[General] Motion in Games 2015 in Paris, Nov 16-18, Call for participation

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION The 2015 ACM SIGGRAPH Conference on Motion in Games 2015 (MIG) November 16-18, 2015, Paris, France <https://mig2015.inria.fr/> https://mig2015.inria.fr/ ============================================================ The 8th ACM International Conference on Motion in Games will take place in Paris, France from November 16-18, 2015 and be hosted by Telecom ParisTech. MIG is sponsored by ACM and held in cooperation with Eurographics. Games have become a very important medium for education, therapy and entertainment. Motion plays a crucial role in computer games. Characters move around, objects are manipulated or move due to physical constraints, entities are animated, and the camera moves through the scene. Even the motion of the player is used as input to games. Motion is currently studied in many different areas of research, including graphics and animation, game technology, robotics, simulation, computer vision, and also physics, psychology, and urban studies. Cross-fertilization between these communities can considerably advance the state-of- the-art in the area. The goal of the Motion in Games conference is to bring together researchers from this variety of fields to present their most recent results, to initiate collaborations, and to contribute to the establishment of the research area. The conference will consist of regular paper sessions, poster presentations, as well as presentations by a selection of established researchers in areas related to games and simulation. The conference program will also include cultural and social events that foster casual and friendly interactions among the participants. MIG provides an intimate forum for researchers and practitioners to present their research results, inspire new ideas, and promote cross-disciplinary collaborations. We have an exciting program planned for 2015 with four keynote speakers that are at the forefront of research in character animation, games, and artificial intelligence. (1) Jean-Paul Laumond, Directeur de Recherche, LAAS-CNRS, France (2) Robert W. Sumner, Associate Director, Disney Research Zurich (3) Nadia Berthouze, Professor Affective Interaction and Computing, University College London (4) Alex Champandard, Editor in Chief, Technical Director & Entrepreneur at AiGameDev.com Motion in Games will hold a “Games meet Academia" panel whose aim is to stimulate an active debate between practitioners and researchers alike, in an effort to bridge the gap between advanced research and development in computer games, and fundamental research in interactive computer animation. Conference chair ============= Catherine Pelachaud, CNRS - LTCI, Telecom ParisTech, France Program Chairs ============ Marc Christie, University of Rennes 1/INRIA Rennes, France Mubbasir Kapadia, Rutgers University, USA. Registration ========= Registration before October 17th, 2015: ACM/SIGGRAPH Professional Member € 390 Non-member € 440 Student € 270 Registration from October 17th (included), 2015 and on-site price: ACM/SIGGRAPH Professional Member € 440 Non-member € 490 Student € 290 Register here: <https://www.regonline.com/Register/Checkin.aspx?EventId=1739442> https://www.regonline.com/Register/Checkin.aspx?EventId=1739442 Program ======= Nov. 16th - 9:30-10:30 – Keynote Talk #1 Speaker: Jean-Paul Laumond (LAAS CNRS FRANCE) Title: The Yoyo-Man Humans are not walking, they are rolling! The objective of the talk is to give sense to this obscure statement. Indeed, the wheel may be a plausible model of bipedal walking. We report on preliminary results developed along three perspectives combining biomechanics, neurophysiology and robotics. From a motion capture data basis of human walkers we first identify the center of mass (CoM) as a geometric center from which the motions of the feet are organized. Then we show how rimless wheels that model most passive walkers are better controlled when equipped with a stabilized mass on top of them. CoM and head play complementary roles that define what we call the Yoyo-Man. Nov. 16th - 11:00-12:30 – Session #1: Character animation and motion-capture Reduced Marker Layouts for Optical Motion Capture of Hands Matthias Schröder, Jonathan Maycock and Mario Botsch Adaptation Procedure for HMM-Based Sensor-Dependent Gesture Recognition Sohaib Laraba, Joëlle Tilmanne and Thierry Dutoit