This paper presents a new method for constructing an example-based deformable human hand model from medical images. Realistic animation of human hands requires good estimates of the joint structure and properly weighted skeleton-driven surface ...

Data-driven approaches have been successfully used for realistic visual speech synthesis. However, little effort has been devoted to real-time lip-synching for interactive applications. In particular, algorithms that are based on a graph of motions are ...

We present a novel algorithm that simulates ice formation. Motivated by the physical process of ice growth, we develop a novel hybrid algorithm by synthesizing three techniques: diffusion limited aggregation, phase field methods, and stable fluid ...

We introduce an efficient compression method for animated sequences of irregular meshes of the same connectivity. Our approach is to transform the original input meshes with an anisotropic wavelet transform running on top of a progressive mesh hierarchy,...

We present a method for modeling and animating a wide spectrum of volumetric objects, with material properties anywhere in the range from stiff elastic to highly plastic. Both the volume and the surface representation are point based, which allows ...

This paper presents an approach to handling collision between deformable objects using tetrahedral decomposition. The tetrahedral volumetric model is often used to simulate deformable objects that handle cuts and splits. Interaction between such objects ...

We investigate techniques for modeling contact between quasi-rigid objects - solids that undergo modest deformation in the vicinity of a contact, while the overall object still preserves its basic shape. The quasi-rigid model combines the benefits of ...

Animation of the breath has been largely ignored by the graphics community, even though it is a signature movement of the human body and an indicator for lifelike motion. In this paper, we present an anatomically inspired, physically based model of the ...