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http://dx.doi.org/10.4218/etrij.13.2013.0059

Fast Motion Synthesis of Quadrupedal Animals Using a Minimum Amount of Motion Capture Data  

Sung, Mankyu (Game Mobile Contents Department, Keimyung University)
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ETRI Journal / v.35, no.6, 2013 , pp. 1029-1037 More about this Journal
Abstract
This paper introduces a novel and fast synthesizing method for 3D motions of quadrupedal animals that uses only a small set of motion capture data. Unlike human motions, animal motions are relatively difficult to capture. Also, it is a challenge to synthesize continuously changing animal motions in real time because animals have various gait types according to their speed. The algorithm proposed herein, however, is able to synthesize continuously varying motions with proper limb configuration by using only one single cyclic animal motion per gait type based on the biologically driven Froude number. During the synthesis process, each gait type is automatically determined by its speed parameter, and the transition motions, which have not been entered as input, are synthesized accordingly by the optimized asynchronous motion blending technique. At the start time, given the user's control input, the motion path and spinal joints for turning are adjusted first and then the motion is stitched at any speed with proper transition motions to synthesize a long stream of motions.
Keywords
Animal motion synthesis; motion capture;
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