Myung Geol Choi

Postdoctoral Researcher
IPAB
School of Informatics
The University of Edinburgh
Edinburgh, UK

  • Office: IF-1.47
  • E-mail: myunggeol (at) gmail.com
  • Tel: +44 (0) 131 650 8285
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    I am interested in the technology that makes it easier for people to be creative, especially to create their 3D character animation. I received my PhD degree in computer science from Seoul National University, Korea in 2010. I studied in Movement Research LAB which is being supervised by Prof. Jehee Lee and learned about the comprehensive techniques of the data-driven character animation. During this time, my main research topic was the interactive control of single or multiple 3D characters in a complex environment. After graduation, I worked as a postdoctoral researcher at JST ERATO IGARASHI Design Interface Project with Prof. Takeo Igarashi for 14 months and studied about the HCI for making 3D character animation. Now I am working as a postdoctoral researcher at IPAB, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, UK with Prof. Taku Komura.


    And I like photography.

    Publications

    • Stick Figures [project page] [video] [youtube] [paper]
      Myung Geol Choi, Kyungyong Yang, Takeo Igarashi, Jun Mitani, Jehee Lee, Retrieval and Visualization of Human Motion Data via Stick Figures. Computer Graphics Forum (Pacific Graphics 2012), Volume 31, Number 7, 2057-2065, September 2012. Best Paper Award

    • Motion Comics (Siggraph2011 Technical Talk) [paper]
      Myung Geol Choi, Kyungyong Yang, Jehee Lee, Jun Mitani, Takeo Igarashi, Motion Comics: Visualization, Browsing and Searching of Human Motion, Data Siggraph 2011 Technical Talk.

    • Deformable Motion [project page] [video] [paper]
      Myung Geol Choi, Manmyung Kim, Kyunglyul Hyun and Jehee Lee, Deformable Motion: Squeezing into Cluttered Environments, Computer Graphics Forum (EUROGRAPHICS 2011), Valume 30, Issue 2, 445-453, April 2011.

    • Morphable Crowds [project page] [video] [paper]
      Eunjung Ju, Myung Geol Choi, Minji Park, Jehee Lee, Kang Hoon Lee, Shigeo Takahashi, Morphable Crowds, ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH ASIA 2010) , Volume 29, Issue 6, December 2010.

    • Linkless Octree [project page] [video] [paper]
      Myung Geol Choi, Eunjung Ju, Jungwoo Chang, Young J Kim, Jehee Lee, Linkless Octree Using Multi-Level Perfect Hashing, Computer Graphics Forum (Pacific Graphics 2009), volume 28, number 8, 1773-1780, August 2009.

    • Group Behavior from Video [project page] [video] [paper]
      Kang Hoon Lee, Myung Geol Choi, Qyoun Hong and Jehee Lee, Group Behavior from Video: A Data-Driven Approach to Crowd Simulation, Symposium on Computer Animation 2007, 109-118, August 2007.

    • Motion Patches [project page] [video] [paper]
      Kang Hoon Lee, Myung Geol Choi and Jehee Lee, Motion Patches: Building Blocks for Virtual Environments Annotated with Motion Data, ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH 2006), volume 25, number 3, 898-906, July 2006.