Robert W. Sumner

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Publication Activity (10 Years)

Years Active: 1998-2024
Publications (10 Years): 46

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MIG

CoRR

ACM Trans. Graph.

Symposium on Computer Animation

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA (PHD)

Education History

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA

PHD

Publications

Fatemeh Zargarbashi, Jin Cheng, Dongho Kang, Robert W. Sumner, Stelian Coros
RobotKeyframing: Learning Locomotion with High-Level Objectives via Mixture of Dense and Sparse Rewards. CoRR (2024)
Julia Chatain, Venera Gashaj, Bibin Muttappillil, Robert W. Sumner, Manu Kapur
Designing for Embodied Sense-making of Mathematics: Perspectives on Directed and Spontaneous Bodily Actions. Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (2024)
Dhruv Agrawal, Mathias König, Jakob Buhmann, Robert W. Sumner, Martin Guay
Trajectory Augmentation for Robust Neural Locomotion Controllers. VISIGRAPP (1): GRAPP, HUCAPP, IVAPP (2024)
Ayça Takmaz, Elisabetta Fedele, Robert W. Sumner, Marc Pollefeys, Federico Tombari, Francis Engelmann
OpenMask3D: Open-Vocabulary 3D Instance Segmentation. CoRR (2023)
Robert W. Sumner, James F. O'Brien, Jessica K. Hodgins
Animating Sand, Mud, and Snow. CoRR (2023)
Julia Chatain, Manu Kapur, Robert W. Sumner
Three Perspectives on Embodied Learning in Virtual Reality: Opportunities for Interaction Design. CHI Extended Abstracts (2023)
Julia Chatain, Rudolf Varga, Violaine Fayolle, Manu Kapur, Robert W. Sumner
Grounding Graph Theory in Embodied Concreteness with Virtual Reality. TEI (2023)
Ayça Takmaz, Jonas Schult, Irem Kaftan, Mertcan Akçay, Bastian Leibe, Robert W. Sumner, Francis Engelmann, Siyu Tang
3D Segmentation of Humans in Point Clouds with Synthetic Data. ICCV (2023)
Noureddine Gueddach, Steven Poulakos, Robert W. Sumner
Runtime Motion Adaptation for Precise Character Locomotion. MIG (2023)
Dhruv Agrawal, Martin Guay, Jakob Buhmann, Dominik Borer, Robert W. Sumner
Pose and Skeleton-aware Neural IK for Pose and Motion Editing. SIGGRAPH Asia (2023)
Ayça Takmaz, Elisabetta Fedele, Robert W. Sumner, Marc Pollefeys, Federico Tombari, Francis Engelmann
OpenMask3D: Open-Vocabulary 3D Instance Segmentation. NeurIPS (2023)
Leonel Aguilar, Michal Gath-Morad, Jascha Grübel, Jasper Ermatinger, Hantao Zhao, Stefan Wehrli, Robert W. Sumner, Ce Zhang, Dirk Helbing, Christoph Hölscher
Experiments as Code: A Concept for Reproducible, Auditable, Debuggable, Reusable, & Scalable Experiments. CoRR (2022)
Jascha Grübel, Tyler Thrash, Leonel Aguilar, Michal Gath-Morad, Didier Hélal, Robert W. Sumner, Christoph Hölscher, Victor R. Schinazi
Dense Indoor Sensor Networks: Towards passively sensing human presence with LoRaWAN. Pervasive Mob. Comput. 84 (2022)
Jascha Grübel, Tyler Thrash, Leonel Aguilar, Michal Gath-Morad, Julia Chatain, Robert W. Sumner, Christoph Hölscher, Victor R. Schinazi
The Hitchhiker's Guide to Fused Twins: A Review of Access to Digital Twins In Situ in Smart Cities. Remote. Sens. 14 (13) (2022)
