Fast, automatic character animation pipelines

Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 3-16

  Feng, Andrew ^a   Huang, Yazhou ^b   Xu, Yuyu ^a   Shapiro, Ari ^a  

^a USC Institute for Creative Technologies ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

animation; graphics; retargeting; system

Indexed keywords

CHARACTER ANIMATION; GRAPHICS; OBJECT MANIPULATION; ON-LINE MARKETPLACES; RETARGETING; SIMULATION ENVIRONMENT; SYSTEM; THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D) MODEL;

ANIMATION; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; PIPELINES; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

EID: 84893014019     PISSN: 15464261     EISSN: 1546427X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cav.1560     Document Type: Article

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