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Real-Time Full-Body Pose Synthesis and Editing

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Abstract

Posing character has always been playing an important role in character animation and interactive applications such as computer games. However, such a task is time-consuming and labor-intensive. In order to improve the efficiency in character posing, researchers in computer graphics have been working on a wide variety of semi- or fully automatic approaches in creating full-body poses, ranging from traditional approaches like inverse kinematics (IK), data-driven approaches which make use of captured motion data, as well as direct pose manipulation through intuitive interfaces. In this book chapter, we will introduce the aforementioned techniques and also discuss their applications in animation production.

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  1. Department of Computer and Information Sciences, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

    HO Edmond S. L.

  2. Department of Computer Science, Hong Kong Baptist University, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong

    Yuen Pong C.

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  1. Motion & More, Barcelona, Spain

    Bertram Müller

  2. Klinik für Orthopädie und Unfallchirurgi, Universitätsklinikum Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

    Sebastian I. Wolf

  3. Institut for Biomechanics und Orthopedic, German Sport University Cologne, Cologne, Germany

    Gert-Peter Brueggemann

  4. Houston, Texas, USA

    Zhigang Deng

  5. ACRISP, FedUniversity, Cremorne, New South Wales, Australia

    Andrew McIntosh

  6. Wilmington, Delaware, USA

    Freeman Miller

  7. Research, C-Motion, Inc., Germantown, Maryland, USA

    William Scott Selbie

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Edmond S. L., H., Pong C., Y. (2016). Real-Time Full-Body Pose Synthesis and Editing. In: Müller, B., et al. Handbook of Human Motion. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-30808-1_8-1

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