Julia Chatain, Virginia Ramp, Venera Gashaj, Violaine Fayolle, Manu Kapur, Robert W. Sumner, Stéphane Magnenat
Grasping Derivatives: Teaching Mathematics through Embodied Interactions using Tablets and Virtual Reality. IDC (2022)
Jascha Grübel, Tyler Thrash, Didier Hélal, Robert W. Sumner, Christoph Hölscher, Victor R. Schinazi
The Feasibility of Dense Indoor LoRaWAN Towards Passively Sensing Human Presence. PerCom (2021)
Jascha Grübel, Tyler Thrash, Didier Helal, Robert W. Sumner, Christoph Hölscher, Victor R. Schinazi
Artifact: The Feasibility of Dense Indoor LoRaWAN Towards Passively Sensing Human Presence. PerCom Workshops (2021)
Luigi Sansonetti, Julia Chatain, Pedro Caldeira, Violaine Fayolle, Manu Kapur, Robert W. Sumner
Mathematics Input for Educational Applications in Virtual Reality. ICAT-EGVE (2021)
Virag Varga, Gergely Vakulya, Benjamin Bürgisser, Nathan Riopelle, Fabio Zund, Robert W. Sumner, Thomas R. Gross, Alanson P. Sample
Real-Time Capture of Holistic Tangible Interactions. TEI (2021)
Jascha Grübel, Michal Gath-Morad, Leonel Aguilar, Tyler Thrash, Robert W. Sumner, Christoph Hölscher, Victor R. Schinazi
Fused Twins: A Cognitive Approach to Augmented Reality Media Architecture. MAB (2021)
Henry Raymond, Sven Knobloch, Fabio Zünd, Robert W. Sumner, Stéphane Magnenat
Leveraging Efficient Planning and Lightweight Agent Definition: A Novel Path Towards Emergent Narrative. AIIDE Workshops (2020)
Julia Chatain, Danielle M. Sisserman, Lea Reichardt, Violaine Fayolle, Manu Kapur, Robert W. Sumner, Fabio Zünd, Amit H. Bermano
DigiGlo: Exploring the Palm as an Input and Display Mechanism through Digital Gloves. CHI PLAY (2020)
Lasse Lingens, Robert W. Sumner, Stéphane Magnenat
Towards automatic drawing animation using physics-based evolution. IDC (Extended Abstracts) (2020)
Loïc Ciccone, Cengiz Öztireli, Robert W. Sumner
Tangent-space optimization for interactive animation control. ACM Trans. Graph. 38 (4) (2019)
Alba M. Rios Rodriguez, Steven Poulakos, Maurizio Nitti, Mattia Ryffel, Robert W. Sumner
Parameterized Animated Activities. MIG (2019)
Julia Chatain, Olivier Bitter, Violaine Fayolle, Robert W. Sumner, Stéphane Magnenat
A Creative Game Design and Programming App. MIG (2019)
Dominik Borer, Martin Guay, Robert W. Sumner
Keys-to-Sim: Transferring Hand-Crafted Key-framed Animations to Simulated Figures using Wide Band Stochastic Trajectory Optimization. CGVC (2018)
Seth Frey, Robert W. Sumner
Emergence of complex institutions in a large population of self-governing communities. CoRR (2018)
Christoph Maurhofer, Gokcen Cimen, Mattia Ryffel, Robert W. Sumner, Martin Guay
AR costumes: automatically augmenting watertight costumes from a single RGB image. VRCAI (2018)
Raphael Anderegg, Loïc Ciccone, Robert W. Sumner
PuppetPhone: puppeteering virtual characters using a smartphone. MIG (2018)
Manuel Braunschweiler, Steven Poulakos, Mubbasir Kapadia, Robert W. Sumner
A Two-Level Planning Framework for Mixed Reality Interactive Narratives with User Engagement. AIVR (2018)
