My RSS Feedhttp://mikezyda.com/index.htmlHot News!enen2021-12-14T14:57:10-08:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 Mon, 19 Aug 2019 09:41:44 -0700Computer Science Games CoursesCourses2025-05-31T13:00:00-07:00http://mikezyda.com/CoursesBlog/files/2015c2b92650c350df87f003a8147209-7.html#unique-entry-id-7http://mikezyda.com/CoursesBlog/files/2015c2b92650c350df87f003a8147209-7.html#unique-entry-id-7Computer Science Games Courses Fall 2021
CSCI-526 Mobile Games
CSCI-526 is using Blackboard through the official blackboard.usc.edu site.
Final presentations are here.

CSCI-527 Applied Machine Learning for Games
CSCI-527 is using Blackboard through the official blackboard.usc.edu site.
Final presentations are here.

Computer Science Games Courses Spring 2021
CSCI-526 Mobile Games
CSCI-526 is using Blackboard through the official blackboard.usc.edu site.
Final presentations are here.

CSCI-527 Applied Machine Learning for Games
CSCI-527 is using Blackboard through the official blackboard.usc.edu site.
Github for CSCI-527 is here.
Final presentations are here.

CSCI-599 Game Networking Architectures
CSCI-599 is using Blackboard through the official blackboard.usc.edu site.
Github for CSCI-599 is here.
Final presentations are here.

Computer Science Games Courses Fall 2020
CSCI-526 Mobile Games
CSCI-526 is using Blackboard through the official blackboard.usc.edu site.
Final presentations are here.

CSCI-527 Applied Machine Learning for Games
CSCI-527 is using Blackboard through the official blackboard.usc.edu site.
Github for CSCI-527 is here.
Final presentations are here.

Computer Science Games Courses Spring 2020
CSCI-526 Mobile Games
CSCI-526 is using Piazza here.
Final presentations are here.

CSCI-538 Augmented, Virtual & Mixed Reality
Piazza for CSCI-538 is here.
Final presentations are here.

CSCI-599 Applied Machine Learning for Games
Piazza for CSCI-599 is here.
Github for CSCI-599 is here.
Final presentations are here.

Computer Science Games Courses Fall 2019
CSCI-526 Mobile Games
CSCI-526 is using Blackboard here.
Final presentations are here.

CSCI-538 Augmented, Virtual & Mixed Reality
Piazza for CSCI-538 is here.
Final presentations are here.

CSCI-599 Applied Machine Learning for Games
Piazza for CSCI-599 is here.
Github for CSCI-599 is here.
Final presentations are here.
]]>Final Projects Fall 2021 CSCI-526Courses2021-12-14T14:57:10-08:00http://mikezyda.com/CoursesBlog/files/a3d62c2ba83e1abc87d1c303145312bf-19.html#unique-entry-id-19http://mikezyda.com/CoursesBlog/files/a3d62c2ba83e1abc87d1c303145312bf-19.html#unique-entry-id-19ARival
Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lc6mU7QWJgY
Website: https://zhaowrhelen.wixsite.com/a-rival2021

CastleBreaker
Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I73CStpGgDY
Website: https://frankyan5.wixsite.com/castlebreaker

Colorize
Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4XdjDkOGsQ
Website: https://toutouplan.wixsite.com/colorize

Donut Crush
Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwtJJS52EBE
Website: https://priyankad17.github.io

Green Planet
Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMjr6ceckvo
Website: https://xueliang70.wixsite.com/green-planet

Hyja X
Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90GKDzggctM
Website: https://hyjax526.wixsite.com/hyja-x

Light Up the Earth
Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwWFnWo8KwQ
Website: https://526lightuptheearth.github.io

Mountain Cross
Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVw7Okjke5E
Website: https://pinkhyla.com

Outsider
Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaqhLUtL8oE
Website: https://chiayuta.github.io/outsider.html

Quiet Nights
Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhVOrTfIGEc
Website: http://usccsunityproject.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/index.html

Random Access Memory
Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKfLoY5t4wk
Website: https://yzjiangyang.github.io/Game-Portfolio/

Spark - A 3D Networking Multiplayer Simulation Game
Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DO85dkqfxdA
Website: https://spark.chenwx.com

The Adventures of Tommy
Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Al8WgsCeCH0
Website: https://raravind.wixsite.com/maskdp2t

The Legend of Trojan
Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eH8UwmUgN0
Website: https://zhao115.wixsite.com/fiveguys

The Lettuce
Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dz806ZM1yX0
Website: https://zhiyuhuuuuu.github.io

Unravel
Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJElwdyVQGo
Website: https://ywu95068.wixsite.com/website/

VES
Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlRHxsrPF40
Website: https://powenyao.github.io/XR-Interaction-Toolkit-Examples/website/index.html

Wake Up
Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEIY55YCj-o
Website: http://csci526wakeup-330920.uc.r.appspot.com

W Master
Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=newEm-IZHA4
Website: https://ricoyang-byte.github.io

]]>Final Projects Fall 2021 CSCI-527Courses2021-12-14T14:53:58-08:00http://mikezyda.com/CoursesBlog/files/fd6d6464f886dfd543b9e70de187705d-18.html#unique-entry-id-18http://mikezyda.com/CoursesBlog/files/fd6d6464f886dfd543b9e70de187705d-18.html#unique-entry-id-182048 using Reinforcement Learning
https://20482.my-free.website

AlphaGoal
https://alphagoal.vercel.app

Autonomous Vehicle Navigation Using Reinforcement Learning
https://autodynamics.webflow.io

A Visual Guided Reinforcement Learning Agent
https://gladysyingqi.github.io

Bubble Crush
https://captainmushroom.github.io/about/

EscapeAI
https://escapeai.weebly.com

Formula One
https://tjani8.wixsite.com/csci527-formula1

Grand Driving Auto
https://smanpreet96.github.io/Grand-Driving-Auto/

Reinforcement Learning Based Autopilot
https://priya007007.github.io/Website527/

Reinforcement Learning for the Lux AI Challenge
https://legend-of-zyda.netlify.app

Shooter Squad
https://shooter-squad.github.io

Space Droids
https://sites.google.com/view/spacedroids/home

Table Tennis Agent
https://sowmyavoona96.github.io/csci527/

Visual Doom
https://tanvi465.github.io/MLForGames/

XROS
https://powenyao.github.io/XR-Interaction-Toolkit-Examples/website/index.html

]]>CSCI-526 Mobile Games SyllabusCourses2021-08-02T10:52:00-07:00http://mikezyda.com/CoursesBlog/files/5b3c1494aa69895a6f3e8853b733aaca-2.html#unique-entry-id-2http://mikezyda.com/CoursesBlog/files/5b3c1494aa69895a6f3e8853b733aaca-2.html#unique-entry-id-2CS-526 Advanced Mobile Devices & Games
Units: 4-1
Term—Day—Time: Fall – Wednesdays 3:30pm to 6:50pm
Location: Taper Hall THH-201

Instructor: Michael Zyda
Office: EGG-209
Contact Info: zyda@usc.edu

Syllabus in Word is here.

]]>CSCI-527 Applied Machine Learning for Games SyllabusCourses2021-08-02T09:43:00-07:00http://mikezyda.com/CoursesBlog/files/94dd01b829f02ed9e375101b210f9804-0.html#unique-entry-id-0http://mikezyda.com/CoursesBlog/files/94dd01b829f02ed9e375101b210f9804-0.html#unique-entry-id-0CSCI 527 Applied Machine Learning for Games
Units: 4-1
Term—Day—Time: Fall – Tuesdays – 3:30pm to 6:50pm
Location: Waite Phillips Hall WPH-B27

Syllabus is here.

