INRIA-NSC Associate Team FORMOSA

2013

H.-Y. Wu, M. Christie, T.-Y. Li, 2013.05, "Stories Animated: A Framework for Personalized Interactive Narratives using Filtering of Story Characteristics," The 26th International Conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents (CASA 2013), Istanbul.

H.-Y. Wu, T.-Y. Li, M. Christie, 2013.07, "Stories Animated: A Framework for Personalized Interactive Narratives using Filtering of Story Characteristics" Computer Graphics Workshop, Xinzhu, Taiwan.

H.-Y. Wu, M. Christie, T.-Y. Li, 2013.11, "Shaping Interactive Stories in 3D Environments," in ACM Conference on Motion in Games 2013 (MIG 2013), Dublin, Ireland.(Poster)

C. Jorgensen, F. Lamarche (2013). Combining Activity Scheduling and Path Planning to Populate Virtual Cities. Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Sytems (AAMAS Poster) 2013.

2014

C. Sanokho, C. Desoche, B. Merabti, M. Christie, T.-Y. Li, 2014.07, "Camera Motion Graphs", in Proceedings of ACM Syposium on Computer Animation 2014, Copenhagen, Denmark.

P.-C. Lai, H.-Y. Wu, M. Christie, and T.-Y. Li, 2014.07, "An Experimental Platform for Customized Virtual Cinematography in Interactive Storytelling” Computer Graphics Workshop 2014, Taipei, Taiwan.

P.-C. Lai, H.-Y. Wu, C. Sanokho, M. Christie, T.-Y. Li, 2014.08, "A Pattern-based Tool for Creating Virtual Cinematography in Interactive Storytelling" in LNCS Proceedings of The 12th International Symposium on Smart Graphics 2014, Taipei, Taiwan.

C-J. Jorgensen, F. Lamarche, 2014.01, "Semantically Consistent Hierarchical Decomposition of Virtual Urban Environments." in LNCS Proceedings of The 12th International Symposium on Smart Graphics 2014, Taipei, Taiwan.

Marc Christie and Tsai-Yen Li, 2014.08, Associate editors of Smart Graphics - 12th International Symposium, Taipei, Taiwan, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 8698.

2015

H.-Y. Wu, T.-Y. Li, M. Christie, 2015.08, "Logic Control for Story Graphs in 3D Game Narratives” Proceedings of 13th International Symposium on Smart Graphics, Chengdu, China.

J. Wang, H.-Y. Wu, Q. Galvane, M. Christie, T.-Y. Li, 2015.07 "Design of Intelligent Editing System for Computer Animation Director,” Computer Graphics Workshop 2015, Taipei, Taiwan

H.-Y. Wu and M. Christie, 2015.06, "Placing Invisible Cameras: Conversation Between Cognitive Science and Automated Virtual Cinematography” Conference on Cognitive Science and Moving Images 2015 (SCSMI2015), London, UK.

H.-Y. Wu and M. Christie, "Stylistic Patterns for Generating Cinematographic Sequences” Proceedings of 4th Eurographics Workshop on Cinematography and Editing, 2015, Zurich, Switzerland.

B. Merabti, H.-Y. Wu, C. Sanokho, Q. Galvane, M. Christie, 2015.05, "Insight:An annotation tool and format targeted towards film analysis” Proceedings of 4th Eurographics Workshop on Cinematography and Editing, 2015, Zurich, Switzerland.

2016

Hui-yin Wu, Cinematic Discourse for Interactive 3D Storytelling, PhD Thesis, University of Rennes 1, Oct 2016.

Hui-Yin Wu, Marc Christie, Analysing Cinematography with Embedded Constrained Patterns , 5th International Eurographics workshop on Intelligent Cinematography and Editing, 2016

Hui-Yin Wu,Michael Young, Marc Christie, A Cognitive-Based Model of Flashbacks for Computationaal Narratives, Proceedings of the Twelfth Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment Conference (AIIDE 2016), 2016

J.W. Wang, H.Y. Wu, Q. Galvane, T.-Y. Li, and M. Christie, Design of An Intelligent Camera Editing System for Computer Animation. 2016.7, Proceedings of Computer Graphics Workshop, Taipei

2017

Wu, Hui-Yin; Galvane, Quentin; Lino, Christophe; Christie, Marc, Analysing Elements of Styles from Annotated Film Clips, 6th International Eurographics Workshop on Intelligent Cinematography and Editing (WICED) Mai 2017. ACM Proceedings.

Liu, Iou-Shiuan; Li, Tsai-yen; Christie, Marc, Design of an Intelligent Navigation System for Participative Computer Animation, 6th International Eurographics Workshop on Intelligent Cinematography and Editing (WICED) Mai 2017. ACM Proceedings.

Wu, Hui-Yin; Christie, Marc; Li, Tsai-yen, Using ECPs for Interactive Appli- cations in Virtual Cinematography, 6th International Eurographics Workshop on Intelligent Cinematography and Editing (WICED) Mai 2017. ACM Proceedings.

2018

Q. Galvane, I.-C. Lin, M Christie, T.-Y Li Immersive previz: VR authoring for film previsualisation ACM SIGGRAPH 2018 Studio, Vancouver 2018.

H.Y. Wu, F. Palu, R. Ranon and M. Christie, Thinking Like a Director: Film Editing Patterns for Virtual Cinematographic Storytelling, ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, 2018.

For the third year of the FORMOSA associate team, our aim continues to follow the original proposal driven by our three key objectives. This also involves integrating the related developments onto the Theater 3D platform, a platform which is collaboratively developed by both partners. The research topics to address in 2015 are:

1. Designing authoring tools for story creators and cinematographers. After proposing a pattern-based language to describe evolved cinematographic techniques [SG2014], our intention is to explore interactive means for content creation by proposing high-level manipulators to ease the specification of cinematographic sequences over story events. The work will integrate both the pattern-based language (for its declarative capacity), and constraint-based filtering techniques to compute candidate shots. The constraint-based techniques will maintain the consistency with the specifications while the user manipulates low-level parameters (shots size, target object, vantage) or high-level parameters (adding, stretching or blending discursive cinematographic techniques)
2. Establishing a bridge between the semantic and geometric levels. While the model we proposed in [Jorgensen2014] is powerful and expressive, it does present scalability issues that need to be addressed before a full integration with the narrative engine developed in the first year is possible.
3. Providing a full integration of the cinematographic dimension. Our key objective for 2015 is to develop the bridge between the story context provided by the narrative engine and the virtual cinematography through the design and implementation of a technical cinematographic language that translates from story parameters, to high level patterns comprised of camera techniques, and realized by shots extracted and annotated from real movies. In the third year, we expect to have a fully flexible language for film annotation and smart tools for virtual camera planning that can assist camera/shot selection for story creators.

Year 2017 will be structured around three axes:

1. Novel interactions and temporal story structures
   • experimenting immersive systems with novel interactive devices (VR interactions)
   • evaluate assistive authoring tools and for virtual cinematography with NCCU and ENS Lumiere
   • enhancing capacities of storytelling applications by researching on temporal structures in narratives (flashback structures)
2. Coupling temporal story constraints with stylistic preferences with behavior planning of virtual characters
   • providing virtual agents with realistic behaviors able to conform to complex scenarios and fulfill storyline constraints (eg relative placement of characters in the scene)
   • coupling the possibilities of character placements with the cinematic constraints and stylistic requirements.
3. Towards data-driven computational approaches to virtual cinematography involving the collection and analysis of existing cinematographic data, and application of such data to interactive storytelling using cinematic patterns:
   • design and evaluation of tools to collect and annotate cinematographic data (based on our Insight research prototype)