University of Toronto

Other

Tactual Labs Co.

Unity Technologies Sf

Autodesk, Inc.

University of British Columbia

Institut National De Recherche En Informatique Et En Automatique

Jali Inc.

Karan Singh

James Kenneth McCrae

Daniel John Wigdor

Clifton L Forlines

Ricardo Jorge Jota Costa

Sanja Fidler

Haijun Xia

Maria Shugrina

Ravin Balakrishnan

Amlan Kar

Eugene Fiume

Pif Edwards

Chris Landreth

George William Fitzmaurice

Gordon P Kurtenbach

Byung Kuk Choi

Abhishek Ranjan

Alla Sheffer

Baoxuan Xu

Adrien Bousseau

Will Chang

Steve Tsang

Fanny Chevalier

Wenjia Zhang

An image generation system defines a set of deformation handles having an associated set of one or more control parameters, obtains a set of object points representative of a virtual object, maps the set of object points to a plurality of key pose states, wherein the key pose state is represented by a key pose state data structure corresponding to a key pose that specifies control parameters to place the set of the deformation handles to coincide with the set of object points, determines corresponding key pose state data structures, receives a set of deformations to be applied to the set of deformation handles, interpolates poses among an interpolated key pose state set to form a current pose state based on the set of deformations, and adjusts the virtual object based on the interpolated key pose state set.

Object deformation with bindings and deformers interpolated from key poses

Disclosed is a method to determine influence of a deformation of a curve on a surface. A processor obtains deformations of the curve and desired deformations of the surface. The processor obtains a first point on the surface and determines the influence of the deformation of the curve on the surface by determining a second point on the curve and iterating over a desired deformation of the surface and a corresponding curve. To iterate, the processor determines a desired position of the first point of the desired deformation, determines a position of the first point based on a position of the second point on the corresponding curve and a parameter indicating the influence, and calculates a difference between the desired position of the first point and the determined position of the first point. Based on the difference, the processor adjusts the parameter, and determines the influence based on the parameter.

Deforming points in space using a curve deformer

A system and method for triggering animated paralingual behavior from dialogue. The method including: receiving a corpus of dialogue including a plurality of samples, each sample including dialogue with aligned sequences of phonemes or sub-phonemes; extracting properties of measured quantities for each sample; generating a statistical profile by statistically classifying the extracted properties as a function of each sequence of phonemes or sub-phonemes; receiving a stream of phonemes or sub-phonemes and triggering paralingual behavior when the properties of any of the phonemes or sub-phonemes deviate from the statistical profile beyond a predetermined threshold; outputting the triggered paralingual behavior for animation.

System and method for triggering animated paralingual behavior from dialogue

The present invention relates to a computer-implemented system and method for generation of an interactive color workspace, the method including: generating a workspace; receiving successive inputs from a user to create two or more controllable color swatches, the controllable color swatches including an associated color; generating the controllable color swatches on the workspace; and upon receiving a command from a user to select and associate at least two of the controllable color swatches, generating a gradient of colors with the colors of the selected controllable color swatches as endpoints to the gradient.

System and method for generation of an interactive color workspace

There is provided a system and method for color representation generation. In an aspect, the method includes: receiving three base colors; receiving a patchwork parameter; and generating a color representation having each of the three base colors at a vertex of a triangular face, the triangular face having a color distribution therein, the color distribution discretized into discrete portions, the amount of discretization based on the patchwork parameter, each discrete portion having an interpolated color determined to be a combination of the base colors at respective coordinates of such discrete portion. In further aspects, one or more color representations are generated based on an input image and can be used to modify colors of a reconstructed image.

Method and system for color representation generation

A system and method for creating, configuring, and visualizing 3D shape representations is provided. The system enables a user to create, interact with and visualize planar section representations. In further aspects, methods are provided for enabling modification suggestions for structural and/or fabrication improvement.

System and method for generating planar section 3D shape representations

A system and method for animated lip synchronization. The method includes: capturing speech input; parsing the speech input into phenomes; aligning the phonemes to the corresponding portions of the speech input; mapping the phonemes to visemes; synchronizing the visemes into viseme action units, the viseme action units comprising jaw and lip contributions for each of the phonemes; and outputting the viseme action units.

System and method for animated lip synchronization

A method and system for linking a first virtual reality (VR) immersive space with a second VR immersive space. The method includes: generating a portal in the first VR immersive space, the first VR immersive space having a first website displayed on a surface of the first VR immersive space; associating an internet link to the second VR immersive space with the portal, the internet link being part of the first website to link to a second website; rendering the second VR immersive space, the second VR immersive space having the second website displayed on a surface of the second VR immersive space; providing a preview of the second VR immersive space on a surface of the portal located in the first VR immersive space; and virtually placing a user in the second VR immersive space when the portal is selected by the user.

Method and system for linking a first virtual reality (VR) immersive space with a second VR immersive space

A system and method are disclosed for using a touch sensing system capable of sensing location of a finger or object above a touch surface to inform a touch response system in an electronic device of a predicted future user input event or motion data in advance of an actual touch event. Current user input is sensed via the touch sensing system and data reflecting hover information is created. A model of user interaction with a touch surface is applied to the data representative of the user input to create data reflecting a prediction of a future user input event. In an embodiment, prior to occurrence of the predicted user input event, a predicted location and a predicted time at which the predicted future user input event will occur are provided to a touch response system.

Systems and methods for using hover information to predict touch locations and reduce or eliminate touchdown latency

A method is for estimating a three-dimensional (3D) representation of a set of two-dimensional (2D) curves of a concept drawing, the estimate of the 3D representation corresponding to a 3D object underlying the concept drawing. The method comprises: obtaining a representation of a set of 2D curves a concept drawing that represent a 3D object underlying the concept drawing; determining an energy function based on the set of 2D curves, the energy function comprising one or more terms, each term reflective of a preference for a 3D representation based on a characteristic of the 2D curves which reflects how concept drawings are commonly perceived to represent 3D objects; and performing an optimization which minimizes the energy function to thereby determine the 3D representation.

Methods and systems for estimating three-dimensional information from two-dimensional concept drawings

A method, computer system and computer program is provided for using a suggestive modeling interface. The method consists of a method of a computer-implemented rendering of sketches, the method comprising the steps of: (1) a user activating a sketching application; (2) in response, the sketching application displaying on a screen a suggestive modeling interface; (3) the sketching application importing a sketch to the suggestive modeling interface; and (4) the sketching application retrieving from a database one or more suggestions based on the sketch. The method is operable to allow a user interactively using the sketching application to create a drawing that is guided by the imported sketch by selectively using one or more image guided drawing tools provided by the sketching application. The present invention is well-suited for three-dimensional modeling applications.

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Karan Singh