Coming attractions

Here are papers that we may read for class. Let me know your preferences as to what we read. Last year's list of papers.

Texture

• R. Jagnow, J. Dorsey, and H. Rushmeier. Stereological Techniques for Solid Textures. SIGGRAPH 2004. website
• N. Jojic, B. Frey, A. Kannan. Epitomic Analysis of Appearance and Shape. ICCV 2003. website
• J. Zhang, K. Zhou, L. Velho, B. Guo, H.-Y. Shum. Synthesis of Progressively Variant Textures on Arbitrary Surfaces. SIGGRAPH 2003. paper
• H. Chen, Y. Xu, H. Shum, S. Zhu, N. Zheng. Example-based Facial Sketch Generation with Non-Parametric Sampling. ICCV 2001. paper
• A. Criminisi, P. Perez, K. Toyama. Object Removal by Exemplar-based Inpainting. CVPR 2003. paper
• I. Drori, D. Cohen-Or, H. Yeshurun. Fragment-based Object Removal. SIGGRAPH 2003. paper
• Tsumura et al. Image-based skin color and texture analysis/synthesis by extracting hemoglobin and melanin information in the skin. SIGGRAPH 2003. website, video
• Y. Liu et al. Near-regular texture analysis and synthesis. SIGGRAPH 2004. website

Geometry processing

• D. Anguelov, P. Srinivasan, D. Koller, S. Thrun, H. Pang and J. Davis. The Correlated Correspondence Algorithm for Unsupervised Registration of Nonrigid Surfaces. NIPS 2004.
  website, video
• M. Werman, D. Keren. A Bayesian Method for Fitting Parametric and Nonparametric Models to Noisy Data PAMI, 23, 5, 528-534, 2001. paper
• M. Alexa et al. Computing and Rendering Point Set Surfaces. TVCG 2003. paper
• N. Amenta and Y. Kim. Defining Point Set Surfaces. SIGGRAPH 2004. paper
• M. Pauly, N. Mitra, L. Guibas. Uncertainty and Variability in Point Cloud Surface Data. Symposium on Point-Based Graphics 2004. paper
• ICP, EM-ICP, ICP variants
• Kazhdan et al. Modeling by Example. SIGGRAPH 2004. webpage

Character animation

• C. Bregler et al. Video Rewrite. SIGGRAPH 97.
• M. Brand. Voice Puppetry. SIGGRAPH 99. website paper. video clip
• M. Brand and A. Hertzmann. Style Machines. SIGGRAPH 2000. website
• T. Ezzat, G. Geiger, T. Poggio. Trainable Videorealistic Facial Animation. SIGGRAPH 2002 webpage
• O. Arikan, D. Forsyth. Interactive Motion Generation from Examples. SIGGRAPH 2002. webpage
• J. Lee et al. Interactive Control of Avatars Animated with Human Motion Data. SIGGRAPH 2002. webpage
• O. Arikan et al. Motion synthesis with annotations. SIGGRAPH 2003. website
• K. Grochow et al. Style-based inverse kinematics. SIGGRAPH 2004. website
• M. Stone et al. Speaking with Hnads. SIGGRAPH 2004. website
• L. Kovar, M. Gleicher. Automated Extraction and Parameterization of Motions in Large Data Sets. SIGGRAPH 2004. paper
• ICA for learning animation. SCA 2003.

• Wolpert lab
• E. Todorov
• T. Sejnowski. Neurobiology: Making smooth moves. Nature. paper
• C. Harris and D. Wolpert. Signal-dependent noise determines motor planning. Nature, 394:780-784, 1998. paper

Reinforcement learning and control synthesis

• R. Grzeszczuk, D. Terzopoulos, G. Hinton. NeuroAnimator: Fast Neural Network Emulation and Control of Physics-Based Models. SIGGRAPH 98. website, paper.
• P. Faloutsos, M. van de Panne and D. Terzopoulos Composable Controllers for Physics-based Character Animation. SIGGRAPH 2001. website paper
• K. Sims. Evolving Virtual Creatures. SIGGRAPH 1994. webpage video, related work, more video
• R. Grzeszczuk, D. Terzopoulos. Automated Learning of Muscle-Actuated Locomotion Through Control Abstraction. SIGGRAPH 95. paper
• G. Lawrence, N. Cowan, S. Russell, Efficient Gradient Estimation for Motor Control Learning. In Proc. UAI-03, Acapulco, Mexico, 2003. paper, videos
• A. Ng and S. Russell. Algorithms for Inverse Reinforcement Learning. ICML 2000. paper.
• R. J. Williams. Simple statistical gradient-following algorithms for connectionist reinforcement learning. Machine Learning, 8:229, 1992 website
• J. Baxter and P. L. Bartlett. Infinite-Horizon Policy-Gradient Estimation. JAIR. 2001. citeseer page
• J.-C. Wu and Z. Popovic. Bird flight. SIGGRAPH 2003.
• A. Ng et al. Inverted helicopter flight.

BRDF and reflectance modeling

• W. Matusik, H. Pfister, M. Brand, L. McMillan. A Data-Driven Reflectance Model. SIGGRAPH 2003. paper

Applications of sampling

• R. Barzel, J. Hughes, D. Wood. Plausible Motion Simulation for Computer Graphics Animation. CAS 96. website.
• S. Chenney and D.A.Forsyth, "Sampling Plausible Solutions to Multi-Body Constraint Problems". SIGGRAPH 2000 Conference Proceedings, pages 219-228, July 2000. website
• J. Kajiya. The Rendering Equation. SIGGRAPH 86. p. 143-150. paper
• Eric Veach and Leonidas J. Guibas. Metropolis Light Transport. SIGGRAPH 97 Proceedings, pp. 65-76. website
• A. R. Dick, P.H.S. Torr, and R. Cipolla. A Bayesian Estimation of Building Shape using MCMC. In The Seventh European Conference on Computer Vision, pages 852-866, 2002. paper, website
• SIGGRAPH course notes on Monte Carlo ray-tracing notes
• J. Lawrence et al. factored sampling. SIGGRAPH 2004.
• Procedural modeling of cities.
• Instant architecture.

Style-content separation

• J. B. Tenenbaum, W. T. Freeman. Separating style and content with bilinear models. Neural Computation 12 (6), 1247-1283. website paper
• D. Grimes et al. Probabilistic bilinear models for appearance-based vision. ICCV 2003.
• A. Vasilescu and D. Terzopoulos. Multilinear Subspace Analysis for Image Ensembles. CVPR 2003. webpage
• TensorTextures
• I. Drori et al. Example-Based Style Synthesis. CVPR 2003.