Finger motion estimation and synthesis for gesturing characters

Proceedings - SCCG 2015: 31st Spring Conference on Computer Graphics

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 97-104

  Mousas, Christos ^a   Anagnostopoulos, Christos Nikolaos ^a   Newbury, Paul ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Finger motion; Motion estimation; Motion features; Motion synthesis

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER GRAPHICS; ESTIMATION;

COMPUTATIONAL TIME; ESTIMATION PROCESS; FINGER MOTION; MOTION FEATURES; MOTION SYNTHESIS; NOVEL METHODOLOGY; OPTIMAL TRANSITION; VIRTUAL CHARACTER;

MOTION ESTIMATION;

EID: 84963626027     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2788539.2788552     Document Type: Conference Paper

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