Marco Fratarcangeli

Assistant Professor

Department of Computer, Control, and Management Engineering
Sapienza University of Rome

Via Ariosto 25, Rome (Italy) - 1st floor, room B111
00185 Rome, Italy
Email: frat@dis.uniroma1.it

Bio Sketch

Marco Fratarcangeli is an assistant professor at the Department of Computer, Control, and Management Engineering at Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, where he also received his MSc (Laurea) in 2003 in Computer Engineering. He obtained his PhD in 2009 in the field of physically-based animation of virtual faces. Between 2004 and 2006, he was a visiting researcher at the Image Coding Group at the Linköping University, Sweden. From 2008 to 2011, he worked as technical lead at a SME in the aerospatial industry, focusing on the development of cross-platform visualization tools for planning and analysis of Earth Observation missions, mainly for the European Space Agency.

His research interests focus on physically-based simulation of deformable bodies, face and body animation for virtual characters, collision handling and geometric algorithms.

Teaching

Publications

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International journals and book chapters

Position-based Facial Animation Synthesis
M. Fratarcangeli
Comp. Anim. Virtual Worlds, May 2012, doi: 10.1002/cav.1450

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Comparing GLSL, OpenCL and CUDA: cloth simulation on the GPU
M. Fratarcangeli
Book Chapter in Game Engine Gems 2, by AK Peters, March 2011. 

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A Versatile and Interactive Anatomical Human Face Model
M. Fratarcangeli
Book Chapter in Game Programming Gems 8, Charles River Media, 2010




Facial Motion Cloning with Radial Basis Functions in MPEG-4 FBA
M. Fratarcangeli, M. Schaerf and R. Forchheimer
Graphical Models Journal, 69(2), March 2007

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A 3D Simulator of Multiple Legged Robots based on USARSim
M. Zaratti, M. Fratarcangeli, L. Iocchi
Book chapter in "RoboCup 2006: Robot Soccer World Cup X", Vol. 4434/2007, 2007, 
Best Paper Award at RoboCup International Symposium 2006, Bremen, Germany, June 2006

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International refereed conferences

A Robust Method for Real-Time Thread Simulation
B. Kubiak , N. Pietroni, M. Fratarcangeli, F. Ganovelli
ACM Symp. on Virtual Reality Software and Technology, Nov. 2007

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Animatable Face Models from Uncalibrated Input Pictures
M. Fratarcangeli, M. Andolfi, K. Stankovic, I.S. Pandžic
ConTEL09, International Conference on Telecommunications, June 2009

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A Non-Invasive Approach for Driving Virtual Talking Heads from Real Facial Movements
G. Fanelli and M. Fratarcangeli
3DTV Conference, May 2007

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 Fast Facial Motion Cloning in MPEG-4
M. Fratarcangeli and M. Schaerf, Symp. on Image and Signal Processing and Analysis (ISPA), Sept. 2005

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Physically Based Synthesis of Animatable Face Models
M. Fratarcangeli, Virtual Reality Interactions and Physical Simulations (VRIPhys05), Nov. 2005

Realistic Modeling of Animatable Faces in MPEG-4
M. Fratarcangeli and M. Schaerf, Computer Animation and Social Agents (CASA2004), July 2004

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Other

Interactive, Musculoskeletal Model for Animating Virtual Faces
M. Fratarcangeli, ACM International Symposium on Facial Analysis and Animation (FAA12, extended abstract), Sept. 2012

Facial Motion Cloning Using Global Shape Deformation
M. Fratarcangeli and M. Schaerf, European Association for Computer Graphics (Eurographics 2005, short papers), Aug. 2005

Thesis

A Computational Muscoloskeletal Model for Animating Virtual Faces
M. Fratarcangeli
Ph.D. thesis, Universitá degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza”, 2009
Joint Ph.D. program with the Linköping Institute of Technology, Sweden