Abstract:    One of the key goals of current research in data-driven computer animation is the synthesis of new motion sequences from existing motion data. Based on the ability of efficiently handling the motion capture data different techniques for animating virtual characters were developed. We present techniques for enhancing the realism of animated character as well as for providing to users the ability to control virtual characters in real-time . 

Bio:    Christos Mousas is a PostDoc Researcher in the Visual Computing Lab at Dartmouth College. He holds a PhD in Informatics from the University of Sussex (UK). His PhD research focus on techniques for animating virtual characters.  Before his PhD, he did his MSc in Multimedia and Virtual Reality at the University of Sussex  and his BSc at Ionian University, Corfu, Greece.