The computer graphics lab hosts a weekly reading group focusing on new publications at SIGGRAPH, Eurographics, SCA and other venus. The topics vary from week to week, but there will typically be a focus on animation. If you would like to receive a weekly notice on the paper that we will be reading or make any suggestions, please subscribe to the mailing list.

Please feel free to attend selectively. That is, attend only for papers of interest to you or directly relevant to your work. Please come prepared for the discussion! Discussions are typically on Fridays at 2 pm and are held in the graphics lab, MC 110A.

• January 25 at 4pm (Sheldon): Fast and Efficient Skinning of Animated Meshes, Ladislav Kavan and Peter-Pike Sloan and Carol O'Sullivan, Eurographics 2010. LINK

• December 6 (Sheldon): Animation Wrinkling: Augmenting Coarse Cloth Simulations with Realistic-Looking Wrinkles, Rohmer Damien and Popa Tiberiu and Cani Marie-Paule and Hahmann Stefanie and Sheffer Alla, SIGGRAPH Asia 2010 LINK
• November 26 (Yasaman): Example-based dynamic skinning in real time, Xiaohan Shi and Kun Zhou and Yiying Tong and Mathieu Desbrunuand Hujun Baoa and Baining Guo, SIGGRAPH 2008. LINK
• November 5 (Paul): Motion Fields for Interactive Character Animation, Yongjoon Lee and Kevin Wampler and Gilbert Bernstein and Jovan Popovic and Zoran Popovic, SIGGRAPH Asia 2010. LINK
• September 17 (Cyrus): DyRT: Dynamic Response Textures for Real Time Deformation Simulation with Graphics Hardware, Doug L. James and Dinesh K. Pai, SIGGRAPH 2002. LINK
• August 19 (Amir): Sampling-based Contact-rich Motion Control, Libin Liu and KangKang Yin and Michiel van de Panne and Tianjia Shao and Weiwei Xu, SIGGRAPH 2010. LINK
• August 13 (Sheldon): Feature-Based Locomotion Controllers, Martin de Lasa and Igor Mordatch and Aaron Hertzmann, SIGGRAPH 2010. LINK
• July 9 (Cyrus): A Novel Algorithm for Incompressible Flow Using Only A Coarse Grid Projection, M. Lentine and W. Zheng and R. Fedkiw, SIGGRAPH 2010. LINK
• June 25: two papers (Amir): Robust Physics-Based Locomotion Using Low-Dimensional Planning, I. Mordatch, M. de Lasa, and A. Hertzmann, SIGGRAPH 2010, LINK, Optimizing Walking Controllers for Uncertain Inputs and Environments, J. Wang, D. Fleet, and A. Hertzmann, SIGGRAPH 2010, LINK.
• June 18 (Sheldon): Learning Behavior Styles with Inverse Reinforcement Learning, Lee, S. and Popovic, Z., SIGGRAPH 2010. LINK
• June 11 (Paul): Unified Simulation of Elastic Rods, Shells, and Solids, S. Martin, P. Kaufmann, M. Botsch, E. Grinspun, and M. Gross, SIGGRAPH 2010. LINK
• Mar 19 (Amir): Segmenting Motion Capture Data into Distinct Behaviors, J. Barbic and A. Safonova and J.Y. Pan and C. Faloutsos and J. K. Hodgins and N. S. Pollard, Graphics Interface 2004. LINK
• Mar 19 (Paul): CoRdE: Cosserat rod elements for the dynamic simulation of one-dimensional elastic objects, J. Spillman and M. Teschner, Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation 2007. LINK
• Mar 12 (Sheldon): Discrete Elastic Rods, M. Bergou, M. Wardetzky, S. Robinson, B. Audoly, E. Grinspun, SIGGRAPH (ACM Transactions of Graphics) 2008. LINK
