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Reuse of Motion Capture Data in Animation: A Review

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The reuse of motion capture data is receiving increasing attention in computer animation. This interest is motivated by a wide spectrum of time-critical applications, such as video game development and animation production. This paper gives an overview of various tasks and techniques involved in the reuse of motion capture data in terms of motion authoring pipeline. We assume that whenever the user is asked to build motions, he/she will at first go to retrieve/browse the pre-recorded motions in the motion database, look for the best-fit candidate motion segments/pieces/clips, and manage to adapt them to fit the specified requirements. The two core issues in motion reuse, motion adaptation techniques and motion library construction, are the focus of this review.

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  1. Multimedia Innovation Centre, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong

    Weidong Geng & Gino Yu

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  1. Army High Performance Computing Research Center, USA University of Minessota Department of Computer Science and Engineering, MN, 55455, USA

    Vipin Kumar

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, T2N1N4, Canada

    Marina L. Gavrilova

  3. Heuchera Technologies Inc., 122 9251-8Yonge Street, Richmond Hill, ON, Canada, L4C 9T3

    Chih Jeng Kenneth Tan

  4. School of Computer Science, The Queen’s University of Belfast, Belfast, BT7 1NN, Northern Ireland UK

    Chih Jeng Kenneth Tan

  5. Département d’informatique et de recherche opérationelle Montréal, Université de Montréal, Québec, H3C 3J7, Canada

    Pierre L’Ecuyer

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Geng, W., Yu, G. (2003). Reuse of Motion Capture Data in Animation: A Review. In: Kumar, V., Gavrilova, M.L., Tan, C.J.K., L’Ecuyer, P. (eds) Computational Science and Its Applications — ICCSA 2003. ICCSA 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2669. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44842-X_63

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