CISE PostDoc: Animation of Human Motion with ExperimentallyDetermined Parameters

9805694哈金斯，杰西卡·K·佐治亚理工学院：博士后：使用实验确定的参数制作人体运动动画尽管最近取得了重大进展，但制作可信的人体运动动画仍然是一项艰巨的任务。这个问题的一个潜在解决方案是使用控制系统与人体的动态模拟相结合来产生运动。这项拟议的研究试图通过在跑步和手势等动作中添加风格成分来增加模拟的真实感。这些组件将从人类演员的实验运动捕捉数据中提取，并用于驱动对人类的物理逼真模拟。这位博士后助理还将探索在模拟中引入噪音是否会改善所产生的运动的外观。噪声特征将通过让测试对象观看动画序列来进行实验量化。对模拟的理论分析应该确定在不引起不稳定的情况下可以添加到模拟中的变化量的先验界限。这位博士后助理为该项目带来了强大的控制背景以及运动捕捉实验方面的专业知识。通过分析人体运动和在运动中引入噪音所获得的知识将增加我们对人们如何运动的理解，并可能导致在物理康复和运动医学中的应用。

9805694 Hodgins, Jessica K. Georgia Institute of Technology CISE PostDoc: Animation of Human Motion with Experimentally Determined Parameters Despite significant recent progress, creating believable animations of human motion remains a difficult task. One potential solution to this problem is to use control systems coupled with dynamic simulations of the human body to generate motion. The proposed research seeks to increase the realism of simulations by adding stylistic components to such motions as running and gesturing. These components will be extracted from experimental motion capture data of human actors and used to drive physically realistic simulations of humans. The postdoctoral associate will also explore whether the introduction of noise into a simulation enhances the appearance of the resulting motion. Noise characteristics will be experimentally quantified by asking test subjects to view animated sequences. A theoretical analysis of the simulations should determine a priori bounds on the amount of variation that can be added to a simulation without causing instability. The postdoctoral associate brings a strong background in control as well as expertise in motion capture experiments to the project. The knowledge gained from analyzing human motions and the introduction of noise into the motion will increase our understanding of how people move and may lead to applications in physical rehabilitation and sports medicine.