• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2009.05a
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• pp.131-134
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• 2009

The development of computer graphics leads to high value-added products, such as film, game contents, 3D animation. In realistic animation, it is impossible and inefficient to produce the movement of each objects as handwork to display the various behaviors of a lot of characters. So we need the techniques of the crowd animation which presents the movement of objects realistically and efficiently by calculating automatically. In this paper, we designed a modeler which generates the attitudes of objects in crowd behavior animation using information of 3D models. We developed an animation system for crowd behavior which was applied for animation, VR, or games.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2005.06a
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• pp.2217-2220
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• 2005

This paper introduces a practical implementation of virtual crowd simulation software. Usual commercial crowd simulation softwares are complex and have program-like script interfaces, which makes an animator hard to learn and use them. Based on the observations that most crowd scenes include walking, running and fighting movements, we have implemented a crowd simulation system that automatically generates movements of virtual characters given user's minimal direction of initial configuration. The system was implemented as a plug-in of Maya which is one of the most commonly used 3D software for movies. Because generated movements are based on optically captured motion clips, the results are sufficiently natural.

• Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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• 2006.05a
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• pp.517-520
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• 2006

Crowd behavioral scenes in virtual underwater world are presented in many entertainments such as films and games. According to the increase of digital films and animations caused by the development of computer graphics, it is easy for us to meet with the cyber characters in those scenes. Characters which appear in computer animation put life into virtual world. The more characters we have in this virtual space, the deeper we are immersed in the space. There were many researches which processed the crowd scene and implemented the crowd behavior system in Korea. They were related to developing VR contents which were available to feel actually in the construction of the virtual environment. But they are far from reaching the step to put to practical use in developing the crowd behavior modeler. Therefore, we suggestion the fish schooling behavior modeler that provides interaction and action behavior in 3D object to present vividly and effectively in underwater world.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.39 no.4
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• pp.493-501
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• 2017

This paper introduces a new motion-synthesis technique for animating multiple characters. At a high level, we introduce a hub-sub-control-point scheme that automatically generates many different spline curves from a user scribble. Then, each spline curve becomes a trajectory along which a 3D character moves. Based on the given curves, our algorithm synthesizes motions using a cyclic motion. In this process, space-time warp curves, which are time-warp curves, are embedded in the 3D environment to control the speed of the motions. Since the space-time warp curve represents a trajectory over the time domain, it enables us to verify whether the trajectory causes any collisions between characters by simply checking whether two space-time warp curves intersect. In addition, it is possible to edit space-time warp curves at run time to change the speed of the characters. We use several experiments to demonstrate that the proposed algorithm can efficiently synthesize a group of character motions. Our method creates collision-avoiding trajectories ten times faster than those created manually.