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About CG at Penn

The HMS Center's mission today may be broadly defined as the study of computer graphics and animation applied to the creation, animation, and utilization of human characters, crowd modeling and control, and computational connections between language and action. The Center’s research is well-represented and cited in the mainstream computer graphics literature. HMS exists to promote first quality research
of international stature. The HMS Center provides a collegial and open atmosphere in which faculty, staff, and students cooperate and coordinate project work. Nearly a dozen Ph.D. students engage in collaborative research efforts with Masters and Undergraduate student participation.

Recent News

Congratulations to the authors of our latest publications!
Animating synthetic dyadic conversations with variations based on context and agent attributes.

Efficient rendering of animated characters through optimized per-joint impostors.

Parallelized Egocentric Fields for Autonomous Navigation

All three of these papers will be published in various computer graphics journals, such as Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds and Journal of the Visual Computer.

SCA Honorable Mention

Congratulations to Joe Kider, Kaitlin Pollock, and Alla Safonova for receiving an honorable mention at the ACM/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation for their paper, A Data-Driven Appearance Model for Human Fatigue.

Summer 2011 Research Awards

Daniel Garcia, Tiantian Liu, Adam Mally, and Kaitlin Pollock were awarded the the Diane Chi Summer Research Award for their work on Selecting Agents for Narrative Roles, creating better methods for group-controlled action, reconstructing the ancient city of Pachacamac, and A Data-Driven Appearance Model for Human Fatigue, respectively.

Jason Merrin wins Creative Concept Award

Jason Merrin, DMD '13, was awarded the Creative Concept Award in the CWA International Screenwriting Contest for his film, Sleepwalkers.

 

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