C. Karen Liu

Karen joined Georgia Tech in August 2007 as an assistant professor in School of Interactive Computing. Before moving to Atlanta, Karen was an assistant professor at the University of Southern California from January 2006, after she received her Ph.D and M.S. in 2005 and 2001 from the University of Washington. Her research interests are in computer graphics and animation, including physics-based animation, character animation, numerical methods, robotics and computational biomechanics. Karen’s Ph.D. thesis focuses on designing a generative model for human natural motion. Karen is a member of the Graphics Lab at Georgia Tech.

Projects

Controlling Physics-Based Characters Using Soft Contacts, Sumit Jain, and C. Karen Liu, in ACM Transactions on Graphics (to appear at SIGGRAPH Asia) 2011 [Paper] [Project]

Human Motion Reconstruction from Force Sensors, Sehoon Ha, Yunfei Bai, and C. Karen Liu, in ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation 2011 [Paper] [Project]

Articulated Swimming Creatures, Jie Tan, Yuting Gu, Greg Turk, and C. Karen Liu, in ACM Transactions on Graphics (presented at SIGGRAPH) 2011 [Paper] [Project]

Modal-Space Control for Articulated Characters, Sumit Jain and C. Karen Liu, in ACM Transactions on Graphics (to present at SIGGRAPH Asia), 2011 [Paper] [Project]

Task-aware Variations, Michael J. Gielniak, C. Karen Liu, and Andrea L. Thomaz, in IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2011 [Paper] [Project]

Stable Proportional-Derivative Controllers, Jie Tan, C. Karen Liu, and Greg Turk, in IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications (CG&A) 2011, Special Issue on Physically Based Character Animation [Paper] [Project]

Secondary Action in Robot Motion, Stylized Motion Generalization Through Adaptation of Velocity Profile, Michael J. Gielniak, C. Karen Liu, and Andrea L. Thomaz, in IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), 2010 [Paper] [Paper] [Project]

Optimal Feedback Control for Character Animation Using an Abstract Model, Yuting Ye and C. Karen Liu, in ACM Transactions on Graphics, (Presented at SIGGRAPH) 2010 [Paper] [Project]

Performance Capture with Physical Interaction, Nam Nguyen, Nkenge Wheatland, David Brown, Brian Parise, C. Karen Liu, and Victor Zordan, in ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation 2011

Synthesis of Responsive Motion Using a Dynamic Model, Yuting Ye and C. Karen Liu, in Computer Graphics Forum, 2010 (Presented at Eurographics) [Paper] [Project]

Interactive Synthesis of Human-Object Interaction, Sumit Jain and C. Karen Liu, in ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation 2009 [Paper] [Project]

Dextrous Manipulation from a Grasping Pose, C. Karen Liu, in ACM Transactions on Graphics (Presented at SIGGRAPH) 2009

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Performance-Based Control Interface for Character Animation, Satoru Ishigaki,, Timothy White, Victor Zordan, and C. Karen Liu, in ACM Transactions on Graphics (Presented at SIGGRAPH) 2009 [Project]

Optimization-based Interactive Motion Synthesis, Sumit Jain, Yuting Ye, and C. Karen Liu, in ACM Transactions on Graphics (Presented at SIGGRAPH) 2009 [Paper] [Project]

Animating Responsive Characters with Dynamic Constraints in Near-Unactuated Coordinates, Yuting Ye and C. Karen Liu, in ACM Transactions on Graphics (presented at SIGGRAPH Asia) 2008 [Paper] [Project]

Synthesis of Interactive Hand Manipulation, C. Karen Liu, in ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation 2008

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Composition of Complex Optimal Multi-Character Motions, C. Karen Liu, Aaron Hertzmann, and Zoran Popovic, in ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation 2006 [Paper] [Project]

Dance Reveals Symmetry Especially in Young Men, William Brown, Lee Cronk, Keith Grochow, Amy Jacobson, C. Karen Liu, Zoran Popovic, and Robert Trivers, in Nature, 2005 [Paper] [Front Cover] [Project]

Learning Physics-Based Motion Style with Nonlinear Inverse Optimization, C. Karen Liu, Aaron Hertzmann, and Zoran Popovic, in ACM Transactions on Graphics (presented at SIGGRAPH) 2005 [Paper] [Project]

Momentum-Based Parameterization of Dynamic Character Motion, Yuihi Abe, C. Karen Liu, and Zoran Popovic, in ACM SIGGRAPH / Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation 2004 [Paper] [Project]

Synthesis of Complex Dynamics Character Motion from Simple Animation, C. Karen Liu and Zoran Popovic, in ACM Transactions on Graphics (presented at SIGGRAPH) 2002 [Paper] [Project]