Automatic conversion of mesh animations into skeleton-based animations

Computer Graphics Forum

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 389-397

  De Aguiar, Edilson ^a   Theobalt, Christian ^b   Thrun, Sebastian ^b   Seidel, Hans Peter ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INFORMATICS   (Germany)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMATION; DEFORMATION; MESH GENERATION; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOTION ESTIMATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

AUTOMATIC CONVERSION; BASED ANIMATIONS; KINEMATIC SKELETON; MESH DEFORMATION; POST PROCESSING; SCENE REPRESENTATION; SKELETAL MOTIONS; SURFACE SKINNING; ANIMATION TOOLS; MESH ANIMATIONS; SKELETON BASED ANIMATIONS;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS; ANIMATION;

EID: 42949171814     PISSN: 01677055     EISSN: 14678659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8659.2008.01136.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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