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ABOUT<\/h2>

Project Mimicus is an interdisciplinary team of students at the Silicon Valley campus of the Entertainment Technology Center. We are working with Google to use cutting edge Machine Learning research to convert videos of human movements into 3D character animations. Our goal is to document our learning process and design a game using this technology while exploring a variety of possible game design applications.<\/p><\/div>

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Our project is based on a machine learning research paper (Learning Acrobatics by Watching YouTube) which converts videos of human movements into animations. Our goal is to explore possibilities of using this technology in the game industry. We are coming up with a wide variety of game design applications for this technology, based on which we are creating a game that tries to makes the best use of this technology<\/p>Read the Research Paper<\/a>

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WHY WE ARE DOING THIS<\/h5>

To explore possibilities of using this technology in the game industry and answer the question \u201cIn its current state, can we make a game using this technology?\u201d<\/p><\/div> <\/div><\/div> <\/div>

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WHAT WE ARE BUILDING<\/h5>

We are exploring a wide range of possible game design applications and documenting our learning process while trying to build a game which uses this technology.<\/p><\/div> <\/div><\/div> <\/div>

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OUR APPROACH<\/h5>

We are putting together a machine learning pipeline which goes from 2D video to animations in Unreal. We will take this pipeline and create an ideal game loop for it.<\/p><\/div> <\/div><\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div><\/div>

Our Team<\/h2> <\/div> <\/div>
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Alexandra Gobeler<\/b><\/h4>

Alexandra has a\nbackground in mechanical engineering and came to the ETC to be in an artistic\nenvironment. She is seeking a creative role in engineering at a themed\nentertainment company, looking to use her technical skills in an imaginative way.<\/o><\/p>

Artist | Designer<\/b><\/span><\/p>

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Haran Kim<\/b><\/h4>

Haran received two MFA degrees from Indiana University majoring in Printmaking and Digital Art. She is a digital artist who has a great passion for the technical and creative aspects of the entertainment industry and is seeking opprtunities as an artist. <\/p>

Artist | Designer<\/b><\/span><\/p>

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Siyu Ren<\/b><\/h4>

Siyu Ren earned his Bachelor\u2019s degree in media art major at Hong Kong Baptist University. Having learned modeling and animation, he has kept on learning rendering and tool development in game engines and is striving for a career as a technical art.<\/p>

Game Programmer<\/b><\/span><\/p>

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Himanshu Telkikar<\/b><\/h4>

Himanshu is\npassionate about building software and games that tackle real world problems. He\nis an engineer who loves art, design and is interested in entrepreneurship.<\/o><\/p>

Producer | Designer<\/b><\/span><\/p>ETC Page<\/a>

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Eliza Zhang<\/b><\/h4>

Eliza is a software engineer who is interested in rendering and machine learning. Working at the\nintersection of technology and art is  exciting to her.<\/o><\/p>

Machine Learning Programmer<\/b><\/span><\/p>

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Melanie Lam<\/h4>
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This was our final week of the semester. We gave our final presentation at EA on Wednesday (May 8, 2019). Here’s our final presentation: This was followed by a final[…]<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRead more\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

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As we are one week away from our Finals Presentation, we are wrapping up our demo and working to polish our documentation for hand-off. PROGRAMMING We tried another approach for[…]<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRead more\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

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PROGRAMMING AND ART This week, we focused on improving the quality of the animations which are recreated. The machine learning pipeline gives output as animation data (bvh) file, which is[…]<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRead more\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div><\/div>

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Contact<\/h2>

Email us: etc-sv-mimicus@lists.andrew.cmu.edu<\/h3><\/div>
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ABOUT Project Mimicus is an interdisciplinary team of students at the Silicon Valley campus of the Entertainment Technology Center. We are working with Google to use cutting edge Machine Learning research to convert videos of human movements into 3D character animations. Our goal is to document our learning process and design a game using this…
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