Instructor: Michael Zyda
Office: EGG-209
Contact Info: zyda@usc.edu
 
]]>Final Projects Spring 2021 - Game Networking ArchitecturesCourses2021-04-29T14:00:00-07:00http://mikezyda.com/CoursesBlog/files/aedd11cf12563db5d35cb651853ffe6c-17.html#unique-entry-id-17http://mikezyda.com/CoursesBlog/files/aedd11cf12563db5d35cb651853ffe6c-17.html#unique-entry-id-17Bubble Fighter
Video is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rH38I3Cda44
Website is here: https://bubble-fighter.github.io/

Inside Job
Video is here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1t2y2EgVr4G_TiMhw8VeK1N4q3HfzmQVA/view?usp=sharing
Website is here: https://luxebo.github.io/Projects/Inside%20Job/InsideJob

Kart Microgame OL - Racing Game
Video is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOXHHo5ELXM
Website is here: https://kartmicrogameol.wordpress.com/

Mortal Retribution
Video is here: https://youtu.be/tzxIbYISyaI
Website is here: https://zikaiche.wixsite.com/website

Multi-Kart Battle
Video is here: https://youtu.be/tFr_7iHP5RQ
Website is here: https://sites.google.com/view/multi-kartbattle/

Teamforce Game - RPG
Video is here: https://youtu.be/sacSEKXDhgI
Website is here: https://teamforcegame.com/

]]>Final Projects Spring 2021 - Mobile GamesCourses2021-04-28T10:00:00-07:00http://mikezyda.com/CoursesBlog/files/b27e8d1d0f2325d8dbc2804191173464-16.html#unique-entry-id-16http://mikezyda.com/CoursesBlog/files/b27e8d1d0f2325d8dbc2804191173464-16.html#unique-entry-id-16
AbraCaDABRA - Farmtopia game.
Website is here.

Avocado - Catch me if you can!
Website is here.

Buffer Overflow - Plan Odyssey - after 100 years, humans invented light-speed spacecraft that could send brave people a.k.a “adventurers” far away from Earth to explore the unknown...
Website is here.

BuggyPunk - Hope Island - you are the chosen warrior.
Website is here.

DaChanMianSian - Oblivion - In 23th Century Jacky has destroyed the world, he plunder resources, annihilate every single species on earth.
You are the only survivor who is able to defeat Jacky after recovering all your memories and potential Can you fight back and save the world?
Website is here.

Doodler - Cells at Work! is a single player, 2D pixel, rogue-like RPG game. The idea of the game is inspired from the popular Japanese animation Cells at Work!.
Website is here.
DragonFruit - Adventure of Morgan - a 2D Side-scrolling mobile game. The player should control the main character to clear the monsters along the way and get the treasure.
Website is here.

Fight On - Adventures of the Monkey King
Website is here.

Gameholics - defend Tommy Trojan
Website is here.

Remarkable Giraffes - rampage car game!
Website is here.

Seven Adventurers - Absorption Knight is a single-player, 2D action-adventure side-scrolling game. You play as the young explorer Teodoro who encounters a tsunami during his adventure.
Website is here.

TheSeven - Extraction is a single player, 2D, third-person adventure game. Player controls a character living in medieval Europe who wants to rescue his sister from the monster.
Website is here.

Team FiveGuys - Keyboard Man is a single-player, 2d, third-person vertically scrolling adventure game.
Website is here.

The Team That Must Not Be Named - Magical Odyssey is a single-player, Adventure, Fantasy, 3D-RPG Game available across all Android devices.
Website is here.

Travelers - Frozen Traveler - a single-player, 2D platformer adventure game.
Website is here.

]]>Final Projects Spring 2021 - Applied Machine Learning for GamesCourses2021-04-27T14:00:59-07:00http://mikezyda.com/CoursesBlog/files/caf8d65d8e5cb37bcc7aa733ec49fe33-15.html#unique-entry-id-15http://mikezyda.com/CoursesBlog/files/caf8d65d8e5cb37bcc7aa733ec49fe33-15.html#unique-entry-id-15
AgentSmart - Autonomous Driving Agent
Website is here.
Google Drive is here.

Bomb in hand - is a combat game where the player controls a character through gestures and fight against bots across a deformable landscape. The player must survive and throw bombs to destroy the opponent‘s assets.
Website is here.
Google Drive is here.

Crossy Road - our team collaborated to train an intelligent chicken to cross as many as roads as she can in the game, and win the highest score.
Website is here.
Google Drive is here.

Dark Forest - is an open-source 3D interactive battleground and survival sandbox game.
Website is here.
Google Drive is here.

Doodle Jump - guide a four-legged creature called "The Doodler" up a never-ending series of platforms without falling.
Website is here.
Google Drive is here.

Free Run - is a single-player, 3D, third-person perspective game. One plays this game as a “Raccoon” that overcomes the obstacles that come in its way.
Website is here.
Google Drive is here.

LingoRobo - enabling AI agents following natural language instructions.
Website is here.
Google Drive is here.

Obstacle Tower Challenge - is a high-fidelity game that operates in 3D, generates new visuals and themed layouts with each level and game using “Procedural Content Generation”, has a high branching factor, and requires agents to learn to solve sub-tasks.
Website is here.
Google Drive is here.

Park It Right! - The focus of this project is to develop an agent that is adept in obstacle avoidance and seamless navigation.
Website is here.
Google Drive is here.

Phoenix - an open-source, reproducible and interpretable Mahjong agent.
Website is here.
Google Drive is here.

qDeerein - Here we leverage Deep Q learning and Actor-Critic to train agents and make them play on their own.
Website is here.
Google Drive is here.

The Snake Game - we re-create the classic Snake Game by changing the way it should be played. Gamers can now use hand gestures as well voice commands to play this game, adding a completely new dimension to the gaming experience and the fun!
Website is here.
Google Drive is here.

Text Room Adventure - we incorporate pre-trained language models into the deep Q-learning framework to bring in rich commonsense knowledge existing in external text corpus, and combine history actions into decision making process.
Website is here.
Google Drive is here.

ThinkBot - a physics-based driving game.
Website is here.
Google Drive is here.

Trojan Knights - LiteChess is a low-resource, neural network based chess engine written in Python that plays at the 2000 ELO level. The neural network architecture is inspired by the DeepChess algorithm and the engine backend is adopted from the popular Sunfish engine.
Website is here.
Google Drive is here.

Virtual Equipment System - exploring VR GUIs with machine learning.
Website is here.
Google Drive is here.

VizDoom Bot - rhe ViZDoom platform makes use of an engine based on the video game Doom to provide a physics-based 3D
environment similar to real world environments for machine learning.
Website is here.
Google Drive is here.

]]>CSCI-599 Game Networking Architectures SyllabusCourses2021-01-15T14:56:02-08:00http://mikezyda.com/CoursesBlog/files/7266303fa7fb467ea5ebaffa10f46875-14.html#unique-entry-id-14http://mikezyda.com/CoursesBlog/files/7266303fa7fb467ea5ebaffa10f46875-14.html#unique-entry-id-14CSCI 599 GameNetworking Architectures
Units: 4-1
Term—Day—Time: Fall – Thursdays – 2pm to 5:20pm
Location: ONLINE

Syllabus is here.

