Objective: Musculoskeletal models provide a noninvasive means to study human movement
and predict the effects of interventions on gait. Our goal was to create an open-source 3-D …

Hill-type muscle models are highly preferred as phenomenological models for
musculoskeletal simulation studies despite their introduction almost a century ago. The use …

We present RigNet, an end-to-end automated method for producing animation rigs from
input character models. Given an input 3D model representing an articulated character …

We present a deep-learning-based method to automatically compute skin weights for
skeleton-based deformation of production characters. Given a character mesh and its …

Using joint actuators to drive the skeletal movements is a common practice in character
animation, but the resultant torque patterns are often unnatural or infeasible for real humans …

We present a novel physics-based approach to facial animation. Contrary to commonly used
generative methods, our solution computes facial expressions by minimizing a set of non …

Among the infinite number of possible movements that can be produced, humans are
commonly assumed to choose those that optimize criteria such as minimizing movement …

We propose a notion of affordance that takes into account physical quantities generated
when the human body interacts with real-world objects, and introduce a learning framework …

We present a novel and general framework for the design and control of underwater soft-
bodied animals. The whole body of an animal consisting of soft tissues is modeled by …

Forward biomechanical simulation in HCI holds great promise as a tool for evaluation,
design, and engineering of user interfaces. Although reinforcement learning (RL) has been …