Graphics and multimedia
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Techfest Demo: 3D Photo-Real Talking Head
We propose a new 3D photo-real talking head with a personalized, photo realistic appearance. Different head motions and facial expressions can be freely controlled and rendered. It extends our prior, high-quality, 2D photo-real talking head…
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Procedural Texture
Demonstrates procedural surfaces and textures defined using symbolic differentiation.
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LOD and flythrough
Demonstrates LOD and real time flythrough of procedural objects with procedurally defined textures.
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ShadowDraw
An object-oriented research project delivers an interactive assistant for freehand drawing by recognizing what you’re trying to draw and suggesting traceable pen strokes to improve your drawing.
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Symbolic Differentiation in GPU Shaders
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Sound Synthesis for Impact Sounds in Video Games
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Sound Synthesis for Impact Sounds in Video Games
We present an interactive system for synthesizing high quality, physically based audio on current video game consoles. From a recorded impact sound, we compute a modal model, which we use to synthesize variations of the…
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