]]>Final Projects Fall 2020 - Applied Machine Learning for GamesCourses2020-12-12T15:36:13-08:00http://mikezyda.com/CoursesBlog/files/c2abe73adde4eba11caf7751d1ccdfea-13.html#unique-entry-id-13http://mikezyda.com/CoursesBlog/files/c2abe73adde4eba11caf7751d1ccdfea-13.html#unique-entry-id-13AI Agent for Fun Run 3
Website is here.

Angry Trojans
Website is here.

Don’t Crash
Website is here.

Dynamic level generation for games
Website is here.

GAN-based Game Generation
Website is here.

Go Trail Ranger
Website is here.

Jet Racing Bot
Website is here.

Multi Drone Collaboration
Website is here.

OriginX
Website is here.

Overcooked Cooker
Website is here.

Parking Mania
Website is here.

Pokebot
Website is here.

Self Generating Highlights
Website is here.

SoCal FC
Website is here.

Super Tux Kart
Website is here.

Team Scrubs
Website is here.

Tetris Dominator
Website is here.

]]>Final Projects Fall 2020 - Mobile GamesCourses2020-12-12T15:35:26-08:00http://mikezyda.com/CoursesBlog/files/0f5072ce4c50892fd1b29a49d48f8f8c-12.html#unique-entry-id-12http://mikezyda.com/CoursesBlog/files/0f5072ce4c50892fd1b29a49d48f8f8c-12.html#unique-entry-id-12
Alchymia
Team website is here.
Team video is here.

Harry Potter - the Dark Lord Returns
Team website is here.
Team video is here.

Antariksh
Team website is here.
Team video is here.

Inception
Team website is here.
Team video is here.

A-rival
Team website is here.
Team video is here.

Sinbad’s Adventure
Team website is here.
Team video is here.

Dichotomy
Team website is here.
Team video is here.

Santos Survivor
Team website is here.
Team video is here.

Bomberman
Team website is here.
Team video is here.

Samsara
Team website is here.
Team video is here.

Blossom Labyrinth
Team website is here.
Team video is here.
Project Cruz
Team website is here.
Team video is here.

Project Air Tube Man
Team website is here.
Team video is here.

Adventures of the Calabash Bros
Team website is here.
Team video is here.

The Frog’s Adventure - Jump
Team website is here.
Team video is here.

MageRage!
Team website is here.
Team video is here.

The Butterfly Dream Team website is here.
Team video is here.

Snowflake
Team website is here.
Team video is here.

Sleepy Guys
Team website is here.
Team video is here.

Stikin’
Team website is here.
Team video is here.

Space Survivor
Team website is here.
Team video is here.

]]>Final Projects Spring 2020 - Mobile GamesCourses2020-05-11T18:01:38-07:00http://mikezyda.com/CoursesBlog/files/c4263464aa90086baeabfb3fd0ab49e7-10.html#unique-entry-id-10http://mikezyda.com/CoursesBlog/files/c4263464aa90086baeabfb3fd0ab49e7-10.html#unique-entry-id-10Cat in the Starving Land
https://cynthiasijiarong.wixsite.com/catsinstarvingland
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8dR7MVnhlM

Chi Bi
https://csci526-1a6ac.web.app/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JM3_w_9HqXM&feature=youtu.be

Dodgeball Battle
http://dodgeball-game.site
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAYpgszYL14

Dungeon Smiths
https://emaness.wixsite.com/dungeon-smiths
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KE1DKhQFzyU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6Go_kLUtuU

Eternity
https://925production.xyz/
https://youtu.be/fw3veHAGcrE

Doom Defense
https://zhenghuj.wixsite.com/mysite
https://youtu.be/n99AvUAj48w

Escape AR
http://www-scf.usc.edu/~anubhavj/EscapeAR/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0_7nxmxVng
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_72GdxJYWo&feature=youtu.be

Finguitar
https://hng548.wixsite.com/website
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_Q4aFQIauA

Gravity Inversion
https://harryqin.wixsite.com/game
https://youtu.be/hhXd4BgRJpI

Haunted House
https://usccs2020.wixsite.com/hauntedhouse
https://youtu.be/QUo60xPFCqY

Level Breaker
http://mengqiay.freevar.com/LevelBreaker/work.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRRMr9me77A

One Life
https://yshah933.wixsite.com/aces
https://youtu.be/9oHNNq7dmZA

Park N Shoot
http://www-scf.usc.edu/~yashchap/parknshoot/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWa4AKh2gfc&feature=youtu.be

Particle
https://the-particle.github.io/#/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GI21XxVS0nw&fbclid=IwAR1INgsrpy5X9mmSabj24zDZgwH-COG5EtPsKYXHOD0LgLRORUmwnYDLD3k

Revival of the Khaleesi
https://326258069.wixsite.com/5dollarsdragon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWa4AKh2gfc&feature=youtu.be

Sneak Robber
https://yubingxi.wixsite.com/sneakrobber
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8WbeRHUo98

Shooting - Chamber of Secret
https://ruijiech.wixsite.com/chamber
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEyVkgd4E0g

]]>Final Projects Spring 2020 - Applied Machine Learning for GamesCourses2020-05-11T13:20:03-07:00http://mikezyda.com/CoursesBlog/files/c1a4d8b98045f3e9c8a62f4291cf27a8-8.html#unique-entry-id-8http://mikezyda.com/CoursesBlog/files/c1a4d8b98045f3e9c8a62f4291cf27a8-8.html#unique-entry-id-8BotAlmighty: https://realbotalmighty.github.io/botalmighty/
BunchOfNerds: https://dingx5.wixsite.com/mysite-2
Dami: https://damiteam.github.io/Dami.github.io/
Fireboy Water Girl: https://adtswaroop.github.io/aswaroop.github.io/
FiRescue: https://nfnu.itch.io/firescue
Fyra: https://shilpath.github.io/fyra/
Fyra Github: https://github.com/shilpath/fyra
Ghostbusters: https://teamghostbusters.github.io/
iTower: https://infallible-edison-5e9e7a.netlify.app/
Trojan Mind: http://www-scf.usc.edu/~hongbowa/CSCI599/index.html
League Of Legends Assistant Team: https://csci599-lol.site/
Life Simulator: https://zlxteam2020.github.io/Life-Simulator/
Mapchat: https://mapchat2020.github.io/mapchat/
MarioKart Bot: https://harshwaghela.github.io/MarioKart-Bot/
ML for CS GO: https://mlforcsgo.wordpress.com/
Multi-agent CS GO: https://csgo-eco-portfolio.herokuapp.com/
Pommerman Fight: https://csci599-s2020-pommerman.github.io/
Robo Daycare: https://geethika012.wixsite.com/robo-daycare
Talking Heads: https://zhangmengyuhi.wixsite.com/talkinghead
Torque Transfer: https://csci-599-applied-ml-for-games.github.io/Torque-Transfer-/
TM Challengers: https://trackmania-challenger.my-free.website/
ZeroGo: http://zerogo-ml.com/

]]>Final Projects Spring 2020 - AR VR XRCourses2020-05-11T10:32:50-07:00http://mikezyda.com/CoursesBlog/files/0493f191f07fa8942b8bf8c55099568e-11.html#unique-entry-id-11http://mikezyda.com/CoursesBlog/files/0493f191f07fa8942b8bf8c55099568e-11.html#unique-entry-id-11CHLA
https://spirometervr.github.io/breathe/
https://spirometervr.github.io

Climate Change
http://csci538.s3-website-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IL-Cz9cGeSlIQA6xyeA2Q8bRKf5lUE7CrQ_JPVIBZGE/edit#

