Summer 2012 Research Application
Due by March 15th

The Center for Human Modeling and Simulation (HMS), housed in the SIG Center for Computer Graphics, is an exciting place to investigate computer graphics modeling and animation techniques for embodied agents, virtual humans, and crowds. Major foci involve developing behavior-based animation of human movement, especially for gesture, gait, and facial expression, constructing a parametrized action representation for real-time simulation and animation, and understanding the relationship between human movement, natural language, and communication.

As a Research Assistant, you will work side by side with faculty, talented graduate students, and visitors from other universities. You will apply what you’ve been learning in a very direct way. Not only that, but you’ll learn the day-to-day operations of working with a team and developing experience and relationships to help you further your career. Alumni of our summer programs hare been offered great jobs in the animation and game industries. The ultimate goals of our internship program is to give you the best educational internship experience of your life, contribute to the SIG Center's research agenda, and let you produce results you are proud to show off in your demo reel.

Sample Projects
Human Motion Control Motion Capture Virtual Market Subtle Bot
Explore novel and fun game control ideas using a Microsoft Kinect or other human motion sensors. This can include group game control, distributed group participation games, autonomous character control, and interactive software frameworks for narrative games. This project aims to enhance popular human motion editing tools and data capture to maintain physical correctness and naturalness utilizing our new multi-modal motion capture system. We use our ADAPT framework to model a functional humans in a 3D virtual market place. Talented modelers and animators are needed to bring this world to life by creating art and behavioral assets for a local polulance in an urban setting. The SUBTLE team brings together researchers in: natural language, machine learning; robotics, and graphics. This position will involve embeding natural language parser and spatial and semantic processing into our virtual worlds.


First Name:

Last Name

Your Email:


Demo Reel URL (optional):

Website URL (optional):


Class Status:

DMD or CGGT:

Work Study (it's all right if you are not):

Please list your technical qualifications:
(C++, Maya, Renderman, Mocap, Web design, flash, etc):


Please list your relevant classwork:
(CIS277, 460, 462 565, 660, etc.):


What do you hope to get out of research at SIG Center for
Computer Graphics this summer:


What do you consider your strengths and interests?
Modeling, programming, effects, simulation, web programming:




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