… to synthesize character movements based on high level parameters, such that the produced
movements respect the manifold of human motion, trained on a large motion … motion capture …

… affect the style of the character’s run by texturing the upper body motions, using the hip …
character picked up some of the head bobs and asymmetrical arm usage of the motion capture …

… are investigated that result in realistic motion generation. A number of techniques … motion
from motion capture data, especially when integrating motion transitions from different motion …

… and controlling synthesized style seen from a single character and emerging … synthesis
relying on motion capture is used for creation of style variations. While motion can be synthesized …

… virtual character animation that we call action capture. In this approach, virtual characters
learn … , we introduce a new approach to animation synthesis that we call action capture. Action …

Motion capture is a technique of digitally recording the movements of real entities, usually
humans. It was originally developed as an analysis tool in biomechanics research, but has …

… cyclical and noncyclical motions by exclusively using reliable optical motion capture data: …
the actual motion capture data at all the relevant speeds. Note that the two synthetic characters …

… We show in Figure 13 and the accompanying video (Section 3D path synthesis) an example
where the character has to follow a 3D curve provided by the user. For some segments of …

… in a motion capture database to assist in the creation of a realistic character animation. …
In addition, we try to analyze and synthesize motion by fitting a principal component model. …

… This chapter proposes the first approach to jointly synthesize the synchronous 3D
conversational body gestures and 3D face animations of a virtual character from speech input. It is …