Jessica Falk, Steven Poulakos, Mubbasir Kapadia, Robert W. Sumner
PICA: Proactive Intelligent Conversational Agent for Interactive Narratives. IVA (2018)
Llogari Casas, Loïc Ciccone, Gökçen Çimen, Pablo Wiedemann, Matthias Fauconneau, Robert W. Sumner, Kenny Mitchell
Multi-reality games: an experience across the entire reality-virtuality continuum. VRCAI (2018)
Antoine Milliez, Robert W. Sumner, Markus H. Gross, Bernhard Thomaszewski
HairControl: A Tracking Solution for Directable Hair Simulation. Comput. Graph. Forum 37 (8) (2018)
Loïc Ciccone, Martin Guay, Maurizio Nitti, Robert W. Sumner
Authoring motion cycles. Symposium on Computer Animation (2017)
Seth Frey, Maarten W. Bos, Robert W. Sumner
Can you moderate an unreadable message? 'Blind' content moderation via human computation. Hum. Comput. 4 (1) (2017)
Rémy Siegfried, Severin Klingler, Markus H. Gross, Robert W. Sumner, Francesco Mondada, Stéphane Magnenat
Improved Mobile Robot Programming Performance through Real-time Program Assessment. ITiCSE (2017)
Mubbasir Kapadia, Steven Poulakos, Markus H. Gross, Robert W. Sumner
Computational narrative. SIGGRAPH Courses (2017)
Fabio Zünd, Steven Poulakos, Mubbasir Kapadia, Robert W. Sumner
Story Version Control and Graphical Visualization for Collaborative Story Authoring. CVMP (2017)
Ming Zheng, Antoine Milliez, Markus H. Gross, Robert W. Sumner
Example-based brushes for coherent stylized renderings. NPAR@Expressive (2017)
Mubbasir Kapadia, Seth Frey, Alexander Shoulson, Robert W. Sumner, Markus H. Gross
CANVAS: computer-assisted narrative animation synthesis. Symposium on Computer Animation (2016)
Mubbasir Kapadia, Alexander Shoulson, Cyril Steimer, Samuel Oberholzer, Robert W. Sumner, Markus H. Gross
An event-centric approach to authoring stories in crowds. MIG (2016)
Loïc Ciccone, Martin Guay, Robert W. Sumner
Flow Curves: an Intuitive Interface for Coherent Scene Deformation. Comput. Graph. Forum 35 (7) (2016)
Mubbasir Kapadia, Xianghao Xu, Maurizio Nitti, Marcelo Kallmann, Stelian Coros, Robert W. Sumner, Markus H. Gross
Precision: precomputing environment semantics for contact-rich character animation. I3D (2016)
Steven Poulakos, Mubbasir Kapadia, Guido M. Maiga, Fabio Zünd, Markus H. Gross, Robert W. Sumner
Evaluating Accessible Graphical Interfaces for Building Story Worlds. ICIDS (2016)
Antoine Milliez, Martin Guay, Marie-Paule Cani, Markus H. Gross, Robert W. Sumner
Programmable Animation Texturing using Motion Stamps. Comput. Graph. Forum 35 (7) (2016)
Steven Poulakos, Mubbasir Kapadia, Andrea Schüpfer, Fabio Zünd, Robert W. Sumner, Markus Gross
Towards an Accessible Interface for Story World Building. INT/SBG@AIIDE (2015)
Stephan Müller, Mubbasir Kapadia, Seth Frey, Severin Klingler, Richard P. Mann, Barbara Solenthaler, Robert W. Sumner, Markus H. Gross
Statistical Analysis of Player Behavior in Minecraft. FDG (2015)
Mubbasir Kapadia, Fabio Zund, Jessica Falk, Marcel Marti, Robert W. Sumner
Evaluating the Authoring Complexity of Interactive Narratives for Augmented Reality Applications. FDG (2015)
