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    Real Time Animation of Virtual Humans: A Trade-off Between Naturalness and Control

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    Virtual humans are employed in many interactive applications using 3D virtual environments, including (serious) games. The motion of such virtual humans should look realistic (or ‘natural’) and allow interaction with the surroundings and other (virtual) humans. Current animation techniques differ in the trade-off they offer between motion naturalness and the control that can be exerted over the motion. We show mechanisms to parametrize, combine (on different body parts) and concatenate motions generated by different animation techniques. We discuss several aspects of motion naturalness and show how it can be evaluated. We conclude by showing the promise of combinations of different animation paradigms to enhance both naturalness and control

    Raiders of the Lost Architecture: Kernels for Bayesian Optimization in Conditional Parameter Spaces

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    In practical Bayesian optimization, we must often search over structures with differing numbers of parameters. For instance, we may wish to search over neural network architectures with an unknown number of layers. To relate performance data gathered for different architectures, we define a new kernel for conditional parameter spaces that explicitly includes information about which parameters are relevant in a given structure. We show that this kernel improves model quality and Bayesian optimization results over several simpler baseline kernels.Comment: 6 pages, 3 figures. Appeared in the NIPS 2013 workshop on Bayesian optimizatio

    Modeling variation of human motion

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    The synthesis of realistic human motion with large variations and different styles has a growing interest in simulation applications such as the game industry, psychological experiments, and ergonomic analysis. The statistical generative models are used by motion controllers in our motion synthesis framework to create new animations for different scenarios. Data-driven motion synthesis approaches are powerful tools for producing high-fidelity character animations. With the development of motion capture technologies, more and more motion data are publicly available now. However, how to efficiently reuse a large amount of motion data to create new motions for arbitrary scenarios poses challenges, especially for unsupervised motion synthesis. This thesis presents a series of works that analyze and model the variations of human motion data. The goal is to learn statistical generative models to create any number of new human animations with rich variations and styles. The work of the thesis will be presented in three main chapters. We first explore how variation is represented in motion data. Learning a compact latent space that can expressively contain motion variation is essential for modeling motion data. We propose a novel motion latent space learning approach that can intrinsically tackle the spatialtemporal properties of motion data. Secondly, we present our Morphable Graph framework for human motion modeling and synthesis for assembly workshop scenarios. A series of studies have been conducted to apply statistical motion modeling and synthesis approaches for complex assembly workshop use cases. Learning the distribution of motion data can provide a compact representation of motion variations and convert motion synthesis tasks to optimization problems. Finally, we show how the style variations of human activities can be modeled with a limited number of examples. Natural human movements display a rich repertoire of styles and personalities. However, it is difficult to get enough examples for data-driven approaches. We propose a conditional variational autoencoder (CVAE) to combine large variations in the neutral motion database and style information from a limited number of examples.Die Synthese realistischer menschlicher Bewegungen mit großen Variationen und unterschiedlichen Stilen ist fĂŒr Simulationsanwendungen wie die Spieleindustrie, psychologische Experimente und ergonomische Analysen von wachsendem Interesse. Datengetriebene BewegungssyntheseansĂ€tze sind leistungsstarke Werkzeuge fĂŒr die Erstellung realitĂ€tsgetreuer Charakteranimationen. Mit der Entwicklung von Motion-Capture-Technologien sind nun immer mehr Motion-Daten öffentlich verfĂŒgbar. Die effiziente Wiederverwendung einer großen Menge von Motion-Daten zur Erstellung neuer Bewegungen fĂŒr beliebige Szenarien stellt jedoch eine Herausforderung dar, insbesondere fĂŒr die unĂŒberwachte Bewegungssynthesemethoden. Das Lernen der Verteilung von Motion-Daten kann eine kompakte ReprĂ€sentation von Bewegungsvariationen liefern und Bewegungssyntheseaufgaben in Optimierungsprobleme umwandeln. In dieser Dissertation werden eine Reihe von Arbeiten vorgestellt, die die Variationen menschlicher Bewegungsdaten analysieren und modellieren. Das Ziel ist es, statistische generative Modelle zu erlernen, um eine beliebige Anzahl neuer menschlicher Animationen mit reichen Variationen und Stilen zu erstellen. In unserem Bewegungssynthese-Framework werden die statistischen generativen Modelle von Bewegungscontrollern verwendet, um neue Animationen fĂŒr verschiedene Szenarien zu erstellen. Die Arbeit in dieser Dissertation wird in drei Hauptkapiteln vorgestellt. Wir untersuchen zunĂ€chst, wie Variation in Bewegungsdaten dargestellt wird. Das Erlernen eines kompakten latenten Raums, der Bewegungsvariationen ausdrucksvoll enthalten kann, ist fĂŒr die Modellierung von Bewegungsdaten unerlĂ€sslich. Wir schlagen einen neuartigen Ansatz zum Lernen des latenten Bewegungsraums vor, der die rĂ€umlich-zeitlichen Eigenschaften von Bewegungsdaten intrinsisch angehen kann. Zweitens stellen wir unser Morphable Graph Framework fĂŒr die menschliche Bewegungsmodellierung und -synthese fĂŒr Montage-Workshop- Szenarien vor. Es wurde eine Reihe von Studien durchgefĂŒhrt, um statistische Bewegungsmodellierungs und syntheseansĂ€tze fĂŒr komplexe AnwendungsfĂ€lle in MontagewerkstĂ€tten anzuwenden. Schließlich zeigen wir anhand einer begrenzten Anzahl von Beispielen, wie die Stilvariationen menschlicher AktivitĂ€ten modelliertwerden können. NatĂŒrliche menschliche Bewegungen weisen ein reiches Repertoire an Stilen und Persönlichkeiten auf. Es ist jedoch schwierig, genĂŒgend Beispiele fĂŒr datengetriebene AnsĂ€tze zu erhalten. Wir schlagen einen Conditional Variational Autoencoder (CVAE) vor, um große Variationen in der neutralen Bewegungsdatenbank und Stilinformationen aus einer begrenzten Anzahl von Beispielen zu kombinieren. Wir zeigen, dass unser Ansatz eine beliebige Anzahl von natĂŒrlich aussehenden Variationen menschlicher Bewegungen mit einem Ă€hnlichen Stil wie das Ziel erzeugen kann

    Data-Driven Shape Analysis and Processing

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    Data-driven methods play an increasingly important role in discovering geometric, structural, and semantic relationships between 3D shapes in collections, and applying this analysis to support intelligent modeling, editing, and visualization of geometric data. In contrast to traditional approaches, a key feature of data-driven approaches is that they aggregate information from a collection of shapes to improve the analysis and processing of individual shapes. In addition, they are able to learn models that reason about properties and relationships of shapes without relying on hard-coded rules or explicitly programmed instructions. We provide an overview of the main concepts and components of these techniques, and discuss their application to shape classification, segmentation, matching, reconstruction, modeling and exploration, as well as scene analysis and synthesis, through reviewing the literature and relating the existing works with both qualitative and numerical comparisons. We conclude our report with ideas that can inspire future research in data-driven shape analysis and processing.Comment: 10 pages, 19 figure
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