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Staggered poses: a character motion representation for detail-preserving editing of pose and coordinated timing

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Patrick Coleman,

Jacobo Bibliowicz,

Michael GleicherAuthors Info & Claims

SCA '08: Proceedings of the 2008 ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation

Pages 137 - 146

Published: 07 July 2008 Publication History

Abstract

We introduce staggered poses---a representation of character motion that explicitly encodes coordinated timing among movement features in different parts of a character's body. This representation allows us to provide sparse, pose--based controls for editing motion that preserve existing movement detail, and we describe how to edit coordinated timing among extrema in these controls for stylistic editing. The staggered pose representation supports the editing of new motion by generalizing keyframe--based workflows to retain high--level control after local timing and transition splines have been created. For densely--sampled motion such as motion capture data, we present an algorithm that creates a staggered pose representation by locating coordinated movement features and modeling motion detail using splines and displacement maps. These techniques, taken together, enable feature--based keyframe editing of dense motion data.

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Wang MGuo SLiao MHe DChang JZhang JZhang ZMao XThalmann DGavrilova M(2017)Pose selection for animated scenes and a case study of bas-relief generationProceedings of the Computer Graphics International Conference10.1145/3095140.3095171(1-6)Online publication date: 27-Jun-2017
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Pejsa TRakita DMutlu BGleicher M(2016)Authoring directed gaze for full-body motion captureACM Transactions on Graphics10.1145/2980179.298244435:6(1-11)Online publication date: 5-Dec-2016
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Staggered poses: a character motion representation for detail-preserving editing of pose and coordinated timing
1. Computing methodologies
  1. Artificial intelligence
    1. Computer vision
      1. Image and video acquisition
        3D imaging
  2. Computer graphics
    1. Animation

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SCA '08: Proceedings of the 2008 ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation

July 2008

230 pages

ISBN:9783905674101

Conference Chairs:
Eugene Fiume,
Jerry Tessendorf,
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Doug James

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