[4eyes] Guest speaker at tomorrow's joint meeting

[Pradeep Sen]

Dear Labs,

Tomorrow, Tuesday, we have a guest speaker (Tomer Weiss from UCLA) who
will be presenting his research at the joint MIRAGE-4Eyes meeting at 1pm.

See his talk abstract below.

Best,

-Pradeep


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



title:
Simulating virtual crowds with 100,000 agents in real-time on your laptop

abstract:
The movement of large numbers of people is important in many situations,
such as the evacuation of a building in an emergency, urban planning, and
visual effects. Since laboratory experiments are not readily
available, most research is conducted by means of computer simulations of
crowds. Graphics researchers and others have proposed many simulation
models. However, most of these models are tailored for specific scenarios,
and are computationally expensive. One of the main challenge stems from the
difficulty in leveraging all these into a unified model that scales and
works well for both sparse and dense crowds.

In this talk, I focus on my recent work in developing a position-based
framework for crowd simulation. I demonstrate the framework's strengths by
simulating large crowd masses in interactive rates for hundreds of
thousands of agents, which was previously unachievable. This new method is
suitable for use in interactive games, and was recently presented in the
ACM SIGGRAPH conference on Motion in Games 2017, where it received the best
paper award.

bio:
Tomer Weiss is a PhD candidate at the University of California Los Angeles,
scheduled to defend this thesis in this year. He received the best paper
award from the ACM SIGGRAPH conference on motion in games, for his work on
virtual crowd simulation. He received his BSc degree in computer science
from Tel Aviv University in 2013, and MS in Computer Science from UCLA in
2016. His research interests include computer graphics and optimization
methods. He is a member of the UCLA Computer Graphics & Vision Laboratory,
directed by Professor Demetri Terzopoulos.
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://lists.cs.ucsb.edu/pipermail/ilab-users/attachments/20180319/54c6a83a/attachment-0001.html>