Low-Dimensional Motion Space

Overview

Human motion is difficult to create and manipulate because of the high dimensionality and spatiotemporal nature of human motion data. Recently, the use of large collections of captured motion data has added increased realism in character animation. In order to make the synthesis and analysis of motion data tractable, we present a lowdimensional motion space in which high-dimensional human motion can be effectively visualized, synthesized, edited, parameterized, and interpolated in both spatial and temporal domains. Our system allows users to create and edit the motion of animated characters in several ways: The user can sketch and edit a curve on low-dimensional motion space, directly manipulate the character¡¯s pose in three-dimensional object space, or specify key poses to create in-between motions.

Publication

• Hyun Joon Shin and Jehee Lee, Motion Synthesis and Editing in Low-Dimensional Spaces, Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds (CASA 2006), Vol. 17, No. 3-4, pages 219 - 227, John Wiley & Sons, July 2006.

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Personnel

• Hyun Joon Shin

• Jehee Lee