Frederic (Fred) Pighin
About Frederic (Fred) Pighin
- Affiliations
- University of Southern California (USC), Institute for Creative Technologies
- Bio
SIGGRAPH Asia 2010
Fred Pighin’s research interests are in data-driven animation. Before joining the StreetView team at Google, he was a research assistant professor at the University of Southern California and a technical lead at Industrial Light & Magic. He has published research in areas including eye movement, automatic partitioning of blendshape models, emotional speech animation, and the use of scattered interpolation for directing fluid simulations, and his pioneering work on construction and animation of 3D facial models from images is widely recognized.
SIGGRAPH Conference Organizing Committee Positions
- Committee Member
- SIGGRAPH 2006: Courses
- Jury Member
- SIGGRAPH 2002: Sketches and Applications
Conference Contributions
- Presentations
- Sessions Moderated
- “Example-based interpolation of human motion” by Mori and Hoshino
- “Expressive features for movement exaggeration” by Davis and Kannappan
- “3D reconstruction of walking behaviour using a single camera” by Somasundaram and Parent
- “Magical face: integrated tool for muscle based facial animation” by Yotsukura, Takahashi, Morishima, Nakamura and Kudoh
- “Low level intelligence for low level character animation” by Isla and Blumberg
- “Virtual human interface: towards building an intelligent animated agent” by Kiss, Szijártó and Takacs
- “Towards visualizing HCI for immersive environments: the meta-situational tracker” by Jaynes, Mazur and Lio
- “Lewis the robotic photographer” by Grimm, Smart, Byer, Dixon, Cynamon, et al. …
- “RAPTOR: towards augmented paleontology” by Bimber and Encarnaçäo
- “The AR-ENIGMA: a PDA based interactive illustration” by Paelke, Stoecklein, Groetzbach, Geiger, Reimann, et al. …
- “MARE: multiuser augmented reality environment on table setup” by Grasset and Gascuel
- “Tracking 3D puzzle pieces for collaborative learning environments” by Scarlatos, Qureshi and Landy
Other Information
- Roles
- Course Organizer
- Course Presenter
- Courses Organizing Committee Member
- Talk (Sketch) Presenter
- Talks (Sketches) Jury Member
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