Crash
https://crash-robots.netlify.app/
https://www.notion.so/CRASH-Weekly-Blogs-Last-Updated-04-30-2020-870718565d324488910c8484d308a6bc

Exam Artist
https://pthammas.github.io/theexamartist-website/
https://theexamartist.art.blog/

HoloASL
https://holoasl2020.wordpress.com/

Indomitable
https://indomitablear.wordpress.com/
https://indomitablear.wordpress.com/blog-feed/

Jail Break
https://sites.google.com/view/jailbreakvr/home
https://sites.google.com/view/jailbreakvr/blog?authuser=0

Kingdom of Nature
https://bluesheepllc.wixsite.com/kingdomofnature
https://docs.google.com/document/d/11bNlrYRY5g8I91WCWWbnoPXhonjMd4CmqqB64-7HAuM/edit?usp=sharing

MagicLeap Card Game
https://magicleapcard.wordpress.com/
https://magicleapcard.wordpress.com/blog-feed/

SpaceQuest
https://vaibhavjain9e.wixsite.com/space-quest
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HTqc2Aimn7dkJwYxXaSi5vW-Qu53ewtaAmGTbIC7Xkg/edit#

Symantec GodsEye
https://omruchir.wixsite.com/godseye
https://www.notion.so/Weekly-Blog-7d1dd34e8082428abacb18ba1c1e90e3

VR Horror Game
https://tz199.github.io/vr_horror_game/
https://tz199.github.io/vr_horror_game/all_posts.html

World In a Cell
https://worldinacellar.github.io/WIAC-AR/
https://worldinacellar.github.io/WIAC-AR/blog

XROS UI
https://powenyao.github.io/XR-Interaction-Toolkit-Examples/website/index.html
https://powenyao.github.io/XR-Interaction-Toolkit-Examples/

]]>CSCI-538 Augmented, Virtual & Mixed Reality SyllabusCourses2020-01-16T10:51:00-08:00http://mikezyda.com/CoursesBlog/files/7afab448a2b95e4d816b22cdf9c91fca-1.html#unique-entry-id-1http://mikezyda.com/CoursesBlog/files/7afab448a2b95e4d816b22cdf9c91fca-1.html#unique-entry-id-1CSCI 538 Augmented, Virtual & Mixed Reality
Units: 4-1
Term—Day—Time: Spring - Thursdays 10:00am to 1:20pm, Lab 1:20-2:20pm
Location: SCI-106

Instructor: Michael Zyda & Vangelis Lympouridis, PhD
Contact Info: zyda@usc.edu & vangelis@enosisvr.com
 
Course Description
This course covers the technical and experiential design foundation required for the implementation of immersive environments in current and future virtual, augmented and mixed reality platforms. The curriculum covers a wide range of literature and practice starting from the original Computer Science and HCI concepts following the evolution of all supporting technologies including visual displays for VR, AR and MR, motion tracking, interactive 3D graphics, multimodal sensory integration, immersive audio, user interfaces, IoT, games and experience design.

Learning Objectives
The objective of the course is to establish and cultivate a broad and comprehensive understanding of this rapidly evolving and commercially viable field of Computer Science and prepare the student for participating in the production of highly integrative immersive applications, immersive social platforms, cross disciplinary academic research projects and leading developments in Medical, Industrial and Manufacturing R&D.

Topics include:
• Historical Overview, Current Trends and Future applications of Immersive Technologies
• Best practices in VR,AR and MR including design, prototyping and an ethical code of conduct
• Overview of human physiology, psychology and usability factors
• A critical framework for evaluating current and emerging immersive reality technologies and applications
• Design and Technological foundations for Immersive Experiences
• Input devices – controllers, motion trackers and motion capture technologies for tracking, navigation and gestural control.
• Output devices – Head Mounted VR Displays, Augmented and Mixed reality glasses
• 3D interactive and procedural graphics
• Immersive surround sound
• Haptic and vibrotactile devices
• Systems architecture and integrative immersive media platforms
• Rapid prototyping and physical computing
• VR programming

Learning Outcomes
Course students are expected to work in collaborative group projects and develop working prototypes, demo experiences, immersive platforms, unique controllers and new innovative technologies that can be used in the development and production of immersive environments in the fields of entertainment, education, training, medical and industrial innovation. These projects will strengthen the students understanding of the course material and help prepare them for a career as a researcher in industry or academia.

Prerequisite(s): an introduction to computer graphics or permission of instructor.
Recommended Preparation: It is assumed that the student is a strong programmer.

Required Readings and Supplementary Materials
Primary:
  • Kelly S. Hale (Editor), Kay M. Stanney (Editor). 2014. Handbook of Virtual Environments: Design, Implementation, and Applications, Second Edition (Human Factors and Ergonomics) ISBN-13: 978-1466511842. Amazon
Other Resources:

Description and Assessment of Assignments
Each student is expected to contribute code for a group developed immersive environment or application. The project runs continuously all semester, the code testing the student’s knowledge of the in-class lectures and reading material. The student’s immersive environment will be presented in class during the last lecture period. The student’s grade will be based on the final demonstration of the group project and on the student’s participation in that project and in class. Each student will maintain a personal web page detailing his or her part of the group developed immersive environment. Each group will maintain a group web page plus schedule of weekly progress. Each developed immersive environment must be fully 3D, utilize a 3D input device, display on the variety of available laboratory displays, include real-time collision detection, and behavior modeling for the autonomous characters/objects in the developed immersive world.

Course Schedule: A Weekly Breakdown
Topics/Daily Activities/Readings and Homework/Deliverable/ Due Dates
Week 1
Content:
1. Introduction to Immersive Technologies
1.1 A Brief History of Virtual Reality
1.2 The five Classic Components of a VR System
1.3 Early Commercial VR Technology
1.4 VR Becomes an Industry
1.5 Reality, Virtuality and Immersion
1.6 VR, AR, MR, xR: similarities and differences
1.7 Current trends and state of the art in immersive technologies, developing platforms and consumer devices
1.7 The future of human experience
1.8 Conclusion
1.9 Review Questions
Reading Assignment:
VR Handbook: Chapter 1
Metaphysics of VR: Chapter 8

Writing assignment: Choose an existing VR application and write a summary (500 words) including a personal critical reflection on its look and feel especially in relation to immersion, presence, agency and interactivity.

Week 2
Content:
2. Motion tracking, navigation and controllers
2.1 Position and Motion Trackers
2.1.1 Inside Out/Outside In
2.1.2 Tracker Performance Parameters
2.1.3 Optical - Active and Passive Trackers
2.1.4 Inertial and Hybrid Trackers - HMD Trackers
2.1.5 Magnetic Trackers
2.1.6 Mechanical Trackers
2.1.7 Ultrasonic Trackers
2.2 Navigation and Manipulation Interfaces
2.2.1 Tracker-Based Navigation/Manipulation Interfaces
2.2.3 Three-Dimensional Probes and Controllers
2.2.3 Data Gloves and Gesture Interfaces
2.4 Conclusion
2.5 Review Questions
Reading Assignment:
VR Handbook: Chapter 2
Learning Virtual Reality: Chapter 3

Project Assignment:
Design an immersive environment in Unity-3D or Unreal that you will develop and enhance all semester. Work in groups. Start by building a simple 3D world that an interactive player can move around in.
Connect the controllers and create a simple interaction loop. Measure velocity, acceleration, distances, and other motion and spatial parameters of the user and the controllers.

