[4eyes] Visual Computing Cafe Seminar Friday Oct. 11, 2013

[Pradeep Sen]

UCSB Visual Computing Café Seminar Friday October 11, 2013
12:30pm - 1:30pm, Harold Frank Hall 1132 Auditorium


TITLE:
Animating and Evaluating Human Motion
by Carol O'Sullivan, Disney Research and Trinity College Dublin


ABSTRACT:
Recent advances in rendering and data-driven animation have enabled the
creation of compelling characters with impressive levels of realism.
While data-driven techniques can produce animations that are extremely
faithful to the original motion, many challenging problems remain
because of the high complexity of human motion. A better understanding
of the factors that make human motion recognizable and appealing would
be of great value in industries where creating a variety of appealing
virtual characters with realistic motion is required. In this talk I
will present some recent results on animating virtual human characters
and evaluating their quality, distinctiveness and attractiveness.


BIO:
Carol O’Sullivan is the Professor of Visual Computing at Trinity
College Dublin, where she has been on the faculty since 1997, and a
Senior Research Scientist in Disney Research Los Angeles, based in
Glendale. She was a Visiting Professor in Seoul National University from
2012-2013. Her research interests include perception, animation, virtual
humans, and crowds. She is the co-Editor in Chief of the ACM
Transactions on Applied Perception, and was formerly Associate EIC of
IEEE CG&A. She has served on many editorial boards and program
committees, including the SIGGRAPH and Eurographics papers committees,
and has been program or general chair for several conferences, e.g.,
Eurographics, ACM Symposium on Computer Animation, ACM Symposium on
Applied Perception, and others.


WEB:
http://isg.cs.tcd.ie/cosulliv/


-- 
Pradeep Sen
Associate Professor
UCSB MIRAGE Lab
Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9560