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Automating the Transfer of a Generic Set of Behaviors onto a Virtual Character

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Motion in Games (MIG 2012)

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Humanoid 3D models can be easily acquired through various sources, including online. The use of such models within a game or simulation environment requires human input and intervention in order to associate such a model with a relevant set of motions and control mechanisms. In this paper, we demonstrate a pipeline where humanoid 3D models can be incorporated within seconds into an animation system, and infused with a wide range of capabilities, such as locomotion, object manipulation, gazing, speech synthesis and lip syncing. We offer a set of heuristics that can associate arbitrary joint names with canonical ones, and describe a fast retargeting algorithm that enables us to instill a set of behaviors onto an arbitrary humanoid skeleton. We believe that such a system will vastly increase the use of 3D interactive characters due to the ease that new models can be animated.

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  1. Institute for Creative Technologies, Playa Vista, CA, USA

    Andrew Feng, Yuyu Xu & Ari Shapiro

  2. University of California, Merced, Merced, CA, USA

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  1. School of Engineering, University of California, Merced, 5200 N. Lake Road, 95343, Merced, CA, USA

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  2. Department of Computer Science, Rutgers University, 110 Frelinghuysen Road, 08854, Piscataway, NJ, USA

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Feng, A., Huang, Y., Xu, Y., Shapiro, A. (2012). Automating the Transfer of a Generic Set of Behaviors onto a Virtual Character. In: Kallmann, M., Bekris, K. (eds) Motion in Games. MIG 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7660. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34710-8_13

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