Michael Neff

Publication Activity (10 Years)

Years Active: 1999-2024
Publications (10 Years): 47

Top Topics

Continuous Stream

Pedagogical Agents

Virtual Characters

Top Venues

Publications

Ryan Canales, Doug Roble, Michael Neff
The Impact of Avatar Stylization on Trust. VR (2024)
Pei Xu, Kaixiang Xie, Sheldon Andrews, Paul G. Kry, Michael Neff, Morgan McGuire, Ioannis Karamouzas, Victor B. Zordan
AdaptNet: Policy Adaptation for Physics-Based Character Control. ACM Trans. Graph. 42 (6) (2023)
Simbarashe Nyatsanga, Taras Kucherenko, Chaitanya Ahuja, Gustav Eje Henter, Michael Neff
A Comprehensive Review of Data-Driven Co-Speech Gesture Generation. CoRR (2023)
Tony Luczak, David Saucier, Harish Chander, Yanbing Tang, Charles E. Freeman, John Lamberth, John E. Ball, Steven M. Grice, J. Carver Middleton, Chih Chia Chen, Kait Jackson, Michael Taquino, Erin Parker, Zachary M. Gillen, Michael Neff, Martin Duclos, Reuben F. Burch V., Adam Knight, Long Tian
The Opportunity to Collect Kinetic Forces During a Round of Golf Using Wearable Devices: Single-Subject Case Study - The Full Swings. VRW (2023)
Simbarashe Nyatsanga, Taras Kucherenko, Chaitanya Ahuja, Gustav Eje Henter, Michael Neff
A Comprehensive Review of Data-Driven Co-Speech Gesture Generation. Comput. Graph. Forum 42 (2) (2023)
Pei Xu, Kaixiang Xie, Sheldon Andrews, Paul G. Kry, Michael Neff, Morgan McGuire, Ioannis Karamouzas, Victor B. Zordan
AdaptNet: Policy Adaptation for Physics-Based Character Control. CoRR (2023)
Ikhsanul Habibie, Mohamed Elgharib, Kripasindhu Sarkar, Ahsan Abdullah, Simbarashe Nyatsanga, Michael Neff, Christian Theobalt
A Motion Matching-based Framework for Controllable Gesture Synthesis from Speech. SIGGRAPH (Conference Paper Track) (2022)
Taras Kucherenko, Rajmund Nagy, Michael Neff, Hedvig Kjellström, Gustav Eje Henter
Multimodal Analysis of the Predictability of Hand-gesture Properties. AAMAS (2022)
Michael Neff
Tunable tension for gesture animation. IVA (2022)
Hye Ji Kim, Michael Neff, Sung-Hee Lee
The Perceptual Consistency and Association of the LMA Effort Elements. ACM Trans. Appl. Percept. 19 (1) (2022)
Ylva Ferstl, Michael Neff, Rachel McDonnell
It's A Match! Gesture Generation Using Expressive Parameter Matching. AAMAS (2021)
Ylva Ferstl, Michael Neff, Rachel McDonnell
It's A Match! Gesture Generation Using Expressive Parameter Matching. CoRR (2021)
Ahsan Abdullah, Jan Kolkmeier, Vivian Lo, Michael Neff
Videoconference and Embodied VR: Communication Patterns Across Task and Medium. Proc. ACM Hum. Comput. Interact. 5 (CSCW2) (2021)
Taras Kucherenko, Rajmund Nagy, Patrik Jonell, Michael Neff, Hedvig Kjellström, Gustav Eje Henter
Speech2Properties2Gestures: Gesture-Property Prediction as a Tool for Generating Representational Gestures from Speech. CoRR (2021)
Taras Kucherenko, Rajmund Nagy, Michael Neff, Hedvig Kjellström, Gustav Eje Henter
Multimodal analysis of the predictability of hand-gesture properties. CoRR (2021)
Ylva Ferstl, Rachel McDonnell, Michael Neff
Evaluating Study Design and Strategies for Mitigating the Impact of Hand Tracking Loss. SAP (2021)
Ylva Ferstl, Michael Neff, Rachel McDonnell
ExpressGesture: Expressive gesture generation from speech through database matching. Comput. Animat. Virtual Worlds 32 (3-4) (2021)
