Modelling and Motion Capture Techniques for Virtual Environments

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-IX

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2. Human Motion Analysis

   1. Motion Analysis in Clinical Practice Using Ambulatory Accelerometry

      • Kamiar Aminian, Eduardo De Andres, Karen Rezakhanlou, Carlo Fritsch, Y. Schutz, Michèle Depairon et al.

      Pages 1-11

   2. A Robust Human-Silhouette Extraction Technique for Interactive Virtual Environments

      • James W. Davis, Aaron F. Bobick

      Pages 12-25

   3. Local and Global Skeleton Fitting Techniques for Optical Motion Capture

      • Marius-CĂlin Silaghi, Ralf Plänkers, Ronan Boulic, Pascal Fua, Daniel Thalmann

      Pages 26-40

   4. 3D Part Recognition Method for Human Motion Analysis

      • Carlos Yániz, Jairo Rocha, Francisco Perales

      Pages 41-54

3. Human Motion Capture and Manipulation

   1. Motion Capture Data Manipulation and Reuse via B-splines

      • Sandra Sudarsky, Donald House

      Pages 55-69

   2. Motion Abstraction and Mapping with Spatial Constraints

      • Rama Bindiganavale, Norman I. Badler

      Pages 70-82

   3. Artificial Neural Networks for Motion Emulation in Virtual Environments

      • Y. Bellan, M. Costa, G. Ferrigno, F. Lombardi, L. Macchiarulo, A. Montuori et al.

      Pages 83-99

   4. Synthesis of Human Motion Using Kalman Filter

      • ChangWhan Sul, SoonKi Jung, Kwangyun Wohn

      Pages 100-112

   5. Real-Time Hand and Head Tracking for Virtual Environments Using Infrared Beacons

      • Klaus Dorfmüller, Hanno Wirth

      Pages 113-127

4. Image and Video Manipulation

   1. A Graphics Compiler for a 3-Dimensional Captured Image Database and Captured Image Reusability

      • Tosiyasu L. Kunii, Yoshifuru Saito, Motoyoshi Shiine

      Pages 128-139

   2. VideoVR: A Real-Time System for Automatically Constructing Panoramic Images from Video Clips

      • Ding-Yun Chen, Murphy Chien-Chang Ho, Ming Ouhyoung

      Pages 140-143

   3. The Video Yardstick

      • Tomáš Brodský, Cornelia Fermüller, Yiannis Aloimonos

      Pages 144-158

5. Motion Control

   1. Real-Time Inverse Kinematics through Constrained Dynamics

      • Wen Tang, Marc Cavazza, Dale Mountain, Rae Earnshaw

      Pages 159-170

   2. Goal-Directed Navigation for Animated Characters Using Real-Time Path Planning and Control

      • James J. Kuffner Jr

      Pages 171-186

   3. Real-Time Requirements for the Implementation of Speech-Controlled Artificial Actors

      • Marc Cavazza, Ian Palmer, Steve Parnell

      Pages 187-198

6. Human Body and Objects 3D Reconstruction

   1. 3D Modeling from Captured Images Using Bi-directional Ray Traversal Method

      • Hisayoshi Zaima, Tsuyoshi Yamamoto

      Pages 199-213

   2. Face Models from Uncalibrated Video Sequences

      • P. Fua

      Pages 214-228

   3. A 3D Reconstruction System for Human Body Modeling

      • Jin Gu, Terry Chang, Ivan Mak, S. Gopalsamy, H. C. Shen, M. M. F. Yuen

      Pages 229-241

7. Image/Video Based Facial Animation

   1. Bézier Volume Deformation Model for Facial Animation and Video Tracking

      • Hai Tao, Thomas S. Huang

      Pages 242-253

The CAPTECH'98 workshop took place at the University of Geneva on November 26–27, 1998, sponsored by FIP Working Group 5.10 (Computer Graphics and Virtual Worlds) and the Suisse Romande regional doctoral seminar in computer science. The subject of the conference was ongoing research in data capture and interpretation. The goals of capturing real world data in order to perceive, understand, and interpret them and then reacting to them in a suitable way are currently important research problems. These data can be very diverse: sounds, emotions, shapes, motions, forces, muscles, actions, etc. Once captured, they have to be treated either to make the invisible visible, or to understand a particular phenomenon so as to formulate an appropriate reaction, or to integrate various information in a new multimedia format. The conference included six sessions of presented papers and three panel discussions. Invited speakers treating various aspects of the topic were: Professor R. Earnshaw from Bradford University, Professor T. L. Kunii from Hosei University, and Professor P. Robert from EPFL. Professor K. Bauknecht, of the University of Zürich, President of IFIP, offered the welcoming address. Mr. E. Badique, project officer for the EU in Brussels, discussed recent results of the EU ACTS research program. Finally, the Geneva Computer Animation '98 Film Festival highlighted the evening of November 26.

• 3D
• 3D graphics
• Computer Vision
• Facial Animation
• Motion Capture
• Video Manipulation
• Virtual Environments
• Virtual Worlds
• animation
• modeling

• Department of Information Systems, University of Geneva, Geneva 4, Switzerland

  Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann

• Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland

  Daniel Thalmann

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