Week 3
Content:
3. The Human behind the lenses
3.1. Human Perception and Cognition
3.1.2 The Human Visual System
3.1.3 The Human Auditory System
3.1.4 The Human Vestibular System
3.2 Physiology, Psychology and the Human Experience
3.2.1. Adaptation and Artefacts
3.2.2 Ergonomics
3.2.3 Ethics
3.2.4 Scientific Concerns
3.3 VR Health and Safety Issues
3.3.1 Effects of VR Simulations on Users
3.3.2 Cybersickness, before and now
3.3.3 Guidelines for Proper VR Usage
3.4 User Centered Design, User Experience and an Ethical Code of Conduct
3.5 Conclusion
3.6 Review Questions
Reading Assignment:
VR Handbook: Chapters 7, 23, 26
Paper: Real Virtuality: A Code of Ethical Conduct.
Other Reading:
Metaphysics of VR: Chapter 8
Action in Perception:
Chapter 1

Writing assignment:
Find an existing immersive commercial application that you think it violates best practices and induces nausea by design. Identify what doesn’t work and propose a solution (500 Words)
Project Assignment :
Create a well-rounded multisensory action that is meaningful, safe and accommodates all senses, visual, auditory and tactile.

Week 4
Content:
4. The present and the future of xR
4.1 Areas and industries for immersive reality applications.
4.1.1 Entertainment
4.1.2 Education
4.1.3 Training
4.1.4 Medical
4.1.5 Industrial
4.1.6 Military
4.2 Use-cases, applications and production pipelines
4.2.1 From Sensing to Rendering
4.2.2 Mobile, Standalone and high- end immersive computing platforms
4.3 VR, Immersive Tech and the Society
4.3.1 Impact on Professional Life
4.3.2 Impact on Private Life
4.3.3 Impact on Public Life
4.4 Conclusion
4.5 Review Questions
Reading assignment: VR Handbook: Chapter 36
Other Reading:
Handbook: Chapter 4
Metaphysics of VR: Chapter 9

Project Assignment:
Define the area of application of your Virtual Reality project. Choose your immersive computing platform and define an interactive scenario that involves combination of visual, auditory and rich controller integration within the context of your application area.
Write and submit a proposal of your idea, a description of your prototype and a flow chart for its design and use.
Week 5
Content:
5. Camera tracking and 3D Rendering for Immersive Environments
5.1 Inside-Out Camera tracking
5.1.1 Depth Sensing
5.1.2 Microsoft HoloLens
5.1.3 Vrvana Totem
5.1.4 Low cost AR and MR systems
5.1.5 Mobile Platforms
5.2 Full-Body tracking
5.2.1 Inverse & Forward Kinematics
5.2.2 Kinect
5.2.3 Intel Realsense
5.2.4 Full body inertial tracking
5.2.6 Ikinema
5.2.7 Holographic Video
5.3 Rendering Architecture
5.3.1 Graphics Accelerators
5.3.2 3D Rendering API’s, OpenGL, DirectX, Vulcan, Metal
5.3.3 Best practices and Optimization techniques
5.4 Distributed VR Architectures
5.4.1 Multi-pipeline Synchronization
5.4.2 Co-located Rendering Pipelines
5.4.3 Distributed Virtual Environments
5.5 Conclusion
5.6 Review Questions
Reading Assignment:
Handbook: Chapter 5, 14
Other Reading:
Learning Virtual Reality: Chapters 4, 6

Project Assignment:
Add full body tracking to your VR project using the HTC Vive trackers and the Ikinema framework. Add moving objects into your immersive environment with behavior and collision detection.
OR
Recognize Track and Classify objects and markers in HoloLens or a Low- End AR, MR device and render Immersive 3D graphics.
OR
Create a Dual MR/VR prototype scenario for using a Video Pass Through device such as Vrvana Totem.

Week 6
6. Modeling the Physical world
6.1 Geometric Modeling
6.1.1 Virtual Architecture
6.1.2 Virtual Object Shape
6.1.3 Virtual Object Appearance
6.1.4 Procedural Textures
6.1.5 Advanced Material Properties
6.1.6 Procedural Objects
6.1.7 Photogrammetry
6.2 Kinematics Modeling
6.2.1 Homogeneous Transformation Matrices
6.2.2 Object Position
6.2.3 Transformation Invariants
6.2.4 Object Hierarchies
6.2.5 Scale, Perspective and Perception
6.3 Physical Modeling
6.3.1 Collision Detection
6.3.2 Surface Deformation
6.3.3 Force computation
6.3.4 Force Smoothing and Mapping
6.3.5 Haptic Texturing
6.4 Behavior Modeling
6.5 Model Management
6.5.1 Level-d-Detail Management
6.5.2 Cell Management
6.6 Conclusion
6.7 Review Questions
Reading Assignment:
Handbook: Chapter 11
Other Reading:
Action in Perception:
Chapter 5

Project Assignment:
Populate your immersive application with objects that have behavior or transformative properties.
OR
Experiment with Photogrammetry and improve the visual look and feel of your environment.
After that make sure that the whole project is based on optimized code, following best practices and is professionally organized.

Week 7
7. Presence, Agency and Interactivity
7.1 Augmenting the sense of Presence
7.1.1 Space and Architecture
7.1.2 The Uncanny Valley
7.1.3 Dissolving the Medium
7.2 Identity in Immersive Environments
7.2.1 Change of Identity
7.2.2 Transforming the senses
7.2.3 Extending the senses
7.3 Agency and Interactivity
7.3.1 Cybernetics, Causality and meaning making
7.3.2 Interactivity within Physical Dimensions
7.3.3 Interactivity beyond Physical restrictions; the Super Hero effect
7.4 Physical Computing
7.4.1 IoT and sensor networks
7.4.2 Rapid Prototyping
7.5 User Performance Studies
7.5.1 Test-bed Evaluation of Universal VR Tasks
7.5.2 Influence of System Responsiveness on User Performance
7.5.3 Influence of Feedback
7.6 Conclusion
7.7 Review Questions
Reading Assignment:
Handbook: Chapter 17, 27
Other Reading:
Luca Turchet : Designing presence for real locomotion in immersive virtual environments

Project Assignment:
Introduce autonomous characters or objects into your 3D world. Extend or Transform the senses and create a sense of super power for the user.
OR
Use a physical computing platform to rapidly prototype a custom controller, environmental sensor or biosensor in order to bridge the physical and the virtual worlds

Week 8
8. Sound in Immersive Environments
8.1 Evolution of Sound Systems
8.1.1 From mono to stereo to surround
8.1.2 Object Based Sound
8.1.3 Ambisonics
8.1.4 HRTF
8.2 Sound Design Basics
8.2.1 Sound as Information
8.2.2 Earcons
8.2.3 Impact of Sound in Objects and Actions
8.2.4 Natural vs Real Sound
Reading Assignment:
Handbook: Chapter 13
Other Reading:

Project Assignment:
Design and implement 5 distinguish sounds to accommodate an interaction within your prototype environment. How does sound transform the user’s experience? Create a unique event in order to direct user’s attention to a specific are solely based on sound. Then do the same with visual and tactile feedback but no sound. Bring the two together.
Writing Assignment:
Write a 500 word report about what you have discovered with the project assignment.

