Robotics Institute
Seminar, May 7
Time
and Place | Seminar Abstract | Speaker
Biography | Speaker Appointments
Motion Retargeting with Physics and
Deformations
Jovan
Popovic
Massachusetts Institute of
Technology
Mauldin Auditorium (NSH 1305)
Refreshments 3:15 pm
Talk 3:30 pm
Despite the
tremendous amount of artistry, skill, and time dedicated to crafting
animations, only few special-purpose techniques exist to help with reuse. Motion retargeting, for example, conforms
motions of rigid skeletons, but stalls when enforcing the laws of physics or
when transforming the motion of deformable shapes. Until recently, physically valid retargeting relied
on simplification to eliminate degrees of freedom or to reduce the order of
dynamics equations. These
simplifications are not necessary as demonstrated with numerical procedures for
retargeting ballistic motions of a full human figure with many degrees of
freedom. Similar approach could enable
reanimation of meshes with non-skeletal deformations or without an obvious skeletal
structure. Deformation transfer is the
first step to developing such a system.
It applies the deformation exhibited by a source triangle mesh onto a
different target mesh without requiring them to share the same connectivity or
to have an identical number of triangles and vertices.
Jovan Popovic
is an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and
Computer Science and a member of the Computer Graphics Group in the Computer
Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
Before joining MIT in the Fall of 2001, he
received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University and his
B.S. degrees in Mathematics and Computer Science from Oregon State University.
For appointments, please contact Nancy Pollard.
The Robotics Institute is part of the School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University.
