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Motion Abstraction and Mapping with Spatial Constraints

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Modelling and Motion Capture Techniques for Virtual Environments (CAPTECH 1998)

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A new technique is introduced to abstract and edit motion capture data with spatial constraints. Spatial proximities of end-effectors with tagged objects during zero-crossings in acceleration space are used to isolate significant events and abstract constraints from an agent’s action. The abstracted data is edited and applied to another agent of a different anthropometric size and a similar action is executed while maintaining the constraints. This technique is specifically useful for actions involving interactions of a human agent with itself and other objects.

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  1. Computer and Information Science Department, University of Pennsylvania, PA, 19104-6389, USA

    Rama Bindiganavale & Norman I. Badler

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  1. Department of Information Systems, University of Geneva, 24 Rue du Général Dufour, CH-1211, Geneva 4, Switzerland

    Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann

  2. Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), CH-1015, Lausanne, Switzerland

    Daniel Thalmann

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Bindiganavale, R., Badler, N.I. (1998). Motion Abstraction and Mapping with Spatial Constraints. In: Magnenat-Thalmann, N., Thalmann, D. (eds) Modelling and Motion Capture Techniques for Virtual Environments. CAPTECH 1998. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 1537. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-49384-0_6

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