70 research outputs found

    Multiscale motion saliency for keyframe extraction from motion capture sequences

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    Cataloged from PDF version of article.Motion capture is an increasingly popular animation technique; however data acquired by motion capture can become substantial. This makes it difficult to use motion capture data in a number of applications, such as motion editing, motion understanding, automatic motion summarization, motion thumbnail generation, or motion database search and retrieval. To overcome this limitation, we propose an automatic approach to extract keyframes from a motion capture sequence. We treat the input sequence as motion curves, and obtain the most salient parts of these curves using a new proposed metric, called 'motion saliency'. We select the curves to be analysed by a dimension reduction technique, Principal Component Analysis (PCA). We then apply frame reduction techniques to extract the most important frames as keyframes of the motion. With this approach, around 8% of the frames are selected to be keyframes for motion capture sequences. Copyright (C) 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd

    A multi scale motion saliency method for keyframe extraction from motion capture sequences

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    Ankara : The Department of Computer Engineering and the Institute of Engineering and Science of Bilkent University, 2010.Thesis (Master's) -- Bilkent University, 2010.Includes bibliographical references leaves 47-50.Motion capture is an increasingly popular animation technique; however data acquired by motion capture can become substantial. This makes it di cult to use motion capture data in a number of applications, such as motion editing, motion understanding, automatic motion summarization, motion thumbnail generation, or motion database search and retrieval. To overcome this limitation, we propose an automatic approach to extract keyframes from a motion capture sequence. We treat the input sequence as motion curves, and obtain the most salient parts of these curves using a new proposed metric, called 'motion saliency'. We select the curves to be analyzed by a dimension reduction technique, Principal Component Analysis. We then apply frame reduction techniques to extract the most important frames as keyframes of the motion. With this approach, around 8% of the frames are selected to be keyframes for motion capture sequences. We have quanti ed our results both mathematically and through user tests.Halit, CihanM.S

    Pose selection for animated scenes and a case study of bas-relief generation

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    This paper aims to automate the process of generating a meaningful single still image from a temporal input of scene sequences. The success of our extraction relies on evaluating the optimal pose of characters selection, which should maximize the information conveyed. We define the information entropy of the still image candidates as the evaluation criteria. To validate our method and to demonstrate its effectiveness, we generated a relief (as a unique form of art creation) to narrate given temporal action scenes. A user study was conducted to experimentally compare the computer-selected poses with those selected by human participants. The results show that the proposed method can assist the selection of informative pose of character effectively

    Spatiotemporal Saliency Detection: State of Art

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    Saliency detection has become a very prominent subject for research in recent time. Many techniques has been defined for the saliency detection.In this paper number of techniques has been explained that include the saliency detection from the year 2000 to 2015, almost every technique has been included.all the methods are explained briefly including their advantages and disadvantages. Comparison between various techniques has been done. With the help of table which includes authors name,paper name,year,techniques,algorithms and challenges. A comparison between levels of acceptance rates and accuracy levels are made

    Enriquecendo animações em quadros-chaves espaciais com movimento capturado

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    While motion capture (mocap) achieves realistic character animation at great cost, keyframing is capable of producing less realistic but more controllable animations. In this work we show how to combine the Spatial Keyframing (SK) Framework of IGARASHI et al. [1] and multidimensional projection techniques to reuse mocap data in several ways. Additionally, we show that multidimensional projection also can be used for visualization and motion analysis. We also propose a method for mocap compaction with the help of SK’s pose reconstruction (backprojection) algorithm. Finally, we present a novel multidimensional projection optimization technique that significantly enhances SK-based reconstruction and can also be applied to other contexts where a backprojection algorithm is available.Movimento capturado (mocap) produz animacões de personagens com grande realismo mas a um custo alto. A utilização de quadros-chave torna mais difícil um resultado com realismo mas torna mais fácil o controle da animacão. Neste trabalho, mostramos como combinar o uso de quadros-chaves espaciais – Spatial Keyframing (SK) Framework – de IGARASHI et al. [1] e técnicas de projeção multidimensional para reutilizar dados de movimento capturado de várias maneiras. Mostramos também como projeções multidimensionais podem ser utilizadas para visualização e análise de movimento. Propomos um método de compactação de dados de mocap utilizando a reconstrução de poses por meio do algoritmo de quadros-chaves espaciais. Também apresentamos uma técnica de otimização para as projeções multidimensionais que melhora a reconstrução do movimento e que pode ser aplicada em outros casos onde um algoritmo de retroprojecão esteja dad

    BilVideo-7 : video parsing, indexing and retrieval

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    Ankara : The Department of Computer Engineering and the Institute of Engineering and Science of Bilkent University, 2010.Thesis (Ph. D.) -- Bilkent University, 2010.Includes bibliographical references leaves 91-103.Video indexing and retrieval aims to provide fast, natural and intuitive access to large video collections. This is getting more and more important as the amount of video data increases at a stunning rate. This thesis introduces the BilVideo-7 system to address the issues related to video parsing, indexing and retrieval. BilVideo-7 is a distributed and MPEG-7 compatible video indexing and retrieval system that supports complex multimodal queries in a unified framework. The video data model is based on an MPEG-7 profile which is designed to represent the videos by decomposing them into Shots, Keyframes, Still Regions and Moving Regions. The MPEG-7 compatible XML representations of videos according to this profile are obtained by the MPEG-7 compatible video feature extraction and annotation tool of BilVideo-7, and stored in a native XML database. Users can formulate text, color, texture, shape, location, motion and spatio-temporal queries on an intuitive, easy-touse visual query interface, whose composite query interface can be used to formulate very complex queries containing any type and number of video segments with their descriptors and specifying the spatio-temporal relations between them. The multithreaded query processing server parses incoming queries into subqueries and executes each subquery in a separate thread. Then, it fuses subquery results in a bottom-up manner to obtain the final query result and sends the result to the originating client. The whole system is unique in that it provides very powerful querying capabilities with a wide range of descriptors and multimodal query processing in an MPEG-7 compatible interoperable environment.Baştan, MuhammetPh.D
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