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PhD Computer Science Stanford University
Masters Electrical Engineering University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Nancy S. Pollard is an American computer scientist, roboticist, and computer graphics researcher. She is a professor in the Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute, where she heads the Foam Robotics Lab.

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Nancy Pollard's Published Works

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Interactive control of avatars animated with human motion data (2002) (1055)
Synthesizing physically realistic human motion in low-dimensional, behavior-specific spaces (2004) (520)
Segmenting Motion Capture Data into Distinct Behaviors (2004) (480)
Adapting human motion for the control of a humanoid robot (2002) (360)
Efficient synthesis of physically valid human motion (2003) (281)
Adapting simulated behaviors for new characters (1997) (270)
Data-Driven Grasp Synthesis Using Shape Matching and Task-Based Pruning (2007) (167)
DynaMMo: mining and summarization of coevolving sequences with missing values (2009) (158)
Physically based grasping control from example (2005) (155)
Responsive characters from motion fragments (2007) (148)
Perceptual metrics for character animation: sensitivity to errors in ballistic motion (2003) (146)
Real-time gradient-domain painting (2008) (138)
Closure and Quality Equivalence for Efficient Synthesis of Grasps from Examples (2004) (133)
An integrated system for autonomous robotics manipulation (2012) (109)
Fast simulation of skeleton-driven deformable body characters (2011) (93)
Pre- and post-contact policy decomposition for planar contact manipulation under uncertainty (2014) (88)
Evaluating motion graphs for character animation (2007) (82)
Constrained least-squares optimization for robust estimation of center of rotation. (2007) (80)
Pose estimation for contact manipulation with manifold particle filters (2013) (77)
Synthesizing grasps from generalized prototypes (1996) (76)
Parallel methods for synthesizing whole-hand grasps from generalized prototypes (1994) (72)
Efficient touch based localization through submodularity (2012) (71)
A shape matching algorithm for synthesizing humanlike enveloping grasps (2005) (71)
Physically Based Grasp Quality Evaluation Under Pose Uncertainty (2013) (71)
Optimizing Human Motion for the Control of a Humanoid Robot (2002) (70)
Pose estimation for planar contact manipulation with manifold particle filters (2015) (69)
Method for Determining Kinematic Parameters of the In Vivo Thumb Carpometacarpal Joint (2008) (67)
Evaluating motion graphs for character navigation (2004) (66)
Local layering (2009) (66)
Feature selection for grasp recognition from optical markers (2007) (62)
Tendon arrangement and muscle force requirements for human-like force capabilities in a robotic finger (2002) (59)
Physics-based motion retiming (2006) (54)
Planning pre-grasp manipulation for transport tasks (2010) (53)
Robust Object Grasping using Force Compliant Motion Primitives (2012) (52)
Grasp stability and feasibility for an arm with an articulated hand (1990) (51)
BoLeRO: a principled technique for including bone length constraints in motion capture occlusion filling (2010) (50)
A taxonomy of everyday grasps in action (2014) (44)
Generalizing Demonstrated Manipulation Tasks (2002) (43)
Legible Simplification of Textured Urban Models (2008) (42)
Force-based motion editing for locomotion tasks (2000) (40)
Animation of Humanlike Characters: Dynamic Motion Filtering with a Physically Plausible Contact Model (2001) (40)
Robust estimation of dominant axis of rotation. (2007) (39)
Pregrasp Manipulation as Trajectory Optimization (2013) (37)
Human-inspired force compliant grasping primitives (2014) (37)
Closed-loop Servoing using Real-time Markerless Arm Tracking (2013) (37)
Robust trajectory selection for rearrangement planning as a multi-armed bandit problem (2015) (34)
A Framework for Optimal Grasp Contact Planning (2017) (33)
Representation of pre-grasp strategies for object manipulation (2010) (32)
Control of Tendon-Driven Soft Foam Robot Hands (2018) (32)
Physically-based grasp quality evaluation under uncertainty (2012) (31)
Preparatory object rotation as a human-inspired grasping strategy (2008) (31)
The manifold particle filter for state estimation on high-dimensional implicit manifolds (2016) (30)
Parallel algorithms for synthesis of whole-hand grasps (1997) (29)
Effect of Character Animacy and Preparatory Motion on Perceptual Magnitude of Errors in Ballistic Motion (2008) (26)
Design. Fabrication, and Evaluation of Tendon-Driven Multi-Fingered Foam Hands (2018) (23)
Proceedings of the 2002 ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation, San Antonio, TX, USA, July 21-22, 2002 (2002) (21)
On the Importance of Asymmetries in Grasp Quality Metrics for Tendon Driven Hands (2006) (21)
The complexities of grasping in the wild (2017) (20)
Simple Machines for Scaling Human Motion (1999) (20)
Templates for pre-grasp sliding interactions (2012) (19)
Hierarchical simplification of city models to maintain urban legibility (2006) (19)
Predictable behavior during contact simulation: a comparison of selected physics engines (2016) (19)
Direct Control of Simulated Nonhuman Characters (2011) (19)