Segmenting Motion Capture Data Using a Qualitative Analysis Durell Bouchard and Norman Badler Optimal Marker Set for Motion Capture of Facial Dynamical Expressions Clément Reverdy, Sylvie Gibet and Caroline Larboulette Deep Signatures for Indexing and Retrieval in Large Motion Databases Yingying Wang and Michael Neff Nov. 16th - 14:00-15:00 – Keynote Talk #2 Speaker: Robert W. Sumner (Disney Research Zurich) Title: Amplifying Creativity in Animation and Games “Art challenges technology, and technology inspires the art.” These are the words John Lasseter used to describe his experience as an artist working with the technology leaders at Pixar three decades ago to pioneer what we know today as computer-generated animation. At the heart of this statement lies the idea that technology and art, when joined together, hold a unique and promising potential to amplify creativity. This very concept forms the central vision of the Animation and Games group at Disney Research Zurich. In this keynote talk, I will share our experiences as researchers working with Disney artists on technology to amplify creativity, including several tough challenges that art has given us, as well as a few successes in which we could inspire the art. Attendees can expect examples of recent research advances in animation, simulation, stylization, and, in Disney style, a little bit of singing. Nov. 16th - 15:00-16:30 – Session #2: Character animation Eye Movement Synthesis with 1/f Pink Noise Andrew Duchowski, Sophie Joerg, Aubrey Lawson, Takumi Bolte, Lech Swirski and Krzysztof Krejtz Avatar Reshaping and Automatic Rigging Using a Deformable Model Andrew Feng, Dan Casas and Ari Shapiro Motion Control via Muscle Synergies: Application to Throwing Ana Lucia Cruz Ruiz, Charles Pontonnier, Jonathan Levy and Georges Dumont A Closed-Form Solution for Human Finger Positioning Roel Duits, A. Frank van der Stappen and Arjan Egges Nov. 16th - 17:00-18:30 – Session #3: Crowds DAVIS: Density-Adaptive Synthetic-Vision Based Steering for Virtual Crowds Rowan Hughes, Jan Ondrej and John Dingliana An Analysis of Manoeuvring in Dense Crowds Sybren A. Stüvel, Arjan Egges, Frank van der Stappen and Thijs de Goeij Evaluating and Optimizing Level of Service for Crowd Evacuations Brandon Haworth, Muhammad Usman, Glen Berseth, Mubbasir Kapadia and Petros Faloutsos ACCLMesh: Curvature-Based Navigation Mesh Generation Glen Berseth, Mubbasir Kapadia and Petros Faloutsos Nov. 16th - 18:30- – The “Wine & Cheese” poster session A Generic Multi-Level Framework for Agent Navigation Wouter van Toll, Norman Jaklin and Roland Geraerts Virtual worlds’ influences on our mental balance and physical health: a survey with philosophical approaches Maria Christoforou and Despina Michael Autonomous Positioning of Avatars at a Guided Virtual Educational Trip Fons Kuijk Statistical Framework for Animation synthesis of Laughter Yu Ding and Catherine Pelachaud Gaze Shifts and Navigation in Virtual Environments: Towards a Prediction Model Alessandro Canossa and Jeremy Badler A Model to Compute People Disturbance in Crowds Cliceres Mack Dal Bianco, Adriana Braun, Jovani Brasil and Soraia Raupp Musse Simulated Postural Sway for the Improvement of Depth Perception in Pre-Generated Virtual Reality Panoramas Matthew Bett Recognizing Emotional Expressiveness in Raw 3D Body Motion Data Haris Zacharatos, Christos Gatzoulis, Anargyros Chatzitofis and Yiorgos Chrysanthou Study of Nine People in a Hallway Claudio Pedica, Karl Kristinsson and Hannes Högni Vilhjálmsson Dynamic Hierarchical Search on the GPU Francisco Garcia, Norman Badler and Mubbasir Kapadia Improving crowd behaviour for emergency simulation using game-captured data Marco Castorina and Eike Falk Anderson A New and Simple Method for Balance Quantification Venustiano Soancatl Autonomous gaze animation for socially interactive virtual characters during multiparty interactions Zerrin Yumak and Arjan Egges Immersive scale-one movement analysis in the CAVE Eray Molla, Christian Arevalo and Ronan Boulic Towards Free Stepping Behavior Characterization Ronan Boulic, Utku Evci, Eray Molla and Phanindra Pisupati Nov. 17th - 8:30-9:30 – Keynote Talk #3 Speaker: Nadia Berthouze (University College of London Interaction Centre) Title: “The body and its actions: how they can be used to manipulate the player’s experience” Recent years have seen the emergence of game technology that involves and requires its users to be