Taras Kucherenko, Rajmund Nagy, Patrik Jonell, Michael Neff, Hedvig Kjellström, Gustav Eje Henter
Speech2Properties2Gestures: Gesture-Property Prediction as a Tool for Generating Representational Gestures from Speech. IVA (2021)
Ylva Ferstl, Michael Neff, Rachel McDonnell
Understanding the Predictability of Gesture Parameters from Speech and their Perceptual Importance. CoRR (2020)
Ylva Ferstl, Michael Neff, Rachel McDonnell
Adversarial gesture generation with realistic gesture phasing. Comput. Graph. 89 (2020)
Ylva Ferstl, Michael Neff, Rachel McDonnell
Understanding the Predictability of Gesture Parameters from Speech and their Perceptual Importance. IVA (2020)
Sophie Jörg, Yuting Ye, Michael Neff, Franziska Mueller, Victor B. Zordan
Virtual hands in VR: motion capture, synthesis, and perception. SIGGRAPH Courses (2020)
Nicholas Toothman, Michael Neff
Spring Rigs for Skinning. MIG (2019)
Momoko Tsuchiya, Takayuki Itoh, Michael Neff, Yuhan Liu
A Virtual and Interactive Light-Art-Like Representation of Human Silhouette. CW (2019)
Ylva Ferstl, Michael Neff, Rachel McDonnell
Multi-objective adversarial gesture generation. MIG (2019)
Harrison Jesse Smith, Brian K. Riley, Lena Reed, Vrindavan Harrison, Marilyn A. Walker, Michael Neff
The Impact of Multi-character Story Distribution and Gesture on Children's Engagement. ICIDS (2019)
Gabriel Castillo, Michael Neff
What do we express without knowing?: Emotion in Gesture. AAMAS (2019)
Nicholas Toothman, Michael Neff
The Impact of Avatar Tracking Errors on User Experience in VR. VR (2019)
Harrison Jesse Smith, Chen Cao, Michael Neff, Yingying Wang
Efficient Neural Networks for Real-time Motion Style Transfer. Proc. ACM Comput. Graph. Interact. Tech. 2 (2) (2019)
Harrison Jesse Smith, Michael Neff
Communication Behavior in Embodied Virtual Reality. CHI (2018)
Zachary A. Pardos, Changran Hu, Pengqiu Meng, Michael Neff, Dor Abrahamson
Classifying Learner Behavior from High Frequency Touchscreen Data Using Recurrent Neural Networks. UMAP (Adjunct Publication) (2018)
Zhichao Hu, Marilyn A. Walker, Michael Neff, Jean E. Fox Tree
Storytelling Agents with Personality and Adaptivity. CoRR (2017)
Ahsan Abdullah, Mohammad Adil, Leah F. Rosenbaum, Miranda Clemmons, Mansi Shah, Dor Abrahamson, Michael Neff
Pedagogical Agents to Support Embodied, Discovery-Based Learning. IVA (2017)
Michael Neff, Catherine Pelachaud
Animation of Natural Virtual Characters. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications 37 (4) (2017)
Simon Alexanderson, Carol O'Sullivan, Michael Neff, Jonas Beskow
Mimebot - Investigating the Expressibility of Non-Verbal Communication Across Agent Embodiments. ACM Trans. Appl. Percept. 14 (4) (2017)
Harrison Jesse Smith, Michael Neff
Understanding the impact of animated gesture performance on personality perceptions. ACM Trans. Graph. 36 (4) (2017)
Nicholas Toothman, Michael Neff
Attachment-based character deformation. Symposium on Computer Animation (2017)
Funda Durupinar, Mubbasir Kapadia, Susan Deutsch, Michael Neff, Norman I. Badler
PERFORM: Perceptual Approach for Adding OCEAN Personality to Human Motion Using Laban Movement Analysis. ACM Trans. Graph. 36 (1) (2017)
