, balconies, and street signs, that are most distinctive for a certain g...
TOG
2012
12 years 2 months ago
2012
We present a dynamic tree modeling and representation technique that allows complex tree models to interact with their environment. Our method uses changes in the light distributi...
TOG
2012
12 years 2 months ago
2012
Marker-less motion capture is a challenging problem, particularly when only monocular video is available. We estimate human motion from monocular video by recovering three-dimensi...
TOG
2012
12 years 2 months ago
2012
We present a theoretical framework and practical method for the automatic construction of simple, all-quadrilateral patch layouts on manifold surfaces. The resulting layouts are c...
TOG
2012
12 years 2 months ago
2012
TOG
2012
12 years 2 months ago
2012
Interactive, task-guided character controllers must be agile and responsive to user input, while retaining the flexibility to be readily authored and modified by the designer. C...