Publications in Computer Animation
Alla Safonova and Jessica K. Hodgins
Construction and optimal search of interpolated motion graphs
Accepted to SIGGRAPH 2007 
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Alla Safonova and Jessica K. Hodgins
Analyzing the Physical Correctness of Interpolated Human Motion
SIGGRAPH/ Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA)  2005
(web page)
Alla Safonova, Jessica K. Hodgins, Nancy S. Pollard 
Synthesizing Physically Realistic Human Motion in Low-Dimensional, Behavior-Specific Spaces
ACM Transactions on Graphics Journal, SIGGRAPH 2004 Proceedings, August 2004
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J. Barbic, A. Safonova, J.-Y. Pan, C. Faloutsos, J. K. Hodgins, and N. S. Pollard
Segmenting Motion Capture Data into Distinct Behaviors
Proceedings of Graphics Interface, May 2004 
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A. Safonova, N. S. Pollard, and J. K. Hodgins
Optimizing Human Motion for the Control of a Humanoid Robot
2nd International Symposium on Adaptive Motion of Animals and Machines (AMAM2003), Kyoto, Japan, March 2003.
(web page)

Publications in Geometry Compression
A.Safonova and J. Rossignac
Compressed Piecewise Circular Approximation of 3D Curves
Computer-Aided Design (CAD), 35(6), May, 2003
J. Rossignac, A. Safonova, A. Szymczak 
Edgebreaker on a Corner Table: A simple technique for representing and compressing triangulated surfaces
Chapter in Hierarchical and Geometrical Methods in Scientific Visualization, Farin, G., Hagen, H. and Hamann, B., eds. Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany. pp 41-50, January 2003

Earlier version of this paper:
J. Rossignac, A. Safonova, A. Szymczak
3D compression made simple: Edgebreaker on a Corner Table
Shape Modeling International Conference, pp: 278-283, Genoa, Italy May 2001
 

Hélio Lopes, Jarek Rossignac, Alla Safonova, Andrzej Szymczak and Geovan Tavares
Edgebreaker: A Simple Compression Algorithm for Surfaces with Handles
Computers&Graphics International Journal, vol. 27, no. 4, pp. 553-567, 2003

Earlier version of this paper:
Hélio Lopes, Jarek Rossignac, Alla Safonova, Andrzej Szymczak and Geovan Tavares 
Edgebreaker: A Simple Compression Algorithm for Surfaces with Handles
Seventh ACM Symposium on Solid Modeling, pp. 289-296, June 2002
 

Thesis
A.Safonova
Reducing the search space for physically realistic human motion synthesis
Ph.D. Thesis, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, September 2006

Advisor: Jessica Hodgins

Thesis Committee: 
Jessica K. Hodgins, Carnegie Mellon University (chair) 
Nancy S. Pollard, Carnegie Mellon University 
Christopher G. Atkeson, Carnegie Mellon University 
Jovan Popovic, Massachusetts Institute of Technology