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Modeling and Simulating Bodies and Garments

By: Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann

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Modeling and Simulating Bodies and Garments

By: Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann

This book contains the research on modeling bodies, cloth and character based adaptation performed during the last 3 years at MIRALab at the University of Geneva. More than ten researchers have worked together in order to reach a truly 3D Virtual Try On. What we mean by Virtual Try On is the possibility of anyone to give dimensions on her predefined body and obtain her own sized shape body, select a 3D cloth and see oneself animated in Real-Time, walking along a catwalk. Some systems exist today but are unable to adapt to body dimensions, have no real-time animation of body and clothes. A truly system on the web of Virtual Try On does not exist so far. This book is an attempt to explain how to build a 3D Virtual Try On system which is now very much in demand in the clothing industry. To describe this work, the book is divided into five chapters. The first chapter contains a brief historical background of general deformation methods. It ends with a section on the 3D human body scanner systems that are used both for rapid p- totyping and statistical analyses of the human body size variations.

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1849962626

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Computer Animation

Theory and Practice

By: Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann,Daniel Thalmann

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Computer Animation

Theory and Practice

By: Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann,Daniel Thalmann

Computer Science Workbench is a monograph series which will provide you with an in-depth working knowledge of current developments in computer technology. Every volume in this series will deal with a topic of importance in computer science and elaborate on how you yourself can build systems related to the main theme. You will be able to develop a variety of systems, including computer software tools, computer gra phics, computer animation, database management systems, and compu ter-aided design and manufacturing systems. Computer Science Work bench represents an important new contribution in the field of practical computer technology. TOSIYASU L. KUNII Preface to the Second Edition Computer graphics is growing very rapidly; only computer animation grows faster. The first edition of the book Computer Animation: Theory and Practice was released in 1985. Four years later, computer animation has exploded. Conferences on computer animation have appeared and the topic is recognized in well-known journals as a leading theme. Computer-generated film festivals now exist in each country and several thousands of films are produced each year. From a commercial point of view, the computer animation market has grown considerably. TV logos are computer-made and more and more simulations use the technique of computer animation. What is the most fascinating is certainly the development of computer animation from a research point-of-view.

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4431681051

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Biomechanical Models for Soft Tissue Simulation

By: Walter Maurel,Yin Wu,Nadia Magnenat Thalmann,Daniel Thalmann

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Biomechanical Models for Soft Tissue Simulation

By: Walter Maurel,Yin Wu,Nadia Magnenat Thalmann,Daniel Thalmann

An overview of biomechanical modeling of human soft tissue using nonlinear theoretical mechanics and incremental finite element methods, useful for computer simulation of the human musculoskeletal system.

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3662035898

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Synthetic Actors

in Computer-Generated 3D Films

By: Nadia Magnenat Thalmann,Daniel Thalmann

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Synthetic Actors

in Computer-Generated 3D Films

By: Nadia Magnenat Thalmann,Daniel Thalmann

This book presents the making of computer-generated films using three-dimensional synthetic actors. It is based mainly on the production of the film Rendez-vous a Montreal, an animated film that uses advanced computer techniques to achieve such effects as reincarnating film stars Humphrey Bogart and Marilyn Monroe. The main purpose of Rendez-vous a Montreal is to show that true synthetic actors can be created. This fllm represents a technological breakthrough which opens up new vistas in motion pictures, television, and advertising. With this technique, it will now be possible to produce short fllms or motion pictures featuring any celebrity in any situation. The book explains in detail how such a film can be produced using numerous drawings and color pictures. In particular, the following topics are presented: - Preparation of object construction: documentation search, and plaster models preparation - Object construction: digitizing and modeling - Body animation - Hand animation and object grasping - Facial animation: expressions, phonemes and emotions - Choreography: decors, actors, cameras, and lights - Realism: colors, lights, shading, shadows, and textures - Image recording: special effects Finally, an extensive appendix describes in detail the HUMAN FACTORY system.