Fabio Zünd, Pascal Bérard, Alexandre Chapiro, Stefan Schmid, Mattia Ryffel, Markus H. Gross, Amit H. Bermano, Robert W. Sumner
Unfolding the 8-bit era. CVMP (2015)
Stéphane Magnenat, Mordechai Ben-Ari, Severin Klingler, Robert W. Sumner
Enhancing Robot Programming with Visual Feedback and Augmented Reality. ITiCSE (2015)
Stéphane Magnenat, Dat Tien Ngo, Fabio Zünd, Mattia Ryffel, Gioacchino Noris, Gerhard Roethlin, Alessia Marra, Maurizio Nitti, Pascal Fua, Markus H. Gross, Robert W. Sumner
Live Texturing of Augmented Reality Characters from Colored Drawings. IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph. 21 (11) (2015)
Stephan Müller, Barbara Solenthaler, Mubbasir Kapadia, Seth Frey, Severin Klingler, Richard P. Mann, Robert W. Sumner, Markus H. Gross
HeapCraft: interactive data exploration and visualization tools for understanding and influencing player behavior in Minecraft. MIG (2015)
Fabian Hahn, Frederik Mutzel, Stelian Coros, Bernhard Thomaszewski, Maurizio Nitti, Markus H. Gross, Robert W. Sumner
Sketch abstractions for character posing. Symposium on Computer Animation (2015)
Stephan Müller, Mubbasir Kapadia, Seth Frey, Severin Klingler, Richard P. Mann, Barbara Solenthaler, Robert W. Sumner, Markus H. Gross
HeapCraft: Understanding and Improving Player Collaboration in Minecraft. FDG (2015)
Nicolas Imhof, Antoine Milliez, Flurin Jenal, René Bauer, Markus H. Gross, Robert W. Sumner
Fin textures for real-time painterly aesthetics. MIG (2015)
Jesús Pérez, Bernhard Thomaszewski, Stelian Coros, Bernd Bickel, José A. Canabal, Robert W. Sumner, Miguel A. Otaduy
Design and fabrication of flexible rod meshes. ACM Trans. Graph. 34 (4) (2015)
Rafael Huber, Benjamin Scheibehenne, Alexandre Chapiro, Seth Frey, Robert W. Sumner
The influence of visual salience on video consumption behavior: A survival analysis approach. WebSci (2015)
Stephan Müller, Seth Frey, Mubbasir Kapadia, Severin Klingler, Richard P. Mann, Barbara Solenthaler, Robert W. Sumner, Markus H. Gross
HeapCraft: Quantifying and Predicting Collaboration in Minecraft. AIIDE (2015)
Mubbasir Kapadia, Jessica Falk, Fabio Zünd, Marcel Marti, Robert W. Sumner, Markus H. Gross
Computer-assisted authoring of interactive narratives. I3D (2015)
Tyler Thrash, Mubbasir Kapadia, Mehdi Moussaïd, Christophe Wilhelm, Dirk Helbing, Robert W. Sumner, Christoph Hölscher
Evaluation of Control Interfaces for Desktop Virtual Environments. Presence Teleoperators Virtual Environ. 24 (4) (2015)
Daniel Zimmermann, Stelian Coros, Yuting Ye, Robert W. Sumner, Markus H. Gross
Hierarchical planning and control for complex motor tasks. Symposium on Computer Animation (2015)
Fabio Zünd, Mattia Ryffel, Stéphane Magnenat, Alessia Marra, Maurizio Nitti, Mubbasir Kapadia, Gioacchino Noris, Kenny Mitchell, Markus H. Gross, Robert W. Sumner
Augmented creativity: bridging the real and virtual worlds to enhance creative play. SIGGRAPH Asia Mobile Graphics and Interactive Applications (2015)
Amit Bermano, Derek Bradley, Thabo Beeler, Fabio Zund, Derek Nowrouzezahrai, Ilya Baran, Olga Sorkine-Hornung, Hanspeter Pfister, Robert W. Sumner, Bernd Bickel, Markus H. Gross
