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CA
1998
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Vision-Based Animation of Digital Humans
This paper presents a system for animating customized virtual humans using motion parameters estimated from multi-view image sequences. The advantage of our method is that the sub...
Ioannis A. Kakadiaris, Dimitris N. Metaxas
CA
1998
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Active Voodoo Dolls: A Vision Based Input Device for Nonrigid Control
A vision based technique for nonrigid control is presented that can be used for animation and video game applications. The user grasps a soft, squishable object in front of a came...
John Isidoro, Stan Sclaroff
CA
1998
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Feature-based Surface Decomposition for Correspondence and Morphing Between Polyhedra
We present a new approach for establishing correspondence between two homeomorphic 3D polyhedral models. The user can specify corresponding feature pairs on the polyhedra with a s...
Arthur D. Gregory, Andrei State, Ming C. Lin, Dine...
CA
1998
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Animation of Synthetic Faces in MPEG-4
MPEG-4 is the first international standard that standardizes true multimedia communication
Jörn Ostermann
CA
1999
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Skin Aging Estimation by Facial Simulation
We propose a layered facial simulation model for skin aging with wrinkles, which includes muscle, connective tissue and skin layer. Our aim is to simulate relevant facial animatio...
Yin Wu, Pierre Beylot, Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann
CA
1999
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Virtual Reality Simulation Modeling for a Haptic Glove
The recent addition of force and touch feedback to Virtual Reality simulations has enhanced their realism. Research on haptics interfaces is now extended to physical modeling of c...
Viorel G. Popescu, Grigore C. Burdea, Mourad Bouzi...
CA
1999
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Virtual People: Capturing Human Models to Populate Virtual Worlds
In this paper a new technique is introduced for automatically building recognisable moving 3D models of individual people. Realistic modelling of people is essential for advanced ...
Adrian Hilton, Daniel Beresford, Thomas Gentils, R...
CA
1999
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Collaborative Animation over the Network
The continuously increasing complexity of computer animationsmakes it necessary to rely on the knowledge of various experts to cover the different areas of computer graphics and a...
François Faure, Chris Faisstnauer, Gerd Hes...
CA
1999
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Group Interaction in a Surround Screen Environment
This paper describes a setup using a surround screen environment (Extended Virtual Environment EVE dome) that we used to explore group interaction in real and virtual space. We ha...
Michael Hoch, Daniel Schwabe
CA
1999
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Real-Time Collision Detection for Virtual Surgery
We present a simple method for performing real-time collision detection in a virtual surgery environment. The method relies on the graphics hardware for testing the interpenetrati...
Jean-Christophe Lombardo, Marie-Paule Cani, Fabric...