An animation interface designed for motion capture

Author

Molet, Tom ; Huang, Zhiyong ; Boulic, Ronan ; Thalmann, Daniel

Author_Institution

Comput. Graphics Lab., Swiss Federal Inst. of Technol., Lausanne, Switzerland

fYear

1997

fDate

5-6 Jun 1997

Firstpage

77

Lastpage

85

Abstract

We present an animation interface designed to conveniently control the motion capture process. The transition of performer´s hand gestures tracked by a dataglove is recognized for software remote control. An intuitive camera metaphor allows one to specify the viewpoint location using the magnetic sensors strapped to the performer´s head. The human motion capture is based on the Anatomical Converter, a toolkit to convert sensor measurements into human anatomical rotations in real time. An improved human motion capture technique, the multi-joint control, is introduced

Keywords

computer animation; data gloves; motion estimation; virtual reality; Anatomical Converter; animation interface; dataglove; human motion capture; intuitive camera metaphor; magnetic sensors; motion capture; multi-joint control; performer hand gestures; sensor measurements; software remote control; synthetic actors; viewpoint location; virtual reality; Animation; Cameras; Data gloves; Humans; Magnetic heads; Magnetic sensors; Motion control; Motion measurement; Rotation measurement; Software performance;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Animation '97

Conference_Location

Geneva

ISSN

1087-4844

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7984-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CA.1997.601044

Filename

601044