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I am currently engaged on the European Commission RACINE-S project. My work concerns the extraction of synthetic models of actors from film sequences. The goal is to facilitate motion editing, and the generation of new movie sequences. The practical phases of this research include: building a 3D kinematic humanoid animation system incorporating motion editing and anthropometric scaling; building a semi-automatic motion recovery system for extracting kinematic parameters and motions from movie sequences; attaching arbitrary deformable polygonal mesh models onto the figure's kinematic structure; and recovering the mesh textures from a movie sequence.

	Texture re-mapping simplified meshes
	Sticky Hands interaction with humanoid robots
	Biomimetic motion generation
	Texture extraction from photographs

	Department of Humanoid Robotics and Computational Neuroscience, ATR, Japan
	Edinburgh Virtual Environments Centre, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh
	Dr Frank Pollick, Department of Psychology, University of Glasgow

Reports & Contributions J.G.Hale Biomimetic motion synthesis for synthetic humanoids, Ph.D. thesis, University of Glasgow, 2003 J.G. Hale: Dynamic Simulation, Preliminary Ph.D. Report, Glasgow University, 1999 J.G. Hale: Texture re-mapping for decimated polygonal meshes, M.Sc. Project, Edinburgh University, 1998 J.G. Hale: Texture re-mapping for decimated polygon meshes, submitted for publication J.G. Hale: Hardware Compilation of Cryptographic Algorithms in HandelC, Undergraduate Research Project, Oxford University, 1997 Contributor: Dictionary of Computer Science, Engineering, and Technology, Phillip A. Laplante (editor-in-chief), CRC Press, ISBN 0-8493-2691-5 International Conference Publications J.G. Hale, F.E. Pollick & M. Tzoneva, The Visual Categorization of Humanoid Movement as Natural, Third IEEE International Conference on Humanoid Robotics (Humanoids 2003), TU München and U Karlsruhe, Germany, October 2003 F.E. Pollick, J.G. Hale & P. McAleer, Visual Perception of Humanoid Movement, Third International Workshop on Epigenetic Robotics, Boston, MA, USA, August 4-5, 2003 J.G. Hale & F.E. Pollick: Visual analysis of movements generated by biomimetic motor production criteria and displayed via computer animations and humanoid robots, 3rd Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Sarasota, Florida, May 9-14, 2003 (PDF) J.G. Hale & F.E. Pollick: Biomimetic motion synthesis for the upper limb based on human motor production, Workshop on motor control in humans and robots (SAB 2002), Edinburgh University, August 10 - 11, 2002 J.G. Hale & F.E. Pollick: Playing 'Sticky Hands' With A Humanoid Robot, First IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids 2000), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, September 7 - 8, 2000 C.G. Atkeson, J.G. Hale, S. Kotosaka, F.E. Pollick,M. Riley, S. Schaal, T. Shibata: Using a Humanoid Robot to Study Human Motor Control, IEEE Intelligent Systems Special Issue on Humanoids, July 2000 J.G. Hale & F.E. Pollick: "Sticky Hands" interaction with an anthropomorphic robot, 2000 Workshop on Interactive Robotics and Entertainment (WIRE-2000), Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, April 30 - May 1, 2000 Journal Publications J.G.Hale & F.E. Pollick : 'Sticky Hands': Learning and Generalisation for Cooperative Physical Interactions, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Part C, In press Technical Reports J.G. Hale : A short mathematical overview of nonlinear programming (2004) January

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