Title :
Applying visual curve tracking to graphics
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Eng. Sci., Oxford Univ., UK
Abstract :
Methods developed in the Computer Vision community for tracking moving shapes are showing great potential for applications in real-time graphics. Tracking techniques allow graphical entities such as curves to be superimposed on a video data-stream, marking out certain objects and following their motions. The techniques have been demonstrated on a variety of moving objects including human hands, heads, lips both from the side and the front, various vehicles, cabbages viewed from a moving tractor and even a pig in its pen. The output from such trackers can be taken in the form of motion signals which could then be used to drive a remote animation
Keywords :
computer animation; computer vision; computer graphics; graphical entities; heads; human hands; lips; moving objects; moving shapes; real-time graphics; video data-stream; visual curve tracking; Application software; Computer graphics; Computer vision; Head; Humans; Lips; Shape control; Tracking; Vehicles; Workstations;
Conference_Titel :
Computer Animation '95., Proceedings.
Conference_Location :
Geneva
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-7062-2
DOI :
10.1109/CA.1995.393546