Using Motion Capture Data to Optimize Procedural Animation

A Design Tool for Improving Procedural Animation with Motion Capture Data

Digital content industry is one of the Twin-Star projects in Taiwan. Among the various categories of digital contents, computer animation is the one that presents many technological challenges as well as many applications including computer games, films, TV and architectural design. Two common techniques in producing a computer animation are motion capture and procedural animation. Both approac...

Enhancing Procedural Animation with Motion Capture Data

Exploiting Motion Capture for Virtual Human Animation Data Collection and Annotation Visualization

Motion capture (mocap) provides highly precise data of human movement which can be used for empirical analysis and virtual human animation. In this paper, we describe a corpus that has been collected for the purpose of modelling movement in a dyadic conversational context. We describe the technical setup, scenarios and challenges involved in capturing the corpus, and present ways of annotating ...

Emotional Communicative Body Animation for Multiple Characters

Current body animation systems for Interactive Virtual Humans are mostly procedural or key-frame based. Although such methods provide for a high flexibility of the animation system, often it is not possible to create animations that are as realistic as animations obtained using a motion capture system. Simply using motion captured animation segments in stead of key-framed gestures is not a good...

Real-time animation of human characters with fuzzy controllers

The production of animation is a resource intensive process in game companies. Therefore, techniques to synthesize animations have been developed. However, these procedural techniques offer limited adaptability by animation artists. In order to solve this, a fuzzy neural network model of the animation is proposed, where the parameters can be tuned either by machine learning techniques that use ...