{"433161":{"#nid":"433161","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Animation Research Moves Forward, One Wardrobe at a Time","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAnimated characters can mimic human behavior extremely well. They can perform jaw-dropping feats of life and death. But there\u0027s one trick that digital denizens haven\u2019t quite yet mastered: getting dressed and putting their pants on one leg at a time.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EResearch from the Georgia Institute of Technology has produced a systematic tool that allows animators to create realistic motion for virtual humans who are getting dressed. The new algorithm enables virtual characters to intelligently manipulate simulated cloth to achieve the task of dressing with different dressing styles for various types of garment and fabric.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe discovery will help today\u0027s computer animators create scenes similar to live-action movies with iconic clothing, such as the \u201cjacket on, jacket off\u201d drill in 2010\u2019s \u201cThe Karate Kid\u201d or Spiderman pulling his mask over his head for the first time. Such dressing scenes are noticeably absent in computer animated films due to the difficulty of manipulating simulated cloth.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe research team\u2019s long-term goal is to develop assistive technologies that would enable robots of the future\u0026nbsp;to help disabled or elderly adults with self care, such as getting dressed.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cDressing is one of the activities of daily living that the health care community has identified as being important for independent living,\u201d says Karen Liu, researcher on the paper and associate professor in the School of Interactive Computing. \u201cThe challenge of learning to dress at a young age or for some older adults and those with disabilities is mainly due to the combined difficulty in coordinating different body parts and manipulating soft and deformable objects.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201c\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/~aclegg3\/projects\/2015_AnimatingHumanDressing.pdf\u0022\u003EAnimating Human Dressing\u003C\/a\u003E\u201d is a technical paper at SIGGRAPH 2015, the ACM conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, Aug. 9-13 in Los Angeles.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EResearch from the Georgia Institute of Technology has produced a systematic tool that allows animators to create realistic motion for virtual humans who are getting dressed. The research team\u2019s long-term goal is to develop assistive technologies that would enable robots of the future\u0026nbsp;to help disabled or elderly adults with self care, such as getting dressed.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The goal of new animation technology is to allow robots to assist humans."}],"uid":"27560","created_gmt":"2015-08-11 11:38:40","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:19:22","author":"Jason Maderer","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-08-11T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2015-08-11T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"433181":{"id":"433181","type":"image","title":"Animated Dressing: Jacket","body":null,"created":"1449256148","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 19:09:08","changed":"1475895171","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:52:51"},"433151":{"id":"433151","type":"image","title":"Characters Dressing","body":null,"created":"1449256148","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 19:09:08","changed":"1475895171","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:52:51"},"433171":{"id":"433171","type":"image","title":"Character Puts on Jacket","body":null,"created":"1449256148","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 19:09:08","changed":"1475895171","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:52:51"}},"media_ids":["433181","433151","433171"],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4534","name":"animation"},{"id":"654","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"7127","name":"graphics"},{"id":"166848","name":"School of Interactive Computing"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39501","name":"People and Technology"}],"news_room_topics":[{"id":"71881","name":"Science and Technology"}],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJoshua Preston \u003Cbr \/\u003ECommunications Officer\u003Cbr \/\u003EGVU Center\u003Cbr \/\u003E678-231-0787\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jpreston@cc.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}