Animation and Performance Capture Using Digitized Models

• Main Author: Aguiar, Edilson de (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2010.
• Series: Cognitive Systems Monographs, 5
• Subjects: Computer science.; Computer graphics.; Image processing.; Application software.; Computer Science.; Computer Graphics.; Computer Imaging, Vision, Pattern Recognition and Graphics.; Image Processing and Computer Vision.; Computer Applications.

The realistic generation of virtual doubles of real-world actors has been the focus of computer graphics research for many years. However, some problems still remain unsolved: it is still time-consuming to generate character animations using the traditional skeleton-based pipeline, passive performan...

Table of Contents:

• I: Background and Basic Definitions
• Preliminary Techniques
• Interactive Shape Deformation and Editing Methods
• Recording Studio: Data Acquisition and Data Processing
• II: Natural Animation of Digitized Models
• Problem Statement and Preliminaries
• Poisson-Based Skeleton-Less Character Animation
• Laplacian-Based Skeleton-Less Character Animation
• III: Towards Performance Capture Using Deformable Mesh Tracking
• Problem Statement and Preliminaries
• Video-Based Tracking of Scanned Humans
• Feature Tracking for Mesh-Based Performance Capture
• Video-Based Performance Capture
• High-Quality 3D Videos
• IV: Processing Mesh Animations
• Problem Statement and Preliminaries
• Reconstructing Fully-Rigged Characters
• Designing Non-photorealistic Animation Collages
• Conclusions.