So you already should have read the basic stuff on motion blending for the previous readings. For this reading, you’ll see how we can address the shortcomings of the basic techniques. The requirement is the two chapters in Lucas’ thesis (or the equivalent papers). More explanation.
The two papers are:
However, these papers later appeared as Chapters in Lucas’ thesis. These had the benefit of a few years of reflection to clean up the writing, and some minor details in cleaning up the methods. It also gave him the opportunity to discuss concurrent methods. So, I recommend that instead f reading those two papers, that you read Chapters 5&6 in:
- Automated Methods for Data-Driven Synthesis of Realistic and Controllable Human Motion. Lucas Kovar. PhD thesis from Department of Computer Sciences, University of Wisconsin – Madison – 2004
You might want to skim through the introductory parts (particularly chapter 1), since they introduce the notation and summarize the problems that he is trying to solve. You’ll read Chapter 4 for the next reading.
There are a whole bunch of “non-basic blending” papers that come after these. However, since you’re probably busy with Assignment 5, I won’t even bother recommending any.
There is a question to answer on Moodle.
