Due to recent advances in virtual reality (VR) technology, the development of immersive VR
applications that track body motions and visualize a full-body avatar is attracting increasing …

While we perceive time as a constant factor in the real world, it can be manipulated in media.
Being quite easy for linear media, this is used for various aspects of storytelling eg, by …

Almost all VR multi-person applications have the requirement of reconstructing the whole-
body motions in real-time in order to create deeper immersion. In fact, if we can ensure that …

Due to recent improvements in virtual reality (VR) technology, the number of novel
applications for entertainment, education, and rehabilitation has increased. The primary goal …

Current Virtual Reality (VR) systems are bereft of stylization and embellishment of the user's
motion-concepts that have been well explored in animations for games and movies. We …

Human body tracking is a very important issue in synthetic environments, pervading every
application. The repercussions of not providing adequate methods of motion capture for the …

In free-viewpoint video, the viewer can interactively choose his viewpoint in 3-D space to
observe the action of a dynamic real-world scene from arbitrary perspectives. The human …

Full-body tracking in virtual reality improves presence, allows interaction via body postures,
and facilitates better social expression among users. However, full-body tracking systems …

The metaverse is a network of shared virtual environments where people can interact
synchronously through their avatars. To enable this, it is necessary to accurately capture and …

Current 3D capture and modeling technology can rapidly generate highly photo‐realistic 3D
avatars of human subjects. However, while the avatars look like their human counterparts …