Lecture: Computer Animation

Course

Lecturer(s):
- Prof. Dr. Andreas Weber †
- Dr. Hassan Errami
Website:
Start:
Dates: Tue. 16:30–18, Thu. 14:30–16
Course number: MA-INF 2202
Curriculum: Master
Requirements: None
Diploma Area:
Effort: 9 CP
Max. Participants:
Exams:
Follow-up/Side-events:

Description

Overview

The computer animation deals with the representation and rendering of moving three-dimensional objects in a computer; therefore it is sometimes called 4D computer graphics. Besides the treatment of some basic topics, the emphasis of the lecture computer animation lies on the representation of virtual people (avatars and animated agents).

Topics include:

Representation of Movements of Rigid Bodies
Forward and Inverse Kinematics
Animation of Faces
Motion Capture Systems
Searching in Motion Data
Editing of Motion Data
Cognitive Modeling Hierarchy

Examinations

We will perform oral examinations for the lecture computer animation. Please use the following link to select a data and time slot for your examination:

http://doodle.com/poll/nudxbt3r58zbtg48

Slides

introduction (PDF document, 2.9 MB)
Foundations GVA Transformations (PDF document, 7.8 MB)
kinematics (PDF document, 3.7 MB)
motion-capturing (PDF document, 10.8 MB)
motion-editing (PDF document, 2.8 MB)
motion-texturing (PDF document, 1.6 MB)
motion-texturing 01 (PDF document, 1.6 MB)
distMeasuresAndDTW (PDF document, 2.9 MB)
distMeasuresAndDTW 01 (PDF document, 2.9 MB)
SearchingMoCapData (PDF document, 19.8 MB)
MotionGraphsAndParameterization (PDF document, 2.9 MB)
BayesCovariancePCA (PDF document, 1.6 MB)
ParametricMGInterpolatedMGDynamicMG (PDF document, 8.8 MB)
SynthesisFromAnnotationsStyleBasedIKMGPlusPlus (PDF document, 6.7 MB)
facial-animations (PDF document, 6.5 MB)
morphable-head-model (PDF document, 5.8 MB)
head-modeling-newer-approaches (PDF document, 10.2 MB)

Assignment Sheets

	Exercise 0: Assignment sheet (PDF document, 113 KB)
	Exercise 1: InterpolationOfRotations Assignment sheet (PDF document, 515 KB) createPatch.m (1.2 KB) createSphere.m (194 Bytes) sphere_with_patch.py (Python script, 1.8 KB)
	Exercise 2: ForwardKinematics Assignment sheet (PDF document, 219 KB) arm.py (Python script, 1.9 KB) createArm.m (726 Bytes) createSegment.m (856 Bytes)
	Exercise 3: MoCapDataFiltering Assignment sheet (PDF document, 96 KB) filter.py (Python script, 764 Bytes) mocap.py (Python script, 1.0 KB)
	Exercise 4: DTW-IMUl Assignment sheet (PDF document, 110 KB) data.zip (ZIP archive, 182 KB) Motion A1.txt (plain text document, 263 KB) Motion A2.txt (plain text document, 208 KB) Motion B.txt (plain text document, 126 KB)

Documents

a24-sidebyside 1 (MPEG-4 video, 3.5 MB)
a24-sidebyside 2 (MPEG-4 video, 24 MB)
A Deep Learning Framework for Character Motion Synthesis and Editing SIGGRAPH 2016 (MPEG-4 video, 23 MB)
Auto-Conditioned LSTM Network for Extended Complex Human Motion Synthesis (MPEG-4 video, 5.6 MB)
Chapter 08 Movement generation 2014 (PowerPoint presentation, 12.7 MB)
complex (QuickTime video, 1.4 MB)
direct-methods-slides (PDF document, 2.6 MB)
direct-methods (PDF document, 1.5 MB)
DLS (AVI video, 1.3 MB)
Holden Saito Komura - 2016 - A deep learning framework for character motion synthesis and editing 2 (PDF document, 2.5 MB)
iksurvey (PDF document, 151 KB)
JTRANSPOSE (AVI video, 1.6 MB)
Kruger et al. - 2017 - Efficient Unsupervised Temporal Segmentation of Motion Data (PDF document, 7.8 MB)
lecture centralized networks human body motions (PDF document, 586 KB)
lsi-08-dynamic-programming (PDF document, 1.7 MB)
overreach (QuickTime video, 301 KB)
phasefunction (QuickTime video, 91 MB)
PSEUDO (AVI video, 1.7 MB)
SDLS (AVI video, 1.3 MB)
simple (QuickTime video, 681 KB)
Vakulenko Morozov Radulescu - 2016 - Maximal switchability of centralized networks 2 (PDF document, 11.3 MB)