Program (@EG2016)

The program of the cancelled 2015 edition is available here

The program for our Lisbon event is available in PDF here: here

	May. 7 (Sat.)	May. 8 (Sun.)
9:00-9:50		Session #4
9:50-10:50		Keynote Talk #2
10:50-11:10		break
11:10-12:00		Session #7
12:00-13:00		LUNCH
13:00-14:00	Registration/welcome	LUNCH
14:00-15:00	Keynote Talk #1	Session #5
15:00-16:00	Session #1	Session #6
16:00-16:30	break	Session #6
16:30-16:45	Session #2	break
16:45-17:30	Session #2	Session #8
17:30-18:15	Session #3	Session #8
18:30–	Poster session and Social gathering

14:00-15:00 – Keynote Talk #1

Speaker: Robert W. Sumner (Disney Research Zurich)

Title: Amplifying Creativity in Animation and Games

“Art challenges technology, and technology inspires the art.” These are the words John Lasseter used to describe his experience as an artist working with the technology leaders at Pixar three decades ago to pioneer what we know today as computer-generated animation. At the heart of this statement lies the idea that technology and art, when joined together, hold a unique and promising potential to amplify creativity. This very concept forms the central vision of the Animation and Games group at Disney Research Zurich. In this keynote talk, I will share our experiences as researchers working with Disney artists on technology to amplify creativity, including several tough challenges that art has given us, as well as a few successes in which we could inspire the art. Attendees can expect examples of recent research advances in animation, simulation, stylization, and, in Disney style, a little bit of singing.

15:00-15:55 – Session #1: Character animation and motion-capture

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Reduced Marker Layouts for Optical Motion Capture of Hands

Matthias Schröder, Jonathan Maycock and Mario Botsch

Adaptation Procedure for HMM-Based Sensor-Dependent Gesture Recognition

Sohaib Laraba, Joëlle Tilmanne and Thierry Dutoit

Deep Signatures for Indexing and Retrieval in Large Motion Databases

Yingying Wang and Michael Neff

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16:30-17:30 – Session #2: Character animation

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Eye Movement Synthesis with 1/f Pink Noise

Andrew Duchowski, Sophie Joerg, Aubrey Lawson, Takumi Bolte, Lech Swirski and Krzysztof Krejtz

Motion Control via Muscle Synergies: Application to Throwing

Ana Lucia Cruz Ruiz, Charles Pontonnier, Jonathan Levy and Georges Dumont

A Closed-Form Solution for Human Finger Positioning

Roel Duits, A. Frank van der Stappen and Arjan Egges

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17:30-18:15 – Session #3: Crowds

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An Analysis of Manoeuvring in Dense Crowds

Sybren A. Stüvel, Arjan Egges, Frank van der Stappen and Thijs de Goeij

Evaluating and Optimizing Level of Service for Crowd Evacuations

Brandon Haworth, Muhammad Usman, Glen Berseth, Mubbasir Kapadia and Petros Faloutsos

ACCLMesh: Curvature-Based Navigation Mesh Generation

Glen Berseth, Mubbasir Kapadia and Petros Faloutsos

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18:30- – The Poster Session

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A Generic Multi-Level Framework for Agent Navigation

Wouter van Toll, Norman Jaklin and Roland Geraerts

Virtual worlds’ influences on our mental balance and physical health: a survey with philosophical approaches

Maria Christoforou and Despina Michael

Autonomous Positioning of Avatars at a Guided Virtual Educational Trip

Fons Kuijk

Statistical Framework for Animation synthesis of Laughter

Yu Ding and Catherine Pelachaud

Recognizing Emotional Expressiveness in Raw 3D Body Motion Data

Haris Zacharatos, Christos Gatzoulis, Anargyros Chatzitofis and Yiorgos Chrysanthou

