 Manfred Lau
School of Computing and Communications, Infolab21 Lancaster University Lancaster UK LA1 4WA office: D17 Infolab21 phone: +44 (0)1524 510324 manfred.lau@gmail.com m.lau@lancaster.ac.uk Manfred recently joined Lancaster University in the UK, and he is a Lecturer (equivalent to Assistant Professor in other countries) at the School of Computing and Communications. He was a post-doc researcher working with
Prof. Takeo Igarashi
and Prof. Jun Mitani
at the JST ERATO Igarashi Design Interface Project
in Tokyo, Japan. He received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University in 2009,
under the supervision of Prof. James Kuffner.
Manfred's recent research in sketch-based modeling focuses on building interfaces for everyday users to sketch, design, and fabricate their own products. His work on 3D geometry modeling draws inspiration from the areas of tangible user interfaces, personal fabrication, and industrial design. His Ph.D. thesis work explores a combination of motion planning techniques and captured data to generate realistic crowd animation for games and films. He is also interested in the areas of robotics, human computer interaction, and machine learning.
Publications  Situated Modeling: A Shape-Stamping Interface with Tangible Primitives. Manfred Lau, Masaki Hirose, Akira Ohgawara, Jun Mitani, Takeo Igarashi. International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction (TEI), 2012. Project page  Sixth Sense Transport: Challenges in Supporting Flexible Time Travel. Nigel Davies, Manfred Lau, Chris Speed, Tom Cherrett, Janet Dickinson, Sarah Norgate. International Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (HotMobile), 2012. ACM Digital Library page  Converting 3D Furniture Models to Fabricatable Parts and Connectors. Manfred Lau, Akira Ohgawara, Jun Mitani, and Takeo Igarashi. ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH), 30(4), 85, 2011. Project page  Automatic Learning of Pushing Strategy for Delivery of Irregular-Shaped Objects.
Manfred Lau, Jun Mitani, and Takeo Igarashi. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2011. pdf mp4 youtube  SketchChair: An All-in-one Chair Design System for End Users.
Greg Saul, Manfred Lau, Jun Mitani, and Takeo Igarashi. International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction (TEI), 2011. Project page  Scalable Precomputed Search Trees.
Manfred Lau and James Kuffner.
International Conference on Motion in Games (MIG), 2010.
Invited Paper.
 Modeling-in-Context: User Design of Complementary Objects with a Single Photo.
Manfred Lau, Greg Saul, Jun Mitani, and Takeo Igarashi.
ACM Symposium on Sketch-Based Interfaces and Modeling (SBIM), 2010.
 Face Poser: Interactive Modeling of 3D Facial Expressions Using Facial Priors.
Manfred Lau, Jinxiang Chai, Ying-Qing Xu, and Harry Shum.
 Modeling Spatial and Temporal Variation in Motion Data.
Manfred Lau, Ziv Bar-Joseph, and James Kuffner.
ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH ASIA), 28(5), 171, 2009.
Animation Theatre piece on Behavior Planning.
Manfred Lau, James Kuffner, and Moshe Mahler. Eurographics Animation Theatre, 2007. Animation page  Face Poser: Interactive Modeling of 3D Facial Expressions Using Model Priors.
Manfred Lau, Jinxiang Chai, Ying-Qing Xu, and Harry Shum. ACM Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA), 161-170, 2007. Project page 
Precomputed Search Trees: Planning for Interactive Goal-Driven Animation.
Manfred Lau and James Kuffner. ACM Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA), 299-308, 2006. Project page 
Footstep Planning for the Honda ASIMO Humanoid.
Joel Chestnutt, Manfred Lau, German Cheung, James Kuffner, Jessica Hodgins, and Takeo Kanade. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2005. Project page  Behavior Planning for Character Animation. Manfred Lau and James Kuffner. ACM Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA), 271-280, 2005. Project page Professional Service Program Committees:
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