Deformable Avatars: IFIP TC5/WG5.10 DEFORM’2000 Workshop November 29–30, 2000 Geneva, Switzerland and AVATARS’2000 Workshop November 30–December 1, ... Information and Communication Technology, 68) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0792374460 ISBN 13: 9780792374466

Publisher: Springer, 2001

Synopsis

Deformable avatars are virtual humans that deform themselves during motion. This implies facial deformations, body deformations at joints, and global deformations. Simulating deformable avatars ensures a more realistic simulation of virtual humans. The research requires models for capturing of geometrie and kinematic data, the synthesis of the realistic human shape and motion, the parametrisation and motion retargeting, and several appropriate deformation models. Once a deformable avatar has been created and animated, the researcher must model high-level behavior and introduce agent technology. The book can be divided into 5 subtopics: 1. Motion capture and 3D reconstruction 2. Parametrie motion and retargeting 3. Musc1es and deformation models 4. Facial animation and communication 5. High-level behaviors and autonomous agents Most of the papers were presented during the IFIP workshop "DEFORM '2000" that was held at the University of Geneva in December 2000, followed by "A V AT ARS 2000" held at EPFL, Lausanne. The two workshops were sponsored by the "Troisü!me Cycle Romand d'Informatique" and allowed participants to discuss the state of research in these important areas. x Preface We would like to thank IFIP for its support and Yana Lambert from Kluwer Academic Publishers for her advice. Finally, we are very grateful to Zerrin Celebi, who has prepared the edited version of this book and Dr. Laurent Moccozet for his collaboration.

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With the increasing success of networked virtual environments, games and Web 3D, there is a need for new techniques to permit the creation and animation of virtual humans. Users may be represented by realistic avatars that they can control, but also autonomous virtual humans agents can now inhabit these virtual worlds. Virtual humans with their soft tissues, skin, muscles, organs and clothes are completely deformable. There are many methods to enable the representation and deformation of these structures. These methods may be geometric or physics-based. Presenting a selection of the latest research work addressing various aspects related to deformable avatars, this book covers complementary topics such as body modeling and animation, face modeling and animation, physics-based and free-form deformations, motion capture, avatars technologies and agents.This volume is comprised of the combined proceedings of the DEFORM'2000 and AVATARS'2000 workshops, which were sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) and organized by IFIP Working Group 5.10. The workshops were held in Geneva and Lausanne, Switzerland in November/December 2000.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0792374460
• ISBN 13: 9780792374466
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 258
• Editor: Magnenat-Thalmann Nadia, Thalmann Daniel