SCA 2012 Program
| The main venue for SCA 2012 is
the
Polydome at EPFL. Full papers and TVCG presentations have 20
minutes each (17 minute presentation with 3 mintues for questions and
answers), while short presentation papers have 15 minutes (12 minute
presentation with 3 minutes for questions and
answers). |
Sunday, July 29
| 1:00 - 1:45 pm | Registration |
| 1:45 - 2:00 pm | Introduction |
| 2:00 - 3:35 pm | Deformation Session Chair: Theodore Kim Efficient Simulation of Example-Based Materials Christian Schuhmacher (Disney Research Zurich and ETH Zurich), Bernhard Thomaszewski (Disney Research Zurich), Stelian Coros (Disney Research Zurich), Sebastian Martin (Disney Research Zurich), Robert Sumner (Disney Research Zurich), Markus Gross (Disney Research Zurich and ETH Zurich) Enriching Virtual Elastic Objects with High-Resolution Data-Driven Deformations Martin Seiler (ETH Zurich), Jonas Spillmann (ETH Zurich), Matthias Harders (ETH Zurich) Real-Time Example-Based Elastic Deformation (short presentation) Yuki Koyama (The University of Tokyo), Kenshi Takayama, Nobuyuki Umetani, Takeo Igarashi Energy Conservation for the Simulation of Deformable Bodies (TVCG) Jonathan Su, Rahul Sheth, Ronald Fedkiw (Stanford University) Energetically Consistent Invertible Elasticity Alexey Stomakhin (University of California, Los Angeles), Joseph Teran, Craig Schroeder, Russell Howes (UCLA) |
| 3:35 - 4:00 pm | Coffee Break |
| 4:00 - 5:40 pm | Hands, Performance, and Cameras Session Chair: Derek Bradley Combining Marker-based Mocap and RGB-D Camera for Acquiring High Quality Hand Motion Data Jinxiang Chai, Wenping Zhao, Ying-Qing Xu (The School of Art and Design, Tsinghua University) Finger Walking: Motion Editing with Contact-Based Hand Performance Noah Lockwood (University of Toronto; Industrial Light & Magic), Karan Singh(University of Toronto) Interactive Steering of Mesh Animations (short presentation) Anna Vogele (Bonn University, Institute of Computer Science II, Computer Graphics), Max Hermann (Bonn University, Institute of Computer Science II, Computer Graphics), Bjorn Kruger (Universitat Bonn, Institut fur Informatik II), Reinhard Klein Occlusion-free Camera Control (short presentation) Marc Christie, Jean-Marie Normand (Ecole Centrale de Nantes), Patrick Olivier Efficient Composition for Virtual Camera Control (short presentation) Christophe Lino, Marc Christie (IRISA / INRIA Rennes) Mathematical Analysis on Affine Maps for 2D Shape Interpolation (short presentation) Shizuo Kaji (Yamaguchi University), Sampei Hirose (Kyoto University), Shigehiro Sakata (Tokyo Metropolitan University), Yoshihiro Mizoguchi (Institute of Mathematics for Industry, Kyushu University), Ken Anjyo (OLM Digital, Inc.) |
| 6:00 - 8:00 pm | Welcome drinks at the Rolex Learning Centre |
Monday, July 30
| 09:00 - 10:15 am | Fluid Simulation Session Chair: Chris Wojtan Smoke Sheets for Graph-Structured Vortex Filaments Alfred Barnat (Carnegie Mellon University), Nancy S. Pollard (Carnegie Mellon University) Linear-Time Smoke Animation with Vortex Sheet Meshes Tyson Brochu (University of British Columbia), Todd Keeler (University of British Columbia), Robert Bridson (University of British Columbia) Multiphase flow of immiscible fluids on unstructured moving meshes Marek Krzysztof Misztal (Technical University of Denmark), Kenny Erleben (Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen, Denmark), Adam Bargteil, Jens Fursund (Alexandra Institute, Denmark), Brian Bunch Christensen (Alexandra Institute, Denmark) Andreas Baerentzen (Technical University of Denmark), Robert Bridson Simulating Free Surface Flow with Very Large Time Steps Michael Lentine, Matthew Cong (Stanford University), Saket Patkar (Stanford University), Ronald Fedkiw (Stanford University) |
