Animation Collage

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2007
Authors
Theobalt, Christian
Roessl, Christian
Aguiar, Edilson de
Seidel, Hans-Peter
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Volume Title
Publisher
The Eurographics Association
Abstract
We propose a method to automatically transform mesh animations into animation collages, i.e. moving assemblies of shape primitives from a database given by an artist. An animation collage is a complete reassembly of the original animation in a new abstract visual style that imitates the spatio-temporal shape and deformation of the input. Our algorithm automatically decomposes input animations into plausible approximately rigid segments and fits to each segment one shape from the database by means of a spatio-temporal matching procedure. The collage is then animated in compliance with the original s shape and motion. Apart from proposing solutions to a number of spatio-temporal alignment problems, this work is an interesting add-on to the graphics artist s toolbox with many applications in arts, non-photorealistic rendering, and animated movie productions. We exemplify the beauty of animation collages by showing results created with our software prototype.
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@inproceedings{
:10.2312/SCA/SCA07/271-280
,
booktitle = {
Eurographics/SIGGRAPH Symposium on Computer Animation
},
editor = {
Dimitris Metaxas and Jovan Popovic
},
title = {{
Animation Collage
}},
author = {
Theobalt, Christian
 and 
Roessl, Christian
 and 
Aguiar, Edilson de
 and 
Seidel, Hans-Peter
},
year = {
2007
},
publisher = {
The Eurographics Association
},
ISSN = {
1727-5288
},
ISBN = {
978-3-905673-44-9
},
DOI = {
/10.2312/SCA/SCA07/271-280
}
}
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https://doi.org/10.2312/SCA/SCA07/271-280
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SCA 07: Eurographics/SIGGRAPH Symposium on Computer Animation