Christoph Bregler

Christoph Bregler

Ph.D. 1998, M.S. 1995, (Computer Science), University of California, Berkeley, CA. Diploma in Computer Science 1993, University of Karlsruhe, Germany.

Email:

Personal Homepage: http://mrl.nyu.edu/~bregler/

Research Interests:

Motion Capture, Animation, Computer Vision, Graphics, Statistical Learning, Interactive Media Arts/Entertainment/Gaming, and applications in the bio/medical field, HCI, and AI.

Fellowships/Honors:

Reese Prosser Memorial Lecture 2005 (Dartmouth); Program Chair, SIGGRAPH 2004, Computer Animation Festival & Electronic Theater; Sloan Research Fellow, 2003, 2004; Olympus Prize, 2002, (German Vision / AI Society DAGM honors every year 1 outstanding scientist); I.E. Block Community Lecture, 50th Anniversary of SIAM community, 2002; IEEE CVPR 2001 Best Student Paper (Co-Author / Advisor of student); Stanford Terman Fellow, 1999; Stanford Joyce Faculty Fellow, 1999.

Selected Works:

Squidball: An Experiment in Large Scale Motion Capture and Game Design

C. Bregler, C. Castiglia. J. DeVincenzo, L. Dubois, K. Feeley, T. Igoe, J. Meyer, M. Naimark, A.

Postelnicu, M. Rabinovich, S. Rosenthal, K. Salen, J. Sudol, B. Wright

Proc. Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment (INTETAIN) 2005, Springer Lecture

Notes in Artificial Intelligence

Mood Swings: Expressive Speech

Erika Chuang, Chris Bregler

Transactions on Graphics 2005

Speaking with Hands: Creating Animated Conversational Characters from Recordings of

Human Performance

M. Stone, D. DeCarlo, I. Oh, C. Rodriguez, A. Stere, A. Lees, C. Bregler

Proc. ACM SIGGRAPH 2004.

Estimation of skeletal kinematics through high feature density video based motion capture

Gene Alexander, Tom Andriacci, Chris Bregler

Eighth International Symposium on the 3-D Analysis of Human, 2004

Twist based Acquisition and Tracking of Animal and Human Kinematics

Christoph Bregler, Jitendra Malik, Kathy Pullen

Int. Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), 56(3), 179-194, 2004.

Learning Non-Rigid 3D Shape from Video

Lorenzo Torresani, Aaron Hertzmann, Christoph Bregler

To Appear in Proc. Of Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) 2003.

Nonrigid Modeling of Body Segments for Improved Bone Motion Esitmation

Eugene J. Alexander, Christoph Bregler, Tom P. Andriacchi

Computer Modeling in Engineering and Science, Vol. 4, Number 3 & 4, pp. 351-364, 2003.

Facial Expression Space Learning,

Erika Chuang, Hrishi Deshpande, Christoph Bregler

Proc. Pacific Graphics, 2002.

Turning to the Masters: Motion Capturing Cartoons

Chris Bregler, Lorie Loeb, Erika Chuang, Hrishi Deshpande

Proc. ACM SIGGRAPH 2002, 399-407.

Motion-Capture assisted Animation: Texturing and Synthesis

Kathy Pullen, Chris Bregler

Proc. ACM SIGGRAPH 2002, 501-508.

Space-Time Tracking

Lorenzo Torresani, Chris Bregler

Proc. European Conference of Computer Vision (ECCV), 2002, 801-812.

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