Edmond Shu Lim Ho - Research page

B.Sc. (Hons.), M.Phil., Ph.D.

Research Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science,
Hong Kong Baptist University

Address: RRS633, Sir Run Run Shaw Building,
Hong Kong Baptist University, Kowloon Tong, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR

Email: edmond [at] comp [dot] hkbu [dot] edu [dot] hk

Edmond Shu-lim Ho is currently a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Hong Kong Baptist University. He received the BSc degree in Computer Science from the Hong Kong Baptist University, the MPhil degree from the City University of Hong Kong, and the PhD degree from the University of Edinburgh.

His research interests include physically based animation, human motions analysis and synthesis, and robotics.

	Spatial Relationship Preserving Character Motion Adaptation In this project, we propose a new method for editing and retargeting motions that involve close interactions between body parts of single or multiple articulated characters or between characters and a restricted environment. In such motions, the implicit spatial relationships between body parts/objects are important for capturing the scene semantics. We introduce a simple structure called an interaction mesh to represent such spatial relationships. We demonstrate its effectiveness and versatility in synthesizing a wide variety of motions with close interactions.
	Synthesizing Close Human Interactions with Topology Constraints In this project, we proposed new methods to analysize and generate character motions that invlove close contacts. We introduce the concept of topology coordinates, in which the topological relationships of the segments are embedded into the attributes. There is a wide range of applications of the new methods, for example, content-based retrieval and character animation synthesis.
	Reactive Human Motions In this project, we propose a new method to generate reactive motions for arbitrary external perturbations such as pushing, pulling, or hitting. The method can be applied to motions with arbitrary contact states such as standing, walking or running.

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	Interactive Partner Control in Close Interactions for Real-time Applications by Edmond S. L. Ho, Jacky C. P. Chan, Taku Komura, Howard Leung To appear in ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications, (Accepted, 2013). [Video]
	Motion Adaptation for Humanoid Robots in Constrained Environments by Edmond S. L. Ho and Hubert P. H. Shum To appear in Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2013), May 2013. [PDF] [Video]
	Spatial Relationship Preserving Character Motion Adaptation by Edmond S.L. Ho, Taku Komura, Chiew-Lan Tai ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 2010), vol 29(4), July 2010. [PDF] [Video] [BibTex] [Project page]
	Indexing and Retrieving Motions of Characters in Close Contact by Edmond S. L. Ho and Taku Komura IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 15, issue 3, pp. 481-492, May/June 2009. [PDF] [Video] [BibTex]
	Character Motion Synthesis by Topology Coordinates by Edmond S. L. Ho and Taku Komura Computer Graphics Forum (Proceedings of* Eurographics 2009)*, vol. 28, issue 2, Mar 2009. [PDF] [Video] [BibTex] [Project page]

Last updated: 2 May 2013