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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt">University of Chicago<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt">Department of Computer Science<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt">Presents<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt">Kfir Aberman, Research Scientist, Google Research<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt">Monday, Oct. 4, 2021 @ 10am<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt">John Crerar Library – JCL 298<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt">You may also join remotely via Zoom:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/tau-ac-il.zoom.us/j/85409945030__;!!BpyFHLRN4TMTrA!vi2Myn0XVbQr8ydtTRGoterz3fn0t32vjUlvRNMUqHRGsCFwgUUd0biXYOCys2Awv_g$" target="_blank" title="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://tau-ac-il.zoom.us/j/85409945030__;!!BpyFHLRN4TMTrA!vi2Myn0XVbQr8ydtTRGoterz3fn0t32vjUlvRNMUqHRGsCFwgUUd0biXYOCys2Awv_g$"><span style="font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif">https://tau-ac-il.zoom.us/j/85409945030</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt">Title:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt"> Learning the Structure of Motion<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt">Abstract:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt"> </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Human motion is a fundamental attribute,
underlying human actions, gestures, and behavior. It is inherently a 4D entity, commonly represented as a low-level encoding: a temporal sequence of poses, specified as a set of joint positions and/or angles. However, motion is a high-level, abstract, attribute
that is concealed under this representation. For example, the same motion performed by two individuals with different skeletons might have significantly different low-level encoding. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">In this talk, we will present two learning frameworks that aim to learn the essence of motion and enables retargeting the motion of one performer to another. The first deals
with the retargeting of video-captured motion between different human performers, without the need to explicitly reconstruct 3D poses and/or camera parameters, and the second is aiming at 3D motion retargeting between skeletons, which may have different structures
and number of joints, yet derived from the same topology. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">The shared key idea in both frameworks is the disentanglement of a motion signal into fundamental, abstract, components that enables separating the dynamic aspects of motion from the static ones, using unique deep
neural network structures. Our framework demonstrates state-of-the-art performances in both of the retargeting tasks, and can be further exploited for other motion analysis and synthesis tasks such as motion retrieval and motion style transfer.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt">Bio:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt"> </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Kfir Aberman is a research scientist at Google
Research in San Francisco. His research interests include deep neural network architectures for various computer graphics applications. In particular, his work is focused on analysis, synthesis, and manipulation of human motion in real videos as well as 3D
character animation. Kfir received his Ph.D. from the Electrical Engineering department at Tel-Aviv University, under the supervision of Prof. Daniel Cohen-Or, and his M.Sc. (Cum Laude) and B.Sc. (Summa Cum Laude) from the Technion. He serves as a reviewer
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt">Host:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt"> Rana Hanocka</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Rene Noyola </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Chicago, IL 60637<br>
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<b>Date: </b>Wednesday, September 29, 2021 at 11:15 AM<br>
<b>To: </b>Rene Noyola <rnoyola@uchicago.edu><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: [DRAFT] Speaker: Kfir Aberman, Research Scientist at Google Research, 10/04/21<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Wed, Sep 29, 2021, 09:58 Rene Noyola <<a href="mailto:rnoyola@uchicago.edu">rnoyola@uchicago.edu</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt">Abstract:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt"> </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Human motion is a fundamental attribute, underlying human actions, gestures,
and behavior. It is inherently a 4D entity, commonly represented as a low-level encoding: a temporal sequence of poses, specified as a set of joint positions and/or angles. However, motion is a high-level, abstract, attribute that is concealed under this representation.
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">In this talk, we will present two learning frameworks that aim to learn the essence of motion and enables retargeting the motion of one performer to another. The first deals with the retargeting of video-captured motion
between different human performers, without the need to explicitly reconstruct 3D poses and/or camera parameters, and the second is aiming at 3D motion retargeting between skeletons, which may have different structures and number of joints, yet derived from
the same topology. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">The shared key idea in both frameworks is the disentanglement of a motion signal into fundamental, abstract, components that enables separating the dynamic aspects of motion from the static ones, using unique deep
neural network structures. Our framework demonstrates state-of-the-art performances in both of the retargeting tasks, and can be further exploited for other motion analysis and synthesis tasks such as motion retrieval and motion style transfer.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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Research in San Francisco. His research interests include deep neural network architectures for various computer graphics applications. In particular, his work is focused on analysis, synthesis, and manipulation of human motion in real videos as well as 3D
character animation. Kfir received his Ph.D. from the Electrical Engineering department at Tel-Aviv University, under the supervision of Prof. Daniel Cohen-Or, and his M.Sc. (Cum Laude) and B.Sc. (Summa Cum Laude) from the Technion. He serves as a reviewer
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