Inverse kinematics techniques in computer graphics: A survey

A Aristidou, J Lasenby, Y Chrysanthou… - Computer graphics …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Inverse kinematics (IK) is the use of kinematic equations to determine the joint parameters of
a manipulator so that the end effector moves to a desired position; IK can be applied in many …

A survey of nonverbal signaling methods for non-humanoid robots

E Cha, Y Kim, T Fong, MJ Mataric - Foundations and Trends® …, 2018 - nowpublishers.com
The goal of this survey is to inform the design and usage of nonverbal signals for human-
robot interaction. With robots being increasingly utilized for tasks that require them to not …

Learning agile robotic locomotion skills by imitating animals

XB Peng, E Coumans, T Zhang, TW Lee, J Tan… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2020 - arxiv.org
Reproducing the diverse and agile locomotion skills of animals has been a longstanding
challenge in robotics. While manually-designed controllers have been able to emulate many …

Everybody dance now

C Chan, S Ginosar, T Zhou… - Proceedings of the IEEE …, 2019 - openaccess.thecvf.com
This paper presents a simple method for" do as I do" motion transfer: given a source video of
a person dancing, we can transfer that performance to a novel (amateur) target after only a …

GOAL: Generating 4D whole-body motion for hand-object grasping

O Taheri, V Choutas, MJ Black… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Generating digital humans that move realistically has many applications and is widely
studied, but existing methods focus on the major limbs of the body, ignoring the hands and …

Populating 3D scenes by learning human-scene interaction

M Hassan, P Ghosh, J Tesch… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Humans live within a 3D space and constantly interact with it to perform tasks. Such
interactions involve physical contact between surfaces that is semantically meaningful. Our …

3D skeleton-based human action classification: A survey

LL Presti, M La Cascia - Pattern Recognition, 2016 - Elsevier
In recent years, there has been a proliferation of works on human action classification from
depth sequences. These works generally present methods and/or feature representations …

Skeleton-aware networks for deep motion retargeting

K Aberman, P Li, D Lischinski… - ACM Transactions on …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
We introduce a novel deep learning framework for data-driven motion retargeting between
skeletons, which may have different structure, yet corresponding to homeomorphic graphs …

Legibility and predictability of robot motion

AD Dragan, KCT Lee… - 2013 8th ACM/IEEE …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A key requirement for seamless human-robot collaboration is for the robot to make its
intentions clear to its human collaborator. A collaborative robot's motion must be legible, or …

Neural kinematic networks for unsupervised motion retargetting

R Villegas, J Yang, D Ceylan… - Proceedings of the IEEE …, 2018 - openaccess.thecvf.com
We propose a recurrent neural network architecture with a Forward Kinematics layer and
cycle consistency based adversarial training objective for unsupervised motion retargetting …