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In this extended abstract, we present a system that allows the user to animate character images in 3D space by applying an existed 3D character model with motion data. The character model with skeleton rigged is used as a template model to fit the ...

Speech animation is traditionally considered as important but tedious work for most applications, because the muscles on the face are complex and dynamically interacting. In this paper, we introduce a framework for synthesizing a 3D lip-sync speech ...

Technologies recreating piano performance in the form of CG animation are eagerly anticipated by people working in various fields, such as content production, music education, etc. Nonetheless, much of the past research has dealt with the mechanical ...

Characteristics of human motion, such as walking, running or jumping vary from person to person. Differences in human motion enable people to identify oneself or a friend. However, it is challenging to generate animation where individual characters ...

In the field of dance motion analysis, development of the technique for extraction of characteristic postures peculiar to each dance number is needed [Hachimura 2006]; extracted postures can be used as the indexes for the retrieval of motion data. In ...

Shadows in 2D Anime play a significant role for expressing symbolic visual effects such as the character's position and shape. However, animators frequently can't draw detailed shadows according to their intentions because of time constraints and a lack ...

MoCap-based facial expression synthesis techniques have been applied to provide CG character with expressive and accurate facial expressions [Deng et al. 2006: Lau et al. 2007]. The representative performance of these techniques depends on the variety ...

We describe a method for the synthesis of visual speech movements using a hybrid unit selection/model-based approach. Speech lip movements are captured using a 3D stereo face capture system and split up into phonetic units. A dynamic parameterisation of ...

Muscle-based facial animation [Lee et al. 1995] is one of the best approaches to realize facial expressions of characters. However, this approach does not consider the personal variation in facial tissue model such as skin thickness. So personal ...

Interactive applications such as Video Games require characters, which generate motions corresponding to user's interaction. Motion capture is an effective technique to reproduce realistic motion. However, to produce a motion which is appropriate to the ...

The modern world of computer graphics is mostly dominated by polygonal models. Due to their scalability and ease of rendering such models have various applications in a wide range of fields. Unfortunately some shape modelling and animation problems can ...

This poster presents a motion retrieval algorithm, which searches the motions in the same category as a query's (known as logically similar motions) in a motion capture database. The challenge is that logically similar motions may not be numerically ...

In recent years, many entertainment systems have relied on the progress of interaction technology to create characters that act autonomously. To show these lifelike characters, it is important for them to perform various actions, such as daily actions, ...

With glaciers melting, sea levels rising and natural disasters---such as hurricanes and cyclones---intensifying, climate change is a growing concern. While innovations in renewable energy are critical, research shows that changing energy use behavior ...

With today's increased interest in advanced digital networking and social online communities, many higher educational institutes have been exploring online three-dimensional virtual environments as a new medium for distance learning. These technologies ...

Himawari is a sunflower robot composed of mechanical parts and electronic parts, such as servo motors, LEDs and shape-memory alloy actuators, that reacts, slowly and fluidly, facing and communicating to humans in front of it.

Designing a program that is not a tool of artistic creation, but a creator itself have been a real challenge for both digital artists and researchers. The most famous program of artistic creation is AARON [Cohen], which is in continual development since ...

To change the spatial structures of our living spaces, we usually take an architectural approach. However once such structures have been constructed, re-configuring them incurs substantial costs. Reserving the flexibility to change spatial design is ...

With adaptive coded aperture projection, we present solutions for taking projectors to the next level. By placing a programmable liquid crystal array at a projectors aperture plane we show how the depth of field (DOF) of a projection can be greatly ...

The objective of this paper/presentation is to describe the potentialities of Mobile Tagging as a tool for increasing and spreading the effects of Mixed Realities. In this sense, we will start introducing the main concepts and some examples of Mixed ...

Resolution-independent rendering is important for many applications such as text rendering and rendering vector objects. This theme has attracted interest in recent years owing to the growing popularity of Flash and SVG-based applications [Loop and ...

Three-dimensional (3-D) displays have got a lot of attention because they have a much higher sense of realism and are more intuitive than 2-D displays. In particular, autostereoscopic displays are suitable for everyday use because they can be observed ...

Multi-touch input has been an active area of research for over two decades but has always suffered from the absence of an easily available high quality touch input device. For this reason, exciting user interfaces developed in the lab have appeared on ...

This work demonstrates a novel channel for a smart display to interact with its user for enhancing the viewing experience. By using a wearable electro-oculography (EOG) circuit, the saccadic eye movements can be detected so that the user's viewing mode ...

Mobile devices have limitations compared to PCs due to their inferior computing power and small screens, but a successful design of animated transitions can hide processing delays and make the user experience smoother. In this paper, we describe the ...

Despite the many challenges understanding how best to interact with large format displays, they are becoming increasingly popular for data analysis tasks in a variety of domains, including scientific, information, and geo-visualization. (Figure 1a shows ...

"Thermo-Pict" is a design apparatus produced by applying temperature visualization technology linked to an information display with the use of a thermograph sheet. Thermography is used to visualize the surface temperature of objects through their ...

This poster will analyze the feasibility of eye tracking as a tool for helping filmmakers to make decisions in a stereoscopic film production. In a conventional dialogue driven shot it is fairly easy to predict where the audiences would be looking. ...

The development in digital technologies and the widespread Web 2.0 concept have made many digital videos accessible. Editing and modifying digital videos have become an interesting and important topic. In this paper, we present a system for face ...

This poster presents experimental results of three face recognition methods -- Support Vector Machine (SVM), Local Binary Pattern (LBP)-based, and Sparse Represented-based Classification (SRC). We will show the experimental results based on AR face ...