This course described the state of the art in interactive, real-time, and networked human motion synthesis and actor behaviors. It demonstrated real-time human animation generated by techniques such as inverse kinematics, dynamics, and video motion capture, and by higher-level approaches such as dynamics and video motion capture, behaviorally scripted agents, personality profiles, and interpersonal and environmental reactivity. Various applications illustrated real-time synthetic humans in virtual prototyping, team tasks, synthetic actors, human-like avatars, language-based interfaces, and dance, tennis, and video motion capture.
Prerequisites
Experience in programming with algorithms or VRML useful but not essential.
Topics Covered
Some mathematics background useful in understanding the more advanced control techniques, but all were amply illustrated with working systems.
Organizer
Norman Badler
University of Pennsylvania
Lecturers
Norman Badler
Dimitris Metaxas
University of Pennsylvania
Armin Bruderlin
Sony Pictures Imageworks
Athomas Goldberg
Ken Perlin
New York University
Nadia Thalmann
University of Geneva
