I am currently an Amazon Scholar and as well a Professor and Founding Faculty at the University of California, Merced. At UC Merced I was chair of the EECS graduate program from July 2018 to June 2020. I got my PhD from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), and after that I was research faculty at the University of Southern California (USC), and a research scientist at the USC Institute for Creative Technologies (ICT) before moving to UC Merced in 2005. These days my research interests are mostly on motion planning algorithms for a wide range of applications in robotics and computer graphics. I have served as program co-chair for the 5th International Conference on Motion in Games (MIG) in 2012, and as Associate Editor for ICRA in multiple years (and I am again an AE for the upcoming ICRA 2022). I am also an Associate Editor for the Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds journal. At UC Merced I have established the computer graphics group (http://graphics.ucmerced.edu/). I am recipient of several NSF awards and my work on triangulations for path planning runs inside The Sims 4, the best selling PC game of 2014 and 2015.
Note: I am joining Amazon in a permanent position and will no longer consider new graduate students.
Sample Publications
Graphics
Optimal Path Maps on the GPU
Renato Farias and Marcelo Kallmann
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), 2019
The Effects of Avatars, Stereo Vision and Display Size on Reaching and Motion Reproduction
Carlo Camporesi and Marcelo Kallmann
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), 2015
Planning Motions and Placements for Virtual Demonstrators
Yazhou Huang and Marcelo Kallmann
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), 2015
Dynamic and Robust Local Clearance Triangulations
Marcelo Kallmann
ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG) 33-5, 2014, presented at SIGGRAPH
Analyzing Locomotion Synthesis with Feature-Based Motion Graphs
Mentar Mahmudi and Marcelo Kallmann
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), 2012
Underwater Cloth Simulation with Fractional Derivatives
Oktar Ozgen, Marcelo Kallmann, Lynnete ES Ramirez and Carlos FM Coimbra
ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG) 29-3, 2010, presented at SIGGRAPH
Robotics
Planar Max Flow Maps and Determination of Lanes with Clearance
Renato Farias and Marcelo Kallmann
Autonomous Robots, 2020
(Extended version of "GPU-Based Max Flow Maps in the Plane", RSS 2018.)
Path Planning for Coherent and Persistent Groups
Tianyu Huang, Mubbasir Kapadia, Norman I. Badler, and Marcelo Kallmann
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2014
Planning Humanlike Actions in Blending Spaces
Yazhou Huang, Mentar Mahmudi and Marcelo Kallmann
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2011
A Skill-Based Motion Planning Framework for Humanoids
Marcelo Kallmann, Yazhou Huang and Robert Backman
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2010
Learning Humanoid Reaching Tasks in Dynamic Environments
Xiaoxi Jiang and Marcelo Kallmann
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2007
Motion Planning Using Dynamic Roadmaps
Marcelo Kallmann and Maja Mataric´
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2004
Full publication list with links to pdfs and videos is available
here.
Book
Geometric and Discrete Path Planning for Interactive Virtual Worlds
Marcelo Kallmann and Mubbasir Kapadia
Book based on our 2014 SIGGRAPH course.
Morgan & Claypool, 2016
Software Projects
Standalone Interactive Graphics (SIG) Toolkit
Research Group
Contact
Prof. Marcelo Kallmann
School of Engineering
University of California, Merced
5200 N. Lake Road - Merced CA 95343
Email: mkallmann (at) ucmerced (dot) edu