A multi-resolution approach for adapting close character interaction

Ho, E. S.L. , Wang, H. and Komura, T. (2014) A multi-resolution approach for adapting close character interaction. In: VRST '14: Proceedings of the 20th ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology, Edinburgh, Scotland, 11 - 13 November 2014, 97 - 106. ISBN 9781450332538 (doi: 10.1145/2671015.2671020)

Abstract

Synthesizing close interactions such as dancing and fighting between characters is a challenging problem in computer animation. While encouraging results are presented in [Ho et al. 2010], the high computation cost makes the method unsuitable for interactive motion editing and synthesis. In this paper, we propose an efficient multiresolution approach in the temporal domain for editing and adapting close character interactions based on the Interaction Mesh framework. In particular, we divide the original large spacetime optimization problem into multiple smaller problems such that the user can observe the adapted motion while playing-back the movements during run-time. Our approach is highly parallelizable, and achieves high performance by making use of multi-core architectures. The method can be applied to a wide range of applications including motion editing systems for animators and motion retargeting systems for humanoid robots.

• Item Type: Conference Proceedings
• Status: Published
• Refereed: Yes
• Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: Ho, Dr Edmond S. L
• Authors: Ho, E. S.L., Wang, H., and Komura, T.
• College/School: College of Science and Engineering > School of Computing Science
• Publisher: ACM
• ISBN: 9781450332538