Generating Animatable 3D Virtual Humans from Photographs
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2000
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Blackwell Publishers Ltd and the Eurographics Association
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We present an easy, practical and efficient full body cloning methodology. This system utilizes photos taken from the front, side and back of a person in any given imaging environment without requiring a special background or a controlled illuminating condition. A seamless generic body specified in the VRML H-Anim 1.1 format is used to generate an individualized virtual human. The system is composed of two major components: face-cloning and body-cloning. The face-cloning component uses feature points on front and side images and then applies DFFD for shape modification. Next a fully automatic seamless texture mapping is generated for 360? coloring on a 3D polygonal model. The body-cloning component has two steps: (i feature points specification, which enables automatic silhouette detection in an arbitrary background (ii two-stage body modification by using feature points and body silhouette respectively. The final integrated human model has photo-realistic animatable face, hands, feet and body. The result can be visualized in any VRML compliant browser.
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@article{10.1111:1467-8659.00392,
journal = {Computer Graphics Forum},
title = {{Generating Animatable 3D Virtual Humans from Photographs}},
author = {Lee, WonSook and Gu, Jin and Magnenat-Thalmann, Nadia},
year = {2000},
publisher = {Blackwell Publishers Ltd and the Eurographics Association},
ISSN = {1467-8659},
DOI = {10.1111/1467-8659.00392}
}