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Real-Time Full Body Motion Control

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This chapter surveys techniques for interactive character animation, exploring data-driven and physical simulation-based methods. Interactive character animation is increasingly data driven, with animation produced through the sampling, concatenation, and blending of pre-captured motion fragments to create movement. The chapter therefore begins by surveying commercial technologies and academic research into performance capture. Physically based simulations for interactive character animation are briefly surveyed, with a focus upon technique proven to run in real time. The chapter focuses upon concatenative synthesis approaches to animation, particularly upon motion graphs and their parametric extensions for planning skeletal and surface motion for interactive character animation.

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  1. Centre for Vision Speech and Signal Processing (CVSSP), University of Surrey, Surrey, UK

    John Collomosse & Adrian Hilton

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Correspondence to John Collomosse .

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  1. Institut for Biomechanics und Orthopedic, German Sport University Cologne, Cologne, Germany

    Gert-Peter Brüggemann

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, USA

    Zhigang Deng

  3. McIntosh Consultancy and Research, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

    Andrew S. McIntosh

  4. Wilmington, Delaware, USA

    Freeman Miller

  5. C-Motion Inc., Germantown, USA

    W. Scott Selbie

  6. Department of Computer Science,, University of Houston, Houston, TX, USA

    Zhigang Deng

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Collomosse, J., Hilton, A. (2018). Real-Time Full Body Motion Control. In: Handbook of Human Motion. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14418-4_9

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