Marker-less motion capture of skinned models in a four camera set-up using optical flow and silhouettes

4th International Symposium on 3D Data Processing, Visualization and Transmission, 3DPVT 2008 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 329-336

  Ballan, Luca ^a   Cortelazzo, Guido Maria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA HANDLING; DATA VISUALIZATION; DEFORMATION; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); OPTICAL FLOWS; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

MOTION CAPTURE; MOTION TRACKING; NEW APPROACHES; NON-RIGID DEFORMATION; SKELETAL-SUBSPACE DEFORMATIONS; SKIN MODEL;

CAMERAS;

EID: 84923090370     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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