Dynamic Comics for Hierarchical Abstraction of 3D Animation Data

dc.contributor.authorChoi, Myung Geolen_US
dc.contributor.authorNoh, Seung-Taken_US
dc.contributor.authorKomura, Takuen_US
dc.contributor.authorIgarashi, Takeoen_US
dc.contributor.editorB. Levy, X. Tong, and K. Yinen_US
dc.date.accessioned2015-02-28T16:10:04Z
dc.date.available2015-02-28T16:10:04Z
dc.date.issued2013en_US
dc.description.abstractImage storyboards of films and videos are useful for quick browsing and automatic video processing. A common approach for producing image storyboards is to display a set of selected key-frames in temporal order, which has been widely used for 2D video data. However, such an approach cannot be applied for 3D animation data because different information is revealed by changing parameters such as the viewing angle and the duration of the animation. Also, the interests of the viewer may be different from person to person. As a result, it is difficult to draw a single image that perfectly abstracts the entire 3D animation data. In this paper, we propose a system that allows users to interactively browse an animation and produce a comic sequence out of it. Each snapshot in the comic optimally visualizes a duration of the original animation, taking into account the geometry and motion of the characters and objects in the scene. This is achieved by a novel algorithm that automatically produces a hierarchy of snapshots from the input animation. Our user interface allows users to arrange the snapshots according to the complexity of the movements by the characters and objects, the duration of the animation and the page area to visualize the comic sequence. Our system is useful for quickly browsing through a large amount of animation data and semi-automatically synthesizing a storyboard from a long sequence of animation.en_US
dc.description.seriesinformationComputer Graphics Forumen_US
dc.identifier.issn1467-8659en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1111/cgf.12206en_US
dc.publisherThe Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd.en_US
dc.subjectI.3.3 [Computer Graphics]en_US
dc.subjectPicture/Image Generationen_US
dc.subjectDisplaying and viewing algorithmsen_US
dc.subjectI.3.7 [Computer Graphics]en_US
dc.subjectThreeen_US
dc.subjectdimensional graphics and realismen_US
dc.subjectAnimationen_US
dc.titleDynamic Comics for Hierarchical Abstraction of 3D Animation Dataen_US
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