Week 9
9. Medical Applications of xR
9.1 Areas of Application
9.1.1 Behavioral Therapy
9.1.2 Exposure Therapy and PTSD
9.1.3 Training
9.1.4 Rehabilitation
9.1.5 Virtual and Augmented Surgery
9.1.6 Virtual Anatomy
9.1.7 Triage and Diagnostics
9.2 The role of FDA
9.2 Conclusion
9.3 Review Questions
Reading Assignment:
Handbook: Chapter 45

Project Assignment:
Add a training component to your existing prototype. Define the mechanics that will progressively improve user’s performance to mastery through an interaction loop using the dual concept of challenge / reinforcing.
OR
Create a rich experience of Augmented or Mixed Reality information that progressively evolves through layers of achievement. How can you assist the user to perform a task with success? What is the UI for improving performance?
Week 10
10. VR Applications in Manufacturing
10.1 Productivity Enhancement Platforms
10.1.1 Virtual Prototyping spaces
10.1.2 Virtual collaborative working spaces
10.1.3 Augmented and Virtual Assistance
10.1.4 Telepresence
10.2 Applications of VR in Robotics
10.2.1 Robot Programming
10.2.2 Robot Teleoperation
10.3 Information Visualization
10.3.1 Oil Exploration and Well Management
10.3.2 Big Data Visualization
10.3.3 Volumetric Data Visualization
10.4 Product Liability and Social responsibility
10.4.1 Innovation as continuity vs disruption
10.4.2 Entrepreneurial Design for Societal Progress
10..4.3 Legal Responsibilities
10.4 Conclusion
10.5 Review Questions
Reading Assignment:
Handbook: Chapter 21

Project Assignment:
Complete the project as a Beta Prototype. Polish its edges and make its core functionality accurate and robust.

Writing Assignment:
Write a short assessment of your immersive application so far. How safe is it for commercial use? What is your target group and how will it improve their intended experience?
How can you improve it if you had the resources to bring it to market?

Week 11
 Advanced Topics in VR - Highlights from recent papers on immersive environments. Project Assignment: continue to enhance your immersive environment.
Week 12
 Advanced Topics in VR - Highlights from recent papers on immersive environments.
Week 13
 Advanced Topics in VR - Highlights from recent papers on immersive environments. Project Assignment: continue to enhance your immersive environment.
Week 14
 Advanced Topics in VR - Highlights from recent papers on immersive environments.
Week 15
 Advanced Topics in VR - Highlights from recent papers on immersive environments. Project Assignment: continue to enhance your immersive environment.
FINAL
 Final Presentations during the last class lecture Final Project Demo & Write up
- Student critique
Instructor feedback Date: For the date and time of the last class lecture, consult the USC Schedule of Classes at www.usc.edu/soc.

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]]>Computer Science Games Courses Fall 2019Courses2019-12-26T12:44:00-08:00http://mikezyda.com/CoursesBlog/files/8425140b7b14a3ff008639d3e950fcc9-3.html#unique-entry-id-3http://mikezyda.com/CoursesBlog/files/8425140b7b14a3ff008639d3e950fcc9-3.html#unique-entry-id-3Computer Science Games Courses Fall 2019
]]>CSCI-538 AR, VR & Mixed Reality - PresentationsCourses2019-12-05T10:00:00-08:00http://mikezyda.com/CoursesBlog/files/fb7e3dc7cc78eda218f75f25b5ee08fd-6.html#unique-entry-id-6http://mikezyda.com/CoursesBlog/files/fb7e3dc7cc78eda218f75f25b5ee08fd-6.html#unique-entry-id-6CSCI-538 AR, VR & Mixed Reality Fall 2019 presentations & team pages are below.

The syllabus for that class is here.

CHLA - In collaboration with the Children's Hospital Los Angeles we developed two fun VR experiences that gamify breathing and can help children with conditions such as cystic fibrosis or in peri-operative care, that require breathing training, to practice in a motivating and fun virtual environment. The games use the three phases of breathing, inhalation pause and exhalation as intuitive input data to drive gameplay.
https://misrashashank.wixsite.com/csci-538-chla-team/

Claim the Kingdom - Claim the Kingdom is a VR based survival game. The game starts with the user being trapped in a dark room. Various spells come from different directions cinematically illuminating the room and therefore offering a strong sense of presence as the player tries to first establish the room they are in. The user needs to avoid incoming attacks with their body movements. Any spell that hits them cuts down the illumination around them making the the game slightly more difficult. The goal is to collect enough blue spells in order to reclaim the kingdom.
http://www-scf.usc.edu/~dhruvrpa/Claim_the_kingdom/

Climate Change - The Climate Change project explores the use of various immersive and 3D scanning technologies such as AR, VR, Lidar scanning and Photogrammetry to create an immersive journalism story about climate change and how that affects our ecosystem. The project was developed in collaboration with the Annenberg School of Communication and Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences and was set around the migration of the exhibited dioramas at National History Museum in the Metaverse. Dioramas can be seen as the VIrtual Reality of 1920’s where taxidermists would use stuffed animals and painted backgrounds over a piece of terrain to display a piece from another continent.
https://naruka48.wixsite.com/mysite

Clueless - Clueless is a first person murder mystery themed escape room game where the player has to collect various evidence from an office building and escape before a bomb goes off. The gameplay is built around a portable handheld scanner that notifies the user about an evidence being within range. Using the portable scanner the player needs to explore the space fast and collect all evidence on time.
https://manikans4.wixsite.com/clueless

Fantasy Hex - Fantasy Hex is a multiplayer tabletop strategy game in Augmented Reality using Magic Leap One. The project was set to push the boundaries of how many interconnected ML one devices can share the same mixed reality gaming environment. Strategy games in MR offer new possibilities for merging digital and physical play spaces and augment the establish rules and practices of board and strategy games.
https://shapecommander.wordpress.com

Fight On - Fight On! is a single-player Virtual Reality shooting game where the player needs to save a baby before it turns into a MONSTER. You play a human being stuck in a weird world - where humanoids and fantasy characters co-exist. The game setting is comical; the characters have distinct animations and sounds which make the experience hilariously crazy.
http://www-scf.usc.edu/~pranshug/arvr/

God’s Eye - God’s Eye is exploring the potential of serious physical and cyber threats in the era of Mixed Reality. What information can someone have access to through the transparent lenses that can potential become a threat to individuals and the society? God’s eye developed a tool for vulnerability assessment of an individual in a generic social setting that allows a user (potentially a criminal) to recognize a persons face and overlay data mined from various public resources, databases and API’s such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Glassdoor, Venmo etc. Using the tool one can combine data from various resources and assess the individual’s vulnerability score before engaging in potential physical or cyber crime activities. The project was developed in collaboration with Symantec and offers insight of potential threats in the near future that could arise from camera equipped MR devices connected to AI powered cloud services.
https://gods-eye.herokuapp.com

Incognito - Incognito is a speculative design and engineering project exploring the future of Cybersecurity in Mixed Reality using the Hololens. The project was developed in collaboration with Symantec and visualizes the threats and data privacy issues a user might face while browsing seemingly innocuous websites on the internet and explores various ways for privacy and security protection.
https://bpai80.wixsite.com/incognito

Infinity Wars - Infinity Wars is a virtual reality shooting game where the hero is at the last line of defense between an invading force and the space station. Use guns and shields to fend off asteroids and drones.
http://www-scf.usc.edu/~yashndos/InfinityWars/index.html

The Odyssey - Odyssey is an immersive VR game for the Positron Voyager motion platform chair. The user is playing the role of a space cadet and uses joysticks to control a spaceship and complete all the objectives of a given mission in three phases. The game involves space traveling, precise navigation through meteorites, a landing challenge and the exploration of the surface of a planet using either a giant robot or a space rover, all emulated through the Voyager Positron chair that simulates the feeling and the motion of flying in a spaceship and driving vehicles over a rocky surface.
https://sethip8.wixsite.com/voyager

