Lecture: Computer Animation

Course

Lecturer(s):
- Prof. Dr. Andreas Weber †
- Dr. Hassan Errami
Website:
Start: 09.04.2019
Dates: Tue. 16:15–17:45 (LH 4, HSZ Poppelsdorf), Thu. 14:15–15:45 (LH 3, HSZ Poppelsdorf)
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:

https://doodle.com/poll/mkb7prhiuqk8drrx

Slides

introduction (PDF document, 1.1 MB)
Foundations GVA Transformations (PDF document, 2.6 MB)
kinematics (PDF document, 1.5 MB)
motion-capturing (PDF document, 2.9 MB)
motion-editing (PDF document, 1.3 MB)
distMeasuresAndDTW (PDF document, 1.5 MB)
SearchingMoCapData (PDF document, 5.1 MB)
SearchingMoCapData480 (MPEG-4 video, 72 MB)
MotionGraphsAndParameterization (MPEG-4 video, 57 MB)
MotionGraphsAndParameterization (PDF document, 1.1 MB)
BayesCovariancePCA (PDF document, 1.1 MB)
ParametricMGInterpolatedMGDynamicMG (MPEG-4 video, 39 MB)
ParametricMGInterpolatedMGDynamicMG (PDF document, 2.7 MB)
SynthesisFromAnnotationsStyleBasedIKMGPlusPlus (PDF document, 1.8 MB)
MotionReconstruction (PDF document, 4.4 MB)
MotionSegmentationB (MPEG-4 video, 65 MB)
MotionSegmentationB (PDF document, 3.1 MB)
facial-animations (PDF document, 2.0 MB)
morphable-head-model (PDF document, 1.6 MB)
head-modeling-newer-approaches (PDF document, 2.8 MB)
eye-movements (PDF document, 801 KB)
links (PDF document, 128 KB)

Assignment Sheets

	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, 218 KB) arm.py (Python script, 1.9 KB) createArm.m (726 Bytes) createSegment.m (856 Bytes)
	Exercise 3: DTW-IMUl Assignment sheet (PDF document, 111 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

Buss - 2004 - Introduction to inverse kinematics with jacobian transpose pseudoinverse and damped least squares methods (PDF document, 151 KB)
direct-methods-slides (PDF document, 2.6 MB)
direct-methods (PDF document, 1.5 MB)
DLS (AVI video, 1.3 MB)
fungecam1 (MPEG video, 4.0 MB)
fungeduffy1 (MPEG video, 28 MB)
fungetrex1 (MPEG video, 17.2 MB)
JTRANSPOSE (AVI video, 1.6 MB)
motionFamilies-mpeg (AVI video, 55 MB)
PSEUDO (AVI video, 1.7 MB)
simple (QuickTime video, 681 KB)
st-retarget (AVI video, 24 MB)
Tolani Goswami Badler - 2000 - Real-time inverse kinematics techniques for anthropomorphic limbs (PDF document, 538 KB)
Wu - 2005 - Searching All the Roots of Inverse Kinematics Problem of Robot by Homotopy Continuation Method (PDF document, 1.2 MB)
Zhao Badler - 1994 - Inverse kinematics positioning using nonlinear programming for highly articulated figures (PDF document, 2.1 MB)