Lecture
Computer graphics at UCLA with an emphasis on virtual agent navigation
Speaker: |
Petros Faloutsos |
Date: |
Tuesday, 8 September 2009 |
Time: |
12:00-14:00 |
Location: |
"Mediterranean Studies" Seminar Room, FORTH. Heraklion, Crete |
Host: |
Panos Trahanias |
| Abstract: |
In the first part of the talk, I will present an overview of the
research projects at the computer graphics lab at UCLA, that include
facial animation, sketch-based interfaces for mobile devices, robotic
surgery, steering for virtual pedestrians, physics-based animation,
motion editing, micro-processor architectures for virtual world
applications et al. In the second part of the talk I will focus on
virtual agent navigation. I will present our egocentric affordance
fields algorithm, which is one of the few approaches for pedestrian
steering that features efficient space-time planning
for deadlock avoidance. I will conclude by discussing SteerSuite, our
solution to the challenging problems of automatically evaluating and
debugging steering algorithms. |
| Bio: |
Petros Faloutsos is an assistant professor at the Department of
Computer Science at the
University of California at Los Angeles. He received his PhD degree
(2002) and his MSc degree in Computer Science from the University of
Toronto, Canada and his BEng degree in Electrical Engineering from the
National Technical University of Athens, Greece.
Professor Faloutsos is the founder and the director of the graphics
lab at the Department of
Computer Science at UCLA. The lab, called MAGIX (Modeling Animation
and GrafIX),
performs state of the art research in all aspects of graphics,
focusing on virtual actors, virtual
reality, physics-based animation and motor control. Professor
Faloutsos is also interested in
computer networks and he has co-authored a highly cited paper on the
topology of the Internet.
Professor Faloutsos is a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal
of The Visual Computer
and has served as a Program Co-Chair for the ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics
Symposium on Computer Animation 2005. He is a member of the ACM and
the Technical Chamber of Greece. |