Project Tranquil - This project explores the potential of using an immersive motion platform such as the Positron Voyager chair to immediately transcend the user into a meditative state and assist them through daily stress and anxiety management. The basic idea is to tranquilize the user through a subtle motion that emulates the rocking of a small boat in the water during sunset. The combination of haptic feedback, music, immersive visuals and the option of a guided meditation voice over, with the subtle rocking of the chair illustrated a dramatic effect in stress reduction and a strong sense of presence.
https://spujari5.wixsite.com/projecttranquilusc

Rush Diving - Rush Diving is a virtual reality game using Oculus Rift where the player experiences the thrill of flying and diving on a magic carpet.
https://rushdiving.wordpress.com

VR Breathing - Running experiments in Virtual Reality is something that interests researchers all over the world. In collaboration with EPFL in Switzerland we developed a virtual lab for researchers exploring wind mechanics and exhalation as a primary input for interaction, using a custom wireless sensor. We developed a back end data acquisition framework that works with various prototypes that researchers can arrange within the lab (eg. blowing candles, making different sounds by blowing in bottles , etc). In this way, we wish to provide a state-of-the-art interface for researchers who are seeking to explore presence, embodiment and agency in VR and make data collection and running an experiment an easier and more accessible process.
https://qilewang6.wixsite.com/epfl


]]>CSCI-526 Mobile Games - PresentationsCourses2019-12-04T10:00:00-08:00http://mikezyda.com/CoursesBlog/files/83e2df0456281be1864e3ad00d672684-5.html#unique-entry-id-5http://mikezyda.com/CoursesBlog/files/83e2df0456281be1864e3ad00d672684-5.html#unique-entry-id-5CSCI-526 Mobile Games Fall 2019 games & team web pages are below!

The syllabus for that class is here.

Black Queen - 6 player card game
http://www-scf.usc.edu/~yashndos/BlackQueen/index.html

BoBo Defense - tower defense
https://uscliuxu.wixsite.com/mysite

Bride Wars - Princess’ Attack - an action RPG.
https://shawnock.github.io/

Car Transformer - racing game
https://qiucw.github.io/Transformer/

City Runner - infinite runner game
https://lupeijia.wixsite.com/city-runner

Cooking Journey 2D/3D hybrid game
https://cookingjourneycsci526.github.io/

Cube Game - 2D puzzle platformer
https://kotharyparshav.github.io

Cupid - 2D arrow shooting game
https://pufferfish-harp-p6pg.squarespace.com/

Escort the Payload - survival game
http://3.19.68.147

Frozen - maze game
https://yinhsiayen.wixsite.com/526game

Moving Master - puzzle game
http://www-scf.usc.edu/~jieyin/moving-master

Resurrection - action RPG
http://www-scf.usc.edu/~cskheman/game/

Rushing Light - a music game
https://liangweizhao.github.io/light_chaser

Tower Warfare - AR Tower creation & destruction game.
http://www-scf.usc.edu/~kvasudev/towerwarfare/


]]>CSCI-599 Applied Machine Learning for Games - PresentationsCourses2019-12-03T12:00:00-08:00http://mikezyda.com/CoursesBlog/files/0cb42b8814e8bad5a79d749b2051af16-4.html#unique-entry-id-4http://mikezyda.com/CoursesBlog/files/0cb42b8814e8bad5a79d749b2051af16-4.html#unique-entry-id-4CSCI-599 Applied Machine Learning for Games presentations & team pages are below.

The syllabus for that class is here.

Github for the course
https://github.com/csci-599-applied-ml-for-games

Adversarial-Deep-Q-Learning-Bot-for-Scotland-Yard:
Members: Harish Mohan, Khadija Zavery, Priyanka Narendra, Ramya NL, Shreyasi Chaudhary
Project Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1O1fWk9NQ1tzLla8KOJslvunryjoEXq0qEQQ9E9_Fdds/edit?usp=sharing
Project Video: https://drive.google.com/a/usc.edu/file/d/1TfyMyP5O1V6UFFd0WuhJLBxsGQJu7YTT/view?usp=sharing
Github: https://github.com/csci-599-applied-ml-for-games/Adversarial-Deep-Q-Learning-Bot-for-Scotland-Yard

ale-transfer-learning:
Members: ABHAY ATRISH, KUNAL KOTWANI, KUSHAL D’SOUZA, PRABHJOT SINGH
Project Slides: https://prezi.com/p/zv8y_pd6cd0v/cs599-final-presentation/
Project Video: https://prezi.com/p/zv8y_pd6cd0v/cs599-final-presentation/
Github: https://github.com/csci-599-applied-ml-for-games/ale-transfer-learning

AML-in-Hovenstar:
Members: Zhewen Miao, Michael Yuen, Yifan Meng, Ye Xiao, Mengchen Tan, Chengxiang Duan
Project Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1HnPtfEytc9EkMdGZvszt6NxtLTzqUTV4tMsk9Uv1yF8/edit?usp=sharing
Project Video: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jd7iSqrAV1cJekA_Jx4zRO5MtwIvj4Xc/view?usp=sharing
Github: https://github.com/csci-599-applied-ml-for-games/AML-in-Hovenstar

Auto-Drive-Self-Driving-Car:
Members: Namita Atri, Kaushik Shakkari, Rajat Agarwal, Pranav Gupta, Ishita Bedi
Project Slides: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Vb5TahgsjLckevwtNrh5TgVRunQDNu3X/view?usp=sharing
Project Video: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1MNv6Fudl923YAp-lGRLVHfOPewaIr1xS
Github: https://github.com/csci-599-applied-ml-for-games/Auto-Drive-Self-Driving-Car-

Autonomous Racing Group:
Members: Baiyu Huang, Mengqian Yu
Project Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ClGHePbG3vONq5iPOeMZuXPsmiz8X9o8DTq4ZvwaIPo/edit?usp=sharing
Project Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UB6iie335yM
Github:

CubeRocker:
Members: Ouyu Lan, Peiyuan Qi
Project Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1EEHSAi6k4wFvYTBy_BaSZlGpVgW-5gLUuxDONjm-BjE/edit?usp=sharing
Project Video: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gv-E9f-BDWpNY7tUTisWlKlf4zZEASr6/view?usp=sharing
Github: https://github.com/csci-599-applied-ml-for-games/CubeRocker

cs599-deepfakes:
Members: Adarsh Gopalakrishnan, Niveditha Kumaran
Project Slides: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1fCE8zqzqWXXnxvHaj8M4xYjvQBNQ3lwd
Project Video: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1i85q6m8PlUO4Oo_Q17YacO-GnFu53tMQ/view?usp=sharing
Github: https://github.com/csci-599-applied-ml-for-games/cs599-deepfakes

DeepRL-For-RTS:
Members: Dhruv Mathew, Dhineshkumar Ramasubbu, Alagappan Maruthappan, Sushanth Ikshwaku Sriramaraju, Samiksha Manjunath
Project Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1N0FLOH2mg3FU5BvXBBEPskUHQm2K--CN/edit#slide=id.p1
Project Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AK7aE2n2JLc&feature=youtu.be
Github: https://github.com/csci-599-applied-ml-for-games/DeepRTS