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3642754538

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Image Synthesis

Theory and Practice

By: Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann,Daniel Thalmann

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Image Synthesis

Theory and Practice

By: Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann,Daniel Thalmann

Image Synthesis: Theory and Practice is the first book completely dedicated to the numerous techniques of image synthesis. Both theoretical and practical aspects are treated in detail. Numerous impressive computer-generated images are used to explain the most advanced techniques in image synthesis. The book contains a detailed description of the most fundamental algorithms; other less important algorithms are summarized or simply listed. This volume is also a unique handbook of mathematical formulae for image synthesis. The four first chapters of the book survey the basic techniques of computer graphics which play an important role in the design of an image: geometric models, image and viewing transformations, curves and surfaces and solid modeling techniques. In the next chapters, each major topic in image synthesis is presented. The first important problem is the detection and processing of visible surfaces, then two chapters are dedicated to the central problem of light and illumination. As aliasing is a major problem in image rendering, the fundamental antialiasing and motion blur techniques are explained. The most common shadow algorithms are then presented as well as techniques for producing soft shadows and penumbrae. In the last few years, image rendering has been strongly influenced by ray tracing techniques. For this reason, two chapters are dedicated to this important approach. Then a chapter is completely dedicated to fractals from the formal Mandelbrot theory to the recursive subdivision approaches. Natural phenomena present a particularly difficult challenge in image synthesis. For this reason, a large portion of the book is devoted to latest methods to simulate these phenomena: particle systems, scalar fields, volume density scattering models. Various techniques are also described for representing terrains, mountains, water, waves, sky, clouds, fog, fire, trees, and grass. Several techniques for combining images are also explained: adaptive rendering, montage and composite methods. The last chapter presents in detail the MIRALab image synthesis software.

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4431680608

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Virtual Clothing

Theory and Practice

By: Pascal Volino,Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann

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Virtual Clothing

Theory and Practice

By: Pascal Volino,Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann

In an accessible style that will appeal to the professional, student and laymen, the authors explain the methods for creating and simulating clothes for virtual humans. Using numerous detailed illustrations, colourful images, and step-by-step analysis they map out the terrain of this exciting and cutting-edge discipline. Starting with the beginnings in the mid 1980s and the basic foundations from the field of mechanics, the reader is gradually introduced to the subject. The text draws on a number of related fields such as computer graphics, algorithmics, computational geometry, simulation, modeling, animation, visualization, and virtual reality. The MIRACloth system, developed by the authors, is used as a case study for the results and techniques discussed. The book comes with a CD-ROM featuring dynamic demonstrations of 3D clothes and fashion shows. This is an indispensable text for anybody who wants an intelligent and readable book on virtual clothing.

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3642572782

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Virtual Clothing

Theory and Practice

By: Pascal Volino,Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann

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Theory and Practice

By: Pascal Volino,Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann

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Computer Animation ’91

By: Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann,Daniel Thalmann

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Computer Animation ’91

By: Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann,Daniel Thalmann

This book contains invited papers and a selection of research papers submitted to Computer Animation '91, the third international work shop on Computer Animation, which was held in Geneva on May 22-24. This workshop, now an annual event, has been organized by the Computer Graphics Society, the University of Geneva, and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne. During the international workshop on Computer Animation '91, the fourth Computer-generated Film Festival of Geneva, was held. The book presents original research results and applications experience of the various areas of computer animation. This year most papers are related to character animation, human animation, facial animation, and motion contro!. NA DIA MAGNENAT THALMANN DANIEL THALMANN v Table of Contents Part I: Facial Animation Contral Parameterization for Facial Animation F. I. PARKE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Linguistic Issues in Facial Animation C. PELACHAUD, N. !. BADLER, M. STEEDMAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Facial Animation by Spatial Mapping E. C. PATTERSON, P. c. LITWINOWICZ, N. GREENE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 A Transformation Method for Modeling and Animation of the Human Face fram Photographs T. KURlHARA, K. ARAI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Techniques for Realistic Facial Modeling and Animation D. TERZOPOULOS, K. WATERS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Part ll: Human Modeling and Animation Generation of Human Motion with Emotion M. UNUMA, R. TAKEUCHI . . . . . . . . . . •. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 Creating Realistic Three-Dimensional Human Shape Characters for Computer-Generated Films A. PAOURl, N. MAGNENATTHALMANN, D. THALMANN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 Design of Realistic Gaits for the Purpose of Animation N. VASlLONIKOLIDAKIS, G. J CLAPWORTHY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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4431700773

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New Advances in Virtual Humans

Artificial Intelligence Environment

By: Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann,N. Ichalkaranje

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New Advances in Virtual Humans

Artificial Intelligence Environment

By: Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann,N. Ichalkaranje

In this book, various aspects of cognitive and emotional behaviour is described. In chapter one, a state of the art introduction to VH is presented and the associated research is given. In Chapter 2, cognitive and emotions processes are described. A Comprehensive context model for multi-party interactions with the VH is given in the next chapter. Finally, it is very important to model the socializing of groups of virtual humans. This is discussed in Chapter 4. The automatic modelling of expressions for VH is described in Chapter 5. The last chapter gives a case study of an intelligent kios avatar and its usability. This book gives examples of some advances that enable VH to behave intelligently. It provides an overview of these research problems and some unsolved problems.

