Motion Capture and Animation of Human Form

SK Semwal (Session Chair)

Presentors

Dennis Musick: Kalman Filter based Tracking

Jonathan Kip Knight: Motion Capture and Display

University of Colorado

Colorado Springs

Human Forms (Semwal, stansfield et al. SNL/UCCS, Presence)

Closed form arm and legs solution (Semwal, Stansfield etal. Presence article)

Talking Heads Chris Kohnert/Semwal

Automatic Lip-Synchronization using linear prediction of speech

Presently: Collobarating with Professor Ron Cole (CSLR, CU Boluder http://cslr.colorado.edu/beginweb/vt_th/vt_th.html

Problem SpaceExamples

Keith Waters 1996Layered Tissue Model

Screen capture from Mark Kilgard’s Apple OpenGL sample adaptation of Keith Water’s code. Used under ACM Siggraph copyright provision.

Summer 2001Physical simulation onlyResearcher: Richard B. DoyleCourtesy: Dr. Victor Spitzer with persmission

Ocular MotionResearcher: Chris LeeCourtesy: Dr. Victor Spitzer

Undefined Surrounding Tissues

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Spring 2002Physics sculpted morph targetsResearcher: Richard B. DoyleCourtesy: Dr. Victor Spitzer with persmission

Tractor TendonsMuscle Force Tracking

Where are the Slices??

Richard Doyle/Spitzer UCCS/UCHSC

Crimson Tide Jonathan Person© Semwal (faculty advisor)

Continues with two more presentations

Dennis Musick: Kalman Filter based Tracking Jonathan Kip Knight: Motion Capture and

Display

University of Colorado Colorado Springs