| 10:15 - 10:45 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:45 - 12:20 am | Character Animation Session Chair: Julien Pettré Tiling Motion Patches Manmyung Kim (Seoul National University), Youngseok Hwang (Seoul National University), Kyunglyul Hyun (Seoul National University), Jehee Lee (Seoul National University) Precomputed Motion Maps for Unstructured Motion Capture (short presentation) Mentar Mahmudi (University of California, Merced), Marcelo Kallmann (University of California, Merced) Contact-Invariant Optimization for Hand Manipulation Igor Mordatch, Zoran Popovic (University of Washington), Emanuel Todorov (University of Washington) Learning Motion Controllers with Adaptive Depth Perception Wan-Yen Lo (University of California, San Diego), Matthias Zwicker (University of Bern) Task-driven Posture Optimization for Virtual Characters Mingxing Liu (CEA LIST, Interactive Simulation Laboratory), Alain Micaelli (CEA LIST, Interactive Simulation Laboratory), Paul Evrard (CEA LIST, Interactive Simulation Laboratory), Adrien Escande (CEA LIST, Interactive Simulation Laboratory) |
| 12:20 - 2:00 pm | Lunch |
| 2:00 - 3:00 pm | Keynote I Virtual Ethology and Behaviour Modelling Karl Grammer, University of Vienna |
| 3:00 - 3:30 pm | Coffee Break |
| 3:30 - 5:10 pm | Characters and Crowds Session Chair: Lionel Reveret Component-based Locomotion Composition Yejin Kim (University of California, Davis), Michael Neff (University of California, Davis) Evaluating the Plausibility of Edited Throwing Animations Michele Vicovaro (Department of General Psychology, University of Padua), Ludovic Hoyet (Trinity College Dublin), Luigi Burigana (Department of General Psychology, University of Padua), Carol O'Sullivan (Trinity College Dublin) Quaternion Space Spare Decomposition for Motion Compression and Retrieval Zhigang Deng (University of Houston), Mingyang Zhu (University of Houston; Nanjing University of Science and Technology), Huaijiang Sun (Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China) Environment-aware Real-Time Crowd Control Joseph Henry (University of Edinburgh), Hubert P. H. Shum (University of Worcester), Taku Komura (University of Edinburgh) Cloning Crowd Motions Yi Li (IRISA - INRIA), Marc Christie, Orianne Siret (IRISA - INRIA), Richard Kulpa, Julien Pettre (IRISA - INRIA) |
| 5:10 - 5:20 pm | Short Break |
| 5:20 - 5:40 pm | Posters Fast Forward Session Chair: Manfred Lau |
| 5:40 - 8:00 pm | Poster session wine and cheese in the Polydome at EPFL Fast Smoke Simulation Using a High-Low Frequency Split Projection Xiaoyue Wu, Xubo Yang, Yang Yang (Shanghai Jiao Tong University) Dynamic Motion Graphs Björn Krüger, Arno Zinke, Andreas Weber (Bonn University, GfaR mbH Bonn) Implicit Tensor-Mass solver on the GPU X. Faure, F. Zara, F. Jaillet, J-M. Moreau (University of Lyon) Activation Force Splines Morten Engell-Nørregård, Kenny Erleben (University of Copenhagen) Data-Driven Full Body Action Recognition J. Baumann, S. Eichert, R. Wessel, B. Krüger, A. Weber (Fraunhofer FKIE, Bonn University) Third Order Accurate Time Integration for Animation S. Lipponer, J. Bender, J. Wackerfuß, J. Lang (TU-Darmstadt) Interactive Quadruped Animation Tyler Martin, Michael Neff (University of California, Davis) BioInspire - Generative Animation and Surface Representations for Life Science Visualizations Pablo de Heras Ciechomski, Robin Mange (ScienceVisuals) Rapid Real-time Animation with the Loop Station Metaphor B. Walther-Franks, F. Biermann, N. Steenbergen, R. Malaka (Universität Bremen) Sleight of Hand: Perception of Finger Motion from Reduced Marker Sets L. Hoyet, K. Ryall, R. McDonnell, C. O’Sullivan (Trinity College Dublin) Deformation-Aware Voronoi Fracture S. C. Schvartzman, M. A. Otaduy (URJC) Faceshift: Real-Time Facial Performance Capture S. Bouaziz, T. Weise, B. Amberg, M. Pauly (EPFL) Contact Clustering for Deformable Soil Interaction I. García-Fernández, M. Lozano, M. Pla-Castells, J. Orduña (Universitat de València) A Biologically-inspired Locomotion Controller for Multi-legged Creatures Shihui Guo, Jian Chang, Safa Tharib, Jian Zhang (Bournemouth University) Estimating Cloth Simulation Parameters from 3D Cloth Motion Considering Both Dynamic and Static Feature Shunsuke Saito, Ryusuke Sagawa, Naoya Iwamoto, Shigeo Morishima (Waseda University, AIST) Cross platform and environment chatting system with facial and body animation N. Wang, J. Ahn, R. Boulic (EPFL) Perceptually Plausible Humans and Crowds: An Overview of Animation Research at Trinity College Dublin C. O’Sullivan, R. McDonnell (Trinity College Dublin) |
Tuesday, July 31
| 9:00 - 10:20 am | Physics-Based Characters Session Chair: Stelian Coros Simple Data-Driven Control for Simulated Bipeds T. Geijtenbeek (Utrecht University), N. Pronost (Utrecht University), A. F. van der Stappen (Utrecht University) Physically Plausible Simulation for Character Animation Sergey Levine (Stanford University), Jovan Popovic (Adobe) Misconceptions of PD Control in Animation (short presentation) Brian Allen, Petros Faloutsos (York University) Principal Geodesic Dynamics Maxime Tournier (INRIA), Lionel Reveret (INRIA) |
| 10:20 - 10:50 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:50 - 12:10 pm | Sound, Speech, and Fluids Session Chair: Christopher Batty Mass-Conserving Eulerian Liquid Simulation Nuttapong Chentanez, Matthias Mueller (NVIDIA PhysX Research) Controlling Liquids Using Meshes Karthik Raveendran, Chris Wojtan (IST Austria), Nils Thuerey, Greg Turk (Georgia Tech) Faster Acceleration Noise for Multibody Animations using Precomputed Soundbanks Jeffrey Chadwick, Changxi Zheng, Doug James (Cornell University) Dynamic Units of Visual Speech Sarah Taylor, Moshe Mahler (Disney Research, Pittsburgh), Iain Matthews (Disney Research, Pittsburgh), Barry-John Theobald (University of East Anglia) |
| 12:20 - 2:00 pm | Lunch |
| 2:00 - 3:00 pm | Keynote II Challenges in Computer Animation - From the Virtual to the Real Markus Gross, ETHZ and Disney Research Zurich |
| 3:00 - 3:30 pm | Coffee Break |
| 3:30 - 5:00 pm | Cloth, Hair, and Collision Session Chair: David Harmon Efficient Collision Detection for Brittle Fracture Loeiz Glondu (INRIA Bunraku, IRISA), Sara C. Schvartzman, Maud Marchal, Georges Dumont (ENS Cachan / Irisa Bunraku), Miguel A. Otaduy (URJC Madrid) Multi-linear Data-Driven Dynamic Hair Model with Efficient Hair-Body Collision Handling Peng Guan (Brown University), Leonid Sigal, Valeria Reznitskaya (Disney Research Pittsburgh), Jessica Hodgins Long Range Attachments - A Method to Simulate Inextensible Clothing in Computer Games (short presentation) Tae-Yong Kim, Matthias Muller, Nuttapong Chentanez The Intersection Contour Minimization Method for Untangling Oriented Deformable Surfaces (short presentation) Juntao Ye (Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences), Jing Zhao (Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences) Animating Wrinkles by Example on Non-Skinned Cloth (TVCG) J. S. Zurdo, J. P. Brito, M. A. Otaduy |
| 5:00 - 5:15 pm | Paper Awards and Wrap Up |
| 7:00 - 9:00 pm | Farewell drinks at the Château de Glérolles |
