Journal and Magazine Articles, Book Chapters:

Cheng Ren, Liming Zhao and Alla Safonova

Human Motion Synthesis with Optimization-based Graphs

to appear in Computer Graphics Forum (Proceedings of Eurographics 2010)

Liming Zhao and Alla Safonova

Achieving Good Connectivity in Motion Graphs

Graphical Models Journal, 2009 (extended version of the SCA paper)

Alla Safonova and Jessica K. Hodgins
Synthesizing Human Motion From Intuitive Constraints
Artificial Intelligence Techniques for Computer Graphics, Springer-Verlag, 2009

Alla Safonova and Jessica K. Hodgins
Construction and optimal search of interpolated motion graphs
ACM Transactions on Graphics Journal, SIGGRAPH 2007 Proceedings, August 2007

(web page)

Alla Safonova, Jessica K. Hodgins, Nancy S. Pollard 
Synthesizing Physically Realistic Human Motion in Low-Dimensional, Behavior-Specific Spaces
ACM Transactions on Graphics Journal, SIGGRAPH 2004 Proceedings, August 2004
(web page)

A.Safonova and J. Rossignac
Compressed Piecewise Circular Approximation of 3D Curves
Computer-Aided Design (CAD) Journal, May, 2003

J. Rossignac, A. Safonova, A. Szymczak
Edgebreaker on a Corner Table: A simple technique for representing and compressing triangulated surfaces
Chapter in Hierarchical and Geometrical Methods in Scientific Visualization, Farin, G., Hagen, H. and Hamann, B., eds. Springer-Verlag, January 2003

Hélio Lopes, Jarek Rossignac, Alla Safonova, Andrzej Szymczak and Geovan Tavares
Edgebreaker: A Simple Compression Algorithm for Surfaces with Handles
Computers&Graphics International Journal, 2003

Full-Length Publications at Conferences:

Joseph T. Kider, Mark Henderson, Maxim Likhachev, Alla Safonova

High-dimensional Planning on the GPU

accepted to IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2010

Liming Zhao, Aline Normoyle, Sanjeev Khanna and Alla Safonova
Automatic Construction of a Minimum Size Motion Graph

SIGGRAPH/ Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA)  2009

(web page)

M. Yang, J. Lu, A. Safonova, and K. J. Kuchenbecker

GPU Methods for Real-Time Haptic Interaction with 3D Fluids

IEEE International Workshop on Haptic Audio-Visual Environments and Games (HAVE), November 2009

(link to movie)

Liming Zhao and Alla Safonova
Achieving Good Connectivity in Motion Graphs
SIGGRAPH/ Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA)  2008 (Best Paper Award)

(web page)

Alla Safonova and Jessica K. Hodgins
Synthesizing Human Motion From Intuitive Constraints
International Conference on Computer Graphics and Artificial Intelligence, (3IA), June 2008

Alla Safonova and Jessica K. Hodgins
Analyzing the Physical Correctness of Interpolated Human Motion
SIGGRAPH/ Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA)  2005
(web page)

J. Barbic, A. Safonova, J.-Y. Pan, C. Faloutsos, J. K. Hodgins, and N. S. Pollard
Segmenting Motion Capture Data into Distinct Behaviors
Proceedings of Graphics Interface Conference, May 2004 
(web page)

A. Safonova, N. S. Pollard, and J. K. Hodgins
Optimizing Human Motion for the Control of a Humanoid Robot
2nd International Symposium on Adaptive Motion of Animals and Machines (AMAM2003), Kyoto, Japan, March 2003.
(web page)

J. Rossignac, A. Safonova, A. Szymczak
3D compression made simple: Edgebreaker on a Corner Table
Shape Modeling International Conference, pp: 278-283, Genoa, Italy May 2001

Hélio Lopes, Jarek Rossignac, Alla Safonova, Andrzej Szymczak and Geovan Tavares 
Edgebreaker: A Simple Compression Algorithm for Surfaces with Handles
Seventh ACM Symposium on Solid Modeling, pp. 289-296, June 2002

Short Length Peer Reviewed Papers

Mark Henderson, Joseph T. Kider Jr., Maxim Likhachev, Alla Safonova

High-Dimensional Planning on the GPU

NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference, 2009 (Best Poster Award)

M. Yang, J. Lu, Z. Zhou, A. Safonova, and K. J. Kuchenbecker

A GPU-Based Approach for Real-Time Haptic Rendering of 3D Fluids

SIGGRAPH Asia Sketch, December 2008

(link to movie)

J. Romano, A. Safonova, and K. J. Kuchenbecker

Real-Time Graphic and Haptic Simulation of Deformable Tissue Puncture

Medicine Meets Virtual Reality, December 2008

Thesis

A.Safonova
Reducing the search space for physically realistic human motion synthesis
Ph.D. Thesis, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, September 2006

Advisor: Jessica Hodgins

Thesis Committee: 
Jessica K. Hodgins, Carnegie Mellon University (chair) 
Nancy S. Pollard, Carnegie Mellon University 
Christopher G. Atkeson, Carnegie Mellon University 
Jovan Popovic, Massachusetts Institute of Technology