3D modeling and animation synthesis and analysis techniques for the human body /

• Corporate Author: IGI Global.
• Other Authors: Sarris, Nikos, 1971-, Strintzis, Michael G.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), c2004.
• Subjects: Computer animation.; Human body > Computer simulation.; Computer simulation.; Three-dimensional display systems.; Computer graphics.
• Online Access: View fulltext via EzAccess

3D Modeling and Animation: Synthesis and Analysis Techniques for the Human Body covers the areas of modeling and animating 3D synthetic human models at a level that is useful to students, researchers, software developers and content generators. The reader will be presented with the latest, research-...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Advances in vision-based human body modeling / Angel Sappa, Sotiris Malassiotis
• 2. Virtual character definition and animation within the MPEG-4 standard / Marius Preda [et al.]
• 3. Camera calibration for 3D reconstruction and view transformation / B. Lei, E. Hendriks, Aggelos Katsaggelos
• 4. Real-time analysis of human body parts and gesture-activity recognition in 3D / Burak Ozer, Tiehan Lv, Wayne Wolf
• 5. Facial expression and gesture analysis for emotionally-rich man-machine interaction / Kostas Karpouzis [et al.]
• 6. Techniques for face motion & expression analysis on monocular images / Ana Andres del Valle, Jean-Luc Dugelay
• 7. Analysis and synthesis of facial expressions / Peter Eisert
• 8. Modeling and synthesis of realistic visual speech in 3D / Gregor Kalberer, Pascal Müller, Luc Van Gool
• 9. Automatic 3D face model adaptation with two complexity modes for visual communication / Markus Kampmann, Liang Zhang
• 10. Learning 3D face deformation model / Zhen Wen, Pengyu Hong, Jilin Tu,Thomas Huang
• 11. Synthesis and analysis techniques for the human body / Nikos Karatzoulis, Costas Davarakis, Dimitrios Tzovaras.