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Automatic Hand-Over Animation for Free-Hand Motions from Low Resolution Input

Abstract
Hand-over animation is the process by which hand animation is added to existing full-body motion. This paper proposes a technique for automatically synthesizing full-resolution, high quality free-hand motion of the hand based on the capture of a specific, small number of select markers. Starting from a large full-resolution hand motion corpus, our technique extracts a finite pose database and selects the marker sets offline based on user defined inputs. For synthesis, capture sequences that include this marker set drive a reconstruction process that results in a full-resolution of the hand through the aid of the pose database. This effort addresses two distinct issues, first how to objectively select which is the best marker set based on a fixed number of desired markers and, second, how to perform reconstruction from this data set automatically.



Automatic Hand-Over Animation for Free-Hand Motions from Low Resolution Input
Kang, C., Wheatland, N., Neff, M., Zordan, V.,
Automatic hand-over animation for free-hand motions from low resolution input, Motion in Games (MIG) 2012.

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