Research Areas
We are particularly interested in taking advantage of interactive digital media for the following research subjects.
Synthesis and control of coordinated motions
It has been a challenging research topic in computer graphics and robotics to plan the motions of multiple entities such that they can collaborate with each other to achieve meaningful objectives. Increasing the number of entities generally leads to the rapid growth of the possibilities of combining their motions, and thus makes it hard to find a plausible combination efficiently. With the help of motion planning and machine learning algorithms, we aim at developing practical methods for automatically synthesizing and interactively controlling the coordinated motions of dozens of animated characters or physical robots.