Apples, oranges, and angles: Comparative kinematic analysis of disparate limbs. (2011) (19)
Quadratic encoding of optimized humanoid walking (2013) (16)
Measuring contact points from displacements with a compliant, articulated robot hand (2011) (16)
Selection Criteria for Preparatory Object Rotation in Manual Lifting Actions (2009) (16)
Laziness is a Virtue: Motion Stitching Using Effort Minimization (2008) (16)
Dexterous telemanipulation with a multi-touch interface (2012) (15)
Planning grasps for a robot hand in the presence of obstacles (1993) (15)
Video survey of pre-grasp interactions in natural hand activities (2009) (14)
Tendon Arrangement and Muscle Force Requirements Force Capabilities in a Robotic Finger (2002) (13)
Grasp Synthesis from Example: Tuning the Example to a Task or Object (2005) (12)
Smoke sheets for graph-structured vortex filaments (2012) (12)
The Grasping Problem: Toward Task-Level Programming for an Articulated Hand (1990) (12)
Configuration Lattices for Planar Contact Manipulation Under Uncertainty (2016) (12)
Robotic Grasping and Manipulation Competition: Task Pool (2016) (12)
Data-Driven Mapping Using Local Patterns (2013) (10)
Mid-level smoke control for 2D animation (2011) (9)
The Coach''s Playbook (1999) (9)
Database techniques with motion capture (2007) (9)
Spatial and Temporal Linearities in Posed and Spontaneous Smiles (2014) (9)
Planar batting under shape, pose, and impact uncertainty (2007) (8)
Automated Design of Manipulators for In-Hand Tasks (2018) (8)
Manifold Representations for State Estimation in Contact Manipulation (2013) (8)
Annotating Everyday Grasps in Action (2014) (8)
2008 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (2008) (7)
Contact Transfer: A Direct, User-Driven Method for Human to Robot Transfer of Grasps and Manipulations (2021) (7)
Design and Control of Foam Hands for Dexterous Manipulation (2020) (7)
Soft Stacking (2012) (7)
Automated Design of Robotic Hands for In-Hand Manipulation Tasks (2020) (5)
Quadratic Encoding for Hand Pose Reconstruction from Multi-Touch Input (2015) (4)
On preparatory object rotation to adjust handle orientation for grasping (2008) (4)
Automated Design of Simple and Robust Manipulators for Dexterous In-Hand Manipulation Tasks using Evolutionary Strategies (2019) (4)
Posture optimization for pre-grasp interaction planning (2011) (3)
Contact Tracing: A Low Cost Reconstruction Framework for Surface Contact Interpolation (2021) (3)
Effect of Object and Task Properties on Bimanual Transport (2019) (2)
Characterizing Continuous Manipulation Families for Dexterous Soft Robot Hands (2021) (2)
On fast iterative mapping algorithms for stripe based coarse-grained reconfigurable architectures (2015) (2)
The Elliott and Connolly Benchmark: A Test for Evaluating the In-Hand Dexterity of Robot Hands (2021) (2)
Efficient Computation of Optimal, Physically Valid Motion (特集ロボットの運動学習) (2004) (2)
Pre-grasp Interaction for Object Acquisition in Difficult Tasks (2014) (2)
Image editing and creation with perception-motivated local features (2010) (1)
Towards Very Low-Cost Iterative Prototyping for Fully Printable Dexterous Soft Robotic Hands (2021) (1)
Sticky-Finger Teleoperation with A Multi-Touch Interface (2011) (1)
Evaluating data driven character animation (2006) (1)
Symposium on computer animation in fast forward (2002) (1)
Physically Realistic Morphing (1997) (1)
Studies in knowledge-based diagnosis of failures in robotic assembly (1990) (1)
Adapting Behaviors to New Environments , Characters , and Tasks (1998) (1)
Data-Driven Model for Spontaneous Smiles (2015) (0)
Session details: Motion capture data: interaction and selection (2005) (0)
Metrics for Motion Editing (2001) (0)
Learning to Navigate by Pushing (2022) (0)
Smoke Sheets with Arbitrary Reconnection for Filament-based Simulation (2011) (0)
Human-inspired force compliant grasping primitives (2014) (0)
Session details: Data driven character animation (2004) (0)
Session details: Controlling character (2014) (0)
Extracting the orientation of a grasped object from contact information: an approach for overcoming prohibitive calibration requirements (1991) (0)
Motion Editing: A Comparative Approach (0)
Interactive Cloth Manipulation With Multi-Touch Control (2010) (0)
Fully Printable Low-Cost Dexterous Soft Robotic Manipulators for Agriculture (2021) (0)
Session details: Course 21: Database techniques with motion capture (2007) (0)
Robust estimation of dominant axis of rotation 1 (2015) (0)
Interactive Physically-Based Control of Skeleton-Driven Deformable Characters (2008) (0)
Estimating subject-specific parameters for modeling hand joints (2010) (0)
Model-free Sensorless Manipulation (2019) (0)
Procedural Methods for Urban Modeling Legible Simplification of Textured Urban Models (2008) (0)
3A2A: A Character Animation Pipeline for 3D-Assisted 2D-Animation (2021) (0)
Contact Edit: Artist Tools for Intuitive Modeling of Hand-Object Interactions (2023) (0)
SoftTouch: A Sensor-Placement Framework for Soft Robotic Hands (2022) (0)
Session details: Data driven character animation (2004) (0)
Harnessing Human Manipulation NSF / ARL Workshop on Cloud Robotics : Challenges and Opportunities February 27-28 , 2013 (2013) (0)
Changing pre-grasp strategies with increasing object location uncertainty (2014) (0)
Human-Inspired Force Compliant Grasping Primitives Moslem Kazemi · (2014) (0)

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