SCA'06 Program
[ Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Social program, PDF version ]Friday, Sept 1
- 18:00-20:00 Registration
- Avoid the rush.. register early, and relax with a glass of wine and a chat!
Registration will take place at the Academy - click here for a map...
Saturday, Sept 2
- 08:30-09:00 Registration
- 09:00-09:15 Introduction: James O'Brien
- 09:15-10:15 Keynote Talk (Chair: Marie-Paule Cani)
- Stop-motion Animation: bringing Wallace and Gromit to life!
MERLIN CROSSINGHAM, Key Animator and Director, Aardman Animations ...more info. - 10:15-10:30 Coffee break
- 10:30-12:10 Session 1: Controlling Simulations (Chair: Demetri Terzopoulos)
- Detail-Preserving Fluid Control.
Nils Thuerey, Richard Keiser, Ulrich Rüde, Mark Pauly - Keyframe Control of Complex Particle Systems Using the Adjoint Method.
Chris Wojtan, Peter J. Mucha, Greg Turk - A Controllable, Fast and Stable Basis for Vortex Based Smoke Simulation
Alexis Angelidis, Fabrice Neyret, Karan Singh, Derek Nowrouzezahrai - Path-based Control of Smoke Simulations
Yootai Kim, Raghu Machiraju, David Thompson - 12:10-13:30 Lunch (no event planned)
- 13:30-15:35 Session 2: Simulating Deformable Bodies (Chair: Matthias Teschner)
- Geometric, Variational Integrators for Computer Animation
Liliya Kharevych, Weiwei Yang, Yiying Tong, Mathieu Desbrun, Peter Schroeder, Eva Kanso, Jerrold E. Marsden - Progressive Deforming Meshes based on Deformation Oriented Decimation and Dynamic Connectivity Updating
Fu-Chung Huang, Bing-Yu Chen, Yung-Yu Chuang - Fast Arbitrary Splitting of Deforming Objects
Denis Steinemann, Miguel A. Otaduy, Markus Gross - Fast Simulation of Deformable Models in Contact Using Dynamic Deformation Textures
Nico Galoppo, Miguel A. Otaduy, Paul Mecklenburg, Markus Gross, Ming C. Lin - Simultaneous Coupling of Fluids and Deformable Bodies
Nuttapong Chentanez, Tolga G. Goktekin, Bryan E. Feldman, James F. O' Brien - 15:35-16:00 Coffee break
- 16:00-17:40 Session 3: Animating Clothes and Hair (Chair: Eitan Grinspun)
- Oriented Strands - Dynamics of Stiff Multi-body System
Sunil Hadap - Simple Linear Bending Stiffness in Particle Systems
Pascal Volino, Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann - A Consistent Bending Model for Cloth Simulation with Corotational Subdivision Finite Elements
Bernhard Thomaszewski, Markus Wacker, Wolfgang Strasser - Perceptual Evaluation of Level of Detail Clothing for Virtual Humans
Rachel McDonnell, Simon Dobbyn, Steven Collins, Carol O'Sullivan - 18:30-22:30 Conference dinner: full details here.
