VBAP - Video-based animation of people
VBAP investigates novel technologies for animating human characters. In conventional animation, antropomorphic CAD characters are crafted by computer artists and animated by transferring the motion of an actor, captured with special equipment,to the CAD character. We are exploring the possibility of generating novel actions purely from video material: In essence, video footage is acquired of a person moving in a multiple-camera, blue-background studio; this material is then analysed to construct a representation of the person's movements and their associated appearances in the video; finally, a previously unseen movement is put to the system via a suitable interface, and the corresponding sequence generated. This project is a collaboration with the Centre for Vision, Signal and Speech Processing of the University of Surrey (Prof Adrian Hilton and Dr Jonathan Starck).
Funder: EPSRC
Start Date: 08/01/2007
End Date: 07/01/2010
For further information about the VBAP - Video-based animation of people project please contact Professor Emanuele Trucco.