Comparison of the Character Movements from Key-frame and Motion Capture Animation

Character Animation from Motion Capture Data

Adding Hand Motion to the Motion Capture Based Character Animation

Most character motion capture data does not contain secondary motions like detailed hand motion, therefore the resultant animation looks unnatural due to the stiffness of hand motion. In this paper, we analyzed the pose space distance from the character’s motion capture data and used stepwise searching algorithm to find the key poses for hand motion synthesis. We adaptively changed the contrast...

From Motion Capture to Real-Time Character Animation

This paper describes a framework for animating virtual characters in real-time environments thanks to motion capture data. In this paper, we mainly focus on the adaptation of motion capture data to the virtual skeleton and to its environment. To speed-up this real-time process we introduce a morphology-independent representation of motion. Based on this representation, we have redesigned the me...

Facial Animation and Motion Capture: Key Role for the Communication

In the last 100 years we have observed a great development of the technology. This development applied to the mass media as the radio, the cinema, the television, or Internet have influence in the human communication and the interaction of the society with the technologies. The new communicative environments need new actors (avatars) with high communicate face expression. The modeling and the a...

Key Frame Extraction from Motion Capture Data by Curve Saliency

We propose a new method for extracting key frames from a motion capture sequence. Our proposed approach consists of two steps. In the first step, we propose a new metric, curve saliency, for motion curves that specifies the important frames of the motion. In the second step, we detect the final key frames by clustering the computed important frames. As a result of our experimental results, on t...