CMIC post-doc researcher Richard Andrew Roberts, Rafael Kuffner dos Anjos,  CMIC co-deirector Ken Anjyo and adjunct associate proffessor J.P. Lewis had the opportunity to present their latest research talk at the SIGGRAPH Asia 2019 Technical Briefs program in Brisbane, Australia.

Fine scale detail added to animated sequences can considerably improve the quality of human motion. We propose a system that applies a non-parametric sampling algorithm to create detailed movements from early stage facial animation. By applying our system like an interpolation scheme, animators can create detailed facial movements from simple inputs, which reduces the time required to produce production-ready animation. We examine the results of applying our system to create detailed movements when sampling from FACS data that we extract from video.

• "Piku Piku Interpolation: An artist-guided sampling algorithm for synthesizing detail applied to facial animation",
  Richard Andrew Roberts (CMIC, Victoria University of Wellington)
  Rafael Kuffner dos Anjos (CMIC, Victoria University of Wellington)
  Ken Anjyo (CMIC, Victoria University of Wellington; OLM Digital, Inc.)
  J.P. Lewis (Victoria University of Wellington)

Richard and J.P. Lewis presented one more talk with their international research collaborators at the Technical Briefs program. In this talk, we take inspiration from keyframe animation to compute what we call the Saliency diagram of the animation which can be used to analyze the motion.

• "Saliency Diagrams: A tool for analyzing animation through the relative importance of keyposes", 
  Nicolas Xuan Tan Nghiem (Visual Media Lab, KAIST; École Polytechnique)
  Richard Roberts (CMIC, Victoria University of Wellington)
  J.P. Lewis (Victoria University of Wellington)
  Junyong Noh (Visual Media Lab, KAIST)

SIGGRAPH Asia 2019, The 12th ACM SIGGRAPH Conference and Exhibition on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques in Asia was held from November 17 - 20th, 2019 at the Brisbane, Australia.