IPAB Workshop: World Models for Character Animation

The next IPAB Workshop is due to take place on Thursday 30th September at 1pm via Zoom. Levi Fussell will be speaking.  The zoom details can be found in the corresponding email.

Title: World Models for Character Animation

Abstract: In this presentation I’m going to talk about some of our recent work on successfully applying world models to the problem of real-time physically-based character motion tracking. Previous methods utilized the model-free algorithm, proximal policy optimization (PPO), to achieve a range of different interactive character controllers. We demonstrate that a purely model-based approach has improved training speed and accuracy for complex motions and is less sensitive to training environment variations.