Facial performance enhancement using dynamic shape space analysis. ACM Trans. Graph. 33 (2) (2014)
Fabio Zünd, Marcel Lancelle, Mattia Ryffel, Robert W. Sumner, Kenny Mitchell, Markus H. Gross
Influence of animated reality mixing techniques on user experience. MIG (2014)
Antoine Milliez, Gioacchino Noris, Ilya Baran, Stelian Coros, Marie-Paule Cani, Maurizio Nitti, Alessia Marra, Markus H. Gross, Robert W. Sumner
Hierarchical motion brushes for animation instancing. NPAR@Expressive (2014)
Fabian Hahn, Bernhard Thomaszewski, Stelian Coros, Robert W. Sumner, Forrester Cole, Mark Meyer, Tony DeRose, Markus H. Gross
Subspace clothing simulation using adaptive bases. ACM Trans. Graph. 33 (4) (2014)
Katie Bassett, Ilya Baran, Johannes Schmid, Markus H. Gross, Robert W. Sumner
Authoring and animating painterly characters. ACM Trans. Graph. 32 (5) (2013)
Mario Paolucci, Donald Kossmann, Rosaria Conte, Paul Lukowicz, Panos Argyrakis, Ann Blandford, Giulia Bonelli, Stuart Anderson, Sara de Freitas, Bruce Edmonds, Nigel Gilbert, Markus H. Gross, Jörn Kohlhammer, Petros Koumoutsakos, Andreas Krause, Björn-Ola Linnér, Philipp Slusallek, Olga Sorkine, Robert W. Sumner, Dirk Helbing
Towards a living earth simulator CoRR (2013)
A. Cengiz Öztireli, Ilya Baran, Tiberiu Popa, Boris Dalstein, Robert W. Sumner, Markus H. Gross
Differential blending for expressive sketch-based posing. Symposium on Computer Animation (2013)
Gioacchino Noris, Alexander Hornung, Robert W. Sumner, Maryann Simmons, Markus H. Gross
Topology-driven vectorization of clean line drawings. ACM Trans. Graph. 32 (1) (2013)
Stelian Coros, Bernhard Thomaszewski, Gioacchino Noris, Shinjiro Sueda, Moira Forberg, Robert W. Sumner, Wojciech Matusik, Bernd Bickel
Computational design of mechanical characters. ACM Trans. Graph. 32 (4) (2013)
Fabian Hahn, Bernhard Thomaszewski, Stelian Coros, Robert W. Sumner, Markus H. Gross
Efficient simulation of secondary motion in rig-space. Symposium on Computer Animation (2013)
Huw Bowles, Kenny Mitchell, Robert W. Sumner, Jeremy Moore, Markus H. Gross
Iterative Image Warping. Comput. Graph. Forum 31 (2pt1) (2012)
Thabo Beeler, Bernd Bickel, Gioacchino Noris, Paul A. Beardsley, Steve Marschner, Robert W. Sumner, Markus H. Gross
Coupled 3D reconstruction of sparse facial hair and skin. ACM Trans. Graph. 31 (4) (2012)
Fabian Hahn, Sebastian Martin, Bernhard Thomaszewski, Robert W. Sumner, Stelian Coros, Markus H. Gross
Rig-space physics. ACM Trans. Graph. 31 (4) (2012)
Gioacchino Noris, Daniel Sýkora, Arik Shamir, Stelian Coros, Brian Whited, Maryann Simmons, Alexander Hornung, Markus H. Gross, Robert W. Sumner
Smart Scribbles for Sketch Segmentation. Comput. Graph. Forum 31 (8) (2012)
Thomas Oskam, Alexander Hornung, Robert W. Sumner, Markus H. Gross
Fast and Stable Color Balancing for Images and Augmented Reality. 3DIMPVT (2012)
Christian Schumacher, Bernhard Thomaszewski, Stelian Coros, Sebastian Martin, Robert W. Sumner, Markus H. Gross
