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High Performance Automatic Character Skinning Based on Projection Distance

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Skeleton-driven-deformation methods have been commonly used in the character deformations. The process of painting skin weights for character deformation is a long-winded task requiring manual tweaking. We present a novel method to calculate skinning weights automatically from 3D human geometric model and corresponding skeleton. The method first, groups each mesh vertex of 3D human model to a skeleton bone by the minimum distance from a mesh vertex to each bone. Secondly, calculates each vertex’s weights to the adjacent bones by the vertex’s projection point distance to the bone joints. Our method’s output can not only be applied to any kind of skeleton-driven deformation, but also to motion capture driven (mocap-driven) deformation. Experiments results show that our method not only has strong generality and robustness, but also has high performance.

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Acknowledgements

This work is partially supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (61473112), the National Key Research and Development Program of China (No. 2017YFB1401200), Foundation for Distinguished Young Scholars of Hebei Province (F2016201186), Science and Technology Research Project for Universities and Colleges in Hebei Province (ZD2015067), Key Project of Foundation of Hebei Province (F2017201222), Top Young and Middle-aged Innovative Talents of science and technology research project in Hebei province (BJ2016005).

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  1. School of Electrical Engineering, Yanshan University, Qinhuangdao, China

    Jun Li & Hongrui Wang

  2. Department of Computer Teaching, Hebei University, Baoding, China

    Jun Li

  3. School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore

    Feng Lin

  4. College of Electronic and Information Engineering, Hebei University, Baoding, China

    Xiuling Liu

  5. Key Laboratory of Digital Medical Engineering of Hebei Province, Hebei University, Baoding, China

    Xiuling Liu & Hongrui Wang

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Li, J., Lin, F., Liu, X. et al. High Performance Automatic Character Skinning Based on Projection Distance. 3D Res 9, 9 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13319-018-0160-4

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