Hubert P. H. Shum, Michael Neff, Ronan Boulic
Foreword to the Special Section on Motion in Games 2016. Comput. Graph. 69 (2017)
Kris Liu, Jackson Tolins, Jean E. Fox Tree, Michael Neff, Marilyn A. Walker
Two Techniques for Assessing Virtual Agent Personality. IEEE Trans. Affect. Comput. 7 (1) (2016)
Jackson Tolins, Kris Liu, Michael Neff, Marilyn A. Walker, Jean E. Fox Tree
A Verbal and Gestural Corpus of Story Retellings to an Expressive Embodied Virtual Character. LREC (2016)
Zhichao Hu, Michelle Dick, Chung-Ning Chang, Kevin Bowden, Michael Neff, Jean E. Fox Tree, Marilyn A. Walker
A Corpus of Gesture-Annotated Dialogues for Monologue-to-Dialogue Generation from Personal Narratives. LREC (2016)
Jackson Tolins, Kris Liu, Yingying Wang, Jean E. Fox Tree, Marilyn A. Walker, Michael Neff
A Multimodal Motion-Captured Corpus of Matched and Mismatched Extravert-Introvert Conversational Pairs. LREC (2016)
Yingying Wang, Kerstin Ruhland, Michael Neff, Carol O'Sullivan
Walk the talk: coordinating gesture with locomotion for conversational characters. Comput. Animat. Virtual Worlds 27 (3-4) (2016)
Nkenge Wheatland, Ahsan Abdullah, Michael Neff, Sophie Jörg, Victor B. Zordan
Analysis in support of realistic timing in animated fingerspelling. VR (2016)
Huaguang Song, Michael Neff
A Parameterized Schema for Representing Complex Gesture Forms. IVA (2016)
Yingying Wang, Jean E. Fox Tree, Marilyn A. Walker, Michael Neff
Assessing the Impact of Hand Motion on Virtual Character Personality. ACM Trans. Appl. Percept. 13 (2) (2016)
Nkenge Wheatland, Yingying Wang, Huaguang Song, Michael Neff, Victor B. Zordan, Sophie Jörg
State of the Art in Hand and Finger Modeling and Animation. Comput. Graph. Forum 34 (2) (2015)
Chao Hu, Marilyn A. Walker, Michael Neff, Jean E. Fox Tree
Storytelling Agents with Personality and Adaptivity. IVA (2015)
Yingying Wang, Michael Neff
Deep signatures for indexing and retrieval in large motion databases. MIG (2015)
Michael Neff, Stefan Andersson, Aaron Vose, John M. Levesque
A Strategy for Developing a Performance Portable Highly Scalable Application. PARCO (2015)
Virginia J. Flood, Michael Neff, Dor Abrahamson
Boundary Interactions: Resolving Interdisciplinary Collaboration Challenges Using Digitized Embodied Performances. CSCL (2015)
Kris Liu, Jackson Tolins, Jean E. Fox Tree, Marilyn A. Walker, Michael Neff
Evaluating Personality Trait Attribution Based on Gestures by Virtual Agents. CogSci (2014)
Huaguang Song, Michael Neff
Design and evaluation of a sketch-based gesture animation tool. MIG (2014)
Ajay Sundar Ramakrishnan, Michael Neff
Segmentation of hand gestures using motion capture data. AAMAS (2013)
Pengcheng Luo, Victor Ng-Thow-Hing, Michael Neff
An Examination of Whether People Prefer Agents Whose Gestures Mimic Their Own. IVA (2013)
Yingying Wang, Michael Neff
Data-driven glove calibration for hand motion capture. Symposium on Computer Animation (2013)
Kris Liu, Jackson Tolins, Jean E. Fox Tree, Marilyn A. Walker, Michael Neff
Judging IVA Personality Using an Open-Ended Question. IVA (2013)
Yingying Wang, Michael Neff
The Influence of Prosody on the Requirements for Gesture-Text Alignment. IVA (2013)
Yuanfeng Zhu, Ajay Sundar Ramakrishnan, Bernd Hamann, Michael Neff
