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TOG
2012
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Physical face cloning
We propose a complete process for designing, simulating, and fabricating synthetic skin for an animatronics character that mimics the face of a given subject and its expressions. ...
Bernd Bickel, Peter Kaufmann, Mélina Skoura...
TOG
2012
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Discovery of complex behaviors through contact-invariant optimization
We present a motion synthesis framework capable of producing a wide variety of important human behaviors that have rarely been studied, including getting up from the ground, crawl...
Igor Mordatch, Emanuel Todorov, Zoran Popovic
TOG
2012
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Soft body locomotion
We present a physically-based system to simulate and control the locomotion of soft body characters without skeletons. We use the finite element method to simulate the deformatio...
Jie Tan, Greg Turk, C. Karen Liu
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TOG
2012
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What makes Paris look like Paris?
Given a large repository of geotagged imagery, we seek to automatically find visual elements, e.g. windows, balconies, and street signs, that are most distinctive for a certain g...
Carl Doersch, Saurabh Singh, Abhinav Gupta, Josef ...
TOG
2012
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Plastic trees: interactive self-adapting botanical tree models
We present a dynamic tree modeling and representation technique that allows complex tree models to interact with their environment. Our method uses changes in the light distributi...
Sören Pirk, Ondrej Stava, Julian Kratt, Miche...