Study of Nine People in a Hallway

Claudio Pedica, Karl Kristinsson and Hannes Högni Vilhjálmsson

Dynamic Hierarchical Search on the GPU

Francisco Garcia, Norman Badler and Mubbasir Kapadia

Improving crowd behaviour for emergency simulation using game-captured data

Marco Castorina and Eike Falk Anderson

Autonomous gaze animation for socially interactive virtual characters during multiparty interactions

Zerrin Yumak and Arjan Egges

Immersive scale-one movement analysis in the CAVE

Eray Molla, Christian Arevalo and Ronan Boulic

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9:50-10:50 – Keynote Talk #2

Speaker: Jean-Paul Laumont (LAAS CNRS FRANCE)

Title: The Yoyo-Man

Humans are not walking, they are rolling! The objective of the talk is to give sense to this obscure statement. Indeed, the wheel may be a plausible model of bipedal walking. We report on preliminary results developed along three perspectives combining biomechanics, neurophysiology and robotics. From a motion capture data basis of human walkers we first identify the center of mass (CoM) as a geometric center from which the motions of the feet are organized. Then we show how rimless wheels that model most passive walkers are better controlled when equipped with a stabilized mass on top of them. CoM and head play complementary roles that define what we call the Yoyo-Man.

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11:10-12:00 – Session #7: Collisions

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Clustering and Collision Detection for Clustered Shape Matching

Ben Jones, April Martin, Josh Levine, Tamar Shinar and Adam Bargteil

Fast Contact Determination for Intersecting Deformable Solids

Oscar Civit-Flores and Antonio Susín

Collision Detection for Articulated Deformable Characters

Nadine Abu Rumman, Marco Schaerf and Dominique Bechmann

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14:00-15:00 – Session #5: Simulation

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Interactive Arbitrarily Detailed Cutting of Thin Sheets

Pierre-Luc Manteaux, Wei-Lun Sun, François Faure, Marie-Paule Cani and James F. O’Brien

Interactive procedural simulation of paper tearing with sound

Thibault Lejemble, Amélie Fondevilla, Nicolas Durin, Thibault Blanc-Beyne, Camille Schreck, Pierre-Luc Manteaux, Paul G. Kry and Marie-Paule Cani

Camera-on-rails: Automated Computation of Constrained Camera Paths

Quentin Galvane, Marc Christie, Christophe Lino and Rémi Ronfard

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15:00-16:25 – Session #6: Taking control

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The Sea Is Your Mirror

Marc Parenthoën, Fred Murie and Flavien Thery

Crowd Art: Density and Flow Based Crowd Motion Design

Kevin Jordao, Panayiotis Charalambous, Marc Christie, Julien Pettre and Marie-Paule Cani

Real-time gait control for partially immersed bipeds

Samuel Carensac, Nicolas Pronost and Saida Bouakaz

Robust Balance Shift Control with Posture Optimization

Zumra Kavafoglu, Ersan Kavafoglu and Arjan Egges

Carpet Unrolling Descriptors for Character Control On Uneven Terrain

Mark Miller, Daniel Holden, Rami Al-Ashqar, Christophe Dubach, Kenny Mitchell and Taku Komura

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16:45-17:55 – Session #8: Realism, aesthetics, visualization

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Animation Realism Affects Perceived Character Appeal of a Self-Virtual Face

Elena Kokkinara and Rachel McDonnell

Fin Textures for Real-Time Painterly Aesthetics

Nicolas Imhof, Antoine Milliez, Flurin Jenal, Rene Bauer, Markus Gross and Robert W. Sumner

HeapCraft: Interactive Data Exploration and Visualization Tools for Understanding and Influencing Player Behavior in Minecraft

Stephan Müller, Barbara Solenthaler, Mubbasir Kapadia, Seth Frey, Severin Klingler, Richard Mann, Robert W. Sumner and Markus Gross

Automatic and Adaptable Registration of Live RGBD Video Streams

Afsaneh Rafighi, Sahand Seifi and Oscar Meruvia-Pastor

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