engaged through their body. In addition, studies in psychology have shown that our body expressions affect our emotional state, our cognitive abilities and our attitude towards the environment around us. This has generated an increased interest in understanding and exploiting this modality to automatically recognize, respond to and regulate users’ affective experience. In the first part of my talk, I will report on our studies aimed at understanding how body expressions and body movement can be used to modulate user experience in games and physical activity in real-life situations such as walking and physical rehabilitation. Then, I’ll discuss how emotional states can be automatically detected from body expressions, including muscle activity and touch behaviour. Examples from games and physical rehabilitation will be presented. Nov. 17th - 9:30-11:00 – Session #4: Planning Automated Interactive Narrative Synthesis using Dramatic Theory Carlos Antonio Dominguez, Yuya Ichimura and Mubbasir Kapadia RT-RRT*: A Real-Time Path Planning Algorithm Based On RRT* Kourosh Naderi, Joose Rajamäki and Perttu Hämäläinen Multi-Modal Data-Driven Motion Planning and Synthesis Mentar Mahmudi and Marcelo Kallmann Nov. 17th - 11:30-12:30 – Session #5: Simulation Interactive Arbitrarily Detailed Cutting of Thin Sheets Pierre-Luc Manteaux, Wei-Lun Sun, François Faure, Marie-Paule Cani and James F. O’Brien Pattern-Guided Simulations of Immersed Rigid Bodies Haoran Xie and Kazunori Miyata Interactive procedural simulation of paper tearing with sound Thibault Lejemble, Amélie Fondevilla, Nicolas Durin, Thibault Blanc-Beyne, Camille Schreck, Pierre-Luc Manteaux, Paul G. Kry and Marie-Paule Cani Camera-on-rails: Automated Computation of Constrained Camera Paths Quentin Galvane, Marc Christie, Christophe Lino and Rémi Ronfard Nov. 17th - 14:00-16:00 – Session #6: Taking control The Sea Is Your Mirror Marc Parenthoën, Fred Murie and Flavien Thery Crowd Art: Density and Flow Based Crowd Motion Design Kevin Jordao, Panayiotis Charalambous, Marc Christie, Julien Pettre and Marie-Paule Cani Real-time gait control for partially immersed bipeds Samuel Carensac, Nicolas Pronost and Saida Bouakaz Robust Balance Shift Control with Posture Optimization Zumra Kavafoglu, Ersan Kavafoglu and Arjan Egges Carpet Unrolling Descriptors for Character Control On Uneven Terrain Mark Miller, Daniel Holden, Rami Al-Ashqar, Christophe Dubach, Kenny Mitchell and Taku Komura Nov. 17th - 16:30-18:30 – Game Panel Title: Games meet Academia This “Games meet Academia” panel aims at stimulating an active debate between practitioners and researchers alike, in an effort to bridge the gap between advanced research and development in computer games, and fundamental research in interactive computer animation. 8:30-9:30 – Keynote Talk #4 Speaker: Alex Champandard (AIDevGame.com) Title: Modern AI and Its Impact on Animation and Movement In this talk, you'll learn about the fast progress being made in Artificial Intelligence in the games industry, and see how this is impacting challenging problems like animation and movement. What exactly is motion matching and why is it only possible now? How can machine learning help and why are developers ready for new techniques? Alex will explain all this and more in a forward looking presentation. Nov. 18th - 9:30-10:30 – Session #7: Collisions Clustering and Collision Detection for Clustered Shape Matching Ben Jones, April Martin, Josh Levine, Tamar Shinar and Adam Bargteil Fast Contact Determination for Intersecting Deformable Solids Oscar Civit-Flores and Antonio Susín Collision Detection for Articulated Deformable Characters Nadine Abu Rumman, Marco Schaerf and Dominique Bechmann Nov. 18th - 11:00-12:30 – Session #8: Realism, aesthetics, visualization and registration Animation Realism Affects Perceived Character Appeal of a Self-Virtual Face Elena Kokkinara and Rachel McDonnell Fin Textures for Real-Time Painterly Aesthetics Nicolas Imhof, Antoine Milliez, Flurin Jenal, Rene Bauer, Markus Gross and Robert W. Sumner HeapCraft: Interactive Data Exploration and Visualization Tools for Understanding and Influencing Player Behavior in Minecraft Stephan Müller, Barbara Solenthaler, Mubbasir Kapadia, Seth Frey, Severin Klingler, Richard Mann, Robert W. Sumner and Markus Gross Automatic and Adaptable Registration of Live RGBD Video Streams Afsaneh Rafighi, Sahand Seifi and Oscar Meruvia-Pastor See you in Paris!