[Open-source] Motion Control with Neural Networks Demo

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Hey guys I think some of you may have seen this paper a few weeks ago:

This demo was implemented in Unity and the authors (Zhang and Stark) have made it open-source at: GitHub - sebastianstarke/AI4Animation: Bringing Characters to Life with Computer Brains in Unity

I’ve created a short video explaining how this method works and a tutorial on how you can use it yourself with your data in your games. Here is the link for it: http://3deeplearner.com/siggraph-02

Although the authors focus on quadrupeds this really works with any data you throw at. Here is a demo a did with data from the CMU mocap dataset:

I hope this is the most appropriate place to post this.
Cheers,
Gus

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this is absolutely fabulous.

do you think this could work with other type of movements, like walking/running backwards, strafing etc?

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Thanks.
Yes there is nothing significantly different about this movements. They should be possible, provided you have the training data and you set the appropriate styles in the character controller.