Lecture: Computer Animation

Course

Lecturer(s):
- Prof. Dr. Andreas Weber †
Website:
Start: Tue., Apr. 10th
Dates: Tue. 16:30 - 18, Thu. 14:30 - 16
Course number: MA-INF 2202
Curriculum: Master , Diploma (Graduate)
Requirements:
Diploma Area: B2
Effort:
Max. Participants:
Exams: The second attempt for the written examination will take place on Tuesday 18th September 2012 10:00am-11:30am at HS 3.III (LBH)
Follow-up/Side-events:

Exercises

Tutor(s):
- Dr. Björn Krüger
- Susanne Eichert
Start:
Dates: Wed. 13:00-15:00, Thu. 13:00-14:30, Fri. 13:00-15:00
Course number:

Description

The lecture computer animation gives attention to the representation and visualisation of moving three dimensional objects. After introducing some fundamentals the lecture focus on representations of virtual characters ("avatars", "animated agents").

Topics are: Fundamentals of computer animation; kinematics; representations of motions; motion capturing; motion retrieval; motion editing; motion texturing; motion styles; morphing techniques; facial animations; cognitive modelling hierarchy

Slides

introduction (PDF document, 1.0 MB)
GVA-Transformations (PDF document, 2.2 MB)
kinematics (PDF document, 1.2 MB)
motion-capturing (PDF document, 2.8 MB)
motion-editing (PDF document, 2.8 MB)
motion-editing 01 (PDF document, 1.2 MB)
motion-texturing (PDF document, 1.4 MB)
facial-animations (PDF document, 1.9 MB)
morphable-head-model (PDF document, 2.5 MB)
head-modeling-optical-flow (PDF document, 372 KB)
head-modeling-newer-approaches (PDF document, 2.5 MB)
eye-movements (PDF document, 1.1 MB)
morphing-of-motions (PDF document, 2.7 MB)
motion-graphs (PDF document, 2.4 MB)
synthesis-from-annotations (PDF document, 3.0 MB)
cognitive-modelling-hierarchy (PDF document, 2.9 MB)
data-driven-methods-using-fast-similarity-searches (PDF document, 22 MB)

Assignment Sheets

	Exercise 0: MatlabIntroduction Assignment sheet (PDF document, 65 KB)
	Exercise 1: Rotations Assignment sheet (PDF document, 95 KB)
	Exercise 2: InterpolationOfRotations Assignment sheet (PDF document, 405 KB) createPatch.m (1.2 KB) createSphere.m (194 Bytes)
	Exercise 3: ForwardKinematics Assignment sheet (PDF document, 205 KB) createArm.m (726 Bytes) createSegment.m (856 Bytes)
	Exercise 4: InverseKinematics Assignment sheet (PDF document, 96 KB)
	Exercise 5: MoCapDataFiltering Assignment sheet (PDF document, 97 KB) basictools.pdf (PDF document, 1.0 MB) MatlabCode.zip (ZIP archive, 114 KB)
	Exercise 6: PCA Assignment sheet (PDF document, 83 KB) mocap.zip (ZIP archive, 266 KB)

Additional Documents

interpolated motion graphs (QuickTime video, 24 MB)
mographs (AVI video, 24 MB)
motionFamilies-mpeg (AVI video, 55 MB)