Synthesis of Interactive hand manipulation

Synthesis of Interactive hand manipulation

Abstract
We present an interactive physics-based motion synthesis technique for
creating hand manipulation across a wide variety of tasks,
objects, user interventions, and stylistic preferences. Given an
object being manipulated, a single pose specifying the desired initial
contact, and the kinematic goals of the manipulation, our algorithm
automatically generates hand-object manipulation that is responsive to
unscripted external disturbances. Our algorithm simulates the dynamic
coupling between a passive dynamic system and an active dynamic system
by formulating a sequence of constrained optimizations. This
formulation allows the user to synthesize a manipulation task by
describing simple, keyframe-like kinematic goals in the domain of
object configuration. The algorithm will automatically produce the
hand motion that achieves the kinematic goals via coupled dynamic
equations of motion.

Paper

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

Video

SCA video submission with audio (Quicktime 9.6M)

Bibtex
@Inproceedings{Liu:2008:SIH,
author = “C. Karen Liu”,
title = “Synthesis of Interactive Hand Animation”,
booktitle = “ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation”,
year = 2008,
month = jul
}

Project Members
C. Karen Liu