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Shuchun Sun
dblp:09/8208
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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2026
0000-0002-7985-2745ORCID · reported
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Graphics, computer vision, multimedia, augmented reality and games · 1 · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Artificial intelligence
1 paper |
Reinforcement learning · 87% Robot manipulation · 13% |
Topics — the 2 heaviest of 3, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Machine learning › Reinforcement learning
multi-agent reinforcement learning |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | MUSIC: Learning Muscle-Driven Dexterous Hand Control · ACM Trans. Graph. 2026 |
Robotics › Robot manipulation › learning from demonstration
motion imitation |
0.3 | 1 | 2026 | MUSIC: Learning Muscle-Driven Dexterous Hand Control · ACM Trans. Graph. 2026 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
variational autoencoder · 1.0reinforcement learning · 1.0adversarial learning · 1.0
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | MUSIC: Learning Muscle-Driven Dexterous Hand ControlabstractWe present a data-driven approach for physics-based, muscle-driven dexterous control that enables musculoskeletal hands to perform precise piano playing for novel pieces of music outside the reference dataset. Our approach combines high-frequency muscle-level control with low-frequency latent-space coordination in a hierarchical architecture. At the low level, general single-hand policies are trained via reinforcement learning to generate dynamic muscle-tendon activations while tracking trajectories from a large reference motion dataset. The resulting tracking policies are then distilled into variational autoencoder (VAE) models, yielding smooth and structured latent spaces that abstract away low-level muscle dynamics. For the high level, we train piece-specific policies to operate in this latent space, coordinating bimanual motions based on specific goals, denoted by note events extracted from given musical scores, to synthesize performances beyond the reference data. High-level control is formulated as a decentralized multiagent reinforcement learning problem combined with adversarial learning for motion imitation. In addition, we present an enhanced musculoskeletal hand model that supports fine control of fingers for accurate low-level motion tracking and diverse high-level motion synthesis. We evaluate the control pipeline of our approach on a diverse piano repertoire spanning multiple musical styles and technical demands. Results demonstrate that our approach can synthesize coordinated bimanual motions with accurate key presses, and achieve the state-of-the-art performance of piano playing in physics-based dexterous control, while generalizing to sheet music that is not presented in the reference dataset. We also show that our musculoskeletal hand model demonstrates superior biomechanical stability and tracking precision compared to the existing model, and validate that our musculoskeletal hand model and muscle-driven controller can generate physiologically plausible activation patterns that align with human electromyography (EMG) recordings when subjects perform multiple tasks. Pei Xu 0005, Yufei Ye 0001, Shuchun Sun, Elizabeth Schumann, C. Karen Liu |
ACM Trans. Graph. | 3 |