Automatic Splicing for Hand and Body Animations

Majkowska, Anna; Zordan, Victor B.; Faloutsos, Petros

Automatic Splicing for Hand and Body Animations

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Date

2006

Authors

Majkowska, Anna
Zordan, Victor B.
Faloutsos, Petros

Publisher

The Eurographics Association

Abstract

We propose a solution to a new problem in animation research: how to use human motion capture data to create character motion with detailed hand gesticulation without the need for the simultaneous capture of hands and the full-body. Occlusion and a difference in scale make it difficult to capture both the detail of the hand movement and unrestricted full-body motion at the same time. With our method, the two can be captured separately and spliced together seamlessly with little or no user input required. The algorithm relies on a novel distance metric derived from research on gestures and uses a two-pass dynamic time warping algorithm to find correspondence between the hand and full-body motions. In addition, we provide a method for supplying user input, useful to animators who want more control over the integrated animation. We show the power of our technique with a variety of common and highly specialized gesticulation examples.

        @inproceedings{:10.2312/SCA/SCA06/309-316
,
booktitle = {ACM SIGGRAPH / Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation
},
editor = {Marie-Paule Cani and James O'Brien
},
title = {{Automatic Splicing for Hand and Body Animations
}},
author = {Majkowska, Anna and 
Zordan, Victor B. and 
Faloutsos, Petros
},
year = {2006
},
publisher = {The Eurographics Association
},
ISSN = {1727-5288
},
ISBN = {3-905673-34-7
},
DOI = {/10.2312/SCA/SCA06/309-316
}
}