Title :
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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Computer Animation '97
Conference_Location :
Geneva
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-7984-0
DOI :
10.1109/CA.1997.601044