Motion in Games : 4th International Conference, MIG 2011, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, November 13-15, 2011, Proceedings

Annotation This book constitutes the proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Motion in Games, held in Edinburgh, UK, in November 2011. The 30 revised full papers presented together with 8 revised poster papers in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on character animation, motion synthesis, physically-based character motion, behavior animation, animation systems, crowd simulation, as well as path planning and navigation Front Matter....Pages - Natural User Interface for Physics-Based Character Animation....Pages 1-14 Individualized Agent Interactions....Pages 15-26 A Real-Time System for Crowd Rendering: Parallel LOD and Texture-Preserving Approach on GPU....Pages 27-38 Feature-Based Locomotion with Inverse Branch Kinematics....Pages 39-50 Planning Plausible Human Animation with Environment-Aware Motion Sampling....Pages 51-62 Dynamic Balancing and Walking for Real-Time 3D Characters....Pages 63-73 Injury Assessment for Physics-Based Characters....Pages 74-85 Reactive Virtual Creatures for Dexterous Physical Interactions....Pages 86-97 Building a Character Animation System....Pages 98-109 Energy-Based Pose Unfolding and Interpolation for 3D Articulated Characters....Pages 110-119 Generating Avoidance Motion Using Motion Graph....Pages 120-131 Populations with Purpose....Pages 132-143 Parameterizing Behavior Trees....Pages 144-155 Intelligent Camera Control Using Behavior Trees....Pages 156-167 A Decision Theoretic Approach to Motion Saliency in Computer Animations....Pages 168-179 Many-Core Architecture Oriented Parallel Algorithm Design for Computer Animation....Pages 180-191 Twisting, Tearing and Flicking Effects in String Animations....Pages 192-203 Adaptive Grid Refinement Using View-Dependent Octree for Grid-Based Smoke Simulation....Pages 204-215 A Simple Method for Real-Time Metal Shell Simulation....Pages 216-226 LocoTest: Deploying and Evaluating Physics-Based Locomotion on Multiple Simulation Platforms....Pages 227-241 Parametric Control of Captured Mesh Sequences for Real-Time Animation....Pages 242-253 Real-Time Interactive Character Animation by Parallelization of Genetic Algorithms....Pages 254-265 Improved Benchmarking for Steering Algorithms....Pages 266-277 When a Couple Goes Together: Walk along Steering....Pages 278-289 Parallel Ripple Search – Scalable and Efficient Pathfinding for Multi-core Architectures....Pages 290-303 Hybrid Path Planning for Massive Crowd Simulation on the GPU....Pages 304-315 Space-Time Planning in Dynamic Environments with Unknown Evolution....Pages 316-327 Automatic Generation of Suboptimal NavMeshes....Pages 328-339 Roadmap-Based Level Clearing of Buildings....Pages 340-352 From Geometry to Spatial Reasoning : Automatic Structuring of 3D Virtual Environments....Pages 353-364 Reconstructing Motion Capture Data for Human Crowd Study....Pages 365-376 A Quantitative Methodology to Evaluate Motion-Based Animation Techniques....Pages 377-388 Parallelized Incomplete Poisson Preconditioner in Cloth Simulation....Pages 389-399 Walk This Way: A Lightweight, Data-Driven Walking Synthesis Algorithm....Pages 400-411 Long Term Real Trajectory Reuse through Region Goal Satisfaction....Pages 412-423 Directional Constraint Enforcement for Fast Cloth Simulation....Pages 424-435 A Comparison and Evaluation of Motion Indexing Techniques....Pages 436-447 Detecting 3D Position and Orientation of a Wii Remote Using Webcams....Pages 448-458 Back Matter....Pages -