Efficient Simulation of Example-Based Materials. Symposium on Computer Animation (2012)
Stelian Coros, Sebastian Martin, Bernhard Thomaszewski, Christian Schumacher, Robert W. Sumner, Markus H. Gross
Deformable objects alive! ACM Trans. Graph. 31 (4) (2012)
Gioacchino Noris, Daniel Sýkora, Stelian Coros, Brian Whited, Maryann Simmons, Alexander Hornung, Markus H. Gross, Robert W. Sumner
Temporal noise control for sketchy animation. NPAR (2011)
Thabo Beeler, Fabian Hahn, Derek Bradley, Bernd Bickel, Paul A. Beardsley, Craig Gotsman, Robert W. Sumner, Markus H. Gross
High-quality passive facial performance capture using anchor frames. ACM Trans. Graph. 30 (4) (2011)
Johannes Schmid, Martin Sebastian Senn, Markus H. Gross, Robert W. Sumner
OverCoat: an implicit canvas for 3D painting. ACM Trans. Graph. 30 (4) (2011)
Derek Nowrouzezahrai, Stefan Geiger, Kenny Mitchell, Robert W. Sumner, Wojciech Jarosz, Markus H. Gross
Light factorization for mixed-frequency shadows in augmented reality. ISMAR (2011)
Ilya Baran, Johannes Schmid, Thomas Siegrist, Markus H. Gross, Robert W. Sumner
Mixed-order compositing for 3D paintings. ACM Trans. Graph. 30 (6) (2011)
Brian Whited, Gioacchino Noris, Maryann Simmons, Robert W. Sumner, Markus H. Gross, Jarek Rossignac
BetweenIT: An Interactive Tool for Tight Inbetweening. Comput. Graph. Forum 29 (2) (2010)
Thomas Oskam, Robert W. Sumner, Nils Thürey, Markus H. Gross
Visibility Transition Planning for Dynamic Camera Control. MIG (2010)
Johannes Schmid, Robert W. Sumner, Huw Bowles, Markus H. Gross
Programmable motion effects. ACM Trans. Graph. 29 (4) (2010)
Thomas Oskam, Robert W. Sumner, Nils Thürey, Markus H. Gross
Visibility transition planning for dynamic camera control. Symposium on Computer Animation (2009)
Floraine Grabler, Maneesh Agrawala, Robert W. Sumner, Mark Pauly
Automatic generation of tourist maps. ACM Trans. Graph. 27 (3) (2008)
Hao Li, Robert W. Sumner, Mark Pauly
Global Correspondence Optimization for Non-Rigid Registration of Depth Scans. Comput. Graph. Forum 27 (5) (2008)
Michael Eigensatz, Robert W. Sumner, Mark Pauly
Curvature-Domain Shape Processing. Comput. Graph. Forum 27 (2) (2008)
Robert W. Sumner, Nils Thuerey, Markus H. Gross
The ETH game programming laboratory: a capstone for computer science and visual computing. GDCSE (2008)
Robert W. Sumner, Johannes Schmid, Mark Pauly
Embedded deformation for shape manipulation. ACM Trans. Graph. 26 (3) (2007)
Kevin G. Der, Robert W. Sumner, Jovan Popovic
Inverse kinematics for reduced deformable models. ACM Trans. Graph. 25 (3) (2006)
Robert W. Sumner, Matthias Zwicker, Craig Gotsman, Jovan Popovic
Mesh-based inverse kinematics. ACM Trans. Graph. 24 (3) (2005)
Robert W. Sumner, Jovan Popovic
Deformation transfer for triangle meshes. ACM Trans. Graph. 23 (3) (2004)
Robert W. Sumner, James F. O'Brien, Jessica K. Hodgins
Animating Sand, Mud, and Snow. Comput. Graph. Forum 18 (1) (1999)
Robert W. Sumner, James F. O'Brien, Jessica K. Hodgins
Animating Sand, Mud & Snow. Graphics Interface (1998)

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