Interactive physically-based control of visual phenomena

在过去的25年里，视觉媒体创建工具的进步取得了巨大的增长，扩大了视觉计算的范围和应用。 这些工具的可访问性、可用性、实用性和表现力是可变的，自然地与随之而来的视觉现象的复杂性相一致。对动画师来说，逼真地制作人物、面孔、水、火、烟和动物的动画仍然是一项艰巨的任务，因为我们的工具更倾向于模拟（“如果我推这个，它会去哪里？“）超过控制（“我如何让这个做那个？"). 此外，随着这一现象的复杂性增加，控制这一现象的问题变得更加困难。 我的研究将集中在复杂的视觉现象的交互控制，减少影响现象的行为到一个小的以用户为中心的变量集的无数方式的目的。 这将使逼真的动画应用于娱乐以外的领域，包括培训，情感化身以及逼真的虚拟和增强现实。

Advances in tools for the creation of visual media have seen huge growth in the past 25 years, expanding the range and applications of visual computing. The accessibility, usability, utility, and expressiveness of these tools is variable, naturally aligning to the complexity of the attendant visual phenomena. Realistically animating characters, faces, water, fire, smoke, and animals remains a painstaking task for animators, since our tools have favoured simulation ("If I push this, where will it go?") over control ("How do I get this to do that?"). Furthermore, as the complexity of the phenomenon increases, the problem of controlling it becomes ever more difficult. My research will focus on the interactive control of complex visual phenomena, with the aim of reducing the myriad ways that affect the behaviour of a phenomenon into a small set of user-centred variables. This will enable the application of realistic animation in areas beyond entertainment, including training, emotional avatars, and realistic virtual and augmented reality.