Synthesizing human motion in a CG authoring environment for nonprofessionals

Author

Yoshikawa, Hajime ; Yokosato, Jun-ichi ; Tanaka, Satoshi

Author_Institution

Inf. Technol. R&D Center, Mitsubishi Electr. Corp., Kanagawa, Japan

fYear

1996

fDate

17-23 Jun 1996

Firstpage

40

Lastpage

43

Abstract

We describe the system we developed to make the authoring of 3D computer graphic animations easy for nonprofessionals. The system features several new elements such as the lip-synchronization system and motion edit software. Using the lip-synchronization system, we can easily synchronize the motion of the mouth shape with voice data. We apply automatic segmentation of voice data to properly set keyframes. The motion edit software intelligently emphasizes the motion data, which is obtained from real motion by motion capturing, to make it fit to a particular animation character

Keywords

authoring systems; computer animation; human factors; multimedia computing; speech processing; user interfaces; 3D computer graphics; animation character; animations; authoring environment; human motion synthesis; lip synchronization system; motion edit software; mouth shape; multimedia; three dimensional computer graphics; voice data segmentation; Animation; Character generation; Graphics; Humans; Information retrieval; Internet; Microcomputers; Mouth; Shape; TV;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Multimedia Computing and Systems, 1996., Proceedings of the Third IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Hiroshima

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7438-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MMCS.1996.534953

Filename

534953