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    Area of Science:

    • Computer Graphics
    • Animation
    • Computer Vision

    Background:

    • Surface motion capture (SurfCap) reconstructs actor performance from multi-view video, capturing natural nonrigid deformation of skin and clothing.
    • Existing animation tools offer flexibility with skeletal motion capture (MoCap), but SurfCap lacks similar interactive control.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To introduce interactive animation control techniques for SurfCap sequences.
    • To enable flexible editing and manipulation of SurfCap data, comparable to skeletal MoCap.
    • To achieve natural nonrigid surface deformation with an extended range of movement.

    Main Methods:

    • Extended Laplacian mesh editing using a learned basis model to constrain surface shape for natural deformation.
    • Developed three novel animation control approaches: space-time editing, skeleton-driven animation, and a hybrid MoCap-SurfCap combination.
    • Integrated these approaches into a hybrid surface and skeleton-driven animation control framework with parametric control.

    Main Results:

    • Demonstrated flexible control for interactive animation using SurfCap sequences.
    • Achieved natural nonrigid surface dynamics and extended movement range by combining MoCap and SurfCap.
    • Validated the techniques on diverse actor performances and clothing styles.

    Conclusions:

    • The developed techniques provide a powerful tool for interactive animation control of SurfCap data.
    • These methods enhance the flexibility of SurfCap by enabling editing and manipulation similar to skeletal MoCap.
    • The framework effectively extends SurfCap databases by incorporating new motions from MoCap sequences.