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Keyframe interpolation with self-collision avoidance

J.-C. Nebel

Computer Animation and Simulation'99
77-86, 1999
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Abstract
3D-keyframe animation is a popular method for animating articulated figures. It allows artistic expressiveness by providing control to the animator. The drawback of this process is that it requires significant effort from the animator. Recently, work has focused on high level techniques such as adapting reference movements. However, whatever the way the animation is produced, the final process is an interpolation between keyframes. Our problem is that these interpolations do not deal with the avoidance of collisions between the limbs of an articulated figure, either an animator has to add new keyframes or the motion produced contains unrealistic positions. In this paper we present a new interpolation method producing self-collision free paths based on geometrical properties. Our method is a high level interpolation in which any classical interpolation method can be used. Experimental results using a human model show that the animator can reduce the level of detail needed for describing a movement and still get realistic results at interactive speeds.

Cited by ( Google Scholar: 23, ISI Web of Knowledge: 6 & SCOPUS: 4 ): 25

2023

Learning-based interactive character animation, Leon Victor, Artificial Intelligence [cs.AI], English. ffNNT : 2023, ISAL0028ff. fftel-04286652, PhD Thesis, University de Lyon, INSA de Lyon, France, 2023 (G)

2021

Leveraging Neural Networks for 3D Facial Animation Editing, Eloise Berson, PhD Thesis, IETR - Institut d'Electronique et des Technologies du numeRique, University de Rennes 1, France, 2021

2019

Tangent-space optimization for interactive animation control, Loic Ciccone, Cengiz Oztireli, Robert W. Sumner, ACM Transactions on Graphics 38(4):1-10, DOI: 10.1145/3306346.3322938, 2019 (G) (I)
User-Guided Offline Synthesis of Robot Arm Motion from 6-DoF Paths, Pragathi Praveena, Daniel Rakita, Bilge Mutlu and Michael Gleicher, International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2019 (G) (I)

2018

Data-driven autocompletion for keyframe animation, Xinyi Zhang, M. van de Panne, 11th Annual International Conference on Motion, Interaction, and Games, Article No.: 10 Pages 1–11, https://doi.org/10.1145/3274247.3274502, 2018 (G)

2016

Body-Based Obstacle Avoidance for Motion Simulation using Optimization-Based Posture Prediction, Kimberly Farrell, R. K. Degenhardt III, Rajankumar Bhatt, Karim Abdel-Malek, Conference: Digital Human Modeling Symposium, 2016

2015

Missing Human Motion Capture Data Recovery via Fuzzy Clustering and Projected Proximal Point Algorithm, He Gaofeng, Peng Shujuan, Liu Xin, Zhong Bineng, Journal of Computer-Aided Design & Computer Graphics, 27(8): 1416-1425, 2015 (G)

2014

Obstacle and Singularity Avoidance of Redundant Serial Manipulators Using the Concept of Task Priority, Arora, Himanshu, MSc Thesis, Thapar University, India, 2014 (G)
Self-collision avoidance through keyframe interpolation and optimization-based posture prediction, Degenhardt III, Richard Kennedy, MSc thesis, University of Iowa, 2014 (G)

2011

Real-Time Estimation of Missing Markers for Reconstruction of Human Motion Qiong Wu, Pierre Boulanger, Symposium on Virtual Reality - SVR , 2011

2009

Methods for real-time restoration and estimation in optical motion capture, Andreas Aristidou, Joan Lasenby and Jonathan Cameron, CUED/F-INFENG/TR-619, University of Cambridge, 2009 (G)
Predicting Missing Markers in Real-Time Optical Motion Capture, Tommaso Piazza, Johan Lundstroem, Andreas Kunz, and Morten Fjeld, N. Magnenat-Thalmann (Ed.): 3DPH 2009, LNCS 5903, 125-136, 2009 (G)
TOWARDS SOLVING THE MISSING MARKER PROBLEM IN REALTIME MOTION CAPTURE, Tommaso Piazza, Johan Lundstroem, Alexander Hugestrand, Andreas Kunz, and Morten Fjeld, International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, August 30 - September 2, San Diego, California, USA, 2009 (G) (I)

2008

Real-time estimation of missing markers in human motion capture, Aristidou, A., Cameron, J., Lasenby, J., International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering, iCBBE 2008, 1343-1346, 2008 (G) (S)
Predicting missing markers to drive real-time centre of rotation estimation, Aristidou, A., Cameron, J., Lasenby, J., Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 5098 LNCS, 238-247, 2008 (G) (S)
Real-Time Estimation of Missing Data and Localisation of the Centre of Rotation in Optical motion capture data, Aristidou, A., First Year Report, University of Cambridge, 2008 (G)

2007

Human computer interfaces of a system for robotic heart surgery, Mayer H, Nagy I, Knoll A, et al., International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, Chamonix (France), March, 31-36, 2007 (G) (I) (S)
Human ambulant motion control based on in-betweening, HE Ding-xin, LU Zhu-fei, REN Jin-song, WANG Wei, Application Research of Computers, Vol. 24 No. 10, Oct. 2007 (G) (I)

2006

Data acquisition and motion interpolation for a multimodal medical training environment, Thomas Proell, PhD thesis, Technischen Universitaet Muenchen, 2006 (G)

2004

Interaction with 3-D Objects, Marcelo Kallmann, In Handbook of Virtual Humans, N. Magnenat-Thalmann and D. Thalmann (Eds.), John Wiley & Sons, UK, 303-322, 2004 (G)

2003

Fusion et adaptation temps reel de mouvements acquis pour l'animation d'humanoides synthetiques, Stephane MENARDAIS, PhD thesis, Universite de Rennes 1, 2003 (G)
Metody porownywania generatorow ruchu animowanych postaci ludzkich, Bartosz Jablonski, Master Thesis, Wroclaw University of Technology (Poland), 2003 (G)

2002

Animating character locomotion using biomechanics-based figure models, Alexander Savenko, PhD thesis, Moscow State University (Russia), 2002 (G)

2001

Inverse kinematics techniques for the interactive posture control of articulated figures, P Baerlocher, PhD thesis, ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FEDERALE DE LAUSANNE (CH), 2001 (G)

2000

Realistic collision avoidance of upper limbs based on neuroscience models, Nebel JC, Computer Graphics Forum, 19(3):C219-C227, 2000 (G) (I) (S) [PDF]

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