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Feng, Andrew W.; Huang, Yazhou; Kallmann, Marcelo; Shapiro, Ari
An Analysis of Motion Blending Techniques Proceedings Article
In: International Conference on Motion in Games, Rennes, France, 2012.
@inproceedings{feng_analysis_2012,
title = {An Analysis of Motion Blending Techniques},
author = {Andrew W. Feng and Yazhou Huang and Marcelo Kallmann and Ari Shapiro},
url = {http://ict.usc.edu/pubs/An%20Analysis%20of%20Motion%20Blending%20Techniques.pdf},
year = {2012},
date = {2012-11-01},
booktitle = {International Conference on Motion in Games},
address = {Rennes, France},
abstract = {Motion blending is a widely used technique for character animation. The main idea is to blend similar motion examples according to blending weights, in order to synthesize new motions parameterizing high level characteristics of interest. We present in this paper an in-depth analysis and comparison of four motion blending techniques: Barycentric interpolation, Radial Basis Function, K-Nearest Neighbors and Inverse Blending optimization. Comparison metrics were designed to measure the performance across di⬚erent motion categories on criteria including smoothness, parametric error and computation time. We have implemented each method in our character animation platform SmartBody and we present several visualization renderings that provide a window for gleaning insights into the underlying pros and cons of each method in an intuitive way.},
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pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {inproceedings}
}
Motion blending is a widely used technique for character animation. The main idea is to blend similar motion examples according to blending weights, in order to synthesize new motions parameterizing high level characteristics of interest. We present in this paper an in-depth analysis and comparison of four motion blending techniques: Barycentric interpolation, Radial Basis Function, K-Nearest Neighbors and Inverse Blending optimization. Comparison metrics were designed to measure the performance across di⬚erent motion categories on criteria including smoothness, parametric error and computation time. We have implemented each method in our character animation platform SmartBody and we present several visualization renderings that provide a window for gleaning insights into the underlying pros and cons of each method in an intuitive way.
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Feng, Andrew W.; Huang, Yazhou; Kallmann, Marcelo; Shapiro, Ari
An Analysis of Motion Blending Techniques Proceedings Article
In: International Conference on Motion in Games, Rennes, France, 2012.
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: UARC, Virtual Humans
@inproceedings{feng_analysis_2012,
title = {An Analysis of Motion Blending Techniques},
author = {Andrew W. Feng and Yazhou Huang and Marcelo Kallmann and Ari Shapiro},
url = {http://ict.usc.edu/pubs/An%20Analysis%20of%20Motion%20Blending%20Techniques.pdf},
year = {2012},
date = {2012-11-01},
booktitle = {International Conference on Motion in Games},
address = {Rennes, France},
abstract = {Motion blending is a widely used technique for character animation. The main idea is to blend similar motion examples according to blending weights, in order to synthesize new motions parameterizing high level characteristics of interest. We present in this paper an in-depth analysis and comparison of four motion blending techniques: Barycentric interpolation, Radial Basis Function, K-Nearest Neighbors and Inverse Blending optimization. Comparison metrics were designed to measure the performance across di⬚erent motion categories on criteria including smoothness, parametric error and computation time. We have implemented each method in our character animation platform SmartBody and we present several visualization renderings that provide a window for gleaning insights into the underlying pros and cons of each method in an intuitive way.},
keywords = {UARC, Virtual Humans},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {inproceedings}
}
Motion blending is a widely used technique for character animation. The main idea is to blend similar motion examples according to blending weights, in order to synthesize new motions parameterizing high level characteristics of interest. We present in this paper an in-depth analysis and comparison of four motion blending techniques: Barycentric interpolation, Radial Basis Function, K-Nearest Neighbors and Inverse Blending optimization. Comparison metrics were designed to measure the performance across di⬚erent motion categories on criteria including smoothness, parametric error and computation time. We have implemented each method in our character animation platform SmartBody and we present several visualization renderings that provide a window for gleaning insights into the underlying pros and cons of each method in an intuitive way.