Robust and accurate skeletal rigging from mesh sequences

ACM Transactions on Graphics

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Le, Binh Huy ^a   Deng, Zhigang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Geometric deformation; Linear blend skinning; Rigging; Skeleton extraction; Skinning from examples

Indexed keywords

ANIMATION; BONE; DEFORMATION; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; ITERATIVE METHODS; LINEAR TRANSFORMATIONS; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM;

GEOMETRIC DEFORMATIONS; LINEAR BLEND; RIGGING; SKELETON EXTRACTION; SKINNING FROM EXAMPLES; BASED ANIMATIONS; EXAMPLE BASED; LINEAR BLEND SKINNING; SKELETAL STRUCTURES; SKELETON JOINTS; SKINNING FROM EXAMPLE;

MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; BONE;

EID: 84905750502     PISSN: 07342071     EISSN: 15577333     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/2601097.2601161     Document Type: Conference Paper

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