Hi Guys,
Slightly off beam in relation to Mo Cap and animation.
Could this app have any impact on the way
animations are done in the future - could we even say revolutionary :)
http://www.actormachine.com/index.html
Note the Team page - Ken Perlin, Chief Technology
Advisor - he of Perlin Noise fame and Tron.
Cheers
Aidan
At 15:08 04/02/2008, you wrote:
Here's some research I found on the subject:
Design of a Body-Driven Multiplayer Game System
(Sami Laakso and Mikko Laakso)
"So far camera-based user interfaces have been used in various
entertainment or education applications, ranging from interactive dance
space [Sparacino 2001] to martial arts training [Hämäläinen et al. 2005].
Today there are also several commercial camerabased body-driven game
systems available, both complete game systems such as Mandala GX System by
Vivid Group [http://www.vividgroup.com/] and home-sized devices such as
Eyetoy for Sony PlayStation 2 [http://www.fmod.org/].";
"The software was coded in C++ on a Windows platform. The computer vision
component was developed on top of the video-processing platform, EyesWeb
Design of a Body-Driven Multiplayer Online Game System ● 7
ACM Computers in Entertainment, Vol. 4, No. 4, October 2006.
[http://www.eyesweb.org/], using Intel Integrated erformance Primitives
(Intel IPP) [http://www.intel.com/software/products/ipp/], and the Open
Source Computer Vision Library
http://www.intel.com/technology/computing/opencv/] for additional image
processing. The 3D graphics output was obtained by using OpenGL, and audio
effects obtained with an F-Mod audio engine [http://www.fmod.org/] and the
Simple Direct Media Layer [http://www.libsdl.org/].";
(This is an old project :-) http://www.kickasskungfu.net/en/)
Other articles tha might interest you:
(Not public so I cannot share with the list. If anyone is interested, I'll
email them to your personal email.)
Markerless 4 gestures 6 DOF real-time visual tracking of the
human hand with automatic initialization
Markus Schlattmann, Ferenc Kahlesz, Ralf Sarlette and Reinhard Klein
Automatic Detection and Tracking of Human Motion
with a View-Based Representation
Ronan Fablet and Michael J. Black
A Fast and Handy Method for Skeleton-Driven Body Deformation
WANG ZHAOQI, MAO TIANLU, AND XIA SHIHONG
Software and Methods for Motion Capture and Tracking in Animation
J Condell and G Moore, J Moore
A posture optimization algorithm for model-based
motion capture of movement sequences
Jure Zakotnik a,∗, Tom Matheson b, Volker Dürr a
Maximizing Validity in 2D Motion Analysis
Martin Eriksson Stefan Carlsson
A Novel Framework for Athlete Training Based
on Interactive Motion Editing and Silhouette Analysis
Shihong Xia, Xianjie Qiu, Zhaoqi Wang
Interesting stuff - but not very much applications - or I have not found
them...
br. Hannu
> I think it's somewhat doable already, it's just a matter of combining
> different technologies.
> The biggest drawbacks of a single camera setup are occlusion and
> missing depth information. Depth information can already be derived
> from a single camera video rather well, but occlusion is still a hard
> problem. There's no 'clean' way to get around it, all you can do is
> quesstimate.
> A similar problem I've been thinking of is tracking a (computer)
> player's head (or eyes) to get the same functionality that TrackIR
> has. It's a fairly controlled subset of the
> single-camera-motion-tracking problem and would be an excellent start:
> It would enable tracking with a single webcam, no additional HW
> needed.
>
> On 04/02/2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Look at http://www.motion-capture.de/
>>
>> Videotrack is a motion capture software for movements.
>>
>> I'd like to see a software that captures movements from video and
>> compines
>> it to a character. Like "Shadow-Chaser", but the software would compere
>> the movements - as well as the person.
>> link ->
>>
http://www.5star-shareware.com/Windows/Hobby/Sport/shadow-chaser-screenshot.html
>>
>> I read some research papers and it might be possible in near future, but
>> at the moment there are a lot of difficulties. (Problems in model-based
>> approaches that use single video, but with extra information it might be
>> done - also low cost. High end mocap solutions are working ofcourse.)
>>
>> Hannu
>>
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