Technical Papers
Character Locomotion
Monday, 6 August 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM | Los Angeles Convention Center, Room 515AB
Session Chair: Jehee Lee, Seoul National University
Character Locomotion
Optimizing Locomotion Controllers Using Biologically Based Actuators and Objectives
Synthesis of walking and running controllers for physically simulated 3D humanoids with sagittal hip, knee, and ankle joint degrees of freedom actuated using musculotendon models with biologically motivated control laws. Using biologically based actuators and objectives for optimization measurably increases the realism of gaits generated by locomotion controllers.
Jack M. Wang
Stanford University
Samuel R. Hamner
Stanford University
Scott L. Delp
Stanford University
Vladlen Koltun
Stanford University
Soft Body Locomotion
A physically based system to simulate and control the locomotion of soft-body characters without skeletons, including walking, jumping, crawling, rolling, and balancing.
Jie Tan
Georgia Institute of Technology
Greg Turk
Georgia Institute of Technology
C. Karen Liu
Georgia Institute of Technology
Video-Based 3D Motion Capture Through Biped Control
This paper estimates biped control from monocular video by implicitly recovering physically realistic three-dimensional motion of a subject along with a responsive character model (controller) capable of replaying this motion in other environments and under physical perturbations.
Marek Vondrak
Brown University
Leonid Sigal
Disney Research Pittsburgh
Jessica Hodgins
Disney Research Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University
Odest Jenkins
Brown University
Continuous Character Control With Low-Dimensional Embeddings
This paper presents a technique that animates characters performing user-specified tasks by learning a low-dimensional space of appropriate character poses. By controlling the character through a reduced space, the method can discover new transitions and tractably precompute a near-optimal control policy.
Sergey Levine
Stanford University
Jack M. Wang
Stanford University
Alexis Haraux
Stanford University
Zoran Popović
University of Washington
Vladlen Koltun
Stanford University