A system for automatic animation of piano performances. Comput. Animat. Virtual Worlds 24 (5) (2013)
Tyler Martin, Michael Neff
Interactive Quadruped Animation. MIG (2012)
Yejin Kim, Michael Neff
Automating Expressive Locomotion Generation. Trans. Edutainment 7 (2012)
Yejin Kim, Michael Neff
Component-based Locomotion Composition. Symposium on Computer Animation (2012)
Pengcheng Luo, Michael Neff
A Perceptual Study of the Relationship between Posture and Gesture for Virtual Characters. MIG (2012)
Chris Kang, Nkenge Wheatland, Michael Neff, Victor B. Zordan
Automatic Hand-Over Animation for Free-Hand Motions from Low Resolution Input. MIG (2012)
Michael Neff, Nicholas Toothman, Robeson Bowmani, Jean E. Fox Tree, Marilyn A. Walker
Don't Scratch! Self-adaptors Reflect Emotional Stability. IVA (2011)
Brian F. Allen, Michael Neff, Petros Faloutsos
Analytic proportional-derivative control for precise and compliant motion. ICRA (2011)
Michael Neff, Yingying Wang, Rob Abbott, Marilyn A. Walker
Evaluating the Effect of Gesture and Language on Personality Perception in Conversational Agents. IVA (2010)
Brian F. Allen, Michael Neff, Petros Faloutsos
Pose Control in Dynamic Conditions. MIG (2010)
Pengcheng Luo, Michael Kipp, Michael Neff
Augmenting Gesture Animation with Motion Capture Data to Provide Full-Body Engagement. IVA (2009)
Michael Neff, Yejin Kim
Interactive editing of motion style using drives and correlations. Symposium on Computer Animation (2009)
Michael Neff
Automatic Torso Engagement for Gesturing Characters. IVA (2008)
Michael Neff, Michael Kipp, Irene Albrecht, Hans-Peter Seidel
Gesture modeling and animation based on a probabilistic re-creation of speaker style. ACM Trans. Graph. 27 (1) (2008)
Michael Kipp, Michael Neff, Kerstin H. Kipp, Irene Albrecht
Towards Natural Gesture Synthesis: Evaluating Gesture Units in a Data-Driven Approach to Gesture Synthesis. IVA (2007)
Michael Neff, Irene Albrecht, Hans-Peter Seidel
Layered Performance Animation with Correlation Maps. Comput. Graph. Forum 26 (3) (2007)
Michael Kipp, Michael Neff, Irene Albrecht
An annotation scheme for conversational gestures: how to economically capture timing and form. Lang. Resour. Evaluation 41 (3-4) (2007)
Michael Neff, Hans-Peter Seidel
Modeling Relaxed Hand Shape for Character Animation. AMDO (2006)
Michael Neff, Eugene Fiume
Methods for exploring expressive stance. Graph. Model. 68 (2) (2006)
Michael Neff, Eugene Fiume
From Performance Theory to Character Animation Tools. Human Motion (2006)
Michael Neff, Eugene Fiume
AER: aesthetic exploration and refinement for expressive character animation. Symposium on Computer Animation (2005)
Joe Laszlo, Michael Neff, Karan Singh
Predictive Feedback for Interactive Control of Physics-based Characters. Comput. Graph. Forum 24 (3) (2005)
Michael Neff, Eugene Fiume
Methods for exploring expressive stance. Symposium on Computer Animation (2004)
Michael Neff, Eugene Fiume
Aesthetic edits for character animation. Symposium on Computer Animation (2003)
Michael Neff, Eugene Fiume
Modeling tension and relaxation for computer animation. Symposium on Computer Animation (2002)
Michael Neff, Eugene Fiume
A Visual Model For Blast Waves and Francture. Graphics Interface (1999)