Donkey-Kong-ML:
Members: Ryota Dan, Aayushi Jethwani, Shivaan Kulanathan, Phathorn Thammasorn, Kristian Skistad
Project Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1zgkaw6DUaODrrIH522tc-jPoBLIVb88JVLH3WvPtV2M/edit?usp=sharing
Project Video: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yq-EPUoK_KTv_uSGgl6Db67yN2dJ1BLy/view?usp=sharing
Github: https://github.com/csci-599-applied-ml-for-games/Donkey-Kong-ML

FormBuddy:
Members: Christina Acojedo, Richie Gowtham, Cole Heflin, Abel John, Varun Vegi, Zili Zhou
Project Slides: https://drive.google.com/drive/u/1/folders/1Z3FDLQ3EJnXJcwX3tSJEP8TaTpCq450r
Project Video: https://drive.google.com/drive/u/1/folders/1Z3FDLQ3EJnXJcwX3tSJEP8TaTpCq450r
Github: https://github.com/csci-599-applied-ml-for-games/FormBuddy

Generic-Bot-for-racing-Games:
Members: Pramod Chandra Samudrala, Rittwik Adhikari, Bharath Chintamani
Project Slides: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1ZygRB2XCAN-WXQTYQV8eZ4T95O12tMJ_zB0c7K-psFA
Project Video: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NT5H40A4bTi3N5gttJzUF5og2IHjkl94/view?usp=sharing
Github: https://github.com/csci-599-applied-ml-for-games/Generic-Bot-for-racing-Games

League-of-legends-bot:
Members: Brighton Keslin, Raunaq Trivedi, Bhanu Arora, Vani Singala, Menaka Ravi, Aishwarya Lohokare
Project Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1CysfGGh9-O9KBqH5a-T8ncFDLtz4w6CH2cW5GfJH51E/edit?usp=sharing
Project Video: https://drive.google.com/a/usc.edu/file/d/1pfB3na3cBMGpqV61aJ8TGsxrXeY8EJpf/view?usp=sharing
Github: https://github.com/csci-599-applied-ml-for-games/league-of-legends-bot

Max-up:
Members: Neelesh Vyas, Prachi Pravin Bhavsar
Project Slides: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1ANZfcF-HOpXD3UL4m_30RdZNcq7r23z-
Project Video: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1YDR_5XQs-6i881MGGgTKo46D6m0DHtGX
Github: https://github.com/csci-599-applied-ml-for-games/max-up

ML-football-commentary:
Members: Krish Lalwani, Mohak Wagh, Pranali Majmundar
Project Slides: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1qcYWyYXJYv197AKTvGrK32cKX-MPVdp8
Project Video: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1sVtXNz45FS4wXdCjFsbv85QqzoZ2SZbz
Github: https://github.com/csci-599-applied-ml-for-games/ML-football-commentary

Neural-Aim-Bot-for-CSGO:
Members: Saikrishna Chaitanya, Everest Law, Sanil Rego
Project Slides: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1dq-iVMe3fhjRLaoGUrEh1ybYrA5WqeD9
Project Video: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1Ilxle7xFdR5s3SHiv6u0A2BN6m2NRNyq
Github: https://github.com/csci-599-applied-ml-for-games/Neural-Aim-Bot-for-CSGO

NPC-Model:
Members: Varinthorn Bulakul, Nipun Singhal, Devansh Sharma, Dhananjay Tyagi, Zilu Li
Project Slides: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1ec5SBOcFrAo0eswQcGgOVCPFcL_n4M93hvOJmCU7kuk
Project Video: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1-asYYUGRhNIDpjIhYfSSrxbe8SyTSrZ3
Github: https://github.com/csci-599-applied-ml-for-games/NPC-Model

PokemonBattlerBot:
Members: Trevor Apple, Stephen Koy, Dan Yang, Divyanshi Sharma, Akshay Gulati
Project Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1NleimDHb4C4zcj8C7TacQD-REnR2R-kGjD7GrKnr74I/edit?usp=sharing
Project Video: https://drive.google.com/file/d/19yGnY-snYW428kEAM9lm8vrKJE7fUyE4/view?usp=sharing
Github: https://github.com/csci-599-applied-ml-for-games/PokemonBattlerBot

Pommerman:
Members: Kevin Cheng, Jameson Thai, Lance Newby, Myron Kwan, Allen Shen, Tianyi Sun, Muhammad Usmar Shahid, Raja Zain Abbas
Project Slides: https://docs .google.com/presentation/d/1L66DwXQKGa_Jknv6KJ577HtwSrYBmByJGZ0kJN8WT3c/edit?usp=sharing
Project Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EHb5Zf_MeI&feature=youtu.be
Github: https://github.com/Pommerman/bomberman

Reinforcement-Learning-Contra:
Members: Karan Maheshwari, Namish Maheshwari, Saranya Kolanu, Swathi Nayak
Project Slides: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1Y1JF9RlVp1bSH8ZXX62-C0DzAM3SdgM7
Project Video: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1PmJOaavrSai-moNNMpZaQrAOS8-RM-Cp
Github: https://github.com/csci-599-applied-ml-for-games/Reinforcement-Learning-Contra

Slither.io_bot:
Members: Ankita Goswami, Kartikey Sapra, Sweety Bhartia, Trasha Dewan
Project Slides: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1n8By2aGK81lx2MwAzjhryJRjuIUxxKkg/view
Project Video: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yz3kGX71AcCD_B4CLV2t2-Kt8wWN6ol2/view
Github: https://github.com/csci-599-applied-ml-for-games/Slither.io_bot

Sonic-Hedge-Bot:
Members: Akshansh, Rishabh and Shashank
Project Slides: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1A5Xs1BDRegvnEEQ7dLPiBagfrMBn7Li2/view?usp=sharing
Project Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gq6r8FbvUQw&feature=youtu.be
Github: https://github.com/csci-599-applied-ml-for-games/Sonic-Hedge-Bot

Stylized-Game-Env-Generation:
Members: Apoorva K H, Dhanya Raghu, Pulkit Pattnaik
Project Slides: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1P71jXcVWDDWKz7HtZMdG3nb_d288NSie/view?usp=sharing
Project Video: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1x7kmxYHpmhKsd6f9tguohKGLD6ZkRarEy9FMiXHJw90/edit?usp=sharing
Github: https://github.com/csci-599-applied-ml-for-games/Stylized-Game-Env-Generation

Sungpi (Screeps RL):
Members: Sungwon Chung
Project Slides: https://www.dropbox.com/s/nxgscr7idtje76h/Sungwon_Chung_8805925407.pdf?dl=0
Project Video: https://youtu.be/RaaTWEtA9fY
Github: https://github.com/csci-599-applied-ml-for-games/Screeps-RL

Transfer-Learning-Atari-Games:
Members: Chethan R Shetty, Dhanush Devraj, Jayanth Balachandra, Kruthi Channamallikarjuna
Project Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Jih0p2ZOW52D0efmKaqWQdY5xFsky-0nagLvnWxdb74/edit?usp=sharing
Project Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOIF9reE8zI
Github: https://github.com/csci-599-applied-ml-for-games/Transfer-Learning-Atari-Games

Waterboi:
Members: Ikshita Mishra, Harmeet Singh, Gursheen Grewal, Sarthak Seth
Project Slides: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1g1oQjYvufuNoUYE4mzPrCRqJksGqNhze/view?usp=sharing
Project Video: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1f4s6-o8aaFJu1pQFY2j4C57eb9P5DR4C/view?usp=sharing
Github: https://github.com/csci-599-applied-ml-for-games/PlayWithObjects-WaterBoi

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