• Feb 12 (Yasaman): Deforming Meshes that Split and Merge, C. Wojtan, N. Thurey, M. Gross, G. and Turk, SIGGRAPH 2009. LINK
• Feb 5 (Cyrus): Interactive Spacetime Constraints: Wiggly Splines, M. Kass, J. Anderson, SIGGRAPH 2008. LINK
• Jan 29 (Amir): Deformable Object Animation Using Reduced Optimal Control, J. Barbic, M. da Silva, and J. Popovic, SIGGRAPH 2009. LINK
• Jan 22 (Sheldon): Real-Time Hand-Tracking with a Color Glove, R. Y. Wang and J. Popovic, SIGGRAPH 2009. LINK
• Jan 8 (Paul): Staggered Projections for Frictional Contact in Multibody Systems, D. M. Kaufman, S. Sueda, D. L. James, and D. K. Pai, SIGGRAPH Asia 2008. LINK
• Dec 11 (Sheldon): Statistical Simulation of Rigid Bodies, S. W. Hsu, J. Keyser, SCA 2009. LINK
• Dec 4 (Paul): Asynchronous Contact Mechanics, D. Harmon, E. Vouga, B. Smith, R. Tamstorf, E. Grinspun, SIGGRAPH 2009. LINK
• Nov 27 (Amir): Animating Responsive Characters with Dynamic Constraints in Near-Unactuated Coordinates, Y. Ye, C. K. Liu, SIGGRAPH ASIA 2009. LINK
• Nov 13 (Matt): Fast and Robust Tracking of Fluid Surfaces. Matthias Muller, SCA 2009. LINK
• Nov 6 (Emmanuel): Hair Photobooth: Geometric and Photometric Acquisition of Real Hairstyles. Sylvain Paris et al., ACM Transactions on Graphics, 2008. LINK
• Oct 30 (Paul): Image-based Collision Detection and Response between Arbitrary Volumetric Objects. Faure Francois, Barbier Sebastien, Allard Jeremie, Falipou Florent, SCA 2008. LINK
• Oct 23 (Sheldon): Real-Time Deformation and Fracture in a Game Environment. E. G. Parker, F. J. O'Brien, SCA 2009. LINK
• Oct 16 (Amir): Optimizing Walking Controllers. J. M. Wang, D. J. Fleet, A. Hertzmann, SIGGRAPH Asia 2009. LINK
• Oct 2 (Max): Compact Character Controllers, Y. Lee, S. Lee, Z. Popovic, SIGGRAPH Asia 2009. LINK
• Sept 25 (Sheldon): Robust Task-based Conrol Policies for Physics-based Characters, S. Coros, P. Beaudoin, M. van de Panne, SIGGRAPH Asia 2009. LINK
• Sept 18 (Paul): Multi-agent Control in Adversarial Games, Y. Lee, K. Wampler, E. Anderson, E. Herbst, Z. Popovic, SIGGRAPH Asia 2009. LINK
• Sept 11: Optimization-based Interactive Motion Synthesis, S. Jain, Y. Ye, C. K. Liu, TOG 28:1 2009.
• July 17: Performance-Based Control Interface for Character Animation, S. Ishigaki, T. White, V. Zordan, C. K. Liu SIGGRAPH 2009.
• July 10: Dextrous Manipulation from a Grasping Pose, C. K. Liu, SIGGRAPH 2009.
• June 26: Optimal Gait and Form for Animal Locomotion, K. Wampler, Z. Popovic, SIGGRAPH 2009.
• June 19: Linear Bellman Combination for Control of Character Animation, M. da Silva, F. Durand, J. Popovic, SIGGRAPH 2009.
• June 12: (Two Papers) Enrichment Textures for Detailed Cutting of Shells, P. Kaufmann, S. Martin, M. Botsch, E. Grinspun, M. Gross, SIGGRAPH 2009. Numerical Coarsening of Inhomogeneous Elastic Materials, L. Kharevych, P. Mullen, H. Owhadi, M. Desbrun, SIGGRAPH 2009.
• June 5: Contact-aware Nonlinear Control of Dynamic Characters, U. Muico, Y. Lee, J. Popovic, Z. Popovic, SIGGRAPH 2009.
• May 29: Example-Based Hair Geometry Synthesis, L. Wang, Y. Yu, K. Zhou, B. Guo, SIGGRAPH 2009.
• May 22: Momentum Control for Balance A. Macchietto, V. Zordan, C. R. Shelton, SIGGRAPH 2009.