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3540798676

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Modelling and Motion Capture Techniques for Virtual Environments

International Workshop, CAPTECH'98, Geneva, Switzerland, November 26-27, 1998, Proceedings

By: Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann,Daniel Thalmann

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Modelling and Motion Capture Techniques for Virtual Environments

International Workshop, CAPTECH'98, Geneva, Switzerland, November 26-27, 1998, Proceedings

By: Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann,Daniel Thalmann

The CAPTECH'98 workshop took place at the University of Geneva on November 26–27, 1998, sponsored by FIP Working Group 5.10 (Computer Graphics and Virtual Worlds) and the Suisse Romande regional doctoral seminar in computer science. The subject of the conference was ongoing research in data capture and interpretation. The goals of capturing real world data in order to perceive, understand, and interpret them and then reacting to them in a suitable way are currently important research problems. These data can be very diverse: sounds, emotions, shapes, motions, forces, muscles, actions, etc. Once captured, they have to be treated either to make the invisible visible, or to understand a particular phenomenon so as to formulate an appropriate reaction, or to integrate various information in a new multimedia format. The conference included six sessions of presented papers and three panel discussions. Invited speakers treating various aspects of the topic were: Professor R. Earnshaw from Bradford University, Professor T. L. Kunii from Hosei University, and Professor P. Robert from EPFL. Professor K. Bauknecht, of the University of Zürich, President of IFIP, offered the welcoming address. Mr. E. Badique, project officer for the EU in Brussels, discussed recent results of the EU ACTS research program. Finally, the Geneva Computer Animation '98 Film Festival highlighted the evening of November 26.

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3540653538

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Image Synthesis

Theory and Practice

By: Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann,Daniel Thalmann

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Theory and Practice

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Computer Animation and Simulation 2001

Proceedings of the Eurographics Workshop in Manchester, UK, September 2–3, 2001

By: Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann,Daniel Thalmann

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Computer Animation and Simulation 2001

Proceedings of the Eurographics Workshop in Manchester, UK, September 2–3, 2001

By: Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann,Daniel Thalmann

This volume contains the research papers presented at the 12th Eurographics Workshop on Computer Animation and Simulation, Manchester, UK, September 2-3, 2001. The workshop is an international forum for research in computer-animation and simulation. This year, we choose to give a special focus on the modelling and animation of complex phenomena. This includes the modelling of virtual creature- from their body-parts to the control of their behavior, and the animation of natural phenomena such as water, smoke, fire and vegetation. The call for papers required submission of the full papers for review, and each paper was reviewed by at least 2 members of the international program committee and additional reviewers. Based on the reviews, 16 papers were accepted. We added to the final program an invited talk by Jos Stam. We wish to thank all reviewers for their time and effort in working within the rigid constraints of the tight schedule, thereby making it possible to publish this volume in time for the workshop. We also thank the authors for their contributions to the workshop, without whom this unique forum for animation and simulation work would not exist.

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3211837116

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Computer Animation ’90

By: Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann,Daniel Thalmann

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Computer Animation ’90

By: Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann,Daniel Thalmann

Computer Animation '90, the second international workshop on computer animation, was held in Geneva, Switzerland, on April 25-27, 1990. This book contains invited papers and a selection of research papers submitted to this workshop. The contributions address original research as well as results achieved in a number of fields of computer animation including scientific visualization, human animation, behavioral animation, and motion control.

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4431700617

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Book's by Nadia Magnenat Thalmann

Modeling and Simulating Bodies and Garments

Modeling and Simulating Bodies and Garments

Computer Animation

Computer Animation

Biomechanical Models for Soft Tissue Simulation

Biomechanical Models for Soft Tissue Simulation

Synthetic Actors

Synthetic Actors

Image Synthesis

Image Synthesis

Virtual Clothing

Virtual Clothing

Virtual Clothing

Virtual Clothing

Computer Animation ’91

Computer Animation ’91

New Advances in Virtual Humans

New Advances in Virtual Humans

Modelling and Motion Capture Techniques for Virtual Environments

Modelling and Motion Capture Techniques for Virtual Environments

Image Synthesis

Image Synthesis

Computer Animation and Simulation 2001

Computer Animation and Simulation 2001

Computer Animation ’90

Computer Animation ’90

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