Title
A hierarchical approach to interactive motion editing for human-like figures
Abstract
This paper presents a technique for adapting existing motion of a human-like character to have the desired features that are specified by a set of constraints. This problem can be typically formulated as a spacetime constraint problem. Our approach combines a hierar- chical curve fitting technique with a new inverse kinematics solver. Using the kinematics solver, we can adjust the configuration of an articulated figure to meet the constraints in each frame. Through the fitting technique, the motion displacement of every joint at each constrained frame is interpolated and thus smoothly propagated to frames. We are able to adaptively add motion details to satisfy the constraints within a specified tolerance by adopting a multilevel B- spline representation which also provides a speedup for the inter- polation. The performance of our system is further enhanced by the new inverse kinematics solver. We present a closed-form solu- tion to compute the joint angles of a limb linkage. This analytical method greatly reduces the burden of a numerical optimization to find the solutions for full degrees of freedom of a human-like artic- ulated figure. We demonstrate that the technique can be used for re- targetting a motion to compensate for geometric variations caused by both characters and environments. Furthermore, we can also use this technique for directly manipulating a motion clip through a graphical interface.
Year
DOI
Venue
1999
10.1145/311535.311539
SIGGRAPH
Keywords
Field
DocType
motion adaptation,motion editing,spacetime constraints,inverse kinematics,hierarchical approach,hierarchical techniques,interactive motion editing,human-like figure,satisfiability,curve fitting,graphical interface,degree of freedom
Computer vision,Kinematics,Inverse kinematics,Curve fitting,Computer science,Interpolation,Artificial intelligence,Solver,Computer graphics,Piecewise,Speedup
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
0097-8930
0-201-48560-5
263
PageRank 
References 
Authors
21.40
30
2
Search Limit
100263
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jehee Lee11912118.33
Sung Yong Shin21904168.33