Interactive control of avatars animated with human motion data

ACM Transactions on Graphics

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 491-500

  Lee, Jehee ^a   Chai, Jinxiang ^a   Reitsma, Paul S A ^b   Hodgins, Jessica K ^a   Pollard, Nancy S ^b  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Avatars; Human motion; Interactive control; Motion capture; Virtual environments

Indexed keywords

ANIMATION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MARKOV PROCESSES; PROBABILITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

AVATARS; HUMAN MOTION; INTERACTIVE CONTROL; MOTION CAPTURE;

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 0036992636     PISSN: 07300301     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/566654.566607     Document Type: Conference Paper

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