Michael Neff
Most Recent Affiliation(s):
- University of California, Davis, Meta, Professor of Computer Science
Bio:
SIGGRAPH 2020
Michael Neff is a Professor in Computer Science and Cinema & Digital Media at the University of California, Davis where he leads the Motion Lab, an interdisciplinary research effort in character animation and embodied interaction. He holds a PhD from the University of Toronto and is also a Certified Laban Movement Analyst. His research interests include expressive character animation, gesture synthesis and understanding the impact of nonverbal communication on human interaction. He has studied how hand motion impacts personality perception, explored better techniques for glove-based capture and synthesized hand motion with a range of techniques for gesture and sign language.
Learning Category: Jury Member:
Learning Category: Presentation(s):
Type: [Courses]
Virtual Hands in VR: Motion Capture, Synthesis, and Perception Organizer(s): [Jörg]
Presenter(s): [Ye] [Neff] [Mueller] [Zordan]
Entry No.: [09]
[SIGGRAPH 2020]
Learning Category: Moderator:
Type: [Technical Papers]
Bodyformer: Semantics-guided 3D Body Gesture Synthesis With Transformer Presenter(s): [Pang] [Qin] [Fan] [Habekost] [Shiratori] [Yamagishi] [Komura]
[SIGGRAPH 2023]
Type: [Technical Papers]
Contact Edit: Artist Tools for Intuitive Modeling of Hand-object Interactions Presenter(s): [Lakshmipathy] [Feng] [Lee] [Mahler] [Pollard]
[SIGGRAPH 2023]
Type: [Technical Papers]
GestureDiffuCLIP: Gesture Diffusion Model With CLIP Latents Presenter(s): [Ao] [Zhang] [Liu]
[SIGGRAPH 2023]
Type: [Technical Papers]
How Important Are Detailed Hand Motions for Communication for a Virtual Character Through the Lens of Charades? Presenter(s): [Adkins] [Normoyle] [Lin] [Sun] [Ye] [Di Luca] [Jörg]
[SIGGRAPH 2023]
Role(s):
- Course Presenter
- Technical Paper Moderator
- Technical Paper Presenter
- Technical Paper Session Moderator
- Technical Papers Jury Member