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Sunday, Sept 3
- 09:00-10:15 Session 4: Processing Shape and Motion Data (Chair: Daniel Thalmann)
- Segment-Based Human Motion Compression
Guodong Liu and Leonard McMillan - Motion Templates for Automatic Classification and Retrieval of Motion Capture Data
Meinard Mueller, Tido Roeder - Learning a correlated model of identity and pose-dependent body shape variation for real-time synthesis
Brett Allen, Brian Curless, Zoran Popovic, Aaron Hertzmann - 10:15-10:30 Coffee break
- 10:30-12:10 Session 5: Modeling Natural Phenomena (Chair: Robert Bridson)
- Animation of Open Water Phenomena with coupled Shallow Water and Free Surface Simulations
Nils Thuerey, Ulrich Rüde, Marc Stamminger - Modeling Ice Dynamics As A Thin-Film Stefan Problem
Theodore Kim, David Adalsteinsson, Ming C. Lin - Generating Surface Crack Patterns
Hayley N. Iben, James F. O'Brien - Hierarchical retargetting of 2D motion fields to the animation of 3D plant models
Julien Diener, Lionel Reveret, Eugene Fiume - 12:10-13:30 Lunch (no event planned)
- 13:30-14:30 Keynote talk (Chair: Carol O'Sullivan)
- Viewing Animations: what people see and understand and what they don't
DENNIS PROFFIT, Professor of Psychology, University of Virginia. ...more info. - 14:30-15:45 Session 6: Physics-based Motion Editing (Chair: Michiel van de Panne)
- Interactive Animation of Dynamics Manipulation
Yeuhi Abe, Jovan Popovic - Physics-Based Motion Retiming
Jim McCann, Nancy S. Pollard, Siddhartha S. Srinivasa - Composition of Complex Optimal Multi-Character Motions
C. Karen Liu, Aaron Hertzmann, Zoran Popovic - 15:45-16:15 Coffee break
- 16:15-17:30 Session 7: Animation Systems (Chair: Ken Anjyo)
- Re-Using Traditional Animation: Methods for Semi-Automatic Segmentation and Inbetweening
Christina N. de Juan, Bobby Bodenheimer - MotionMaster: Authoring and Choreographing Kung-fu Motions by Sketch Drawings
Qilei Li, Weidong Geng, Tao Yu, Xiao Jie Shen, Newman Lau, Gino Yu - "Walk to here": A Voice-Driven Animation System
Zhijin Wang, Michiel van de Panne - 17:30-17:35 Short break
- 17:35-18:15 Posters fast forward (Chair: Caroline Larboulette)
- 18:15-21:00 Poster session / wine & cheese party
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Monday, Sept 4
- 09:00-10:15 Session 8: Facial Animation (Chair: Petros Faloutsos)
- Expressive Facial Animation Synthesis and Editing with Phoneme-Isomap Control
Zhigang Deng, Ulrich Neumann - Simulating Speech with a Physics-Based Facial Muscle Model
Eftychios Sifakis, Andrew Selle, Avram Robinson-Mosher, Ronald Fedkiw - Sketching Articulation and Pose for Facial Animation
Edwin Chang, Odest Chadwicke Jenkins - 10:15-10:30 Coffee break
- 10:30-12:10 Session 9: Motion Editing and Control (Chair: Ken Perlin)
- Robust Kinematic Constraint Detection for Motion Data
Benoit Le Callennec, Ronan Boulic - Fat Graphs: Constructing an Interactive Character with Continuous Controls
Hyun Joon Shin, Hyun Seok Oh - Precomputed Search Trees: Planning for Interactive Goal-Driven Animation
Manfred Lau, James Kuffner - Automatic Splicing for Hand and Body Animations
Anna Majkowska, Victor Zordan, Petros Faloutsos - 12:10-13:30 Lunch (no event planned)
- 13:30-15:10 Session 10: Animating and Rendering Liquids (Chair: Markus Gross)
- Physics Based Boiling Simulation
Viorel Mihalef, Betul Unlusu, Dimitris Metaxas, Mark Sussman, M.Y. Hussaini - Simulation of Bubbles
Wen Zheng, Jun-Hai Yong, Jean-Claude Paul - Practical Animation of Turbulent Splashing Water
Insung Ihm, Janghee Kim, Deukhyun Cha, Byungjoon Chang, Bonki Koo - A Texture Synthesis Method for Liquid Animations
Adam W. Bargteil, Funshing Sin, Jonathan Michaels, Tolga G. Goktekin, James F. O'Brien - 15:10-15:30 Coffee break
- 15:30-16:30 Special Session (Chair: Jos Stam)
- Art-Directed Cloth and Skin Animation
ERWAN MAIGRET, Dreamworks Animation SKG. ...more info. - 16:30-17:00 Awards & closing session (Chair: Fred Pighin)
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